#Met opera schedule 2017 series

Baritone Will Liverman, one of opera’s most exciting young artists, stars as Charles, alongside sopranos Angel Blue as Destiny/Loneliness/Greta and Latonia Moore as Billie.īrilliant American composer Matthew Aucoin’s Eurydice will screen on Saturday, December 4 at 1 p.m. Brown-two of the creators of the Met’s sensational recent production of Porgy and Bess -co-direct this new staging. Blow’s moving memoir, which The New York Times praised after its 2019 world premiere at Opera Theatre of Saint Louis as “bold and affecting” and “subtly powerful.” The first opera by a Black composer presented on the Met stage and featuring a libretto by filmmaker Kasi Lemmons, the opera tells a poignant and profound story about a young man’s journey to overcome a life of trauma and hardship. Yannick Nézet-Séguin conducts Blanchard’s adaptation of Charles M. Grammy Award–winning jazz musician and composer Terence Blanchard’s Fire Shut Up in My Bones will screen on Saturday, October 23 at 1 p.m. Stephen Wadsworth’s affecting production poignantly captures the hope and suffering of the Russian people as well as the tsar himself. Conductor Sebastian Weigle leads Mussorgsky’s masterwork, a pillar of the Russian repertoire, in its original 1869 version.

Bass René Pape, the world’s reigning Boris, reprises his overwhelming portrayal of the tortured tsar caught between grasping ambition and crippling paranoia. The new Met season begins with Modest Mussorgsky’s Boris Godunov on Saturday, October 9 at 1 p.m. “ Opera lovers have been eagerly awaiting this Met season, with its ground-breaking new works, and beloved favorites, telling tales both newly-relevant and timeless, ” says Mahaiwe Executive Director Janis Martinson. The Mahaiwe’s state-of-the-art screening equipment provides a top-quality experience.

Ten operas will screen from New York City’s Lincoln Center to the Mahaiwe, offering high definition, multi-camera angle views of each production from the comfort of the Southern Berkshires’ premier theater.

#Met opera schedule 2017 series

The broadcast series has been a popular part of Mahaiwe programming since 2007. Great Barrington, Mass.-The Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center will present the Metropolitan Opera’s 15 th Live in HD season starting this fall, October 9, through spring 2022, concluding June 4.