Metropolitan Opera
ArtSpring continues their successful presentations of live broadcasts of Metropolitan Opera performances for the 2010-2011 season.
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Normally the operas start at 10:00am, but there is some variation, so please check your tickets at the time you buy them. We will again be offering good refreshments and light lunches during the intermissions.
October 9, 2010 – DAS RHEINGOLD (Wagner) – New Production
James Levine; Wendy Bryn Harmer, Stephanie Blythe, Patricia Bardon, Richard Croft,, Gerhard Siegel, Bryn Terfel, Eric Owens, Franz-Josef Selig, Hans-Peter König Robert Lepage (Production); Carl Fillion (Set Designer); François St-Aubin (Costume Designer); Étienne Boucher (Lighting Designer); Holger Förterer (Interactive Projection Artist); /Boris Firquet (Video Image Artist)
October 23 – BORIS GODUNOV (Mussorgsky) – New Production
Valery Gergiev; Ekaterina Semenchuk, Aleksandrs Antonenko, Oleg Balashov, Evgeny Nikitin, René Pape, Mikhail Petrenko, Vladimir Ognovenko
Peter Stein (Production); Ferdinand Wögerbauer (Set Designer); Moidele Bickel (Costume Designer); Duane Schuler (Lighting Designer); Apostolia Tsolaki (Choreographer)
November 13 – DON PASQUALE (Donizetti)
James Levine; Anna Netrebko, Matthew Polenzani, Mariusz Kwiecien, John Del Carlo
January 8, 2011 – LA FANCIULLA DEL WEST (Puccini)
Nicola Luisotti; Deborah Voigt, Marcello Giordani, Juha Uusitalo
January 22 – DON CARLO (Verdi) – New Production
Yannick Nézet-Séguin; Marina Poplavskaya, Anna Smirnova, Roberto Alagna, Simon Keenlyside, Ferruccio Furlanetto, Eric Halfvarson, Nicholas Hytner (Production); Bob Crowley (Set & Costume Designer); Mark Henderson (Lighting Designer)
February 26 – IPHIGÉNIE EN TAURIDE (Gluck)
Patrick Summers; Susan Graham, Plácido Domingo, Paul Groves, Gordon Hawkins
March 19 – LUCIA DI LAMMERMOOR (Donizetti)
Patrick Summers; Natalie Dessay, Joseph Calleja, Ludovic Tézier, Kwangchul Youn
April 9 – LE COMTE ORY (Rossini) – New Production
Maurizio Benini; Diana Damrau, Joyce DiDonato, Susanne Resmark, Juan Diego Flórez, Stéphane Degout, Michele Pertusi, Bartlett Sher (Production); Michael Yeargan (Set Designer); Catherine Zuber (Costume Designer);Brian MacDevitt (Lighting Designer)
April 23 – CAPRICCIO (R. Strauss)
Andrew Davis; Renée Fleming, Sarah Connolly, Joseph Kaiser, Russell Braun, Morten Frank Larsen, Peter Rose
April 30 – IL TROVATORE (Verdi)
James Levine; Sondra Radvanovsky, Dolora Zajick, Marcelo Álvarez, Dmitri Hvorostovsky, Stefan Kocán
May 14 – DIE WALKÜRE (Wagner) – New Production
James Levine; Deborah Voigt, Eva-Maria Westbroek, Stephanie Blythe, Jonas Kaufmann, Bryn Terfel, Hans-Peter König, Robert Lepage (Production); Carl Fillion (Set Designer); François St-Aubin (Costume Designer); Étienne Boucher (Lighting Designer); Holger Förterer (Interactive Projection Artist); Boris Firquet (Video Image Artist)
Note: All casting subject to change
Tickets for the new season of the Metropolitan Opera broadcasts go on sale on Friday, September 10. (This date is prescribed for us by the Met). Ticket prices will remain unchanged at $21.95 adult, $18.95 senior and $12.95 youth, with reserved seating.
Contact the ArtSpring Ticket Centre for details (250-537-2102).