Theater and Opera
National Theatre Live is returning to Guild Hall in a virtual format with 28 screenings of “War Horse,” starting Wednesday at 1 p.m. and continuing through April 6.
Based on the novel by Michael Morpurgo, the play was adapted for the stage by Nick Stafford in association with South Africa’s award-winning Handspring Puppet Company. “War Horse” is the story of Joey, a horse sold to the English cavalry at the outbreak of World War I and shipped to France. Though too young to enlist, Joey’s former owner, Albert, sets out on a treacherous mission to find the horse and bring him home. Life-size puppets bring the galloping horses to life onstage.
The play can only be watched on the date and time the particular screening takes place. It can be seen on web browsers, mobile apps, and on television across a number of platforms. Tickets are $15. A link is on Guild Hall’s website.
On Sunday at 3 p.m., Bel Canto Boot Camp’s weekly matinee series, which explores how to listen, react to, and connect with opera and the vocal arts, will examine the explosion of technologies developed to understand and explain the human voice. Tickets for the virtual programs are $5 to $35 and available from Guild Hall’s website.
History Through Opera
Bay Street Theater will offer “European History Through the Lens of Opera,” a nine-session virtual workshop starting next Thursday at 1 p.m. and continuing through May 27. Led by Ashley Galvani Bell, a soprano vocalist, and Anton Armendariz Diaz, a director of musical performances, the series will use popular opera to explore a selective history of Europe from the Middle Ages through World War II.
It will feature selections from operas in French, Italian, German, and Russian, including “I Vespri Sicliani,” “La Favorita,” “Maid of Orleans,” “Maria Stuarda,” “Don Carlo,” “I Puritani,” “Dialogues of the Carmelites,” “Tosca,” and “Kaiser von Atlantis.”
Series tickets are $200; drop-in rates are available for $35 per class.
Japanese Costume
LongHouse Reserve will present “Japanese Costume in History: A Kimono Journey,” the second in a series of virtual lectures by Yoshiko Wada, on Sunday at 4:30 p.m. Ms. Wada, a leading expert in Japanese textiles and techniques, was cited by Jack Lenor Larsen, LongHouse’s founder, as “a Colossus, spanning east and west, past and future.”
The word kimono was derived from “kiru mono,” meaning a thing to wear, and morphed into “kimono” in the 1800s. Ms. Wada will discuss the specific styles of robes worn by nobles, warriors, commoners, and farmers over the 2,000-year history of Japan, as well as the Noh Theater costumes and the robes of the Ainu and the Ryukyu people.
Tickets are $35, $25 for members. The recording link will be viewable for 30 days after the event.
Women of Eastville
The Eastville Community Historical Society’s new series, Wonder-Women Wednesday, will present “The Emergence of Eastville’s Women,” a virtual presentation, on Wednesday at 5:30 p.m.
In honor of Women’s History Month, the society will celebrate the contributions and achievements of Eastville women who have advanced their fields while simultaneously serving and shaping their communities both in Sag Harbor and in the world at large. Registration is on the society’s website.
