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

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The Met Live in HD Series--Turandot

Saturday, November 07, 2009, 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.)

Director Franco Zeffirelli’s breathtaking production of Puccini’s last opera, Turandot, is a favorite of the Met repertoire. Maria Guleghina plays the ruthless Chinese princess of the title, whose hatred of men is so strong that she has all suitors who can’t solve her riddles beheaded. Marcello Giordani sings Calàf, the unknown prince who eventually wins her love and whose solos include the famous “Nessun dorma.”

Conductor: Andris Nelsons; Production: Franco Zeffirelli; Maria Guleghina, Marina Poplavskaya, Marcello Giordani, Samuel Ramey

Saturday, November 07, 2009