LIVE IN HD PROGRAM GUIDE 2016–17 SEASON AT CINEPLEX THEATRES
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4 A Note from the General Manager
6 Celebrating 50 Years at Lincoln Center
8 Season at a Glance
11 Don Giovanni
12 L’Amour de Loin
13 Nabucco
14 Roméo et Juliette
15 Rusalka
16 La Traviata
17 Idomeneo
19 Der Rosenkavalier
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On the cover: Diana Damrau and Vittorio Grigolo in Roméo et Juliette, photographed by Kristian Schuller Opposite page: Der Rosenkavalier’s Renée Fleming, photographed by Kristian Schuller
THE METROPOLITIAN OPERA | LIVE IN HD PROGRAM GUIDE 2016-17 | 3 A Note from the General Manager Peter Gelb with Tristan director Mariusz Treliński
Although it was certainly our fervent wish, Millions of listeners, both aficionados and The Metropolitan Opera: few would have imagined that our experiment newcomers, will be tuning in from Montana Live in HD Program Guide of transmitting the Met live into movie to Moscow. Editorial content created theaters would grow over ten years into the by the Metropolitan Opera. biggest global event in high art. It began on We are grateful to the Neubauer Family Reformatted for the Canadian a relatively modest scale with our transmission Foundation, the Live in HD series’ founding market by Cineplex Media. of The Magic Flute into 60 movie theaters sponsor, for its pioneering support of the in four countries in December 2006. Now, cinema transmissions, as we are to our The Met: Live in HD audiences in more than 2,000 theaters in global sponsor, Bloomberg Philanthropies, series is made possible 70 countries and on every continent, except and to Jacqueline Desmarais for her support by a generous grant from Antarctica, are watching. of the HD series in Canada, in memory of its founding sponsor, her husband, Paul G. Desmarais Sr. The Neubauer Family This season begins with the milestone of our Foundation 100th movie-theater transmission—our new And I join opera lovers throughout the production of Wagner’s Tristan und Isolde, world in offering appreciation and thanks to Global sponsorship starring the incomparable Nina Stemme, who Toll Brothers, which returns as the sponsor of The Met: Live in HD is completing the back-to-back feat of singing of our Saturday radio broadcasts for the is also provided by the title roles in Elektra and Tristan, the 12th consecutive season. first Met artist to accomplish this since the
legendary Birgit Nilsson in 1971. Under the With the help of our sponsors, we are
baton of Sir Simon Rattle and also starring committed to making grand opera available Transmission of the accomplished tenor Stuart Skelton as now and in the future. The Met: Live in HD in Tristan, this should be an epic event befitting Canada is made possible the occasion. thanks to the generosity of Jacqueline Desmarais, Of course, the success of Live in HD would in memory of never have been possible without the Met’s Peter Gelb Paul G. Desmarais Sr. Saturday matinee radio broadcasts, which General Manager have been the cornerstone of the company’s efforts to make opera more widely accessible for more than eight decades. The matinee radio season begins on December 3, with opera’s most popular soprano, Anna Netrebko,
singing the title role of Puccini’s Manon Lescaut Photo by Jonathan Tichler/ for the first time in her Met career. Metropolitan Opera
4 | LIVE IN HD PROGRAM GUIDE 2016-17 | THE METROPOLITIAN OPERA THE HUMAN VOICE IS THE MOST PERFECT INSTRUMENT OF ALL —ARVO PÄRT
Anna Netrebko / Verismo Elīna Garanča / Revive Music by Cilea, Giordano, Catalani and the Complete Act Revive celebrates of strength, honour, sacrifice, danger- IV from Puccini’s Manon Lescaut. ous passion—and obsession. Genuine showstoppers and captivating rarities. Music by Verdi, Cilea, Saint-Saëns. Verismo’s characters are all passionate. th Very passionate. Leoncavallo, Mascagni and more. Available November 4 . —Anna Netrebko
Mozart 225 Opera Gold Luciano Pavarotti The Complete Works of Mozart 6 CD Collection of the most beau- 2 CD set featuring a merry mix on 200 CDs. Includes 2 luxurious tiful and moving moments from of traditional and modern songs. books, 5 frameable prints and opera sung by Bartoli, Fleming, Available November 4th. much more. Limited Edition avail- Calleja, Kaufmann Pavarotti and able at select HMV locations. many more.
THE METROPOLITIAN OPERA | LIVE IN HD PROGRAM GUIDE 2016-17 | 5 The Met under construction, circa 1964.
