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The Metropolitan Opera Season 2010
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The new Met Opera Season has arrived!
The Metropolitan Opera Season 2010
Renée Fleming stars in title role of Armida alongside six tenors, including Lawrence Brownlee as Rinaldo. Image courtesy of Ken Howard / Metropolitan Opera
The Metropolitan Opera Season 2010
Karita Mattila and Marcelo Álvarez star in Luc Bondy's version of Tosca which divided audiences at its Met premiere. Image courtesy of Ken Howard / Metropolitan Opera
The Metropolitan Opera Season 2010
James Levine conducts a new production of Offenbach’s fantastical opera, with Anna Netrebko as Antonia, Joseph Calleja as Hoffmann, and Alan Held as the Four Villains. Image courtesy of Ken Howard / Metropolitan Opera.
The Metropolitan Opera Season 2010
Franco Zeffirelli brings the exquisite production of Puccini's tale of a man's attempt to woe a man-hating princess to the Met. Image courtesy of Marty Sohl / Metropolitan Opera
The Metropolitan Opera Season 2010
Renée Fleming and Susan Graham star in Strauss's comic masterpiece, Der Rosenkavalier. Image courtesy of Ken Howard / Metropolitan Opera
The Metropolitan Opera Season 2010
Director Richard Eyre's new production of Carmen is not only operatic bliss but also a visual treat! Image courtesy of Ken Howard / Metropolitan Opera
The Metropolitan Opera Season 2010
Plácido Domingo makes history singing the title role in Verdi’s gripping political thriller, which is written for a baritone. Image courtesy of Marty Sohl / Metropolitan Opera
The Metropolitan Opera Season 2010
Marlis Petersen shines as Ophelia in this new production of Ambroise Thomas’s Hamlet. Image courtesy of Marty Sohl / Metropolitan Opera
The Metropolitan Opera Season 2010
Violeta Urmana sings the title role in Verdi’s tale of ancient Egypt. Image courtesy of Marty Sohl / Metropolitan Opera
The fantastic Met Opera Season returns to Sky Arts 2HD this autumn with a stellar line-up of world-famous operas and starring some of the best operatic talent around from Plácido Domingo and Roberto Alagna to Karita Mattila and Renee Fleming.
Opera premieres every Monday at 8pm on Sky Arts 2HD. And to make sure you don’t miss a note now that the new operas have arrived, there’s a repeat of the week’s premiere on Saturdays at 10pm on Sky Arts HD.
Tosca
16 August at 8pm, Sky Arts 2HD
Karita Mattila stars in Luc Bondy’s new production of Puccini’s operatic thriller, with Marcelo Álvarez as Cavaradossi, and George Gagnidze as Scarpia. Joseph Colaneri conducts.
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Aida
23 August at 8pm, Sky Arts 2HD
Daniele Gatti conducts a cast of powerful voices in Verdi’s tale of ancient Egypt. Violeta Urmana sings the title role, Dolora Zajick returns in one of her most acclaimed portrayals as Amneris, Johan Botha is Radamès, and Carlo Guelfi sings Amonasro.
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Turandot
30 August at 8pm, Sky Arts 2HD
Franco Zeffirelli’s spectacular production of Puccini’s last opera stars Maria Guleghina as Turandot, Marina Poplavskaya as Liù, Marcello Giordani as Calàf, and Samuel Ramey as Timur. Andris Nelsons conducts.
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Les Contes D’Hoffmann
6 September at 8pm, Sky Arts 2HD
James Levine conducts Bartlett Sher’s new production of Offenbach’s fantastical opera, with Anna Netrebko as Antonia, Joseph Calleja as Hoffmann, and Alan Held as the Four Villains. Kathleen Kim sings Olympia, Ekaterina Gubanova is Giulietta, and Kate Lindsey is Nicklausse.
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Der Rosenkavalier
13 September at 8pm, Sky Arts 2HD
Edo de Waart conducts a stellar cast in Strauss’s comic masterpiece, led by Renée Fleming, Susan Graham, and Christine Schäfer. Eric Cutler is the Italian Singer, and Kristinn Sigmundsson sings Baron Ochs.
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Carmen
20 September at 8pm, Sky Arts 2HD
Director Richard Eyre’s acclaimed new production of Bizet’s masterpiece stars Elīna Garanča in the title role, Roberto Alagna as Don José, Barbara Frittoli as Micaëla, and Teddy Tahu Rhodes as Escamillo. Yannick Nézet-Séguin conducts.
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Simon Boccanegra
27 September at 8pm, Sky Arts 2HD
Four decades into a legendary Met career, tenor Plácido Domingo makes history singing the title role in Verdi’s gripping political thriller, which is written for a baritone. Adrianne Pieczonka, Marcello Giordani, and James Morris are his co-stars in this moving and tragic story of a father and his lost daughter. James Levine conducts.
