Opera on 3 - Live from the Met
Live performances of the great operas from New York's Metropolitan Opera House
Opera on 3 - Live from the Met - 29/11/2008
Launching the 2008 Live from the Met season, James Levine conducts Berlioz's adaptation of the classic Goethe story about a man who sells his soul to the devil.
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Opera on 3 - Live from the Met - Ambroise Thomas' Hamlet
Live from the Metropolitan Opera, New York, Louis Longree conducts a 19th-century Romantic version of Shakespeare's tragedy. With baritone Simon Keenlyside.
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Opera on 3 - Live from the Met - Bellini's La Sonnambula
From New York, soprano Natalie Dessay stars as the sleepwalker who ends up in the wrong bedroom, with tenor Juan Diego Florez as her suspicious husband. Evelino Pido conducts.
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Opera on 3 - Live from the Met - Berg's Lulu
From the Metropolitan Opera, New York, Fabio Luisi conducts soprano Marlis Petersen as Lulu, the eponymous scandalous femme fatale of Berg's opera Lulu.
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Opera on 3 - Live from the Met - Bizet's Carmen
From the Metropolitan Opera, New York, Yannick Nezet-Seguin conducts Elina Garanca and Roberto Alagna in Bizet's tale of gypsies, love, jealousy and murder in Seville.
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Opera on 3 - Live from the Met - Cilea's Adriana Lecouvreur
In a performance from the Metropolitan Opera, New York, Marco Armiliato conducts Placido Domingo, Maria Guleghina and Olga Borodina in Cilea's evergreen opera.
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Opera on 3 - Live from the Met - Donizetti's La fille du regiment
From the Metropolitan Opera, New York, Marco Armiliato conducts Juan Diego Florez as Tonio and Diana Damrau as Marie in Donizetti's comic opera.
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Opera on 3 - Live from the Met - Donizetti's L'elisir d'amore
From the Metropolitan Opera in New York, Maurizio Benini conducts Donizetti's bel canto comedy, with Angela Gheorghiu and Massimo Giordano in the lead roles.
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Opera on 3 - Live from the Met - Donizetti's Lucia di Lammermoor
From the Metropolitan Opera, Marco Armiliato conducts Russian soprano Anna Netrebko and Polish tenor Piotr Beczala as the tragic lovers, in a work based on a Walter Scott drama.
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Opera on 3 - Live from the Met - Dvorak's Rusalka
From the Metropolitan Opera, New York, Jiri Belohlavek conducts soprano Renee Fleming in the role of Rusalka, a water nymph who falls in love with a human.
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Opera on 3 - Live from the Met - Gluck's Orfeo ed Euridice
From the Metropolitan Opera New York, James Levine conducts Stephanie Blythe and Danielle de Niese in Gluck's version of the myth of Orpheus.
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Opera on 3 - Live from the Met - Humperdinck's Hansel und Gretel
From the Metropolitan Opera, New York, Fabio Luisi conducts mezzo-soprano Angelika Kirschlager and soprano Miah Persson in a version of the Brothers Grimm fairytale.
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Opera on 3 - Live from the Met - John Adams's Doctor Atomic
In a performance from November 2008 from the Metropolitan Opera House, New York, Alan Gilbert conducts Gerald Finley in John Adams's work about the creation of the atomic bomb.
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Opera on 3 - Live from the Met - Massenet's Thais
From Metropolitan Opera, New York, with Renee Fleming in the title role and Thomas Hampson as the troubled monk Athanael. Conducted by Jesus Lopez-Cobos.
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Opera on 3 - Live from the Met - Mozart's Die Zauberflote
From the Metropolitan Opera, New York, Adam Fischer conducts Julie Taymor's production of Mozart's Die Zauberflote. With Nathan Gunn as Papageno and Matthew Polenzani as Tamino.
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Opera on 3 - Live from the Met - Offenbach's Les Contes d'Hoffmann
Live from the Metropolitan Opera, New York, James Levine conducts Joseph Calleja as the troubled poet Hoffmann, alongside soprano Anna Netrebko and mezzo Ekaterina Gubanova.
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Opera on 3 - Live from the Met - Puccini's Il Trittico
To begin a new season of broadcasts from the Metropolitan Opera House, New York, Stefano Ranzini conducts Puccini's triple-bill of Il Tabarro, Suor Angelica and Gianni Schicchi.
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Opera on 3 - Live from the Met - Puccini's La boheme
From the Metropolitan Opera in New York, Frederic Chaslin conducts Maija Kovalevska and Ramon Vargas as the tragic lovers Mimi and Rodolfo.
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Opera on 3 - Live from the Met - Puccini's La boheme
From the Metropolitan Opera in New York, Marco Armiliato conducts Piotr Beczala and Anna Nebtrenko in Puccini's opera about a group of bohemian artists.
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Opera on 3 - Live from the Met - Puccini's La Rondine
Direct from the Metropolitan Opera House, New York, Marco Armiliato conducts soprano Angela Gheorghiu and tenor Roberto Alagna as Magda and Ruggero.
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Opera on 3 - Live from the Met - Puccini's Madama Butterfly
From the Metropolitan Opera, New York, Patrick Summers conducts Anthony Minghella's celebrated production, with soprano Patricia Racette and tenor Marcello Giordani.
