CCP’s The Met: Dwell in HD returns for its new season with iconic operas corresponding to Cosi Fan Tutte, Hansel and Gretel, and Fedora, amongst others.
The Cultural Middle of the Philippines (CCP) proudly presents a wonderful lineup of iconic operas in HD proper within the comfort of a movie show close to you.
Now on its eighth season, the CCP’s The Met: Dwell in HD is a particular program of the CCP Movie, Broadcast, and New Media Division (CCP FBNMD), beneath the Manufacturing and Exhibition Division, in partnership with The Metropolitan Opera of New York, the Filipinas Opera Society Basis, Inc., and Ayala Malls Cinemas. The collection showcases operatic productions via the Excessive-Definition (HD) digital video know-how and Dolby Sound, recreating the expertise of watching an opera manufacturing on the Met “dwell.”
The season opens with considered one of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s most iconic works, Die Zauberflöte, on July 11. For this Met opera model, famend English director Simon McBurney took a extra trendy strategy to the basic journey of Prince Tamino and Papageno to search out Pamina, the daughter of the Queen of the Night time.
In his Met-debut staging, McBurney lets free a volley of theatrical thrives, incorporating projections, sound results, and acrobatics to match the spectacle and drama of Mozart’s fable.
Certainly one of opera’s most beloved works receives its first new Met staging in 19 years, the sensible forged consists of soprano Erin Morley as Pamina, tenor Lawrence Brownlee as Tamino, baritone Thomas Oliemans in his Met debut as Papageno, soprano Kathryn Lewek because the Queen of the Night time, and bass Stephen Milling as Sarastro.
Nathalie Stutzmann conducts the Met Orchestra, with the pit raised to make the musicians seen to the viewers and permit interplay with the forged.
One other Mozart work, Don Giovanni, follows on August 1. This opera is a dramatic retelling of the story of Don Juan, a lustful womanizer who finds his wishes to be the reason for his destruction by the top of the day.
Tony Award–successful director Ivo van Hove made his main Met debut with a brand new tackle Mozart’s tragicomedy, re-setting the acquainted story of deceit and damnation in an summary architectural panorama and shining a light-weight into the darkish corners of the story and its characters.
Maestro Nathalie Stutzmann made her Met debut on this opera staging, conducting a star-studded forged led by baritone Peter Mattei as a magnetic Don Giovanni, alongside the Leporello of bass-baritone Adam Plachetka. Sopranos Federica Lombardi, Ana Mari?a Marti?nez, and Ying Fang make a superlative trio as Giovanni’s conquests and tenor Ben Bliss is Don Ottavio.
Giuseppe Verdi’s wonderful Shakespearean comedy, Falstaff, might be screened on September 5. On this Robert Carsen’s celebrated staging, baritone Michael Volle sang his first Verdi function on the Met because the caddish knight Falstaff, gleefully laid low with a trio of intelligent ladies who delivered his comeuppance. Reuniting after their acclaimed turns within the manufacturing’s 2019 run are soprano Ailyn Pe?rez as Alice Ford, mezzo-soprano Jennifer Johnson Cano as Meg Web page, and contralto Marie-Nicole Lemieux as Mistress Rapidly. Soprano Hera Hyesang Park and tenor Bogdan Volkov are the younger {couples} Nannetta and Fenton, and Maestro Daniele Rustioni conducts.
Come October 3, opera followers can watch Umberto Giordano’s Fedora, which made a comeback after 25 years for Met Opera’s season 2022-23. The exhilarating drama is filled with a memorable melody, show-stopping arias, and explosive confrontations, dropped at life by its great forged, led by soprano Sonya Yoncheva, considered one of right this moment’s most riveting artists, who takes the titular function of the Nineteenth-century Russian princess who falls in love along with her fiance?’s assassin, Rely Loris, sung by star tenor Piotr Becza?a. Finishing the forged are Rosa Feola as Olga, Piotr Beczala as Loris Ipanoff, and Lucas Meachem as De Siriex.
Director David McVicar delivers an in depth and dramatic staging primarily based round an ingenious fastened set that, like a Russian nesting doll, unfolds to disclose the opera’s three distinctive settings—a palace in St. Petersburg, a trendy Parisian salon, and a picturesque villa within the Swiss Alps.
Engelbert Humperdinck’s Hansel and Gretel, the childhood fairytale we’ve all come to know and love, is coming to the Ayala Cinema on November 7. A deliciously darkish tackle the beloved Brothers Grimm fairy story, this opera stars Alice Coote and Christine Schäfer because the well-known siblings misplaced within the woods who battle the ravenous Witch, portrayed by tenor Philip Langridge. The Met Orchestra, beneath the baton of Vladimir Jurowski, carried out a folk-inspired rating.
The season ends with one other Mozart masterpiece, Cosi Fan Tutte, on December 5. A part of the Met’s standard English-language vacation collection, this opera is a twisted story about two pairs of lovers who discover themselves on one emotional, and typically literal, thrill trip after one other.
The manufacturing encompasses a forged of breakout younger artists – soprano Amanda Majeski, mezzo-soprano Serena Malfi, tenor Ben Bliss, and bass-baritone Adam Plachetka. Baritone Christopher Maltman, because the scheming Don Alfonso, and Tony Award–successful actress Kelli O’Hara, who triumphed in her 2014 Met debut in Lehár’s The Merry Widow. David Robertson conducts Mozart’s colourful and heartfelt rating.
Director Phelim McDermott and his crew of designers have up to date the opera’s setting to a boardwalk amusement park impressed by Coney Island within the Fifties.
All screenings are scheduled at 5:30 p.m. at Cinema 1 Greenbelt 3 in Makati Metropolis. Tickets are priced at PHP450.00. College students and younger professionals could benefit from the screenings at PHP100.00 upon presentation of legitimate ID. Tickets can be found at Greenbelt ticket cubicles and the web site www.sureseats.com.
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