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PAN PIPES Fall 2018 15 SAI Honorary Member Renée Fleming interviews Danielle de Niese, Susannah Phillips, and Isabel Leonard during an earlier broadcast of Mozart's Così fan tutte. The Metroplitan Opera presents another season of live and recorded broadcast to movie screens across the country, beginning in October. SAMSON ET DALILA, Camille Saint-Saëns Live Performance Sat, Oct 20 When mezzo-soprano Elīna Garanča and tenor Roberto Alagna joined forces for a new production of Carmen at the Met, the results were electrifying. Now this star duo reunites for another sensual French opera when they open the season in the title roles of Saint-Saëns's biblical epic Samson et Dalila. Darko Tresnjak, who won a Tony Award for Best Direction of a Musical in 2014 for A Gentleman's Guide to Love & Murder, makes his Met debut directing a vivid, seductive staging, featuring a monumental setting for the last-act Temple of Dagon, where the hero crushes his Philistine enemies. Sir Mark Elder conducts the first new Met production of the work in 20 years. LA FANCIULLA DEL WEST, Giacomo Puccini Live Performance Sat, Oct 27 Soprano Eva-Maria Westbroek sings Puccini's gun-slinging heroine in this romantic epic of the Wild West, with the heralded return of tenor Jonas Kaufmann in the role of the outlaw she loves. Tenor Yusif Eyvazov also sings some performances. Baritone Željko Lučić is the vigilante sheriff Jack Rance, and Marco Armiliato conducts. MARNIE, Nico Muhly Live Performance Sat, Nov 10 Composer Nico Muhly unveils his second new opera for the Met with this gripping reimagining of Winston Graham's novel, set in the 1950s, about a beautiful, mysterious young woman who assumes multiple identities. Director Michael Mayer and his creative team have devised a fast- moving, cinematic world for this exhilarating story of denial and deceit, which also inspired a film by Alfred Hitchcock. Mezzo- soprano Isabel Leonard sings the enigmatic Marnie, and baritone Christopher Maltman is the man who pursues her—with disastrous results. Robert Spano conducts. LA TRAVIATA, Giuseppe Verdi Live Performance Sat, Dec 15 Yannick Nézet-Séguin conducts Michael Mayer's richly textured new production, featuring a dazzling 18th-century setting that changes with the seasons. Soprano Diana Damrau plays the tragic heroine, Violetta, and tenor Juan Diego Flórez returns to the Met for the first time in five seasons to sing the role of Alfredo, Violetta's hapless lover. Baritone Quinn Kelsey is Alfredo's father, Germont, who destroys their love. Later performances feature Anita Hartig, Stephen Costello, Artur Ruciński, and Plácido Domingo. ADRIANA LECOUVREUR, Francesco Cilea Live Performance Sat, Jan 12, 2019 Soprano Anna Netrebko joins the ranks of Renata Tebaldi, Montserrat Caballé, and Renata Scotto, taking on—for the first time at the Met — the title role of the real-life French actress who dazzled 18th-century audiences with her on-and offstage passion. e soprano is joined by tenor Piotr Beczała as Adriana's lover, Maurizio. e principal cast also features mezzo-soprano Anita Rachvelishvili and baritone Ambrogio Maestri. Gianandrea Noseda conducts. Sir David McVicar's staging, which sets the action in a working replica of a Baroque theater, premiered at the Royal Opera House in London, where e Guardian praised the "elegant production, sumptuously designed ... e spectacle guarantees a good night out." CARMEN, Georges Bizet Live Performance Sat, Feb 02, 2019 Mezzo-soprano Clémentine Margaine reprises her remarkable portrayal of opera's ultimate seductress, a triumph in her 2017 debut performances, with impassioned tenors Yonghoon Lee and Roberto Alagna as her lover, Don José. Omer Meir Wellber and Louis Langrée share conducting duties for Sir Richard Eyre's powerful production, a Met favorite since its 2009 premiere. Stage and Screen Marty Sohl/Met Opera MET LIVE IN HD

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