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sai-national.org • FALL 2016 • PAN PIPES 19 C D E H I J K N O P S T U X Y Z This summer, the Metropolitan Opera announced the upcoming 11th season of The Met: Live in HD series and the expansion of its Met Opera on Demand service. Live in HD transmits Met performances to more than 2,000 movie theaters in 70 countries around the world. Ten performances from the season will be broadcast, beginning October 8 with the 100th transmission in series history, the new production of Tristan und Isolde. The 2016-17 season was announced by Met General Manager Peter Gelb. "Met audiences should be stimulated by our ever-expanding repertoire, which this season includes the new with L'Amour de Loin and the old with Guillaume Tell," said Gelb. "We're proud to be celebrating our five decades at Lincoln Center, including 40 years under the musical leadership of James Levine." Met Opera on Demand is the online streaming service that allows users to watch and listen to 575 Met performances over the internet. This online streaming catalog includes HD videos (including Live in HD transmissions), classic telecasts (standard-definition videos that were originally broadcast live on television from 1977-2003), and radio broadcast (audio- only) performances dating back to 1935, from the Met's long-running series of Saturday matinee radio broadcasts as well as more recent satellite radio broadcasts. Met Opera on Demand is available and accessible on many of the most popular devices and platforms. New content is added every month and most Live in HD presentations are added to the Met Opera on Demand streaming catalog 3-6 months after their live transmission date. All Met Opera on Demand videos offer English subtitles and most HD videos also offer subtitles in French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, and/or Swedish. THE MET: LIVE IN HD 2016–17 SEASON TRISTAN UND ISOLDE Saturday, October 8, 2016 The season opens with a new production of Wagner's Tristan und Isolde, conducted by Sir Simon Rattle in his first Met performances since his 2010 debut. Nina Stemme makes her company role debut as Isolde—a touchstone role she has sung with major opera companies around the world. Her Tristan is Australian heldentenor Stuart Skelton, who sang Siegmund in the Met's Ring cycle in 2013. The cast also includes Ekaterina Gubanova as Brangäne and Evgeny Nikitin as Kurwenal (both in Met role debuts), with René Pape reprising King Marke, a role he has sung to acclaim in three previous Met seasons. The staging, by Mariusz Treliński (who directed the 2015 Met double bill of Iolanta and Bluebeard's Castle) is a co-production with the Festival Hall Baden-Baden, Teatr Wielki – Polish National Opera, and China National Centre for the Performing Arts (NCPA) Beijing. L'AMOUR DE LOIN (MET PREMIERE) Saturday, December 10, 2016 One of the most highly praised operas of recent years, which had its premiere at the Salzburg Festival in 2000, Kaija Saariaho's yearning medieval romance L'Amour de Loin ("Love From Afar"), has its Met premiere on December 1. The production is by Robert Lepage, co-produced with L'Opéra de Québec, where it premiered to acclaim last summer, in collaboration with Ex Machina. Susanna Mälkki leads the performances, which will star Susanna Phillips as Clémence, Eric Owens as Jaufré, and Tamara Mumford as the Pilgrim MET OPERA The Met Announces Live in HD Schedule Ken Howard/Metropolitan Opera Sonya Yoncheva as Violetta in Verdi's La Traviata. MET continued on page 20

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