Met Opera

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.

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The Met: Captured Live in HD screens concurrently with the New York season:

L’ELISIR D’AMORE – Donizetti

Anna Netrebko and Matthew Polenzani star in Bartlett Sher’s new production of one of the greatest comic gems in opera, as the fickle Adina and her besotted Nemorino. Mariusz Kwiecien is the blustery sergeant Belcore and Ambrogio Maestri is Dulcamara, the loveable quack and dispenser of the elixir. Maurizio Benini conducts.

Screening Saturday 3 & Sunday 4 November

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OTELLO – Verdi

Verdi’s Shakespearean masterpiece returns to the Met with Johan Botha in the title role opposite the acclaimed Desdemona of star soprano Renée Fleming. Semyon Bychkov conducts.

Screening Saturday 17 & Sunday 18 November

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THE TEMPEST – Adès

Composer Thomas Adès conducts the Metropolitan Opera premiere of his own work, with baritone Simon Keenlyside starring as Prospero. Director Robert Lepage recreates the interior of 18th-century La Scala in this inventive staging.

Screening Saturday 1 & Sunday 2 December

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LA CLEMENZA DI TITO – Mozart

The virtuosic Elina Garanca sings Sesto in Mozart’s drama set in ancient Rome. Giuseppi Filianoti is the noble Tito and Barbara Frittoli is Vitellia, in this handsome revival of one of the composer’s final masterpieces. Harry Bicket conducts.

Screening Saturday 15 & Sunday 16 December

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UN BALLO IN MASCHERA – Verdi

Director David Alden’s dreamlike setting provides a compelling backdrop for this dramatic story of jealousy and vengeance. Marcelo Alvarez stars as the conflicted king. Sondra Radvanovsky is Amelia, the object of his secret passion; and Dmitri Hvorostovsky is her suspicious husband. Kathleen Kim is the page Oscar.

Screening Saturday 12 & Sunday 13 January

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AIDA – Verdi

The Met’s unforgettable production of Verdi’s ancient Egyptian drama stars Liudmyla Monastyrska as the enslaved Ethiopian princess caught in a love triangle with the heroic Radamès, played by Roberto Alagna, and the proud Egyptian princess Amneris, sung by Olga Borodina. Fabio Luisi conducts.

Screening Saturday 26 & Sunday 27 January

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LES TROYENS – Berlioz

The Met offers a rare opportunity to witness Berlioz’s vast epic, last performed at the Met in 2003. Deborah Voigt, Susan Graham, Bryan Hymel and Dwayne Croft lead the starry cast, portraying characters from the Trojan War. Met Principal Conductor Fabio Luisi marshals the large-scale musical forces.

Screening Saturday 9 & Sunday 10 February

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MARIA STUARDA – Donizetti

Mezzo-soprano Joyce DiDonato, one of the world’s most exciting singers, takes on the virtuosic bel canto role of the doomed Mary, Queen of Scots. Director David McVicar returns to the second opera of Donizetti’s Tudor trilogy, which explores regal characters at fateful moments of their lives. Elza can den Heever sings Elizabeth I, and Maurizio Benini conducts.

Screening Saturday 23 & Sunday 24 Feburary

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RIGOLETTO – Verdi

Director Michael Mayer has placed his new production of Verdi’s towering tragedy in Las Vegas in 1960. In this production, inspired by the antics of the Rat Pack, Piotr Beczala is the womanising Duke of Mantua, Zeljko Lucic is his tragic sidekick, Rigoletto, and Diana Damrau is Rigoletto’s daughter, Gilda.

Screening Saturday 23 & Sunday 24 March

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PARSIFAL – Wagner

Jonas Kaufmann stars in the title role of the innocent who finds wisdom in François Girard’s new vision for Wagner’s final masterpiece. His fellow Wagnerian luminaries include Katarina Dalayman as the mysterious Kundry, Peter Mattei as the ailing Amfortas, Evgeny Nikitin as the wicked Klingsor, and René Pape as the noble knight Gurnemanz. Daniele Gatti conducts.

Screening Saturday 13 & Sunday 14 April

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FRANCESCA DA RIMINI – Zandonai

Zandonai’s compelling opera, inspired by an episode of Dante’s Inferno, returns in the Met’s ravishingly beautiful production, last seen in 1986. Dramatic soprano Eva-Maria Westbroek and tenor Marcello Giordani are the doomed lovers. Marco Armiliato conducts.

Screening Saturday 4 & Sunday 5 May

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GIULIO CESARE – Handel

The opera that conquered London in Handel’s time comes to the Met in David McVicar’s lively production. The world’s leading countertenor, David Daniels, sings the title role opposite Natalie Dessay as an irresistibly exotic Cleopatra. Baroque specialist Harry Bicket conducts.

Screening Saturday 18 & Sunday 19 May

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