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The Opera House
Sunday, January 14, 2018, 2:00 pm
TICKETS FOR THIS FILM ARE JUST $15!
A new feature length (108 minutes) documentary film The Opera House by renowned documentarian Susan Froemke.
The Opera House, a new film by multiple Emmy Award–winning documentary filmmaker Susan Froemke, surveys a remarkable period of the Metropolitan Opera’s rich history and a time of great change for New York. Drawing on rarely seen archival footage, stills, and recent interviews, the film chronicles the creation of the Met’s storied home of the last 50 years, against the backdrop of the artists, architects, and politicians who shaped the cultural life of New York City in the ’50s and ’60s. Amongst the notable figures in the film are famed soprano Leontyne Price, who opened the new Met in 1966 in Samuel Barber’s Anthony and Cleopatra; Rudolf Bing, the Met’s imperious General Manager, who engineered the move from the old house to the new one; Robert Moses, the unstoppable city planner who bulldozed an entire neighborhood to make room for Lincoln Center; and Wallace Harrison, whose quest for architectural glory was never fully realized.
CLICK HERE to view Sunday’s New York Times article about the feature
Our Series Sponsor: AMARANTH FOUNDATION
Funding provided by The Lloyd E. Rigler-Lawrence E. Deutsch Foundation