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The MET is back | Highlands Performing Arts Center
Written By: Mary Adair Trumbly - Highlands PAC | Issue: 2021/10 – October
The Metropolitan Opera is back on the playbill at Highlands Performing Arts Center. The PAC is located at 507 Chestnut Street.
The Metropolitan Opera is reopening their doors. On Saturday, October 9, the MET will present Boris Godunov by Modest Mussorgsky Live via Satellite.
Bass René Pape, the world’s reigning Boris, reprises his overwhelming portrayal of the tortured tsar caught between grasping ambition and crippling paranoia, kicking off the Live in HD season on October 9.
Conductor Sebastian Weigle leads Mussorgsky’s masterwork, a pillar of the Russian repertoire, in its original 1869 version. Stephen Wadsworth’s affecting production poignantly captures the hope and suffering of the Russian people as well as the tsar himself. Join us on Saturday, October 9, beginning at 12:55 P.M. Run time is two hours, 40 minutes.
Yannick Nézet-Séguin conducts Grammy Award–winning jazz musician and composer Terence Blanchard’s adaptation of Charles M. Blow’s moving memoir, Fire Shut Up in My Bones; which The New York Times praised after its 2019 world premiere at Opera Theatre of Saint Louis as “bold and affecting” and “subtly powerful.”
The first opera by a Black composer presented on the Met stage and featuring a libretto by filmmaker Kasi Lemmons, the opera tells a poignant and profound story about a young man’s journey to overcome a life of trauma and hardship.
James Robinson and Camille A. Brown – two of the creators of the Met’s sensational recent production of Porgy and Bess – co-direct this new staging. Baritone Will Liverman, one of opera’s most exciting young artists, stars as Charles, alongside sopranos Angel Blue as Destiny/Loneliness/Greta and Latonia Moore as Billie. Live via Satellite, Saturday, October 23 beginning at 12:55 P.M.
The National Theatre of London will be back with encore performances in November. Check it out on the website.
Tickets are available online HighlandsPerformingArts.com click on the red PAC button.
