The Metropolitan Opera’s first new production of Verdi’s Don Carlo since 1979 will continue The Met: Live in HD series, with a live transmission of the performance on Saturday, December 11 at 12:30 pm ET/9:30 am PT to movie theaters worldwide. Starring Roberto Alagna, Marina Poplavskaya, Simon Keenlyside, and Ferruccio Furlanetto.
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December 11, 2010 at 12:30 pm ET
U.S. Encore: Wednesday, Jan. 5, 2010, 6:30 p.m. local time
Canada Encores: Saturday, Jan. 22, 2011, 12:30 p.m. ET; Monday, Feb. 14, 2011, 6 p.m. ET
Expected Running time: 5 hours
Don Carlo, a dark and intense epic in which love, war, politics, and religion combine in Spainat the height of the Inquisition, is directed by Nicholas Hytner, the artistic director of London’s National Theatre. Verdi’s grand operawill be conducted by Yannick Nézet-Séguin, who led last season’s Live in HD transmission of Carmen.
Roberto Alagna (Live in HD: Carmen, La Rondine, Roméo et Juliette) will sing the conflicted title character; Marina Poplavskaya (Live in HD: Turandot) will portray Elisabeth of Valois, torn between duty to her husband, Philip, and love for his son, Carlo; Anna Smirnova is the “fatal beauty” Princess Eboli; Simon Keenlyside (Live in HD: Hamlet) is the revolutionary Rodrigo; Ferruccio Furlanetto sings the tyrannical and tormented King Philip II; and Eric Halfvarson is the opera’s ultimate authority figure, the Grand Inquisitor.
Information about The Met: Live in HD can be found at http://www.metopera.org/hdlive. Tickets in the U.S.range from $18 - $25.
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