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Opera on 3 - Live from the Met - Puccini's Tosca
From the Metropolitan Opera, New York, Fabio Luisi conducts soprano Patricia Racette and bass Bryn Terfel in Puccini's grisly tale of torture, suicide, murder and execution.
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Opera on 3 - Live from the Met - Rossini's Armida
From the Metropolitan Opera New York, Riccardo Frizza conducts Renee Fleming in the title role of Rossini's three-act opera Armida, with Lawrence Brownlee as her lover.
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Opera on 3 - Live from the Met - Shostakovich's The Nose
From the Metropolitan Opera, New York, Valery Gergiev conducts Shostakovich's powerful adaptation of Gogol's absurdist short story. Starring Andrei Popov and Gordon Gietz.
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Opera on 3 - Live from the Met - Strauss' Ariadne Auf Naxos
From the Metropolitan Opera, New York, Kirill Petrenko conducts Strauss' opera within an opera. With Nina Stemme, Kathleen Kim and Sarah Connolly.
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Opera on 3 - Live from the Met - Strauss's Der Rosenkavalier
From the Metropolitan Opera, New York, Edo de Waart conducts Renee Fleming, Susan Graham and Christine Schafer in Richard Strauss's masterpiece Der Rosenkavalier.
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Opera on 3 - Live from the Met - Tchaikovsky's Eugene Onegin
From the Metropolitan Opera New York, Jiri Belohlavek conducts Tchaikovsky's great opera of thwarted love, with soprano Karita Mattila and baritone Thomas Hampson.
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Opera on 3 - Live from the Met - Tchaikovsky's The Queen of Spades
From the Metropolitan Opera House, New York. Seiji Ozawa conducts Tchaikovsky's opera based on the Pushkin story, with Maria Guleghina as Lisa and Ben Heppner as Ghermann.
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Opera on 3 - Live from the Met - Verdi's Aida
From the Metropolitan Opera, New York, Marco Armiliato conducts a performance of Verdi's spectacular opera Aida, set in the ancient Egypt of the pharaohs. Starring soprano Hui He.
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Opera on 3 - Live from the Met - Verdi's Attila
Conductor Riccardo Muti makes his Metropolitan Opera debut with Ildar Abdrazakov in the demanding title role of a rarely performed early Verdi opera.
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Opera on 3 - Live from the Met - Verdi's Don Carlo
From the Metropolitan Opera House, New York, Yannick Nezet-Seguin conducts a cast including Marina Poplavskaya, Yonghoon Lee and Simon Keenlyside in Verdi's tragic opera Don Carlo.
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Opera on 3 - Live from the Met - Verdi's Il Trovatore
From the Metropolitan Opera in New York, Gianandrea Noseda conducts tenor Marcelo Alvarez in the title role and Sondra Radvanovsky as Leonora.
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Opera on 3 - Live from the Met - Verdi's La Traviata
From the Metropolitan Opera, New York, Yves Abel conducts Verdi's tragic love story La Traviata, with Angela Georghiu in the role which began her international career.
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Opera on 3 - Live from the Met - Verdi's La Traviata
From the Metropolitan Opera House, New York, Gianandrea Noseda conducts Marina Poplavskaya and Matthew Polenzani as the ill-fated lovers in Verdi's ever-popular opera La Traviata.
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Opera on 3 - Live from the Met - Verdi's Rigoletto
From the Metropolitan Opera House, New York, Riccardo Frizza conducts Verdi's tragic story of the womanising Duke of Mantua and his jester Rigoletto.
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Opera on 3 - Live from the Met - Verdi's Rigoletto
From the Metropolitan Opera in New York, Paolo Arrivabeni conducts Giovanni Meoni and Nino Machaidze in Verdi's opera Rigoletto, based on a Victor Hugo play.
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Opera on 3 - Live from the Met - Verdi's Simon Boccanegra
Placido Domingo performs the title role in Verdi's compelling tale of 14th-century Genoese power-politics, illegitimacy and forbidden love.
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Opera on 3 - Live from the Met - Verdi's Stiffelio
From the Metropolitan Opera, New York, Placido Domingo conducts tenor Jose Cura and soprano Sondra Radvanovsky in Verdi's controversial opera Stiffelio.
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Opera on 3 - Live from the Met - Wagner's Das Rheingold
From the Metropolitan Opera House, New York, James Levine conducts a performance of the first part of Wagner's epic drama, The Ring of the Nibelung.
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Opera on 3 - Live from the Met - Wagner's Die Walkure
From the Metropolitan Opera House, New York, James Levine conducts a performance of the second part of Wagner's epic drama, The Ring of the Nibelung.
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Opera on 3 - Live from the Met - Wagner's Gotterdammerung
In the last broadcast from New York Metropolitan Opera for the 2008/2009 season, James Levine conducts the final part of Wagner's Ring cycle.
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Opera on 3 - Live from the Met - Wagner's Siegfried
From the Metropolitan Opera, New York, James Levine conducts the third part of Wagner's Ring Cycle, with Christian Franz in the title role alongside Irene Theorin as Brunnhilde.
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Opera on 3 - Live from the Met - Wagner's Tristan und Isolde
Daniel Barenboim makes his Met debut conducting soprano Katarina Dalayman and tenor Gary Lehman in Wagner's portrait of the agony and the ecstasy of erotic love.
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