“The Met: Live in HD,” the Metropolitan Opera’s award-winning series of live transmissions offering a significant portion of the Met season to DownEast and MidCoast Maine communities, continues its eighth season with Mozart’s Cosi Fan Tutte. Marking Music Director James Levine’s return to the Met after a two year absence due to injury, the opera tells the deceptively simple story of two friends who brag that their fiancées (who happen to be sisters) are incapable of infidelity. An older, more philosophical man bets that he can prove them wrong in 24 hours and enlists the help of the sisters’ devious maid to help him in his practical joke. The cast is filled with youthful Met stars: the American Lyric Soprano Susanna Phillips and American Lyric Mezzo-Soprano Isabel Leonard are the sisters Fiordiligi and Dorabella, the American Lyric Tenor Matthew Polenzani and the Russian Baritone Rodion Pogossov are their lovers, with the Australian Lyric Soprano Danielle de Niese as the scheming Despina and the Italian bass-baritone Maurizio Muraro as Don Alfonso. Supporting Koenig in this production are Set and Costume Designer Michael Yeargan and Lighting Designer Duane Schuler.
“The Met: Live in HD series” is made possible by a generous grant from its founding sponsor, The Neubauer Family Foundation. Global corporate sponsorship of The Met: Live in HD is provided by Bloomberg. Transmission of The Met: Live in HD in Canada is made possible thanks to the generosity of Jacqueline and Paul G. Desmarais Sr. The HD broadcasts are supported by Toll Brothers, America’s luxury home builder®. Bar Harbor Bank and Trust sponsors the season presentation at The Grand.
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