Opera lovers take note: The next movie-theater live-cast of a Metropolitan Opera production is coming to Minnesota on Sat. Jan. 21 at 12:55 p.m. The world-premiere show is "The Enchanted Island," a mashup of two Shakespeare plays ("The Tempest" and "A Midsummer Night's Dream") sung in English to famous tunes by Handel, Vivaldi, Rameau, and other masters of the Baroque period.The story is by English theater artist Jeremy Sams.
The cast includes Joyce DiDonato as the sorceress Sycorax; David Daniels as her nemesis, Prospero; Danielle de Niese as the air spirit Ariel; Luca Pisaroni as the monstrous but soft-hearted Caliban; Lisette Oropesa as Prospero's daughter Miranda; Anthony Roth Costanzo as the noble Ferdinand; Layla Claire, Elizabeth DeShong, Paul Appleby, and Elliot Madore as the Midsummer lovers; and, in a star cameo, Plácido Domingo as Neptune, god of the seas.
William Christie conducts, and Deborah Voigt hosts the HD livecast.
The 3-and-a-half-hour opera, which opend December 31 in New York, will be livecast to a theater in Duluth, one in Mankato and nine in the Twin Cities metro area. Go here to find a theather near you, as well as other details. An encore screening of "The Enchanted Isle" will occur on Wed. Feb. 8 at 6:30 p.m.
For the New York Times review of the world premiere, go here.
