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Saturday Matinee Broadcasts

The Metropolitan Opera Metropolitan Opera Saturday Matinee Broadcasts
Saturdays December 2007 through May 2008

The 2007-08 Saturday Matinee Broadcast season includes special tributes to two opera greats: Beverly Sills (performing Rossini’s L'Assedio di Corinto from 1975) and Luciano Pavarotti (performing Puccini’s La Bohème from 1977). For more information, visit www.operainfo.org.

This year's international Saturday matinee broadcasts will once again include Met Cameo intermission features produced and voiced by WGUC's own Naomi Lewin. Met Cameos are vignettes about various people connected with the Metropolitan Opera: from singers to spear-carriers, props makers, and even the official Metropolitan Opera nurse. Met Cameos will air on all public radio stations in the Met's network, as well as the BBC and CBC (Great Britain and Canada).

The currect season of the Metropolitan Opera is over.

Click here for the entire broadcast season schedule.

Metropolitan Opera HD Broadcasts Come to Town

Local opera fans will no longer have to take a road trip to see the Metropolitan Opera's high definition broadcasts in movie theaters.

The Met's new initiative -- beaming live opera into movie theaters around the world, which began last year -- is coming to a movie theater near you. The Deerfield Towne Center movie theater in Mason and the Springdale Showcase Cinemas will present eight opera performances, Dec. 15 to April 26.

The series will open at 1 p.m. Dec. 15 with Gounod's Romeo et Juliette, starring Anna Netrebko and Roberto Alagna and conducted by Placido Domingo.

A family-friendly New Year's Day performance(1 p.m.) is planned of Hansel and Gretel, in a new English-language production by Richard Jones.

Metropolitan Opera music director and Cincinnati native James Levine will conduct three of the operas in the series: Verdi's Macbeth, starring Maria Guleghina (Jan. 12); Puccini's Manon Lescaut starring Karita Mattila (Feb. 16); and Wagner's Tristan und Isolde, starring Deborah Voigt and Ben Heppner (March 22).

The worldwide audience is expected to reach a million for the entire series. Because of the HD series' popularity, it's suggested that you purchase tickets early.

Tickets are $22 for adults, $20 for seniors and $15 for children. To get the whole schedule, see a trailer, read about the cast and production and purchase tickets, visit www.fathomevents.com.


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