DENVER, July 18, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- Tickets are now
available for the Met's award-winning Live in HD series.
Entering its 13th season, the popular series brings
New York City's esteemed
Metropolitan Opera performances to local cinemas across the
country. Featuring opera's celebrated stars, as well as rising new
artists, the new season will feature eleven transmissions,
including four new productions, and a special holiday encore of the
popular 2006 broadcast of The Magic Flute.
In addition to the high-definition opera productions, moviegoers
will experience behind-the-scenes content with the people who make
up one of the most renowned opera companies in the world—including
exclusive interviews with cast, crew and production teams.
Tickets for The Met: Live in HD 2018–19
season can be purchased at www.FathomEvents.com and participating
theater box offices.
Fathom Events and the Metropolitan Opera present The Met:
Live in HD 2018–19 season in more than 700 select movie
theaters through Fathom's Digital Broadcast Network (DBN). For a
complete list of theater locations, visit the Fathom
Events website (theaters and participants are subject to
change).
"The Met: Live in HD allows audiences around the country
to experience the magic of the opera and the best-of-the-best in
operatic talent from around the world," Fathom Events CEO
Ray Nutt said. "There is nothing
quite like seeing a beautiful opera performed live on stage at the
renowned Metropolitan Opera. Our long-standing partnership with the
Met continues to draw hundreds of thousands of fans, and we are
thrilled to help bring these incredible productions to the big
screen."
The Met Live in HD 2018–19 season
includes:
(casting subject to change)
AIDA (Giuseppe
Verdi) – Revival
Saturday, October 6, 2018 –
12:55 p.m. ET/ 11:55 a.m. CT/ 10:55 a.m.
MT/ 9:55 a.m. PT
Encores: Wednesday, October 10 – 1:00
and 6:30 p.m. local time
Soprano Anna Netrebko
sings her first Met Aida, with mezzo-soprano Anita
Rachvelishvili as her formidable rival Amneris. Aleksandrs Antonenko is the warrior Radamès,
and Nicola Luisotti takes the
podium for the Met's monumental production.
SAMSON ET DALILA (Camille
Saint-Saëns) – New Production / First Time in HD
Saturday, October 20, 2018 –
12:55 p.m. ET/ 11:55 a.m. CT/ 10:55 a.m.
MT/ 9:55 a.m. PT
Encores:
Wednesday, October 24 – 1:00 and
6:30 p.m. local time
Saint-Saëns's biblical epic Samson et Dalila stars
Elīna Garanča and Roberto
Alagna in the title roles; the pair was last seen
together by HD audiences in the acclaimed 2010 transmission of
Bizet's Carmen. Laurent
Naouri co-stars as the High Priest, with Elchin Azizov as the Philistine King
Abimélech and Dmitry Belosselskiy as the Old Hebrew.
Darko Tresnjak, the Tony Award–winning director of A
Gentleman's Guide to Love & Murder, makes his Met debut
directing the first new Met production of the opera in 20 years.
Sir Mark Elder conducts.
LA FANCIULLA DEL WEST (Giacomo Puccini) – Revival
Saturday, October 27, 2018 –
12:55 p.m. ET/ 11:55 a.m. CT/ 10:55 a.m.
MT/ 9:55 a.m. PT
Encores:
Wednesday, October 31 – 1:00 and
6:30 p.m. local time
Soprano Eva-Maria
Westbroek sings Puccini's gun-slinging heroine in this
romantic epic of the Wild West, alongside star tenor
Jonas Kaufmann in the role of
the outlaw Dick Johnson. Baritone
Željko Lučić is the vigilante sheriff Jack Rance, and Marco
Armiliato conducts.
MARNIE (Nico
Muhly/Libretto Nicholas Wright) – Met Premiere / First
Time in HD
Saturday, November 10, 2018 –
12:55 p.m. ET/ 11:55 a.m. CT/ 10:55 a.m.
MT/ 9:55 a.m. PT
Encores:
Wednesday, November 14 – 1:00 and
6:30 p.m. local time
Nico Muhly's
Marnie, based on Winston
Graham's novel, which in turn inspired Alfred Hitchock's suspenseful thriller, has its
U.S. premiere at the Met this season. Isabel Leonard stars in the title role
opposite Christopher Maltman
as her blackmailing husband Mark
Rutland, Iestyn Davies
as his brother Terry, Janis
Kelly as Mrs. Rutland, and acclaimed mezzo-soprano
Denyce Graves as Marnie's
mother. Robert Spano makes
his company debut conducting.
THE MAGIC FLUTE (Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart) –
Revival
Encore: Saturday, December 1, 2018 –
12:55 p.m. local time
Julie Taymor's dazzling
production returns to select cinemas this holiday season in an
encore presentation of the company's first-ever Live in HD
transmission. James Levine
conducts a winning ensemble including Matthew Polenzani, Nathan Gunn and René Pape in this
abridged, English-language version of Mozart's classic fable.
LA TRAVIATA (Giuseppe
Verdi) – New
Production
Saturday, December 15, 2018 –
12:55 p.m. ET/ 11:55 a.m. CT/ 10:55 a.m.
