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Oct 22
2010
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National Opera Week
October 29 – November 7, 2010
Virginia Opera is proud to join nearly 100 other opera companies nationwide to celebrate National Opera Week (October 29 – November 7), organized by OPERA America, the national service organization for opera, with support of the National Endowment for the Arts.
National Opera Week celebrates the vitality of opera in America today and brings the inventiveness and excitement of 
opera to a broader national audience. The strength and diversity of established opera companies, community opera ensembles and opera training programs across the United States will be shared through a variety of free and accessible activities for opera lovers and newcomers to the art form.
engine or the large cannon sitting in the field, but look closer and you’ll see a building filled with all of Virginia’s, all of the nation’s most time-changing history. 
New this year is Hallow-day from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Enjoy the Halloween decorations and help carve pumpkins for the evening event. Special activities ($2 plus museum admission) include: make Halloween crafts and decorations, Chemical Magic with Larry Sacks, learn the physics of pumpkin chunkin, see fierce and not-so-fierce Halloween critters in live animal shows.
Tickets for Night of the Living Museum are $10 per person. Museum members pay $7 per person. Children ages 2 and under are free. Children ages 13 and under must be accompanied by an adult. Advance tickets are $1 off. Admission is full price the day of the event.
