Archive for the ‘Old Met’ Category
04/06/19 – Tosca – 1pm
The Metropolitan Opera Giacomo Puccini Tosca ESTIMATED RUN TIME: 2 HRS 53 MINS, 2 intermissions SUNG IN ITALIAN photo credit: Marty Sohl / Met Opera Met favorite Sondra Radvanovsky and rising star Jennifer Rowley share the title role of the volatile diva at the heart of Puccini’s operatic thriller. Joseph Calleja brings his stylish tenor to […]
03/30/19 – Die Walküre – 12:30pm
The Metropolitan Opera Richard Wagner Die Walküre ESTIMATED RUN TIME: 4 HRS 55 MINS, 2 intermissions SUNG IN GERMAN photo credit: Karen Almond / Met Opera In what is expected to be a Wagnerian event for the ages, soprano Christine Goerke plays Brünnhilde, Wotan’s willful warrior daughter, who loses her immortality in opera’s most famous act […]
03/23/19 – Samson et Dalila – 1pm
The Metropolitan Opera CAMILLE SAINT-SAËNS Samson et Dalila ESTIMATED RUN TIME: 3 HRS 20 MINS, 2 intermissions SUNG IN FRENCH photo credit: Ken Howard / Met Opera When mezzo-soprano Elīna Garanča and tenor Roberto Alagna joined forces for a new production of Carmen at the Met, the results were electrifying. Now this star duo reunites […]
03/16/19 – Falstaff – 1pm
The Metropolitan Opera GIUSEPPE VERDI Falstaff ESTIMATED RUN TIME: 2 HRS, 36 MINS, 1 intermission SUNG IN ITALIAN photo credit: Karen Almond / Met Opera Baritone Ambrogio Maestri brings his larger-than-life portrayal of the title role back for the first time since his Met role debut in the 2013 – 14 season. Robert Carsen’s insightful production—which […]
03/09/19- DAS RHEINGOLD- 1PM
The Metropolitan Opera Richard Wagner Das Rheingold ESTIMATED RUN TIME: 2 HRS 30 MINS SUNG IN GERMAN photo credit: Karen Almond / Met Opera Wagner’s visionary initial installment of the Ring Cycle depicts the original sin of the theft of the sacred golden treasure, the vanity of the gods, the greed of the Nibelungen, the fratricide of the giants, […]
03/02/19 – La Fille du Régiment – 1pm
The Metropolitan Opera GAETANO DONIZETTILa Fille du Régiment ESTIMATED RUN TIME: 2 HRS 35 MINS, 1 intermissions SUNG IN FRENCH photo credit: Marty Sohl / Met Opera Tenor Javier Camarena and soprano Pretty Yende team up for a feast of bel canto vocal fireworks—including the show-stopping tenor aria “Ah! Mes amis … Pour mon […]
02/23/19 – Rigoletto – 1pm
The Metropolitan Opera GIUSEPPE VERDI Rigoletto ESTIMATED RUN TIME: 3 HRS 11 MINS, 2 intermissions SUNG IN ITALIAN photo credit: Marty Sohl / Met Opera Verdi’s tragic jester returns in Michael Mayer’s neon-bedecked, Las Vegas–themed production. Baritones Roberto Frontali and George Gagnidze share the title role, and soprano Nadine Sierra reprises her portrayal of Gilda, the […]
02/16/19 – Don Giovanni – 1pm
The Metropolitan Opera WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART Don Giovanni ESTIMATED RUN TIME: 3 HRS 25 MINS, 1 intermissions SUNG IN ITALIAN photo credit: Karen Almond / Met Opera Baritone Peter Mattei and bass-baritone Luca Pisaroni star as opera’s most notorious seducer in Mozart’s masterpiece of dark comedy. Cornelius Meister makes his Met debut conducting performances that also include sopranos […]
02/09/19 – Iolanta / Bluebeard’s Castle – 1pm
The Metropolitan Opera Iolanta / Bluebeard’s Castle PYOTR ILYICH TCHAIKOVSKY / BÉLA BARTÓK ESTIMATED RUN TIME: 3 HRS 22 MINS, 1 intermissions SUNG IN RUSSIAN photo credit: Marty Sohl / Met Opera Mariusz Treliński’s haunting production of the pairing of Tchaikovsky’s and Bartók’s one-act operas makes its first return to the stage since its Met premiere […]
02/02/19- CARMEN- 1PM
The Metropolitan Opera Carmen GEORGES BIZET ESTIMATED RUN TIME: 3 HRS 21 MINS, 1 intermission SUNG IN FRENCH photo credit: Karen Almond/Metropolitan Opera Mezzo-soprano Clémentine Margaine reprises her remarkable portrayal of opera’s ultimate seductress, a triumph in her 2017 debut performances, with impassioned tenors Yonghoon Lee and Roberto Alagna as her lover, Don José. Omer […]
