Met Live Continues with Mozart Masterpiece, 'Le Nozze di Figaro'

The Met: Live in HD Features New Production of Mozart Comic Opera, Set in 1930s Spanish Manor

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The Met: Live in HD will present a new production of Mozart’s “Le Nozze di Figaro,” set in 1930s Spain, on Oct. 18, showing locally at Potsdam’s Roxy Theater.

POTSDAM, NY (10/10/2014)(readMedia)-- The Met: Live in HD will transport viewers to a manor in 1930s Spain, for a new production of "Le Nozze di Figaro," by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, on Oct. 18.

Met Music Director James Levine will conduct the spirited new production of Mozart's masterpiece, directed by Richard Eyre, who set the action of this classic domestic comedy in a manor house in Seville during the 1930s.

The Associated Press called it "a memorable performance of Mozart's immortal comedy," while the New York Daily News said the production was "easy to like," and praised the "shining voices and visuals."

Dashing bass-baritone Ildar Abdrazakov will lead the cast in the title role of the clever servant, opposite Marlis Petersen as his bride, Susanna. Peter Mattei plays the philandering Count they work for, while Amanda Majeski is the long-suffering Countess and Isabel Leonard dazzles, as the libidinous pageboy Cherubino.

Mozart's "Le Nozze di Figaro" will screen live from the Metropolitan Opera stage at 12:55 p.m. on Saturday, Oct. 18 at Potsdam's Roxy Theater. There will be an encore screening at 6:30 p.m. on Sunday, Oct. 26.

The opera will be performed in Italian, with English subtitles. The approximate running time is four hours, including intermission.

The 2014-15 season of The Met: Live in HD is sponsored in the North Country by SUNY Potsdam's Crane School of Music and J.S. Cinemas.

All productions will be shown live worldwide on Saturdays. There will also be encore presentations offered on Sundays locally. Doors open a half-hour before show time, and there is immediate seating for advance ticket holders.

In The Met: Live in HD, robotic cameras, strategically placed around and behind the stage, capture the beauty and power of live performance from striking angles, and heighten attention to both performance and production. Intermission features and English subtitles bring the stories to life.

Tickets prices are the lowest available in the nation: $18 for an adult, $15 for senior citizens, $12 for students and $9 for youth age 18 and under.

Tickets are available by calling the Community Performance Series Box Office at (315) 267-2277, or visiting the Roxy Theater or Northern Music & Video in downtown Potsdam or the CPS Box Office in the lobby of SUNY Potsdam's Performing Arts Center. You can also reserve tickets online by visiting www.cpspotsdam.org.

For more information on the 2014-15 The Met: Live in HD season, visit the Metropolitan Opera website at www.metopera.org/hdlive.

For more information about SUNY Potsdam's Crane School of Music, please visit www.potsdam.edu/crane.

Founded in 1886, SUNY Potsdam's Crane School of Music has a long legacy of excellence in music education and performance. Life at Crane includes an incredible array of more than 300 recitals, lectures and concerts presented by faculty, students and guests each year. The Crane School of Music is the State University of New York's only All-Steinway institution.

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