The Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center will host a live broadcast of Mozart’s “Marriage of Figaro” at 11:55 a.m. Oct. 18. An encore performance is at 1 p.m. Oct. 19. The performance is part of “The Met: Live in HD” series of live broadcasts from New York City’s Metropolitan Opera House.
Met Music Director, James Levine, will conduct a spirited new production of Mozart’s masterpiece, directed by Richard Eyre, who sets the action of this classic domestic comedy in a 19th-century manor house in Seville during the gilded age of the late 1920s.
Bass-baritone, Ildar Abdrazakov, leads the cast in the title role of the clever servant, opposite Marlis Petersen as his bride.
The expected running time is three hours 50 minutes.
Tickets are $24 general admission, $22 senior citizens, $17 for Friends of the Ross, $16 for students and children, $6 for Nebraska Wesleyan Students with a valid student ID and $5 for UNL students with a valid NCard.
For more information, go to http://www.theross.org.
