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THE MET: LIVE IN HD
2010 - 2011 Season

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Opera Season Preview and Champagne Reception

Sunday September 19, 2010
4:00 PM

Arena Theater presents an Opera Season Preview and Champagne Reception on Sunday September 19 at 4:00 PM. The event will benefit opera at Arena Theater and introduce the Metropolitan Opera 2010-11 Season Live in HD. The Metropolitan Opera 2010-11 Season Live in HD at Arena Theater will open on Saturday, October 9 with Wagner's Das Rheingold and present a total of eleven live transmissions. Five new productions for this season include the first two parts of internationally renowned director Robert Lepage's new production of Wagner's Ring Cycle, which begin and end the season.

The Opera Season Preview will include a panel at 5:00 PM on "The Joy of Opera." Local opera aficionados Iris Lorenz-Fife and Marion Patterson will present musical highlights and discuss the lesser known operas as well as the well known highlights of the season.

In its fourth season, Arena Theater will again offer a season subscription. Ticket prices and show times will be announced on August 24th and available at www.arenatheater.org. Season subscribers will be eligible to become Arena Theater Opera Patrons; benefits include reserved seating. The Opera Preview Champagne Reception is an opportunity to choose preferred seats. Tickets are $20.00 and include champagne and hors d'oeuvres. A no host bar will be open. Tickets are available at www.arenatheater.org. For further information on becoming an Opera Patron contact Arena Theater at 707-882-3272.


The Metropolitan Opera Live in

IN ITS 2010-2011 SEASON, THE MET: LIVE IN HD SERIES WILL FEATURE 11 LIVE TRANSMISSIONS

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October 9, 2010 Wagner’s Das Rheingold
October 23, 2010 Mussorgsky’s Boris Godunov
November 13, 2010 Donizetti’s Don Pasquale
December 11, 2010 Verdi’s Don Carlo
January 8, 2011 Puccini’s La Fanciulla del West
February 26, 2011 Gluck’s Iphigénie en Tauride
March 19, 2011 Donizetti’s Lucia di Lammermoor
April 9, 2011 Rossini’s Le Comte Ory
April 23, 2011 Richard Strauss’s Capriccio
April 30, 2011 Verdi’s Il Trovatore
May 14, 2011 Wagner’s Die Walküre

Ticket Information

Times and ticket prices have not yet been announced. According to the Metropolitan Opera, tickets for The Met: Live in HD 2010-2011 Series will go on sale in September; Met members in the U.S. and Canada will have ticket priority before tickets are made available to the general public. Further details as they become available will be found at www.arenatheater.org

 

Showtime:
Saturday
October 9

Doors Open
9:15 AM

Show Starts
10:00 AM

Tickets
$18.00 - Student/Youth
$22.00 - Senior
$24.00 - General


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Wagner's Das Rheingold - New Production

Expected Running time: 3 hours

Two unparalleled artists join forces to create a groundbreaking new Ring for the Met: Maestro James Levine and director Robert Lepage. The cycle launches with Das Rheingold, the prologue to Wagner's epic drama. "The Ring is not just a story or a series of operas, it's a cosmos," says Lepage, who brings cutting-edge technology and his own visionary imagination to the world's greatest theatrical journey. Bryn Terfel sings the leading role of Wotan for the first time with the company, heading an extraordinary cast: James Levine; Wendy Bryn Harmer, Stephanie Blythe, Patricia Bardon, Richard Croft, Gerhard Siegel, Bryn Terfel, Eric Owens, Franz-Josef Selig, Hans-Peter König.

 

Showtime:
Saturday
October 23

Doors Open
8:15 AM

Show Starts
9:00 AM

Tickets
$18.00 - Student/Youth
$22.00 - Senior
$24.00 - General


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Mussorgsky's Boris Godunov - New Production

Expected Running time: 5 hours

René Pape takes on one of the greatest bass roles in a new production by Stephen Wadsworth. Valery Gergiev conducts Mussorgsky's epic spectacle that captures the suffering and ambition of a nation, with Aleksandrs Antonenko, Vladimir Ognovenko, and Ekaterina Semenchuk leading the huge cast.
Valery Gergiev; Ekaterina Semenchuk, Aleksandrs Antonenko, Oleg Balashov, Evgeny Nikitin, René Pape, Mikhail Petrenko, Vladimir Ognovenko.

