· All operas are presented with English subtitles.

· Doors to the Lumina Theatre open 30 minutes prior to performance.

· Refreshments (cash/check) are available one hour prior and during the first intermission.

· Park in Lots E and M (download the parking map | PDF).

The Metropolitan Opera Live in HD premiers this fall at UNCW. In its fourth season, the Peabody Award-winning program features live high definition transmissions to big screens throughout the United States and Canada.

This program is brought to you by the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (OLLI) at UNCW, Department of Music's UNCWOOP! (UNCW Opera Outreach Program!) and WHQR 91.3 fm Public Radio.

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ENCORE SHOWING

Carmen – Georges Bizet

Sunday, Feburary 21 @ 1 p.m.

One of the most popular operas of all time, Carmen “is about sex, violence, and racism—and its corollary: freedom,” says Olivier Award-winning director Richard Eyre about his new production of Bizet’s drama. “It is one of the inalienably great works of art. It’s sexy, in every sense. And I think it should be shocking.” Elina Garanca plays the seductive gypsy of the title in her role debut, opposite Roberto Alagna as the obsessed Don José.

Conductor: Yannick Nézet-Séguin; Production: Richard Eyre; Barbara Frittoli, Elina Garanca, Roberto Alagna, Teddy Tahu Rhodes

Approximate running time 4 hours / 2 intermissions

 

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Hamlet – Ambroise Thomas

Tuesday, March 30 @ 7 p.m. | ENCORE PRESENTATION +

The works of Shakespeare have inspired more operatic adaptations than any other writer’s. Simon Keenlyside and Natalie Dessay bring their extraordinary acting and singing skills to two of the Bard’s most unforgettable characters in this new production of Ambroise Thomas’s Hamlet. For the role of Ophelia, the French composer created an extended mad scene that is among the greatest in opera.

Conductor: Louis Langrée; Production: Patrice Caurier/Moshe Leiser; Natalie Dessay, Jennifer Larmore, Toby Spence, Simon Keenlyside, James Morris

Approximate running time 3 hours 45 minutes / 1 intermission

 

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Armida – Gioachino Rossini

Saturday, May 1 @ 1 p.m.

This mythical story of a sorceress who enthralls men in her island prison has inspired operatic settings by a multitude of composers, including Gluck, Haydn, and Dvorák. Renée Fleming stars in the title role of Rossini’s version, opposite no fewer than six tenors. Tony Award winner Mary Zimmerman returns to direct this new production of a work she describes as “a buried treasure, a box of jewels.” The fanciful and magical tale, Zimmerman says, “has an epic, enchanted quality and a tremendous visual element.”

Conductor: Riccardo Frizza; Production: Mary Zimmerman; Renée Fleming, Lawrence Brownlee, Bruce Ford, José Manuel Zapata, Barry Banks, Kobie van Rensburg

Approximate running time 4 hours 20 minutes / 2 intermissions

 

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All performances are live in high definition unless noted as an ENCORE PRESENTATION which means the performance is a rebroadcast of the original.

 

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