CELEBRATING FIFTY YEARS AT LINCOLN CENTER On September 16, 1966, the Metropolitan Opera opened its doors for the first time in a new home in Lincoln Center, with the world premiere of Samuel Barber’s Antony and Cleopatra, starring Leontyne Price and Justino Díaz. The New York Times declared the opening of the new opera house a “crescendo of splendor,” and a new era of theatrical possibility was born. Fifty years later, the Met celebrates its golden anniversary in its current home with a special gala celebration featuring some of the greatest artists in opera, performing a mix of repertory that both looks back at unforgettable moments from the past five decades and ahead to future seasons. A documentary film about the building of the new opera house is also underway, as is a CD box set of radio broadcasts from that first season—including a never-before-released performance of the season-opener, Antony and Cleopatra. The Inaugural Season: Extraordinary Met Performances from 1966–67 features legends like Grace Bumbry, Mirella Freni, Christa Ludwig, Birgit Nilsson, Leonie Rysanek, Joan Sutherland, Carlo Bergonzi, Franco Corelli, Nicolai Gedda, Richard Tucker, and Jon Vickers, among other greats, in a mix of repertoire, including Die Frau ohne Schatten, Leontyne Price opened the new Met as the Peter Grimes, Lucia di Lammermoor, and others. Visit title heroine of Barber’s Antony and Cleopatra. metoperashop.org this fall to order this milestone set.
6 | LIVE IN HD PROGRAM GUIDE 2016-17 | THE METROPOLITIAN OPERA Clockwise from top: The opening of the house was front-page news in the New York Times; Marc Chagall designed a new production of Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte for the 1966–67 season; Anna Moffo starred as Violetta in Verdi’s La Traviata.
Photos, facing page: Met under construction from Metropolitan Archives, Leontyne Price by Louis Mélançon/Metropolitan Archives. This page: The New York Times © 1966 Jack Manning, reprinted with permission, Anna Moffo and Die Zauberlöte by Frank Dunand/Metropolitan Opera Archives
THE METROPOLITIAN OPERA | LIVE IN HD PROGRAM GUIDE 2016-17 | 7 La Traviata
Idomeneo L’Amour de Loin
LIVE IN HD 2016–17 SEASON SCHEDULE AT A GLANCE
WAGNER MOZART SAARIAHO VERDI GOUNOD TRISTAN DON L’AMOUR NABUCCO ROMÉO ET UND ISOLDE GIOVANNI DE LOIN JULIETTE LIVE: LIVE: LIVE: LIVE: LIVE: OCTOBER 8, 2016 OCTOBER 22, 2016 DECEMBER 10, 2016 JANUARY 7, 2017 JANUARY 21, 2017 ENCORES: ENCORES: ENCORES: ENCORES: ENCORES: NOVEMBER 12, 14, 16, NOVEMBER 26, 28, 30, FEBRUARY 4, 6, 8, FEBRUARY 11, 13, 15, FEBRUARY 18, 27, 2016 2016 2017 2017 MARCH 1, 2017
8 | LIVE IN HD PROGRAM GUIDE 2016-17 | THE METROPOLITIAN OPERA Roméo et Juliette
Eugene Onegin Nabucco
Photos: Idomeneo and Nabucco by Marty Sohl, La Traviata and Eugene Onegin by Ken Howard, L’Amour de Loin and Roméo et Juliette by Kristian Schuller
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DVORˇ ÁK VERDI MOZART TCHAIKOVSKY R. STRAUSS RUSALKA LA TRAVIATA IDOMENEO EUGENE DER ONEGIN ROSENKAVALIER LIVE: LIVE: LIVE: LIVE: LIVE: FEBRUARY 25, 2017 MARCH 11, 2017 MARCH 25, 2017 APRIL 22, 2017 MAY 13, 2017 ENCORES: ENCORES: ENCORES: ENCORES: ENCORES: APRIL 8, 10, 12, APRIL 15, 17, 19, MAY 6, 8, 10, JUNE 3, 5, 7, JUNE 17, 19, 21, 2017 2017 2017 2017 2017
THE METROPOLITIAN OPERA | LIVE IN HD PROGRAM GUIDE 2016-17 | 9 LIVE IN HD OCT 8 12PM ET
ENCORE BROADCASTS NOV 12 12PM ET & AT* NOV 14 6PM LOCAL NOV 16 12:55PM LOCAL
CONDUCTOR Sir Simon Rattle
PRODUCTION Mariusz Treliński
SET DESIGNER Boris Kudlička
COSTUME DESIGNER Nina Stemme Marek Adamski
LIGHTING DESIGNER RICHARD WAGNER Marc Heinz PROJECTION DESIGNER Bartek Macias TRISTAN UND ISOLDE CHOREOGRAPHER NEW PRODUCTION Tomasz Wygoda