 

Showtime:
Saturday
November 13

Doors Open
9:15 AM

Show Starts
10:00 AM

Tickets
$18.00 - Student/Youth
$22.00 - Senior
$24.00 - General


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Donizetti's Don Pasquale

Expected Running time: 3 hours, 30 minutes

Anna Netrebko revives her sensational turn in this sophisticated bel canto comedy, opposite Matthew Polenzani, Mariusz Kwiecien, and John Del Carlo in the title role. Music Director James Levine conducts. When Otto Schenk's production premiered in 2006, the New York Times called it "brilliant" and "wonderful."
James Levine; Anna Netrebko, Matthew Polenzani, Mariusz Kwiecien, John Del Carlo.

 

Showtime:
Saturday
December 11

Doors Open
8:45 AM

Show Starts
9:30 AM

Tickets
$18.00 - Student/Youth
$22.00 - Senior
$24.00 - General


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Verdi's Don Carlo - New Production

Expected Running time: 4 hours, 30 minutes

Director Nicholas Hytner makes his Met debut with this new production of Verdi's profound, beautiful, and most ambitious opera. Roberto Alagna leads the cast, and Ferruccio Furlanetto, Marina Poplavskaya, Anna Smirnova, and Simon Keenlyside also star. Yannick Nézet-Séguin, back after his triumphant debut leading Carmen, conducts. "I think Don Carlo is the quintessential Verdi opera," Hytner says. "Right through this opera there is, on the one hand, an implacable expression of impending doom and, on the other hand, a succession of the most gloriously open-throated arias, the most fantastically determined music."
Yannick Nézet-Séguin; Marina Poplavskaya, Anna Smirnova, Roberto Alagna, Simon Keenlyside, Ferruccio Furlanetto, Eric Halfvarson.

 

Showtime:
Saturday
January 8

Doors Open
9:15 AM

Show Starts
10:00 AM

Tickets
$18.00 - Student/Youth
$22.00 - Senior
$24.00 - General


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Puccini's La Fanciulla del West

Expected Running time: 3 hours, 30 minutes

Puccini's wild-west opera had its world premiere in 1910 at the Met. Now, on the occasion of its centennial, all-American diva Deborah Voigt sings the title role of the "girl of the golden west," starring opposite Marcello Giordani. Nicola Luisotti conducts.
Nicola Luisotti; Deborah Voigt, Marcello Giordani, Lucio Gallo

 

Showtime:
Saturday
Februray 12

Doors Open
9:15 AM

Show Starts
10:00 AM

Tickets
$18.00 - Student/Youth
$22.00 - Senior
$24.00 - General


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Adams's Nixon in China - New Production

Expected Running time: 4 hours

"All of my operas have dealt on deep psychological levels with our American mythology," says composer John Adams, who conducts the Met premiere of his most famous opera. "The meeting of Nixon and Mao is a mythological moment in world history, particularly American history." Acclaimed director and longtime Adams collaborator Peter Sellars makes his Met debut with this groundbreaking 1987 work, an exploration of the human truths beyond the headlines surrounding President Nixon's 1972 encounter with Communist China. Baritone James Maddalena stars in the title role.
John Adams; Kathleen Kim, Janis Kelly, Robert Brubaker, Russell Braun, James Maddalena, Richard Paul Fink

 

Showtime:
Saturday
Februray 26

Doors Open
9:15 AM

Show Starts
10:00 AM

Tickets
$18.00 - Student/Youth
$22.00 - Senior
$24.00 - General


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Gluck's Iphigénie en Tauride

Expected Running time: 2 hours, 30 minutes

Susan Graham and Plácido Domingo reprise their starring roles in Gluck's nuanced and elegant interpretation of this primal Greek myth. Tenor Paul Groves also returns to Stephen Wadsworth's insightful production, first seen in 2007. Patrick Summers conducts.
Patrick Summers; Susan Graham, Plácido Domingo, Paul Groves, Gordon Hawkins

