Met Live Features Mozart's 'Così fan Tutte' with Charismatic Cast

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From left, Isabel Leonard as Dorabella, Danielle de Niese as Despina, and Susanna Phillips as Fiordiligi in Mozart's “Così fan tutte.”

• Mozart’s “Così fan Tutte” will screen through The Met: Live in HD on Saturday, April 26 at 12:55 p.m. at Potsdam’s Roxy Theater.
• Danielle de Niese plays the feisty maid Despina in Mozart’s “Così fan Tutte” for Met Live.

POTSDAM, NY (04/14/2014)(readMedia)-- The Met: Live in HD will return with one of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's comic masterpieces, the opera "Così fan Tutte," on Saturday, April 26. Metropolitan Opera Music Director James Levine will conduct the performance of Mozart's barbed romance, a comic opera that shows the complications that ensue when two friends decide to test their partners' fidelity.

The cast is filled with charismatic young Met stars, including Susanna Phillips and Isabel Leonard as the sisters Fiordiligi and Dorabella, Matthew Polenzani and Rodion Pogossov as their lovers, and Danielle de Niese as the feisty maid Despina.

Renée Fleming, an alumna of SUNY Potsdam's Crane School of Music, will serve as the host for the Met Live broadcast.

"I don't think I have heard a more vibrant, masterly and natural performance," New York Times critic Anthony Tommasini said of the production. "This winning cast performed like a crack comedic theatre troupe."

Mozart's "Così fan Tutte" will screen live from the Metropolitan Opera stage at 12:55 p.m. on Saturday, April 26 at Potsdam's Roxy Theater. There will be an encore screening at 6:30 p.m. on Sunday, May 4.

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

The 2013-14 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 Sara M. Snell Music Theater. You can also reserve tickets online by visiting www.cpspotsdam.org or www2.potsdam.edu/cps/eventpgs/methd.html.

For more information on the 2013-14 The Met: Live in HD season, visit the Metropolitan Opera website at www.metopera.org/hdlive.

To learn more about SUNY Potsdam's Crane School of Music and its award-winning opera program, 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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