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Opera House Arts

We offer a year-round schedule of professional theatre, music, film, dance, educational programs, community events, and more. Opera House Arts’ programs serve all of Hancock County’s winter and summer residents and visitors, with a special emphasis on the residents of Deer Isle and the Blue Hill peninsula.

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Actors performing in Much Ado About Nothing

Photo credit: Alicia Allen Photography

Theatre

Opera House Arts has built a legacy of classical, contemporary, and original work over the past twenty years. Theatre performances take place in multiple venues, including the historic Stonington Opera House, the restored Burnt Cove Church Community Center, and at site-specific locations across Deer Isle and Stonington, Maine.

2022 Highlights

This year’s highlights include an outdoor production of William Shakespeare’s Much Ado About Nothing in June and July, followed by the New England premiere of World Builders by Johnna Adams and directed by Cait Robinson, Artistic Director.

Leenya Rideout singing and playing guitar on stage

Music

Opera House Arts presents a wide-ranging annual concert series featuring musicians across genres. Featured concerts have included nationally recognized artists, rising stars, and local favorites performing Broadway hits, classical, chamber, folk, rock, blues, jazz, Americana, roots, gospel, and more.

2022 Highlights

This year’s highlights include nationally acclaimed jazz pianist Craig Taborn headlining the 22nd annual Deer Isle Jazz Festival, and concerts by Paul Sullivan and Mali Obomsawin.

Live! for $5

Live! for $5 is an annual series of live performances, available to all for a ticket price of only $5. The series features a wide variety of performances for intergenerational audiences and participants.

2022 Highlights

Caroline Cotter in Concert
June 22

Thom Wall, Master of Modern Vaudeville
July 27

Don Roy Fiddlers
August 3

George Emlen and Friends
August 17

Halcyon String Quartet
September 17

Movies

Opera House Arts presents a year-round schedule of first run movies, film festivals, beloved classics, and more. In 1918, shortly after the birth of the movie business, the Stonington Opera Company was issued a license to “use cinematographic appartus,” and movies have been shown in the theater ever since.

Community & Learning

Programs for Youth

With over a decade of deep collaboration with our local school district, Opera House Arts has developed an accessible program for creative learning through the arts in the classroom, in the community, and on the stage. Studies have shown that learning through the arts is critical to the comprehension of science, technology, engineering, and math. Opera House Arts’ Education Program supports STEAM education in the state of Maine while fostering a love for the arts.

Programs for Community

Opera House Arts has held community playreadings, workshops, classes, community discussions, book launches, meetings, gatherings, and more. These programs are currently on hiatus due to the COVID-19 pandemic. We are redeveloping many of these programs to serve you even better, and will soon be announcing a variety of upcoming events.

Opera House Arts has a rich history with over 20 years of production history.

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Performance History

Thank you to our generous sponsors

Opera House Arts is funded in part by a grant from the Maine Arts Commission, an independent state agency supported by the National Endowment for the Arts.

Opera House arts is supported by the New England Foundation for the Arts through the New England Arts Resilience Fund, part of the United States Regional Arts Resilience Fund, an initiative of the U.S. Regional Arts Organizations and The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, with major funding from the federal CARES Act and the American Rescue Plan from the National Endowment for the Arts.

Live! for $5 performances are sponsored in part by the W.F. Whitman Family Foundation, in honor Maia Aprahamian, with additional support from the Margaret E. Burnham Charitable Trust.

Opera House arts is additionally supported in part by a grant from the Onion Foundation.

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As a community gathering space, Opera House Arts offers a variety of year-round programming in an effort to appeal to the tastes of our broad audience. Please share with us any programming ideas you have. We are always looking for ways to improve what we do.

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Our Mission

Opera House Arts employs the performing arts to foster and promote excellence in all the ways we perform our lives: Incite Art, Create Community.