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| Arts Calendar / December 12 / Film |
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| Theatre HD Live in Cinema: Cavalleria Rusticana / Pagliacci |
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15:00. The Metropolitan Opera 2015, 205 min. Directed by David McVicar. Starring: Eva-Maria Westbroek, Patricia Racette, Marcelo Álvarez. In Italian. Director David McVicar’s new production brings opera’s favorite double bill to new life, setting the two operas in the same Sicilian setting, separated by two generations. Marcelo Álvarez takes on the rare feat of singing both leading tenor roles. In Cavalleria, he is Turiddu, the young man who abandons Santuzza (Eva-Maria Westbroek) in his pursuit of the married Lola (Ginger Costa-Jackson)—and ends up being killed in a duel with her husband, Alfio (George Gagnidze). In Pagliacci, Álvarez is Canio, the leader of a traveling vaudeville troupe. Patricia Racette sings Nedda, his unfaithful young wife, whose plans to run away with her lover are foiled by her spurned admirer Tonio (George Gagnidze)—with equally tragic consequences. Met Principal Conductor Fabio Luisi is on the podium. Formula Kino Europa |
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| Theatre HD Live in Cinema: The Exterminating Angel |
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The Metropolitan Opera 2017, 156 min (with one intermission). Directed by Tom Cairnes. Starring: Audrey Luna, Amanda Echalaz, Sally Matthews. In English. The Metropolitan Opera presents the American premiere of Thomas Adès’s The Exterminating Angel, inspired by the classic Luis Buñuel film of the same name. Hailed by the New York Times at its 2016 Salzburg Festival premiere as «inventive and audacious … a major event», The Exterminating Angel is a surreal fantasy about a dinner party from which the guests can’t escape. Tom Cairns, who wrote the libretto, directs the new production, and Adès conducts his own adventurous new opera. The cast includes Audrey Luna, Iestyn Davies, Joseph Kaiser, and others. Watch online here. TheatreHD/Play |
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