Great Performances at the Met PBS Schedule
by BWW News Desk
- Mar 28, 2008
The Metropolitan Opera's critically-acclaimed live high-definition satellite transmissions will be seen on public television in a fourteen-part series, beginning on March 30. Great Performances at the Met, presented by Thirteen/WNET New York, will feature the broadcast premieres of all eight presentations from the 2007-08 season of 'The Met: Live in HD,' as well as the six shows from the 2006-07 season. A special prime time showing of Hansel and Gretel on March 26 will precede the series, which will air every Sunday afternoon at 12:00 p.m./EST for 14 weeks in selected public television markets. In New York, the programs will be a part of Thirteen/WNET's new SundayArts programming showcase, beginning on Sunday, March 30 with Richard Jones's new English-language production of Humperdinck's Hansel and Gretel. Donizetti's La Fille du Régiment (The Daughter of the Regiment), starring Natalie Dessay and Juan Diego Flórez, is the final broadcast of the series on Sunday, June 29.
Met's Broadcast of 'Roméo et Juliette' Reaches Record-Breaking Audiences
by BWW News Desk
- Dec 17, 2007
The Metropolitan Opera's 'Live in High Definition' series of live satellite transmissions into movie theaters achieved record-breaking attendance in its first weekend of the new 2007-08 season. The first transmission on Saturday, December 15-Romeo et Juliette, starring Anna Netrebko and Roberto Alagna, conducted by Placido Domingo-drew a worldwide audience of 97,000.
The Met Broadcasts Roméo et Juliette Dec.15 Live in HD
by BWW News Desk
- Nov 6, 2007
The second season of Metropolitan Opera: Live in High Definition kicks off worldwide on Saturday, December 15 at 1PM (EST) with the first of the Met's eight live opera transmissions: Gounod's Roméo et Juliette, starring Anna Netrebko and Roberto Alagna, conducted by Plácido Domingo.
Cerveris, Rose in Met's 'Shakespeare Goes to the Opera' 9/17
by BWW News Desk
- Aug 31, 2007
The Shakespeare Society in collaboration with the Metropolitan Opera will present Shakespeare Goes to the Opera, a musical celebration of opera inspired by the plays of William Shakespeare, Monday September 17 at 6:30PM at the Kaye Playhouse at Hunter College with Michael Cerveris and Anika Noni Rose.
Anthony Sher to Star as 'Kean' in West End Production
by BWW News Desk
- Feb 20, 2007
Olivier Award-winner Anthony Sher will play the fiery 19th century Shakespearean actor of the title in an upcoming West End production of Jean Paul Sartre's Kean, which will begin previews at the Apollo Theatre on May 24th and open on May 30th for a limited run.
Summer and Smoke, Starring Pike, Plays West End in Oct.
by BWW News Desk
- Aug 16, 2006
A new production of the Tennessee Williams classic Summer and Smoke, starring stage and screen star Rosamund Pike, will drift to the West End in October after playing at the Nottingham Playhouse
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang To Appear on Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade
by BWW News Desk
- Nov 22, 2005
Erin Dilly, Rick Hilsabeck, Kurt Von Schmittou, Dirk Lumbard and cast of
CHITTY CHITTY BANG BANG will perform 'Toot Sweets' on the Macy's 79th Annual
Thanksgiving Day Parade national broadcast on NBC on Thursday, November 24,
2005 from 9:00 a.m. to noon. They will perform live in the 9 a.m. hour.
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