Arlington Theatre - The Met Live in HD Series--Carmen

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The Met Live in HD Series--Carmen

Saturday, January 16, 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.)

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." El?na Garan?a sings the seductive gypsy of the title for the first time at the Met, opposite Roberto Alagna as the obsessed Don José.

Conductor: Yannick Nézet-Séguin; Production: Richard Eyre; Barbara Frittoli, El?na Garan?a, Roberto Alagna, Mariusz Kwiecien

Saturday, January 16, 2010