The Trips Committee has chosen the following four Met Opera HD Live performances for Saturday matinees, with van transportation:
October 9 -Mussorgsky’s Boris Godunov with René Pape as Boris.
October 23 -Terence Blanchard’s Fire Shut Up in My Bones, the opening night new production and first opera by a Black composer at the Met, with Angel Blue, Latonia Moore and Will Liverman in the lead roles.
March 12 - Strauss’ Ariadne auf Naxos with the young and hot new star Lise Davidsen as Ariadne; also with legendary baritone Thomas Allen.
May 21- Donizetti’s Lucia di Lammermoor with a new production starring Nadine Sierra as Lucia and Javier Camarena as Edgardo
Since the 2019-2020 Kendal HD Live performances were fully booked within 45 minutes, and an unusual number of residents chose four operas, we are trying something new this year in order to spread the tickets around.
Residents will only be able to sign up initially for two operas for the 2021-2022 season. If space is still available, additional sign-ups for operas and/or wait lists will be permitted in a few days.
All operas will take place at City Center Cinema in White Plains.
We are running this announcement now to give you plenty of time to select your choices. At this point we don’t know when tickets will go on sale, the costs, or whether we can get a second van as we did in 2019 for some operas. There has also been a question as to whether the Met would really open this September.
The Kendal schedule is on the Trips bulletin board and in the Trips Book. The full schedule of all 10 Met Opera HD Live operas is in the back of the Trips Book under Opera.