Metropolitan Opera
Dialogues Des Carmelites
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| Saturday May 11th @ 10.00am |
| Rating |
| Other |
| Running Time |
| 3 Hours, 9 minutes (includes 1 intermission) |
Yannick Nézet-Séguin leads the classic John Dexter production of Poulenc's devastating story of faith and martyrdom. Mezzo-soprano Isabel Leonard sings the touching role of Blanche and soprano Karita Mattila, a legend in her own time, returns to the Met as the Prioress.
Die Walkure
| Showing |
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| Saturday March 30th @ 10.00am |
| Rating |
| Other |
| Running Time |
| 4 Hours, 55 minutes (includes 2 intermissions) |
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 of filial defiance. Tenor Stuart Skelton and soprano Eva-Maria Westbroek play the incestuous twins Siegmund and Sieglinde. Greer Grimsley sings Wotan. Philippe Jordan conducts.
La Fille Du Régiment
| Showing |
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| Saturday March 2nd @ 11.00am |
| Rating |
| G |
| Running Time |
| 2 Hours, 35 minutes (includes 1 intermission) |
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, with its nine high Cs. Alessandro Corbelli and Maurizio Muraro trade off as the comic Sergeant Sulpice, with mezzo-soprano Stephanie Blythe as the outlandish Marquise of Berkenfield. Enrique Mazzola conducts.
Carmen
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| Saturday February 2nd @ 11.00am |
| Rating |
| Other |
| Running Time |
| 3 Hours, 21 minutes (includes 1 intermission) |
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 Meir Wellber and Louis Langrée share conducting duties for Sir Richard Eyre's powerful production, a Met favorite since its 2009 premiere.