Saturday, Jan. 26: Directed by Michael Mayer, this new production of Verdi’s beloved tragedy features a dazzling 18th-century setting that changes with the seasons.

January 23 to April 14: The “durational” works that established the Saugerties artist’s creative reputation include Art/Life: One Year Performance, in which she was bound by rope to Taiwanese performance artist Tehching Hsieh 24 hours a day for a full year.

January 31 – February 10: Vassar serves up nearly two weeks of thematically connected music, lectures, films and more in venues around the Vassar campus and – for the first time this year – off-campus as well. Modfest’s 2019 theme is “In Motion.”

Viewers find themselves surrounded by mysterious imagery painted on a 100-foot-long length of raw canvas, eight feet high, that encircles the room. The space is now the permanent home of Marilyn Reynolds’ Composition in the Round. Reynolds and her family are in the process of renovating the former firehouse into a studio, gallery and workshop space for community art classes.

The Long Island, then-Brooklyn, now-Saugerties singer/songwriter Laura Stevenson splits her bandwidth just about evenly between a rambunctious, stormy and keenly melodic power-pop on one side and a delicate (though still stormy) chamber Americana on the other.

Friday, Jan. 19: His new record Angels and One-Armed Jugglers is made with an A-list cast of New York session players, a number of whom are Woodstock-area residents.

Sunday, Jan. 20: The first lecture for 2019 brings design historian and historic interiors expert Jean Dunbar of Historic Design, Inc. for the unveiling of a new discovery at Thomas Cole’s home.

Saturday, Jan. 12: Colony in Woodstock hosts a celebration of what would have been David Bowie’s 71st birthday with Acoustic Stardust, a novel homage to the legendary rocker who lived in Shokan, offering a stripped-down and acoustic treatment of songs from all periods of his chameleonic career.

Friday, January 11: The great, blind British pianist and composer George Shearing lived so long and recorded so much with so many that no one even remembers how he used to be dismissed by the hardasses of jazz. He outlasted them all, and emerged as a pioneer in several respects: as the man principally responsible for the sophisticated “locked-hands” piano technique, and also as one of jazz’s earliest adopters of Latin music.

Saturday, Jan. 12: This rocking ensemble, including Connor Kennedy, Zack Djankian and Lee Falco, will take a loose and free-flowing joyride through the Americana songbook.