An historic venue located at 51 Walden Street in Concord, Massachusetts
We are host to…
2022-23 Season
Up Next
June 9-11, 2023
Fri. June 9 at 8 p.m., pre-performance talk at 7:15 p.m.
Sat. June 10 at 2 p.m., pre-performance talk at 1:15 p.m.
Sat. June 10 at 8 p.m., pre-performance talk at 7:15 p.m.
Sun. June 11 at 2 p.m., pre-performance talk at 1:15 p.m.
Opera 51 production of Puccini’s Tosca, with orchestra and chorus conducted by Alan Yost. Sung in Italian with projected English subtitles. Leads include Margretta Beaty, Ethan Bremner, Michael Prichard, Max Rydqvist, Carlo Bunyi, Kartik Ayysola, Ashley Becker, David Boson, James C S Liu, Len Giambrone, and Chris Loschen. Pre-performance talks by musicologist Laura Prichard. More about the plot: BLO Tosca Overview for Coda. Buy tix.
Air Disinfection at 51 Walden
We plan to install our new ventilation system in July. In the meantime, in order to help cleanse and disinfect the air at 51 Walden, we have installed UltraVation BioGardUV™ Upper-Room Convection Germicidal UV Units in the main hall and lobby areas. We have also installed three AIRDoctor™ HEPA Professional Air Purifiers in the lobby area. For details, refer to our Airborne-Virus-Mitigation-Notice-Spring-2021 document.
The Concord Band
The Concord Band performs regularly at its permanent home, the Performing Arts Center at 51 Walden Street in Concord, at its summer home at Fruitlands Museum in Harvard, Massachusetts, and has also performed summer concerts at several towns in the Greater Boston and MetroWest regions. The sixty-five volunteer members of the Band represent many area communities and a wide variety of professions. Visit the Band’s blog for more information.
The Concord Players
The Concord Players mount three major productions a year with multiple performances of each play. Recent seasons have included Barefoot in the Park, Funny Girl, Spamalot, The Drowsy Chaperone, and The Sound of Music. The Players’ staging of Little Women is regarded by many as Concord’s Passion Play.
The Concord Orchestra
The Concord Orchestra plays a dozen concerts each season including a Family Concert and two Pops weekends. Each year one of our concerts features a performer from one of the Boston area schools who has won our Young Artist Competition. The winner also receives a cash prize from the Ehlers Memorial Scholarship Fund, which was founded in memory of Charles and Arlene Ehlers.
Opera51
Opera51 raises funds to support 51 Walden through opera performances, associated corporate sponsorships, program ads, individual donations, and through special events like Gala Gatherings and Opera Favorites. Proceeds contribute valuable funds to the maintenance and operation of the facility, a community resource supporting hundreds of local residents each week throughout the year.