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2007-2008 MET LIVE in HD Series
Live simulcasts from the stage of the Metropolitan Opera House to the Walter Reade Theater, specially equipped with high definition screens and surround sound.

Advance tickets go on sale to the general public on Fri Nov 9.

Admission: $22 Adult, $20 Seniors, $15 Child

Online (Visa & MasterCard, $1.25 surcharge per ticket)
Walter Reade Theater box office (Cash Only) West 65th Street, between Broadway & Amsterdam Aves on the upper level. Opens at 12:30 PM Mon - Fri, and one half hour before the first screening on Sat & Sun. Closes every day 15 minutes after the beginning of the last show. If there are no evening public screenings, the box office closes at 6 PM. Cash only.

Please note: Programs and casting subject to change. Running times are approximate.

A special presentation by the Film Society of Lincoln Center in collaboration with the Metropolitan Opera.

Peter Grimes (new production) – Britten
Saturday, March 15, 2008 at 1:30pm – Eastern Time
Running time: 3 hours, 45 minutes. 2 intermissions
Peter Grimes is under investigation for unthinkable transgressions, yet Benjamin Britten’s probing exploration of the nature of guilt and judgment implicates an entire fishing village. Director John Doyle, a Tony Award® winner for his interpretation of Sondheim’s Sweeney Todd, makes his Met debut answering the challenges of this modern masterpiece. Tenor Anthony Dean Griffey takes on the complex title role. The riveting Patricia Racette plays Ellen Orford, the woman who refuses to abandon him. Featuring what may be 20th-century opera’s most impressive tenor role, Peter Grimes, with its sweeping orchestral beauty, will be an engrossing and haunting theatrical journey.

Conductor Donald Runnicles; Production John Doyle; Patricia Racette, Anthony Dean Griffey, Anthony Michaels-Moore


Tristan und Isolde – Wagner
Saturday, March 22, 2008 at 12:30pm – Eastern Time
Running time: 5 hours, 35 minutes. 2 intermissions
Met Music Director and eminent Wagnerian James Levine conducts this much anticipated revival. Deborah Voigt, one of the world’s most celebrated Wagnerian sopranos, undertakes this iconic role for the first time at the Met. The leading Tristan of our time, Ben Heppner, portrays the other half of this archetypal couple on their mystical journey of love, sex, and death.

Conductor James Levine; Production Dieter Dorn; Deborah Voigt, Michelle DeYoung, Ben Heppner, Eike Wilm Schulte, Matti Salminen


La Bohème – Puccini
Saturday, April 5, 2008 at 1:30 pm – Eastern Time
Running time: 3 hours, 20 minutes. 2 intermissions
A magnificent cast comes together for Franco Zeffirelli’s iconic production of the Puccini favorite. The exciting young conductor Nicola Luisotti presides over a glorious vocal ensemble led by the mesmerizing Angela Gheorghiu, who sings Mimì at the Met for the first time in twelve years, opposite golden-toned tenor Ramón Vargas as her lover, Rodolfo.

Conductor Nicola Luisotti; Production Franco Zeffirelli; Angela Gheorghiu, Ainhoa Arteta, Ramón Vargas, Ludovic Tézier, Quinn Kelsey, Oren Gradus, Paul Plishka


La Fille du Régiment (new production) – Donizetti
Saturday, April 26, 2008 at 1:30 pm – Eastern Time
Running time: 3 hours, 10 minutes. 1 intermission
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 this past winter. 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. Dessay and Flórez are an “operatic coupling made in heaven” raved the Financial Times. Directed by Laurent Pelly, the production also boasts stage legend and four-time Tony Award® winner Zoe Caldwell as the Duchess of Krakenthorp.

Conductor Marco Armiliato; Production Laurent Pelly; Natalie Dessay, Felicity Palmer, Juan Diego Flórez, Alessandro Corbelli, Zoe Caldwell




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Peter Grimes
Sat March 15: 1:30

Tristan und Isolde
Sat March 22 : 12:30

La Bohème
Sat April 5: 1:30

La Fille du Régiment
Sat April 26: 1:30