Natalie Dessay News

The Metropolitan Opera's Principal Conductor Fabio Luisi conducts tonight's May 2 performance of Verdi's LA TRAVIATA.

The Metropolitan Opera's Principal Conductor Fabio Luisi is on tap to conduct this season's April 25 and May 2 performances of Verdi's LA TRAVIATA. Originally, the conductor for the scheduled performaces was to be determined. As previously announced, Luisi will also conduct the first four performances of the production, which opens for audiences on April 6. Steven White will conduct the performances on April 21 and 28.

In the Metropolitan Opera's bold new production, broadcast live at Town Hall Theater on April 14, Violetta will be played by French soprano Natalie Dessay. Known as a fierce and committed actor as well as an astonishing singer, Dessay - whose early training was in theater - can be mesmerizing on the stage.

Experience La Traviata starring Natalie Dessay as part of The Met: Live in HD series transmitted live to movie theaters nationwide on Saturday, April 14, 2012 at 12:55 PM ET / 9:55 AM PT.

Hei-Kyung Hong will sing the role of Violetta Valery in Verdi's La Traviata at tomorrow's performance, replacing Natalie Dessay, who is ill.

Natalie Dessay will make her Met role debut as Violetta Valery, the iconic heroine of Verdi's La Traviata, in a revival of Willy Decker's highly praised 2011 production of the opera. Principal Conductor Fabio Luisi leads his first Met performances of the tragic love story, which also stars Matthew Polenzani as the lovesick Alfredo and Dmitri Hvorostovsky as Alfredo's father, Giorgio Germont. The April 14 matinee will be transmitted live around the world as part of The Met: Live in HD series, which now reaches more than 1,700 movie theaters in 54 countries.

In the Metropolitan Opera's bold new production, broadcast live at Town Hall Theater on April 14, Violetta will be played by French soprano Natalie Dessay. Known as a fierce and committed actor as well as an astonishing singer, Dessay - whose early training was in theater - can be mesmerizing on the stage.

Anna Netrebko will make her Met role debut as the tragic heroine of Massenet's Manonin a new production directed by Laurent Pelly. Met Principal Conductor Fabio Luisi will conduct the opera for the first time at the Met, and Piotr Beczala makes his role debut as the ardent Chevalier des Grieux.

Fleming in Richard Strauss's Ariadne auf Naxos from Baden-Baden and Cecilia Bartoli's first exclusive online appearance in Rossini's very rarely-heard Otello ossia il Moro di Venezia from Zurich. The live offerings on medici.tv include Stephane Degout, Anne Sofie von Otter, and rising star Elena Tsallagova in Debussy's Pelleas et Melisande, staged by Robert Wilson at the Opera National de Paris (March 16). And a series of recent productions from the Opera de Paris will appear as part of the medici.tv on-demand catalog, ranging from Mozart's La clemenza de Tito with Susan Graham to Rameau's Les Indes galantes led by William Christie.

An abundance of Verdi and Wagner, in celebration of their 200th birthdays, will be featured in the Metropolitan Opera's 2012-13 season, which will showcase the world's greatest singers, conductors, and directors in seven new productions-two of them Met premieres-and 21 revivals, including three complete Ring cycles. Twelve of the season's Saturday matinees will be transmitted worldwide as part of the Met's increasingly popular, award-winning Live in HD series.

The Metropolitan Opera's Principal Conductor Fabio Luisi is on tap to conduct this season's April 25 and May 2 performances of Verdi's LA TRAVIATA. Originally, the conductor for the scheduled performaces was to be determined. As previously announced, Luisi will also conduct the first four performances of the production, which opens for audiences on April 6. Steven White will conduct the performances on April 21 and 28.

Continúa el ciclo 2011-2012 de transmisiones vía satélite desde el MET de Nueva York a México. Entre algunas de las óperas que se presentaran están La Isla Encantada, El Ocaso de los Dioses, La Traviata, Manon.

This December, more of the world's top opera performances will be presented on medici.tv than ever before, enhancing the site's must-see schedule of live events and vintage programming.

Emmanuelle Haïm conducts two suites of Handel's 'Water Music' in her Los Angeles Philharmonic / Walt Disney Concert Hall debut in an all-Handel program on Thursday, November 17, at 8 PM and Saturday & Sunday, November 19 & 20, at 2 PM.

Emmanuelle Haïm conducts two suites of Handel's 'Water Music' in her Los Angeles Philharmonic / Walt Disney Concert Hall debut in an all-Handel program on Thursday, November 17, at 8 PM and Saturday & Sunday, November 19 & 20, at 2 PM.

The Paramount Center For The Arts will be showing The Bolshoi Theatre Re-Opening Gala on screen on Saturday, November 5th at 7:30 pm. The Bolshoi Grand Re-Opening Gala is a celebration of the theatre's renovation -- after six years and $750 million.

Emmanuelle Haïm conducts two suites of Handel's 'Water Music' in her Los Angeles Philharmonic / Walt Disney Concert Hall debut in an all-Handel program on Thursday, November 17, at 8 PM and Saturday & Sunday, November 19 & 20, at 2 PM.

The Bolshoi Grand Re-Opening Gala is a celebration of the theatre's renovation --- after six years and $750 million.

The Bolshoi Grand Re-Opening Gala is a celebration of the theatre's renovation --- after six years and $750 million.

National CineMedia (NCM), the operator of the largest digital in-theater network for cinema advertising, entertainment and events in North America, today announced an agreement with the Metropolitan Opera (the 'Met') to bring the Emmy and Peabody award-winning The Met: Live in HD series to U.S. movie theaters for the 2011-12 Met season.