Event

Metropolitan Opera Hi-Def Broadcast "La Fille du Regiment"

"The Met's experiment of merging film with live performance has created a new art form," said the Los Angeles Times of the groundbreaking series of live, high-definition performance transmissions to movie theaters around the world. In this, the Met's second season of international HD transmissions, the Arena Theater is pleased to present three great operas live from the Met. Enjoy thrilling, world-class opera at the Arena Theater!

This week's event is Donizetti's "La Fille du Regiment" (new production). The opera begins at 10:30AM with a pre-opera broadcast beginning at 9:45AM. Running time is 3 hours, 10 minutes. There will be 1 intermission. Tickets are $22 for adults and $15 for ages 16 and under.

Experience the exceedingly yummy operatic cake that was called the operatic show of the season by The Times of London when it opened at Covent Garden this past winter. Audiences were dazzled by Natalie Dessays fearless coloratura and impeccable comic timing and by Juan Diego Flrezs remarkable musicalitycomplete with the famous high Cs. Dessay and Flrez are an operatic coupling made in heaven raved the Financial Times. Directed by Laurent Pelly, the production also boasts stage legend and four-time Tony Award winner Zoe Caldwell as the Duchess of Krakenthorp.

Conductor Marco Armiliato; Production Laurent Pelly; Natalie Dessay, Felicity Palmer, Juan Diego Flrez, Alessandro Corbelli, Zoe Caldwell