Do it Italian Style! at the Lavazza Italian Film Festival 2008. Now in it's 9th year, experience a creative and critically acknowledged resurgence in Italan Cinema, with films like Paolo Sorrentino's witty political expose IL DIVO and Andrea Porporati’s revealing Mafia portrait THE SWEET AND THE BITTER (Il Dolce E L’Amaro).

In keeping with the robust passion for life and love for which Italy and its citizens are renowned, the Adelaide line-up for the 2008 Festival is a seductive collection with 22 outstanding new films, representing the best in contemporary Italian cinema. Opening this year’s Festival will be HER WHOLE LIFE AHEAD (Tutta La Vita Davanti) from director Paolo Virzi. Hailed by international critics, including industry bible Variety, as one of the best Italian comedies of recent times, this witty satire takes a whimsical look at the lives, loves and struggles which beset the employees of an Italian call centre.

And if you’re in the mood to be dazzled, be prepared to enjoy the latest performances from Italy’s biggest stars who will display their talents alongside some of the country’s most exciting newcomers. Look out for Italian heart-throbs Luigi Lo Cascio and Kim Rossi Stuart who will be joined on-screen by Jasmine Trinca, Fanny Ardant, Valentina Cervi and, the eternally alluring Monica Bellucci, who stars in the hotly anticipated drama WILD BLOOD (Sanguepazzo) from BEST OF YOUTH director Marco Tullio Giordana.

Our opening night gala event, featuring the Adelaide premiere of HER WHOLE LIFE AHEAD is at Palace Eastend Cinema on Thursday October 16, at 6.45pm followed by the opening night party including live entertainment and catering.
All tickets are $35 and be quick as this is event always sells out!

Tickets now available

More information about the festival is available at www.italianfilmfestival.com.au

With the extraordinary success of the 2007-08 season of The Metropolitan Opera productions, cinema audiences have cried out for more. People who previously thought Nessun Dorma was a type of car are now becoming true opera converts after seeing the New York Met's Operas captured in HD and screening at their local cinemas.

To whet your appetite for the 2008-2009 season of operas direct from New York starting in October, we present this mini-season of highlights from the 2006-2007 season.

By popular demand, encore performances from the 2007/2008 season:

Romeo et Juliette
Saturday September 27, 11.30am

La Boheme
Sunday September 28, 1.00pm

All of the operas are subtitled.
Full details of the productions at www.themetinaustralia.info

Tickets $20, $18 available now from the box office and online.

Tickets now available
All Operas: $20, Concession: $18, Children: $16

Palace Nova Eastend Cinemas are delighted to announce a fresh season
of thrilling performances in an exciting all-new programme from the 'Met'.
 
NY Netropolitan Opera 2008 - 2009 season programme
*due to popular demand, each opera will have an additional screening on the Thursday following the first weekend screenings.
*due to popular demand, seating for all of the 2008 - 2009 operas will be reserved. 

Salome – Strauss
Sat October 25-11.30am, Sun 26-1.00pm, Thurs 30-11.30am
Karita Mattila caused a sensation when she sang Salome at the Met for the first time in 2004. She reprises her stunning interpretation of the part, including her unforgettable Dance of the Seven Veils.
Conductor: Mikko Franck; Production: Jürgen Flimm; Karita Mattila, Ildikó Komlósi, Juha Uusitalo, Kim Begley, Joseph Kaiser

Doctor Atomic – Adams
Sat November 22-11.30am, Sun 23-1.00pm, Thurs 27-11.30am
John Adams’ contemporary masterpiece explores a momentous episode of modern history: the creation of the atomic bomb. Director Penny Woolcock makes her Met debut with this gripping story that changed the course of history. Baritone Gerald Finley plays J. Robert Oppenheimer, the title character.
Conductor: Alan Gilbert; Production: Penny Woolcock; Sasha Cooke, Meredith Arwady, Gerald Finley, Eric Owens, Richard Paul Fink

La Damnation de Faust – Berlioz new production
Sat December 6-11.30am, Sun 7-1.00pm, Thurs 11-11.30am
Robert Lepage, one of theater’s most imaginative directors, applies his artistry to Berlioz’s contemplation of good and evil. Using projections, Lepage has created a vision for La Damnation de Faust that seamlessly marries art and technology. Marcello Giordani stars in the title role opposite Susan Graham as Marguerite and John Relyea as Méphistophélès. James Levine conducts this rarely staged masterwork.
Conductor: James Levine; Production: Robert Lepage; Susan Graham, Marcello Giordani, John Relyea