 

Showtime:
Saturday
March 19

Doors Open
9:15 AM

Show Starts
10:00 AM

Tickets
$18.00 - Student/Youth
$22.00 - Senior
$24.00 - General


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Donizetti's Lucia di Lammermoor

Expected Running time: 2 hours, 30 minutes

Natalie Dessay triumphed as the fragile heroine of Donizetti's masterpiece on Opening Night of the 2007-08 season in Mary Zimmerman's hit production. Now she returns to the role of the innocent young woman driven to madness, opposite Joseph Calleja, who sings her lover Edgardo.
Patrick Summers; Natalie Dessay, Joseph Calleja, Ludovic Tézier, Kwangchul Youn

 

Showtime:
Saturday
April 9

Doors Open
9:15 AM

Show Starts
10:00 AM

Tickets
$18.00 - Student/Youth
$22.00 - Senior
$24.00 - General


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Rossini's Le Comte Ory - New Production

Expected Running time: 3 hours

Rossini's vocally dazzling comedy stars bel canto sensation Juan Diego Flórez in the title role of this Met premiere production. He vies with mezzo-soprano Joyce DiDonato, in the trouser role of Isolier, for the love of the lonely Countess Adèle, sung by soprano Diana Damrau. Bartlett Sher, director of the Met's hit productions of The Barber of Seville and The Tales of Hoffmann, describes the world of the opera as, "a place where love is dangerous. People get hurt. That can be very funny and very painful. Rossini captures both-with the most beautiful love music Rossini ever wrote."
Maurizio Benini; Diana Damrau, Joyce DiDonato, Susanne Resmark, Juan Diego Flórez, Stéphane Degout, Michele Pertusi

 

Showtime:
Saturday
April 23

Doors Open
9:15 AM

Show Starts
10:00 AM

Tickets
$18.00 - Student/Youth
$22.00 - Senior
$24.00 - General


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Strauss's Capriccio

Expected Running time: 3 hours

On Opening Night of the 2008-09 season, Renée Fleming dazzled audiences when she sang the final scene of Strauss's wise and worldly meditation on art and life. Now she performs the entire work, in which the composer explores the essence of opera itself. Joseph Kaiser and Sarah Connolly also star, and Andrew Davis conducts. Andrew Davis; Renée Fleming, Sarah Connolly, Joseph Kaiser, Russell Braun, Morten Frank Larsen, Peter Rose

 

Showtime:
Saturday
April 30

Doors Open
9:15 AM

Show Starts
10:00 AM

Tickets
$18.00 - Student/Youth
$22.00 - Senior
$24.00 - General


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Verdi's Il Trovatore

Expected Running time: 3 hours

David McVicar's stirring production of Verdi's intense drama premiered in the 2008-09 season. James Levine leads this revival, starring four extraordinary singers-Sondra Radvanovsky, Dolora Zajick, Marcelo Álvarez, and Dmitri Hvorostovsky-in what might be the composer's most melodically rich score.
James Levine; Sondra Radvanovsky, Dolora Zajick, Marcelo Álvarez, Dmitri Hvorostovsky

 

Showtime:
Saturday
May 14

Doors Open
8:15 AM

Show Starts
9:00 AM

Tickets
$18.00 - Student/Youth
$22.00 - Senior
$24.00 - General


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Wagner's Die Walküre - New Production

Expected Running time: 5 hours, 15 minutes

A stellar cast comes together for this second installment of Robert Lepage's new production of the Ring cycle, conducted by James Levine. Bryn Terfel is Wotan, lord of the Gods. Deborah Voigt adds the part of Brünnhilde to her extensive Wagnerian repertoire at the Met. Jonas Kaufmann and Eva-Maria Westbroek star as the twins, Siegmund and Sieglinde, and Stephanie Blythe is Fricka.
James Levine; Deborah Voigt, Eva-Maria Westbroek, Stephanie Blythe, Jonas Kaufmann, Bryn Terfel, Hans-Peter König

 

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