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2009-10 Met Opera - Live in HD! All shows are currently sold out. Please check back as tickets may become available again. Tickets also may become available to the standby line immediately prior to each event. Please note: advance tickets may still be available through The Film Society Patron Program. To schedule your Patron tickets or to learn more about becoming a Patron, please contact Rob Mooney, Patron Programs Coordinator, at 212-875-5668 or via email at rmooney@filmlinc.com. The Metropolitan Opera’s Peabody and Emmy Award-winning series The Met: Live in HD continues for its fourth season. All live simulcast performances begin at 1 pm ET. Don’t miss the chance to experience the Met live from the stage of the Metropolitan Opera House at the Walter Reade Theater ~ specially equipped with high definition screens and surround sound! A special presentation by the Film Society of Lincoln Center in collaboration with the Metropolitan Opera. The Met: Live in HD series is made possible by a generous grant from the Neubauer Family Foundation. Please note: Programs and casting subject to change. Running times are approximate. Tosca - Giacomo Puccini Saturday, October 17, 2009 at 2pm ~ rebroadcast* “Tosca combines Puccini’s glorious musical inspiration with the melodramatic vitality of one of the great Hitchcock films,” says Met Music Director James Levine, who conducts this new production. The opera tells the story of three people—a famous opera singer, a free-thinking painter, and a sadistic chief of police—caught in a net of love and politics. Soprano Karita Mattila, recently seen in this season’s Live in HD presentation of Salome, sings the title role for the first time outside her native Finland. Luc Bondy, acclaimed for his imaginative theater and opera productions, directs. The cast also includes Marcelo Álvarez as Cavaradossi and George Gagnidze as Scarpia. Conductor: James Levine; Production: Luc Bondy; Karita Mattila, Marcelo Álvarez, Juha Uusitalo, Paul Plishka Approximate running time 3 hours 30 minutes / 2 intermissions *Rebroadcast of the 1pm performance on Saturday, October 10, 2009. Aida – Giuseppe Verdi Saturday, October 24 at 1pm Set in ancient Egypt, Aida is both a heartbreaking love story and an epic drama full of spectacular crowd scenes. A cast of powerful voices and a grand production bring the story to life on the Met stage (and on the HD screen). Violeta Urmana stars in the title role of the enslaved Ethiopian princess, with Dolora Zajick as her rival. Johan Botha plays Radamès, commander of the Egyptian army, and Daniele Gatti conducts. Among the score’s highlights is the celebrated Triumphal March. Conductor: Daniele Gatti; Production: Sonja Frisell; Violeta Urmana, Dolora Zajick, Johan Botha, Carlo Guelfi, Roberto Scandiuzzi, Stefan Kocán Approximate running time 4 hours / 2 intermissions Turandot – Giacomo Puccini Saturday, November 7, 2009 at 1pm 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 Approximate running time 3 hours 30 minutes / 2 intermissions Les Contes d’Hoffmann – Jacques Offenbach Saturday, December 19, 2009 at 1pm Tony Award winner Bartlett Sher (South Pacific) directs this new production, returning after the triumph of his Met Barber of Seville (seen live in HD in the 2006–07 season). Offenbach’s fictionalized take on the life and loves of the German Romantic writer E.T.A. Hoffmann is a fascinating psychological journey. Met Music Director James Levine conducts Joseph Calleja in the tour-de-force title role. Anna Netrebko is the tragic Antonia and Alan Held sings the demonic four villains. Conductor:James Levine; Production: Bartlett Sher; Kathleen Kim, Anna Netrebko, Ekaterina Gubanova, Kate Lindsey, Joseph Calleja, Alan Held Approximate running time 3 hours / 2 intermissions Der Rosenkavalier – Richard Strauss Saturday, January 9, 2010 at 1pm Strauss’s comic masterpiece of love and intrigue in 18th-century Vienna stars Renée Fleming as the aristocratic Marschallin and Susan Graham in the trouser role of her young lover. Music Director James Levine conducts a cast that also includes Kristinn Sigmundsson and Thomas Allen. Conductor: James Levine; Production: Nathaniel Merrill; Renée Fleming, Susan Graham, Christine Schäfer, Eric Cutler, Thomas Allen, Kristinn Sigmundsson Approximate running time 3 hours / 2 intermissions Carmen – Georges Bizet Saturday, January 16, 2010 at 1pm One of the most popular operas of all time, Carmen "is about sex, violence, and racism—and its corollary: freedom," says Olivier Award-winning director Richard Eyre about his new production of 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." Elīna Garanča sings the seductive gypsy of the title for the first time at the Met, opposite Roberto Alagna as the obsessed Don José. Conductor: Yannick Nézet-Séguin; Production: Richard Eyre; Barbara Frittoli, Elīna Garanča, Roberto Alagna, Mariusz Kwiecien Approximate running time 4 hours / 2 intermissions Simon Boccanegra – Giuseppe Verdi Sunday, February 7, 2010 at 1pm ~ rebroadcast* Four decades into a legendary Met career, tenor Plácido Domingo makes history singing the title role in Verdi’s gripping political thriller, which is written for a baritone. Adrianne Pieczonka, Marcello Giordani, and James Morris are his co-stars in this moving and tragic story of a father and his lost daughter. James Levine conducts. Conductor: James Levine; Production: Giancarlo del Monaco; Adrianne Pieczonka, Marcello Giordani, Plácido Domingo, James Morris Approximate running time 3 hours 40 minutes / 2 intermissions *Rebroadcast of the 1pm Saturday, February 6, 2010 performance. Hamlet – Ambroise Thomas Monday, April 5 at 7pm ~ rebroadcast* The works of Shakespeare have inspired more operatic adaptations than any other writer’s. Simon Keenlyside and Natalie Dessay bring their extraordinary acting and singing skills to two of the Bard’s most unforgettable characters in this new production of Ambroise Thomas’s Hamlet. For the role of Ophelia, the French composer created an extended mad scene that is among the greatest in opera. Conductor: Louis Langrée; Production: Patrice Caurier/Moshe Leiser; Natalie Dessay, Jennifer Larmore, Toby Spence, Simon Keenlyside, James Morris Approximate running time 3 hours 45 minutes / 1 intermission *Rebroadcast of 1pm Saturday, March 27, 2010. Armida – Gioachino Rossini Saturday, May 1, 2010 at 1pm 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 Dvorˇák. Renée Fleming stars in the title role of Rossini’s version, opposite no fewer than six tenors. Tony Award winner Mary Zimmerman returns to direct this new production of a work she describes as “a buried treasure, a box of jewels.” The fanciful and magical tale, Zimmerman says, “has an epic, enchanted quality and a tremendous visual element.” Conductor: Riccardo Frizza; Production: Mary Zimmerman; Renée Fleming, Lawrence Brownlee, Bruce Ford, José Manuel Zapata, Barry Banks, Kobie van Rensburg Approximate running time 4 hours 20 minutes / 2 intermissions. Back to Top