The Metropolitan Opera’s award-winning series of live, high-definition performance transmissions to movie theaters continues to
captivate audiences around the world. The fourth season of The Met: Live in HD, which
begins October 10, 2009, will feature nine of the most popular operas ever composed. Download the season brochure here.
Presented in collaboration with Opera Omaha.
All live Saturday broadcasts begin at 12pm, with a prelude talk by Opera Omaha at 11am (see schedule below for speakers). Encore presentations begin at 6pm the following Wednesday. Tickets for all broadcasts within the upcoming 2009-10 season are on sale now: $24 general, and $20 for Film Streams Members, Opera Omaha Subscribers, and Met Members. |
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Films In This Series
Armida (Live)
Armida (Encore)
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Live: Saturday, May 1 (12pm; prelude talk at 11am)
This story of a sorceress who enthralls men in her island prison has inspired operatic settings by a multitude of composers, including Gluck, Haydn, and Dvor¡ák. 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.”
A prelude talk with Opera Omaha General Director John Wehrle will begin at 11am on the day of the live broadcast (Saturday, May 1).
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Encore: Wednesday, May 5 (6pm)
This story of a sorceress who enthralls men in her island prison has inspired operatic settings by a multitude of composers, including Gluck, Haydn, and Dvor¡ák. 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.” |
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