The SUNY Sullivan Foundation Presents
The SUNY Sullivan Foundation Presents
The Met: Live in HD Production of Mozart’s Le Nozze di Figaro
Loch Sheldrake, NY – The SUNY Sullivan Foundation presents an encore screening of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s Le Nozze di Figaro (The Marriage of Figaro) at The Seelig Theatre, as part of The Met: Live in HD cinema series. This special rebroadcast of the acclaimed Metropolitan Opera production will take place on Saturday, April 26, at 12:30 pm.
Mozart’s effervescent comic opera returns to the Met stage in a revival of Richard Eyre’s elegant and insightful production, set in the gilded interiors of 1930s Seville. The witty and subversive score brings to life a tale of love, jealousy, and mistaken identities—all in the span of a single day.
Baritone Christian Gerhaher stars as the cunning valet Figaro, with soprano Federica Lombardi as his bride-to-be Susanna. Bass-baritone Gerald Finley appears as the philandering Count Almaviva, with soprano Olga Kulchynska as the Countess and mezzo-soprano Isabel Leonard as the pageboy Cherubino. Maestro James Gaffigan conducts this spirited performance, originally transmitted live from the Metropolitan Opera stage.
Tickets for The Met: Live in HD encore presentations, along with series sponsorship opportunities, are available online at sunysullivan.edu/met-opera. Prices are $25 for general admission, with discounts available for Met Opera Members and seniors at $20, students at $10, and children under five at $5. Tickets can also be purchased at the door. The Seelig Theatre will open 30 minutes before each screening, and all performances will begin promptly at the listed times. Proceeds will benefit the SUNY Sullivan Foundation.
The Live in HD season continues with encore presentations of Strauss’s Salome (May 17, 2025) and Rossini’s Il Barbiere di Siviglia (May 31, 2025).
Met Opera HD at SUNY Sullivan is made possible due to underwriting and support from the SUNY Sullivan Foundation, and event sponsors WJFF Radio Catskill, The STEAM Fund, Jeff Bank, an anonymous donor, and the Neversink General Store.
Sponsorships for Met Opera at SUNY Sullivan are still available. For more information, call (845) 434-5750 x3188 or email Foundation@sunysullivan.edu for details and for any other questions regarding these events.
Complete details, including casting, for the upcoming season are available below:
Strauss’s Salome—NEW PRODUCTION
Live in HD: May 17, 2025
Production: Claus Guth
Set Designer: Etienne Pluss
Costume Designer: Ursula Kudrna
Lighting Designer: Olaf Freese
Projection Designer: rocafilm/Roland Horvath
Choreographer: Sommer Ulrickson
Dramaturg: Yvonne Gebauer
Yannick Nézet-Séguin (Conductor), Elza van den Heever (Salome), Michelle DeYoung (Herodias), Gerhard Siegel (Herod), Piotr Buszewski (Narraboth), Peter Mattei (Jochanaan)
Met Music Director Yannick Nézet-Séguin takes the podium on May 17 to conduct Strauss’s one-act tragedy, which will be transmitted live from the Metropolitan Opera stage to cinemas worldwide. Leading the company’s first new production of the work in 20 years, Claus Guth, one of Europe’s leading opera directors, gives the biblical story a psychologically perceptive Victorian-era setting. South African soprano Elza van den Heever leads a celebrated cast as the abused and unhinged antiheroine, with Swedish baritone Peter Mattei as the imprisoned prophet Jochanaan; German tenor Gerhard Siegel as Salome’s lecherous stepfather, King Herod; American mezzo-soprano Michelle DeYoung as his wife, Herodias; and Polish tenor Piotr Buszewski as Narraboth.
Rossini’s Il Barbiere di Siviglia—REVIVAL
Production: Bartlett Sher
Set Designer: Michael Yeargan
Costume Designer: Catherine Zuber
Lighting Designer: Christopher Akerlind
Giacomo Sagripanti (Conductor), Aigul Akhmetshina (Rosina), Jack Swanson (Count Almaviva), Andrey Zhilikhovsky (Figaro), Peter Kálmán (Dr. Bartolo), Alexander Vinogradov (Don Basilio)
The Metropolitan Opera’s 2024–25 Live in HD season comes to a close with a live transmission of Rossini’s effervescent comedy on May 31. Russian mezzo-soprano Aigul Akhmetshina headlines a winning ensemble as the feisty heroine, Rosina, alongside American tenor Jack Swanson, in his Met debut, as her secret beloved, Count Almaviva. Moldovan baritone Andrey Zhilikhovsky stars as Figaro, the ingenious barber of Seville, with Hungarian bass-baritone Peter Kálmán as Dr. Bartolo and Russian bass Alexander Vinogradov as Don Basilio rounding out the principal cast. Giacomo Sagripanti conducts Bartlett Sher’s madcap production.
About The Met: Live in HD
The Met: Live in HD series has made the Met the world’s leading provider of alternative cinema content and the only arts institution with an ongoing global series of this scale. When the series launched in 2006, the Met was the first arts company to experiment with alternative cinema content. Since then, the program has expanded, with more than 31 million tickets sold to date and robust attendance in five global cinema markets: the United States, Germany, Canada, France, and the United Kingdom. In North America, weekend box office ratings also remain strong, often placing Live in HD presentations—with only one showing—among the weekend’s top grossing films. The Met: Live in HD series has increased accessibility to Met performances for audiences around the world. With a global average ticket price of $23, the series has made world-class performances accessible to millions of opera lovers each season. For more information about The Met: Live in HD, visit metopera.org/hd.
About SUNY Sullivan: SUNY Sullivan is the leader of innovative higher education and a catalyst for workforce development throughout the Sullivan Catskills and beyond. Our diverse community cultivates personal growth and professional advancement, preparing students for success in a sustainable and interconnected world. A forward-looking, top-tier community college in New York, SUNY Sullivan offers dozens of degree programs, certificates, and microcredentials for learners at all levels of their educational goals. We value critical inquiry and creativity while supporting our students in a culture of inclusion and respect.
