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SUNY Sullivan Presents Lucia di Lammermoor as Part of Its Metropolitan Opera: Live in HD Series

LOCH SHELDRAKE, NY (March 15, 2011) – On Saturday, March 19 at 1:00 pm, SUNY Sullivan will present an HD simulcast of Donizetti’s, Lucia di Lammermoor, as it is performed live at the Metropolitan Opera House in New York’s Lincoln Center. The broadcast – part of the college’s Metropolitan Opera: Live In HD Series – is open to the public, and will be shown in the school’s Seelig Theater. Tickets are $20.00 each for general admission, and $10.00 each for students.

SUNY Sullivan is proud to take part in this Peabody and Emmy Award winning series. With state of the art audio and visual capabilities, the Seelig Theater is an ideal venue to see and hear these performances come alive. Light refreshments will be available during intermissions in the adjacent DeHoyos Gallery.

Natalie Dessay triumphed as the fragile heroine of Donizetti’s masterpiece on Opening Night of the 2007–08 season in Mary Zimmerman’s hit production. Now she returns to the role of the innocent young woman driven to madness, opposite Joseph Calleja, who sings her lover Edgardo. The eighth of twelve simulcasts in the 2010-2011 series, Lucia di Lammermoor will be the sole simulcast for March, and will be followed by Rossini’s Le Comty Ory, Strauss’s Capriccio and Verdi’s Il Trovatore in April, and the series finale – Wagner’s Die Walkure – in May.

For more information on the Metropolitan Opera: Live In HD Series, ticket sales, and to arrange accessible seating services, call SUNY Sullivan’s department of Institutional Development & Outreach at (845) 434-5750, extension 4472, between 9:00 am and 4:00 pm on weekdays. Or visit the college’s website at www.sunysullivan.edu and search “met opera.”

SUNY Sullivan - founded in 1962 - is a two-year community college and a unit of the State University of New York. Its academic offerings include over 40 associate degree and certificate programs, as well as a variety of continuing education and specialty courses. Instruction is available on our 405-acre campus in Loch Sheldrake for both commuter and resident students, online and through the college’s distance learning program.