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Hamlet
4 October at 8pm, Sky Arts 2HD
Simon Keenlyside and Marlis Petersen bring two of Shakespeare’s unforgettable characters to life in this new production of Ambroise Thomas’s Hamlet. For the role of Ophelia, the French composer created an extended mad scene that is among the greatest in opera.
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Armida
11 October at 8pm, Sky Arts 2HD
Renée Fleming stars in the title role of Armida, opposite no fewer than six tenors, as the sorceress who enthrals men into her island prison. Tony Award winner Mary Zimmerman returns to direct this new production of a work she describes as “a buried treasure, a box of jewels.”
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Dave
Thu 12 August 2010, 21:45
Wow! What a great line up! Im looking forward to Monday nights!! Great stuff!!
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KJ
Fri 13 August 2010, 08:44
Thank goodness, something that’s not just a load more repeats. Especially looking forward to ‘Les Contest D’Hoffmann’ is this an unknown prequel/sequel to the better known ‘Les Contes d’Hoffmann’.
This sloppiness just points up Sky’s disrepectful attitude to it’s classical output for me. Perhaps a proof reader could also go through the linked list of casts and correct the many errors in characters names?
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Mrs Alagna
Mon 16 August 2010, 12:38
So far so good. At least a new collection. Hope they prove to be as good as they sound although reserving judgement on ‘Tosca’
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Louise
Mon 16 August 2010, 14:32
looking forward to Aida and Carmen, great to have some good operas to look forward to!
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M Maanon
Tue 17 August 2010, 11:23
Thank you!!! Thank You!!! I have been hoping for this for over a year!!
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Mrs alagna
Mon 23 August 2010, 14:36
Hope we don’t have too much of the dreadful Lawrence Brownlee. Its impossible to treat him seriously unless you close your eyes or he stands on a box.
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malcolm
Mon 30 August 2010, 08:03
WISH would REPEAT the Wonderful Ring cycle more than once !!
missed Walkure and Siegfried
anyonecopy it to disk I can beg a copy of??
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Ray
Sun 5 September 2010, 09:55
Yes, I do agree with Mrs. Alagna about Lawrence Brownlee. He appeared as Don Ramiro in Cenerentola in May 09, and ruined the experience for me. Problem is, today’s lyric tenors are so ugly, including Ramon Vargas and Rolando Villazon. All have good voices, but close-ups in high definition do them no favours!!
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KJ
Fri 10 September 2010, 08:25
Sorry to miss Les Contests couldn’t they get the tape? Contes d’Hoffmann that was shown instead was very much enjoyed. Calleja has such an enjoyably old fashioned voice, more of him please - can Sky not get hold of the Traviata from Covent Garden that was shown in the cinema?
Ray, to pick out those two is fine as they are plastered all over the place but what about Florez and Kaufmann, you can’t call them ugly but then Johan Botha in Aida - whaaa! Oh well ...
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Paul
Sun 19 September 2010, 16:47
Great to see Carmen in particular . Elina Garanca is just wonderful!.
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Phil
Tue 21 September 2010, 10:18
Watched Rosenkavalier and Carmen and the sound was truly appalling. An insult to such great singers.
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Peter
Fri 8 October 2010, 06:26
More Wagner opera - please - and some Richard Strauss too would be good.
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Martin
Fri 22 October 2010, 09:35
I am enjoying the coverage of the Met Opera Season on Sky Arts 2 very much. All the operas have had something brilliant about them and here are some of my highlights:
- Laurence Brownlee singing Rinaldo in Armida was magnificent and the high tessitura was no problem. Fleming was slightly less convincing and not nearly as good as her flamboyant recording at Pesaro. We get a lot of Florez on CD - why not Brownlee?
- Marcelo Álvarez as Cavaradossi with Karita Mattila as a brilliantly highly strung Tosca
- Marina Poplavskaya as Liù in Zeffirelli’s war horse production of Turandot. Maria Guleghina and Marcello Giordano were a bit old school and wooden for me.
- Simon Keenleyside as a young and virile Hamlet which was a fabulous introduction to this opera for me
But the greatest two hours was spent falling in love with The Tales of Hoffman, an opera I have previously sruggled with on record (and yes I do have the Bonynge set). Here James Levine conducts and Anna Netrebko as Antonia and Joseph Calleja as Hoffmann are wonderful. Some real emotional angst here. I was amazed by Kathleen Kim as Olympia who even did her bows to the audience in doll like character. But it was Kate Lindsey as Nicklausse who stole the show for me.
Well done to all concerned at Sky Arts.
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Jonathan
Tue 25 October 2011, 12:28
I take it you are not showing the latest Met Opera screenings and I am dissaponted by the lack of reponse from Sky Arts when I have enquired. Pull your finger out!!!!!!!
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Sky Arts
Tue 25 October 2011, 16:38
Hi Jonathan,
We can now confirm that the new season of Met Operas is coming to Sky Arts 2 HD in Feburary 2012!
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