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Giacomo Puccini

TOSCA

Libretto by Giuseppe Giacosa and Luigi Illica

HD Transmission: October 10, 2009

"Tosca combines Puccini's glorious musical inspiration with the melodramatic vitality of one of the great Hitchcock films," says Met Music Director James Levine, who conducts this new production. The opera tells the story of three people-a famous opera singer, a free-thinking painter, and a sadistic chief of police-caught in a net of love and politics. Soprano Karita Mattila, recently seen in this season's Live in HD presentation of Salome, sings the title role for the first time outside her native Finland. Luc Bondy, acclaimed for his imaginative theater and opera productions, directs. The cast also includes Marcelo Alvarez as Cavaradossi and Juha Uusitalo as Scarpia.

conductor James Levine
production Luc Bondy*
set Designer Richard Peduzzi*
costume designer Milena Canonero

tosca Karita Mattila
cavaradossi Marcelo Alvarez
scarpia Juha Uusitalo
Sacristan Paul Plishka

A co-production of the Metropolitan Opera, Teatro alla Scala, Milan, and Bayerische Staatsoper, Munich Production underwritten by The Annenberg Foundation

*Debut

Giuseppe Verdi

Aida

Libretto by Antonio Ghislanzoni

HD Transmission: October 24, 2009

Set in ancient Egypt, Aida is both a heartbreaking love story and an epic drama full of spectacular crowd scenes. A cast of powerful voices and a grand production bring the story to life on the Met stage (and on the HD screen). Violeta Urmana stars in the title role of the enslaved Ethiopian princess, with Dolora Zajick as her rival. Johan Botha plays Radames, commander of the Egyptian army, and Daniele Gatti conducts. Among the score's highlights is the celebrated Triumphal March.

Production Sonja Frisell
Set Designer Gianni Quaranta
Costume Designer Dada Saligeri
Lighting Designer Gil Wechsler
Choreographer Alexei Ratmansky*

Aida Violeta Urmana
Amneris Dolora Zajick
Radames Johan Botha
Amonasro Carlo Guelfi
Ramfis Roberto Scandiuzzi
The King Stefan Kocan

*Debut

Giacomo Puccini

Turandot

Libretto by Giuseppe Adami and Renato Simoni

HD Transmission: November 7, 2009

Director Franco Zeffirelli's breathtaking production of Puccini's last opera is a favorite of the Met repertoire. Maria Guleghina plays the ruthless Chinese princess of the title, whose hatred of men is so strong that she has all suitors who can't solve her riddles beheaded. Marcello Giordani sings Calaf, the unknown prince who eventually wins her love and whose solos include the famous "Nessun dorma."

Conductor Andris Nelsons*
Production Franco Zeffirelli
Set Designer Franco Zeffirelli
Costume Designers Anna Anni, Dada Saligeri
Lighting Designer Gil Wechsler
Choreographer Chiang Ching

Turandot Maria Guleghina
Liu Marina Poplavskaya
Calaf Marcello Giordani
Timur Samuel Ramey

*Debut

Jacques Offenbach

les contes d'hoffmann

The Tales of Hoffmann
Libretto by Jules Barbier

HD Transmission: December 19, 2009

Tony Award winner Bartlett Sher (South Pacific) directs this new production, returning after the triumph of his Met Barber of Seville (seen live in HD in the 2006-07 season). Offenbach's fictionalized take on the life and loves of the German Romantic writer E.T.A. Hoffmann is a fascinating psychological journey. Met Music Director James Levine conducts star tenor Joseph Calleja in the tour-de-force title role, with Anna Netrebko as the tragic Antonia, Kate Lindsey as the ambiguous Nicklausse, and Alan Held as the demonic four villains.

Conductor James Levine
Production Bartlett Sher
Set Designer Michael Yeargan
Costume Designer Catherine Zuber
Lighting Designer James F. Ingalls
Choreographer Dou Dou Huang

Olympia Kathleen Kim
Antonia Anna Netrebko
Giulietta Ekaterina Gubanova
Nicklausse / The Muse Kate Lindsey
Hoffmann Joseph Calleja
four villains Alan Held

Production underwritten by the Hermione Foundation

Richard Strauss

Der Rosenkavalier

Libretto by Hugo von Hofmannsthal

HD Transmission: January 9, 2010

Strauss's comic masterpiece of love and intrigue in 18th-century Vienna stars Renee Fleming as the aristocratic Marschallin and Susan Graham in the trouser role of her young lover. Music Director James Levine conducts a cast that also includes Kristinn Sigmundsson and Thomas Allen.

