Event Details
Donizetti's La Fille du Regiment (Encore Presentation Broadcast in HD) RSVP for LECTURE & LUNCH pre-broadcast!
The Metropolitan Opera & The Mahaiwe
Saturday May 10, 2008 / 1:30 PM (Lecture 11AM/Lunch 12PM)Individual Tickets: $23 Adults/ $21 Seniors/$16 Children under 13
Composer Gaetano Donizetti. Approximate running time 2 hrs. 45 min. Sung in French with English, Spanish and German subtitles.
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 Florez's remarkable musicality - complete with the famous high C's. Dessay and Florez 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.
La Fille du Régiment is a co-production with the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London, and the Wiener Staatsoper, Vienna.
Saturday afternoon's complimentary LECTURE with Juilliard's own Scott Eyerly will be at St. James Church)*All are welcome to attend!* Lecture begins at 11am. Lunch at noon at Castle Street Cafe, 10 Castle Street, Great Barrington. $15pp cash or check only, please!
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 Florez's remarkable musicality - complete with the famous high C's. Dessay and Florez 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.
La Fille du Régiment is a co-production with the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London, and the Wiener Staatsoper, Vienna.
Saturday afternoon's complimentary LECTURE with Juilliard's own Scott Eyerly will be at St. James Church)*All are welcome to attend!* Lecture begins at 11am. Lunch at noon at Castle Street Cafe, 10 Castle Street, Great Barrington. $15pp cash or check only, please!
