The Met: Live in HD, the Metropolitan Opera’s award-winning series of live transmissions to movie theaters worldwide, returns for its second season at Albert Lea's Marion Ross Performing Arts Center on October 5 with the first of 10 performances. Tickets for the general public are available beginning today, August 21.
“We are happy to once again serve up an exciting mix of operas and opera stars to our loyal audiences watching live from Vancouver to Moscow, and on a delayed basis in Asia, Africa, Australia and New Zealand,” said Peter Gelb, the Met’s General Manager and Executive Producer of the transmissions. “While the world may roil, operatically it is in harmony on our live transmission days.”
“We are happy to once again serve up an exciting mix of operas and opera stars to our loyal audiences watching live from Vancouver to Moscow, and on a delayed basis in Asia, Africa, Australia and New Zealand,” said Peter Gelb, the Met’s General Manager and Executive Producer of the transmissions. “While the world may roil, operatically it is in harmony on our live transmission days.”
The series opens on October 5 with Tchaikovsky’s Eugene Onegin, starring Anna Netrebko, Mariusz Kwiecien, and Piotr Beczala in Deborah Warner’s new production, conducted by Valery Gergiev and directed by Fiona Shaw in her Met debut, and also includes William Kentridge’s innovative production of Shostakovich’s The Nose, starring Paulo Szot (October 26); Puccini’s classic drama Tosca, with Patricia Racette as the tempestuous title character and Robert Alagna as her devoted lover (November 9); the highly-anticipated return to the screen of Met Music Director James Levine leading a new production of Verdi’s Falstaff, directed by Robert Carsen (December 14); Renée Fleming in one of her signature roles, the title character in Dvořák’s Rusalka, conducted by Yannick Nézet-Séguin (February 8); a new production of Borodin’s rarely heard epic Prince Igor, conducted by Gianandrea Noseda, directed by Dmitri Tcherniakov in his Met debut, and starring Ildar Abdrazakov in the title role (March 1); Jonas Kaufmann and Sophie Koch in a new staging by Richard Eyre of Massenet’s tragic romance Werther (March 15); Puccini’s timeless love story La Bohème, with Vittorio Grigolo starring in Franco Zeffirelli’s immensely popular production (April 5); the first Live in HD performance of Mozart’s Così fan tutte, starring Susanna Phillips, Isabel Leonard, Danielle de Niese, and Matthew Polenzani, conducted by Maestro Levine (April 26); and Joyce DiDonato and Juan Diego Flórez in Rossini’s Cinderella story La Cenerentola, led by Met Principal Conductor Fabio Luisi (May 10).
Sondra Radvanovsky, Patricia Racette, Renée Fleming, Susan Graham, Eric Owens, Joyce DiDonato, and Deborah Voigt will serve as hosts for the Live in HD presentations this season, conducting live interviews with cast, crew, and production teams, and introducing the popular behind-the-scenes interviews and features.
Now in its eighth season, the Live in HD series, the world’s largest provider of alternative content, reaches more than 1,900 theaters in 64 countries, and offers subtitles in nine languages, including Swedish for the first time this season.
All 10 high-definition productions will be shown live worldwide on Saturdays. Most operas begin at 11:55 a.m., with some operas beginning earlier in the afternoon; exact starting times appear here. Explore albertleacivicmusic.com to learn more about the Live in HD series, or visit www.metopera.org/hdlive.
Sondra Radvanovsky, Patricia Racette, Renée Fleming, Susan Graham, Eric Owens, Joyce DiDonato, and Deborah Voigt will serve as hosts for the Live in HD presentations this season, conducting live interviews with cast, crew, and production teams, and introducing the popular behind-the-scenes interviews and features.
Now in its eighth season, the Live in HD series, the world’s largest provider of alternative content, reaches more than 1,900 theaters in 64 countries, and offers subtitles in nine languages, including Swedish for the first time this season.
All 10 high-definition productions will be shown live worldwide on Saturdays. Most operas begin at 11:55 a.m., with some operas beginning earlier in the afternoon; exact starting times appear here. Explore albertleacivicmusic.com to learn more about the Live in HD series, or visit www.metopera.org/hdlive.
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