The next title in the highly successful sixth season of The Met: Live in HD at Cinema from The Metropolitan Opera in New York is a new and exciting production of Guiseppe Verdi’s famous opera, Rigoletto.
This performance shows exclusively at Cinema Nouveau and select Ster-Kinekor theatres countrywide with the first screening on Saturday 23 March. The production runs for approximately three-and-a-half hours (with intermission).
Tony Award-winning director, Michael Mayer (Spring Awakening), makes his Met debut with this new production in which the opera’s tragic events move from a 16th century Italian court to the glitzy setting of the Las Vegas strip in the 1960s.
Mayer, inspired by the Rat Pack, has cast a dynamic line-up of performers including Serbian baritone Željko Lueiæ in the title role of Rigoletto. German soprano Diana Damrau sings the role of his daughter Gilda. The predatory and womanising Duke is sung by Polish tenor Piotr Beczala. Slovakian bass Štefan Kocan stars as the assassin-for-hire Sparafucile and Belarussian mezzo-soprano Oksana Volkova makes her Met debut as his sister Maddalena.
The Italian maestro Michele Mariotti conducts his first company performance of the Verdi masterwork, which features one of the most famous arias of all of opera, La Donna e Mobile.
These grand opera productions, which are made possible by a grant from founding sponsor The Neubauer Family Foundation, are filmed at the magnificent Metropolitan Opera House in New York. Home to some of the most talented singers, conductors, composers, orchestra musicians, stage directors, designers, visual artists, choreographers and dancers from around the world, past productions have received great acclaim and gained recognition around the world.
For booking information please visit www.cinemanouveau.co.za or sterkinekor.mobi, or call Ticketline on 082 16789.
