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Live Via Satellite
Written By: Mary Adair Trumbly - Highlands PAC | Issue: 2017/05 - May
The Highlands Performing Arts Center continues the Live via Satellite Series in May.
The Met Opera’s last broadcast for the 2016-17 Season, Strauss’s “Der Rosenkavalier,” will be screened at 12:55 P.M. Saturday, May 13, with the pre-opera discussion led by Beverly Wichman at 12:30 P.M.
“Der Rosenkavalier,” The Met’s first new production of Strauss’s rich romantic masterpiece since 1969, is conducted by Music Director James Levine and directed by Robert Carsen. Renée Fleming sings one of her signature roles as the Marschallin, opposite Elna Garana in her first North American performances as Octavian, the impulsive young title character.
The National Theatre of London has added several new productions to its lineup. Saturday, May 20, brings “Twelfth Night.” Tamsin Greig plays Malvolia in Shakespeare’s comedy of mistaken identity.
Saturday, June 3, brings “Obession,” starring Jude Law. Gino is a magnetically handsome drifter. At a roadside restaurant, he encounters husband and wife Giuseppe and Giovanna. Irresistibly attracted to each other, Gino and Giovanna begin a fiery affair and plot to murder her husband. But in this chilling tale of passion and destruction, the crime only serves to tear them apart.
“Peter Pan,” makes an a appearance Saturday, June 10. Peter Pan, leader of the Lost Boys, loses his shadow and it’s up to headstrong Wendy to help him to reattach it.
PAC Memberships are available now. A PAC Membership entitles you to advance notice of next year’s season and advance seat selection, a 15 percent discount on tickets purchased, complimentary tickets, a Reserved Parking Space at PAC, and a private pre-concert Wine Dinner for you and six of your BFFs. PAC has so much to offer, check out highlandspac.org or call (828) 526-9047 for more
information and tickets.
