Dicapo Opera Theatre brings 'Pagliacci' to Tilles Center on April 19

On Stage

Pagliacci
New York City’s Dicapo Opera Theatre returns to Tilles Center with an enthralling production of Leoncavallo’s Pagliacci. The fully staged production features a live orchestra with English supertitles. Pagliacci is music drama at its finest. This famously tragic play-within-a-play tells the heartbreaking story of betrayal and jealousy in an Italian commedia dell’arte troupe. Theater and reality collide in a climax of operatic proportions when Canio discovers his wife has eyes for another actor. “Laugh, clown, at your broken love!” he exclaims in one of opera’s most legendary arias, Vesti la giubba, the tour-de-force for tenors who both act and sing.
Friday, April 19, 8 p.m. $82, $57, $37. Tilles Center for the Performing Arts, LIU Post, Rte. 25A, Brookville. (516) 299-3100 or (800) 745-3000 or www.ticketmaster.com or www.tillescenter.org.

Discovering Owls
Owls, those mysterious creatures of the night, continue to fasoinate and amaze us. See for yourself, at an evening devoted to understanding these fascinating and solitary birds of prey. Get up close and personal with these nocturnal birds, presented by Theodore Roosevelt Sanctuary and Audubon Center. Meet one face to face at a live owl presentation and discuss their behavior and habits, followed by a owl pellet dissection. Then venture outside to explore how these enigmatic creatures live. Bring binoculars and dress for the weather.
Friday, April 19, 6:30-8 p.m. Registration required. $5. Theodore Roosevelt Sanctuary & Audubon Center, 134 Cove Rd., Oyster Bay. (516) 922-3200.

Musical Revue

Broadway Spirit
A bit of the Great White Way heads to Long Island in the form of a musical revue, produced and hosted by New York Casting Director Stephen DeAngelis. Five Broadway performers recreate some of musical theater’s most inspirational songs. The night of beloved showstoppers features Ron Bohmer (The Phantom of the Opera, A Little Night Music, Ragtime, The Scarlet Pimpernel, Fiddler on the Roof, Les Miserables); Jackie Burns (Wicked, Hair, Rock of Ages); Rosena Hill Jackson (Monty Python’s Spamalot, The Color Purple, Oklahoma!, Riverdance-On Broadway, Ragtime); Telly Leung (Godspell, Pacific Overtures, RENT); and Rashidra Scott (Sister Act, Hair, Finian’s Rainbow, Avenue Q).
Saturday April 20, 8 p.m. $50 and $45. Jeanne Rimsky Theater at Landmark on Main Street, 232 Main St., Port Washington. (516) 767-6444 or www.landmarkonmainstreet.org.