Wagner From the Met
In his New York Times review of the Metropolitan Opera’s new production of Wagner’s “Tristan und Isolde,” Joshua Barone called it “the event of the season.” Guild Hall audiences can see Yuval Sharon’s staging Live in HD on Saturday at 1 p.m.
Lise Davidsen, a soprano, plays the Irish princess Isolde in what the Met calls “Wagner’s transcendent meditation on love and death.” Michael Spyres, a tenor, sings opposite Ms. Davidsen as the love-drunk Tristan. Mr. Sharon, hailed by The Times as “the most visionary opera director of his generation,” is the first American to direct an opera at the Wagner festival in Bayreuth. Yannick Nézet-Séguin, the Met’s musical director, will be at the podium.
Tickets are $30, $27 for members. The estimated running time is 5 hours and 10 minutes with two intermissions.
Plant Discoveries
The winter lecture series at Madoo Conservancy in Sagaponack, “New Wonders: Plant Discoveries for 2026,” will feature noon presentations by David Culp of Brandywine Cottage in Downingtown, Pa., on Sunday, and Carl Hesselein of Pleasant Run Nursery in Allentown, N.J., on March 29.
Mr. Culp, the creator of the Brandywine gardens, is the author of “A Year at Brandywine Cottage: Six Seasons of Beauty, Bounty, and Blooms” and is an instructor at Longwood Gardens. He is a world-renowned expert on hellebores.
Mr. Hesselein, a fifth-generation nurseryman, took over Pleasant Run from his parents in 2023, the same year the nursery was named Grower of the Year by the Perennial Plant Association.
Tickets for each talk are $35.
Movement Workshop
Oliver Tobin, a former dancer with the Martha Graham Dance Company and curator of “Martha Graham: Collaborations” at The Church will lead a movement workshop for adults at the Sag Harbor cultural center on Saturday at 12:30 p.m.
Inspired by Graham’s important solo “Lamentation,” and open to all backgrounds and experience levels, the workshop will introduce the expressive foundations of Graham’s technique and explore storytelling through breath, shape, and movement. Participants will explore “themes of grief, containment, release, resilience, and transformation” that are central to “Lamentation.”
Attendees have been asked to dress comfortably and take a water bottle. Socks or bare feet have been recommended for movement. Tickets are $30, $25 for members.
Classical Piano
Brianna Tang, a concert pianist who performs extensively in the United States and abroad, will be the next guest artist in the Liliane Questel Recital Series at the Southampton Cultural Center, on Saturday at 6 p.m.
Ms. Tang has been invited to appear in the Festival Musica in Laguna’s International Piano Competition and the Narnia International Piano Competition, among others, and has received numerous scholarships, including the Bart Pitman Music Scholarship from the Delaware Valley Music Club, where she performs regularly.
The program will include Chaminade’s “6 Études de concert, Op. 35 No. 5 Impromptu”; Auerbach’s “Ten Dreams for Piano, Op. 45,” and Schumann’s “Symphonic Études, Op. 13.”
Tickets are $25 in advance, $30 at the door, free for those under 21.
Rocking the Library
Tommy Sullivan, a founding member and bandleader of the Brooklyn Bridge and member of the Long Island Music Hall of Fame, will perform in the Baldwin Room of the East Hampton Library on Saturday at 2 p.m.
Mr. Sullivan, who created West Point’s first official rock group while serving in the U.S. military, will bring hits of the ’50s and ’60s to the library, including the Brooklyn Bridge’s hit “Worst That Could Happen” from 1968.
Light refreshments will be on offer, and dancing will be encouraged.
Garden Book Group
The winter book group of the Horticultural Alliance of the Hamptons will meet via Zoom on Saturday at 11 a.m. The format typically features three books, selected and described by a member of the alliance, often with accompanying slides. Each segment is less than 20 minutes; the entire program lasts about an hour.
This month’s books are “Beatrix Farrand’s American Landscapes: Her Gardens and Campuses” by Diana Balmori, Diane Kostial McGuire, and Eleanor M. McPeck, presented by Christie Peck; “Diary of a Keen Gardener” by Mary Keen, presented by Alicia Whitaker, and “Lost Gardens of London” by Todd Longstaffe-Gowan, presented by Alejandro Saralegui.
The book group is open to nonmembers with no charge. Members will receive a link in email; nonmembers can receive the link by registering on the alliance’s website.
