The names most commonly associated with women’s suffrage are Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton. The History Channel’s website lists three other “Women Who Fought for the Vote”: Alice Paul, Lucy Stone, and Ida B. Wells. While that article doesn’t claim exclusivity for those five, it is curious that it doesn’t include Victoria Woodhull, the first woman to run for president of the United States — in 1872!

That would not surprise Victoria Bond, the East Hampton composer and conductor whose opera “Mrs. President” will be presented by the Rochester Lyric Opera on Saturday in celebration of the 100th anniversary of women gaining the right to vote in New York State.

“For somebody who I think is such a significant historic person, most people don’t know Victoria Woodhull,” said Ms. Bond. “She was such a radical, and was involved not only with the suffrage movement but also had her own newspaper and was the first woman to have a seat on the New York Stock Exchange. I mean, that’s pretty major stuff.”

Woodhull’s 88 years were full of successes, failures, and controversies. Born in Ohio in 1838 into a poor and abusive family, she became a follower of the spiritualist movement and claimed spirits guided her to New York City. There she met the financier Cornelius Vanderbilt, with whose assistance she and her sister Tennessee Claflin opened a brokerage firm on Wall Street in 1870.

They used their profits to found Woodhull & Claflin’s Weekly, whose primary purpose was to support her bid for president, but which also advocated free love, sex education, woman suffrage, and other radical ideas at the time.

However, in 1872, a few days before the election, the paper published a story revealing that Henry Ward Beecher, the renowned preacher of Brooklyn’s Plymouth Church and a critic of Woodhull’s free love philosophy, was having an affair with one of his parishioners.

The same day Woodhull was arrested, along with her sister and her second husband, Colonel James Blood, for publishing an obscene newspaper. Stigmatized by the press, branded “Mrs. Satan” by Harper’s Weekly, she spent election night in jail.

“The person who brought this story to my attention was my mother,” said Ms. Bond. “She was traveling in San Francisco and saw a plaque that said, ‘Victoria Woodhull, the first woman to run for president, slept here.’ She suggested it would make a good opera.” While Ms. Bond was working on something else at the time, the idea took hold, and several biographies on Woodhull came out within the next few years.

The playwright Marcia Norman introduced Ms. Bond to Hilary Bell, a student of hers at the Juilliard School who was also interested in Woodhull. “We just hit it off immediately. I could not have wished for a better person to work with.” They discussed the story together from the beginning. Ms. Bond had a clear idea of which scenes from Woodhull’s life she wanted to musicalize, “but as far as where they came, that was something we experimented a great deal with.”

“The brilliant thing Hilary was able to do was to condense the action to basically one year, 1872. A playwright as well as a librettist, she was able to transform this very messy and complicated life into a very clear through line. That was what we always worked toward, finding that dramatic center.”

The first reading of the opera with an orchestra took place in 2001 with the New York City Opera, long before there was any thought of centennial celebrations. Subsequent performances happened at Guild Hall in 2008, when it was titled “Mrs. Satan,” and in 2012 at the Anchorage Opera in Alaska. Several scenes were performed at Opera America in New York City last November.

The Lyric Opera had planned a performance of another opera by Ms. Bond, “Clara,” the story of Clara Schumann, the musician and composer who was married to Robert Schumann. “They were working with the Susan B. Anthony Society on the centennial celebration and suggested we do ‘Mrs. President’ instead.”

Ms. Bond stressed the importance to any operatic story of a character with charismatic appeal, even if that character is flawed or dark, “like Boris Godunov or Don Giovanni. Both Woodhull and Beecher had almost predatory characters,” she said. “Both were radicals and visionaries, but he had a fatal flaw, sleeping with his female parishioners, and she was not above exposing him if he didn’t support her presidential campaign. If the character is all goodness and always does the right thing, there’s not much of a story there.”

Ms. Bond noted the similarities of the story to today’s news. “Beecher definitely used his position to take advantage of women.” She made one change during the performance last November at Opera America in the scene where Woodhull announces her candidacy for the presidency at Steinway Hall. “In that scene, the crowd heckles her, calling her ‘Mrs. Satan.’ So I added the words, ‘Lock her up!’ And in fact they did.”

