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PAN PIPES • WINTER 2018 • sai-national.org 16 T he Metropolitan Opera's twelh season of e Met: Live in HD will feature 220 performances of 26 works, including two Met premieres, one co- commissioned by the company and one an older masterpiece having its first Met performances; a variety of repertory favorites, three in new productions; and performances of Verdi's towering concert work for soloists, orchestra, and chorus, the Requiem. Starting Sept. 25 with a new production of Bellini's Norma, the season continued Oct. 26 with composer omas Adès conducting the North American premiere of his e Exterminating Angel, a Met co-commission. A new production of Puccini's Tosca opened New Year's Eve. A new staging of Così fan tutte, set in the 1950s on Coney Island, opens March 15 and is conducted by David Robertson and directed by Phelim McDermott. e new production will star an ensemble cast including Tony Award- winner Kelli O'Hara in her role debut as the maid Despina. On April 12, Massenet's operatic adaptation of the Cinderella story, Cendrillon, has its Met premiere, conducted by Bertrand de Billy and directed by Laurent Pelly, with Joyce DiDonato in the title role and Alice Coote as Prince Charming. November and December, featured four concert performances of Verdi's Requiem, featuring soloists Krassimira Stoyanova, Ekaterina Semenchuk, Aleksandrs Antonenko, and Ferruccio Furlanetto, along with the Met's orchestra and chorus. Among the season's revivals are some rarely performed stagings, including Verdi's Luisa Miller, starring Sonya Yoncheva, Piotr Beczala, and Plácido Domingo; Rossini's Semiramide, last performed at the Met in 1993, with Angela Meade in the title role; and two recent new productions having their first revivals, François Girard's staging of Wagner's Parsifal and Patrice Chéreau's celebrated production of Strauss's Elektra. e 2017-18 season was announced by Met General Manager Peter Gelb. "We're replenishing our core repertoire with new productions of Così fan tutte, Norma, and Tosca, while stretching our horizons with e Exterminating Angel and Cendrillon," said Gelb. "It's a season of repertory favorites and stimulating rarities, with something for neophytes and aficionados alike." e 2017-18 season of e Met: Live in HD kicked off October 7 with Norma. e series will continue with Die Zauberflöte (October 14), e Exterminating Angel (November 18), Tosca (January 27), L'Elisir d'Amore (February 10), La Bohème (February 24), Semiramide (March 10), Così fan tutte (March 31), Luisa Miller (April 14), and Cendrillon (April 28). e Met's groundbreaking series launched in 2006 and quickly established the company as the world's leading alternative cinema content provider. More than 21 million tickets have been sold since the series' inception, and the series currently reaches more than 2,000 movie theaters in 71 countries around the world. Tickets for the 10 transmissions in the 2017- 18 Live in HD season went on sale July 19, 2017 in the U.S. and Canada, with Met Members offered priority before tickets are made available to the general public. International ticket sales dates and details on ordering tickets for the 2017-18 Live in HD series vary from country to country and will be announced separately by individual distributors. e Met: Live in HD series is made possible by a generous grant from its founding sponsor, e Neubauer Family Foundation. Global sponsorship of e Met: Live in HD is provided by Bloomberg Philanthropies. Transmission of e Met: Live in HD in Canada is made possible thanks to the generosity of Jacqueline Desmarais, in memory of Paul G. Desmarais Sr. Within months of their initial live transmissions, the Live in HD programs are shown on PBS. e PBS series, Great Performances at the Met, is produced in association with PBS and WNET, with support from Toll Brothers. Additional funding is provided by the National Endowment for the Arts. — metopera.org The Met's Live in HD STAGE AND SCREEN Richard Termine/Metropolitan Opera Golda Schultz as Pamina in Mozart's Die Zauberfl te.

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