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Thursday, March 16 is your chance to give a little something extra to The Paramount!

To celebrate their #1 ranking in customer satisfaction by the ACSI, Amazon will donate 5% (10 times the usual donation rate) of the price of your eligible AmazonSmile purchases to The Paramount Theater of Charlottesville on Thursday, March 16.

Your consideration while you shop is greatly appreciated. Because ticket sales cover only 50% of operating costs for the non-profit 501(c)(3) Paramount Theater, every gift counts – and we thank you in advance for choosing The Paramount on Amazon Smile!

For more information and to get started on Amazon Smile, CLICK HERE.

Want to make another gift to The Paramount? CLICK HERE to donate!

In addition to our National Theatre Live in HD performances, The Paramount is also proud to offer the Met Live in HD series.

Similar to NT Live shows, Met Live in HD performances are broadcast live from the Metropolitan Opera in New York City. Past performances include Wagner’s infamous Ring cycle, the classic Tristan and Isolde, and the ever-popular Madama Butterfly. These stunning performances are broadcast right from the Met’s stage, and have been a favorite of The Paramount’s opera-loving community since the first broadcast at the Theater in 2008.

This season, we are excited to have four wonderful productions remaining, including:

La Traviata

Saturday, March 11 at 12:55PM
Sonya Yoncheva sings one of opera’s most beloved heroines, the tragic courtesan Violetta, a role in which she triumphed on the Met stage in 2015, opposite Michael Fabiano as her lover, Alfredo, and Thomas Hampson as his father, Germont. Carmen Giannattasio sings later performances of the title role opposite Atalla Ayan, with the great Plácido Domingo as Germont. Nicola Luisotti conducts.

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Idomeneo

Saturday, March 25 at 12:55PM
Mozart’s first operatic masterpiece returns to the Met in the classic Jean-Pierre Ponnelle production, conducted by Music Director Emeritus James Levine. The superb ensemble includes Matthew Polenzani as the king torn by a rash vow; mezzo-soprano Alice Coote in the trouser role of his noble son Idamante; soprano Nadine Sierra as Ilia; and soprano Elza van den Heever as the volatile Elettra, who loves Idamante to the bounds of madness.

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Eugene Onegin

Saturday, April 22 at 12:55PM
Tchaikovsky’s setting of Pushkin’s timeless verse novel is presented on the Met stage in Deborah Warner’s moving production, starring Anna Netrebko and Peter Mattei* as Tatiana and Onegin. Alexey Dolgov sings the role of Lenski, and Robin Ticciati conducts.

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Der Rosenkavalier

Saturday, May 13 at 12:30PM
The dream cast of Renée Fleming as the Marschallin and Elīna Garanča as Octavian star in Strauss’s grandest opera. In his new production, Robert Carsen, the director behind the Met’s recent Falstaff, places the action at the end of the Habsburg Empire, underscoring the opera’s subtext of class and conflict against a rich backdrop of gilt and red damask, in a staging that also stars Günther Groissböck as Baron Ochs. Sebastian Weigle conducts the sparklingly perfect score.

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Tickets to these events are $18.00 for students, $22.00 for seniors, and $24.00 for adults.

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We can’t wait to welcome Grammy winner Rosanne Cash to The Paramount’s stage on Thursday, March 9 at 8:00PM – and to share our excitement, we are giving away two tickets to the show to one lucky winner!

Entering is easy – all you have to do is visit our Facebook page and share the below post, and we will select a winner on Wednesday, March 8.

Singer-songwriter Rosanne Cash, a Nashville Songwriters Hall-of-Fame inductee, will play songs from her acclaimed album The River & the Thread. Written by Cash and her husband and collaborator, John Leventhal, The River & the Thread garnered three Grammys in 2015 including Best Americana Album, Best American Roots Performance, and Best American Roots Song. Her soulful style is an ode to the American South and often tell stories that portray the spectrum of the human experience, from a Civil War soldier to a present-day couple in Alabama.

Learn more about Rosanne Cash here.

This year, we are excited to roll out several new initiatives to make it easier for our patrons to tell us what they think and what they would like to see at the Theater – specifically using surveys! Last week at Decades Entertainment’s presentation of Decades Rewind, we were happy to receive great feedback from patrons, including a request to make available films with open captioning.

This feedback is important to us, and we are proud to say that The Paramount has previously offered many captioned movies such as Titanic, Big, and Slumdog Millionaire. We would be equally proud to offer more captioned films like this in the future!

In the spirit of gathering patron feedback, we would like to ask for your suggestions on which films should be shown with open captioning. Tell us what you’d like to see! Email us at info@theparamount.net, call us at 434.979.1333, or message us on Facebook, or in our live chat feature on www.theparamount.net.

Additionally, don’t forget to fill out our surveys, which will be available in the playbills at all of our performances; in the upcoming newsletters which will be mailed to supporters and displayed in the Box Office; and at our feedback podiums in the Lobby and first floor of the Theater. Your feedback is always welcome and appreciated.