Metropolitan Opera Live in HD

POSTED - October 05

Six years ago the Metropolitan Opera in New York revolutionized the opera and entertainment world with its first live HD satellite transmissions of productions from the Met stage to venues in the US and further afield. The Met : Live in HD is now a world‐wide phenomenon, in more than 1600 venues in 51 countries, playing to a worldwide audience of over three million. Now in its fourth full season in Ireland, it continues to grow large audiences – setting new attendance records each year.

The Enchanted Island (Vivaldi, Handel, Rameau etc.)
New Production
Saturday January 21, 2012. 6pm
In one extraordinary new work, lovers of Baroque opera have it all: the world’s best singers, glorious music of the Baroque masters, and a story drawn from Shakespeare. In The Enchanted Island, the lovers from Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream are shipwrecked on his other-worldly island of The Tempest. Inspired by the musical pastiches and masques of the 18th century, the work showcases arias and ensembles by Handel, Vivaldi,Rameau, and others, with a new libretto by Jeremy Sams. Eminent specialist conductor William Christie leads an all-star cast with David Daniels (Prospero) and Joyce DiDonato (Sycorax) as the formidable foes, Plácido Domingo as Neptune, Danielle de Niese as Ariel, and Luca Pisaroni as Caliban. Lisette Oropesa and Anthony Roth Costanzo play Miranda and Ferdinand. The dazzling production is directed and designed by Phelim McDermott and Julian Crouch.
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Götterdämmerung – (Wagner)
Sunday, February 12th, 2012 2.30pm (note recorded as live encore performance, tickets priced €15)
The end of the greatest operatic journey of all. With its cataclysmic climax, Götterdämmerung – the Twilight of the Gods, brings Wagner’s visionary epic to its final resolution. Deborah Voigt stars as Brünnhilde the and Gary Lehman as the heroic Siegfried—the star-crossed lovers doomed by fate. James Levine conducts.
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Ernani (Verdi)
Saturday, February 25, 2012
Angela Meade takes center stage in Verdi’s thrilling early gem. Salvatore Licitra is her mismatched lover, and all-star Verdians Dmitri Hvorostovsky and Ferruccio Furlanetto round out the cast.
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Manon (Massenet)
New Production
Saturday, April 7, 2012
Following on her triumph in the 2010-11 season in don Pasquale,the glorious Russian Soprano Anna Netrebko’s dazzling portrayal of the tragic heroine who loves too much in one of the greatest romantic French operas. Laurent Pelly’s sparkling new production travels to the Met from the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden. Piotr Beczala and Paulo Szot also star, and the Met’s Principal Guest Conductor Fabio Luisi on the podium.
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La Traviata (Verdi)
Saturday, April 14, 2012
One remarkable soprano follows another in another tragic love story, this time one of the great favourites by the master of Italian 19th century opera – Giuseppe Verdi. Natalie Dessay will put on the red dress in Willy Decker’s stunning production, in her first time to appear as Violetta at the Met. TenorMatthew Polenzani sings Alfredo, Dmitri Hvorostovsky is Germont, and Principal Guest Conductor Fabio Luisi is on the podium for what promises to be another great Met experience.
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Ticket Prices
Tickets are priced at €24 for a single adult ticket, €10 for children, €12 for students and all tickets are subject to a €1 admin fee.

Online Purchases
To purchase your ticket online please use the links on this page. Alternatively go the Screen’s website homepage and in the book now box on the right hand side select the date of the opera you wish to purchase. Select the time, select your ticket, confirm, select seats from seating plan, confirm seats and pay using a credit and laser card.