Reigning Wagnerian soprano Nina Stemme stars opposite tenor Stuart Skelton ISOLDE in the Met’s new production of Wagner’s intoxicating tale of love and death, Nina Stemme conducted by Sir Simon Rattle and featuring René Pape as King Marke. BRANGÄNE Ekaterina Gubanova ACT I A warship on the sea. Isolde is being INTERMISSION TRISTAN escorted by Tristan to Cornwall, whose ruler ACT III Tristan is lying in a coma with Kurwenal, (and Tristan’s foster father), Marke, she is to Stuart Skelton his aide, watching over him. As his life slips away, marry. She tells her companion, Brangäne, how KURWENAL he recalls traumatic events, including the death she once treated Tristan’s wounds after he killed Evgeny Nikitin of his parents. Kurwenal has summoned Isolde, her betrothed, Morold. Now humiliated by her and when her ship appears, the delirious Tristan KING MARKE captivity, she asks Brangäne to prepare poison tears off his bandages and dies in her arms. René Pape for her and Tristan to drink. Brangäne gives them Marke and Brangäne try to draw Isolde back to a love potion instead. As the ship sails into the the realm of day and life, but she expires in a LIVE IN HD DIRECTOR harbor, Tristan and Isolde confess their love. rapture of ecstatic love. Gary Halvorson INTERMISSION Production a gift of the Estates of Alan and Ruth Broder Approx. running time: 5h ACT II The lovers meet in secret while Marke Additional funding from Marina Kellen French and the *ET & AT – Saturday encores are is away. Tristan expresses his belief that love Gramma Fisher Foundation, Marshalltown, Iowa scheduled at 12PM Eastern Time can only find fulfillment at night. Faced with the Co-production of the Metropolitan Opera, Festival Hall for BC/AB/SK/MB/ON/QC and inevitability of their parting at daybreak, Tristan Baden-Baden, Teatr Wielki–Polish National Opera, and at 12PM Atlantic Time for NB/NL/NS/PE. and Isolde resolve to die. They are discovered by China National Centre for the Performing Arts (NCPA) Beijing Marke, who is devastated by Tristan’s disloyalty. Tristan implores Isolde to set off into the night with him. She agrees. Tristan stabs himself. Photo by Kristian Schuller/ Metropolitan Opera
10 | LIVE IN HD PROGRAM GUIDE 2016-17 | THE METROPOLITIAN OPERA LIVE IN HD OCT 22 12:55PM ET
ENCORE BROADCASTS NOV 26 12PM ET & AT* NOV 28 6:30PM LOCAL NOV 30 12:55PM LOCAL
CONDUCTOR Fabio Luisi
PRODUCTION Michael Grandage
SET AND COSTUME DESIGNER Christopher Oram
LIGHTING DESIGNER Paule Constable
CHOREOGRAPHER WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART Ben Wright
DONNA ANNA Hibla Gerzmava DON GIOVANNI DONNA ELVIRA Simon Keenlyside is opera’s ultimate seducer, leading a cast of extraordinary Malin Byström Mozart singers. Fabio Luisi conducts. ZERLINA Serena Malfi
ACT I Seville, mid-18th century. Escaping at INTERMISSION DON OTTAVIO night from the house of Donna Anna and her Paul Appleby ACT II Wearing Leporello’s clothes, Giovanni father, the Commendatore, the nobleman and serenades Elvira’s maid. Leporello, disguised DON GIOVANNI womanizer Don Giovanni kills the old man in a as his master, meets Anna, Ottavio, Zerlina, and Simon Keenlyside fight. Unaware of the killer’s identity, Anna asks Masetto. When they all turn on him he reveals his her fiancé, Don Ottavio, to avenge her father’s LEPORELLO identity and escapes. In a cemetery, Leporello death. Donna Elvira, one of Giovanni’s former Adam Plachetka and Giovanni come across the statue of the conquests who is still in love with him, has MASETTO Commendatore. Giovanni forces the terrified followed him to Seville. At the wedding of the Leporello to invite it to dinner. When the statue Matthew Rose peasants Zerlina and Masetto, Giovanni flirts actually appears at Giovanni’s house and THE COMMENDATORE with the bride. Anna recognizes Giovanni’s voice demands that he repent, Giovanni refuses. He is Kwangchul Youn as that of her father’s murderer and once more consumed by flames as the others contemplate asks Ottavio to avenge her. Giovanni invites the the fate of an immoral man. LIVE IN HD DIRECTOR wedding party to his palace and unsuccessfully Matthew Diamond tries to seduce Zerlina, then blames the deed on Production a gift of the Richard and Susan Braddock Family Foundation, and Sarah and Howard Solomon his servant Leporello. Anna, Elvira, and Ottavio, Approx. running time: 3h 30min. who have gained access to the house wearing Additional funding from Jane and Jerry del Missier, and Mr. and Mrs. Ezra K. Zilkha *ET & AT – Saturday encores are masks, confront Giovanni, who makes his escape. scheduled at 12PM Eastern Time Revival a gift of Rolex for BC/AB/SK/MB/ON/QC and at 12PM Atlantic Time for NB/NL/NS/PE.