The story has a strong East Hampton connection. Lyman Beecher, Henry Ward Beecher’s father, was the preacher of the Presbyterian Church on Main Street from 1798 until 1810. “He was a real hellfire and brimstone preacher, very charismatic,” said Ms. Bond. He relocated in 1810 to Litchfield, Conn., where Henry Ward Beecher and Harriet Beecher Stowe were born. His two oldest children, the theologian Edward Beecher, and Catharine Beecher, an educator, were born in East Hampton.

“Mrs. President” is still awaiting a fully staged performance; the Rochester production will be semi-staged. Ms. Bond recalled a remarkable moment during the final scene of the Anchorage Opera performance. “Many prominent women politicians live in Anchorage. In the final scene, when Victoria is alone in this jail cell singing, ‘Arise, arise, from my ashes arise,’ the women came out of the wings onstage and walked through the audience. Here it was, 1872 talking to 2012, and her vision had become a reality. The audience went wild.”

Saturday’s performance will take place at 7 p.m. at Rochester’s Lyric Theatre. Tickets, available from the theater’s website, are $25, $50 for preferred seating and a reception.

“Ladies of Liberty: A Musical Revue,” a free cabaret created and performed by Valerie diLorenzo to celebrate the 100th anniversary of women’s suffrage in New York State, will take place Sunday afternoon at 2:30 at the Montauk Library.

Ms. diLorenzo, an award-winning cabaret artist now living in Sag Harbor, has chosen songs that trace the struggle of women for the right to vote from its beginnings within the abolitionist and temperance movements through the modern feminism of the 21st century. Amanda Borsack Jones of East Hampton is the show’s music director and accompanist.

Kanovitz Films at Parrish

Two short films by Lana Jokel on the life and work of the late American Photorealist painter Howard Kanovitz will be shown tomorrow at 6 p.m. at the Parrish Art Museum in Water Mill.

Presented in collaboration with the Hamptons Take 2 Film Festival in conjunction with the museum’s current exhibition, “From Lens to Eye to Hand: Photorealism 1969 to Today,” the screening will be followed by a conversation with Ms. Jokel, a longtime friend of the artist, Rainer Gross, who worked with Kanovitz from 1971 to 1974, and the artist’s widow, Carolyn Oldenbusch Kanovitz. Terrie Sultan, the museum’s director, will moderate.

“Camera and Mirror-Painting Through the Lens: Howard Kanovitz” provides a look at the artist during the period when his work evolved from Abstract Expressionism to Photorealism. “Hamptons Drive-In,” featuring archi­val footage of the Hamptons, documents the making of Kanovitz’s iconic painting by the same name.

Tickets are $20, free for members and students.

Jonathan Glynn Pastels

“Pastels,” a solo show of work by Jonathan Nash Glynn of Sag Harbor, will be on view at Arthur T. Kalaher Fine Art in Southampton from tomorrow through Dec. 2, with a reception set for Saturday from 5 to 8 p.m.

Mr. Glynn moves freely among mediums, having produced substantial bodies of ceramics, paintings, works on paper, and sculpture that range from pure abstraction to expressive figuration, often combining disparate visual elements.

Twenty-five percent of proceeds from exhibition sales will benefit Wings Over Haiti, a nonprofit Mr. Glynn founded to help build schools in Haiti. The art in this exhibition was inspired by his experience in Haiti and with Caribbean art.

New at Sara Nightingale

An exhibition of new and recent works by Perry Burns, Cara Enteles, and Anne Raymond will open at the Sara Nightingale Gallery in Sag Harbor with a reception Saturday from 5 to 7 p.m. and remain on view through Dec. 31. A percentage of proceeds from works sold over the holiday weekend will benefit East Hampton Meals on Wheels, as will contributions to a raffle of a floral bouquet donated by Lilee Fell Flowers.

Mr. Burns’s paintings merge the traditions of Islamic pattern and Abstract Expressionism, with a focus on color, shape, line, mark, and texture. Ms. Enteles’s nature paintings on aluminum and acrylic panels combine silkscreen printing and oil painting with other techniques. In her large abstract oils on canvas and works on paper, Ms. Raymond is inspired by sky, water, and motion.

