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Marcelo Alvarez, Sondra Radvanovsky, and Dmitri Hvorostovsky sing the three leading roles in Verdi's vivid and tuneful drama NEW YORK, April 2, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Met's new production of Un Ballo in Maschera, Verdi's classic drama of political intrigue and thwarted romance, staged by acclaimed opera director David Alden and led by Met Principal Conductor Fabio Luisi, airs on Great Performances at the Met Sunday, May 5 at 12 noon on PBS (check local listings). In...
Baroque specialist Harry Bicket conducts the late Jean-Pierre Ponnelle's stylized production, set in ancient Rome NEW YORK, March 14, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Elina Garanca, star of the Great Performances at the Met broadcasts of Carmen and La Cenerentola, appears in the trouser role of Sesto in the Met's rare revival of Mozart's opera of ancient Rome, La Clemenza di Tito. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20110510/DC99295LOGO ) Mezzo-soprano Susan Graham hosts the...
Thomas Ades Conducts the Met Premiere of His Contemporary Masterpiece with Simon Keenlyside as Prospero, the role he created in the opera's world premiere NEW YORK, Feb. 14, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- British composer Thomas Ades conducts the Met premiere of his contemporary masterpiece The Tempest, an English-language opera based on Shakespeare's final play. The Met's fantastical new production by Robert Lepage airs on Great Performances at the Met Sunday, March 17 at 12 noon...
Semyon Bychkov conducts the Shakespearean drama, which also features Falk Struckmann as Iago and Michael Fabiano as Cassio NEW YORK, Jan. 29, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Verdi's Shakespearean tragedy Otello starring Johan Botha in the title role and Renee Fleming as Otello's innocent wife, Desdemona, airs on Great Performances at the Met Sunday, February 24 at 12 noon on PBS (check local listings). (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20110510/DC99295LOGO ) In New York,...
SANTA MONICA, Calif., Jan. 23, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Expanding a tradition of extraordinary generosity and major contributions to the cultural life of Los Angeles, the Lloyd E. Rigler-Lawrence E. Deutsch Foundation announced today a $350,000 unrestricted gift to strengthen the recital series at The Eli & Edythe Broad Stage at the Santa Monica College Performing Arts Center. This gift is in addition to the initial gift of $500,000 in February 2011. Under Director Dale Franzen, The...
NEW YORK, Oct. 3, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- One of the biggest voices in opera today is partnering with New Tang Dynasty Television (NTD). Marcello Giordani, the Italian tenor considered by Opera News to be "arguably, the greatest leading tenor of his generation," has sung in over 170 performances at the New York Metropolitan Opera over the past 20 years. During the 2011-2012 season, Mr. Giordani starred in no less than eight productions at the Metropolitan Opera and other top...
Laurent Pelly's staging, also starring Paulo Szot as Lescaut, premieres in New York on THIRTEEN at 12:30 p.m. with a repeat Thursday, August 9 at 8:30 p.m. NEW YORK, July 2, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Star soprano Anna Netrebko sings her first Met performances of the title role in Manon, Massenet's opera about a country girl with conflicting desires for love and luxury who is drawn into a life of glamorous -- but hollow -- Parisian sophistication. (Logo:...
New companion documentary, Wagner's Dream, chronicling the backstage challenges of creating the Met's landmark production, begins week-long Wagner festival NEW YORK, May 30, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Robert Lepage's acclaimed new production of Wagner's Der Ring des Nibelungen, will air on Great Performances at the Met, September 11-14 in primetime each night on PBS stations (check local listings), as a major television event. (Logo:...
Verdi's Ernani with Angela Meade, Marcello Giordani, Dmitri Hvorostovsky and Ferruccio Furlanetto on THIRTEEN's Great Performances at the Met Sunday, June 17 at 12 p.m. on PBS Marco Armiliato conducts Pier Luigi Samaratini's colorful production which will air at 12:30 p.m. on THIRTEEN in New York and repeated Thursday, June 21 at 8:30 p.m. NEW YORK, May 16, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Four extraordinary singers star in Verdi's Ernani airing on THIRTEEN's Great Performances at the...
The first revival of Phelim McDermott and Julian Crouch's lauded staging features the original cast of the opera's Met premiere NEW YORK, Feb. 21, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Philip Glass's inspirational opera Satyagraha (Sanskrit for "truth force"), in the first revival of Phelim McDermott and Julian Crouch's innovative 2008 production, airs on THIRTEEN's Great Performances at the Met Sunday, March 25 at 12 p.m. on PBS (check local listings). In New York, THIRTEEN will...
