In friendly competition with the film festival this weekend, Guild Hall is offering a variety of programming, including an afternoon return to its theater of The Met: Live in HD, an evening with David Sedaris, and a multimedia performance by the local band Student Body.
Student Body, which includes Gian Carlo Feleppa, Jennifer Hoopes, and Kevin Foran, promises a night of high-energy musical performance intertwined with moments of introspection and reverence. Set for 7 p.m. tomorrow, the show will include a simultaneous screening of “The Passing,” a film by Sirad Balducci. Assembled from Super 8mm film from the Feleppa family archives, much of it shot in Amagansett in the 1960s and ‘70s by Richard Feleppa, Gian Carlo’s father, the film celebrates the timeless connection between past and present.
Tickets are $25, $22.50 for members.
The Met: Live in HD will return to Guild Hall’s newly renovated theater on Saturday at 1 p.m. with the simulcast of “Les Contes d’Hoffmann (The Tales of Hoffmann),” Jacques Offenbach’s 1881 opera fantastique. Based on stories by the German writer E.T.A. Hoffmann, the opera draws from three of those tales, each of which recounts a catastrophic love affair, with Hoffmann, the protagonist, accompanied by his faithful friend Nicklausse, beset by a diabolical nemesis.
Bartlett Sher’s production stars Benjamin Bernheim in the title role of the tormented poet. Hoffmann’s trio of lovers are sung by Erin Morley as the mechanical doll Olympia, Pretty Yende as the plagued diva Antonia, and Clementine Margaine as the Venetian seductress Giulietta. Marco Armiliato conducts.
Tickets are $30, $27 for members.
David Sedaris sold out his August 2019 appearance at Guild Hall and is on track to do so again, when he brings his sardonic wit and incisive critiques to its stage at 7 p.m. Saturday.
A regular contributor to National Public Radio, Mr. Sedaris’s books include “Calypso,” “Naked,” “Me Talk Pretty One Day,” “Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim,” and, most recently, “Happy Go Lucky,” about which Henry Alford wrote in The New York Times, “In addition to being consistently funny, it contains some festive Sedaris occasions for all those who celebrate.”
The evening will include a selection of all-new readings and recollections, as well as a question-and-answer session and book signing. Several of Mr. Sedaris’s most popular books will be available for purchase.
Tickets range from $100 to $150, $90 to $135 for members, and are in short supply.
