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2009-2010 MET Live in HD Series

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The Metropolitan Opera's Emmy and Peabody award-winning series of live, high-definition performance transmissions returns to movie theatres across the United States this fall. The fourth season of The Met: Live in HD begins with Puccini’s Tosca on October 10, 2009. This season will feature nine live and nine encore presentations from October to May.

All live events take place on Saturday afternoons. In addition to the live events, Wednesday encore performances will be shown the third week after the respective live event*. The full schedule is below.

Don’t miss the chance to experience the excitement of the Met, including interviews and behind-the-scenes features, all at your neighborhood Cinemark movie theatre!

*Encore events are recorded versions of the live events and occur on the third Wednesday following the live events, with the exception of Turandot, which occurs on the second Wednesday following the live presentation.

Casting subject to change
Running times are approximate

Les Contes d’Hoffmann – Jacques Offenbach

Tony Award winner Bartlett Sher (South Pacific) directs this new production, returning after the triumph of his Met Barber of Seville (seen live in HD in the 2006–07 season). Offenbach’s fictionalized take on the life and loves of the German Romantic writer E.T.A. Hoffmann is a fascinating psychological journey. Met Music Director James Levine conducts Joseph Calleja in the tour-de-force title role. Anna Netrebko is the tragic Antonia and Alan Held sings the demonic four villains.

Live: Saturday, December 19, 2009
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Encore: Wednesday, January 6, 2010
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Der Rosenkavalier – Richard Strauss

Strauss’s comic masterpiece of love and intrigue in 18th-century Vienna stars Renée Fleming as the aristocratic Marschallin and Susan Graham in the trouser role of her young lover. Music Director James Levine conducts a cast that also includes Kristinn Sigmundsson and Thomas Allen.

Live: Saturday, January 9, 2010
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Encore: Wednesday, January 27, 2010
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Carmen – Georges Bizet

One of the most popular operas of all time, Carmen "is about sex, violence, and racism—and its corollary: freedom," says Olivier Award-winning director Richard Eyre about his new production of Bizet's drama. "It is one of the inalienably great works of art. It's sexy, in every sense. And I think it should be shocking." Elina Garanca sings the seductive gypsy of the title for the first time at the Met, opposite Roberto Alagna as the obsessed Don José.

Live: Saturday, January 16, 2010
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Encore: Wednesday, February 3, 2010
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Simon Boccanegra – Giuseppe Verdi

Four decades into a legendary Met career, tenor Plácido Domingo makes history singing the title role in Verdi’s gripping political thriller, which is written for a baritone. Adrianne Pieczonka, Marcello Giordani, and James Morris are his co-stars in this moving and tragic story of a father and his lost daughter. James Levine conducts.

Live: Saturday, February 6, 2010
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Encore: Wednesday, February 24, 2010
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Hamlet – Ambroise Thomas

The works of Shakespeare have inspired more operatic adaptations than any other writer’s. Simon Keenlyside and Natalie Dessay bring their extraordinary acting and singing skills to two of the Bard’s most unforgettable characters in this new production of Ambroise Thomas’s Hamlet. For the role of Ophelia, the French composer created an extended mad scene that is among the greatest in opera.

Live: Saturday, March 27, 2010
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Encore: Wednesday, April 14, 2010
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Armida – Gioachino Rossini

This mythical story of a sorceress who enthralls men in her island prison has inspired operatic settings by a multitude of composers, including Gluck, Haydn, and Dvorak. Renée Fleming stars in the title role of Rossini’s version, opposite no fewer than six tenors. Tony Award winner Mary Zimmerman returns to direct this new production of a work she describes as “a buried treasure, a box of jewels.” The fanciful and magical tale, Zimmerman says, “has an epic, enchanted quality and a tremendous visual element.”

Live: Saturday, May 1, 2010
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Encore: Wednesday, May 19, 2010
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