Mozart’s ‘Cosi Fan Tutti’ and Auditions at Guild Hall

Mozart’s “Cosi Fan Tutte,” the next offering from The Met: Live in HD, will be simulcast on Saturday at 1 p.m. at Guild Hall. The new production, the work of Phelim McDermott, has relocated the comedy about the sexes from 18th-century Naples to Coney Island in the 1950s and includes sword swallowers, a strongman, a fire-eater, a contortionist, and a bearded lady.

The cast includes Christopher Maltman as Don Alfonso, Kelli O’Hara as Despina, and Amanda Majeski, Serena Malfi, Ben Bliss, and Adam Plachetka as the young lovers who test one another’s faithfulness. David Robertson conducts. Anthony Tommasini, a critic for The New York Times, called it “a winning show.” Tickets are $22, $20 for members, and $15 for students.

For those wishing to enhance their knowledge of the opera, Victoria Bond, the noted composer, conductor, and opera scholar, will give a pre-opera lecture at noon. Lecture tickets are $30, $28 for members.

Also at Guild Hall, auditions for “The Summit,” a new play that will have its premiere there on Aug. 31, have been announced. Producers of the slapstick comedy are looking for actors and performers with experience as physical comedians, mimes, puppeteers, gymnasts, dancers, and clowns.

Auditions will take place by appointment only in Brooklyn on April 7 and in East Hampton on April 8. Rehearsals will begin in East Hampton in August. To secure an appointment, interested performers have been asked to send a headshot and resume to [email protected]. More details are available on Guild Hall’s website.