Adat Shalom Reconstructionist Congregation – Adat Shalom Auction 2017
Auction Ends: Feb 5, 2017 11:59 PM AST

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Take your Hazzan to the opera--at the movies!

Item Number
345
Estimated Value
Priceless
Sold
80 USD to rb6d1dc13
Number of Bids
4  -  Bid History

Item Description

Wednesday, March 15 @ 6:30 pm, Mazza Gallerie AMC theater

The Metropolitan Opera production of Giuseppe Verdi’s masterpiece La Traviata.

You buy the tickets and bring a picnic dinner for us to share.

She'll offer some vaguely relevant commentary and bring the tissues for Violetta’s famous death scene.  World-class opera with popcorn - what could be better?

Let the bidding begin!

  • Winners collectively treat Hazzan Rachel and receive one ticket for themselves. 
  • Funds raised in excess of ticket purchase benefit Adat Shalom.

About the Production

With La Traviata, Verdi and Piave fashioned an opera from a play set in contemporary times—an exception in the composer’s long career. Dumas’s La Dame aux Camélias was a meditation on the author’s youthful affair with the celebrated prostitute Marie Duplessis, known as a sophisticated and well-read woman whose charms and tact far surpassed her station.

Sonya Yoncheva sings one of opera’s most beloved heroines, the tragic courtesan Violetta, a role in which she triumphed on the Met stage in 2015, opposite Michael Fabiano as her lover, Alfredo, and Thomas Hampson as his father, Germont. Carmen Giannattasio sings later performances of the title role opposite Atalla Ayan, with the great Plácido Domingo as Germont. Nicola Luisotti conducts.

Running Time: 2 HRS 33 MINS

 

Donated By:

Hazzan Rachel