Photo by Marty Sohl/ Metropolitan Opera
THE METROPOLITIAN OPERA | LIVE IN HD PROGRAM GUIDE 2016-17 | 11 LIVE IN HD DEC 10 12:55PM ET
ENCORE BROADCASTS FEB 4 12PM ET & AT* FEB 6 6:30PM LOCAL FEB 8 12:55PM LOCAL
CONDUCTOR Susanna Mälkki
PRODUCTION Robert Lepage
ASSISTANT DIRECTOR Sybille Wilson
SET AND COSTUME Susanna Phillips and Eric Owens DESIGNER Michael Curry
LIGHTING DESIGNER KAIJA SAARIAHO Kevin Adams
LIGHTSCAPE IMAGE DESIGNER L ’AMOUR DE LOIN Lionel Arnould LIBRETTO BY AMIN MAALOUF SOUND DESIGNER METROPOLITAN OPERA PREMIERE Mark Grey Kaija Saariaho’s bewitching 2000 opera has its highly anticipated Met premiere CLÉMENCE in a glimmering new production starring Susanna Phillips and Eric Owens and Susanna Phillips conducted by Susanna Mälkki. THE PILGRIM Tamara Mumford ACT I Aquitaine, 12th century. Jaufré Rudel, is impatient to find his “love from afar,” but also Prince of Blaye, yearns for a distant love but is dreads their meeting. His anguish is such that he JAUFRÉ RUDEL convinced he will never find it. A Pilgrim from falls ill and arrives in Tripoli dying. Eric Owens overseas asserts that the woman he seeks does ACT V Jaufré is carried before Clémence exist. Jaufré can no longer think of anything LIVE IN HD DIRECTOR unconscious, but in her presence revives little by but her. Gary Halvorson little. The two lovers throw caution to the winds ACT II Back in the East, the Pilgrim meets the and declare their passion. When Jaufré dies in Approx. running time: 2h 50 min. Countess of Tripoli and tells her that a prince- her arms, Clémence rails against Heaven, then *ET & AT – Saturday encores are troubadour celebrates her in his songs as his blames herself and decides to enter a convent. scheduled at 12PM Eastern Time “love from afar.” Offended at first, she later Her last words are ambiguous and we do not for BC/AB/SK/MB/ON/QC and begins to dream of this strange and distant lover. know to whom she prays—her distant God, or at 12PM Atlantic Time for NB/NL/NS/PE. her “love from afar.” ACT III When the Pilgrim tells Jaufré that the lady
now knows of him, Jaufré resolves to visit her in Production a gift of the Francis Goelet Trusts person. Clémence, for her part, seems to prefer Additional funding from The H.M. Agnes Hsu-Tang, PhD. that their relationship remain distant. and Oscar Tang Endowment Fund Co-production of the Metropolitan Opera and INTERMISSION L’Opéra de Québec ACT IV Having embarked across the sea, Jaufré Photo by Kristian Schuller/ In collaboration with Ex Machina Metropolitan Opera
12 | LIVE IN HD PROGRAM GUIDE 2016-17 | THE METROPOLITIAN OPERA LIVE IN HD JAN 7 12:55PM ET
ENCORE BROADCASTS FEB 11 12PM ET & AT* FEB 13 6:30PM LOCAL FEB 15 12:55PM LOCAL
CONDUCTOR James Levine
PRODUCTION Elijah Moshinsky
SET DESIGNER John Napier
COSTUME DESIGNER Plácido Domingo Andreane Neofitou
LIGHTING DESIGNER GIUSEPPE VERDI Howard Harrison
ABIGAILLE Liudmyla Monastyrska NABUCCO FENENA Plácido Domingo brings another baritone role to the Met as the biblical Babylonian Jamie Barton king, under the baton of his equally legendary collaborator, James Levine. ISMAELE Russell Thomas
