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The announcement we have all been waiting for is finally here!
Met: Live in HD’s 2012-13 Season Features 12 Live Transmissions, Including Seven New Productions (Two of Which Are Met Premieres)
HD season kicks off on Saturday, October 13 with a new production of L’Elisir d’Amore starring Anna Netrebko International stars include Roberto Alagna, Marcelo Álvarez, Piotr Beczala, Stephanie Blythe, Olga Borodina, Katarina Dalayman, Diana Damrau, David Daniels, Natalie Dessay, Joyce DiDonato, Renée Fleming, Barbara Frittoli, Elīna Garanča, Marcello Giordani, Susan Graham, Dmitri Hvorostovsky, Jonas Kaufmann, Simon Keenlyside, Mariusz Kwiecien, Peter Mattei, René Pape, Sondra Radvanovsky, Deborah Voigt, and Eva-Maria Westbroek
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Tickets may be purchased at the Anacortes Cinemas or Bainbridge Cinemas box office or over the phone by calling the theaters directly. |
 Donizetti's L'Elisir d'Amore-New Production
October 13, 2012, 9:55 am
Anna Netrebko and Matthew Polenzani star in Bartlett Sher's new production of one of the greatest comic gems in opera, as the fickle Adina and her besotted Nemorino. Mariusz Kwiecien is the blustery sergeant Belcore and Ambrogio Maestri is Dulcamara, the loveable quack and dispenser of the elixir. |
 Verdi's Otello
October 27, 2012, 9:55 am
Verdi's Shakespearean masterpiece returns to the Met with Johan Botha in the title role opposite the acclaimed Desdemona of star soprano Renée Fleming. Semyon Bychkov conducts. |
 Adès's The Tempest-Met Premiere
November 10, 2012, 9:55 am
Composer Thomas Adès conducts the Metropolitan Opera premiere of his own work, with baritone Simon Keenlyside starring as Prospero. Director Robert Lepage recreates the interior of 18th-century La Scala in this inventive staging. |
 Mozart's La Clemenza di Tito
December 1, 2012, 9:55 am
The virtuosic Elīna Garanča sings Sesto in Mozart's drama set in ancient Rome. Giuseppe Filianoti is the noble Tito and Barbara Frittoli is Vitellia, in this handsome revival of one of the composer's final masterpieces. Harry Bicket conducts. |
 Verdi's Un Ballo in Maschera-New Production
December 8, 2012, 9:55 am
Director David Alden's dreamlike setting provides a compelling backdrop for this dramatic story of jealousy and vengeance. Marcelo Álvarez stars as the conflicted king; Karita Mattila is Amelia, the object of his secret passion; and Dmitri Hvorostovsky is her suspicious husband.
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 Verdi's Aida
December 15, 2012, 9:55 am
The Met's unforgettable production of Verdi's ancient Egyptian drama stars Liudmyla Monastyrska as the enslaved Ethiopian princess caught in a love triangle with the heroic Radamès, played by Roberto Alagna, and the proud Egyptian princess Amneris, sung by Olga Borodina. |
 Berlioz's Les Troyens
January 5, 2013, 9:00 am
The Met offers a rare opportunity to witness Berlioz's vast epic. Deborah Voigt, Susan Graham, Marcello Giordani, and Dwayne Croft lead the starry cast, portraying characters from the Trojan War. Met Principal Conductor Fabio Luisi marshals the large-scale musical forces. |
 Donizetti's Maria Stuarda-Met Premiere
January 19, 2013, 9:55 am
Mezzo-soprano Joyce DiDonato, one of the world's most exciting singers, takes on the virtuosic bel canto role of the doomed Mary, Queen of Scots. The second opera of Donizetti's Tudor trilogy explores regal characters at fateful moments of their lives. Elza van den Heever sings Elizabeth I. |
 Verdi's Rigoletto- New Production
February 16, 2013, 9:55 am
Director Michael Mayer has placed his new production of Verdi's towering tragedy in Las Vegas in 1960. In this production, Piotr Beczala is the womanizing Duke of Mantua, Zeljko Lucic is his tragic sidekick, Rigoletto, and Diana Damrau is Rigoletto's daughter, Gilda. |
 Wagner's Parsifal-New Production
March 2, 2013, 9:00 am
Jonas Kaufmann stars in the title role of the innocent who finds wisdom in Wagner's final masterpiece. His fellow Wagnerian luminaries include Katarina Dalayman as the mysterious Kundry, Peter Mattei as the ailing Amfortas, and Evgeny Nikitin as the wicked Klingsor. |
Zandonai's Francesca de Rimini
March 16, 2013, 9:00 am
Zandonai's compelling opera, inspired by an episode from Dante's Inferno, returns in the Met's ravishingly beautiful production, last seen in 1986. Dramatic soprano Eva-Maria Westbroek and tenor Marcello Giordani are the doomed lovers. Marco Armiliato condudcts. |
Handel's Giulio Cesare-New Production 
April 27, 2013, 9:00 am
The opera that conquered London in Handel's time comes to the Met in David McVicar's lively production. The world's leading countertenor, David Daniels, sings the title role opposite Natalie Dessay as an irresistibly exotic Cleopatra. Baroque specialist Harry Bicket conducts. |
