| TRISTAN UND ISOLDE WAGNER
Thursday 10th November 2016 Runtime: Approx 313 minutes
The season begins with a new production of Wagner’s Tristan und Isolde, conducted by Sir Simon Rattle in his first Live in HD performance. Nina Stemme stars as Isolde—a touchstone role she has sung with major opera companies around the world. Her Tristan is Australian heldentenor Stuart Skelton, who sang Siegmund in the Met’s Ring cycle in 2013. The cast also includes Ekaterina Gubanova as Brangäne and Evgeny Nikitin as Kurwenal (both in Met role debuts), with René Pape reprising King Marke, a role he has sung to acclaim in three previous Met seasons. The staging, by Mariusz Treliński (who directed the 2015 Met double bill of Iolanta and Bluebeard’s Castle) is a co-production with the Festival Hall Baden-Baden, Teatr Wielki – Polish National Opera, and China National Centre for the Performing Arts (NCPA) Beijing.
| | | | TURANDOT (PUCCINI) Runtime: Approx 220mins Thursday 9th June 2016 Swedish dramatic soprano Nina Stemme sings her first Met performances of the demanding title role of Puccini’s Chinese ice princess, with Anita Hartig in her company role debut as the angelic slave girl Liù. Marco Berti sings Calàf, the suitor who risks his head for Turandot’s hand, and Alexander Tsymbalyuk sings Timur. Paolo Carignani conducts Franco Zeffirelli’s visually spectacular 1987 production.
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| | | MANON LESCAUT (PUCCINI) Runtime: Approx 215mins Thursday 23rd June 2016 Kristine Opolais and Jonas Kaufmann star as the ill-fated lovers at the center of Manon Lescaut, Puccini’s passionate adaptation of the classic novel about a free-spirited country girl who becomes the toast of Paris. Sir Richard Eyre’s new production, set in the 1940s, reunites him with set designer Rob Howell, his collaborator on recent Met productions of Le Nozze di Figaro, Werther, and Carmen. Met Principal Conductor Fabio Luisi conducts the new staging, which also stars Massimo Cavalletti as Manon’s cousin, Lescaut, and Brindley Sherratt as Geronte, her wealthy older lover.
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| | | MADAMA BUTTERFLY (PUCCINI) Runtime: Approx 230mins Thursday 14th July 2016 Kristine Opolais brings her heartbreaking interpretation of the title role in Madama Butterfly to Live in HD screens for the first time, in Anthony Minghella’s critically acclaimed 2006 production. Roberto Alagna sings Lieutenant Pinkerton, the callous officer who crushes Butterfly’s dreams of love. Debuting conductor Karel Mark Chichon leads a cast that also includes Maria Zifchak as Suzuki and Dwayne Croft as Sharpless.
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| | | ROBERTO DEVEREUX (DONIZETTI) Runtime: Approx 195mins Thursday 4th August 2016 The final opera in Donizetti’s “Tudor trilogy” focuses on the older Queen Elizabeth I, who is forced to sign the death warrant of the nobleman she loves. Sir David McVicar, who directed the Met premieres of Anna Bolena and Maria Stuarda, returns to stage the final installment in the series. Acclaimed bel canto soprano Sondra Radvanovsky will sing Elizabeth I in Roberto Devereux as well as the title roles in Anna Bolena and Maria Stuarda over the course of the season, a famous feat performed by Beverly Sills at New York City Opera in the 1970s and not repeated in New York since. Roberto Devereux also stars Matthew Polenzani as the title character; Elīna Garanča as Sara, the Duchess of Nottingham and the queen’s secret rival; and Mariusz Kwiecien as the Duke of Nottingham. Maurizio Benini conducts the first-ever Met performances of this work.
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| | | ELEKTRA (STRAUSS) Runtime: Approx 135mins Thursday 18th August 2016 Strauss’s blazing tragedy about an ancient Greek princess hell-bent on revenge comes to the Met in the final opera production by the legendary director Patrice Chéreau, who died in 2014. Esa-Pekka Salonen, who made a riveting Met debut leading Chéreau’s production of Janáček’s From the House of the Dead in 2009, returns to conduct an extraordinary cast headed by Nina Stemme as the obsessed and bloodthirsty title character. Waltraud Meier sings her first Met performances of Klytämnestra, Elektra’s mother and the object of her fury, with Adrianne Pieczonka as Elektra’s sister, Chrysothemis; Eric Owens as her exiled brother, Orest; and German tenor Burkhard Ulrich, in his Met debut, as the corrupt monarch Aegisth. Chéreau’s longtime collaborator Vincent Huguet will stage the production at the Met.
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| | |  | | Live in HD audiences around the world will see 10 live performances from the Met’s 2016-17 season, which celebrates the company’s 50th anniversary at Lincoln Center. This season’s HD transmissions include five new productions from the Met season and three operas new to the series. The Met: Live in HD is the largest provider of alternative cinema content in the world, with more than 19 million tickets sold over the first 10 years of the series. The series brings live Met performances to more than 2,000 movie theaters in 70 countries around the world. | | | | Tickets can be booked from your local cinema at $28 for seniors & children and $33 for adults. All operas are exempt from classification.
NB: Reduced ticket prices for special encore series. | | | | AUCKLAND
BRIDGEWAY CINEMA, NORTHCOTE
LIDO, EPSOM
MONTEREY, HOWICK
RIALTO CINEMAS, AUCKLAND
WAIHEKE CINEMA, WAIHEKE ISLAND
WELLINGTON
LIGHT HOUSE CINEMA, CUBA STREET
LIGHT HOUSE CINEMA, PETONE
MONTEREY, UPPER HUTT
PENTHOUSE CINEMA
NORTH ISLAND
BASEMENT CINEMA, ROTORUA
CATHAY CINEMA, KERI KERI
CIRCUS CINEMA, MARTINBOROUGH
EMBASSY 3, WANGANUI
EVENT CINEMA, HAVELOCK NORTH
EVENT CINEMA COASTLANDS, PARAPARAUMU
EVENT CINEMA, NEW PLYMOUTH
EVENT CINEMA, PALMERSTON NORTH
FOCAL POINT CINEMA, LEVIN
LIDO, HAMILTON
MAJESTIC CINEMA, TAIHAPE
MATAKANA CINEMA, MATAKANA
ODEON CINEMA, GISBORNE
REGENT, MASTERTON
RIALTO CINEMA, TAURANGA
SHORELINE CINEMA, WAIKANAE
TIVOLI CINEMA, CAMBRIDGE
WHAKAMAX CINEMA, WHAKATANE
CHRISTCHURCH
ACADEMY CINEMA GOLD, CHRISTCHURCH
HOLLYWOOD SUMNER, CHRISTCHURCH
DELUXE CINEMA, CHRISTCHURCH
DUNEDIN
ARTHUR'S CINEMA, CROMWELL
RIALTO CINEMAS, DUNEDIN
SOUTH ISLAND
CINECAFE, AKAROA
CLYDE CINEMA, CLYDE
DOROTHY BROWN'S, ARROWTOWN
LIMELIGHT, OAMARU
MOVIEMAX, TIMARU
NBS THEATRE, WESTPORT
REGENT CINEMA, GREYMOUTH
RUBY'S, WANAKA
SBS ST. JAMES, GORE
STATE CINEMAS, NELSON
TOP TOWN CINEMA, BLENHEIM
TOWN HALL, RANGIORA
VILLAGE THEATRE, TAKAKA
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