Guild Hall Visits Vienna and Detroit in This Week's Events

The Met Live in HD will present a new production of Richard Strauss’s opera “Der Rosenkavalier” on Saturday at 12:30 p.m. at Guild Hall. The simulcast will be preceded at 11:30 by a lecture about the opera by the renowned composer and conductor Victoria Bond.

The original setting — mid-18th-century Vienna — has been updated by the director, Robert Carsen, to the early 20th century. Renée Fleming plays the principal character, the Marschallin, in what The New York Times critic Anthony Tommasini called “a magnificent performance.”

Tickets to the opera are $22, $20 for members, and $15 for students. Lecture tickets are $30; $28 for members, in addition to the screening tickets.

Also at Guild Hall, on Tuesday at 7:30 p.m., the JDT Lab will present a staged reading of “Detroit,” a 2010 play by Lisa D’Amour that won the Obie Award for Best New American Play in 2013. In the play, Mary and Ben, who has just lost his job as a bank loan officer, host their new neighbors with a backyard barbecue. The characters discuss upward mobility, spousal relationships, and economic anxiety. The reading is free, with reservations required.

Friends of Guild Hall has issued a call for volunteers to work as ushers, in the gift shop, and at receptions, among other activities. Those interested have been invited to the friends’ annual meeting on Tuesday between noon and 3 p.m. in the Boots Lamb Education Center.