Smith Opera House
Saturday - 10:00 am to 2:00 pm
Monday - Friday - 10:00 am to 5:00 pm
The Smith Opera House is a perfect venue for taking in a live performance of music, dance, theater or speech. The performances on stage range from modern rock concerts, children’s theater, community theater, and live presentations.
Upcoming Events
Live Performances Smith Opera House Tours
While the historic Smith Opera House is a venue where fascinating stories unfold via film and the performing arts, the building itself has its own compelling stories that … Read more »
Tickets:Free, but donations are appreciated
Live Performances Chanticleer: Then and There, Here and Now
Geneva Concerts
Featured composers: Palestrina, Victoria, Byrd, Monteverdi, Padilla, Rodgers, Coltrane, Ellington, Shearer, Jarre, and more!
Called "the world's reigning male chorus" by The New Yorker, the San Francisco-based, GRAMMY award winning … Read more »
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Live Performances The Jersey Tenors
The Jersey Tenors™ is the newest Opera/Rock Mash-up sensation that creates an explosive blend of the most iconic Opera classics alongside such Rock ‘N Roll industry greats as Queen, Journey, Elton … Read more »
Tickets:$29.50 (plus service fees) general admission; $49.50 (plus service fees) for VIP package
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Film Animal House
At a 1962 college, Dean Vernon Wormer is determined to expel the entire Delta Tau Chi Fraternity, but those troublemakers have other plans for him.
National Lampoon's Animal House … Read more »
Tickets:$10 adults, $7 youth and students (service fee applies to online orders)
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Film The Breadwinner
Iversen Construction Corp.
From executive producer Angelina Jolie and the creators of the Academy Award®-nominated The Secret of Kells and Song of the Sea, comes the Academy Award®-nominated feature based on … Read more »
Tickets:$10 adults, $7 youth and students (service fee applies to online orders)
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Live Performances An Intimate Evening with Bettye LaVette
Featuring Evan Mercer on Keyboards
Bettye LaVette is not a song writer. She is a singer in the tradition of great vocalists who have come before her: Ray Charles, … Read more »
Tickets:$29.50-$49.50 (plus service fees)
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ArtSmart Educational Theatre Live Performances Galumpha: Experiments in Human Architecture
Combining stunning acrobatics, striking visual effects, physical comedy and inventive choreography, Galumpha brings to life a world of imagination, beauty, muscle, and merriment. The three performers create a … Read more »
Tickets:$6.50
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ArtSmart Educational Theatre Galumpha: Experiments in Human Architecture
Combining stunning acrobatics, striking visual effects, physical comedy and inventive choreography, Galumpha brings to life a world of imagination, beauty, muscle, and merriment. The three performers create a … Read more »
Tickets:$6.50
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Film The Rocky Horror Picture Show
Iversen Construction Corporation
A cult classic from 1975 returns to The Smith on Halloween weekend, with action-packed romance, thrills, chills, lots of laughs and 16 great singalong songs.
The Rocky Horror Picture … Read more »
Tickets:$10 (service fee applies to online orders)
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Live Performances Black Violin: Classical Boom Tour
Black Violin is lead by classically trained string players Wil B. (viola) and Kev Marcus (violin), and joined onstage by DJ SPS and drummer Nat Stokes. The band … Read more »
Tickets:$37-$47 (plus service fees)
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Live Performances Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra: Carlos Kalmar and Ahrim Kim
Geneva Concerts
Carlos Kalmar, Conductor
Ahrim Kim, Cello
Kodaly: Galanta Dances
Schumann: Cello Concerto in A Minor, Op. 129
Haydn: Symphony No. 98 in B-flat Major
Liszt: Hungarian Rhapsody #1
Carlos Kalmar is in his fifteenth season … Read more »
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Live Performances Koshare Dance Collective
Join us as the students of Hobart and William Smith Colleges take the stage for two nights here at The Smith! This concert showcases a wide variety of … Read more »
Tickets:$10 general admission (plus service fees); Free for children and HWS students w/ID
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Live Performances Windham Hill: A Winter Solstice Concert with Liz Story, Sean Harkness, and Samite
Master musicians who made their names on the Windham Hill label, pianist Liz Story, guitarist Sean Harkness, and vocalist/mutli-instrumentalist (kalimba, marimba, litungu, and various flutes) Samite have created a special show in celebration of Winter Solstice. … Read more »
Tickets:$35-$50 (plus service fees)
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Live Performances The Nutcracker
Studio for the Performing Arts
Studio for the Performing Arts, Inc. (SPA) Ballet Company is delighted to present to you their rendition of the Nutcracker. A beautiful and magical tale of a young … Read more »
Tickets:$5-$15
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ArtSmart Educational Theatre Tomás and the Library Lady
Tomás loves stories and Papa Grande tells them to him todas las noches! One day while his family is in Iowa picking crops, Tomás meets the Library Lady … Read more »
Tickets:$6.50
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Film The Polar Express
A doubting 8-year-old boy is whisked to the North Pole on a magical train for a meeting with Santa. Meanwhile, the train's conductor, along with the other young … Read more »
Tickets:$10 Adults; $5 Children 12 and Under, Lap-sitters are free!
