Mozart From The Met
The Met: Live in HD will return to Guild Hall on Saturday at 1 p.m. with Mozart’s romantic comedy “Cosi Fan Tutte.”
Phelim McDermott’s staging sets the story in a seaside amusement park inspired by Coney Island in the 1950s, complete with sword swallowers, fire breathers, and contortionists. Nimrod David Pfeffer is at the podium.
The story begins when Don Alfonso (Gerald Finley), a philosopher, bets two young men, Ferrando (Duke Kim) and Guglielmo (Andrey Zhilikhovsky), that, if tempted, their fiancées would not remain faithful. The women, Fiordiligi (Federica Lombardi) and Dorabella (Samantha Hankey), who are sisters, are told their lovers are leaving to “go to war,” after which two handsome strangers (Ferrando and Guglielmo in disguise) arrive as supposed seducers.
Tickets are $35. Refreshments, which are permitted in the theater, can be purchased at the coffee bar.
Poetry in Springs
Harriet Shenkman, whose volumes of poetry include “Wonder Wheel,” will bring an experience of poetry, memory, and family history to the Leiber Collection in Springs on Tuesday afternoon at 2:30. A cocktail reception will follow from 4:30 to 5:30 at a private residence in Amagansett.
The poems in “Wonder Wheel” tell of a young woman’s escape to America before the Holocaust, although some family members remain in Europe and perish. Other poems range from the effects of the Holocaust on the next generation to a husband’s decline through dementia to her mother’s recipe for borscht. Mary Gilliland, the author of “The Devil’s Fools,” said, “The clear-eyed poignancy of Harriet Shenkman’s ‘Wonder Wheel’ is stunning.”
The reception will celebrate the poems and artwork that participants have created in response to them. Details will be provided after signing up via a link on the Leiber Collection’s website. Tickets are $35.
Fleetwood Mac Tribute
In response to its sold-out performance at Bay Street last fall, The Chain — a Fleetwood Mac Experience, will return there on Saturday at 8 p.m.
The band has built a strong following throughout New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania, according to the theater, by combining authentic arrangements, powerful vocals, and the energy of a live rock concert.
The Chain is Bob Murray on vocals and guitar, Dennis Borro on lead vocals and bass, Damian Barker on vocals and drums, Mary McDermott on lead vocals, C.C. Keys on lead vocals and keyboards, and Doug Goerz on electric guitar.
Tickets are $44 to $56. The lobby bar opens an hour before showtime.
Blues at the Temple
Jake Lear and the Kings will rock Sag Harbor’s Masonic Temple when its music series devoted to East End musicians resumes on Saturday at 8 p.m.
With Lear on guitar and vocals, Jamie Ellis on bass, and Mike Guglielmo on drums, they perform classics from such blues luminaries as Robert Johnson, Junior Wells, Buddy Guy, Howlin’ Wolf, and Stevie Ray Vaughan, as well as blues takes on Bob Dylan and Jimi Hendrix.
Tickets are $25.
Garden Tours and More
The next round-table discussion of the Horticultural Alliance of the Hamptons, set for Saturday morning at 10 at the Bridgehampton Community House, will look back at this year’s local garden tours as well as the participants’ own gardens.
Among the topics to be discussed are whether tourgoers saw any plants they had never seen before, how to care for plants that thrived in the visited gardens, interesting garden design elements including hardscaping and garden ornaments, and what successes and challenges members experienced in their own gardens.
For those who missed some of the tours, a slide show will feature highlights from them. The program is free to all.
