(WNY News Now) – The Metropolitan Opera’s Live in HD series continues at Fredonia Opera House on Nov. 23 with Giacomo Puccini’s Tosca, a thrilling performance featuring world-class talent and breathtaking Roman scenery.
FREDONIA – Live at the Met, the Metropolitan Opera’s award-winning series of live, high definition (HD) opera transmissions to theaters around the world, continues its 2024-25 season at the 1891 Fredonia Opera House Performing Arts Center on Sat., Nov. 23, at 1 p.m., with the Giacomo Puccini’s Tosca.
Norwegian soprano Lise Davidsen stars as the passionate title diva in David McVicar’s thrilling production, transmitted live from the Metropolitan Opera stage. British-Italian tenor Freddie De Tommaso makes his eagerly anticipated company debut as Tosca’s revolutionary lover, Cavaradossi, and powerhouse American baritone Quinn Kelsey is the sadistic chief of police Scarpia.
Maestro Yannick Nézet-Séguin conducts the electrifying score, which features some of Puccini’s most memorable melodies. McVicar’s thrilling production features towering recreations of three iconic Roman landmarks: the Church Sant’Andrea della Valle, the Palazzo Farnese, and the Castel Sant’Angelo.
The production runs three hours, 30 minutes with two intermissions.
Individual tickets to each of the operas in the Live at the Met season are $20, ($18 Opera House members, $10 students). A flexible subscription of eight tickets which can be used however you want – one at a time to eight different operas, all at once for eight people, or anything in between – is available for $142. Tickets may be
purchased in person at the Opera House Box Office or by phone at 716-679-1891, Tuesday-Friday, 12-4:30 p.m., at the door, or online anytime at http://www.fredopera.org.
The Met: Live in HD is the Metropolitan Opera’s Peabody and Emmy Award–winning series of opera performances transmitted live from the stage of the Met in New York into movie theaters and event spaces worldwide. The series has made the Met the world’s leading provider of alternative cinema content and the only arts institution with an ongoing global series of this scale.
Part of Arts in the Afternoon, which is sponsored by Dr. James M. & Marcia Merrins, Live at the Met is underwritten with support from Daniel S. Kaufman and Timothy W. Beaver The 1891 Fredonia Opera House Performing Arts Center is a member-supported not-for-profit performing arts center with a mission to “present the performing arts for the benefit of our community and region … providing
access to artistic diversity … and high quality programming at an affordable price.” It is located in Village Hall in
downtown Fredonia. For a complete schedule of events, visit http://www.fredopera.org.
