2017-18 Live Broadcasts

Oct
9
Tue
2018
SAMSON ET DALILA
Oct 9 @ 7:30 PM – 10:50 PM


SAMSON ET DALILA : Saint-Saens
Original Air Date: 10/09/2018
Elder; Garanca, Alagna, Naouri, Azizov, Belosselskiy
SID.18410214
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When mezzo-soprano Elīna Garanča and tenor Roberto Alagna joined forces for a new production of Carmen at the Met, the results were electrifying. Now this star duo reunites for another sensual French opera when they open the season in the title roles of Saint-Saëns’s biblical epic Samson et Dalila. Darko Tresnjak, who won a Tony Award for Best Direction of a Musical in 2014 for A Gentleman’s Guide to Love & Murder, makes his Met debut directing a vivid, seductive staging, featuring a monumental setting for the last-act Temple of Dagon, where the hero crushes his Philistine enemies. Sir Mark Elder conducts the first new Met production of the work in 20 years.

Production a gift of the Gramma Fisher Foundation, Marshalltown, Iowa, and H.M. Agnes Hsu-Tang, PhD. and Oscar Tang Additional funding from The Walter and Leonore Annenberg Endowment Fund and William R. Miller


Even an Orgy Scene Can’t Save the Met Opera’s Dull Take on ‘Samson et Dalila’ By James Jorden • 09/25/18
Review: The Met’s New ‘Samson’ Succeeds Only as Kitsch by Antonio Tommasini 9/25/18

Sara Krulwich/The New York Times
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Oct
12
Fri
2018
LA FANCIULLA DEL WEST
Oct 12 @ 7:30 PM – 11:15 PM

Metropolitan Opera

Puccini
Original Air Date: 10/12/2018
Armiliato; Westbroek, Eyvazov, Bosi, Lucic, Simpson, Rose, Gradus
SID.18410535
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Soprano Eva-Maria Westbroek sings Puccini’s gun-slinging heroine in this romantic epic of the Wild West. Tenor Yusif Eyvazov portrays Dick Johnson for opening night (Oct 4, 8, 12)  Jonas Kaufmann returns to the MET for performances on Oct 17, 20, 23, and 27.   Baritone Željko Lučić is the vigilante sheriff Jack Rance, and Marco Armiliato conducts.


Parterre’s Porgy Amor on FANCIULLA: All about the ‘Girl’ who came to Stay