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Playbillarts, 20 Jul 2007 |
By Matthew Westphal |
Anthony Minghella's Butterfly, Robert Lepage's Ring Cycle to Feature in
Future Met Opera High-Definition Simulcasts
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The Metropolitan Opera's new deal to release
DVDs wasn't the only news to come out this week about the company's popular
movie-theater simulcasts. The Associated Press reported yesterday that two
of the Met's best-known productions — one already seen (and acclaimed), the
other hotly anticipated — are included in the high-definition broadcast
programs planned for upcoming seasons.
General manager Peter Gelb told the AP that the Met's celebrated Anthony
Minghella staging of Puccini's Madama Butterfly, which opened the 2006-07
season (and Gelb's tenure) with a mighty splash, will be one of the 2008-09
season's simulcasts. Cristina Gallardo-Domâs and Marcello Giordani will
return to the roles of Butterfly and Pinkerton, and Houston Grand Opera
music director Patrick Summers will conduct.
The other production Gelb said would be simulcast into movie theaters is the
Met's new Wagner Ring cycle currently being developed by Canadian theater
visionary Robert Lepage. Deborah Voigt will sing her first complete
Brünnhildes in the Lepage Ring, which begins in the 2010-11 season with the
full tetralogy presented in 2011-12. Bryn Terfel will play Wotan, with Ben
Heppner as Siegfried and Jonas Kaufmann as Siegmund. Met music director
James Levine is scheduled to conduct. The Met will present its current Ring
production, by Otto Schenk and Gunther Schneider-Siemssen, once more, during
the 2008-09 season, before retiring it. |
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