Sunday April 22, 1 p.m., Orcas Center
— from Margie Doyle for Orcas Center —
Luisa Miller a precursor to La Traviata, singing of hypocrisy and tragic love Verdi’s heart-
wrenching Luisa Miller centers on the bond between a father and his daughter as they stand together against a hostile world. Soprano Sonya Yoncheva sings the title role of Verdi’s heart-wrenching love story.
Tenor Piotr Beczala is Rodolfo, the man she loves, and the legendary Plácido Domingo is Luisa’s tormented father in this rarely-performed gem. It is an opera very much like its title character—one that impresses with genuine virtues rather than superficial flashiness.
Music writer Charles Osborn said, “Verdi’s Luisa Miller, his first attempt at portraying something of bourgeois “respectability” on the stage, is a direct predecessor of La Traviata which deals, amongst other things, with bourgeois hypocrisy.”
Season sponsors for the Met Live are Helen Bee and Carl De Boor
April 22 at 1:00 pm
STREAMING LIVE
Tickets: $20, $15 students
$2 off for Orcas Center members
$5 Subsidized Tickets available at the Box Office
