The Metropolitan Opera Live & Encore Season in HD 2011/2012

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Tickets go on sale for Met members Friday, August 19 at 1:00 P.M. at the box office only. You must present your Met membership card, or if you are new member and do not have your card, then the printed confirmation with your membership number.

Tickets go on sale to the general pubic Monday, August 29 at 1:00 P.M. at the box office, and 2:00 P.M. online here.

See instructions below for online purchases.

Adults $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.

Anna Bolena
Composer: Gaetano Donizetti
Librettist: Felice Romani
HD Live - Saturday, October 15, 9:55 A.M. - (purchase tickets)
HD Encore - Wednesday, November 2, 6:30 P.M. - (purchase tickets)
Running Time: 4hrs., 20min.

Anna Netrebko opens the Met season with her portrayal of ill-fated queen driven insane by her unfaithful king. She sings one of opera's greatest mad scenes in this Met premiere production by David McVicar. With Ekaterina Gubanova, Jane Seymour, Ildar Abdrazakov. Marco Armiliato conducts

Don Giovanni
Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Librettist: Lorenzo Da Ponte
HD Live - Saturday, October 29, 9:55 A.M. - (purchase tickets)
HD Encore - Wednesday, November 16, 6:30 P.M. - (purchase tickets)
Running Time: 4hrs.

Mariusz Kwiecien brings his youthful and sensual interpretation of Mozart's timeless anti-hero to the Met for the first time, under the direction of Tony Award-winning director Michael Grandage and with James Levine conducting. With Marina Rebeka, Barbara Frittoli, Isabel Leonard, Mathew Polenzani, Ramón Vargas and John Relyea.

Siegfried
Composer: Richard Wagner
Librettist: Richard Wagner
HD Live - Saturday, November 5, 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.

In part three of the Ring, Wagner's cosmic vision focuses on his hero's early conquests, while Robert Legapage's revolutionary stage machine transforms itself from bewitched forest to mountaintop love nest. Gary Lehman sings the title role and Deborah Voigt's Brünnhilde is his prize. Bryn Terfel is the Wanderer. James Levine conducts.

Satyagraha
Composer: Philip Glass
Librettists: Constance de John and Philip Glass
HD Live - Saturday, November 19, 9:55 A.M. -(purchase ticket)s
HD Encore - Wednesday, December 7, 6:30 P.M. - (purchase tickets)
Running Time: 4hrs., 15min.

The Met's visually extravagant production is back for an encore engagement. Richard Croft once again is Gandhi in Philip Glass's unforgettable opera, which the Washington Post calls "a profound and beautiful work of theater."

Rodelinda
Composer: George Frideric Handel
Librettist: Nicola Haym
HD Live - Saturday, December 3, 9:30 A.M. - Purchase Tickets
HD Encore - Wednesday, January 4, 6:30 P.M. - Purchase Tickets
Running Time: 4hrs., 15min.

Sensational in the 2004 Met premiere of Stephen Wadsworth's much-heralded production, Renée Fleming reprises the title role. She's joined by Stephanie Blythe and countertenor Andreas Scholl, and Baroque specialist Harry Bicket conducts.

Faust
Composer: Charles Gounod
Librettists: Jules Barbier and Michael Carré
HD Live - Saturday, December 10, 9:55 A.M. - (purchase tickets)
HD Encore - Wednesday, January 11, 6:30 P.M. - (purchase Tickets)
Running Time: 4hrs., 25min.

With Jonas Kaufmann in the title role, René Pape as the devil, and Marina Poplavskays as Marguerite, Gounod's classic retelling of the Faust legend couldn't be better served. Tony Award-winning director Des McAnuff updates the story to the first half of the 20th century with a production that won praise in London last season.

The Enchanted Island
Composers: George Frideric Handel, Antonio Vivaldi, Jean-Philippe Rameau, and others.
Devised and written by Jeremy Sams
HD Live - Saturday, January 21, 9:55 A.M. - (purchase tickets)
HD Encore - Wednesday, February 8, 6:30 -(purchase tickets)
Running Time: 3hrs., 40min.

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, and a new libretto by Jeremy Sams. Eminent conductor William Christie leads an all-star cast with David Daniels and Joyce DiDonato as formidable foes, Plácido Domingo as Neptume, Danielle de Niese as Ariel, and Luca Pisaroni as Caliban. The dazzling productions is directed and designed by Phelim McDermott and Julian Crouch.

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.

Manon
Composer: Jules Massenat
Librettists: Henri Meilhac and Philippe Gille
HD Live - Saturday, April 7, 9:00 A.M. - (purchase tickets)
HD Encore - Wednesday, April 25, 6:30 P.M. - (purchase tickets)
Running Time: 4hrs., 10min.

Anna Netrebko's dazzling portrayal of the tragic heroine in Laurent Pelly's new production travels to the Met from the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden. Piotr Beczala and Paulo Szot also star, with the Met's Principal Guest Conductor Fabio Luisi on the podium.

La Traviata
Composer: Giuseppe Verdi
Librettist: Francesco Maria Piave
HD Live - Saturday, April 14, 9:55 A.M. - (purchase tickets)
HD Encore - Wednesday, May 2, 6:30 P.M. - (purchase tickets)
Running Time: 3hrs., 15min.

Natalie Dessay will put on the red dress in Willy Decker's stunning production, in her first Violetta at the Met. Mathew Polenzani sings Alfredo, Dmitri Hvorostovsky is Germont, and Principal Guest Conductor Fabio Luisi is on the podium.

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