Handel From the Met
The Metropolitan Opera’s first-ever presentation of Handel’s 1709 opera “Agrippina” is next up in The Met: Live in HD series, with a simulcast set for Saturday at 1 p.m. at Guild Hall. The tale of intrigue and impropriety stars the mezzo-soprano Joyce DiDonato as the power-hungry Agrippina. Harry Bicket conducts David McVicar’s production.
In his New York Times review, Zachary Woolfe wrote, “This ‘Agrippina’ — yanked from ancient Rome into a deliciously bleak vision of our time, played with electric vividness, and starring a guns-blazing Joyce DiDonato — should put to rest, once and for all, the notion that Handel belongs at the Met less than Verdi, Puccini, or Wagner.” Tickets are $23, $21 for members, and $16 for students.
“Handel, the Opera Composer,” a lecture by Victoria Bond, a composer, conductor, and opera scholar, will precede the simulcast at noon. Ms. Bond will discuss how the German-born composer became a master of Italian Baroque opera. Tickets for the talk are $30, free for Guild Hall opera donors.
Soul Spectacular in Sag Harbor
Soul Spectacular, a concert featuring the HooDoo Loungers and Mighty Ramon and the Phantoms of Soul, will happen Saturday at 8 p.m. at the Bay Street Theater in Sag Harbor.
While the Loungers are best known as a New Orleans-style party band, for this show they will mine the roots of classic Soul from the 1960s and ’70s, including the music of Otis Redding, Aretha Franklin, Ray Charles, and many others.
Based in Huntington and making their Bay Street debut, Mighty Ramon and the Phantoms of Soul will cover music by such icons as Wilson Pickett, the Animals, and Otis Clay. Tickets are $30; $40 on Saturday.
Noise Music
Viewpoints in NYC, a Watermill Center lecture series, will feature Richard Kamerman and Michael Foster, who will discuss and perform their work as the noise duo known as the New York Review of Cocksucking on Tuesday at 7 p.m. at the Byrd Hoffman Watermill Foundation in Manhattan.
After meeting at a noise show via Tinder, Mr. Kamerman and Mr. Foster decided to forgo the formalities associated with online dating and start a noise duo instead. Of their music, Nicole Disser wrote, “Instead of satisfying the urge for a full-on, max-volume onslaught of the kind that we’re used to getting from noise, this two-piece act practices a form of sonic tease and denial.”
The Byrd Hoffman Watermill Foundation is at 115 West 29 Street, 10th floor. The event is free, but reservations are required.
Fanaticism on Film
HamptonsFilm’s Now Showing series will feature “Young Ahmed,” a film by Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne, on Saturday at 6 p.m. at Guild Hall. The Dardenne brothers won the Best Director award at the Cannes Film Festival for this story of the radicalization of a Muslim teenager in a small Belgian town.
Leslie Felperin wrote in the Hollywood Reporter, “It’s made with the signature clarity, elliptical economy, and empathy that earned the Dardennes’ work so much praise in the past.” Tickets are $15, $13 for members.
OFVS Benefit
A fund-raiser for future studio space of Our Fabulous Variety Show, the nonprofit theater troupe based in Southampton, will take place Saturday from 6:30 to 9:30 p.m. at the Stephen Talkhouse in Amagansett.
The evening will include performances by Anita Boyer, Kasia Klimiuk, and Joe Pallister of Glitter Reboot, an improv team; Lucy Caracappa, a vocalist, and the drag queen divas RaffaShow and Naomi. An auction will feature prizes from the Hamptons International Film Festival, the Sag Harbor Inn, Harbor Bistro, the Westhampton Beach Performing Arts Center, and many more.
Tickets are $25 at ovationtix.com.
