The Metropolitan Opera’s Peabody and Emmy Award-winning series The Met: Live in HD returns to Omaha this Fall, with Film Streams and Opera Omaha once again collaborating to present a singular experience at the Ruth Sokolof Theater. The fifth season of the groundbreaking Live in HD series is the biggest yet -- featuring 12 productions, four of which will be conducted by Music Director James Levine in his 40th anniversary season at The Met.
Tickets on sale September 7. Tickets available to Film Streams Members and Opera Omaha Subscribers beginning September 3, and Met Members starting August 27. |
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Films In This Series
Wagner's Das Rheingold
Mussorgsky's Boris Godunov
Donizetti's Don Pasquale
Verdi's Don Carlo
Puccini's La Fanciulla del West
Adams's Nixon in China
Gluck's Iphigenie en Tauride
Donizetti's Lucia di Lammermoor
Rossini's Le Comte Ory
Strauss's Capriccio
Verdi's Il Trovatore
Wagner's Die Walkure
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Live: Saturday, October 9, 12pm
Encore: Wednesday, October 13, 6pm
Two unparalleled artists join forces to create a groundbreaking new Ring for the Met: Maestro James Levine and director Robert Lepage. The cycle launches with Das Rheingold, the prologue to Wagner’s epic drama. “The Ring is not just a story or a series of operas, it’s a cosmos,” says Lepage, who brings cutting-edge technology and his own visionary imagination to the world’s greatest theatrical journey. Bryn Terfel sings the leading role of Wotan for the first time with the company, heading an extraordinary cast.
A prelude talk with Opera Omaha General Director John Wehrle will begin at 11am on the day of the live broadcast (Saturday, October 9).
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Live: Saturday, October 23, 11am
Encore: Wednesday, October 27, 6pm
René Pape takes on one of the greatest bass roles in a production by renowned theater and opera director Peter Stein, in his Met debut. Valery Gergiev conducts Mussorgsky’s epic spectacle that captures the suffering and ambition of a nation. “Boris Godunov is a masterpiece,” Stein says. “The challenge is to transmit the enormous emotional depth of the whole thing. Boris is the czar, but he is expressing a problem we all have: the consequences of human actions.” Aleksandrs Antonenko, Vladimir Ognovenko, and Ekaterina Semenchuk lead the huge cast.
A prelude talk with Opera Omaha General Director John Wehrle will begin at 10am on the day of the live broadcast (Saturday, October 23).
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Live: Saturday, November 13, 12pm
Encore: Wednesday, November 17, 6pm
Anna Netrebko revives her sensational turn in this sophisticated bel canto comedy, opposite Matthew Polenzani, Mariusz Kwiecien, and John Del Carlo in the title role. Music Director James Levine conducts. When Otto Schenk’s production premiered in 2006, the New York Times called it “brilliant” and “wonderful.”
A prelude talk with Opera Omaha Artistic Adviser & Principal Stage Director Garnett Bruce will begin at 11am on the day of the live broadcast (Saturday, November 13).
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Live: Saturday, December 11, 11:30am
Encore: Wednesday, December 15, 6pm
Director Nicholas Hytner makes his Met debut with this new production of Verdi’s profound, beautiful, and most ambitious opera. Roberto Alagna leads the cast, and Ferruccio Furlanetto, Marina Poplavskaya, Anna Smirnova, and Simon Keenlyside also star. Yannick Nézet-Séguin, back after his triumphant debut leading Carmen, conducts.
A prelude talk will begin at 10:30am on the day of the live broadcast (Saturday, December 11).
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Live: Saturday, January 8, 12pm
Encore: Wednesday, January 12, 6pm
Puccini’s wild-west opera had its world premiere in 1910 at the Met. Now, on the occasion of its centennial, all-American diva Deborah Voigt sings the title role of the “girl of the golden west,” starring opposite Marcello Giordani. Nicola Luisotti conducts.
A prelude talk with Stage Director Jim de Blasis will begin at 11am on the day of the live broadcast (Saturday, January 8).