PART I Jerusalem, 6th century B.C. The city is INTERMISSION NABUCCO under attack from Nabucco (Nebuchadnezzar), Plácido Domingo PART III Nabucco, in a state of half-madness, King of Babylon. His daughter Fenena, who is tricked by Abigaille into signing the death ZACCARIA is being held hostage by the Israelites, has warrant for the captive Israelites, including the Dmitry Belosselskiy fallen in love with Ismaele, nephew of the King newly converted Fenena. The Israelites, of Jerusalem. Fenena’s half-sister Abigaille meanwhile, dream of their lost homeland. LIVE IN HD DIRECTOR also loves Ismaele but is rejected by him. The Barbara Willis Sweete victorious Nabucco orders the destruction of the PART IV Nabucco prays to the God of Israel for
Israelites’ temple. forgiveness and pledges to convert himself and Approx. running time: 3h his people. His sanity restored, he summons PART II Back in Babylon, Abigaille, who has *ET & AT – Saturday encores are his soldiers and stops the Israelites’ execution found out that she is not the king’s daughter but scheduled at 12PM Eastern Time at the last moment. Abigaille takes poison and for BC/AB/SK/MB/ON/QC and the child of slaves, swears vengeance against Nabucco sets the prisoners free. Israelites and at 12PM Atlantic Time for Nabucco. The High Priest of Baal offers her the NB/NL/NS/PE. Babylonians are united in praise of God. throne and proposes to spread the rumor that
Nabucco has died. The Babylonians proclaim Production a gift of Bill Rollnick and Nancy Ellison Rollnick Abigaille ruler. As she is about to crown herself, Major funding from Mr. and Mrs. Ezra K. Zilkha, Nabucco appears and declares himself king and Mercedes and Sid Bass, and Mr. and Mrs. Paul M. Montrone god, for which a thunderbolt strikes him down. Additional funding from Gilbert S. Kahn and Abigaille is triumphant. John J. Noffo Kahn, The Eleanor Naylor Dana Charitable Trust, and the National Endowment for the Arts Revival a gift of the Estate of Francine Berry Photo by Ken Howard/ Metropolitan Opera
THE METROPOLITIAN OPERA | LIVE IN HD PROGRAM GUIDE 2016-17 | 13 LIVE IN HD JAN 21 12:55PM ET
ENCORE BROADCASTS FEB 18 12PM ET & AT* FEB 27 6:30PM LOCAL MAR 1 12:55PM LOCAL
CONDUCTOR Gianandrea Noseda
PRODUCTION Bartlett Sher
SET DESIGNER Michael Yeargan
COSTUME DESIGNER Diana Damrau and Vittorio Grigolo Catherine Zuber
LIGHTING DESIGNER CHARLES GOUNOD Jennifer Tipton CHOREOGRAPHER Chase Brock ROMÉO ET JULIETTE FIGHT DIRECTOR NEW PRODUCTION B.H. Barry
The electrifying pairing of Diana Damrau and Vittorio Grigolo reunites JULIETTE for the Met’s new production of Gounod’s lush Shakespearean romance. Diana Damrau Gianandrea Noseda conducts. STÉPHANO Virginie Verrez ACT I Verona, 18th century. A feud has been INTERMISSION ROMÉO raging for generations between the Capulets ACT IV After spending a secret wedding night Vittorio Grigolo and Montagues. Juliette, Capulet’s daughter, with Juliette, Roméo leaves Verona. When has been promised to Count Paris, but she is not MERCUTIO Capulet declares that Juliette is to marry Paris interested in marriage. At a masked ball at her Elliot Madore that same day, Frère Laurent gives her a potion to father’s house, she meets Roméo, a Montague, FRÈRE LAURENT make her appear dead. He promises she will wake and the two fall instantly in love. with Roméo beside her. On the way to the chapel, Mikhail Petrenko ACT II That night, Roméo comes to Juliette’s Juliette collapses. balcony, and they reassure each other of their LIVE IN HD DIRECTOR ACT V Roméo breaks into the Capulet’s crypt love. Gary Halvorson and, faced with Juliette’s seemingly dead body, ACT III Roméo meets Juliette at Frère Laurent’s takes poison. At that moment, Juliette awakens Approx. running time: 3h 20 min.
