Curzon Cinemas is proud to bring you the new season of the
New York Metropolitan Opera Live in HD. With highlights including
Donizetti’s Anna Bolena, Wagner’s Siegfried and Gounod’s Faust, the new
line up is set to be as exciting and sensational as the 2010-2011
season.
Met Opera live will be screening at:
Chelsea, Mayfair, Richmond, hmvcurzon Wimbledon
TICKETS: £30.00/£25.00 Cineastes and under 15s.
Chelsea Pullmans seats: £40.00/£35.00 Cineastes.
Royal Box seats at Curzon Mayfair: £37.50/£32.50 Cineastes
NEW YORK METROPOLITAN OPERA 2011/2012 SEASON:
Gaetano Donizetti’s ANNA BOLENA
Saturday 15 October 2011 6.00pm
Conductor: Marco Armiliato; Production: David McVicar; Cast: Anna
Netrebko, Angela Meade, Elina Garanca, Tamara Mumford, Stephen Costello,
Ildar Abdrazakov. 250mins with 1 interval
Anna Netrebko opens the Met season with her portrayal of the ill-fated
queen driven insane by her unfaithful king. She sings one of opera’s
greatest mad scenes in a production that also stars Elīna Garanča as her
rival, Jane Seymour, and Ildar Abdrazakov as Henry VIII.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s DON GIOVANNI
Saturday 29 October 2011 6.00pm
Conductor: James Levine, Andrew Davis; Production: Michael Grandage;
Cast: Marina Rebeka, Barbara Frittoli, Annette Dasch, Mojca Erdmann,
Mariusz Kwiecien, Isabel Leonard, Ramon Vargas, Bruce Sledge, Matthew
Polenzani. 230mins with 1 interval
Mariusz Kwiecien brings his youthful and sensual interpretation of
Mozart’s timeless anti-hero to the Met for the first time, under the
direction of Tony Award®-winning director Michael Grandage. A troupe of
refined Mozartians appears in this new production, including Marina
Rebeka, Barbara Frittoli, Isabel Leonard, Matthew Polenzani, Ramón
Vargas, and John Relyea. Gerald Finley steps into the title role later
in the season, and Andrew Davis also conducts.
Richard Wagner’s SIEGFRIED
Saturday 5 November 2011 4.00pm
Conductor: James Levine; Production: Robert Lepage; Cast: Deborah Voigt,
Katarina Dalayman, Patricia Bardon, Gary Lehman, Stephen Gould, Gerhard
Siegel, Robert Brubaker, Bryn Terfel, Eric Owens, Richard Paul Fink.
351mins with 2 intervals
In part three of the Ring, Wagner’s cosmic vision focuses on his hero’s
early conquests, while Robert Lepage’s revolutionary stage machine
transforms itself from bewitched forest to mountaintop love nest. Gary
Lehman sings the title role and Deborah Voigt’s Brünnhilde is his prize.
Bryn Terfel is the Wanderer.
Philip Glass’ SATYAGRAHA
Saturday 19 November 2011 6.00pm
Conductor: Dante Anzolini; Production: Phelim McDermott; Cast: Rachelle
Durkin, Richard Croft, Kim Josephson, Alfred Walker. 248mins with 2
intervals
The Met’s visually extravagant production is back for an encore
engagement. Richard Croft once again is Gandhi in Philip Glass’s
unforgettable opera, which the Washington Post calls “a profound and
beautiful work of theater”.
George Frideric Handel’s RODELINDA
Saturday 3 December 2011 5.30pm
Conductor: Harry Bicket; Production: Stephen Wadsworth; Cast: Renee
Fleming, Stephanie Blythe, Andreas Scholl, Iestyn Davies, Anthony Roth
Costanzo, Kobie van Rensburg, Shenyang. 255mins with 2 intervals
Sensational in the 2004 Met premiere of Stephen Wadsworth’s
much-heralded production, Renée Fleming reprises the title role. She is
joined by Stephanie Blythe and countertenor Andreas Scholl.
