Coming Attractions*
The Metropolitan Opera Live & Encore Season in HD 2011/2012
Adult $24, Senior $22, Children $16. Please keep your tickets in a safe place, as there will be no admission without them. Tickets may be returned up to seven days before each event. There will be a $5 service charge for each returned ticket.
Götterdämmerung
Composer: Richard Wagner
Librettist: Richard Wagner
HD Live - Saturday, February 11, 9:00 A.M. - (purchase tickets)
Encore, with separate ticketing, will take place in 2012 as part of a Ring Cycle series.
Running Time: 6hrs., 25min.
With its cataclysmic climax, the Met's new Ring cycle, directed by Robert Lepage, comes to its resolution. Deborah Voigt stars as Brünhilde and Gary Lehman is Siegfried - the star-crossed lovers doomed by fate. James Levine conducts.
Ermani
Composer: Giuseppe Verdi
Librettist: Francesco Maria Piave
HD Live - Saturday, February 25, 9:55 A.M. - (purchase tickets)
HD Encore - Wednesday, March 14, 6:30 P.M. - (purchase tickets)
Running Time: 3hrs., 55min.
Angela Meade takes center stage in Verdi's thrilling early gem. Marcello Giordani and Roberto DiBiasio share the role of her mismatched lover, and all-star Verdians Dmitri Hvorostovsky and Ferruccio Furlanetto round out the cast.
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Travelling Light
February 26 - noon (purchase tickets)
February 28 - noon (purchase tickets)
March 3 - noon (purchase tickets)
March 4 - noon (purchase tickets)
Estimated running time: 3 hours
How had a twenty-two-year-old layabout made a discovery that would elude everyother cinematic pioneer for years to come?
In a remote village in Eastern Europe, around 1900, the young Motl Mendl is entranced by the flickering silent images on his father's cinematograph. Bankrolled by Jacob, the ebullient local timber merechant, and inpsired by Anna, the girl sent to help him make moving pictures of their village, he stumbles on a revolutionary way of story-telling. Forty years on, Motl -- now a famed American film director -- looks back on his early life and confronts the cost of fulfilling his dreams.
Following Vincent in Brixton and The Reporter, Nicholas Wright's new play is a funny and fascinating tribute to the Eastern European immigrants who became major players in Hollywood's golden age. The award-winning Antony Sher -- whose previous work with the National Theatre includes Primo and Stanley -- returns to play Jacob.
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Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close Coming Soon - Academy Award Nominee
Directected by Stephen Daldry
Cast: Tom Hanks, Thomas Horn, Sandra Bullock, Max von Sydow, Viola Davis, John Goodman, Jeffrey Wright, Zoe Caldwell
View the Trailer: www.extremelyloudmovie.com
Rated PG13 for emotional thematic material, disturbing images and language. 129 min.
 Sometimes, there are movies that you don't want to watch, and for me, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close was one of them. Though its been more than a decade since the events of 9/11, movies about that day remain far and few between.
Director Stephen Daldry hasn't shied away from emotional subject material in the past (Billy Elliot, The Hours, The Reader )--and he turns out to be the right filmmaker for the job here. At the story's center is Oskar (Thomas Horn, in his film debut), who before 9/11 lived a contented, comfortable life in Manhattan with his kind, loving parents, Thomas (Tom Hanks) and Linda (Sandra Bullock). On that day--"the worst day," as Oskar calls it--everything changed: His father, a jeweler, went to a meeting at the World Trade Center and never returned. Grieving and lost, Oskar finds something that belonged to his father: a key, in an envelope marked "Black." Remembering the puzzles his father would set out for them to solve, Oskar vows to visit everyone named Black in New York's boroughs, hoping to find someone who can shed light on the mystery and share one last connection with his adored father.
There are moments, make no mistake, when Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close is utterly devastating to watch. But without soft-pedaling what happened, the film is kind to its audience, letting us leave with just a bit of hope that this child--and we--will become whole again. (Excerpted from Moira Macdonald's Seattle Times)
"Exquisite. One of the best films of the year." -Los Angeles Times
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