cell. Hoping their love might reconcile their and they share a final dream of happiness. Then *ET & AT – Saturday encores are families, he marries them. Later, a street fight she decides to follow him. The lovers die asking scheduled at 12PM Eastern Time breaks out. Roméo’s friend Mercutio is challenged God for forgiveness. for BC/AB/SK/MB/ON/QC and at 12PM Atlantic Time for by Tybalt, Juliette’s cousin. Roméo steps between NB/NL/NS/PE. them, but when Tybalt kills Mercutio, he stabs Production a gift of The Sybil B. Harrington Endowment Fund Tybalt to death in revenge. Roméo is exiled from A La Scala Production, initially presented by the the city. Salzburg Festival Photo by Kristian Schuller/ Metropolitan Opera
14 | LIVE IN HD PROGRAM GUIDE 2016-17 | THE METROPOLITIAN OPERA LIVE IN HD FEB 25 12:55PM ET
ENCORE BROADCASTS APR 8 12PM ET & AT* APR 10 6:30PM LOCAL APR 12 12:55PM LOCAL
CONDUCTOR Sir Mark Elder
PRODUCTION Mary Zimmerman
SET DESIGNER Daniel Ostling
COSTUME DESIGNER Kristine Opolais Mara Blumenfeld
LIGHTING DESIGNER ANTONÍN DVORˇ ÁK T.J. Gerckens CHOREOGRAPHER RUSALKA Austin McCormick RUSALKA NEW PRODUCTION Kristine Opolais Kristine Opolais returns to the role that helped launch her international career, FOREIGN PRINCESS in the Met’s new production of Dvořák’s lyrical fairy tale. Sir Mark Elder Katarina Dalayman conducts. JEZ˘ IBABA Jamie Barton ACT I The water nymph Rusalka, daughter of Princess, the Water Sprite warns him of the fate PRINCE the Water Sprite, has fallen in love with the that awaits him, then disappears with Rusalka. Brandon Jovanovich Prince and longs to become human. The witch INTERMISSION Ježibaba agrees to help her but warns Rusalka WATER SPRITE that she will lose her power of speech, and if ACT III Rusalka has returned to the forest. Eric Owens she doesn’t find love, she will be damned and Ježibaba tells her that to save herself she must the man she loves will die. Convinced that her kill the Prince, but she refuses. The Prince, full LIVE IN HD DIRECTOR feelings can overcome all spells, Rusalka drinks of remorse, comes looking for Rusalka. She Gary Halvorson Ježibaba’s potion. When the Prince finds her in explains that a kiss from her would now kill him. the forest, he is captivated by her beauty and Accepting his destiny, he asks her to give him Approx. running time: 3h 55 min. takes her to his castle. peace. Rusalka kisses the Prince, who dies in *ET & AT – Saturday encores are her arms. scheduled at 12PM Eastern Time INTERMISSION for BC/AB/SK/MB/ON/QC and at 12PM Atlantic Time for ACT II Preparations are under way for the Production a gift of the Betsy and Ed Cohen / NB/NL/NS/PE. Areté Foundation Prince and Rusalka’s wedding. She has not Additional funding from Mr. William R. Miller, spoken a word, but he remains determined to in memory of Irene D. Miller win her. A Foreign Princess, one of the wedding guests, mocks Rusalka, who is becoming increasingly intimidated by the human world. When the Prince confesses his love for the Photo by Kristian Schuller/ Metropolitan Opera
THE METROPOLITIAN OPERA | LIVE IN HD PROGRAM GUIDE 2016-17 | 15 LIVE IN HD MAR 11 12:55PM ET
ENCORE BROADCASTS APR 15 12PM ET & AT* APR 17 6:30PM LOCAL APR 19 12:55PM LOCAL
CONDUCTOR Nicola Luisotti
PRODUCTION Willy Decker
SET AND COSTUME DESIGNER Wolfgang Gussmann
Sonya Yoncheva LIGHTING DESIGNER Hans Toelstede
CHOREOGRAPHER GIUSEPPE VERDI Athol Farmer
VIOLETTA VALÉRY LA TRAVIATA Sonya Yoncheva ALFREDO GERMONT Sonya Yoncheva revisits one of opera’s most admired characters, opposite Michael Fabiano
Michael Fabiano as the man who loves her and Thomas Hampson as the stern GIORGIO GERMONT keeper of bourgeois morals. Verdi’s timeless score is conducted by Nicola Luisotti. Thomas Hampson
