{"id":24319,"date":"2024-06-21T14:01:02","date_gmt":"2024-06-21T18:01:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/?p=24319"},"modified":"2024-06-21T14:01:02","modified_gmt":"2024-06-21T18:01:02","slug":"egypt-in-maine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/egypt-in-maine\/","title":{"rendered":"Egypt in Maine"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"position: relative; padding-top: max(60%,326px); height: 0; width: 100%;\"><iframe style=\"position: absolute; border: none; width: 100%; height: 100%; left: 0; right: 0; top: 0; bottom: 0;\" src=\"https:\/\/e.issuu.com\/embed.html?backgroundColor=%23eaeaea&amp;d=issuu_pdfs_smallersize&amp;hideIssuuLogo=true&amp;pageNumber=134&amp;u=portlandmagazine\" sandbox=\"allow-top-navigation allow-top-navigation-by-user-activation allow-downloads allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-modals allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox allow-forms\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"p2\">Opera Maine goes big with Verdi\u2019s grandest vision.<\/h3>\n<p class=\"p3\">Story By Bruce Pratt<\/p>\n<p class=\"p4\">People used to ask when we were going to do Wagner,\u201d says <strong>Opera Maine<\/strong> artistic director <strong>Dona D. Vaughn<\/strong>. \u201cSo we did. Then they asked about <i>Aida<\/i>, and now we\u2019re doing it.\u201d On <strong>Thursday, July 25<\/strong> at 7:30 p.m. and <strong>Sunday, July 28<\/strong> at 2:30 p.m.,<b> <\/b>the stage at <strong>Merrill Auditorium<\/strong> will be magically transformed into <strong>ancient Egypt <\/strong>with sets designed by <strong>Germ\u00e1n C\u00e1rdenas-Alaminos<\/strong>, lighting by <strong>James Lawler<\/strong>, projections by <strong>Camilla Tassi<\/strong>, and costumes by <strong>Millie Hiibel<\/strong> for what Vaughn calls the most ambitious and challenging production in the company\u2019s thirty-year history.<\/p>\n<p><em><span class=\"s1\">Read the full story in the digital magazine above.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-24320\" src=\"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/EgyptinMaine.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"536\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/EgyptinMaine.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/EgyptinMaine-980x513.jpg 980w, https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/EgyptinMaine-480x251.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"(min-width: 0px) and (max-width: 480px) 480px, (min-width: 481px) and (max-width: 980px) 980px, (min-width: 981px) 1024px, 100vw\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Staging a Classic<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":24321,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[1296],"class_list":["post-24319","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","tag-summerguide-2024"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24319","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24319"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24319\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24368,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24319\/revisions\/24368"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24321"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}