WELCOME TO THE OPERA REVOLUTION.

The New York Metropolitan Opera's groundbreaking series of live, high-definition performance transmissions to movie theaters around the world expands in its third season. Don't miss the chance to experience the Met live at your local cinema!

With the extraordinary success of the last 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 on the cinema screen.

2009 WINTER HIGHLIGHTS SEASON
To inspire you for the 2009-2010 season of operas direct from New York (starting in October), we present these highlights from the last two seasons plus one classic Met production we haven’t screened previously - Eugene Onegin.

PUCCINI'S LA BOHÈME
SAT JUNE 27 at 11.30am
SUN JUNE 28 at 1.00pm
(Check local cinemas for possible extra weekday screening)

Franco Zeffirelli's production of the Puccini favourite stars Angela Gheorghiu as the consumptive heroine Mimi, and Ramón Vargas as her poet-lover Rodolfo, with Ludovic Tézier as Marcello, in what may be the world's most popular opera.

Conductor: Nicola Luisotti; Production: Franco Zeffirelli
Angela Gheorghiu, Ramón Vargas, Ludovic Tézier
(3hrs 9min)

MASSENET'S THAÏS
SAT JULY 18 at 11.30am
SUN JULY 19 at 1.00pm
(Check local cinemas for possible extra weekday screening)

Renée Fleming stars as the Egyptian courtesan in search of spiritual sustenance. Thomas Hampson is the monk who falls from grace. Massenet's sensual score is presented in this production by John Cox.

Conductor: Jesús López-Cobos; Production: John Cox
Renée Fleming, Thomas Hampson, Michael Schade
(3hrs 32min)

TCHAIKOVSKY'S EUGENE ONEGIN
SAT AUGUST 1 at 11.30am
SUN AUGUST 2 at 1.00pm
(Check local cinemas for possible extra weekday screening)

Renée Fleming portrays Tatiana, who develops from young girl to experienced woman over the course of this lush romantic masterpiece. The challenges of the title role will be met by Dmitri Hvorostovsky as the nobleman whose aristocratic façade is pierced by love too late.

This marks the first time Eugene Onegin is being screened as part of The Met captured in HD season. Enjoy!

Conductor: Valery Gergiev; Production: Robert Carsen
Renée Fleming, Dmitri Hvorostovsky, Ramón Vargas
(3hrs 1min)

DONIZETTI'S LA FILLE DU RÉGIMENT
SAT AUGUST 22 at 11.30am
SUN AUGUST 23 at 1.00pm
(Check local cinemas for possible extra weekday screening)

Experience the 'exceedingly yummy operatic cake" that was called "the operatic show of the season" by The Times of London when it opened at Covent Garden. Audiences were dazzled by Natalie Dessay's fearless coloratura and impeccable comic timing and by Juan Diego Flórez’s remarkable musicality - complete with the famous high Cs.

Conductor: Marco Armiliato; Production: Laurent Pelly
Natalie Dessay, Juan Diego Flórez, Marian Seldes
(2hrs 49min)

DONIZETTI'S LUCIA DI LAMMERMOOR
SAT SEPTEMBER 12 at 11.30am
SUN SEPTEMBER 13 at 1.00pm
(Check local cinemas for possible extra weekday screening)

Anna Netrebko sings the title role of Donizetti's fragile heroine for the first time at the Met, with tenor Piotr Beczala 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, Piotr Beczala, Mariusz Kwiecien
(3hrs 48min)

PUCCINI'S MADAMA BUTTERFLY
SAT SEPTEMBER 26 at 11.30am
SUN SEPTEMBER 27 at 1.00pm
(Check local cinemas for possible extra weekday screening)

Patricia Racette returns to the title role in the late Anthony Minghella's (The English Patient, Talented Mr Ripley) stunning
production, a new classic of the Met repertory, opposite Marcello Giordani.

Conductor: Patrick Summers; Production: Anthony Minghella;
Patricia Racette & Marcello Giordani
(3hrs 19min)

2009-2010 MET SEASON in HD

TOSCA
OCTOBER 24-29, 2009

Composer - Giacomo Puccini
Conductor - James Levine
Tosca Karita Mattila
Cavar Adossi Marcelo Álvarez

AIDA
NOVEMBER 7-12, 2009

Composer - Giuseppe Verdi
Conductor - Daniele Gatti
Aida Violeta Urmana
Amneris Dolora Zajick

TURANDOT
NOVEMBER 21-26, 2009

Composer - Giacomo Puccini
Conductor - Andris Nelsons
Turandot Maria Guleghina
Liù Marina Poplavskaya

THE TALES OF HOFFMAN
JANUARY 9-14, 2010

Composer - Jacques Offenbach
Conductor - James Levine
Olympia Kathleen Kim
Antonia/Stella Anna Netrebko
Hoffmann Rolando Villazón

DER ROSENKAVALIER
JANUARY 23-28, 2010

Composer - Richard Strauss
Conductor - James Levine
Marschallin Renée Fleming
Octavian Susan Graham

CARMEN
FEBRUARY 6-11, 2010

Composer - Georges Bizet
Conductor - Yannick Nézet-Séguin
Micaëla Barbara Frittoli
Carmen Angela Gheorghiu
Don José Roberto Alagna

SIMON BOCCANEGRA
FEBRUARY 20-25, 2010

Composer - Giuseppe Verdi
Conductor - James Levine
Amelia Adrianne Pieczonka
Gabriele adorno Marcello Giordani
Simon Boccanegra Plácido Domingo

HAMLET
APRIL 17-22, 2010

Composer - Ambroise Thomas
Conductor - Louis Langrée
Ophélie Natalie Dessay
Gertrude Jennifer Larmore
Laërte Toby Spence
Hamlet Simon Keenlyside
Claudius James Morris

ARMIDA
MAY 15-20, 2010
Composer - Gioachino Rossini
Conductor - Riccardo Frizza
Armida Renée Fleming
Rinaldo Lawrence Brownlee