Met Opera Winter Encores season
The Metropolitan Opera
Captured Live in High Definition
Winter encores from the recent acclaimed seasons
June 2013 – September 2013
Georges Bizet’s
Carmen
Limited screenings from Saturday 22 June
Richard Eyre’s hit production stars Elīna Garanča as the seductive gypsy of the title, opposite Roberto Alagna as the obsessed Don José.
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Giuseppe Verdi’s
Il Trovatore
Limited screenings from Saturday 27 July
David McVicar’s stirring production of Verdi’s intense drama stars four extraordinary singers in what might be the composer’s most melodically rich score.
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Giuseppe Verdi’s
La Traviata
Limited screenings from Saturday 24 August
Natalie Dessay stars as Verdi’s most beloved heroine in Willy Decker’s stunning production with Matthew Polenzani as her lover.
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Giacomo Puccini’s
Turandot
Limited screenings from Saturday 21 September
Director Franco Zeffirelli’s breathtaking production of Puccini’s last opera is a favorite of the Met repertoire. Maria Guleghina plays the ruthless Chinese princess of the title.
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Met Opera Winter Encores: Turandot
Giacomo Puccini’s
Turandot
Limited screenings from Saturday 21 September
Director Franco Zeffirelli’s breathtaking production of Puccini’s last opera is a favorite of the Met repertoire. Maria Guleghina plays the ruthless Chinese princess of the title, whose hatred of men is so strong that she has all suitors who can’t solve her riddles beheaded. Marcello Giordani sings Calàf, the unknown prince who eventually wins her love and whose solos include the famous “Nessun dorma.”
Conductor: Andris Nelsons; Production: Franco Zeffirelli;
Maria Guleghina, Marina Poplavskaya, Marcello Giordani, Samuel Ramey
Running time: 2 hours 20 minutes approx
Originally screened in 2009/2010 season
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Met Opera Winter Encores: La Traviata
Giuseppe Verdi’s
La Traviata
Limited screenings from Saturday 24 August
Natalie Dessay stars as Verdi’s most beloved heroine in Willy Decker’s stunning production, first seen at the Met in 2010. Matthew Polenzani is her lover, Alfredo, and Dimitri Hvorostovsky sings his stern father, Germont. Met Principal Conductor Fabio Luisi is on the podium.
Conductor: Fabio Luisi; Production: Willy Decker;
Natalie Dessay, Matthew Polenzani, Dimitri Hvorostovsky
Running time: 2 hours 30 minutes approx
Originally screened in 2011/2012 season
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Met Opera Winter Encores: Il Trovatore
Giuseppe Verdi’s
Il Trovatore
Limited screenings from Saturday 27 July
David McVicar’s stirring production of Verdi’s intense drama premiered at the Met in the 2008–09 season. This revival stars four extraordinary singers—Sondra Radvanovsky, Dolora Zajick, Marcelo Álvarez, and Dmitri Hvorostovsky—in what might be the composer’s most melodically rich score.
Conductor: Marco Armiliato;
Sondra Radvanovsky, Dolora Zajick, Marcelo Álvarez, Dmitri Hvorostovsky
Running time: 2 hours 40 minutes approx
Originally screened in 2010/2011 season
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Met Opera Winter Encores: Carmen
Georges Bizet’s
Carmen
Limited screenings from Saturday 22 June
Richard Eyre’s hit production stars Elīna Garanča as the seductive gypsy of the title, opposite Roberto Alagna as the obsessed Don José. Carmen “is about sex, violence, and racism—and its corollary: freedom,” the director says about Bizet’s drama. “It is one of the inalienably great works of art. It’s sexy, in every sense. And I think it should be shocking.”
Conductor: Yannick Nézet-Séguin; Production: Richard Eyre;
Barbara Frittoli, Elīna Garanča, Roberto Alagna, Mariusz Kwiecien
Running time: 3 hours approx
Originally screened in 2009/2010 season
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Met Opera: Captured Live in HD 2012-2013 season
THE MET: CAPTURED IN HD
THE ULTIMATE STAGE SPECTACLE ON CINEMA SCREENS
NOVEMBER 2012 – MAY 2013
The Metropolitan Opera’s award-winning series of operas in HD continues for a seventh season and features twelve operas captured live in high definition which will screen in participating cinemas Australia wide.
Go to www.theMetinAustralia.info for links to online ticketing at individual cinemas.
