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THE MET LIVE IN HD
ARKLOW
SAT 5 OCT, 6pm
SAT 26 OCT, 6pm
SAT 9 NOV, 6pm
SAT 14 DEC, 6pm
SAT 8 FEB, 6pm
SAT 1 MAR, 5pm
SAT 15 MAR, 5pm
SAT 5 APR, 6pm
SAT 26 APR, 6pm
SAT 10 MAY, 6pm
EUGENE ONEGIN Tchaikovsky
THE NOSE Shostakovich
TOSCA Puccini
FALSTAFF Verdi
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RUSALKA Dvorák
PRINCE IGOR Borodin
WERTHER Massenet
LA BOHÈME Puccini
COSÌ FAN TUTTE Mozart
LA CENERENTOLA Rossini
BOLSHOI BALLET LIVE IN HD
SUN 20 OCT, 4pm
SUN 17 NOV, 3pm
SUN 22 DEC, 3pm
SPARTACUS Khatchachurian/Grigorovich
LE CORSAIRE
Adolphe Adam/Petipa/Ratmansky/Burlaka
SLEEPING BEAUTY
Tchaikowsky/Petipa/Grigorovich
SUN 19 JAN, 3pm
SUN 2 FEB, 3pm
SUN 30 MAR, 4pm
JEWELS Fauré/Stravinsky/Tchaikovsky/Balanchine
LOST ILLUSIONS
Leonid Desyatnikov/Alexei Ratmansky
THE GOLDEN AGE Shostakovitch/Grigorovich
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PRESENTS
www.gaietyarklow.ie • 0402 41016
BELFAST
Odyssey Cinema, Titanic Quarter
www.odysseycinemas.co.uk • 02890 739134
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Queens Film Theatre
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Odeon Belfast
www.odeon.co.uk • 0871 224 4007
CASTLEBAR
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The Linenhall Arts Centre
www.thelinenhall.com • 094 9023733
CORK
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Omniplex, Mahon Point
DUBLIN
IMC Dún Laoghaire
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www.imccinemas.ie
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IMC Santry
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Screen Cinema, Hawkins Street
SUITES & SYMPHONIES
NEW YEAR’S EVE GALA
BACH: ST. JOHN PASSION
BARENBOIM & BRAHMS in BERLIN
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BERLIN PHILHARMONIC LIVE IN HD
FRI 6 DEC, 6.30pm
TUE 31 DEC, 4pm
FRI 28 FEB, 6.30pm
WED 18 JUNE, 6.30pm
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Odeon Stillorgan
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Droichead Arts Centre
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THE MET: LIVE IN HD
EUGENE ONEGIN
TCHAIKOVSKY
New
Production
Anna Netrebko opens her third consecutive
Met season in her company debut as Tatiana,
the naïve heroine from Pushkin’s classic
novel. Irish actress Fiona Shaw directs
Deborah Warner’s new production of
Tchaikovsky’s romantic tragedy. Conducted
by the great Valery Gergiev, Mariusz
Kwiecien portrays the title character,
and Piotr Beczala plays Lenski.
SAT 5 OCT 2013
6pm
THE NOSE
SAT 26 OCT 2013
6pm
TOSCA
PRINCE IGOR
WERTHER
SHOSTAKOVICH
William Kentridge’s dazzling production
of Shostakovich’s hilarious surrealist opera
about a beleaguered Russian official and
his runaway nose returns to the Met for the
first time since its sold-out 2010 premiere.
Pavel Smelkov conducts a cast led by Paulo
Szot as the hapless Kovalyov, with Andrey
Popov as the menacing Police Inspector
and Alexander Lewis as Kovalyov’s nose.
Patricia Racette portrays the tempestuous
diva Floria Tosca in Luc Bondy’s production
of Puccini’s enduring favourite with audiences
everywhere. Roberto Alagna sings Tosca’s
lover, the painter Cavaradossi, and George
Gagnidze is the corrupt, lustful Scarpia.
Riccardo Frizza conducts Puccini’s sweeping,
dramatic tale of murder, lust, and political
intrigue.