Thanksgiving Collective

At the Tripoli Gallery in Southampton, “There Is Still Good in This World,” the 13th annual Thanksgiving Collective exhibition, can be seen from Saturday through Jan. 29. A reception will be held on Saturday from 6 to 8 p.m. The show will include works by Todd Bienvenu, Quentin Curry, Felix Bonilla Gerena, April Gornik, Mary Heilmann, Yung Jake, Benjamin Keating, Enoc Perez, Rene Ricard, Rachel Rossin, and Lola Montes.

Holiday Invitational

The Romany Kramoris Gallery in Sag Harbor will present its “Small Artworks Holiday Invitational” from tomorrow through Jan. 14. A reception will be held Saturday from 3 to 5 p.m.

The exhibition will include artworks and objects by 35 artists, among them Lois Bender, Christopher Engel, Patricia Feiwel, Barbara Groot, Adrienne Kitaeff, Peter Lipman-Wulf, Christina Schlesinger, and Jorge Pavao.

Group at Grain Surfboards

Grain Surfboards NY Gallery in Amagansett will hold its second annual Art Is Good for You holiday market on Saturday from 1 to 5 p.m. Original art and prints by Peter Spacek and Scott Bluedorn, photography by James Katsipis, handmade jewelry by Bella Ornaf of FIN, handmade ceramics by Aileen Florell, honey and beeswax candles by Deb Klughers of Bonac Bees, and handmade wooden cheese boards, swings, and mirrors by Stick and Stone will be on offer.

Equine Photographs

“White Shire,” an exhibition of photographs taken last summer by Lincoln Pilcher of four white shire horses at Dune Alpin Farm in East Hampton, will be on view at the Dune Alpin barn at 2 Shetland Court tomorrow from 5 to 8 p.m. and Saturday from 3 to 8.

A British breed of draft horse, shires are known for their strength, courage, and discipline in war. Mr. Pilcher will donate proceeds of print sales to the horses’ shelter and food during the coming winter.

The Kiffer-Kalayjian Duo will present a free concert of works for violin and cello on Sunday at 2:30 p.m. at the Montauk Library. The program will include compositions by the 18th-century Italian cellist and composer Giovanni Battista Cirri, Polina Nazaykinskaya, a composer based at Yale University, and Armenian folk songs by Komitas.

The cellist Ana Kalayjian’s career as a soloist, recitalist, chamber musician, and educator has taken her to Japan, Australia, Canada, the Middle East, and throughout Europe and the United States. Chloé Kiffer, a violinist who teaches at Bard College and Stony Brook University, has performed as a soloist and with orchestras in concert halls in Paris, Bonn, Frankfurt, and New York, among others.

The Perlman Music Program will present two concerts and a family event this weekend at the Clark Arts Center on Shelter Island. The Stires-Stark Alumni Recital Series will present a performance by the violinist Max Tan on Saturday at 5 p.m. Accompanied by Cameron Richardson-Eames on piano, Mr. Tan will perform works by Chausson, Janacek, and Mozart. Tickets are $25, free for children, and include a post-concert reception.

A free musical event for families will take place on Sunday at 11:30 a.m. Ideally suited for children ages 4 to 10, the program will include classical music, snacks, and activities. At 2:30 that day, students and alumni of the Perlman Music Program will perform a free concert of classical masterworks.

Guild Hall audiences have become accustomed to seeing simulcasts of operas from the Met and encore screenings of recent performances from London’s National Theatre. BroadwayHD will join the venue’s entertainment menu on Friday, Nov. 17, at 7 p.m. with a screening of the New Group’s 2016 revival of Sam Shepard’s Pulitzer Prize-winning play, “Buried Child.”

Like much of Shepard’s work, the play exposes the fragmentation of the American nuclear family and the demise of the American Dream. Ed Harris and Amy Madigan play a couple barely hanging on to their farm and their sanity while looking after their two wayward grown sons. The arrival of their grandson and his girlfriend sets off chaos and confusion centered on a dark family secret. Tickets are $18, $16 for members.

