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THE MARCELLA SEMBRICH OPERA MUSEUM

July 30 Film and Lecture Pays Homage to Beverly Sills

BOLTON LANDING – The Life and career of the late opera great Beverly Sills will be remembered with a lecture and film presented by Bill Maher at 1:30 p.m. Wednesday July 30 at the Marcella Sembrich Opera Museum, 4800 Lake Shore Drive. Tickets are $5.

Maher, who is a museum docent and founder of the Warrensburg Opera Club, will present the 83-minute biography on Sills, which will be followed by a brief discussion afterwards.

Upcoming musical events include soprano Jacqueline Noparstak and tenor Eric Fennell who will perform in the Aug. 1 “Opera Showstoppers” at the Charles R. Wood Theater in Glens Falls; “A Concert of Polish Songs and Arias” takes place at the museum on Aug. 3 with mezzo soprano Justyna di Biaggio and bass Valerian Ruminski; and the distinguished Liebesfreud Quartet featuring Samuel Caviezel, associate clarinetist with The Philadelphia Orchestra, performs a program of Puccini, Rachmaninoff and Brahms on Sunday, Aug. 17 at the museum.

The museum is open daily June 15th through September 15. Hours are 10 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. and from 2 to 5:30 p.m. Admission is by donation.

The Marcella Sembrich Memorial Association, Inc., a not-for-profit organization founded in 1940, dedicates its existence and purpose to honor the life and career of internationally renowned soprano, Marcella Sembrich. The MSMA maintains Sembrich’s former teaching studio as a museum displaying Sembrich’s personal effects that reflect on her daily life of teaching and her career. The MSMA also carries on the fine tradition of music through a summer concert series presenting renowned international musicians in concert at the studio. 

Media Sponsor for the museum’s 2008 season is The Lake George Mirror. “The 2008 Year of Sembrich Summer Series” is made possible, in part, with public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts Decentralization Program and Warren County, administered locally by the Lower Adirondack Regional Arts Council, the New York Council for the Humanities, the Warren County Occupancy Tax, and the Town of Bolton.”   
 
To purchase tickets, please call the Marcella Sembrich Memorial Association at (518) 644-9839. For more information about the Marcella Sembrich Memorial Association, the Opera Museum or for a calendar of the MSMA's 2008 summer program please go to www.operamuseum.org or contact the MSMA at (518) 644-2431 (office) or (518) 644-9839 (museum).