Captured Live from the Met @ UCA
CONWAY — A new production of Wagner’s Das Rheingold will open the 2010-11 season of Captured Live from the Met @ UCA at 2 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 10, in Reynolds Performance Hall on the University of Central Arkansas campus.
Das Rheingold will be the first of 10 high definition transmissions of Metropolitan Opera performances in the series sponsored by UCA’s College of Fine Arts and Communication.
“This is UCA’s third year of presenting the Captured Live from the Met series, and it looks as if it could be the best series of all,” said Dr. Rollin Potter, dean of UCA’s College of Fine Arts and Communication. “We start off with Wagner’s Das Rheingold and move on to eight other renowned works and add John Adams’ relatively new Nixon in China.
“This is a wonderful series and a great way to learn about opera for the first time or to revisit your favorites.”
The series also includes a new production of Mussorgsky’s Boris Godunov on Oct. 24; Donizetti’s comedy Don Pasquale on Nov. 14; a new production of Verdi’s Don Carlo on Dec. 13; Puccini’s La Fanciulla del West on Jan. 9; Adams’s Nixon in China on Feb. 13, with Adams conducting his own work; Gluck’s Iphigénie en Tauride on Feb. 27; Bartlett Sher’s new production of Rossini’s Le Comte Ory on April 10; Capriccio on April 25; and Verdi’s Il Trovatore on May 1.
This is the fifth season of the Met’s series, which came to UCA in 2008. The transmissions are now shown in 1,500 theaters in 46 countries. According to a release from the Met, a record number of more than 2.4 million tickets were sold last season.
Das Rheingold stars Welsh bass-baritone Bryn Terfel in his first American appearance as Wotan. The production, under the direction of Robert Lepage, will be conducted by Met Music Director James Levine and features Stephanie Blythe and Eric Owens in other leading roles. It is composed of four acts.
Approximately 200 seats are available for each performance at UCA. Tickets are $15 for the public and $5 for students with valid I.D.
To order, call UCA Ticket Central at (501) 450-3265 from 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Monday through Friday or visit www.uca.edu/tickets.
The series is made possible by UCA’s arts fee.
For more information, call the Office of the Dean, College of Fine Arts and Communication, at (501) 450-3293, e-mail jdlooney@uca.edu or visit www.uca.edu/cfac or www.metopera.org.
