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What’s Happening at the PAC
Written By: Mary Adair Trumbly - Highlands PAC | Issue: 2018/10 - October
The Live via Satellite Series begins the 2018-19 season on October 6 with the MET Opera production of “Aida” by Verdi. Soprano Anna Netrebko sings her first Met “Aida,” going toe-to-toe with mezzo-soprano Anita Rachvelishvili as Amneris. Tenor Aleksandrs Antonenko is Radamès, and Nicola Luisotti takes the podium for the Met’s monumental production. The Egyptians are at war with the Ethiopians. Aida is an Ethiopian who has been captured and made slave to Amneris, the daughter of the King of Egypt. Aida is the daughter of Amonasro, the King of Ethiopia. A love triangle and war ensue.
On October 20, join us for “Samson et Dalila” by Saint Sans. This biblical epic stars mezzo-soprano Elna Garana and tenor Roberto Alagna in the title roles. Dramatizing the life of Samson, the legendary strongman, and Delilah, the woman who seduced and betrayed him, the opera builds to a violent conclusion, in that Samson is crushed along with his foes when he pulls down a temple around them.
On October 27, it’s “La Fanciulla del West” by Pucinni. Amongst the 20,000 operas written during the past 400 years, there are not many that have a whiff of gunpowder. Puccini’s “La Fanciulla
del West” is the exception. When Puccini wrote a new piece for the Metropolitan Opera in 1910 he used the American myth of the Wild West as his point of departure. Soprano Eva-Maria Westbroek sings Puccini’s gun-slinging heroine in this romantic epic of the Wild West, alongside star tenor Jonas Kaufmann in the role of the outlaw Dick Johnson. Baritone Željko Luć is the vigilante sheriff Jack Rance, and Marco Armiliato conducts.
All operas are on Saturdays, beginning at 12:55 P.M., with a pre-opera discussion beginning at 12:30 P.M. The National Theatre of London begins their 2018-19 Season in November with “Julie” and “King Lear.”