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Live: Saturday, February 12, 12pm
Encore: Wednesday, February 16, 6pm
“All of my operas have dealt on deep psychological levels with our American mythology,” says composer John Adams, who conducts the Met premiere of his most famous opera. “The meeting of Nixon and Mao is a mythological moment in world history, particularly American history.” Acclaimed director and longtime Adams collaborator Peter Sellars makes his Met debut with this groundbreaking 1987 work, an exploration of the human truths beyond the headlines surrounding President Nixon’s 1972 encounter with Communist China. Baritone James Maddalena stars in the title role.
A prelude talk with Opera Omaha Artistic Adviser & Principal Stage Director Garnett Bruce will begin at 11am on the day of the live broadcast (Saturday, February 12).
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Live: Saturday, February 26, 12pm
Encore: Wednesday, March 2, 6pm
Susan Graham and Plácido Domingo reprise their starring roles in Gluck’s nuanced and elegant interpretation of this primal Greek myth. Tenor Paul Groves also returns to Stephen Wadsworth’s insightful production, first seen in 2007. Patrick Summers conducts.
A prelude talk with Opera Omaha Artistic Adviser & Principal Stage Director Garnett Bruce will begin at 11am on the day of the live broadcast (Saturday, February 26).
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Live: Saturday, March 19, 12pm
Encore: Wednesday, March 23, 6pm
Natalie Dessay triumphed as the fragile heroine of Donizetti’s masterpiece on Opening Night of the 2007–08 season. Now she returns to the role of the innocent young woman driven to madness, opposite Joseph Calleja, who sings her lover Edgardo.
A prelude talk with Opera Omaha Resident Music Director J. Gawf will begin at 11am on the day of the live broadcast (Saturday, March 19).
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Live: Saturday, April 9, 12pm
Encore: Wednesday, April 13, 6pm
Rossini’s vocally dazzling comedy stars bel canto sensation Juan Diego Flórez in the title role of this Met premiere production. He vies with mezzo-soprano Joyce DiDonato, in the trouser role of Isolier, for the love of the lonely Countess Adèle, sung by soprano Diana Damrau. Bartlett Sher, director of the Met’s hit productions of The Barber of Seville and The Tales of Hoffmann, describes the world of the opera as, “a place where love is dangerous. People get hurt. That can be very funny and very painful. Rossini captures both—with the most beautiful love music Rossini ever wrote.”
A prelude talk will begin at 11am on the day of the live broadcast (Saturday, April 9).
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Live: Saturday, April 23, 12pm
Encore: Wednesday, April 27, 6pm
On Opening Night of the 2008–09 season, Renée Fleming dazzled audiences when she sang the final scene of Strauss’s wise and worldly meditation on art and life. Now she performs the entire work, in which the composer explores the essence of opera itself. Matthew Polenzani and Sarah Connolly also star, and Andrew Davis conducts.
A prelude talk will begin at 11am on the day of the live broadcast (Saturday, April 23).
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Live: Saturday, April 30, 12pm
Encore: Wednesday, May 4, 6pm
David McVicar’s stirring production of Verdi’s intense drama premiered in the 2008–09 season. James Levine leads this revival, starring four extraordinary singers -- Sondra Radvanovsky, Dolora Zajick, Marcelo Álvarez, and Dmitri Hvorostovsky -- in what might be the composer’s most melodically rich score.
A prelude talk with Opera Omaha General director John Wehrle will begin at 11am on the day of the live broadcast (Saturday, April 30).
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Live: Saturday, May 14, 11am
Encore: Wednesday, May 18, 6pm
A stellar cast comes together for this second installment of Robert Lepage’s new production of the Ring cycle, conducted by James Levine. Bryn Terfel is Wotan, lord of the Gods. Deborah Voigt adds the part of Brünnhilde to her extensive Wagnerian repertoire at the Met. Jonas Kaufmann and Eva-Maria Westbroek star as the twins, Siegmund and Sieglinde, and Stephanie Blythe is Fricka.
A prelude talk with Opera Omaha General director John Wehrle will begin at 10am on the day of the live broadcast (Saturday, May 14).
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