The Met: Live in HD

The 2010-11 The Met Live in HD

The Lensic and the Santa Fe Opera will present 12 live transmissions of The Metropolitan Opera's 2010-11 season at The Lensic. The season begins October 9, with Das Rheingold.

TICKET INFO

• Met Guild Members: Tickets go on sale to Guild members on August 27 at 10 a.m. Ticket buyers may purchase their tickets in person at Tickets Santa Fe at The Lensic or by phone at 988-1234. Tickets will NOT be on sale online on this date.
   
• General Public: Tickets go on sale September 7 at 10 a.m. to the general public. Tickets can be purchased in person at Tickets Santa Fe at The Lensic, by phone at 988-1234 or online at Tickets Santa Fe. 

Tickets Santa Fe is located in the Lensic lobby at 211 W. San Francisco Street.

ITEMS OF NOTE

• Ticket prices for the live broadcasts have increased to $25. The evening encores remain $22.
• Due to high demand, non-Met Guild ticket buyers will be limited to two tickets per opera to better afford everyone an opportunity to receive tickets.
• The scheduled performance of Don Carlo on December 11 has been rescheduled for December 18 for Lensic audiences. Both the morning and evening screenings will be re-broadcasts of the December 11 live performance. Both shows will be $22.
• Because of the overwhelming popularity of the series, the Lensic cannot guarantee seating preferences.

Click to download the Lensic Met Schedule [PDF 82.7kb]

To learn more about the operas, visit the Met's web page!

The 2010-11 The Met: Live in HD season

2010

Das Rheingold – Wagner
October 9 New Production
Start time: 11 AM MST
Encore: 6 PM
Performance runtime: 3:15
Cast:
Conductor - James Levine
Freia - Wendy Bryn Harmer
Fricka - Stephanie Blythe
Erda - Patricia Bardon
Loge - Richard Croft
Mime - Gerhard Siegel
Wotan - Bryn Terfel
Alberich - Eric Owens
Fasolt - Franz-Josef Selig
Fafner - Hans-Peter König

Boris Godunov – Mussorgsky
October 23 New Production
Start time: 10 AM MST
Encore: 6 PM
Performance runtime: 5:30
Cast:
Conductor - Valery Gergiev
Princess Marina - Ekaterina Semenchuk
Dimitri - Aleksandrs Antonenko
Shuisky - Oleg Balashov
Rangoni - Evgeny Nikitin
Boris Godunov - René Pape
Pimen - Mikhail Petrenko
Varlaam - Vladimir Ognovenko

Don Pasquale – Donizetti
November 13
Start time: 11 AM MST
Encore: 6 PM
Performance runtime: 4:00
Cast:
Conductor - James Levine
Norina - Anna Netrebko
Ernesto - Matthew Polenzani
Dr. Malatesta - Mariusz Kwiecien
Don Pasquale - John Del Carlo

Don Carlo – Verdi
December 18 New Production
Start time: 11 AM MST
Encore: 6 PM
Performance runtime: 5:00
Cast:
Conductor - Yannick Nézet-Séguin
Elisabeth - Marina Poplavskaya
Eboli - Anna Smirnova
Don Carlo - Roberto Alagna
Rodrigo - Simon Keenlyside
Philip II 
Grand Inquisitor - Eric Halfvarson

2011

La Fanciulla del West – Puccini
January 8
Start time: 11 AM MST
Encore: 6 PM
Performance runtime: 3:50
Cast:
Conductor - Nicola Luisotti
Minnie - Deborah Voigt
Dick Johnson - Marcello Giordani
Jack Rance - Juha Uusitalo

Nixon in China - Adams
February 12
Start time: 11 AM MST
Performance runtime: 4 hours

Iphigénie en Tauride – Gluck
February 26
Start time: 11 AM MST
Encore: 6 PM
Performance runtime: 3:15
Cast:
Conductor - Patrick Summers
Iphigénie - Susan Graham
Oreste - Plácido Domingo
Pylade - Paul Groves
Thoas - Gordon Hawkins

Lucia di Lammermoor – Donizetti
March 19
Start time: 11 AM MST
Encore: 6 PM
Performance runtime: 4:20
Cast:
Conductor - Patrick Summers
Lucia - Natalie Dessay
Edgardo - Joseph Calleja
Enrico - Ludovic Tézier
Raimondo - Kwangchul Youn

Le Comte Ory – Rossini
April 9 New Production
Start time: 11 AM MST
Encore: 6 PM
Performance runtime: 3:25
Cast:
Conductor - Maurizio Benini
Countess Adéle - Diana Damrau
Isolier - Joyce DiDonato
Ragonde - Susanne Resmark
Count Ory - Juan Diego Flórez
Raimbaud - Stéphane Degout
Tutor - Michele Pertusi

Capriccio – R. Strauss
April 23
Start time: 11 AM MST
Encore: 6 PM
Performance runtime: 3:30
Cast:
Conductor - Andrew Davis
Countess - Renée Fleming
Clairon - Sarah Connolly
Flamand - Joseph Kaiser
Olivier - Russell Braun
Count Morten - Frank Larsen
La Roche - Peter Rose

Il Trovatore – Verdi
April 30
Start time: 11 AM MST
Encore: 6 PM
Performance runtime: 3:30
Cast:
Conductor - James Levine
Leonora - Sondra Radvanovsky
Azucena - Dolora Zajick
Manrico - Marcelo Álvarez
di Luna - Dmitri Hvorostovsky

Die Walküre – Wagner
May 14 New Production
Start time: 10 AM MST
Encore: 6 PM
Performance runtime: 5:35
Cast:
Conductor - James Levine
Brünnhilde - Deborah Voigt
Sieglinde - Eva-Maria Westbroek
Fricka - Stephanie Blythe
Siegmund - Jonas Kaufmann
Wotan - Bryn Terfel
Hunding - Hans-Peter König