Met Live Presents 'Cavalleria Rusticana' and 'Pagliacci' in Back-to-Back Performance

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POTSDAM, NY (04/10/2015)(readMedia)-- The Met: Live in HD will highlight two unlucky heroines in a back-to-back screening of Mascagni's "Cavalleria Rusticana" and Leoncavallo's "Pagliacci" on April 25.

In this performance of opera's most enduring tragic double bill, the evocative new production will set the action across two time periods in the same Sicilian village. "Cavalleria Rusticana" will be set in a moody atmospheric village square around 1900, which is then transformed into a truck stop hosting a vaudeville troupe in 1948 for "Pagliacci."

Marcelo Álvarez will play the dual tenor roles of Turiddu in "Cavalleria Rusticana" and Canio in "Pagliacci." Eva-Maria Westbroek stars as Santuzza in the former, while Patricia Racette plays Nedda in the latter.

Mascagni's "Cavalleria Rusticana" and Leoncavallo's "Pagliacci" will both screen live from the Metropolitan Opera stage at 12:30 p.m. on Saturday, April 25 at Potsdam's Roxy Theater. There will be an encore screening at 6:30 p.m. on Sunday, April 26.

The operas will both be performed in Italian, with English subtitles. The approximate running time is three hours, 30 minutes, 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, visiting the CPS Box Office in the lobby of SUNY Potsdam's Performing Arts Center, or online at www.cpspotsdam.org. Tickets can also be purchased at the Roxy Theater immediately prior to the showing.

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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