Opera
The Metropolitan Opera Season 2009
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Operatic brilliance from the Met
The Metropolitan Opera Season 2009
Opening Night Gala
The Metropolitan Opera Season 2009
Opening Night Gala
The Metropolitan Opera Season 2009
The Audition
The Metropolitan Opera Season 2009
Salome
The Metropolitan Opera Season 2009
Salome
The Metropolitan Opera Season 2009
Doctor Atomic - Copyright by Ken Howard/Metropolitan Opera
The Metropolitan Opera Season 2009
Doctor Atomic - Copyright by Ken Howard/Metropolitan Opera
The Metropolitan Opera Season 2009
La Damnation de Faust - Copyright by Ken Howard/Metropolitan Opera
The Metropolitan Opera Season 2009
La Damnation de Faust - Copyright by Ken Howard/Metropolitan Opera
The Metropolitan Opera Season 2009
Thaïs - copyright by Ken Howard/Metropolitan Opera
The Metropolitan Opera Season 2009
La Rodine - Copyright by Ken Howard/Metropolitan Opera
The Metropolitan Opera Season 2009
Thaïs - Copyright by Ken Howard/Metropolitan Opera
The Metropolitan Opera Season 2009
La Rodine
The Metropolitan Opera Season 2009
Orfero ed Euridice (Orpheus and Eurydice) - Copyright by Ken Howard/Metropolitan Opera
The Metropolitan Opera Season 2009
Orfero ed Euridice (Orpheus and Eurydice) - Copyright by Ken Howard/Metropolitan Opera
The Metropolitan Opera Season 2009
Madama Butterfly - Copyright by Ken Howard/Metropolitan Opera
The Metropolitan Opera Season 2009
Madama Butterfly - Copyright by Ken Howard/Metropolitan Opera
The Metropolitan Opera Season 2009
Lucia di Lammermoor - Copyright by Ken Howard/Metropolitan Opera
The Metropolitan Opera Season 2009
Lucia di Lammermoor - Copyright by Ken Howard/Metropolitan Opera
The Metropolitan Opera Season 2009
La Sonnambula - Copyright by Ken Howard/Metropolitan Opera
The Metropolitan Opera Season 2009
La Sonnambula - Copyright by Ken Howard/Metropolitan Opera
The Metropolitan Opera Season 2009
La Cenerentola - Copyright by Ken Howard/Metropolitan Opera
Sky Arts 2 presents a magnificent season of HD opera, screening the highlights of New York Metropolitan Opera's 2008-2009 season. Tune in for the best opera performances from the Met Opera starring Renée Fleming, Ramón Vargas, Karita Mattila and Anna Netrebko among many others.
THE AUDITION
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A film that takes you backstage at the Metropolitan Opera’s national auditions, where each year thousands of hopefuls face their fears and compete for a cash prize and the chance to sing on the Met stage. Directed by Susan Froemke.
OPENING NIGHT GALA
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Renée Fleming stars in the season-opening gala as music Director James Levine, Marco Armiliato, and Patrick Summers conduct fully staged performances of the second act of Verdi’s La Traviata, the third act of Massenet’s Manon, and the final scene from Richard Strauss’s Capriccio. Tenor Ramón Vargas, baritones Thomas Hampson and Dwayne Croft, and bass Robert Lloyd join the soprano for this season-opener.
SALOME
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Soprano Karita Mattila reprises her acclaimed interpretation of the title character of Strauss’s Salome, with baritone Juha Uusitalo as Jochanaan. Patrick Summers conducts.
DOCTOR ATOMIC
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John Adams’s contemporary masterpiece explores a momentous episode of modern history: the creation of the atomic bomb. Director Penny Woolcock makes her Met debut with this gripping story that changed the course of history. Baritone Gerald Finley plays J. Robert Oppenheimer, the title character. Alan Gilbert conducts.
LA DAMNATION DE FAUST
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Robert Lepage directs Berlioz’s La Damnation de Faust, starring Marcello Giordani in the title role, with Susan Graham as Marguerite and John Relyea as Méphistophélès. James Levine conducts.
THAÏS
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The radiant Renée Fleming plays the Egyptian courtesan in search of spiritual sustenance. Thomas Hampson is the monk who falls from grace. Massenet’s sensual score is presented in a production by John Cox that originated at Lyric Opera of Chicago. Jesús López-Cobos conducts.
LA RONDINE
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Angela Gheorghiu and Roberto Alagna star in this ravishing romance from the world’s most popular opera composer. Gheorghiu plays the kept woman who gambles on true love, and Alagna is the man who makes her question the cost of her glittering existence. Nicolas Joël directs the new production of this gorgeously melodic look at love. Marco Armiliato conducts.
ORFEO ED EURIDICE (Orpheus and Eurydice)
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Mark Morris’s acclaimed production returns! This complete vision for Gluck, with choreography by Morris and costumes by Isaac Mizrahi, features the artistry of Stephanie Blythe in the title role. The alluring Danielle de Niese is Orfeo’s adored wife, Euridice, who inspires the hero to face the underworld for her sake. Music Director James Levine conducts.
MADAMA BUTTERFLY
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Patricia Racette sings the title role of Puccini’s Madama Butterfly in Anthony Minghella’s stunning production. Marcello Giordani stars as Pinkerton. Patrick Summers conducts.
LUCIA DI LAMMERMOOR
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Anna Netrebko and Piotr Beczala star as Donizetti's fragile title heroine and her lover, Edgardo. Mariusz Kwiecien is Lucia's tyrannical brother. Mary Zimmerman’s hit production is staged as a Victorian ghost story. Marco Armiliato conducts.