FALSTAFF
VERDI
SAT 14 DEC 2013
6pm
RUSALKA
SAT 8 FEB 2014
6pm
SAT 15 MAR 2014
5pm (note start time)
New
Production
Verdi’s brilliant final masterpiece Falstaff
has its first new Met production in nearly
50 years, conducted by James Levine
and directed by Robert Carsen. Ambrogio
Maestri sings the iconic title role, Angela
Meade is Alice Ford and Stephanie Blythe is
Mistress Quickly in a cast that also includes
Lisette Oropesa, Jennifer Johnson Cano,
Paolo Fanale and Franco Vassallo.
DVOŘÁK
Renée Fleming sings her first Live in
HD performance of one of her signature
roles, the lovelorn mermaid Rusalka,
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in Dvorák’s sumptuously melodic opera.
Yannick Nézet-Séguin conducts a cast that
includes Piotr Beczala as the handsome
Prince; Dolora Zajick as the cackling swamp
witch; Emily Magee as the foreign princess
and John Relyea as the Water Sprite.
SAT 5 APR 2014
6pm
BOLSHOI BALLET: LIVE IN HD
KHATCHACHURIAN – GRIGOROVICH
SUN 20 OCT 2013
4pm
SPARTACUS
SUN 20 MAR 2014
4pm
The great epic of the rebellion against
Rome of the slave-turned gladiator Spartacus
is one Khachaturian’s most famous works.
It is one of the greatest ballets in the
Bolshoi repertoire since the 1960s. With
spectacular choreography and scenery, Yuri
Grigorovich’s powerful and athletic version
remains the most critically acclaimed.
ADOLPHE ADAM – PETIPA – RATMANSKY/BURLAKA
SUN 17 NOV 2013
3pm Recorded live
SHOSTAKOVITCH – GRIGOROVICH
LE CORSAIRE
In the marketplace, the beautiful Medora
is sold to Pasha by a slave dealer. But a
pirate, hidden among the crowd with his
companions, decides to ravish her. Thrilling
suspense is at the core of this lavish exotic
fable and it has an amazing production
to match – with pirates, kidnapping,
a shipwreck, and 120 dancers on stage.
An exciting young cast stars in Franco
Zeffirelli’s classic production of La Bohème,
the most-performed opera in Met history.
Italian tenor Vittorio Grigolo stars as Rodolfo,
and Romanian soprano Anita Hartig makes
her Met debut as Mimì. Susanna Phillips
sings the flirtatious Musetta and Massimo
Cavalletti is Marcello in a production led by
rising conductor Stefano Ranzani.
SUN 22 DEC 2013
3pm Recorded live
SUITES & SYMPHONIES
TUE 31 DEC 2013
4pm
NEW YEAR’S EVE GALA
FRI 28 FEB 2014
6.30pm
BACH: ST. JOHN PASSION
WED 18 JUNE 2014
6.30pm
BARENBOIM & BRAHMS
in BERLIN
FAURÉ/STRAVINSKY/TCHAIKOVSKY - BALANCHINE
MOZART
James Levine conducts the first Live in
HD performance of Mozart’s barbed comic
romance Così Fan Tutte. Lesley Koenig’s
sleek production will star Susanna Phillips
and Isabel Leonard as the sisters, Matthew
Polenzani and Rodion Pogossov as their
fiancés; and Danielle de Niese as their feisty
maid Despina.
ROSSINI
Joyce DiDonato sings her first Met
performance of the title character in Rossini’s
Cinderella story, La Cenerentola, with bel
canto master Juan Diego Flórez as her
dashing prince. Met Principal Conductor
Fabio Luisi leads a cast that also includes
Pietro Spagnoli, Alessandro Corbelli and
Luca Pisaroni.
SUN 19 JAN 2014
3pm
JEWELS
Inspired by the famous jewellers of New
York’s Fifth Avenue, this triptych is a tribute
to women, and to the cities of Paris, New
York and St. Petersburg using music by three
great composers. From 1967, the ballet with
its jewel-like costumes celebrates the three
great cities and the three dance schools that
forged the elegance, aesthetic and style of
choreographer George Balanchine.