The National Theatre’s current production of “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?” by Edward Albee, like Shepard a recently deceased giant of the American theater, will have an encore screening at Guild Hall on Saturday at 7 p.m.  

Albee’s Tony Award-winning black comedy, first staged in 1962, takes place during one long, drink-fueled evening when a middle-aged history professor and his wife invite a younger couple for a drink after a faculty party and proceed to vilify, abuse, and humiliate each other and, eventually, their guests. Tickets are $18, $16 for members.

Music for Montauk will present a performance by Janice Carissa, an award-winning pianist, on Saturday afternoon at 2 at Guild Hall. The first half of the program will feature Four Impromptus (D. 899) by Franz Schubert and Goyescas (Op. 11) by Enrique Granados.

After an intermission, Ms. Carissa will perform Beethoven’s Sonata No. 23 in F minor (Op. 57), or “Appassionata,” which is considered by many to be one of his greatest sonatas and an expression of defiance against his imminent deafness. 

Although still a teenager, Ms. Carissa, a native of Indonesia, has performed at Carnegie Hall, Fondation Louis Vuitton in Paris, Fryderyk Chopin Hall in Warsaw, and the Sydney Opera House, among other important venues.

Tickets are $20 and can be purchased at brownpapertickets.com.

For the first time in its 14-year history, OLA, the Organizacion Latino-Americana of Eastern Long Island, will extend the reach of its film festival to the Vail-Levitt Music Hall in Riverhead, one of three East End sites where it will present four feature films next weekend. 

The festival will kick off Friday, Nov. 17, at the Parrish Art Museum in Water Mill with “Neruda,” a biographical drama by Pablo Larrain from Chile, and “Desde el Principio,” an award-winning short by Miguel J. Soliman, who lives in Jersey City and will attend the screening.

“Neruda,” set at the start of the Cold War, is about Pablo Neruda, a Chilean poet and Communist senator, who was threatened with arrest after criticizing the country’s president. He was forced into hiding for 13 months before fleeing to Buenos Aires, eventually becoming a symbol of liberty at home and around the world. He was able to return to Chile in 1952, and went on to win the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1971, among other accolades.

“Desde el Principio” takes place in a dark recording studio, where two actors deal with a shared tragedy. The Parrish’s doors will open at 5 p.m., with a bilingual tour of its exhibitions taking place at 5:30. A reception will follow from 6 to 7, and the screening will begin at 7. Tickets are $12, free for members and students.

“Translucido,” a drama from Ecuador, will be shown at Guild Hall on Nov. 18 at 7, and two films, “El Jeremias” and “Los Nadie,” will be screened on Nov. 19 at the Vail-Levitt Music Hall. “El Jeremias,” a family film, will be shown at 1 p.m., and “Los Nadie,” recommended for those at least 16 years old, will be screened at 8.

“We’ve been searching for opportunities to be more impactful on the North Fork,” Minerva Perez, OLA’s executive director, said, “so I reached out to Vail-Levitt. Their board was so supportive, so happy to be doing something like this.”

“Translucido” is the story of a man with cancer who is given three months to live, perhaps longer if he accepts treatment. Instead, he decides to take his own life before the symptoms become apparent. The film’s Venezuelan director, Leonard Zelig, has won numerous awards for theater and film. He will be at Guild Hall with several of the actors, and a question-and-answer session will follow the screening. Tickets are $10, $20 for preferred seating.

“El Jeremias” is a Mexican comedy directed by Anwar Safa about an 8-year-old boy who finds out he is gifted and starts a journey of self-discovery that eventually leads him to a choice between an exciting but lonely world opened up for him by a physiologist or returning home. Tickets to the 1 p.m. screening are $5.

“Los Nadie,” Juan Sebastian Mesa’s story about five friends emerging from adolescence in Medellin, a hard city that both attracts and excludes them, will conclude the festival. A concert with Carolina Fuentes, a percussionist, and food and refreshments will follow the 8 p.m. screening.

