The Met: Live in HD will send a live transmission of Rossini’s comedy “The Barber of Seville” to Guild Hall on Saturday at 1 p.m. Premiered in Rome in 1816, “Il Barbiere di Siviglia” survived a disastrous opening night to become one of the world’s most popular comic operas.
Count Almaviva, disguised as a student, falls in love with Rosina, a young woman under the care of Dr. Bartolo. Figaro, the barber, helps Almaviva woo Rosina, though Dr. Bartolo desires her and her dowry and tries to prevent them from being together. Figaro needs all his wiles to help Almaviva outwit Dr. Bartolo.
Directed by Bartlett Sher and conducted by Giacomo Sagripanti, the production stars Aigul Akhmetshina, a Russian mezzo-soprano, as Rosina; Jack Swanson, an American tenor in his Met debut, as Almaviva; Andrey Zhilikhovsky, a Moldovan baritone, as Figaro, and Peter Kalman, a Hungarian bass-baritone, as Dr. Bartolo.
Tickets are $30, $27 for members.
Seth Rudetsky, a SiriusXM host and theater aficionado, is the M.C. and music director of Seth’s Broadway Concert Series, which will touch down at Guild Hall on Saturday at 8 p.m. with Ana Gasteyer, a Broadway star perhaps best known for her work as a regular on “Saturday Night Live.”
Ms. Gasteyer’s résumé also includes Queen Aggravain in the Broadway production of “Once Upon a Mattress,” “Rocky Horror,” “The Royal Family,” “The Threepenny Opera,” and as Elphaba in “Wicked.” She also played Fanny Brice in “Funny Girl” at the Pittsburgh Civic Light Opera and Fosca in Stephen Sondheim’s “Passion” at the Chicago Shakespeare Theatre.
Audiences can expect such hits from Ms. Gasteyer as “Defying Gravity” and “I’m the Greatest Star,” as well as a look back at some of her iconic “Saturday Night Live” impressions, among them Celine Dion and Martha Stewart.
In addition to Mr. Rudetsky’s behind-the-scenes stories and insightful questions of his guests, he is an actor, writer, and performer who co-wrote and co-starred in “Disaster!” on Broadway and can be counted on to perform material from his own career.
Tickets range from $60 to $125, $54 to $112.50 for members.
In conjunction with its current exhibition “Almond Zigmund: Wading Room,” Guild Hall will pair Ms. Zigmund with Lisa Perry, a designer, collector, and curator, for a conversation on Sunday afternoon at 2. Melanie Crader, the venue’s museum director and curator of visual arts, will moderate.
The discussion will highlight Ms. Perry’s vision for Onna House, a Japanese modernist 1960s house in East Hampton that is filled with art, furniture, and objects by women designers exclusively, and Ms. Zigmund’s “Wading Room,” an immersive installation that redefines spatial perception through bold geometric interventions.
Tickets are $25, $22.50 for members.
