Franca Gargiulo of Occhiata Productions in Monterey tells us that more than more than 470 Monterey County students, many for the first time ever, went to the opera Saturday to see a live performance of Giuseppe Verdi’s Aida.
Did they board a plane and travel to New York to attend a concert at the Metropolitan Opera? Nah. The students attended the performance thanks to the Met's program "Live in HD", which shows in movie theaters throughout the country to bring the Met to our backyard. The students saw Aida at Century Theatre in Monterey.
More than 10 schools and 4,000 students participated in the classroom
multimedia, which included interactive presentations and curriculum which explained the
story of Aida. Schools participating in Saturday’s
event included Boronda Meadows, Kamman School, Martin Luther King
Academy, Roosevelt, University Park of Salinas; Fairview Middle School,
Gonzales, Main Street Middle School and Soledad High School, Soledad,
North Monterey County Middle School, Castroville and Rancho Cielo,
Salinas.
The next Met show at the local movie theaters will be on Saturday Jan. 19 at 12:55 p.m. The show: Donizetti's Maria Stuarda
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