Beethoven’s ‘Fidelio’
The simulcast of “Fidelio,” Ludwig van Beethoven’s only opera, is the next offering from The Met: Live in HD, being screened at Guild Hall on Saturday at 1 p.m.
In a story of steadfast love, Lise Davidsen, a Norwegian soprano, returns to the Met as Leonore, who disguises herself as a young man — Fidelio — in order to infiltrate a prison to save her unjustly accused husband, Floristan, a role sung by the British tenor David Butt Philip.
The production also features Tomasz Konieczny as Don Pizarro, René Pape as the jailer Rocco, and Ying Fang and Magnus Dietrich as the young Marzelline and Jaquino. Stephen Milling sings the principled Don Fernando. Susanna Malkki conducts Saturday’s performance.
Tickets are $30, $27 for members.
‘Native/Invasive’
Questions and Ideas, the Watermill Center’s year-round series of talks informed by the arts, humanities, and sciences, will tackle “Native/Invasive: Topics in Ecology and Human Culture” Thursday at 5:30 p.m. The panelists will explore the dichotomy with reference to ecology, land use, settlement, and the morality of arbitration.
Scott Bluedorn, a painter, illustrator, and designer, will moderate the discussion, which will include Shane Weeks, a Shinnecock artist and traditional singer and dancer; Margie Ruddick, a landscape designer; Tsering Yangzom Lama, a creative writer, and Lauren Ruiz, a multidisciplinary artist.
The program is free, but reservations are required.
Five Funny Females
“Mom’s Night Out: The Mother of All Comedy Shows” will bring five female comedians to the Bay Street Theater on Saturday evening at 8.
Peaches Rodriguez has opened for Arsenio Hall, shared the stage with Jerry Seinfeld, and headlined at Caroline’s on Broadway. Marla Shultz has toured for two years with Chelsea Handler and performed at comedy festivals across the country.
An actress as well as a comedian, Ellen Karis has appears in Martin Scorsese’s “The Irishman,” Showtime’s “Billions,” and HBO’s “The Sopranos.” Carla Ulbrich is a comic singer-songwriter whose songs have been aired on NPR, SiriusXM, and BBC Radio.
Sag Harbor’s Ruby Jackson, who has turned from visual art to standup, recently made her film debut as the villain in “The Premiere,” a mockumentary that played at the 2024 Hamptons International Film Festival.
Tickets are $42 to $54.
Classical Recital
Shelter Island Friends of Music will host a concert by Sirena Huang, a violinist, and Chih-Yi Chen, a pianist, on Saturday afternoon at 3 at the Shelter Island Presbyterian Church. The musicians will perform works by Beethoven, Stravinsky, Poulenc, Chen Gang, Coleridge-Taylor, and others.
Ms. Huang has performed in 20 countries across three continents, including with the New York Philharmonic and symphony orchestras in Baltimore, Shanghai, Taipei, and Weimar, Germany.
Ms. Chen has served as an official pianist for the International Violin Competition of Indianapolis Laureates since 2014 and was an official pianist for the China International Music Competition in Beijing.
A reception will follow the concert, which is free.
Shinnecock Storytelling
First Literature Project, an interactive project by Wunetu Wequai Tarrant, a Shinnecock linguist, and Christian Scheider, a filmmaker, is now on view at Ma’s House & BIPOC Art Studio in Southampton through June 1. A reception featuring Native-inspired catering will be held on Sunday from 5 to 8 p.m.
The project aims to support Native nations in their efforts to maintain and further their languages, narratives, and oral traditions. It employs an immersive storytelling platform that mixes 3-D video with virtual reality to recreate the experience of sitting face to face with a storyteller.
The exhibition also includes video works by Ayim Kutoowonk, the Shinnecock language revitalization collective, and interviews with members of the Shinnecock Nation.
Saving Penn Station
“The Tragedy That Is Penn Station” is the subject of the next Larsen Salon Series lecture, to be presented by LongHouse Reserve on Wednesday at 6 p.m. at the offices of Robert A.M. Stern Architects, One Park Avenue in Manhattan.
Samuel Turvey, the chairman of ReThinkNYC, an organization dedicated to the reconstruction of the original Penn Station, will discuss the state of that facility today, as well as four different architectural proposals to rectify what ReThinkNYC has called “the conundrum that is today’s Penn Station.”
Tickets to the lecture and reception are $75, $325 with the inclusion of dinner at a private club, hosted by a LongHouse trustee. A link is on the LongHouse website.
Music at the Temple
The Glam Jam returns to the inner sanctum of Sag Harbor’s Masonic Temple Thursday evening from 7 to 9. Walk-in musicians have been advised to arrive early to sign up to join the jam. Admission is a can of nonperishable food, which will be donated to local food pantries.
Anita Guarino, a Sag Harbor resident, will be at the temple Friday at 7. Accompanied by Bill Cento on piano, she will perform covers and reinterpretations of pop classics, jazz standards, and requests from the audience.
Doors open at 6:30. The $20 admission fee is donated in part to local charities.
Book Group
The winter book group of the Horticultural Alliance of the Hamptons will meet via Zoom on Saturday at 11 a.m. The format typically features three books selected and described by a member of the alliance — often with accompanying slides. Each segment is less than 20 minutes; the entire program lasts about an hour.
This month’s books are “We Made a Garden” by Margery Fish, presented by Nancy Gilbert; “The Tree Collectors: Tales of Arboreal Obsession” by Amy Stewart, presented by Elaine Peterson, and “Gertrude Jekyll’s Lost Garden: The Restoration of an Edwardian Masterpiece” by Rosamund Wallinger, presented by Abbie Zabar.
Members will receive a link by email; nonmembers can receive the link at no charge by registering at hahgarden.org/tickets.
