SUNDAYARTS PRIMETIME SPECIAL Celebrates Met Opera Opening, 9/29

Metropolitan Opera General Manager Peter Gelb will share the highlights of the new opera season on the next SundayArts Primetime Special, hosted by Paula Zahn from the Tisch WNET Studios at Lincoln Center, Thursday, September 29 at 9 p.m. (WLIW will air the program on Monday, October 3 at 9:30 p.m.)

SundayArts is a production of THIRTEEN in association with WNET New York Public Media, one of America's most prolific and respected public media providers. For nearly 50 years, WNET has been producing and broadcasting national and local arts programming to the New York community.
Also on the special, SundayArts co-host Philippe de Montebello provides an intimate, first-hand look at the collection of Impressionist paintings in the Annenberg Galleries at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Also featured on the program is the exhibition "Infinity of Nations" at the National Museum of the American Indian with curator Cécile R. Ganteaume. This survey reveals the breadth and depth of the museum's collections from North, Central and South America.

News Correspondent Christina Ha, who will be based at the Brooklyn Museum, explores the museum's exhibits "Timothy Greenfield-Sanders: The Latino List" and "reOrder: An Architectural Environment by Situ Studio"; "Tchaikovsky in St. Petersburg" at Carnegie Hall; "Water Stains on the Wall" (Cloud Gate Dance Theatre of Taiwan) at BAM; "de Kooning: A Retrospective" at MOMA; BAM's "The Three Penny Opera"; and the New York Film Festival (with a focus on "The Descendants", "Le Havre" and "The 99").

SundayArts provides the tri-state audience with a unique overview of New York City's unparalleled cultural offerings, encompassing not only the performing arts but the visual arts as well. Each broadcast includes news, profiles, and magazine-style segments covering New York City's vast array of museums, artists, gallery exhibitions, and live performances, all in tandem with an extensive web site (www.thirteen.org/SundayArts).

Executive producer is David Horn. Joan Hershey is editorial director. Segment producers are Elizabeth Dwyer, Maria Stoian and Kristen Sonntag.

SundayArts, with co-hosts Philippe de Montebello and Paula Zahn, regularly airs Sundays at noon on Thirteen and Thirteen HD, and encores each Sunday at 3 pm on WLIW21.

This SundayArts Primetime Special is made possible in part by First Republic Bank and by The Rubin Museum of Art. Funding for SundayArts is also made possible by Rosalind P. Walter, the Anna-Maria & Stephen Kellen Foundation, The Paul and Irma Milstein Foundation, The Philip & Janice Levin Foundation, Elise Jaffe and Jeffrey Brown, Jody and John Arnhold, and The Lemberg Foundation. This program is supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council. Additional funding provided by members of THIRTEEN.

Visit the SundayArts Web site at www.thirteen.org/SundayArts for additional information.

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