Music Appreciation: The Opera House (with Leontyne Price)
Friday Mar 25, 2022 @ 1:30 PM Central Time
The Opera House chronicles the moving saga of the Metropolitan Opera’s quest for a new home (the fictional site of Leonard Bernstein’s West Side Story), set against the swirling backdrop of the artists, architects, and politicians who shaped the cultural life of New York City in the ’50s and ’60s. Starring legendary soprano Leontyne Price, the film features rarely seen archival footage and images; interviews with Samuel Barber, Rudolf Bing, Robert Moses, Franco Zeffirelli; and a soundtrack of extraordinary Met performances. (2017, cc, 111 minutes.)