MUSIC IN TROUBLED TIMES
A festival of chamber music, film, conversation and opera, featuring Rappahannock County
Presented by Opera Company of Middlebury
September 23 - October 4, 2026
OCM Artistic Director Douglas Anderson sits down with librettist Mark Campbell and composer Ricky Ian Gordon ahead of our production of Rappahannock County, their operatic song cycle about the Civil War's ripple effects on an entire community.
Rappahannock County is part of Opera Company of Middlebury's fall festival, Music in Troubled Times, which also includes a screening of Stalin vs. Shostakovich, a lecture on music and social power, a recital of works by composers under oppressive regimes, and a free Town Hall Theater concert of Bob Dylan covers. Tickets at the link above the video.
HOUSE OF JAZZ FESTIVAL
October 9th - October 11th
Weekend Passes and Individual Tickets Available
October 17 5:00-9:00PM
Tickets $25 & $50
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MACo Presents: The Cutting Edge
Sunday, October 4 at 4pm
She has spent her whole life being useful — quiet, capable, invisible. She has buried her feelings the way she buries everything else: without complaint. But when World War One takes the one person she ever truly loved, something in Mary Postgate wakes up.
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Bluebird Improv
Thursday, October 8at 7:30pm
Bar opens at 6:30pmBluebird Improv brings together some of comedy's most recognizable faces for a show that's completely improvised, every single time. Nothing is scripted or rehearsed. Each performance starts with a short conversation between the performers and a couple of audience members, and that conversation becomes the spark for everything that follows.
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Great Art Wednesday Returns
Wednesday, October 21 at 11am & 2pm
Earlier this year, Tate Britain mounted the first major retrospective of James McNeill Whistler's work in three decades, pairing world-famous paintings with pieces rarely seen in public. Exhibition on Screen filmed the exhibition, bringing those works and the story behind them to movie screens around the world.
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Tanasi
Friday, November 13 at 5:30pm
TANASI plays what they call “worldgrass”: Appalachian string band music opened up to melodies and rhythms from across the world. Billy Cardine's dobro and slide guitar anchor the sound, and Anya Hinkle and Mary Lucey's close harmonies carry it. It's bluegrass that doesn't stay in one place.
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Tartuffe
November 5-8 & 12-15
This razor-sharp modern staging trades powdered wigs for velour tracksuits, proving that religious hypocrisy, family dysfunction, and a con man's uncanny ability to talk his way into someone else's house never go out of style. Molière wrote the original influencer scam; we just gave him a Range Rover and a home gym. Come watch a 350-year-old comedy feel like it was written for 21st Century America.
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Warren Miller: Days Off
Saturday, November 22 at 5pm
Drop in on Warren Miller’s 77th film, Days Off. Join host Katie Burrell as she pulls back the curtain on what the pros do on their days off. Go skijoring in Banff, join Craig McMorris and friends in Whistler, and explore Alaska’s spines with Sam Kuch and Craig Murray. Watch Jess Kimura push snowboarding forward and inspire the next generation in Hokkaido, Japan. Head to Chamonix for an intense high-alpine pivot with Christina “Lusti” Lustenberger. Then, hit Deer Valley with Ted Ligety, Kaylin Richardson, Pep Fujas, Chuck Mumford, and their broods, plus much more.
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The Metropolitan Opera in HD
The Metropolitan Opera’s award winning series of live movie theater transmissions brings world-class opera productions direct from the Met stage in New York City to cinemas around the globe.
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