The Metropolitan Opera is known around the world for its high quality productions. Founded in 1880, The Metropolitan Opera is America's largest classical music organization and presents some 220 opera performances annually. The Met, as it is commonly called, is one of the twelve resident organizations at Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts in New York City. Typically, going to see an opera can be an expensive event including the drive to New York, parking, the cost of tickets and dinner.
Thanks to The Metropolitan Opera’s Peabody and Emmy Award-winning series “The Met: Live in HD”, the Met experience is available at The Ridgefield Playhouse for Movies and the Performing Arts. The Playhouse will be presenting all 12 operas in the Met Opera 2010-2011 season via satellite in HD right on the screen at the Playhouse!
The season begins on October 10, 2010 with Wagner’s “Das Rheingold” and continues through May 2011 with another Wagner great, “Die Walküre” with the rest of the season offering Mussorgsky’s “Boris Godunov” (October), Donizetti’s “Don Pasquale” (November 13), Verdi’s “Don Carlo” (December 12), Puccini’s “La Fanciulla del West” (January 8, 2011), “Adams’s Nixon in China” (February 12), Gluck’s “Iphigénie en Tauride” (February 27), Donizetti’s “Lucia di Lammermoor”, (March 19), Rossini’s “Le Comte Ory” (April 9), Strauss’s Capriccio (April 23) and Verdi’s “Il Trovatore: (April 30).
Tickets are $25 for adults, $20 for members, seniors and students, or $198 ($16.50 per opera) for all 12 operas in the series. Call the box office at (203) 438-5795. “The Met: Live in HD” series is Underwritten by Barker Welfare Foundation, Lori and John Berisford, Jeanne Cook, Anita and Nick Donofrio, The Goldstone Family Foundation, IBM, Madeline and Fritz Jelinek, Valerie and Greg Jensen, Marilyn and Joe Kreitz, Aline Lawrence, Joanne and John Patrick, Patricia and Stephen Ross, Daniela Sikora and Keitha Kinne, Sabina and Walter Slavin, Mike Taylor and Steve Zemo. The Ridgefield Playhouse is a not-for-profit performing arts center located at 80 East Ridge, parallel to Main St., Ridgefield, CT; ridgefieldplayhouse.org.