“This program is definitely for teenagers,” Ms. Perez said. “We wanted to make something special happen for an age group that never seems to have anything offered to it.” Tickets, which include the party, are $10, $20 for preferred seats.

In planning the festival, OLA put out a call for submissions through the website Withoutabox to filmmakers around the world. “It’s been cool because we have made connections to brand-new filmmakers whose voices might not normally be heard,” Ms. Perez said.

At year five, the Parrish Art Museum’s headquarters in Water Mill feels both new and established at the same time. Although its sleek and modern interpretation of a potato barn is a far cry from its previous Renaissance Revival building, its lively and varied schedule of programming and exhibitions has fostered the sense that the new building has already been here forever. Further, by cultivating community involvement through its programs, the Parrish’s administration has demonstrated an understanding that merely building it doesn’t necessarily mean “they will come.”

The Parrish’s anniversary celebration this weekend appears to be based on that same assumption, and the museum has a full slate of activities and events planned. In addition to a free community day on Sunday (with activities in the galleries and workshops in wreath making, building with repurposed cardboard, painting, talking stick making, and other projects), one of the centerpieces of the festivities is a members reception on Saturday featuring current artists of the East End speaking about the past and present artists who have works on view in the galleries.

A new installation of works from the permanent collection will feature thematic installations and solo shows of work by James Brooks, William Merritt Chase, and Alan Shields. The museum also invited Rashid Johnson, a New York-based artist with an outisider’s perspective, to choose works from the collection for his own installation. Mr. Johnson has chosen paintings, sculpture, drawings, and photography by artists such as Lynda Benglis, Hans Hofmann, Agnes Martin, Duane Michals, Ray Parker, and others.

Sydney Albertini, Susan Anker, Max Blagg, Michael Combs, Eric Dever, Bill Komoski, Bastienne Schmidt, Ned Smyth, and others will be on hand in the galleries discussing a particular work or an overview of what is in the room.

Mr. Blagg has chosen Mr. Combs’s piece “Spent Cases” from 1998. The piece features a small overturned boat hung from the ceiling with an attenuated swan’s neck falling down to the floor, where its head has settled amidst several spent shell casings. Calling himself a great admirer of Mr. Combs’s work, Mr. Blagg said. “I love his connection to the land and water of Long Island.” Given his own working class background, “I also very much appreciate the fact that he managed to become an artist, despite the fact that such a career choice might be anathema to his peers, especially the hunters among whom he grew up.” The result is a channeling of “his ambivalent feelings about hunting and the general slaughter of wildlife into beautiful art.”

The monumental yet unpretentious quality of Alan Shields’s “Devil, Devil, Love” is what led Mr. Komoski to choose it as his subject. The composition has been built with strips of unprimed canvas stained and sewn together to create an open lattice structure. “Shields playfully undermines the traditional idea of a painting as a stand-in for a window where illusion prevails by creating a thing. It’s as much an object, a kind of flattened sculpture, as it is a painting,” Mr. Komoski said.

With materials as appropriate to painting as to a circus tent, “there’s a lightness to the work, which hangs flat on the wall with no supporting stretcher bars. It feels like you could roll it up to transport it to the next carnival.” Although he met Shields (who died in 2005) only once, Mr. Komoski said he “was struck by his open spirit and fabulous smile; the smile comes through in the work.” 

Mr. Smyth will speak about William Merritt Chase’s Shinnecock landscapes. Instead of talking about style, American Impressionism, or family recreation of the time, he said he will speak about its geology, Long Island as a glacial moraine. “This painting shows a landscape that is the result of a receding glacier that left sand, topsoil, surrounded by sound, bay, and ocean.” Rather than a portrait of a person, “this is a portrait of the earth, shaped over millions of years. I want to connect this to my stone photos in the show, which are objects broken by glaciers as they moved south from the pole and were deposited on the Long Island moraine, and washed for thousands of years by sea and sand. Both our works tell and show the geological history of our planet.” 