ACT I Violetta Valéry knows that she will has left him for another lover, follows her to Paris. LIVE IN HD DIRECTOR die soon, exhausted by her restless life as At a masked ball, Alfredo insults Violetta in front Matthew Diamond a courtesan. When she meets the young of the guests, hurling money at her as payment Alfredo Germont, she is touched by his honesty. for her favors. Germont, who has witnessed the Approx. running time: 2h 45 min. He declares his love, but she replies there is no scene, rebukes his son for his behavior. place for such feelings in her life. Alone, Violetta *ET & AT – Saturday encores are ACT III Violetta is dying. Alfredo, who has is torn by conflicting emotions—she doesn’t scheduled at 12PM Eastern Time learned the truth from his father, arrives, and for BC/AB/SK/MB/ON/QC and want to give up her way of life, but she feels their reunion brings back Violetta’s exuberant joy at 12PM Atlantic Time for that Alfredo has awakened her desire to be NB/NL/NS/PE. of life. All sorrow and suffering seem to have left truly loved. her—a final illusion, before death claims her. INTERMISSION Production a gift of Karen and Kevin Kennedy, and ACT II Alfredo and Violetta are happily living Mr. and Mrs. Paul M. Montrone together in the country. Alfredo’s father pays Revival a gift of Rolex, and Stanley and Dr. Marion Bergman an unexpected visit to Violetta, demanding & Family /Henry Schein, Inc. that she end her affair with his son: the scandal Original production of the Salzburger Festspiele; with of it has threatened Germont’s daughter’s thanks to the Dutch National Opera, Amsterdam engagement. Violetta says that she cannot but eventually gives in. She writes a farewell note to Alfredo and leaves. Alfredo, who thinks Violetta Photo by Ken Howard/ Metropolitan Opera
16 | LIVE IN HD PROGRAM GUIDE 2016-17 | THE METROPOLITIAN OPERA LIVE IN HD MAR 25 12:55PM ET
ENCORE BROADCASTS MAY 6 12PM ET & AT* MAY 8 6:30PM LOCAL MAY 10 12:55PM LOCAL
CONDUCTOR James Levine
PRODUCTION Jean-Pierre Ponnelle
SET AND COSTUME
DESIGNER Jean-Pierre Ponnelle Matthew Polenzani LIGHTING DESIGNER Gil Wechsler
WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART ILIA Nadine Sierra ELETTRA IDOMENEO Elza van den Heever James Levine conducts Mozart’s first operatic masterpiece, with Matthew Polenzani IDAMANTE as the Cretan king whose rash oath threatens to destroy him. Alice Coote IDOMENEO Matthew Polenzani ACT I Idomeneo, King of Crete, is returning INTERMISSION from the Trojan War. The Trojan princess Ilia, ARBACE ACT III Idamante can’t make sense of the held captive in Crete, has fallen in love with Alan Opie behavior of his father, who still hasn’t revealed Idomeneo’s son, Idamante. Elettra, princess of the subject of his oath. The monster has brought Argos, also loves Idamante. When Idomeneo’s LIVE IN HD DIRECTOR devastation to the island, and the High Priest fleet is caught in a storm, he vows to sacrifice to Barbara Willis Sweete demands to know who must be sacrificed. Neptune the first man he comes across on land Idomeneo reveals that it is his son. News arrives in return for being saved. That man turns out to Approx. running time: 4h 10 min. that Idamante has killed the monster. Finally be Idamante. *ET & AT – Saturday encores are understanding his father’s motives, Idamante scheduled at 12PM Eastern Time INTERMISSION demands that the sacrifice proceed, but the for BC/AB/SK/MB/ON/QC and voice of Neptune intervenes: if Idomeneo will at 12PM Atlantic Time for ACT II To save his son, the desperate Idomeneo NB/NL/NS/PE. yield power to Idamante and Ilia, the gods will be decides to send him away to escort Elettra satisfied. Elettra collapses. Idomeneo gives up back to Argos. Elettra is now certain to win the throne and unites his son with Ilia. Idamante. As their ship is about to depart for Argos, another storm arises and a sea monster appears. Idomeneo confesses his guilt and offers himself as a sacrifice.