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Live Performances Opera Ithaca: A Little Night Music
Join us for Opera Ithaca's second annual New Year's Eve Weekend celebration performance at the Smith Opera House, this year Stephen Sondheim's Tony Award-winning Broadway musical, "A … Read more »
Tickets:$27.50 plus service fees for general admission
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Live Performances Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra: Ward Stare and Jon Nakamatsu
Geneva Concerts
Ward Stare, Conductor
Jon Nakamatsu, Piano
Rachmaninoff: Isle of the Dead
Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 2 in B-flat Major, Op. 19
Stravinsky: Rite of Spring
The distinguished American pianist Jon Nakamatsu—known internationally … Read more »
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Live Performances Scott Bradlee’s Postmodern Jukebox
Smith Center for the Arts & DSP Shows
Proving that everything new can be old again, pianist Scott Bradlee has become a viral pop sensation after creating a series of clips for YouTube that finds him … Read more »
Tickets:$38.50-$168.50 reserved seating (plus service fees)
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Live Performances Darrah Carr Dance: Ceilidh: An Evening of Irish Music and Dance!
Geneva Concerts
Join the champion Irish step dancers of Darrah Carr Dance for a whirlwind celebration of Irish music and dance. The Bessie-Award nominated company imbues the Ceilidh—a traditional social gathering … Read more »
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Live Performances Red Hot Chilli Pipers
DSP Shows
Bagpipes with attitude. Drums with a Scottish accent. A blazing rock band and show so hot, it carries its own health warning!
It’s Bagpipes. It’s Rock. It’s Bagrock. AC/DC … Read more »
Tickets:$28.50-$38.50 plus service fees
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Live Performances Memories of Patsy — The Patsy Cline Tribute Show
The legendary Patsy Cline comes to life once again in the national touring show, Memories of Patsy. This incredible tribute concert takes its audience on a trip back … Read more »
Tickets:Reserved seating $29-$39 plus service fees
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ArtSmart Educational Theatre Live Performances They Called Her Vivaldi
M. Haberdasher has crafted very peculiar earmuffs for his very particular daughter Cecilia Maria. Don’t shout about it but Cecilia Maria thinks they make her look fascinating and … Read more »
Tickets:$6.50
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ArtSmart Educational Theatre They Called Her Vivaldi
M. Haberdasher has crafted very peculiar earmuffs for his very particular daughter Cecilia Maria. Don’t shout about it but Cecilia Maria thinks they make her look fascinating and … Read more »
Tickets:$6.50
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Live Performances Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra: Michael Francis and Yekwon Sunwoo
Geneva Concerts
Michael Francis, Conductor
Yekwon Sunwoo, Piano
Walton: Symphony No. 1 in B-flat Minor
Rachmaninoff: Piano Concerto No. 3 in D Minor, Op. 30
Gold medalist of the Fifteenth Van Cliburn … Read more »
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ArtSmart Educational Theatre The Crucible
No one is safe as a reign of terror rips through 1692 Salem. Led by Abigail Williams, a group of girls who claim to have seen the Devil … Read more »
Tickets:$6.50
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ArtSmart Educational Theatre The Crucible
No one is safe as a reign of terror rips through 1692 Salem. Led by Abigail Williams, a group of girls who claim to have seen the Devil … Read more »
Tickets:$6.50
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