The Met: Live in HD at Light House

The Met: Live in HD

Light House, Wolverhampton Box Office: 01902 716055 www.light-house.co.uk

Light House invites you to join the Saturday audiences at the New York Metropolitan Opera in 12 live high definition transmissions from the prestigious 2010-11 season, starting in October with new productions of Das Rheingold and Boris Godunov, and ending in May 2011 with a new production of the second opera in the Wagner Ring Cycle, Die Walküre.

Ticket prices:

Hospitality:

2010 performances: £17.50 Adult £12 Under 15s

Lock Works will be open 2hrs before each performance.

To pre-order food pick up our current menu from box office or from the website, make your selection and call 01902 719848 to place your order. We require a contact name and number plus the time you will be arriving to dine so that we can reserve your table. You can place your order up to 12pm on the Friday before each performance. Pre-ordered food can be served up until 30mins before each performance.

2011 performances: £18 Adult £12.50 Under 15s Encore performances: £14.50 Adult £7.50 Under 15s (Encore performances are recordings of the live operas) Complete season subscription: £180 (saving you £36) Available until 9 Oct 2010 Choice of 8 subscription: £126 (Your choice of 8 performances for the price of 7) Available until 8 Jan 2011 To purchase tickets contact Light House Box Office on t: 01902 716055 or book online at www.light-house.co.uk

There will be a limited food menu available on the night for those who have not pre-ordered food.

Pre-order your interval drinks before the performance and beat the rush at the bar. To pre-order your interval drinks download the form from the website or collect from box office and hand in to a member of our Lock Works team.

How to find us: Light House is situated within the historic Chubb Buildings in Wolverhampton City Centre just 2 minutes walk from the rail and bus stations and 5 minutes walk from Metro. Free car parking is available adjacent to the buildings at weekends.

Please note: running times are estimated and casting is subject to change.

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Wagner

DAS RHEINGOLD Sat 9 Oct, 6pm - New Production 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. Lepage 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.

James Levine; Wendy Bryn Harmer, Stephanie Blythe, Patricia Bardon, Richard Croft, Gerhard Siegel, Bryn Terfel, Eric Owens, Franz-Josef Selig, Hans-Peter König.

Sung in German with Met titles in English. Running time: 3hrs

Mussorgsky

BORIS GODUNOV Sat 23 Oct, 5pm - New Production René Pape takes on one of the greatest bass roles in a new production

by Stephen Wadsworth. Valery Gergiev conducts Mussorgsky’s epic spectacle that captures the suffering and ambition of a nation, with Aleksandrs Antonenko, Vladimir Ognovenko, and Ekaterina Semenchuk leading the huge cast.

Valery Gergiev; Ekaterina Semenchuk, Aleksandrs Antonenko, Oleg Balashov, Evgeny Nikitin, René Pape, Mikhail Petrenko, Vladimir Ognovenko.

Sung in Russian with Met titles in English. Running time: 5hrs

Donizetti

DON PASQUALE Sat 13 Nov, 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.”

James Levine; Anna Netrebko, Matthew Polenzani, Mariusz Kwiecien, John Del Carlo.

Sung in Italian with Met titles in English. Running time: 3hrs30

Verdi

DON CARLO Sat 11 Dec, 5.30pm - New Production 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.

Yannick Nézet-Séguin; Marina Poplavskaya, Anna Smirnova, Roberto Alagna, Simon Keenlyside, Ferruccio Furlanetto, Eric Halfvarson.

Sung in Italian with Met titles in English. Running time: 4hrs30

Puccini

LA FANCIULLA DEL WEST Sat 8 Jan, 6pm + Encore Performance Wed 12 Jan, 1.45pm 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.

Nicola Luisotti; Deborah Voigt, Marcello Giordani, Lucio Gallo.

Sung in Italian with Met titles in English. Running time: 3hrs30

Adams

NIXON IN CHINA Sat 12 Feb, 6pm - New Production John Adams conducts the Met premiere of his most famous opera which deals with the meeting of Nixon and Mao, a mythological moment in world history and in particular 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.

John Adams; Kathleen Kim, Janis Kelly, Robert Brubaker, Russell Braun, James Maddalena, Richard Paul Fink.

Sung in English with Met titles in English. Running time: 4hrs

Gluck

IPHIGÉNIE EN TAURIDE Sat 26 Feb, 6pm + Encore Performance Thu 3 Mar, 7.30pm 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.

Patrick Summers; Susan Graham, Plácido Domingo, Paul Groves, Gordon Hawkins.

Sung in French with Met titles in English. Running time: 2hrs30

Donizetti

LUCIA DI LAMMERMOOR Sat 19 Mar, 5pm Natalie Dessay triumphed as the fragile heroine of Donizetti’s masterpiece on Opening Night of the 2007–08 season in Mary Zimmerman’s hit production. Now she returns to the role of the innocent young woman driven to madness, opposite Joseph Calleja, who sings her lover Edgardo.

Patrick Summers; Natalie Dessay, Joseph Calleja, Ludovic Tézier, Kwangchul Youn.

Sung in Italian with Met titles in English. Running time: 4hrs

Rossini

LE COMTE ORY Sat 9 Apr, 6pm - New Production 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.”

Maurizio Benini; Diana Damrau, Joyce DiDonato, Susanne Resmark, Juan Diego Flórez, Stéphane Degout, Michele Pertusi.

Sung in French with Met titles in English. Running time: 3hrs

Strauss

CAPRICCIO Sat 23 Apr, 6pm + Encore Performance Wed 27 Apr, 2pm 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. Joseph Kaiser and Sarah Connolly also star, and Andrew Davis conducts.

Andrew Davis; Renée Fleming, Sarah Connolly, Joseph Kaiser, Russell Braun, Morten Frank Larsen, Peter Rose.

Sung in German with Met titles in English. Running time: 3hrs

Verdi

IL TROVATORE Sat 30 Apr, 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.

James Levine; Sondra Radvanovsky, Dolora Zajick, Marcelo Álvarez, Dmitri Hvorostovsky.

Sung in Italian with Met titles in English. Running time: 3hrs

Wagner

DIE WALKÜRE Sat 14 May, 5pm - New Production 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.

James Levine; Deborah Voigt, Eva-Maria Westbroek, Stephanie Blythe, Jonas Kaufmann, Bryn Terfel, Hans-Peter König.

Sung in German with Met titles in English. Running time: 5hrs15