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Great Performances at the Met
Great Performances at the Met
TV ShowReturning Series

Great Performances at the Met

2007
16 seasons
152 episodes
Documentary

The Metropolitan Opera's series of live performance transmissions to movie theaters around the world.

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Cast

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Metropolitan Opera Chorus

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MET Orchestra

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Metropolitan Opera Ballet

Seasons

The series of six live performances marks the largest number of complete Met operas ever presented by PBS in one season. The series premieres with a special two-hour, English-language version of Mozart's fairy tale classic "The Magic Flute," a new production directed by Julie Taymor. The others are Bellini's "I Puritani," featuring international sensation Anna Netrebko; the world premiere of Tan Dun's "The First Emperor," starring GP stalwart, legendary tenor Plácido Domingo; Tchaikovsky's "Eugene Onegin," with another series favorite, beloved soprano Renée Fleming; Bart Sher's acclaimed new staging of Rossini's "The Barber of Seville," with great Rossini tenor Juan Diego Flórez; and Jack O'Brien's new take on Puccini's "Il Trittico," conducted by Met music director James Levine.

  • The Magic Flute

    1.The Magic Flute

    24-01-2007180m

    Mozart's "The Magic Flute," with Matthew Polenzani (Tamino); Nathan Gunn (Papageno); Erika Miklósa (Queen of the Night); René Pape (Sarastro); Ying Huang (Pamina); Greg Fedderly (M...

  • I Puritani

    2.I Puritani

    17-02-2007180m

    Anna Netrebko stars in Bellini's bel canto opera "I Puritani" as a bride-to-be whose wedding day is disrupted when her betrothed (Eric Cutler) helps the condemned Queen Enrichetta...

  • The First Emperor

    3.The First Emperor

    24-03-2007180m

    Placido Domingo stars in “The First Emperor” as Chinese ruler Qin Shi Huang, who attempts to unify his kingdom with a national anthem penned by a childhood-friend-turned-composer (...

  • Eugene Onegin

    4.Eugene Onegin

    21-04-2007180m

    Tchaikovsky's “Eugene Onegin,” starring Renée Fleming as Tatiana, a young Russian who's rebuffed by the object of her affection, Eugene Onegin (Dmitri Hvorostovsky). Years later, a...

  • The Barber of Seville

    5.The Barber of Seville

    26-05-2007180m

    Gioacchino Rossini's classic comic opera “The Barber of Seville” stars Peruvian tenor Juan Diego Flórez as Count Almaviva, whose pursuit of the lovely Rosina (Joyce DiDonato) is ai...

  • Il trittico

    6.Il trittico

    16-06-2007180m

    “Il Trittico,” Puccini's collection of three one-act operas. “Il Tabarro” concerns doomed lovers (Maria Guleghina, Salvatore Licitra); “Suor Angelica,” is about the salvation of a...

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