Arlington Theatre - The Met Live in HD Series--Simon Boccanegra

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The Met Live in HD Series--Simon Boccanegra

Saturday, February 06, 2010, 10:00am

The Met: Live in HD series

Single Event Pricing:

$22 General

$20 Seniors 65+

$18 Children 2-12, Students with ID

Season Discount Through October 2009. Get 10% off.

The Met: Live in HD, the company’s highly successful, award-winning series of live Saturday performance transmissions into movie theaters in more than 35 countries around the world, has sold more than 1.1 million tickets so far this season.

The 2009-10 HD series will feature nine transmissions, beginning October 10 with Toscaand continuing with Aida (October 24), Turandot (November 7), Les Contes d’Hoffmann(December 19), Der Rosenkavalier (January 9), Carmen (January 16), Simon Boccanegra(February 6), Hamlet (March 27), and Armida (May 1). In January 2009, the Met won a special Emmy Award for “advancing technology through ongoing, live, global transmission of high-definition programming to movie theaters.” (Details on the 2009-10 HD presentations and other Met media initiatives follow later in this release.)

Simon Boccanegra. Four decades into a legendary Met career, tenor Plácido 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; Adrianne Pieczonka, Marcello Giordani, Plácido Domingo, James Morris

Saturday, February 06, 2010