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DOCTOR ATOMIC (NFT)
Rated <E> Year 2008 Length 201 minutes
Screening from November 22nd at the Sun Theatre
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| OPT_DATE_FORMAT_MED | 11:30 AM, 1:00 PM & 11:30 AM |
COMPOSER: John Adams
STARRING: Sasha Cooke, Meredith Arwady, Gerald Finley, Richard Paul Fink, Eric Owens
CONDUCTOR: Alan Gilbert
John Adam's contemporary masterpiece explores a momentous episode of modern history: the creation of the atom bomb. Gerald Finely is Oppenheimer.
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LA CENERENTOLA (NFT)
Rated <E> Year 2009 Length 180 minutes
Screening from May 23rd at the Sun Theatre
COMPOSER: Gioachino Rossini
PRODUCTION: Cesare Lievi
STARRING: Elina Garanca, Lawrence Brownlee, Simone Alberghini, Alessandro Corbelli, John Relyea
CONDUCTOR: Maurizio Benini
Elina Garancina protrays a Rossini charmer in this bel canto Cinderella story. Lawrence Brownlee is her Prince Charming, Don Ramiro. Veteran baritone, Alessandro Corbelli demonstrates his impeccable comic timing to match the gravitas of Met favourite John Relyea.
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LA DAMNATION DE FAUST (NFT)
Rated <E> Year 2008 Length 165 minutes
Screening from December 6th at the Sun Theatre
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| OPT_DATE_FORMAT_MED | 11:30 AM, 1:00 PM & 11:30 AM |
COMPOSER: Hector Berlioz
STARRING: Susan Graham, Marcello Giordani, John Relyea
PRODUCTION: Robert Lepage
CONDUCTOR: James Levine
Rober Lepage, one of theatre's most imaginative directors, appplies his artistry to Berlioz's comtemplation of good and evil. Using ethereal projections, Lepage has created a vision for La Damnation de Faust that seamlessly marries art and technology. The production focuses on the singers, but there's a trail of visual consequences and stagecraft that accompanies the events happening on the stage. Marcello Giordani stars in the title role.
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LA RONDINE (NFT)
Rated <E> Year 2009 Length 135 minutes
Screening from January 31st at the Sun Theatre
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| OPT_DATE_FORMAT_MED | 11:30 AM, 1:00 PM & 11:30 AM |
COMPOSER: Giacomo Puccini
PRODUCTION: Nicolas Joel
STARRING: Angela Gheorghiu, Lisette Oropesa, Toberto Alagna, Marius Brenciu, Samuel Ramey
CONDUCTOR: Marco Armiliato
Opera's charasmatic real-life duo, Angelo Gheorghiu and Roberto Alagna provide the star power to deliver 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 Joel directs the new production of this gorgeously melodic look at love.
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LA SONNAMBULA (NFT)
Rated <E> Year 2009 Length 160 minutes
Screening from April 4th at the Sun Theatre
COMPOSER: Vincenzo Bellini
PRODUCTION: Mary Zimmerman
STARRING: Natalie Dessay, Juan Diego Florez, Michele Pertusi
CONDUCTOR: Evelino Pido
Mary Zimmerman 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 Florez.
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LUCIA DI LAMMERMOOR (NFT)
Rated <E> Year 2009 Length 200 minutes
Screening from March 7th at the Sun Theatre
COMPOSER: Gaetano Donizetti
PRODUCTION: Mary Zimmerman
STARRING: Diana Damarau, Anna Netrebko, Piotr Beczala, Roaland Villazon, Vladamir Stoyanov, Mariusz Kwiecien, Ildar Abdrazakov
CONDUCTOR: Marco Armillato
Anna Netrebko stars in the tile role of Donizetti's fragile heroine. Tenor Toalando Villazon stars as Lucia's lover, Edgardo. Baritone Mariussz Kwiecien is her tyrannical brother. Mary Zimmerman's hit production is staged as a Victorian ghost story.
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MADAMA BUTTERFLY (NFT)
Rated <E> Year 2009 Length 203 minutes
Screening from March 21st at the Sun Theatre
COMPOSER: Giacomo Puccini
PRODUCTION: Anthony Minghella
STARRING: Patricia Racette, Cristina Gallardo-Domas, Maria Zifchak, Roberto Aronica, Marcello Giordani, Dwayne Croft
CONDUCTOR: Patrick Summers
Cristina Gallardo-Domas, the original butterfly of the production when it opened the 2006-7 season, returns to the title role of the late Anthony Minghella's stunning production, a new classic of the Met repertory. Marcello Giordani stars as Pinkerton.
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ORFEO ED EURIDICE (NFT)
Rated <E> Year 2009 Length 91 minutes
Screening from February 14th at the Sun Theatre
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| OPT_DATE_FORMAT_MED | 11:30 AM, 1:00 PM & 11:30 AM |
COMPOSER: Christof Willibald von Gluck
PRODUCTION: Mark Morris
STARRING: Danielle de Niese, heidi Grant, Murphy/Ying Huang, Stephanie Blythe
CONDUCTOR: James Levine
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.
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THAIS (NFT)
Year 2009 Length 201 minutes
Screening from January 10th at the Sun Theatre
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| OPT_DATE_FORMAT_MED | 11:30 AM, 1:00 PM & 11:30 AM |
COMPOSER: Jules Massenet
PRODUCTION: John Cox
STARRING: Renee Fleming, Michael Schade, Thomas Hampson
CONDUCTOR: Jesus Lopez-Cobos
The radiant Rennee Fleming plays the Egyptian courtesan in search of spiritual sustenance. Thomas Hampson is the monk Athanael who falls from grace. Massenet's sensual score is presented in a new production by John Cox.
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DOCTOR ATOMIC
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LA CENERENTOLA
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LA DAMNATION DE FAUST
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LA RONDINE
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LA SONNAMBULA
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LUCIA DI LAMMERMOOR
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MADAMA BUTTERFLY
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ORFEO ED EURIDICE
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THAIS
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