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15:00 | The Met - Live in HD: Le Nozze di Figaro |
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Opera production. USA 2014, 232 min. Directed by Richard Eyre. Music by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Conducted by James Levine. Starring: Ildar Abdrazakov, Marlis Petersen, Peter Mattei, Amanda Majeski, Isabel Leonard. In Italian with Russian subtitles. The Met season opens with Music Director James Levine conducting a new production of Mozart's eternal masterpiece, directed by Richard Eyre, who sets the action in a 19th-century manor house in Seville but during the gilded age of the late 1920s. Dashing bass-baritone Ildar Abdrazakov, our Figaro, leads a dazzling cast, including Marlis Petersen as his bride, Susanna, Peter Mattei as the philandering Count, Amanda Majeski as the long-suffering Countess, and Isabel Leonard as the libidinous pageboy Cherubino. Designer Rob Howell (Carmen, Werther) utilizes a revolving set to keep the story bubbling along. More info
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