Conductor James Levine
Production Nathaniel Merrill
Set & Costume Designer Robert O'Hearn

Marschallin Renee Fleming
Octavian Susan Graham
Sophie Christine Schafer
italian Singer Eric Cutler
faninal Thomas Allen
Baron Ochs Kristinn Sigmundsson

Georges Bizet

Carmen

Libretto by Henri Meilhac and Ludovic Halevy

HD Transmission: January 16, 2010

One of the most popular operas of all time, Carmen "is about sex, violence, and racism-and its corollary: freedom," says Olivier Award-winning director Richard Eyre about his new production of Bizet's drama. "It is one of the inalienably great works of art. It's sexy, in every sense. And I think it should be shocking." Elina Garanca plays the seductive gypsy of the title in her role debut, opposite Roberto Alagna as the obsessed Don Jose.

Conductor Yannick Nezet-Seguin*
production Richard Eyre*
set & costume Designer Rob Howell*
lighting designer Peter Mumford
Choreographer Christopher Wheeldon

Micaela Barbara Frittoli
Carmen Elina Garanca
Don Jose Roberto Alagna
Escamillo Mariusz Kwiecien

Production underwritten by Mrs. Paul Desmarais, Sr.

*Debut

Giuseppe Verdi

Simon Boccanegra

Libretto by Francesco Maria Piave and Arrigo Boito

HD Transmission: February 6, 2010

Four decades into a legendary Met career, tenor Placido Domingo makes history singing the title role in Verdi's gripping political thriller, which is written for a baritone. Adrianne Pieczonka, Marcello Giordani, and James Morris are his co-stars in this moving and tragic story of a father and his lost daughter. James Levine conducts.

Conductor James Levine
Production Giancarlo del Monaco
Set & Costume Designer Michael Scott

Amelia Grimaldi Adrianne Pieczonka
Gabriele Adorno Marcello Giordani
Simon Boccanegra Placido Domingo
Jacopo Fiesco James Morris

Ambroise Thomas

hamlet

Libretto by Michel Carre and Jules Barbier

HD Transmission: March 27, 2010

The works of Shakespeare have inspired more operatic adaptations than any other writer's. Simon Keenlyside and Natalie Dessay bring their extraordinary acting and singing skills to two of the Bard's most unforgettable characters in this new production of Ambroise Thomas's Hamlet. For the role of Ophelia, the French composer created an extended mad scene that is among the greatest in opera.

Conductor Louis Langree
Production Patrice Caurier* and Moshe Leiser*
set Designer Christian Fenouillat*
Costume Designer Agostino Cavalca*
Lighting Designer Christophe Forey*

Ophelie Natalie Dessay
Gertrude Jennifer Larmore
Laerte Toby Spence*
Hamlet Simon Keenlyside
Claudius James Morris

Production owned by the Grand Theatre of Geneva
Production underwritten by Mr. and Mrs. Wilmer J. Thomas, Jr.

*Debut

Gioachino Rossini

armida

Libretto by Giovanni Schmidt

HD Transmission: May 1, 2010

This story of a sorceress who enthralls men in her island prison has inspired operatic settings by a multitude of composers, including Gluck, Haydn, and Dvorak. Renee Fleming stars in the title role of Rossini's version, opposite no fewer than six tenors. Tony Award winner Mary Zimmerman returns to direct this new production of a work she describes as "a buried treasure, a box of jewels." The fanciful and magical tale, Zimmerman says, "has an epic, enchanted quality and a tremendous visual element."

Conductor Riccardo Frizza
production Mary Zimmerman
Set & Costume Designer Richard Hudson
Lighting Designer Brian MacDevitt
Choreographer Graciela Daniele*

armida Renee Fleming
Rinaldo Lawrence Brownlee
goffredo Bruce Ford
Gernando Jose Manuel Zapata
carlo Barry Banks
Ubaldo Kobie van Rensburg

Production underwritten by
The Sybil B. Harrington Endowment Fund

*Debut