Shelburne Falls Memorial Hall Association

05/27/2026

This Saturday, May 30, 2026 at 1:00 PM!
El Último Sueño de Frida y Diego

On May 30, the Metropolitan Opera’s 2025–26 Live in HD season comes to a close with a live transmission of American composer Gabriela Lena Frank’s first opera, a magical-realist portrait of Mexico’s painterly power couple Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera, with libretto by Pulitzer Prize–winning playwright Nilo Cruz.

Fashioned as a reversal of the Orpheus and Euridice myth, the story depicts Frida, sung by leading mezzo-soprano Isabel Leonard, leaving the underworld on the Day of the Dead and reuniting with Diego, portrayed by baritone Carlos Álvarez. The famously feuding pair briefly relive their tumultuous love, embracing both the passion and the pain before bidding the land of the living a final farewell.

Music Director Yannick Nézet-Séguin conducts the Met-premiere staging of Frank’s opera, a “confident, richly imagined score” (The New Yorker) that “bursts with color and fresh individuality” (Los Angeles Times). The vibrant new production, taking enthusiastic inspiration from Frida and Diego’s paintings, is directed and choreographed by Deborah Colker. This live cinema transmission is part of the Met’s award-winning Live in HD series, bringing opera to movie theaters across the globe.

All Tickets at the Door
Sung In Spanish
Estimated Run Time 2 Hrs 50 Mins, With One Intermission

05/24/2026

Saturday, May 30, 2026 at 1:00 PM
El Último Sueño de Frida y Diego

On May 30, the Metropolitan Opera’s 2025–26 Live in HD season comes to a close with a live transmission of American composer Gabriela Lena Frank’s first opera, a magical-realist portrait of Mexico’s painterly power couple Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera, with libretto by Pulitzer Prize–winning playwright Nilo Cruz.

Fashioned as a reversal of the Orpheus and Euridice myth, the story depicts Frida, sung by leading mezzo-soprano Isabel Leonard, leaving the underworld on the Day of the Dead and reuniting with Diego, portrayed by baritone Carlos Álvarez. The famously feuding pair briefly relive their tumultuous love, embracing both the passion and the pain before bidding the land of the living a final farewell.

Music Director Yannick Nézet-Séguin conducts the Met-premiere staging of Frank’s opera, a “confident, richly imagined score” (The New Yorker) that “bursts with color and fresh individuality” (Los Angeles Times). The vibrant new production, taking enthusiastic inspiration from Frida and Diego’s paintings, is directed and choreographed by Deborah Colker. This live cinema transmission is part of the Met’s award-winning Live in HD series, bringing opera to movie theaters across the globe.

All Tickets at the Door
Sung In Spanish
Estimated Run Time 2 Hrs 50 Mins, With One Intermission

05/16/2026

05/03/2026

For those who missed our public screening at Memorial Hall here is another chance to watch this splendid documentary about our libraries!

From the pioneering women behind the “Free Library Movement” to today's librarians who service the public despite the age of closures and book bans, meet those who created a civic institution where everything is free and the doors are open to all.

Watch Independent Lens | PBS' Free for All: The Public Library on the PBS YouTube channel and PBS app, FREE for the month of May!

Stream now: https://to.pbs.org/3Pi4eFT

04/30/2026

Eugene Onegin
by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Saturday, May 2, 2026 at 1:00 PM
All Tickets at the Door
Sung In Russian
Estimated Run Time 4 Hrs 5 Mins, With Two Intermissions

Following her acclaimed 2024 company debut in Puccini’s Madama Butterfly, soprano Asmik Grigorian returns to the Met as Tatiana, the lovestruck young heroine in this ardent operatic adaptation of Pushkin, which will be transmitted live from the Metropolitan Opera stage to cinemas worldwide on May 2. Baritone Iurii Samoilov is the urbane Onegin, who realizes his affection for her all too late. The Met’s evocative production, directed by Tony Award–winner Deborah Warner, “offers a beautifully detailed reading of … Tchaikovsky’s lyrical romance” (The Telegraph). This live cinema transmission is part of the Met’s award-winning Live in HD series, bringing opera to movie theaters across the globe.

04/19/2026

April 25 at 2 pm Free for All: the Public Library
How did our wonderful free, public libraries come to exist? The Shelburne Falls Women’s Club and Pothole Pictures are partnering with the Arms Library to show this film, which tells the story. As many as 75 to 80 percent of public libraries were started by local women’s clubs, as part of the “Free Library Movement.” Join us to celebrate Library Week, and to honor the “quiet revolutionaries” who made modern libraries possible. Conversation with local librarians after the film.
Adults — $6. School age children — Free !

03/18/2026

You won’t want to miss!
Tristan und Isolde
Saturday, March 21, 2026 at 12:00 PM
All Tickets at the Door
Sung In German
Estimated Run Time 5 Hrs 10 Mins, With Two Intermissions
Refreshments available

“SOME OF THE BEST MOMENTS OF OPERA I’VE EVER HEARD ... A PEAK OF THE MET’S PAST DECADE” —New York Magazine

“AN ASTONISHING PERFORMANCE … THE EVENT OF THE SEASON.” —The New York Times

After years of anticipation, a truly unmissable event arrives as the electrifying Lise Davidsen tackles one of the ultimate roles for dramatic soprano: the Irish princess Isolde in Wagner’s transcendent meditation on love and death.

Heroic tenor Michael Spyres stars opposite Davidsen as the love-drunk Tristan. The momentous occasion also marks the advent of a new, Met-debut staging by Yuval Sharon—hailed by The New York Times as “the most visionary opera director of his generation” and the first American to direct an opera at the famed Wagner festival in Bayreuth—as well as Music Director Yannick Nézet-Séguin’s first time leading Tristan und Isolde at the Met.

Mezzo-soprano Ekaterina Gubanova reprises her signature portrayal of Brangäne, alongside bass-baritone Tomasz Konieczny, who sings Kurwenal after celebrated Met appearances in Wagner’s Der Fliegende Holländer and Ring cycle. Bass-baritone Ryan Speedo Green makes an important role debut as King Marke.

02/27/2026

TOMORROW & SATURDAY

THE KILLING written and directed by Stanley Kubrick, this was his first masterpiece, and remains one of the best heist movies of all time. (1956) 84 minutes B&W IMDB 7.9

Music before the Movies begins at 7pm both nights -

Friday - The Chester Vale Trio will be performing music for the after hours soul.

Saturday - Whisperholler (Ernie Hansche & Friends) will be performing eclectic originals.

Tickets available at the door - $6 adults, $4 children under 12. Cash only.