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Fairfield University announces its participation in the groundbreaking new series, "The Met: Live in HD" beginning on Saturday, March 15 at 1:30 p.m. with a new production of Benjamin Britten's dark drama, "Peter Grimes." Tickets are $22 general, $20 seniors, $15 students and children and a $10 group rate for 10 students or more. According to former New York City Opera star Brenda Lewis, a Fairfield County resident who has experienced two of the series' operas live in HD, "This is a mind-blowing experience and 'a must' for anyone who loves the fireworks of a big rock concert." In this, only the second season of expanded live satellite transmissions, attendance records are being broken and there are an increasing number of sold-out screens throughout the United States, Canada and abroad. The Los Angeles Times declared, "The Met's experiment of merging film with live performance has created a new art form." Join us for this series of live, high definition broadcasts at the Quick Center for the Arts. Four featured performances:
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Peter Grimes is under investigation for unthinkable transgressions, yet Benjamin Britten's probing exploration of the nature of guilt and judgment implicates an entire fishing village. Director John Doyle, a Tony Award® winner for his interpretation of Sondheim's Sweeney Todd, makes his Met debut answering the challenges of this modern masterpiece. Tenor Anthony Dean Griffey takes on the complex title role. The riveting Patricia Racette plays Ellen Orford, the woman who refuses to abandon him. Featuring what may be 20th-century opera's most impressive tenor role, Peter Grimes, with its sweeping orchestral beauty, will be an engrossing and haunting theatrical journey.
Met Music Director and eminent Wagnerian James Levine conducts this much anticipated revival. Deborah Voigt, one of the world's most celebrated Wagnerian sopranos, undertakes this iconic role for the first time at the Met. The leading Tristan of our time, Ben Heppner, portrays the other half of this archetypal couple on their mystical journey of love, sex, and death.
A magnificent cast comes together for Franco Zeffirelli's iconic production of the Puccini favorite. The exciting young conductor Nicola Luisotti presides over a glorious vocal ensemble led by the mesmerizing Angela Gheorghiu, who sings Mimì at the Met for the first time in twelve years, opposite golden-toned tenor Ramón Vargas as her lover, Rodolfo.
Experience the "exceedingly yummy operatic cake" that was called "the operatic show of the season" by The Times of London when it opened at Covent Garden this past winter. Audiences were dazzled by Natalie Dessay's fearless coloratura and impeccable comic timing and by Juan Diego Flórez's remarkable musicality - complete with the famous high Cs. Dessay and Flórez are an "operatic coupling made in heaven" raved the Financial Times. Directed by Laurent Pelly, the production also boasts stage legend and four-time Tony Award® winner Zoe Caldwell as the Duchess of Krakenthorp.