Classic Arts NewsMetropolitan Opera Launches 11th Annual Free Summer Screening Festival With Funny FaceThe Met will also screen 10 operas in Lincoln Center Plaza beginning August 24.
By
Dan Meyer
August 23, 2019
Metropolitan Opera's 2011 Summer HD Festival on Lincoln Center Plaza
Richard Termine/Metropolitan Opera
The Metropolitan Opera will screen 10 operas in Lincoln Center Plaza鈥攁ll for free鈥攕tarting August 24. Prior to the classic titles, the Met will screen the Audrey Hepburn and Fred Astaire flick Funny Face, featuring music by George and Ira Gershwin, August 23.
The Summer HD festival will offer 3,000 seats nightly with no tickets required. Bookending the screening series will be Met mainstays Anna Netrebko and Anita Rachvelishvili, in 痴别谤诲颈鈥檚 Aida and 颁颈濒别补鈥檚 Adriana Lecouvreur.
Also scheduled are the Met productions of Carmen and Dialogues des Carm茅lites, both conducted by Met Music Director Yannick N茅zet-S茅guin. Among the stars appearing on the big screen will be Roberto Alagna, Stephanie Blythe, Javier Camarena, Joyce DiDonato, El墨na Garan膷a, Jonas Kaufmann, and Pretty Yende.
Anna Netrebko, Piotr Becza艂a, and Anita Rachvelishvil
Ken Howard/Met Opera
The full schedule follows:
August 23, 8 PM Funny Face (pre-festival event) Starring Audrey Hepburn and Fred Astaire with Kay Thompson, Michel Auclair, and Robert Flemyng Directed by Stanley Donen Music by George and Ira Gershwin
August 24, 7:45 PM 痴别谤诲颈鈥檚 Aida Starring Anna Netrebko and Anita Rachvelishvili Conducted by Nicola Luisotti Originally transmitted October 6, 2018
August 25, 8 PM 叠颈锄别迟鈥檚 Carmen Starring El墨na Garan膷a and Roberto Alagna Conducted by Yannick N茅zet-S茅guin Originally transmitted January 16, 2010
August 26, 7:45 PM 奥补驳苍别谤鈥檚 Das Rheingold Starring Bryn Terfel, Stephanie Blythe, and Eric Owens Conducted by James Levine Originally transmitted October 9, 2010
August 27, 7:45 PM 笔辞耻濒别苍肠鈥檚 Dialogues des Carm茅lites Starring Isabel Leonard and Karita Mattila Conducted by Yannick N茅zet-S茅guin Originally transmitted May 11, 2019
August 28, 8 PM 厂补颈苍迟-厂补毛苍鈥檚 Samson et Dalila Starring Roberto Alagna and El墨na Garan膷a with Laurent Naouri, Elchin Azizov, and Dmitry Belosselskiy Conducted by Sir Mark Elder Originally transmitted October 20, 2018
Alice Coote and Joyce DiDonato in CendrillonKen Howard/Met Opera
August 29, 8 PM 惭补蝉蝉别苍别迟鈥檚 Cendrillon Starring Joyce DiDonato, Alice Coote, and Kathleen Kim Conducted by Bertrand de Billy Originally transmitted April 28, 2018
August 30, 8 PM 笔耻肠肠颈苍颈鈥檚 La Fanciulla del West Starring Eva-Maria Westbroek, Jonas Kaufmann, and 沤eljko Lu膷i膰 Conducted by Marco Armiliato Originally transmitted October 27, 2018
August 31, 8 PM 顿辞苍颈锄别迟迟颈鈥檚 La Fille du R茅giment Starring Javier Camarena and Pretty Yende with Maurizio Muraro, Stephanie Blythe and Kathleen Turner Conducted by Enrique Mazzola Originally transmitted March 2, 2019
September 1, 8 PM 痴别谤诲颈鈥檚 Luisa Miller Starring Sonya Yoncheva, Piotr Becza艂a, Pl谩cido Domingo, Olesya Petrova, Alexander Vinogradov, and Dmitry Belosselskiy. Conducted by Bertrand de Billy Originally transmitted April 14, 2018
September 2, 8 PM 颁颈濒别补鈥檚 Adriana Lecouvreur Starring Anna Netrebko, Piotr Becza艂a, Anita Rachvelishvili, and Ambrogio Maestri Conducted by Gianandrea Noseda Originally transmitted January 12, 2019
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Aida Garifullina: Backstage at the Metropolitan Opera
Aida Garifullina: Backstage at the Metropolitan Opera
The Russian soprano makes her Met debut in Mozart's Don Giovanni.
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"I woke up at 7:30. I started to warm up my voice at 9 until about 10, and then I went to the Met."
Aida Garifullina
鈥淚t鈥檚 important for me to warm up again in the dress. To keep the beautiful, low sound, you have to try to breathe against the corset. And also the dress gives you the feeling of the character you鈥檙e playing. So it鈥檚 very helpful.鈥�
"Most of the time, I feel like a queen, like a diva. But when I put this dress on, the dress of the country girl, I need to change everything in me: the behavior, gestures, art of acting. I鈥檓 not Zerlina in my personal life, absolutely not. Every new role is a new challenge. 鈥�
Marc J. Franklin
"They鈥檙e so top level here. They try to do everything perfect. Even the costumes, for example. I had three costume fittings already, and today, they wanted to change something. I thought, 鈥楧o people really see these small details?鈥� I鈥檓 a perfectionist myself, so I love that way of working."
Aida Garifullina
"I love to do some breath techniques from yoga鈥攏ot for relaxation, but to give me power. You need to wake up your body to get energy. All the muscles have to be engaged to help you breathe and support while singing."
"I was waiting for this contract for many years. I always wanted it, and now I鈥檓 here. It鈥檚 a very prestigious house. It鈥檚 just so different; it鈥檚 like another planet."
Marc J. Franklin
"Zerlina doesn鈥檛 really have a lot of experience with love. When Don Giovanni comes to her and offers her this love, she wants to try it out. At the same time, she has her marriage to Masetto that night. So she has a lot to play with here. She reminds me a little bit of Susanna in Mozart鈥檚 Le Nozze de Figaro. They are a little similar."
"The first aria is very playful, but the second is more dramatic, of course. She loves [Masetto], but there's something dark; her dark side is coming out."
Backstage at Don Giovanni
Garifullina's favorite part of the Met? "The stage. I love to be on the stage."
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