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Enjoy the performance and spectacle of the best opera company in the world at Cinema Nova.
You can book tickets to individual operas online (seating for online sales will be allocated to best available seats at the time of booking), or at the Box Office.
Please note that phone bookings are not available for Met Opera Tickets. |
If you missed it first time around, here’s your chance to see some of the most stunning operas performed at The Met.
Tickets $20/$18 Concession
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DER ROSENKAVALIER
4 hrs. 23 min.
Thursday September 2, 11.30am
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SIMON BOCCANEGRA
3 hrs, 45 min.
Saturday October 2, 11.30am
Sunday October 3, 1.00pm
Thursday October 7, 11.30am
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CARMEN
3 hrs and 30 min.
Saturday September 11, 11.30am
Sunday September 12, 1.00pm
Thursday September 16, 11.30am
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Cinema Nova welcomes back the New York Metropolitan Opera, captured live in high definition,
for the forthcoming 2010/2011 season beginning this October.
The Met season for 2010/2011 promises to be the most spectacular yet with 12 breathtaking operas, including 5 new productions: Verdi’s DON CARLO, Rossini’s LE COMTE ORY, Wagner’s DAS RHEINGOLD & DIE WALKURE and Mussorgsky’s BORIS GODUNOV. |
Tickets $27 / $25 Concession
Season passes are available at the Box Office:
9 operas: $207 / $189 concession
10 operas: $230 / $210 concession
11 operas: $253 / $231 concession
12 operas: $276 / $254 concession
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Das Rheingold
Sat Oct 23rd – 11.30
Sun Oct 24th – 1.00pm
Tues Oct 26th – 6.30pm
Thurs Oct 28th – 11.30am
New Production
Performance runtime: 3:15
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Composer: Richard Wagner
Libretto: Richard Wagner
Conductor: James Levine
The first of the four operas that together tell a story of Der Ring des Nibelungen (The Ring of the Nibelung). An evil Nibelung dwarf steals the precious Rhine gold and turns it into a magic ring, which he uses to control his fellow dwarves and take over the world.
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Boris Godunov
Sat Nov 6th – 11.30
Sun Nov 7th – 1.00pm
Tues Nov 9th – 6.30pm
Thurs Nov 11th – 11.30am
New Production
Performance runtime: 5:30
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Composer: Modest Mussorgsky
Libretto: Modest Mussorgsky
Conductor: Valery Gergiev/Pavel Smelkov
Production: Peter Stein
Boris Godunov, the regent of the young Tsar Fyodor, arranges the assassination of the Tsar's half-brother and heir Dimitri?, in order to seize power.
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Don Pasquale
Sat Nov 27th – 11.30
Sun Nov 28th – 1.00pm
Tues Nov 30th – 6.30pm
Thurs Dec 2nd – 11.30am
Performance runtime: 4:00
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Composer: Gaetano Donizetti
Libretto: Giovanni Ruffini
Conductor: James Levine/Joseph Colaneri
Production: Otto Schenk
Wealthy bachelor Don Pasquale looks for a wife to provide himself with an heir, in order to punish his rebellious nephew Ernesto, and cut the young man off without a penny.
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Don Carlo
Sat Jan 8th 2011– 11.30
Sun Jan 9th 2011– 1.00pm
Tues Jan 11th 2011– 6.30pm
Thurs Jan 13th – 11.30am
New Production
Performance runtime: 5:00
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Composer: Giuseppe Verdi
Libretto: Camille du Locle and Joseph Méry
Conductor: Yannick Nézet-Séguin
Production: Nicholas Hytner
Adapted from the dramatic play, Don Carlos, Infante of Spain, by Friedrich Schiller . The story is based on the life of Carlos, Prince of Asturias (1545-1568) whose betrothed Elisabeth of Valois was instead married to his father Philip II of Spain, as part of the peace treaty ending the Italian War of 1551-1559 between the Houses of Habsburg and Valois.
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La Fanciulla Del West
Sat Jan 29th 2011– 11.30am
Sun Jan 30th 2011– 1.00pm
Tues Feb 1st 2011– 6.30pm
Thurs Feb 3rd 2011– 11.30am
Performance runtime: 3:50
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Composer: Giacomo Puccini
Libretto: Guelfo Civinni and Carlo Zangarini
Conductor: Nicola Luisotti
Production: Giancarlo del Monaco
Based on the play The Girl of the Golden West by David Belasco. A lyrical opera set among miners in the American West in the days of the California Gold Rush.
