‘Arabella’ From the Met
Richard Strauss’s “Arabella” is up next in The Met: Live in HD at Guild Hall, on Saturday at 1 p.m. Set in Vienna around 1860, the plot concerns a family of landed gentry that has fallen on hard times.
Count Waldner, whose gambling has brought his family to ruin, hopes to find a wealthy husband for his daughter Arabella, while his second daughter, Zdenka, must stay disguised as a boy. Arabella counts on the arrival of a wealthy suitor, while Zdenka secretly loves one of her sister’s suitors. Though made more complex by the cross-dressing, the situation ends happily.
Otto Schenk’s production stars Rachel Willis-Sørensen, a soprano, in the title role; Louise Alder, a soprano, as her sister, and Tomasz Konieczny, a bass-baritone, as the count who sweeps Arabella off her feet. Nicholas Carter is at the podium.
Tickets are $30, $27 for members.
Classical Recital
Carol Adrianne Smith, a soprano, and Jonathan Howe, a pianist, will perform a program of classical music at the Southampton Cultural Center on Sunday afternoon at 2.
The performance will feature vocal pieces in German by Mozart and Beethoven, as well as works by Rachmaninoff, Bortkiewicz, and the American composer John Carpenter. The recital will explore the relationship between those composers’ eras and the early history of Freetown in East Hampton.
A native of Freetown, Ms. Smith, who has a Ph.D. in bioenvironmental science from Morgan State University in Baltimore, minored in music at the university level and trained privately as well. Mr. Howe earned a B.A. in music from Princeton and an M.A. in music education from Queens College. He teaches music in the East Hampton School District.
Tickets are $15.
Comedy at Bay Street
The graduating comedians from Bay Street Theater’s Think You’re Funny? comedy class will take their talents there on Wednesday evening at 8. The show will be hosted by Paul Anthony, who performs regularly at comedy clubs around New York City and Long Island. He is also the host of the Long Island Comedy Festival, the longest running festival of its kind, and has shared the stage with Robert Klein, Chris Distefano, Judy Gold, Louie Anderson, and others.
Tickets are $25.
Jazz at the Temple
In conjunction with Hamptons JazzFest, the Sag Harbor Masonic Temple will host “Jazz Night | Live to Radio,” a performance by Steve Sandberg on piano, Ken Fowser on tenor saxophone, Pete Swanson on bass, and Claes Brondal, the evening’s M.C., on drums, Friday at 7 p.m. The show is being recorded for future broadcast on WLIW-FM’s JazzFest Radio Hour.
The doors will open at 6:30, when dinners from Tapovana Lunch Box will be available for purchase. Tickets to the show are $20.
