In this 11th year, over ten nights performances from the Met’s Live in HD series will be shown starting with a screening of FUNNY FACE in a special co-presentation with Film at Lincoln Center. Screenings run from August 23 through September 2. There will be 3000 seats in the Plaza in front of the Opera House with an additional standing room area. Cancellations due to thunder/lighting or high wind will not be rescheduled.
DAS RHEINGOLD:Wagner
Original Air Date: 10/09/2010
Levine; Terfel, Croft, Owens, Blythe
Live in HD SID.19359991
RWW Review: My qualifications on Monday’s performance centered on the Giants, the Alberich, Wotan and the Loge, all OK, but not stellar. I thought all were much better this afternoon. I can’t explain the booing of Croft, but maybe he understood broadcast mics were there and was intent on best possible tone. His performance was one of the best vocal Loges I’ve ever heard today. Eric Owens’ voice sounded better and the Giants MUCH better. As for Terfel, I though his miking was a little muffled (only one of the singers) at times, but clearly this is was in the best voice of the performances I’ve heard (Opening Night-Sirius only for me), Monday, and today. Adam Diegel (Froh) and Dwayne Croft (Donner) even better today, and the split second hammerblow that was just a half second off on Monday was perfect today. There were lots of close-ups today, but also lots of framed scenes of two or more characters interacting.
My only real cavil about today was that the lighting for the NIbelheim scene was mostly washed out. In the theatre, it has a coppery ambience; the first and third scenes came off very well in the house. The final scene seemed even better today, and credit to LePage for timing the final moments to keep applause mostly out until the music has done.
I would be remiss if I did not congratulate Levine on a tremendous performance, and Diegel and Blythe helped him on to the stage for bows at the end. I would call this the Legato Rheingold, not a clinker in the cast. The Met Orchestra is one of the elements that distinguishes their live broadcasts so much. LePage honored the text — there’s a RIng, there’s Rhinegold, a serpent (that came off better in the theatre than on the HD transmission), and a toad (even though it looked more like a bullfrog), and a rainbow bridge.
DIE WALKÜRE:Wagner
Levine; Voigt, Westbroek, Blythe, Kaufmann, Terfel, Konig
Original Air Date: 05/14/2011 Live in HD
SID.20130323
Brünnhilde…………..Deborah Voigt
Siegmund…………….Jonas Kaufmann
Sieglinde……………Eva-Maria Westbroek
Wotan……………….Bryn Terfel
Fricka………………Stephanie Blythe
Hunding……………..Hans-Peter König
Gerhilde…………….Kelly Cae Hogan
Grimgerde……………Mary Ann McCormick
Helmwige…………….Molly Fillmore
Ortlinde…………….Wendy Bryn Harmer
Rossweisse…………..Lindsay Ammann
Schwertleite…………Mary Phillips
Siegrune…………….Eve Gigliotti
Waltraute……………Marjorie Elinor Dix
Conductor……………James Levine
Production…………..Robert Lepage
Associate Director……Neilson Vignola
Set Designer…………Carl Fillion
Costume Designer……..François St-Aubin
Lighting Designer…….Etienne Boucher
Video Image Artist……Boris Firquet
TV Director………….Gary Halvorson
NIXON IN CHINA:Adams
John Adams: James Maddalena, Janis Kelly, Kathleen Kim
Original Air Date: 02/12/2011
Live in HD
SID.20140322
DON CARLO:Verdi
Nezet-Seguin; Poplavskaya, Smirnova, Alagna, Keenlyside, Furlanetto, Halfvarson
Original Air Date: 12/11/2010
Live in HD
SID.20140430
The Met’s new production is played in five acts with two intermissions, the first between Acts 2 and 3, and the second after Act 3. The version used is Verdi’s final revision from 1886, sung in Italian, including the act that takes place at Fontainebleau (Act 1). It is almost identical to the version used in the Met’s previous production by John Dexter, with the exception of the opening section of the Fontainebleau scene. Instead of the longer scene between Elisabeth and the woodcutters which opened the opera in the Dexter production, the new production uses the abbreviated version with which Verdi replaced the original just before the Paris premiere in 1867.
The music of the Herald is sung by the Count of Lerma.
Don Carlo……………Roberto Alagna
Elizabeth of Valois…..Marina Poplavskaya
Rodrigo……………..Simon Keenlyside
Princess Eboli……….Anna Smirnova
Philip II……………Ferruccio Furlanetto
Grand Inquisitor……..Eric Halfvarson
Priest Inquisitor…….Tommaso Matelli
Celestial Voice………Jennifer Check
Friar……………….Alexei Tanovitski8 *
Tebaldo……………. Layla Claire
Count of Lerma……….Eduardo Valdes
Countess of Aremberg….Anne Dyas
Flemish Deputy……….Donovan Singletary
Flemish Deputy……….Keith Harris
Flemish Deputy……….Christopher Schaldenbrand
Flemish Deputy……….Joshua Benaim
Flemish Deputy……….Tyler Simpson
Flemish Deputy……….Eric Jordan
Conductor……………Yannick Nézet-Séguin
Production…………..Nicholas Hytner
Designer…………….Bob Crowley
Lighting designer…….Mark Henderson
TV Director………….Gary Halvorson
LA FANCIULLA DEL WEST:Puccini
Nicola Luisotti: Deborah Voigt, Marcello Giordani, Lucio Gallo
Original Air Date: 01/08/2011
Live in HD
SID.20150215
DON PASQUALE:Donizetti
Original Air Date: 11/13/2010 Live in HD SID.20150646
Don Pasquale…………John Del Carlo
Norina………………Anna Netrebko
Ernesto……………..Matthew Polenzani
Dr. Malatesta………..Mariusz Kwiecien
Notary………………Bernard Fitch
Conductor……………James Levine
Production…………..Otto Schenk
Designer…………….Rolf Langenfass
Lighting designer…….Duane Schuler
TV Director………….Gary Halvorson
This season Don Pasquale was performed with one intermission, between Acts II and III
The Met: Live in HD series is made possible by a gift of its founding sponsor, the Neubauer Family Foundation Bloomberg is the global corporate sponsor of The Met: Live in HD.
BORIS GODUNOV:Mussorgsky
Gergiev; Semenchuk, Antonenko, Balashov, Nikitin, Pape, Petrenko, Ognovenko
Original Air Date: 10/23/2010
Live in HDMOD Video
SID.20160215
LE COMTE ORY:Rossini
Maurizio Benini: Juan Diego Flórez, Joyce DiDonato, Diana Damrau
Original Air Date: 04/09/2011
Live in HD
SID.20160431