The Met: Live in HD to Transmit 11/9 Performance of TOSCA to Theaters Around the World

The November 9 matinee of Tosca, starring Patricia Racette, Roberto Alagna, and George Gagnidze, will be transmitted live as part of the Met's Live in HD series, which now reaches more than 1,950 theaters in 64 countries around the world. Thirteen million tickets have been sold to opera lovers worldwide.

Patricia Racette reprises her acclaimed performance of one of the most famous roles in opera, the heroine of Puccini's Tosca, at the Met this season. Racette sings the role beginning October 29, opposite Roberto Alagna as Cavaradossi and George Gagnidze as Scarpia. Sondra Radvanovsky takes the role on December 11, singing with Marcello Giordani as Cavaradossi and Gagnidze as Scarpia. Two Italian conductors, Riccardo Frizza and Marco Armiliato, lead this season's performances of Puccini's famous tragedy.

Patricia Racette made her company role debut as Tosca in 2010 and repeated the role at the Met in 2012. Her extensive Met repertory includes numerous Puccini heroines-Cio-Cio-San in Madama Butterfly, Musetta and Mimì in La Bohème, and the three principal soprano roles in Il Trittico-as well as four Verdi heroines: Violetta in La Traviata, Alice Ford in Falstaff, Elisabeth de Valois in Don Carlo, and Leonora in Il Trovatore. Last season, she made her Met role debut as Madame Lidoine in Poulenc's Dialogues des Carmélites, and this spring, she will add another role when she sings her first Maddalena in Giordano's Andrea Chénier.

Roberto Alagna made his Met role debut as Cavaradossi opposite Radvanovsky as Tosca in 2011, and repeated the role opposite Racette in 2012. He made his Met debut as Rodolfo in La Bohème in 1996, and his subsequent performances with the company have included the title roles in Don Carlo, Massenet's Werther, and Gounod's Faust; Radamès in Aida; Nemorino in Donizetti's L'Elisir d'Amore; the Duke of Mantua in Verdi's Rigoletto; Roméo in Gounod's Roméo et Juliette; Don José in Bizet's Carmen; Pinkerton in Madama Butterfly; Ruggero in Puccini's La Rondine; Turiddu in Mascagni's Cavalleria Rusticana; and Canio in Leoncavallo's Pagliacci.

George Gagnidze sang Scarpia in the 2009 new production premiere of Luc Bondy's Tosca staging and reprised his performance in 2012 opposite Racette's Tosca. He made his Met debut in 2009 in the title role of Rigoletto. Last season, he made his Met role debut as Amonasro in Verdi's Aida. His other roles with the company are Shaklovity in Mussorgsky's Khovanshchina and the title role in Macbeth.

Riccardo Frizza currently conducts the Met revival of Norma, starring Radvanovsky in the title role. He made his company debut in the 2008-09 season, in which he conducted performances of both Rigoletto and Il Trovatore. In 2010, he conducted the company premiere of Rossini's Armida, and he returned the following season to lead a revival of the opera that was transmitted worldwide as part of the Met's Live in HD series.

TOSCA on the Radio:

The October 29 opening performance of Tosca will be broadcast live on Metropolitan Opera Radio on SIRIUS XM Channel 74, as will the performances on November 5 and 13 and December 23 and 28.

The October 29 and December 23 performances will also be streamed live on the Met's website, www.metopera.org.

The December 28 matinee at 12:30 p.m. will be broadcast live over the Toll Brothers-Metropolitan Opera International Radio Network.

For more information on this season's performances of Tosca, visit the Met's website at www.metopera.org.

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