In 1923, in a seaside town in the south of the
Soviet Union, where trade and the mafia are
flourishing, Boris falls in love with Rita – a
cabaret dancer at The Golden Age, and the
girlfriend of the local gangster. Audiences will
be thrilled by this dazzling jazz-era ballet with
its musical parodies, frantic pace, passionate
intrigue and variety of dance styles.
FRI 6 DEC 2013
6.30pm
SLEEPING BEAUTY
With glorious music by Tchaikovsky and
based on the classic fairy tale, Sleeping
Beauty is hugely popular. Cursed at birth by
the evil fairy, Princess Aurora descends into a
deep slumber on her 16th birthday. Only the
kiss of a prince will awaken her. This classic
ballet will captivate fairy-tale lovers and the
whole family this Christmas.
THE GOLDEN AGE
BERLIN PHILHARMONIC:
LIVE IN HD
TCHAIKOVSKY - PETIPA - GRIGOROVICH
PUCCINI
LA CENERENTOLA
SAT 10 MAY 2014
6pm
New
Production
Director Richard Eyre returns to the Met with
a new staging of Massenet’s Werther, starring
Jonas Kaufmann and Sophie Koch in their
first Met performances as the brooding poet
Werther and his unattainable love, Charlotte.
Lisette Oropesa sings the role of Sophie,
Charlotte’s sister; David Bižic debuts as Charlotte’s
fiancé, Albert; and Jonathan Summers is Charlotte’s
father, Le Bailli. Alain Altinoglu conducts.
COSÌ FAN TUTTE
SAT 26 APR 2014
6pm
New
Production
Alexander Borodin’s epic has its first Met
performances since 1917 in a new production
by director Dmitri Tcherniakov. Gianandrea
Noseda conducts the lush score, famous for
its celebrated Polovtsian Dances, and Ildar
Abdrazokov sings the title role. The stunning
cast also includes Oksana Dyka and Sergey
Semishkur, Anita Rachvelishvili, Mikhail
Petrenko and Štefan Kocán.
MASSENET
LA BOHÈME
PUCCINI
SAT 9 NOV 2013
6pm
SAT 1 MAR 2014
5pm (note start time)
BORODIN
Allow yourself to fall under the spell of
the dynamic young South American star
conductor Gustavo Dudamel when he directs
the orchestra in Stravinsky’s two charming,
light-hearted orchestral suites, each paired
with a great symphony by a classical master:
Schubert’s fourth symphony in C, and
Beethoven’s fourth symphony in B flat major.
In Berlin, the orchestra’s traditional gala concert
has become one of the most popular ways
to celebrate New Year’s Eve. With a sparkling
programme to match the bright optimism
of the year ahead, it is a wonderful way to
celebrate all that goes with the holiday, and
at last (thanks to the Live in HD programme)
sharing the experience is possible for everyone!
After the extraordinary performances of Bach’s
St. Matthew Passion in Berlin in 2010, the
collaboration of Sir Simon Rattle and opera
director Peter Sellars is repeated in what
promises to be an equally memorable,
theatrically-enhanced performance. The
orchestra is joined by the Berlin Radio Choir
and a cast of magnificent soloists for what
should be a deeply moving musical experience.
LEONID DESYATNIKOV – ALEXEI RATMANSKY
SUN 2 FEB 2014
3pm
LOST ILLUSIONS
Lucien, a young provincial and budding
composer, sets out to conquer the Parisian
scene in search of glory. His success soon
blinds him, and he betrays his friends and his
love. A story of thwarted love, ambition and
disillusionment, with 19th century Paris as its
backdrop, this is a fabulous new ballet in the
great Bolshoi tradition.
In a glittering season finale, Daniel Barenboim
joins forces with Sir Simon Rattle at the helm of
the orchestra to play the towering first piano
concerto by Brahms. The concert also features
Charles Ives’ The Unanswered Question and
the sublime Metamorphosen for 23 solo strings
by Richard Strauss.