Vengeance story 'Medea' kicks off season of Metropolitan Opera live transmissions to Cape Cod area theaters

Kathi Scrizzi Driscoll, Cape Cod Times
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“The Met: Live in HD” series will return Saturday, Oct. 22 for a new season of live transmissions from the Metropolitan Opera in New York City — and one of the 10 performances through June has a Cape Cod connection.

First up will be the company premiere of Luigi Cherubini’s “Medea,” which local opera fans will have the opportunity to watch at Wellfleet Harbor Actors Theater (12:55 p.m.), Cape Cinema in Dennis (1 p.m.) or Martha’s Vineyard Film Center in Vineyard Haven (12:55 p.m.).

All of the shows in this 16th season will be Saturday matinees, and each theater offers individual tickets as well as passes for all or part of the season.

On Oct. 22, “Medea,” starring soprano Sondra Radvanovsky, will start the season of "The Metropolitan Opera: Live in HD" live transmissions that can be seen at three theaters on Cape Cod and Martha's Vineyard.
On Oct. 22, “Medea,” starring soprano Sondra Radvanovsky, will start the season of "The Metropolitan Opera: Live in HD" live transmissions that can be seen at three theaters on Cape Cod and Martha's Vineyard.

In December, the Met season, according to its schedule, will feature the world-premiere staging of “The Hours,” based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning 1998 novel by Michael Cunningham, a longtime part-time Provincetown resident.

Opera star Renée Fleming will make her return to the Met in "The Hours" production by Pulitzer Prize–winning composer Kevin Puts, with Kelli O’Hara and Joyce DiDonato joining Fleming as the opera’s trio of heroines. The story — also made into a 2002 film with Meryl Streep, Nicole Kidman and Julianne Moore — follows three women from different eras who grapple with inner demons and roles in society.

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The rest of the 2022-23 Met Opera season schedule consists of the company premiere of “Champion,” four more new productions and classic repertory favorites.

Saturday’s “Medea,” scheduled to last three hours and 10 minutes, will star soprano Sondra Radvanovsky in the title role as a mythic sorceress who will stop at nothing in her quest for vengeance. Also in the cast will be tenor Matthew Polenzani as Medea’s Argonaut husband, Giasone; soprano Janai Brugger as her rival for his love, Glauce; bass Michele Pertusi as her father, Creonte, the King of Corinth; and mezzo-soprano Ekaterina Gubanova as Medea’s confidante, Neris.

“The Met: Live in HD” is the largest provider of alternative cinema content in the world, according to information from the Met, with more than 24 million tickets sold since the inception of the series in 2006. The series brings live Met performances to more than 2,200 movie theaters and performing arts centers in more than 70 countries.

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The rest of the season: “La Traviata,” Nov. 5; “The Hours,” Dec. 10; “Fedora,” Jan. 14; “Lohengrin,” March 18; “Falstaff ,” April 1; “Der Rosenkavalier,” April 15; “Champion.” April 29; “Don Giovani,” May 20; and “Die Zauberflöte,” June 3.

For tickets, passes and information: For WHAT, http://www.what.org/met-opera-22-23-season/; for Cape Cinema, https://www.capecinema.com/met-operas; on the Vineyard, https://mvfilmsociety.com/met-opera-live-2022-23-season/.

Contact Kathi Scrizzi Driscoll at kdriscoll@capecodonline.com. Follow on Twitter: @KathiSDCCT.

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