WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — The Metropolitan Opera's broadcast of "La Forza del Destino" airs at the Clark Art Institute on Saturday, March 9 at 11:55 am in the latest installment of The Met: Live in HD. 

 

The award-winning series of live, high-definition cinema simulcasts features the full live performance along with backstage interviews and commentary. The Clark broadcasts the opera in its auditorium, located in the Manton Research Center.

 

According to a press release:

 

Conductor Yannick Nézet-Séguin leads Verdi's grand tale of ill-fated love, deadly vendetta, and family strife. Stellar soprano Lise Davidsen makes her role debut as the noble Leonora, one of the repertory's most tormented—and thrilling—heroines. Director Mariusz Treli?ski delivers the company's first new Forza in nearly 30 years, setting the scene in a contemporary world and making extensive use of the Met's turntable to represent the unstoppable advance of destiny that drives the opera's chain of calamitous events. The distinguished cast also features tenor Brian Jagde as Leonora's forbidden beloved Don Alvaro, baritone Igor Golovatenko as her vengeful brother Don Carlo, mezzo-soprano Ekaterina Semenchuk as the fortune teller Preziosilla, bass-baritone Patrick Carfizzi as Fra Melitone, and bass Soloman Howard as both Leonora's father and Padre Guardiano.

 

Tickets $25 ($22 members, $18 students, $5 children 15 and under). Advance registration encouraged; capacity is limited. To purchase tickets, visit clarkart.edu/events or call the box office at 413 458 0524. No refunds.