The Met’s award-winning series of live, high-definition performance transmissions to movie theaters continues to captivate audiences around the world. In the 2009-10 season, the series will reach more than two million people worldwide. The fifth season of The Met: Live in HD, which begins October 9, 2010, will feature eleven of the most populár operas ever composed including Wagner´s Das Rheingold and Die Walkure, Puccini´s La Fianciulla Del West, Verdi´s Don Carlo and Il Trovatore and more. Every transmission features top star opera singers and conductors including Plácido Domingo, Anna Netrebko, Renée Fleming, James Levine, Valery Gergiev and many more. Opera lovers all around the globe love Metropolitan Opera: Live in HD series.
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2010-11 Schedule of Events
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, 2010 – 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, 2010 – DON PASQUALE (Donizetti)
James Levine; Anna Netrebko, Matthew Polenzani, Mariusz Kwiecien, John Del Carlo
December 11, 2010 – 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)
January 8, 2011 – LA FANCIULLA DEL WEST (Puccini)
Nicola Luisotti; Deborah Voigt, Marcello Giordani, Juha Uusitalo
February 26, 2011 – IPHIGÉNIE EN TAURIDE (Gluck)
Patrick Summers; Susan Graham, Plácido Domingo, Paul Groves, Gordon Hawkins
March 19, 2011 – LUCIA DI LAMMERMOOR (Donizetti)
Patrick Summers; Natalie Dessay, Joseph Calleja, Ludovic Tézier, Kwangchul Youn
April 9, 2011 – 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, 2011 – CAPRICCIO (R. Strauss)
Andrew Davis; Renée Fleming, Sarah Connolly, Joseph Kaiser, Russell Braun, Morten Frank Larsen, Peter Rose
April 30, 2011 – IL TROVATORE (Verdi)
James Levine; Sondra Radvanovsky, Dolora Zajick, Marcelo Álvarez, Dmitri Hvorostovsky, Stefan Kocán
May 14, 2011 – 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