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sai-national.org • FALL 2015 • PAN PIPES 11 e Metropolitan Opera and Fathom Events are celebrating 10 years together with the new season of the Emmy and Peabody award-winning series, "e Met: Live in HD." e series of 10 cinema transmissions begins October 3 with Giuseppe Verdi's Il Trovatore. "e Met: Live in HD 2015–16 Season" will feature 10 live performances, including six new productions, and a special encore presentation of e Magic Flute – the first-ever Met HD broadcast from 2006. Each live transmission will take place on a Saturday, with pre-recorded encore presentations on the following Wednesday evening. In addition to the opera production, Fathom fans get to go behind the scenes with the Met's stars. Singers serve as hosts for the HD series, conducting live interviews with cast and crew members as well as production teams. ey introduce the popular behind-the-scenes features during intermission, giving the audience an unprecedented look at what goes into staging an opera at one of the world's greatest houses. e series has become a global phenomenon with more than 18 million tickets sold since its inception. Tickets are available online at FathomEvents.com and at participating theater box offices. e event will be presented in nearly 700 select movie theaters around the country through Fathom's Digital Broadcast Network. For a complete list of theater locations and prices, visit the Fathom Events website (theaters and participants are subject to change). "e Metropolitan Opera continues to astound and entertain audiences around the world thanks to their Live in HD series," Fathom Events Vice President of Programming Kymberli Frueh said. "is series continues to be a cornerstone of Fathom's programming and we are thrilled to be celebrating ten years with another fantastic season." "e Met: Live in HD 2015-2016" series planned schedule** is as follows: IL TROVATORE Oct. 3, 2015 Soprano Anna Netrebko's dramatic and vocal skills are on full display in her next new role at the Met — Leonora, the Verdi heroine who sacrifices her own life for the love of a gypsy troubadour. Tenor Yonghoon Lee sings the ill- fated Manrico, baritone Dmitri Hvorostovsky is his rival, and mezzo-soprano Dolora Zajick is the mysterious gypsy with the troubled past. Marco Armiliato conducts Sir David McVicar's Goya- inspired production. OTELLO Oct. 17, 2015 Verdi's masterful Otello, inspired by Shakespeare's play and matching it in tragic intensity, is directed by Bartlett Sher, who probes the Moor's dramatic downfall with an outstanding cast: tenor Aleksandrs Antonenko plays the doomed Otello; new soprano star Sonya Yoncheva sings Desdemona, Otello's innocent wife and victim; and baritone Željko Lučić plays the evil Iago, who masterminds Otello's demise. Dynamic maestro Yannick Nézet-Séguin conducts TANNHÄUSER Oct. 31, 2015 James Levine conducts Wagner's early masterpiece in its first return to the Met stage in more than a decade. Today's leading Wagnerian tenor, Johan Botha, takes on the daunting title role of the young knight caught between true love and passion. Eva-Maria Westbroek is Elisabeth, C D E H I J K N O P T U X Y Z 'The Met: Live In HD' Celebrates 10 Years With New Season STAGE AND SCREEN Ken Howard, Met Opera Turandot is scheduled for January 2016 in the tenth season of performances via 'The Met: Live in HD.'

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