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S50 Ep17

Great Performances at the Met: Fedora

Premiere: 5/7/2023 | 00:00:30 |

Back at the Met for the first time in 25 years, Umberto Giordano’s drama stars soprano Sonya Yoncheva in the title role, a 19th-century Russian princess who falls in love with her fiancé’s murderer, Count Loris, sung by star tenor Piotr Beczała. Soprano Rosa Feola is the Countess Olga, Fedora’s confidant, and baritone Lucas Meachem is the diplomat De Siriex.

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Premieres beginning Sunday, May 7 at 2 p.m. on PBS (check local listings)

Back at the Met for the first time in 25 years, Umberto Giordano’s drama stars soprano Sonya Yoncheva in the title role, a 19th-century Russian princess who falls in love with her fiancé’s murderer, Count Loris, sung by star tenor Piotr Beczała. Soprano Rosa Feola is the Countess Olga, Fedora’s confidant, and baritone Lucas Meachem is the diplomat De Siriex. Marco Armiliato conducts director David McVicar’s production, which features a set that unfolds revealing the opera’s three settings: A St. Petersburg palace, a fashionable Parisian salon and a villa in the Swiss Alps. Christine Goerke hosts.
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Clip | Piotr Beczala Performs “Amor ti vieta” from “Fedora”
TRANSCRIPT

Princess Fedora thinks she's getting married, but her fiancée has been murdered and he did it.

But what happens when they fall in love?

Starring the magnificent Sonya Yoncheva and Piotr Becza a.

Don't miss this passionate production of Umberto Giordano's murder mystery 'Fedora' on Great Performances at the Met.

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