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Nixon in China
Sat Feb 26th 2011– 11.30
Sun Feb 27th 2011– 1.00pm
Tues March 1, 2011 6.30pm
Thurs March 3, 2011 – 11.30am
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Composer: John Adams
Libretto: Alice Goodman
Conductor: John Adams
Production: Peter Sellars
In February 1972, Nixon traveled to China for talks with Chinese leaders Chairman Mao Tse-tung and Premier Chau En-lai. Nixon's trip was the first high-level contact between the United States and the People's Republic of China in more than twenty years, and it ushered in a new era of relations between Washington and Beijing.
Peter Sellars makes his Met debut with this groundbreaking work. He has directed more than 100 other productions, specializing in 20th-century operas including Olivier Messiaen's Saint Francois d'Assise and Paul Hindemith's Mathis der Maler. John Adams is one of America’s most admired and respected composers with both operatic and symphonic works.
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Iphigenie En Tauride
Sat Mar 12th 2011– 11.30am
Sun March13th 2011 – 1.00pm
Tues March15th 2011– 6.30pm
Thurs March 17th – 11.30am
Performance runtime: 3:15
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Composer: Christoph Willibald Gluck
Libretto: Nicolas-François Guillard
Conductor: Patrick Summers
Production: Stephen Wadsworth
When Agamemnon gathered the Greek armies before the Trojan War, the goddess Diana sent unfavorable winds to prevent them from sailing. Her oracle set a condition: to earn the right to sail forth, Agamemnon must sacrifice his daughter.
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Lucia Di Lammermoor
Sat April 2nd 2011– 11.30am
Sun April 3rd 2011 – 1.00pm
Tues April 5th 2011– 6.30pm
Thurs April 7th – 11.30am
Performance runtime: 4:20
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Composer: Gaetano Donizetti
Libretto: Salvadore Cammarano
Conductor: Patrick Summers
Production: Mary Zimmerman
In a feud between the Scottish families of Ravenswood and Lammermoor, Enrico (Lord Henry Ashton of Lammermoor) has gained the upper hand over Edgardo (Edgar of Ravenswood), killing his kinsmen and taking over his estates.
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Le Comte Ory
Sat April 30th 2011– 11.30am
Sun May 1st 2011 – 1.00pm
Tues May 3rd 2011– 6.30pm
Thurs May 5th 2011 – 11.30am
New Production
Performance runtime: 3:25
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Composer: Gioachino Rossini
Libretto: Eugène Scribe and Charles-Gaspard Delestre-Poirson
Conductor: Maurizio Benini
A comical opera. When the men of the Formontiers leave their castle on a crusade, the rakish Count Ory tries to win the affection of the Countess of Formontiers, Adèle.
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Capriccio
Sat May 14th 2011– 11.30
Sun May 15th 2011 – 1.00pm
Tues May 17th 2011– 6.30pm
Thurs May 19th – 11.30am
Performance runtime: 3:30
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Composer: Richard Strauss
Libretto: Clemens Krauss and Richard Strauss
Conductor: Andrew Davis
Production: John Cox
A Countess is torn between two suitors: Olivier, a poet, and Flamand, a composer.
Tickets $27 / $25 Concession
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Il Trovatore
Sat June 4th 2011– 11.30am
Sun June 5th 2011– 1.00pm
Tues June 7th 2011 6.30pm
Thurs June 9th – 11.30am
Performance runtime: 3:30
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Composer Giuseppe Verdi
Libretto Salvadore Cammarano
Conductor Marco Armiliato
Production David McVicar
To avenge her mother's death, a gypsy steals the youngest son of the Count di Luna, intending to throw him into the fire, but she mistakenly burns her own child instead. As she raises the child as her own, the Count di Luna’s oldest son searches for his brother who he believes is still alive.
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Die Walkure
Sat June 25th 2011– 11.30
Sun June 26th 2011– 1.00pm
Tues June 28th 2011 6.30pm
Thurs June 30th – 11.30am
New Production
Performance runtime: 5:35
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Composer Richard Wagner
Libretto Richard Wagner
Conductor James Levine
Production Robert Lepage
Continues on from Das Rheingold . The Chief of the Gods, Wotan , promises to give the goddess Freia (who provides the apples of eternal youth) to two Giants as payment for building the stronghold of Valhalla . However when the work is completed, he refuses to part with Freia, and war breaks out.
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