“La Donna Del Lago,” Waterville Opera House

Feb. 12, Thursday, 6pm, “Tales of Ghostly Lovers,” join The Lady in the Red Cloak for a celebration of Valentine’s Day and her tales of ghostly lovers, tales from Maine and around the world include castle lore, Grandma’s love, Emily’s Bridge, frozen lovers, as well as valentine trivia and more, Sally Lobkowicz, owner of Red Cloak Haunted History Tours, will also welcome your stories of valentine hauntings, registration fee is $12,Gardiner Adult Education, 40 West Hill Road, Gardiner. FMI: 207-582-3774, www.msad11.maineadulted.org.
Feb. 13, Friday, 7pm, “DaPonte String Quartet, music by Maine’s best loved music group in one of Western Maine’s most romantic settings. The quartet will play an unusual mix of romantic music, from Kreisler’s moving Quartet in A Major, to Beethoven’s stirring Opus 59, and their own unique mash-up of Pachelbel’s Canon and Michael Jackson’s I Want You Back. The performance is part of the DaPonte’s “Classical Music in Historic Sites” tour, which has the string quartet performing classical music the way it was meant to be heard, in gorgeous 18th and 19th century opera houses and meeting houses that have been loving restored and maintained across the state, $10, Skowhegan Opera House, 225 Water Street, Skowhegan. FMI: 207-529-4555, www.DaPonte.org.
Feb. 14, Saturday, 7pm, “The Vagina Monologues,” a poignant and hilarious tour of the last frontier, the ultimate forbidden zone. The Vagina Monologues is a celebration of female sexuality in all its complexity and mystery. In this stunning phenomenon that has swept the nation, Eve Ensler gives us real women’s stories of intimacy, vulnerability, and sexual self-discovery, $20/orchestra seating, $15/1st balcony, $12/2nd balcony, Waterville Opera House, 1 Common Street, Waterville. FMI: 207-873-7000, www.operahouse.org.
Feb. 14, Saturday, 7:30pm, “Welcome to the Sixties: Songs that Shaped a Generation,” a fun, and sometimes romantic, collection of number-one hits from Billboard Magazine from every year in the 1960s, the Concert features local singers and actors, Renee Davis, Eileen M. Messina, Sharon Nightingale, Gerry Therrien and Michael James Litchfield, the band, under the baton of pianist Paul G. Caron, features guitarist Mike French, bassist Shane Davis and drummer Bruce Condit, the entire ensemble represents some of L/A Community Little Theatre’s most talented performers with scores of productions to their credits, $12, $10/seniors and students, Franco Center, 46 Cedar Street, Lewiston. FMI: 207-689-2000, www.francocenter.org.
Feb. 14, Saturday, 7:30pm, “Love is….A Work of Heart,” Johnson Hall’s resident community readers theater group The Open Book Players presents an evening of music and stories that are sure to ignite a fire in the heart. Love is a Work of Heart will feature twenty talented local actors and singers who will present a selection of touching, and sometimes humorous, romantic readings from such authors as Carl Sandburg, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Ogden Nash, and William Shakespeare. They’ll also perform some favorite and familiar love songs from the past as well as the present, $16, $14/seniors, $5/17 and under, Johnson Hall Performing Arts Center, 280 Water Street, Gardiner. FMI: 207-582-7144, www.johnsonhall.org.
Feb. 14, Saturday, 12:30pm, “The Met Live HD Presents: LA DONNA DEL LAGO,” Bel canto superstars Joyce DiDonato and Juan Diego Flórez join forces for this Rossini showcase of vocal virtuosity, set in the medieval Scottish highlands and based on a beloved novel by Sir Walter Scott. DiDonato is the “lady of the lake” of the title, and Flórez is the king who relentlessly pursues her, their vocal fireworks embellishing the romantic plot in this Met premiere production conducted by Michele Mariotti, $20/adults, $18/seniors, $15/students, Waterville Opera House, 1 Common Street, Waterville. FMI: 207-873-7000, www.operahouse.org.
Feb. 15, Sunday, 12-3pm, “Cabin Fever Bash!,” snowshoeing, snow fort building, and a Snowman Contest, enjoy the cheery fire pit with hot cocoa and s’mores, fun games and crafts, visitors can bring snowshoes or borrow a pair, if there isn’t enough snow for forts and snowmen, there will be street hockey games in the parking lot. Kids can also enjoy a Story Walk, free, Belgrade Regional Health Center, 4 Clement Way, Belgrade. FMI: 207-495-3323, www.healthreach.org.