Festival Theatre Passes for Met Series Sell Out

Tickets are still available for broadcasts in MUPA's Auditorium, which has about a third of the capacity of the Festival Theatre. Solo tickets will also be offered starting in September.

 

Last season, some 1,500 opera lovers saw the Live in HD series. More than 5,000 are expected to see live performances of Tosca, Aida, Turandot, Les Contes d'Hoffmann, Der Rosenkavalier, Carmen, Simon Boccanegra, Hamlet and Rossini's Armida. Among the stars that will sing in the operas are Renée Fleming, Anna Netrebko, Angela Gheorghiu, Karita Mattila, Plácido Domingo, Rolando Villazón, Roberto Alagna and Marcello Giordani.

 

The Programme

Tosca - October 10, 2009
James Levine; Karita Mattila, Marcelo Álvarez, Juha Uusitalo, Paul Plishka

 

Aida - October 24, 2009
Daniele Gatti; Violeta Urmana, Dolora Zajick, Johan Botha, Carlo Guelfi, Roberto Scandiuzzi, Stefan Kocán

 

Turandot - November 7, 2009
Andris Nelsons; Maria Guleghina, Marina Poplavskaya, Marcello Giordani, Samuel Ramey

 

Les Contes d'Hoffmann - December 19, 2009
James Levine; Kathleen Kim, Anna Netrebko, Ekaterina Gubanova, Elina Garana, TBA, René Pape

 

Der Rosenkavalier - January 9, 2010
James Levine; Renée Fleming, Susan Graham, Christine Schäfer, Eric Cutler, Thomas Allen, Kristinn Sigmundsson

 

Carmen - January 16, 2010
Yannick Nézet-Séguin; Barbara Frittoli, Angela Gheorghiu, Roberto Alagna, Mariusz Kwiecien

 

Simon Boccanegra - February 6, 2010|
James Levine; Adrianne Pieczonka, Marcello Giordani, Plácido Domingo, James Morris

 

Hamlet - March 27, 2010
Louis Langrée; Natalie Dessay, Jennifer Larmore, Toby Spence, Simon Keenlyside, James Morris

 

Armida - May 1, 2010
Riccardo Frizza; Renée Fleming, Lawrence Brownlee, Bruce Ford, José Manuel Zapata, Barry Banks, Kobie van Rensburg

 

Source: Hungarian News Agency (MTI) / www.metoperafamily.org