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The Met: Live In HD In Local Theaters

Saturday, 10/15/11 12:55pm

The Metropolitan Opera's Peabody and Emmy Award-winning series The Met: Live in HD continues for its sixth season, featuring 11 live transmissions. Don't miss the chance to experience the Met live at these local theaters!

Use the links below to find out more information for each regular and encore broadcast.

Photo: Ken Howard/Metropolitan Opera (c) 2006
Renée Fleming reprised the title role of Handel's "Rodelinda" this season.

Hanover, NH

St. Johnsbury, VT

Brattleboro, VT

South Burlington, VT

Middlebury, VT

 

The Metropolitan Opera Live HD Schedule for 2011/2012

 

October 15, 2011, 12:55 pm ET - Donizetti's Anna Bolena - New Production

Anna Netrebko opens the Met season with her portrayal of the ill-fated queen driven insane by her unfaithful king. She sings one of opera's greatest mad scenes in this Met premiere production by David McVicar. Ekaterina Gubanova is her rival, Jane Seymour, Ildar Abdrazakov sings Henry VIII, and Marco Armiliato conducts.

Photo: Ken Howard/Metropolitan Opera




 

October 29, 2011, 12:55 pm ET - Mozart's Don Giovanni - New Production

Mariusz Kwiecien brings his youthful and sensual interpretation of Mozart's timeless anti-hero to the Met for the first time, under the direction of Tony Award®-winning director Michael Grandage and with Fabio Luisi conducting. Also starring Marina Rebeka, Barbara Frittoli, Ramón Vargas, and Luca Pisaroni.

Photo: Nick Heavican/Metropolitan Opera



 

November 5, 2011, 12 pm - Wagner's Siegfried- New Production

In part three of the Ring, Wagner's cosmic vision focuses on his hero's early conquests, while Robert Lepage's revolutionary stage machine transforms itself from bewitched forest to mountaintop love nest. Jay Hunter Morris sings the title role and Deborah Voigt's Brünnhilde is his prize. Bryn Terfel is the Wanderer. Fabio Luisi conducts.

Photo: Ken Howard/Metropolitan Opera


 

November 19, 2011, 12:55 pm ET - Glass's Satyagraha

The Met's visually extravagant production is back for an encore engagement. Richard Croft (left) once again is Gandhi in Philip Glass's unforgettable opera, which the Washington Post calls "a profound and beautiful work of theater."

Photo: Ken Howard/Metropolitan Opera





December 3, 2001, 12:30 pm ET - Handel's Rodelinda

Sensational in the 2004 Met premiere of Stephen Wadsworth's much-heralded production, Renée Fleming reprises the title role. She's joined by Stephanie Blythe and countertenor Andreas Scholl, and Baroque specialist Harry Bicket conducts.

Photo: Ken Howard/Metropolitan Opera






December 10, 2011, 12:55 pm ET - Gounod's Faust- New Production

With Jonas Kaufmann in the title role, René Pape as the devil, and Marina Poplavskaya as Marguerite, Gounod's classic retelling of the Faust legend couldn't be better served. Tony Award-winning director Des McAnuff updates the story to the first half of the 20th century with a production that won praise in London last season. Yannick Nézet-Séguin conducts on the heels of his Don Carlo success.

Photo: Nick Heavican/Metropolitan Opera



January 21, 2012, 12:55 pm ET - The Enchanted Island - New Production

In The Enchanted Island, the lovers from Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream are shipwrecked on his other-worldly island of The Tempest. Inspired by the musical pastiches and masques of the 18th century, the work showcases arias and ensembles by Handel, Vivaldi, Rameau, and others, and a new libretto devised and written by Jeremy Sams. Eminent conductor William Christie leads an all-star cast with David Daniels (Prospero) and Joyce DiDonato (Sycorax) as the formidable foes, Plácido Domingo as Neptune, Danielle de Niese as Ariel, and Luca Pisaroni as Caliban. Lisette Oropesa and Anthony Roth Costanzo play Miranda and Ferdinand. The dazzling production is directed and designed by Phelim McDermott and Julian Crouch. Photo: Nick Heavican/Met.


February 11, 2012, 12 pm ET - Wagner's Götterdämmerung - New Production

With its cataclysmic climax, the Met's new Ring cycle, directed by Robert Lepage, comes to its resolution. Deborah Voigt stars as Brünnhilde and Gary Lehman is Siegfried-the star-crossed lovers doomed by fate. Fabio Luisi conducts.

 Photo: Brigitte Lacombe/Metropolitan Opera




February 25, 2012, 12:55 pm ET - Verdi's Ernani

Angela Meade takes center stage in Verdi's thrilling early gem. Marcello Giordani is her mismatched lover, and all-star Verdians Dmitri Hvorostovsky and Ferruccio Furlanetto round out the cast.

Photo: Marty Sohl/Metropolitan Opera





April 7, 2012, 12 pm ET - Massenet's Manon- New Production

Anna Netrebko's dazzling portrayal of the tragic heroine in Laurent Pelly's new production travels to the Met from the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden. Piotr Beczala and Paulo Szot also star, with the Met's Principal Guest Conductor Fabio Luisi on the podium.

Photo: Bill Cooper/Metropolitan Opera




April 14, 2012, 12:55 pm ET - Verdi's La Traviata

Natalie Dessay will put on the red dress in Willy Decker's stunning production, in her first Violetta at the Met. Matthew Polenzani sings Alfredo, Dmitri Hvorostovsky is Germont, and Principal Guest Conductor Fabio Luisi is on the podium.

Photo: Ken Howard/Metropolitan Opera