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The Warner's The Met: Live in HD series continues on Saturday, Nov. 19 at 1pm with a live simulcast of Glass's Satyagraha.

Philip Glass's inspirational opera Satyagraha (Sanskrit for 'truth force') will return to the Metropolitan Opera November 4 in the first revival of Phelim McDermott and Julian Crouch's innovative 2008 production.

Philip Glass's inspirational opera Satyagraha (Sanskrit for 'truth force') will return to the Metropolitan Opera November 4 in the first revival of Phelim McDermott and Julian Crouch's innovative 2008 production.

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.

The Met: Live in HD, the Metropolitan Opera's award-winning series of live transmissions to movie theaters around the world, returns for a sixth season Saturday, October 15 with the Met premiere production of Donizetti's Anna Bolena, featuring Anna Netrebko in the title role.

Cineplex Entertainment (TSX:CGX), via our Front Row Centre Events announces the very popular series The Met: Live in HD is returning to participating Cineplex theatres.

The Metropolitan Opera's 2011-12 season will feature the world's leading singers, conductors, and stage directors in seven new productions, including a world premiere, a Met premiere, and the first complete performances of a new Der Ring des Nibelungen cycle conducted by Music Director James Levine and directed by Robert Lepage.

Cineplex Entertainment (TSX:CGX), via our Front Row Centre Events announces the very popular series The Met: Live in HD is returning to participating Cineplex theatres.

The Dallas Opera is pleased to announce the sale of one-price, single reserved seats for the world premiere of a new song cycle by composer Jake Heggie and librettist Gene Scheer commissioned for the company's much-anticipated annual Spring Gala, UNVEIL.

The Metropolitan Opera's 2011-12 season will feature the world's leading singers, conductors, and stage directors in seven new productions, including a world premiere, a Met premiere, and the first complete performances of a new Der Ring des Nibelungen cycle conducted by Music Director James Levine and directed by Robert Lepage.

Marco Armiliato will conduct Puccini's La Boheme on January 31, February 3, 7, 10, 17, 22, and 25, replacing Roberto Rizzi Brignoli, who has withdrawn for personal reasons.

Marco Armiliato will conduct Puccini's La Boheme on January 31, February 3, 7, 10, 17, 22, and 25, replacing Roberto Rizzi Brignoli, who has withdrawn for personal reasons.

The National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) announces the guest presenters and performers for the 2010 NEA Opera Honors awards ceremony and concert on Friday, October 22, at 7:30 p.m. at the Kennedy Center Opera House, Washington, D.C. This year's honorees-soprano Martina Arroyo, general director David DiChiera, composer Philip Glass and music director Eve Queler-are being acknowledged for their exceptional contributions to opera in America.

The National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) announces the guest presenters and performers for the 2010 NEA Opera Honors awards ceremony and concert on Friday, October 22, at 7:30 p.m. at the Kennedy Center Opera House, Washington, D.C. This year's honorees-soprano Martina Arroyo, general director David DiChiera, composer Philip Glass and music director Eve Queler-are being acknowledged for their exceptional contributions to opera in America.

A groundbreaking new production of Wagner's Das Rheingold, the first installment in the composer's epic four-part cycle Der Ring des Nibelungen conducted by James Levine and directed by Robert Lepage, opens the Metropolitan Opera's 2010-11 season on Monday, September 27 at 6:45 p.m.

A groundbreaking new production of Wagner's Das Rheingold, the first installment in the composer's epic four-part cycle Der Ring des Nibelungen conducted by James Levine and directed by Robert Lepage, opens the Metropolitan Opera's 2010-11 season on Monday, September 27 at 6:45 p.m.

Seven new productions, including two company premieres and the first two parts of a new Ring cycle, featuring many of the world's greatest singers and conductors, will highlight the Metropolitan Opera's 2010-11 season.

Theatre directors Mary Zimmerman, Adrian Noble, Richard Jones and John Doyle will be among those staging operas at the Met during the opera company's 2007-2008 season.

Grendel--a new opera directed and co-written by Tony Award-winner Julie Taymor based on the fantastical epic poem Beowulf--will have its Los Angeles Opera premiere at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion on June 1st rather than the previously-announced May 27th