in The Enchanted Island
(© Ken Howard/Metropolitan Opera)
The Metropolitan Opera will offer a broadcast of The Enchanted Island as part of The Met: Live in HD series on January 21 at 12:55pm (ET)/9:55am (PT). Phelim McDermott and Julian Crouch have directed the production, which is conducted by William Christie. Deborah Voigt will host the transmission.
The piece combines great music of the Baroque era, including works by Handel, Vivaldi, and Rameau, with an original story by Jeremy Sams that imagines the four young lovers from Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream find themselves shipwrecked on Prospero’s island from the Bard’s The Tempest.
The company featuers Joyce DiDonato as Sycorax; David Daniels as Prospero; Danielle de Niese as Ariel; Luca Pisaroni as Caliban; Lisette Oropesa as Miranda; and Anthony Roth Costanzo as Ferdinand; as well as Layla Claire, Elizabeth DeShong, Paul Appleby, and Elliot Madore as the Midsummer lovers. In addition, Plácido Domingo makes a cameo appearance as Neptune.
To read TheaterMania’s review of The Enchanted Island, click here.
For more information and tickets to The Enchanted Island HD broadcast, click here.
