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| Theatre HD Live in Cinema: Don Pasquale |
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The Metropolitan Opera 1979, 133 min. Directed by John Dexter. Starring: Beverly Sills, Alfredo Kraus, Håkan Hagegård. In Italian. This John Dexter production, designed by Desmond Heeley, was a parting gift to the great American soprano Beverly Sills, who bid farewell to the Met as Norina, the smart young widow at the center of Donizetti’s comedy. The sensational Alfredo Kraus sings her beloved Ernesto. Håkan Hagegård, in his Met debut role and season, is Dr. Malatesta, the man who helps the young couple trick the crusty old bachelor of the title (Gabriel Bacquier at his comical best) into a fake marriage. This being a Donizetti comedy, it all turns out perfectly well at the end—and getting there is pure operatic fun. Watch online here.
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| Theatre HD Live in Cinema: La Donna del Lago |
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The Metropolitan Opera 2014, 210 min. Directed by Paul Karan. Starring: Joyce DiDonato, Daniela Barcellona, Juan Diego Flórez. In Italian. Bel canto superstars Joyce DiDonato and Juan Diego Flórez join forces at the Met for this Rossini showcase of vocal virtuosity, set in the medieval Scottish highlands and based on a beloved novel by Sir Walter Scott. DiDonato is the “lady of the lake” of the title, and Flórez is the king who relentlessly pursues her, their vocal fireworks embellishing the romantic plot in this Met premiere production conducted by Michele Mariotti. Watch online here.
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| Theatre HD Live in Cinema: Les Blancs |
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National Theatre 2016, 149 min. Directed by Yaël Farber. Starring: Sheila Atim, Danny Sapani, Siân Phillips. In English. An African country teeters on the edge of civil war. A society prepares to drive out its colonial present and claim an independent future. Racial tensions boil over. Tshembe, returned home from England for his father’s funeral, finds himself in the eye of the storm. A family and a nation fall apart under the pressure to determine their own identity as this brave, illuminating and powerful play confronts the hope and tragedy of revolution.Written eleven years after A Raisin in the Sun, Lorraine Hansberry’s final drama is an unknown masterpiece of the American stage and a highly theatrical search for the soul of post-colonial Africa. Les Blancs marks the National Theatre debut of the multi-award-winning director Yaël Farber, whose productions include The Crucible (Old Vic) and the internationally-acclaimed Mies Julie and Nirbhaya. Watch online here.
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