Italian National Opera

Opera comes to Appalachian State University Monday, Jan. 26, as the Italian National Opera comes to Farthing Auditorium to perform the operas “I, Pagliacci” and “Cavalleria Rusticana” as part of the Performing Arts Series.

Thirty-two musicians with the Budapest State Opera Orchestra will accompany the operas.
The performance begins at 8 p.m. Both operas will feature English supertitles to translate the Italian dialogue.

Tickets are $6 for students and children under 12, $12 for ASU faculty/staff and senior citizens and $15 for all others. For tickets or for more information, contact the Farthing Auditorium Box Office at 262-4046 or (800) 841-ARTS.
 

Capote Writing Scholarship

English majors with a concentration in creative writing are invited to enter the second annual Truman Capote Literary Trust Scholarship, an award that offers a full year’s in-state tuition to a rising junior or senior.

Students may submit two stories or works of creative non-fiction for the prose category, or five poems for the poetry division. Applicants will be judged on merit revealed through submitted work.
Final judging of the competition will be performed by author Lee Smith.

All entries are due to the English Department office, second floor Sanford Hall, by 4 p.m. on Friday, Jan, 30. For details, contact the Department of English at 262-3098 or Susan Weinberg at 262-2871.
 

Narcotics Anonymous

Weekly meetings of Narcotics Anonymous (N.A.) held on Appalachian State University’s campus offer help to recovering drug addicts.

Walker Hall Room 304 houses the meetings, held Tuesdays and Thursdays at 8 p.m.

Meetings allow recovering addicts to talk with people who have had similar problems with drugs, and who are also trying to remain drug-free.

Narcotics Anonymous has only one membership requirement: members must have the desire to stop using drugs.

Call (800) 449-3226 for more information on N.A. in Watauga County and surrounding areas.
 

International Film Festival

Tonight’s showing of “Prisoner of the Mountains” marks the opening of The Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures’ International Film Festival.

All films in the series will be shown at 7 p.m. in specific rooms of the student union. “Prisoner of the Mountains” will be shown in the Calloway Peak/McRae Meadows Room.

As with all films in the festival, “Prisoner of the Mountains” will have English subtitles.
 
 
 

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