Enchanted Island

All-Star Cast in The Met’s Summer Encores August 17 – Contributed photo

In one extraordinary production, lovers of Baroque opera have it all: the world’s best singers, glorious music of the Baroque masters and a story drawn from Shakespeare.

The Enchanted Island is featured in The Met: Live in HD Summer Encores series at San Juan Community Theatre on Sunday, August 17 at 2:00 pm.
Originally transmitted in January 2012, The Enchanted Island features lovers from Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream who are shipwrecked on his other-worldly island from The Tempest. The work showcases arias and ensembles by Handel, Vivaldi, Rameau, and others, and a new libretto devised and written by Jeremy Sams.

Eminent conductor William Christie leads an all-star cast with David Daniels (Prospero) and Joyce DiDonato (Sycorax) as the formidable foes, Plácido Domingo as Neptune, Danielle de Niese as Ariel, and Luca Pisaroni as Caliban. Lisette Oropesa and Anthony Roth Costanzo play Miranda and Ferdinand.
The Summer Encores series closes on August 31 with Gounod’s Roméo et Juliette.

Tickets for The Enchanted Island are $15 for adults and $10 for student reserved. They are available online at www.sjctheatre.org or at the SJCT Box Office: 378-3210.

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