Live at the Met, the Metropolitan Opera’s award-winning series of live, high definition (HD) opera transmissions to theaters around the world, continues its 2025-26 season at the 1891 Fredonia Opera House Performing Arts Center on Sat., Nov. 22, at 1 p.m., with a production of Richard Strauss’s Arabella. Soprano Rachel Willis-Sørensen stars as the title heroine, a young noblewoman in search of love on her own terms. Don Marrazzo, SUINY Fredonia Director of Opera Studies, will give a brief talk before the opera.
Live at the Met, the Metropolitan Opera’s award-winning series of live, high definition (HD) opera transmissions to theaters around the world, continues its 2025-26 season at the 1891 Fredonia Opera House Performing Arts Center at 1 p.m. Saturday with a production of Richard Strauss’s Arabella. Don Marrazzo, SUINY Fredonia Director of Opera Studies, will give a brief talk before the opera.
Strauss’s elegant romance brings the glamour and enchantment of 19th-century Vienna to cinemas worldwide in a sumptuous production by legendary director Otto Schenk that “is as beautiful as one could hope” (The New York Times).
Soprano Rachel Willis-Sørensen stars as the title heroine, a young noblewoman in search of love on her own terms. Radiant soprano Louise Alder is her sister, Zdenka, and bass-baritone Tomasz Konieczny is the dashing count who sweeps Arabella off her feet.
Marrazzo will lead a brief pre-opera conversation and Q&A at this production. The talk will begin in the theatre at 12:30 p.m.
Marrazzo is a former head of the Vocal Studies Department and Professor of Voice at the Musical Horizons Conservatory (MHC) in Athens, Greece. He has maintained a teaching studio since 2002 and his students have performed with acclaimed institutions internationally including: the Metropolitan Opera; the Lyric Opera of Chicago; The Dallas Opera; The Glimmerglass Festival; the Santa Fe Opera; Staatsoper Stuttgart; Staatstheater Nürnberg, Opéra de Lyon; Oper Bonn; Festival d’Aix-en-Provence; the Dutch National Opera; Tiroler Festspiele Erl; the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, the Concertgebouw Orchestra; the Philadelphia Orchestra; the American Globe Theatre; and the Richard Rodgers Theatre.
He also has served as a judge for the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions.
Live at the Met is the Metropolitan Opera’s Peabody and Emmy Award-winning series of opera performances transmitted live from the stage of the Met in New York into movie theaters and event spaces worldwide. 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, and today reaches more than 2,000 venues in 73 countries across six continents.
Individual tickets to each of the operas in the Live at the Met season are $20, ($18 Opera House members, $10 students). Tickets may be purchased in person at the Opera House Box Office or by phone at 716-679-1891, Tuesday-Friday, noon to 4:30 p.m. Tickets may be purchased online anytime at www.fredopera.org.
Part of Arts in the Afternoon, which is sponsored by Dr. James M. & Marcia Merrins, Live at the Met is underwritten with support from Daniel S. Kaufman and Timothy W. Beaver.
The 1891 Fredonia Opera House Performing Arts Center is a member-supported not-for-profit performing arts center with a mission to “present the performing arts for the benefit of our community and region … providing access to artistic diversity … and high quality programming at an affordable price.” It is located in Village Hall in downtown Fredonia. For a complete schedule of events, visit www.fredopera.org.
, 2025-11-19 21:37:00
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