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Can't get to Lincoln Center? Watch The Met in our historic theater!

 

Enjoy opera broadcasts live from Lincoln Center on screen in HD and in an elegant setting. 

This fabulous package includes two tickets to each of the remaining operas and Opera Connection Series of the Met@The Music Hall 2016-17 Season:

 

Nabucco (Verdi)

Sat. January 7, 2017 at 1:00pm

Met Music Director James Levine conducts Verdi’s early drama of Ancient Babylon, Nabucco, with Plácido Domingo adding a new role to his repertory as the title character. Liudmyla Monastyrska sings the tour-de-force role of Abigaille, Nabucco’s willful daughter, with Jamie Barton as Fenena, Russell Thomas as Ismaele, and Dmitri Belosselskiy as the prophet Zaccaria, the role of his 2011 Met debut.

 

Roméo et Juliette (Gounod)

Sat. January 21, 2017 at 1:00pm

The electrifying team of Vittorio Grigolo and Diana Damrau reunites for Bartlett Sher’s new production of Gounod’s opera based on the Shakespeare play. Damrau makes her role debut as Juliette in Sher’s new production, conducted by Gianandrea Noseda. Elliot Madore sings Mercutio and Mikhail Petrenko sings Frère Laurent. Sher’s staging is a La Scala production, initially presented by the Salzburg Festival, where it premiered in 2008.

 

L'Amour de Loin (Saariaho)

Sun. February 5, 2017 at 1:00pm

One of the most highly praised operas of recent years, which had its premiere at the Salzburg Festival in 2000, Kaija Saariaho’s yearning medieval romance L’Amour de Loin (“Love From Afar”), has its Met premiere this season. The production is by Robert Lepage, co-produced with L’Opéra de Québec, where it premiered to acclaim last summer, in collaboration with Ex Machina. Debuting Finnish conductor Susanna Mälkki leads the performance, which stars Susanna Phillips as Clémence, Eric Owens as Jaufré, and Tamara Mumford as the Pilgrim who carries messages of love between them. 

 

Rusalka (Dvorak)

Sat. February 25, 2017 at 1:00pm

Opera Connection at 11:30am

Kristine Opolais stars in a new production of the opera that first won her international acclaim, Dvoák’s fairy-tale opera about the tragic water nymph Rusalka. Sir Mark Elder conducts Mary Zimmerman’s new staging, which also stars Brandon Jovanovich as the human prince who captures Rusalka’s heart; Katarina Dalayman as Rusalka’s rival, the Foreign Princess; Eric Owens as the Water Sprite, Rusalka’s father; and Jamie Barton as the duplicitous witch Jezibaba.

 

La Traviata (Verdi)

Sat. March 11, 2017 at 1:00pm

Sonya Yoncheva brings her acclaimed interpretation of the doomed courtesan Violetta Valéry to Live in HD audiences for the first time, opposite rising American tenor Michael Fabiano as her lover, Alfredo. Thomas Hampson sings one of his most acclaimed Met roles as Giorgio Germont, Alfredo’s disapproving father, in a revival of Willy Decker’s staging conducted by San Francisco Opera Music Director Nicola Luisotti.

 

Idomeneo (Mozart)

Sun. March 26, 2017 at 1:00pm

James Levine conducts a rare Met revival of Mozart’s Idomeneo, set in the aftermath of the Trojan War. Jean-Pierre Ponnelle’s classic production, which has its first Met revival in over a decade this season, stars Matthew Polenzani in the title role. The cast also includes Elza van den Heever as Elettra, Nadine Sierra as Ilia, Alice Coote as Idamante, and Alan opie as Arbace.

 

Eugene Onegin (Tchaikovsky)

Sat. April 22, 2017 at 1:00pm

Opera Connection at 11:30am

Anna Netrebko reprises one of her most acclaimed roles as Tatiana, the naïve heroine of Tchaikovsky’s opera, adapted from Pushkin’s classic novel. Dmitri Hvorostovsky stars as the title character, who rejects Tatiana’s love until it’s too late.  Robin Ticciati, Music Director of Glyndebourne Festival Opera, conducts the revival of Deborah Warner’s staging, which opened the Met’s 2013-14 season. Alexey Dolgov sings the role of Onegin’s friend-turned-rival, Lenski, with Elena Maximova as Tatiana’s sister Olga and Štefan Kocán as Prince Gremin.

 

Der Rosenkavalier (R. Strauss)

Sat. May 20, 2017 at 12:30pm

The Met’s first new production since 1969 of Strauss’s rich romantic masterpiece is conducted by Sebastian Weigle and directed by Robert Carsen, whose most recent Met production was the hit 2013 staging of Falstaff. Renée Fleming sings one of her signature roles as the Marschallin, opposite Elina Garanca in her first North American performances as Octavian, the impulsive young title character. The cast also includes Günther Groissböck as Baron Ochs, Erin Morley as Sophie, Marcus Brück in his Met debut as Faninal, and Matthew Polenzani as the Italian Singer. Der Rosenkavalier is a co-production with the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, and Teatro Regio di Torino.

 

Donated by: The Music Hall 28 Chestnut St. Portsmouth, NH

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Item Special Note

• Two tickets to The Met@The Music Hall Broadcast Season and Opera Connections, Nov 2016 - May 2017.
• Tickets cannot be exchanged for an alternate date or event. Tickets are not redeemable for cash.