The Met: Captured Live in HD screens concurrently with the New York season:
FRANCESCA DA RIMINI – Zandonai
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Met Opera 2012-2013: FRANCESCA DA RIMINI
Riccardo Zandonai’s
FRANCESCA DA RIMINI
Saturday 4 and Sunday 5 May 2013
Conductor: Marco Armiliato
Production: Piero Faggioni
Cast: Eva-Maria Westbroek (Francesca), Marcello Giordani (Paolo), Robert Brubaker (Malatestino), Mark Delavan (Gianciotto)
Zandonai’s early 20th-century melodrama Francesca da Rimini returns to the Met for its first revival in more than 25 years, in Piero Faggioni’s opulent and realistic production. Marco Armiliato conducts Eva-Maria Westbroek in the title role of a noblewoman who is tricked into marrying the brutal Gianciotto, sung by Mark Delavan, instead of her true love Paolo, sung by Marcello Giordani. Robert Brubaker sings the wicked Malatestino, whose jealousy incites a murder.
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Met Opera 2012-2013: PARSIFAL
Richard Wagner’s
PARSIFAL
Saturday 13 and Sunday 14 April 2013
Conductor: Daniele Gatti
Production: François Girard
Cast: Katarina Dalayman (Kundry), Jonas Kaufmann (Parsifal), Peter Mattei (Amfortas), Evgeny Nikitin (Klingsor), René Pape (Gurnemanz)
Jonas Kaufmann makes his Met role debut as the title character in Parsifal, conducted by Daniele Gatti and directed by noted film and opera director François Girard in his Met debut. “Parsifal is not just an opera—it’s a mission. At the end of his life, Wagner was trying to reconcile all the aspects of his spirituality. It’s a sacred piece in the history of music,” Girard says. The cast also features Katarina Dalayman as Kundry, the mystical woman who tempts Parsifal; Peter Mattei in his role debut as Amfortas, king of the Knights of the Holy Grail; René Pape in one of his greatest roles, the wise old knight Gurnemanz; and Evgeny Nikitin as the magician Klingsor.
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Met Opera 2012-2013: RIGOLETTO
Giuseppe Verdi’s
RIGOLETTO
Saturday 23 and Sunday 24 March 2013
Conductor: Michele Mariotti
Production: Michael Mayer
Cast: Diana Damrau (Gilda), Oksana Volkova (Maddalena), Piotr Beczala (Duke of Mantua), Željko Lučić (Rigoletto), Štefan Kocán (Sparafucile)
Rising Italian conductor Michele Mariotti leads the new production premiere of Rigoletto, seen in a new staging by the Tony Award-winning director Michael Mayer in his Met debut. Mayer’s approach transports the story from 16th-century Italy to Las Vegas in 1960, with a cast led by Željko Lučić in the title role, Diana Damrau as his daughter, Gilda, Piotr Beczala as the Duke of Mantua, Štefan Kocán as the assassin Sparafucile, and Oksana Volkova in her Met debut as Sparafucile’s seductive sister, Maddalena. “I’ve tried to imagine a recent world that captures the decadence of the Duke’s palace, where the participants are in pursuit of power, money, and beauty,” Mayer says. “Las Vegas in the ‘60s is such a world, where a kind of prankster energy could go bad—it’s the epitome of the kinds of events that happen in Rigoletto.”
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Met Opera 2012-2013: MARIA STUARDA
Gaetano Donizetti’s
MARIA STUARDA
Met Premiere Production
Saturday 23 and Sunday 24 February 2013
Conductor: Maurizio Benini
Production: David McVicar
Cast: Joyce DiDonato (Maria Stuarda), Elza van den Heever (Elisabetta), Francesco Meli (Leicester), Joshua Hopkins (Cecil), Matthew Rose (Talbot)
David McVicar, who directed last season’s Met premiere of Anna Bolena, directs the company premiere of the second opera in Donizetti’s famous trilogy of operas about Tudor history. “Donizetti’s three Tudor operas are very different in tone, mood, and musical content,” McVicar says. “With Maria Stuarda being a different kind of opera than last season’s Anna Bolena, which we presented with a great deal of historical accuracy, we’ve gone for a visual style which is freer. Rather than reflecting history, it reflects the romantic nature of this retelling of the story and the sweeping romantic nature of Donizetti’s music.” Joyce DiDonato sings the title role of the defiant Mary, Queen of Scots. South African soprano Elza van den Heever makes her Met debut as Mary’s formidable rival, Queen Elizabeth I. Maurizio Benini conducts a cast that also includes Francesco Meli as the Earl of Leicester, Joshua Hopkins as Cecil, and Matthew Rose as Talbot.