LA SONNAMBULA
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Mary Zimmerman, who directed Natalie Dessay in last season’s hit new production of Lucia di Lammermoor, underlines La Sonnambula’s dual elements of sleep and wakefulness in an intriguing staging set in the present. Bellini’s hauntingly lyrical score soars as performed by Dessay and Juan Diego Flórez, back from their sensational run together in La Fille du Régiment in leading opera houses around the world. Conducted by Evelino Pidò.
LA CENERENTOLA
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Hot on the heels of her triumphant Met debut as Rosina in last season’s Il Barbiere di Siviglia, Elina Garanca portrays another Rossini charmer in this bel canto Cinderella story. Lawrence Brownlee is her Prince Charming. Veteran baritone Alessandro Corbelli demonstrates his impeccable comic timing to match the gravitas of Met favorite John Relyea. Maurizio Benini conducts.
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Rob
Fri 21 August 2009, 07:52
At last - thanks for putting up this clear list of the Met productions and when they are broadcast. Looking forward to them.
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Ross
Sun 23 August 2009, 17:21
Youre so right Rob. It is so hard sometimes to know what is being broadcast and when.
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L.Zucchini
Mon 24 August 2009, 14:35
Is tonight’s performance live? If so it must be a matinee performance.
Thank you
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Sally
Mon 24 August 2009, 16:51
This series was broadcast live from the Met earlier this year if you look up the Met website. A wonderful selection of opera to look forward to.
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frank
Fri 28 August 2009, 06:54
A superb series of operas from probably the world’s most consistently good opera house. Following the Glyndebourne season & in particular the excellently presented L’Elisir , you deserve a huge thank you from all opera buffs . Very well done Sky Arts. I hope you keep it up in future years-- more (especially live ) from ENO, Glyndebourne, & the Met.please! The BBC should hang its head in shame !!
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rosie M
Sun 30 August 2009, 17:43
Well done Sky Arts!
I rarely watch TV as there is a general diet of rubbish! This is a positive feast of Opera! Wonderful!
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almaruff@btinternet.com
Thu 3 September 2009, 19:36
Please could you re-screen Gounods FAUST - Paris Orchestra. I accidentally wiped out the recording after the first act which I enjoyed so much.Thanks
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Dave
Sun 13 September 2009, 16:37
I was delighted to see Doctor Atomic in the line up, as i couldnt attend the recent showing at ENO. Im loving the opera on Sky Arts - i want an opera channel!
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Carl Page
Wed 16 September 2009, 17:59
I was delighted to read so many compliments being paid to Sky Arts. Their Opera nights and their classical repetoire in general have ,I am delighted to say, kept me alive and wanting more. Keep it up/ PLEASE
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imogen
Wed 23 September 2009, 09:35
I too wiped out a recording please can you re-screen Juan Dieago Florez in the Barber of Seville . Looking forward to La Sonnambula as I saw it last year in New York. Keep up the good work
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Dr Jo d'Andrade-S. W.
Fri 25 September 2009, 09:44
Excellent site! May I have ur newsletter sent pls? Thx!
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Carl
Fri 25 September 2009, 13:52
Thais was magic. I have never seen it before. Keep up the good work. What would we do without Sky Arts. Beir Bua.
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Carl
Fri 25 September 2009, 13:55
Dr Jo.
Including Txtubbish I see.
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Carl
Mon 5 October 2009, 13:34
It never stops!!!!!!!!!! La Rondine was suberb. Thanks again.
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Helen W
Fri 16 October 2009, 08:08
Please re-screen ORFEO ED EURIDICE (Orpheus and Eurydice)
as I missed it
Thanks in anticipation
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Marianne Pratt
Tue 20 October 2009, 17:22
Thank you Sky Arts 2 for all of the wonderful productions from The Met, Glynebourne and other Opera Houses around Europe. Would be greatly appreciated if the credits that go up after the Met Productions could be slowed down somewhat in order that they can be read !
Looking foreward to repeat of the Met’s 2007 production of The Barber of Seville with Juan Diego Florez.
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Carl Page
Fri 23 October 2009, 18:32
Enjoyed Lucia on Monday night. I thought the production was a little fussy. Piotr Beczala gave a very creditable performance under the cicumstances. A new Star? Mmm. In time maybe!
Keep them coming please!
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Paul Foss
Mon 26 October 2009, 17:56
Thank you for the synopsis and cast list - very useful.
You couldn’t get Radio Times to print just a little bit more about wha’s on, could you?
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Carl Page
Wed 28 October 2009, 20:09
Hated La Sonnambula, still you can’t win em all. Maybe I’m just an old traditionalist after all !!!!
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David Edwards
Sun 8 November 2009, 13:35
Fantastic Met performance of La Cenerentola but unfortunately I had to miss most of the second act. Any chance of screening this again?
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AJ Lane
Sun 15 November 2009, 18:44
Are you re-screening The Audition?? Please
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George Anderton
Thu 26 November 2009, 18:59
I have only recently had Sky installed and sad to say just caught the tail end of La Somnambula featuring my favourite soprano Natalie Dessay. Please tell me that you will be repeating the programme.
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Martha Fass
Wed 16 December 2009, 18:21
Please repeat La Sonnambula over holiday period… Outstanding cast & production
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Michelle Johnson
Thu 13 May 2010, 16:01
Thank you so much Sky Arts 2 for bringing me all this wonderful music. I have so enjoyed the operas from the met and the stunning production of Wagners full Ring Cycle broadcast from Barcelona earlier this year!! This is the best channel in the world.
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