Video: Opera Plays New York's Hayden Planetarium

I had the opportunity to film the Met's rehearsal of the Haydn opera() at the Natural History Museum.
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It's not often that my work as an entertainment and Broadway reporter crosses paths with my day job as the New Media Specialist at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City, so when I heard that an opera was going to be staged in the Museum's Hayden Planetarium, I was interested in checking it out.

Turns out the director of Broadway's recent Hair revival, Diane Paulus, decided to direct a production of Il mondo della luna (The World on the Moon) by Joseph Haydn in the Planetarium -- a unique setting for a show about a nobleman who is fooled, by a fake astronomer, to believe he has been sent to the moon.

Written in 1777, the story of Il mondo della luna remains intriguing to both art lovers and science enthusiasts, thanks in part to projections displayed on the Planetarium's 180-degree dome throughout the production.

I had the opportunity to film the opera's rehearsal and document the production.

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