THE MET: LIVE IN HD RETURNS TO THE CLARK WITH RIGOLETTO
For Immediate Release
February 08, 2013
Williamstown, MA—A modern twist on Verdi’s classic Rigoletto comes to the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute as part of its Met: Live in HD series on Saturday, February 16 at 12:55 pm. Tickets are $25 ($22 members; $18 students) and may be ordered online or by calling 413 458 0MET (458 0638).
Rising Italian conductor Michele Mariotti leads the new production of Rigoletto, seen in a new staging by the Tony Award-winning director Michael Mayer in his Met debut. Mayer’s approach transports the story from sixteenth-century Italy to Las Vegas in 1960, with a cast led by Željko Lucic in the title role, Diana Damrau as his daughter, Gilda, Piotr Beczala as the Duke of Mantua, Štefan Kocán as the assassin Sparafucile, and Oksana Volkova in her Met debut as Sparafucile’s seductive sister, Maddalena. The fast-paced storyline involves everything from seduction and abduction to murder and revenge.
“I’ve tried to imagine a recent world that captures the decadence of the Duke’s palace, where the participants are in pursuit of power, money, and beauty,” Mayer says. “Las Vegas in the ’60s is such a world, where a kind of prankster energy could go bad—it’s the epitome of the kinds of events that happen in Rigoletto.”
Approximate running time is 180 minutes.
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The Met: Live in HD Returns to the Clark with Rigoletto
February 16, 2013
12:55 pm
The Met: Live in HD series returns to the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute on Saturday, February 16 at 12:55 pm with a production of Rigoletto. Tickets are $25 ($22 members; $18 students) and may be ordered online or by calling 413 458 0MET (458 0638). Approximate running time is 180 minutes.