ThaÏs – Massenet new production
Sat January 10-11.30am, Sun 11-1.00pm, Thurs 15-11.30am
Renée Fleming stars as the Egyptian courtesan in search of spiritual sustenance. Thomas Hampson is the monk who falls from grace. Massenet’s sensual opera is presented in a new production by John Cox.
Conductor: Jesús López-Cobos; Production: John Cox; Renée Fleming, Thomas Hampson, Michael Schade

La Rondein – Puccini new production
Sat January 31-11.30am, Sun Feb 1-1.00pm, Thurs 5-11.30am
Angela 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 Joël directs the new production of this gorgeously melodic look at love.
Conductor: Marco Armiliato; Production: Nicolas Joël; Angela Gheorghiu, Lisette Oropesa, Roberto Alagna, Marius Brenciu, Samuel Ramey

Orfeo ed Euridice – Gluck
Sat February 14-11.30am, Sun 15-1.00pm, Thurs 19-11.30am
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 male title role. The alluring Danielle de Niese is Orfeo’s adored wife, Euridice, who inspires the hero to face the underworld for her sake. Music Director James Levine conducts.
Conductor: James Levine; Production: Mark Morris; Stephanie Blythe, Danielle de Niese

Lucia di Lammermoor – Donizetti
Sat March 7-11.30am, Sun 9-1.00pm, Thurs 12-11.30am
Anna Netrebko sings the title role of Donizetti’s fragile heroine for the first time at the Met, with tenor Rolando Villazón in the part of her lover, Edgardo. Baritone Mariusz Kwiecien is her tyrannical brother. Mary Zimmerman’s hit production is staged as a Victorian ghost story.
Conductor: Marco Armiliato; Production: Mary Zimmerman; Anna Netrebko, Rolando Villazón, Mariusz Kwiecien, Ildar Abdrazakov

Madama Butterfly – Puccini
Sat March 21-11.30am, Sun 22-1.00pm, Thurs26-11.30am
Cristina Gallardo-Domâs returns to the title role of Anthony Minghella’s stunning production, a new classic of the Met repertory, opposite Marcello Giordani.
Conductor: Patrick Summers; Production: Anthony Minghella; Cristina Gallardo-Domâs, Marcello Giordani

La Sonnambula – Bellini new production
Sat April 4-11.30am, Sun 5-1.00pm, Thurs 9-11.30am
Mary Zimmerman, who directed Natalie Dessay in last season’s hit production of Lucia di Lammermoor, 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 Flórez, back from their sensational run together in La Fille du Régiment.
Conductor: Evelino Pidò; Production: Mary Zimmerman; Natalie Dessay, Juan Diego Flórez, Michele Pertusi

La Cenerentola
Sat May 23-11.30am, Sun 24-1.00pm, Thurs 28-11.30am
Hot on the heels of her triumphant Met debut as Rosina in last season’s Il Barbiere di Siviglia, El?na Garan?a portrays another Rossini charmer in this bel canto Cinderella story. Lawrence Brownlee is her Prince Charming. Veteran baritone Alessandro Corbelli demonstrates his impeccable comic timing to match the gravitas of Met favorite John Relyea.
Conductor: Maurizio Benini; Production: Cesare Lievi; El?na Garan?a, Lawrence Brownlee, Simone Alberghini, Alessandro Corbelli, John Relyea

Individual tickets $27/$25 concession

Planning to make sure you don’t miss a moment of the New York Met Opera?
Why not consider Palace Nova’s ‘season tickets’ offer!
 
You can buy "Season Tickets" in groups of 8, 9 or 10 Operas and select which performances and sessions during the 2008/09 season are most convenient to you.

Palace Nova’s "Season Tickets" offer also provides a discount against the price of a single-ticket purchase: Season Tickets work out to be $23 per opera*, a saving of $4 per Opera!

Tickets are available now online and at the box office (seating for online sales will be allocated to best available seats at the time of booking). Please note that phone bookings are not available for Met Opera Tickets.

SEASON TICKETS PRICES
8 Operas ($184 - $168 concession)
9 Operas ($207 - $189 concession)
10 Operas (230 - $210 concession)

(*full price, $21 concession)