MT/ 9:55 a.m. PT
Encores:
Wednesday, December 19 – 1:00 and
6:30 p.m. local time
Met Music Director Yannick Nézet-Séguin conducts Verdi's
timeless tragedy La Traviata. Directed by Michael Mayer, this new production features
a dazzling 18th-century setting that changes with the seasons.
Diana Damrau is the doomed
heroine Violetta, opposite Juan Diego Flórez as her lover,
Alfredo, and Quinn Kelsey as
Alfredo's protective father, Giorgio
Germont.
ADRIANA LECOUVREUR (Francesco Cilea) – New Production / First
Time in HD
Saturday, January 12, 2019 –
12:55 p.m. ET/ 11:55 a.m. CT/ 10:55 a.m.
MT/ 9:55 a.m. PT
Encores:
Wednesday, January 16 – 1:00 and
6:30 p.m. local time
For the first time at the Met, Anna
Netrebko sings the title role of Adriana
Lecouvreur, the great 18th-century actress in love with the
military hero Maurizio, sung by Piotr
Beczała. Gianandrea
Noseda conducts Cilea's tragedy, directed by Sir
David McVicar, with the action
partially set in a working replica of a Baroque theater. The
cast also features Anita Rachvelishvili as the Princess of
Bouillon, Adriana's rival for Maurizio's affections;
Ambrogio Maestri as
Michonnet, Adriana's faithful friend; and Carlo Bosi as the duplicitous Abbé.
CARMEN (Georges Bizet) –
Revival
Saturday, February 2, 2019 –
12:55 p.m. ET/ 11:55 a.m. CT/ 10:55 a.m.
MT/ 9:55 a.m. PT
Encores:
Wednesday, February 6 – 1:00 and
6:30 p.m. local time
Saturday, February 9 – 12:55 p.m. local time
Clémentine Margaine is opera's ultimate seductress,
opposite Roberto Alagna, who
captivated Live in HD audiences as Don José in 2010.
Louis Langrée conducts Sir Richard Eyre's lively production, a favorite
in the Met's repertoire.
LA FILLE DU RÉGIMENT (Gaetano Donizetti) –
Revival
Saturday, March 2, 2019 –
12:55 p.m. ET/ 11:55 a.m. CT/ 10:55 a.m.
MT/ 9:55 a.m. PT
Encores: Wednesday, March 6 – 1:00
and 6:30 p.m. local
time
Bel canto stars Pretty Yende and Javier Camarena team up for a feast of vocal
fireworks on the Met stage. Maurizio
Muraro is Sergeant Sulplice, with Stephanie Blythe as the outlandish Marquise
of Berkenfield. Enrique
Mazzola conducts.
DIE WALKÜRE (Richard
Wagner) – Revival
Saturday, March 30, 2019 –
12:00 p.m. ET/ 11:00 a.m. CT/ 10:00 a.m.
MT/ 9:00 a.m. PT
Encores:
Wednesday, April 3 – 12:30 p.m. and 6:30
p.m. local time
The second installment of Wagner's Ring cycle, Die
Walküre, stars heroic soprano Christine Goerke as the warrior goddess
Brünnhilde, whose encounter with the mortal twins Siegmund and
Sieglinde, sung by Stuart
Skelton and Eva-Maria
Westbroek, leads her on a journey from Valhalla to earthbound humanity.
Philippe Jordan conducts.
DIALOGUES DES CARMÉLITES (Francis Poulenc)
– Revival / First Time in HD
Saturday, May 11, 2019 – 12:00 p.m. ET/ 11:00 a.m.
CT/ 10:00 a.m. MT/ 9:00 a.m.
PT
Encores: Wednesday, May 15 – 1:00 and 6:30 p.m. local time
Met Music Director Yannick Nézet-Séguin leads an
accomplished ensemble in Poulenc's devastating modern masterpiece
of faith and martyrdom. Isabel
Leonard is the young Blanche de
La Force, opposite Met legend Karita Mattila as the First Prioress.
For artwork/photos related to The Met: Live in
HD 2018–-19 season, visit the Fathom Events press
site.
About Fathom Events
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cinema distributor with theater locations in all top 100 DMAs®
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events to 941 locations and 1,496 screens in 181 DMAs. The company
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About The Met: Live in HD
The Met: Live in
HD series, which now reaches more than 2,200 theaters in more
than 70 countries, makes the Met the world's leading provider of
alternative cinema content and the only arts institution with an
ongoing global series of this scale. When the series launched in
2006, the Met was the first arts company to experiment with
alternative cinema content. Since then, the program has grown every
season, with more than 25 million tickets sold to date.
The Met: Live in HD series has increased accessibility to
Met performances for audiences around the world. With a global
average ticket price of $23, the
series has made world-class performances accessible to millions of
opera lovers each season.
The Met: Live in HD series is made possible by a
generous grant from its founding sponsor, The Neubauer Family
Foundation. Digital support of The Met: Live in HD is
provided by Bloomberg Philanthropies. The Met: Live in
HD series is supported by Rolex. The HD Broadcasts are
supported by Toll Brothers, America's luxury home
builder®.
For more information about Live in HD, visit
www.metopera.org/HD.
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