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The Metropolitan Opera’s Peabody and Emmy Award-winning series
The Met: Live in HD features 11 transmissions.
Don’t miss the chance to experience the
Met 2011/2012 season live at the Warner Theatre! |
Tickets on Sale for 2011-2012 Season
Subscriptions, $198 | Single Tickets, $20
Seniors & Students | $18
Children 13 & Under | $10
For information on how to join the Opera Guild please call
860-489-7180 x189
The Warner Theatre will offer a pre-broadcast lecture by opera expert Nunzio DeFilippis. Mr. DeFilippis has taught “Opera, a Passion for all Ages” at Osher Lifelong Learning Institute , UConn Waterbury CT. Please check our website or call the Warner Theatre at (860) 489-7180 x 189 for more details.
Learn more about Nunzio DeFilippis here
All lectures start 2 hours prior to the opera and are 45 minutes in length.
Lecture to be held in the Carole & Ray Neag Performing Arts Center Lobby.
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Wagner’s
Siegfried
Sat, Nov 5, 2011 | 12pm | HDLive |
Running Time - 5Hrs 56Min
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Lecture Time:
10:00-10:45
In part three of the Ring, Wagner’s cosmic vision focuses on his hero’s early conquests, while Robert Lepage’s revolutionary stage machine transforms itself from bewitched forest to mountaintop love nest. Gary Lehman sings the title role and Deborah Voigt’s Brünnhilde is his prize. Bryn Terfel is the Wanderer. Fabio Luisi conducts. |
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Glass’s Satyagraha
Sat, Nov 19, 2011 | 1pm | HDLive |
Running Time - 4Hrs 13 Min
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Lecture Time: 11:00-11:45
The Met’s visually extravagant production is back for an encore engagement. Richard Croft once again is Gandhi in Philip Glass’s unforgettable opera, which the Washington Post calls “a profound and beautiful work of theater.” |
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Handel’s Rodelinda
Sat, Dec 3, 2011 | 12:30pm | HDLive |
Running Time - 4Hrs 15Min
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Lecture Time: 10:30-11:15
Sensational in the 2004 Met premiere of Stephen Wadsworth’s much-heralded production, Renée Fleming reprises the title role. She’s joined by Stephanie Blythe and countertenor Andreas Scholl, and Baroque specialist Harry Bicket conducts. |
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Gounod’s Faust
Sat, Dec 17, 2011 | 1pm | Encore |
Running Time - 4Hrs 25Min
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Lecture Time: 11:00-11:45
With Jonas Kaufmann in the title role, René Pape as the devil, and Marina Poplavskaya as Marguerite, Gounod’s classic retelling of the Faust legend couldn’t be better served. Tony Award-winning director Des McAnuff updates the story to the first half of the 20th century with a production that won praise in London last season. Yannick Nézet-Séguin conducts on the heels of his Don Carlo success. |
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The Enchanted Island
Sat, Jan 21, 2012 | 1pm | HDLive |
Running Time - 3Hrs 40Min
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Lecture Time: 11:00-11:45
In one extraordinary new work, lovers of Baroque opera have it all: the world’s best singers, glorious music of the Baroque masters, and a story drawn from Shakespeare. In The Enchanted Island, the lovers from Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream are shipwrecked on his other-worldly island of The Tempest. Inspired by the musical pastiches and masques of the 18th century, the work showcases arias and ensembles by Handel, Vivaldi, Rameau, and others, and a new libretto by Jeremy Sams. Eminent conductor William Christie leads an all-star cast with David Daniels (Prospero) and Joyce DiDonato (Sycorax) as the formidable foes, Plácido Domingo as Neptune, Danielle de Niese as Ariel, and Luca Pisaroni as Caliban. Lisette Oropesa and Anthony Roth Costanzo play Miranda and Ferdinand. The dazzling production is directed and designed by Phelim McDermott and Julian Crouch (Satyagraha and the Met’s 125 anniversary |
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Donizetti’s
Anna Bolena
Sat, Jan 28, 2012 | 1pm | Encore |
Running Time - 4Hrs 20Min
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Lecture Time: 11:00-11:45
Anna Netrebko opens the Met season with her portrayal of the ill-fated queen driven insane by her unfaithful king. She sings one of opera's greatest mad scenes in this Met premiere production by David McVicar. Ekaterina Gubanova is her rival, Jane Seymour, Ildar Abdrazakov sings Henry VIII, and Marco Armiliato conducts. |
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Wagner’s
Gotterdammerung
Sat, Feb 11, 2012 | 12pm | HDLive |
Running Time - 6Hrs 24Min
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Lecture Time: 10:00-10:45
With its cataclysmic climax, the Met’s new Ring cycle, directed by Robert Lepage, comes to its resolution. Deborah Voigt stars as Brünnhilde and Gary Lehman is Siegfried—the star-crossed lovers doomed by fate. James Levine conducts. |
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Verdi’s Ernani
Sat, March 3, 2012 | 1pm | Encore |
Running Time - 3Hrs 54Min
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Lecture Time: 11:00-11:45
Angela Meade takes center stage in Verdi’s thrilling early gem. Salvatore Licitra is her mismatched lover, and all-star Verdians Dmitri Hvorostovsky and Ferruccio Furlanetto round out the cast. |
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Massenet’s Manon
Sat, April 7, 2012 | 12pm | HDLive | Running Time - 4Hrs 3Min
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Lecture Time: 10:00-10:45
Anna Netrebko’s dazzling portrayal of the tragic heroine in Laurent Pelly’s new production travels to the Met from the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden. Piotr Beczala and Paulo Szot also star, with the Met’s Principal Guest Conductor Fabio Luisi on the podium. |
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Verdi’s La Traviata
Sat, May 26, 2012 | 1pm | Encore |
Running Time - 3Hrs 12Min
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Lecture Time: 11:00-11:45
Natalie Dessay will put on the red dress in Willy Decker’s stunning production, in her first Violetta at the Met. Matthew Polenzani sings Alfredo, Dmitri Hvorostovsky is Germont, and Principal Guest Conductor Fabio Luisi is on the podium. |
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Mozart’s Don Giovanni
Sat, June 23, 2012 | 1pm | Encore |
Running Time - 4Hrs
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Lecture Time: 11:00-11:45
Mariusz Kwiecien brings his youthful and sensual interpretation of Mozart’s timeless anti-hero to the Met for the first time, under the direction of Tony Award®-winning director Michael Grandage and with Fabio Luisi conducting. Also starring Marina Rebeka, Barbara Frittoli, Ramón Vargas, and Luca Pisaroni. |
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