Met in HD Previews with Abby Kreh Gibson

AIDA by Giuseppe Verdi will be the Metropolitan Opera’s Live in HD Broadcast on Saturday, January 25 at 12:30 PM.  It can be seen locally at the Foothills Performing Arts & Civic Center in Oneonta and at Munson in Utica.

The Guild of the Festival’s Abby Kreh Gibson will discuss this unique Verdi opera, with no villains and filled with humanity and musical inventiveness, during a half-hour Zoom beginning at 5:30 PM on Wednesday, January 22. 

Topic: MET HD presentation- AIDA by Abby Kreh Gibson

Time: Jan 22, 2025 05:30 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada)

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Abby will also present a free educational program with Thomas Simpson on January 25 at 11:45 AM in the Upstairs Theater on the second floor of the Foothills Performing Arts & Civic Center, 24 Market Street, Oneonta.

Abby Kreh Gibson presented a brief Zoom overview of  Giacomo Puccini’s Tosca on Tuesday, November 19th beginning at 5:30 PM. Click here to view the recording.

GROUNDED, by JEANINE TESORI and GEORGE BRANT, WAS THE METROPOLITAN OPERA’S LIVE HD BROADCAST ON SATURDAY, OCTOBER 19, 2024 AT 1 PM. THE GLIMMERGLASS FESTIVAL’S WHITNEY CAMPBELL AND THE GUILD’S ABBY KREH GIBSON DISCUSSED GROUNDED, THE STORY OF JESS, A FIGHTER PILOT WHO BECOMES A DRONE OPERATOR, DURING A ZOOM OVERVIEW ON WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 16. 

Abby Kreh Gibson presented a brief Zoom overview of Jacques Offenbach’s Les Contes D’Hoffmann, The Tales of Hoffmann, on Thursday, October 3 at 5:30 PM.  The opera with a Prologue and Epilogue has three acts. Each act features one of Hoffmann’s past failed loves.  The musical range runs the gamut of emotions and has both tragedy and humor.  This first Metropolitan Opera Live HD Broadcast of the 2024-2025 Season can be seen locally at the Foothills Performing Arts & Civic Center, 24 Market Street, Oneonta and at Munson in Utica.