Southampton - The Parrish Art Museum is launching its partnership with Emerging Pictures and its Opera in Cinema series.

Emerging Pictures is the largest all-digital specialty film and alternate content theater network in the United States. Emerging has a network of arts institutions, media arts centers, and independent art house theaters, tied together through digital technology, enabling them to exhibit art films, documentaries, foreign language films, independent cinema, and cultural programming.

The cultural programming - filmed opera and ballet - will continue throughout the year. In addition, independent films from Emerging Pictures' vast distribution network will begin in the fall, selected by the Parrish's guest film curator John K. Turnbull.

The Opera In Cinema Schedule Through Labor Day Weekend Follows:

 • Thursday, August 5, 7:30 p.m. and Sunday, August 8, 2 p.m. Verdi's "Rigoletto" (2008). Teatro Regio di Parma (Festival Verdi 2008). Conducted by Massimo Zanetti, directed by Stefano Vizioli, sets and costumes by Pierluigi Samaritani. Starring Leo Nucci and Nino Machaidze, 120 minutes, one intermission.

 • Thursday, September 2, 7:30 p.m. and Sunday, September 5, 2 p.m. Stravinsky & The Ballets Russes: "Firebird, The Wedding and The Rite of Spring" (2009). Stravinsky, Mariinsky (Kirov Ballet) Theatre, St. Petersburg. Choreographed by Michel Fokine, Bronislava Nijinska, and Vaslav Nijinsky. Starring Alexandra Iosifidi and Yekaterina Kondaurova, 110 minutes.

The Museum's programs are made possible, in part, with public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts, a State Agency.