October 2019
The Met: Live in HD | Turandot (Puccini) Italian w/ e.s.t.
Met Music Director Yannick Nézet-Séguin conducts Franco Zeffirelli’s celebrated production of Turandot, which stars Christine Goerke in the title role of the icy Chinese princess who has renounced all men. Roberto Aronica sings Calàf, the suitor who risks his head for her hand and sings the famed aria “Nessun dorma.” Eleonora Buratto is the slave girl Liù, and James Morrisis Calàf’s long-lost father, Timur. LIVE Saturday, October 12, 2019 ENCORES Saturday, November 2, 2019 Monday, November 4, 2019 Wednesday, November…
Find out more »The Met: Live in HD | Manon (Massenet) French w/e.s.t.
SYNOPSIS Manon’s story—from innocent country girl to celebrated courtesan to destitute prisoner—is one of the great tragic tales in literature and music. Lisette Oropesa stars as the irresistible title character, the tragic beauty who yearns for the finer things in life, in Laurent Pelly’s revealing production. Michael Fabiano is the besotted Chevalier des Grieux, whose desperate love for Manon proves their undoing. Maurizio Benini conducts Massenet’s sensual score. LIVE Saturday, October 26, 2019 ENCORES Saturday, December 14, 2019 Monday, January…
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The Met: Live in HD | Madama Butterfly (Puccini) Italian w/e.s.t.
SYNOPSIS Leading sopranos Hui He and Ana María Martínez share the heartbreaking title role of the doomed geisha, with tenors Piero Pretti and Bruce Sledge as the American naval officer who abandons her. Paulo Szot and Markus Brück share the role of Sharpless, and Elizabeth DeShong is Suzuki, alternating with Maria Zifchak. Pier Giorgio Morandi is on the podium for Anthony Minghella’s sweeping production, a perennial audience favorite. LIVE Saturday, November 9, 2019 ENCORES Saturday, January 25, 2020 (Free!) Monday,…
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Cineplex Events/Met Opera Live in HD | Wozzeck
Wozzeck (Berg) German w/e.s.t. – Metropolitan Opera JANUARY 11, 2020Length: 2h 02m Synopsis Yannick Nézet-Séguin conducts William Kentridge’s new production of Alban Berg’s expressionistic masterpiece Wozzeck, regarded for its intense emotional power and brilliant score as one of the most significant operas of the 20th century. Composed during and in the 5 aftermath of World War I, Berg’s dark exploration of a soldier besieged by the evils of society, is staged by Kentridge in a ramshackle warren of stairs, ramps, discarded…
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