The members reception is from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. and will include light fare and beverages. Those interested in attending can join the museum as members online or at the event. The weekend begins with a discussion of the Parrish’s building with Cathleen McGuigan, the editor of Architectural Record, and Terrie Sultan, the museum’s director. They will examine how the building has affected the museum’s programs and focus internally, and its external relationship to its direct surroundings and the region. The talk is $12, free for members.

A cocktail party on Saturday from 5 to 8 p.m. will benefit the museum and feature the Quintet of the Americas performing “Watercolors,” a piece by Nell Shaw Cohen, who wrote it for the Parrish’s opening in 2012. In addition, some 50 artists associated with the museum will be in attendance and mingling in the galleries while Sonnier and Castle  provides signature cocktails and hors d’oeuvres. The tickets for this event are $200, $175 for members.

Sunday’s community day will also include haiku writing in the galleries, docent discussions of James Brooks, Shields, and William Merritt Chase, bilingual tours, and a bilingual scavenger hunt. Live music will include Natalia Paruz, a.k.a. the Saw Lady, and the Bridgehampton School Marimba Band. Book signings by Tria Giovan, Michael Halsband, and Brendan Davis will also take place. The event lasts from noon to 4 p.m.

Halsband Portraits

“Halsband Portraits,” an exhibition of 125 works by the renowned American photographer Michael Halsband, will be on view at the Southampton Arts Center from tomorrow through Dec. 31. An opening reception will be held Saturday from 5 to 7 p.m., and Mr. Halsband will lead tours of the exhibition at noon on Sunday and on Dec. 3.

A longer article about the show will appear in a future issue of The Star.

Perrottet at Art Space 98

Art Space 98 in East Hampton will open “Dark Times/My Life Since #45,” a solo exhibition of work by Camille Perrottet, with a reception on Saturday from 5 to 7 p.m. The show will run through Dec. 3.

Ms. Perrottet, an East Hampton artist who has worked in photography, painting, collage, installation, and video, was propelled in her most recent project by the election last November of Donald Trump, or president number 45. She decided that starting on Jan. 1, 2017, she would photograph above the fold of Page 1 of The New York Times with her iPhone every day. She has added emojis, words, drawings, and other elements to the front-page photographs.

The five “most pressing” images of each month have been printed on brushed aluminum plaques, which are part of the exhibition, as is a slide show of the entire work in progress.

Holiday Show at Grenning

Holiday exhibitions are proliferating at galleries across the South Fork. One such show, “Gems of the Grenning Gallery,” will open at that Sag Harbor venue on Saturday with a reception from 4:30 to 6 p.m. and remain on view through Jan. 7. Among the participating artists are Alyssa Monks, Ben Fenske, Nelson H. White, Marc Dalessio, Maryann Lucas, and Stephen Bauman. A variety of small works will also be on view.

“Drawing on the Masters,” an art auction to benefit the Florence Academy’s art programs, will include work from four Grenning Gallery artists, Ramiro, Rachel Personett, George A. Morton, and Mr. Bauman. The event will happen tomorrow at 6 p.m. at the Time Warner Center in Manhattan.

Group Exhibition in Sag

“Off the Wall,” another holiday showcase, will open on Saturday at Christy’s Art Center in Sag Harbor with a reception from 6 to 8 p.m. and remain on view through Dec. 18. The show will include contemporary art as well as jewelry, hand-printed scarves, original skateboards, and other objects by John De La O, Lou Pimentel, Breahna Arnold, Yumi Vong, Reed Slater, Steve Miller, and others.

Accepting Applications

The Watermill Center has announced that it is now accepting applications for its 2018 International Summer Program. Hosting as many as 100 artists from more than 30 countries each year, the center provides a platform for collaboration, innovation, and creation.

The application deadline is Feb. 17. The summer program runs from July 16 through Aug. 18. More information and a link to the application can be found at the center’s website.

Juried Show at White Room

“What the Hell?” — a juried exhibition of painting, photography, sculpture, and mixed media — will open today at the White Room Gallery in Bridgehampton and continue through Dec. 3. An opening is set for Saturday from 5 to 7 p.m. David Geiser, Paul Dempsey, Hilary McCarthy, Kat O’Neill, Jerry Schwabe, and Setha Lowe are among the exhibiting artists.