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  • Met Opera: PARSIFAL

    Wagner’s PARSIFAL

    Encore: Sun., April 7, 2013 at 1 p.m.

    Approx. Runtime: 5:40

    Director François Girard’s timeless new vision for Wagner’s final masterpiece explores the many facets of this mystical score, while designer Michael Levine (Eugene Onegin) creates a surreal landscape. Jonas Kaufmann stars in the title role of the innocent who finds wisdom. 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.

    Production a gift of the Gramma Fisher Foundation, Marshalltown, Iowa. Major funding from Rolex. Additional funding from Marina Kellen French and the Edgar Foster Daniels Foundation. A co-production of the Metropolitan Opera, the Opéra National de Lyon, and the Canadian Opera Company

  • Met Opera: FRANCESCA DA RIMINI (Broadcast in HD)

    Zandonai’s FRANCESCA DA RIMINI

     Approx. Runtime: 3:57

    Encore: Sun., April 14, 2013 at 12 p.m.

    Zandonai’s compelling opera, inspired by an episode from 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.

    Broadcast in HD 

  • Met Opera: LES TROYENS (Encore)

    Berlioz’s LES TROYENS ENCORE

    Approx. Runtime: 5:41

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

  • Met Opera: PARSIFAL (Encore)

    Wagner’s PARSIFAL ENCORE

     Approx. Runtime: 5:40

    Director François Girard’s timeless new vision for Wagner’s final masterpiece explores the many facets of this mystical score, while designer Michael Levine (Eugene Onegin) creates a surreal landscape. Jonas Kaufmann stars in the title role of the innocent who finds wisdom. 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.

    Production a gift of the Gramma Fisher Foundation, Marshalltown, Iowa. Major funding from Rolex. Additional funding from Marina Kellen French and the Edgar Foster Daniels Foundation. A co-production of the Metropolitan Opera, the Opéra National de Lyon, and the Canadian Opera Company

  • Met Opera: FRANCESCA DA RIMINI (Encore) (Broadcast in HD)

    Zandonai’s FRANCESCA DA RIMINI ENCORE

    Approx. Runtime: 3:57

    Zandonai’s compelling opera, inspired by an episode from 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.

    Broadcast in HD 

  • Met Opera: RIGOLETTO (Encore)

    Verdi’s RIGOLETTO ENCORE

     Approx. Runtime: 3:31

    Director Michael Mayer has placed his new production of Verdi’s towering tragedy in Las Vegas in 1960—an ideal setting for this eternal conflict of depravity and innocence. In this production, inspired by the antics of the Rat Pack, Piotr Beczala is the womanizing Duke of Mantua, with Željko Lucic as his tragic sidekick, Rigoletto. Diana Damrau is Rigoletto’s daughter—and their victim. Michele Mariotti conducts.

    Production a gift of the Hermione Foundation, Laura Sloate, Trustee; and Mr. and Mrs. Paul M. Montrone. Additional funding from Marina Kellen French.

  • Met Opera: GIULIO CESARE

    Handel’s GIULIO CESARE

    Encore: Sat. May 11, 2013 at 12:55 p.m.

    Approx. Runtime: 4:31

    The opera that conquered London in Handel’s time comes to the Met in David McVicar’s inventive production—which triumphed at its Glyndebourne premiere in 2005. The Guardian praised McVicar’s “witty, sexy, and tragic post-colonial framing of Handel’s Caesar and Cleopatra tale,” which incorporates elements of Baroque theater and 19th-century British imperialism to illuminate the opera’s ideas of love, war, and empire 
building. The world’s leading countertenor, David Daniels, sings the title role opposite Natalie Dessay as an irresistibly exotic Cleopatra. Baroque specialist Harry Bicket conducts.

    Production a gift of the Arthur F. and Alice E. Adams Charitable Foundation, in memory of 
William B. Warren, former Co-Trustee and Governor of the Adams Foundation

    Production owned by Glyndebourne Festival Opera

  • Met Opera: CARMEN (Encore) (Broadcast in HD)

    Bizet’s Carmen

    Summer Encore Series

    Approx. Run Time: 3 hours

    Broadcast in HD 

    Original transmission date: Saturday, January 16, 2010

    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

  • Met Opera: ARMIDA (Encore)

    Rossini’s Armida

    Summer Encore Series

    Approx. Run Time: 3 hours

    Original transmission date: Saturday, May 1, 2010

    This mythical story of a sorceress who enthralls men in her island prison has inspired operatic settings by a multitude of composers, including Gluck, Haydn, and Dvořák. Renée Fleming stars in the title role of Rossini’s version, opposite no fewer than five tenors. Director Mary Zimmerman describes the work as “a buried treasure, a box of jewels.” Armida is a fanciful and magical tale with “an epic, enchanted quality and a tremendous visual element.”

    Conductor: Riccardo Frizza; Production: Mary Zimmerman; Renée Fleming, Lawrence Brownlee, Bruce Ford, Barry Banks, Kobie van Rensburg

  • Met Opera: EUGENE ONEGIN Encore (Broadcast in HD)

    EUGENE ONEGIN (Tchaikovsky) New Production 

    Encore: Sun. October 20 at 1:00 p.m.

    Run Time: 4:04

    Anna Netrebko and Mariusz Kwiecien star as the lovestruck Tatiana and the imperious Onegin in Tchaikovsky’s fateful romance. Deborah Warner’s new production, set in the late 19th century, moves episodically from farmhouse to ballroom, with a powerful snowstorm providing the dramatic setting for the finale. Piotr Beczala is Lenski, Onegin’s friend turned rival. Russian maestro Valery Gergiev conducts

    Broadcast in HD 

    Eugene Onegin is a co-production of the Metropolitan Opera and English National Opera.