—Watch Nico Muhly’s reimagining of Winston Graham’s novel about a woman with multiple identities.—
Season 13 of GREAT PERFORMANCES AT THE MET continues with a primetime broadcast of “Marnie,” premiering Friday, February 1 on PBS.
Nico Muhly’s new opera, based on the 1961 Winston Graham thriller that inspired the iconic Alfred Hitchcock film of the same name, stars Isabel Leonard in the title role alongside Christopher Maltman as Mark Rutland. Janis Kelly, Denyce Graves, and Iestyn Davies round out the cast. Robert Spano conducts.
Michael Mayer’s production, which had its U.S. debut at the Met in fall 2018, takes place in England, where the alluring Marnie pursues a life of crime and dishonesty by assuming new identities after stealing from her employers.
After pulling off another heist and adapting a new look successfully, she moves on to a new job at Halcyon Printing where her new boss is widower Mark Rutland.
Marnie makes an attempt to steal from the company’s safe but is caught red-handed by Mark, who blackmails her into marrying him by threatening to turn her in to the police.
Now forced into a loveless marriage, Marnie must face the traumas of her childhood and past indiscretions to free herself from a vicious cycle of deception.
Anthony Roth Costanzo hosts.
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Credits:
Michael Mayer – production. Julian Crouch and 59 Productions – set and projection designers. Arianne Phillips – costume designer. Kevin Adams – lighting designer. Lynne Page - choreographer. For the Met, Habib Azar directs the telecast. David Frost is music producer. Mia Bongiovanni and Elena Park are supervising producers, and Louisa Briccetti and Victoria Warivonchik are producers. Peter Gelb is executive producer. For GREAT PERFORMANCES, Bill O’Donnell is series producer; David Horn is Executive Producer. GREAT PERFORMANCES AT THE MET is a presentation of THIRTEEN Productions LLC for WNET.
