View a Slide Show of Evangeline, or The Belle of Acadia, a Victorian Musical Comedy

The Longfellow Chorus
Portland, Maine, U.S.A.


A 211th birthday comes only once; why not really celebrate?

View a photo slideshow of the April 2 & 3, 2016, revival of Goodwin and Rice's Victorian Musical Comedy, Evangeline, or The Belle of Acadia, in John Ford Theatre, Portland, Maine

View scene-by-scene videos of our complete 2-hour production of Rice's Evangeline, or The Belle of Acadia on our Evangeline YouTube Playlist

Listen to archived concert rebroadcasts as heard on Maine Stage, Maine Public Broadcasting Network: 1) Arthur Sullivan: The Golden Legend 2) Edward E. Rice: Evangeline, or The Belle of Acadia 3) The Best of The Longfellow Chorus 4) Samuel Coleridge-Taylor: the complete 4-part Scenes from The Song of Hiawatha and 5) Music from The Gilded Age: The Boston Theatre Orchestra Collection, 1867–1877

View our complete 2-hour documentary,
Samuel Coleridge-Taylor and His Music in America, 1900–1912,
on YouTube

View the 2-hour documentary,
(Arve Tellefsen in) Ole Bull's Fairy Tale, a 1982 Norwegian Television Corporation production about the 19th-century Norwegian-American violin virtuoso, Longfellow friend, and architect of Norwegian cultural identity, Ole Bull (1810–1880), with our own English subtitles

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