Met Opera: COSÌ FAN TUTTE Encore (Broadcast in HD)
Pollak TheatreMusic Director James Levine makes his long-awaited return to the Met podium to conduct Mozart’s beloved opera about testing the ties of love. The cast is filled with youthful Met stars: Susanna Phillips and Isabel Leonard are the sisters Fiordiligi and Dorabella, Matthew Polenzani and Rodion Pogossov are their lovers, with Danielle de Niese as the scheming Despina.
Met Opera: LA CENERENTOLA Encore
Pollak TheatreA peerless pair of Rossini virtuosos joins forces in La Cenerentola—a vocal tour de force for mezzo-soprano Joyce DiDonato, singing her first Met performances of the Cinderella title role, and the high-flying tenor Juan Diego Flórez, as her Prince Charming. Alessandro Corbelli and Luca Pisaroni complete the cast, with Met Principal Conductor Fabio Luisi leading the effervescent score.
National Theatre Live: A Small Family Business
Pollak TheatreA riotous exposure of entrepreneurial greed by Olivier Award-winning playwright Alan Ayckbourn (Bedroom Farce, A Chorus of Disapproval). A Small Family Business returns to the National Theatre for the first time since its celebrated premiere in 1987, when it won the Evening Standard Award for Best Play.
Film: When Comedy Went to School
Magill CommonsThe Jewish Cultural Studies Program presents this 2013 film with commentary from director Lawrence Richards.
Met Opera Summer Encore: Rigoletto
Pollak TheatreDirector Michael Mayer has placed his new production of Verdi’s towering tragedy in Las Vegas in 1960.