Photo by Marty Sohl/ Metropolitan Opera
THE METROPOLITIAN OPERA | LIVE IN HD PROGRAM GUIDE 2016-17 | 17 LIVE IN HD APR 22 12:55PM ET
ENCORE BROADCASTS JUNE 3 12PM ET & AT* JUNE 5 6:30PM LOCAL JUNE 7 12:55PM LOCAL
CONDUCTOR Robin Ticciati
PRODUCTION Deborah Warner
SET DESIGNER Tom Pye
COSTUME DESIGNER Anna Netrebko Chloe Obolensky
LIGHTING DESIGNER Jean Kalman PYOTR TCHAIKOVSKY VIDEO DESIGNERS Finn Ross and Ian William Galloway EUGENE ONEGIN CHOREOGRAPHER Anna Netrebko and Dmitri Hvorostovsky star as the most famous pair of tragic Kim Brandstrup lovers in Russian literature. Tchaikovsky’s operatic take on Pushkin is conducted by Robin Ticciati. TATIANA Anna Netrebko OLGA ACT I Autumn in the country. The widowed INTERMISSION Elena Maximova Madame Larina has two daughters: the romantic ACT III St. Petersburg, several years later. After Tatiana spends her time reading novels; the LENSKI travelling abroad, Onegin has returned to the spirited Olga is being courted by their neighbor, Alexey Dolgov capital. At a ball, Prince Gremin introduces his the poet Lenski. When he visits with his friend young wife. Onegin is astonished to recognize ONEGIN Eugene Onegin, Tatiana falls in love with Onegin her as Tatiana and to realize that he is in love Dmitri Hvorostovsky and writes him a passionate letter. In response, with her. Now it is him who sends her a letter and GREMIN Onegin declares he can only offer her friendship begs her to run away with him. Tatiana admits Štefan Kocán and condescendingly advises her to control her that she still loves him, but that she has made her emotions, lest another man take advantage of decision and will not leave her husband. Onegin her innocence. LIVE IN HD DIRECTOR is left desperate. Gary Halvorson INTERMISSION Production a gift of Ambassador and Approx. running time: 3h 55 min. ACT II January. Onegin has reluctantly accom- Mrs. Nicholas F. Taubman *ET & AT – Saturday encores are panied Lenski to Tatiana’s name day celebration. Revival a gift of Rolex scheduled at 12PM Eastern Time Bored by the occasion, he takes his revenge by A co-production of the Metropolitan Opera and for BC/AB/SK/MB/ON/QC and flirting with Olga. Lenski’s jealousy is aroused to English National Opera at 12PM Atlantic Time for such a degree that he challenges Onegin to a NB/NL/NS/PE. duel. Both men are full of remorse, but neither stops what is happening. Lenski is killed. Photo by Ken Howard/ Metropolitan Opera
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CONDUCTOR Sebastian Weigle
PRODUCTION Robert Carsen
SET DESIGNER Paul Steinberg
Elı¯na Garancˇa and COSTUME DESIGNER Renée Fleming Brigitte Reiffenstuel
LIGHTING DESIGNERS Robert Carsen and RICHARD STRAUSS Peter Van Praet
CHOREOGRAPHER DER ROSENKAVALIER Philippe Giraudeau NEW PRODUCTION MARSCHALLIN Renée Fleming Renée Fleming and Elīna Garanča reprise their definitive portrayals of two of Strauss’s OCTAVIAN most beloved characters. Sebastian Weigle conducts the Met’s new production. Elīna Garanča
SOPHIE ACT I Vienna, 1911. The Marschallin, Octavian has a letter sent to him, suppos- Princess von Werdenberg, is having an affair edly from the chambermaid, asking Ochs for Erin Morley with the young Count Octavian. Baron Ochs, a a rendezvous. A SINGER country Don Juan and the Marschallin’s cousin, Matthew Polenzani INTERMISSION is engaged to Sophie, the young daughter of a FANINAL wealthy bourgeois. When Ochs meets Octavian, ACT III Octavian, again in chambermaid Marcus Brück in disguise as a chambermaid to avoid discovery disguise, meets Ochs for a private supper BARON OCHS in the Marschallin’s bedroom, he makes advances at a house of ill repute. Various prearranged toward “her.” The Marschallin is appalled at the “apparitions” increasingly frighten the Baron. Günther Groissböck thought of the rude Ochs marrying an innocent Tumult ensues and the police arrive to inves- young girl. tigate. Finally the Marschallin appears and LIVE IN HD DIRECTOR explains to Ochs that it was all a farce. Octavian Gary Halvorson INTERMISSION takes off his disguise; Ochs admits defeat and Approx. running time: 4h 40 min. ACT II On behalf of Ochs, Octavian presents leaves. Octavian and Sophie are united, as the Sophie with the customary silver engagement Marschallin, with quiet dignity, wonders how she *ET & AT – Saturday encores are scheduled at 12PM Eastern Time rose. The two young people fall instantly in love. lost her lover so suddenly. for BC/AB/SK/MB/ON/QC and Sophie, who has never met the Baron before, at 12PM Atlantic Time for is shocked by her fiancé’s crude manners and Production a gift of Howard and Sarah Solomon NB/NL/NS/PE. refuses to marry him. An argument erupts Co-production of the Metropolitan Opera; Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London; and in the confusion, Octavian wounds Ochs. and Teatro Regio di Torino Photo by Kristian Schuller/ Determined to teach the Baron a lesson, Metropolitan Opera
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