Charles Gounod’s FAUST
Saturday 10 December 2011 6.00pm
Conductor: Yannick Nezet-Seguin, Alain Altinoglu; Production: Des
McAnuff; Cast: Angela Gheorghiu, Malin Bystrom, Marina Poplavskaya,
Michele Losier, Kate Lindsey, Jonas Kaufmann, Roberto Alagna, Joseph
Calleja, Rene Pape. 255mins with 2 intervals
With Jonas Kaufmann in the title role, René Pape as the devil, and
Angela Gheorghiu as Marguerite, Gounod’s classic retelling of the Faust
legend couldn’t be better served. Tony Award-winning director Des
McAnuff updates the story to the first half of the 20th century with a
production that won praise in London last season. A later run features
another first-tier Faust cast: Roberto Alagna, Joseph Calleja, Marina
Poplavskaya, and Ferruccio Furlanetto.
George Frideric Handel, Jean-Philippe Rameau, Antonio Vivaldi and others’ THE ENCHANTED ISLAND
Saturday 21 January 2012 6.00pm
Conductor: William Christie; Production: Phelim McDermott; Cast:
Danielle de Niese, Lisette Oropesa, Joyce DiDonato, David Daniels,
Anthony Roth Costanzo, Placido Domingo, Luca Pisaroni. 210mins with 1
interval
Inspired by the musical pastiches and masques of the 18th century, the
Met presents an original Baroque fantasy, featuring a who’s who of
Baroque stars. With music by Handel, Vivaldi, Rameau, and others, the
new libretto by Jeremy Sams combines elements of The Tempest and A
Midsummer Night’s Dream. David Daniels is Prospero, Joyce DiDonato is
Sycorax, Danielle de Niese is Ariel, Luca Pisaroni is Caliban, and
Plácido Domingo makes a special appearance as Neptune. Lisette Oropesa
and Anthony Roth Costanzo also star. This dazzling production is
directed and designed by Phelim McDermott and Julian Crouch.
Richard Wagner’s GOTTERDAMMERUNG
Saturday 11 February 2012 5.00pm
Conductor: James Levine; Production: Robert Lepage; Cast: Debora Voigt,
Katarina Dalayman, Wendy Bryn Harmer, Waltraud Meier, Karen Cargill,
Gary Lehman, Stephen Gould, Iain Paterson, Eric Owens, Richard Paul
Fink. 374mins with 2 intervals
With its cataclysmic climax, the Met’s new Ring cycle, directed by
Robert Lepage, comes to its resolution. Deborah Voigt stars as
Brünnhilde and Gary Lehman is Siegfried the star-crossed lovers doomed
by fate.
Giuseppe Verdi’s ERNANI
Saturday 25 February 2012 6.00pm
Conductor: Marco Armiliato; Production: Pier Luigi Samaritani; Cast:
Angela Meade, Salvatore Licitra, Dmitri Hvorostovsky, Ferruccio
Furlanetto. 229mins with 2 intervals
Angela Meade takes centre stage in Verdi’s thrilling early gem.
Salvatore Licitra is her mismatched lover, and all-star Verdians Dmitri
Hvorostovsky and Ferruccio Furlanetto round out the cast.
Jules Massenet’s MANON
Saturday 7 April 2012 5.00pm
Conductor: Fabio Luisi; Production: Laurent Pelly; Cast: Anna Netrebko,
Piotr Beczala, Paulo Szot, David Pittsinger. 243mins with 2 intervals
Anna Netrebko’s dazzling portrayal of the tragic heroine in Laurent
Pelly’s new production travels to the Met from the Royal Opera House,
Covent Garden. Piotr Beczala and Paulo Szot also star, with the Met’s
Principal Guest Conductor Fabio Luisi on the podium.
Giuseppe Verdi’s LA TRAVIATA
Saturday 14 April 2012 6.00pm
Conductor: Fabio Luisi; Production: Willy Decker; Cast: Natalie Dessay,
Matthew Polenzani, Dmitri Hvorostovsky. 187mins with 1 interval
Natalie Dessay will put on the red dress in Willy Decker’s stunning
production, in her first Violetta at the Met. Matthew Polenzani sings
Alfredo, Dmitri Hvorostovsky is Germont.
Please note: Timings are approximate and subject to change.