The 2010 Summer Season
Our 49th summer season has officially wrapped! Thank you to everyone who patronized the Company's summer performances of Carmen and Viva La Mamma. It was a wonderful season and we look forward to celebrating our 50th anniversary season in 2011. Please check back for 2011 summer season repertoire and 50th anniversary celebration information.
MET Live in HD Partnership Continues
For the fourth year in a row, Lake George Opera at Saratoga is proud to again partner with The Metropolitan Opera in presenting the 2010-11 Live in High-Definition Series. The live HD broadcasts, beginning with Wagner's Das Rheingold on October 9th, will again take place at Crossgates Regal Mall Cinema and will run from October until early May (click for schedule). Tickets can be purchased beginning in September at the Crossgates Mall box office, through the Fandango website at www.fandango.com, online atwww.metopera.org/hd or by calling 1-800-Met-Opera (1-800-638-6737). For additional information about this partnership, call the LGOpera at Saratoga administrative office at 518-584-6018.
The Met: Live in HD 2010–11 Season
Now in its fifth year, the Peabody Award-winning series will present a record 11 live transmissions to movie theaters worldwide. Tickets for the 2010–11 HD season go on sale in September, with priority access for Met members (before tickets are made available to the general public). The schedule is as follows:
Wagner’s Das Rheingold, Saturday, October 9
James Levine; Wendy Bryn Harmer, Stephanie Blythe, Patricia Bardon, Richard Croft, Gerhard Siegel, Bryn Terfel, Eric Owens, Franz-Josef Selig, Hans-Peter König
Mussorgsky’s Boris Godunov, Saturday October 23
Valery Gergiev; Ekaterina Semenchuk, Aleksandrs Antonenko, Oleg Balashov, Evgeny Nikitin, René Pape, Mikhail Petrenko, Vladimir Ognovenko
Donizetti’s Don Pasquale, Saturday November 13
James Levine; Anna Netrebko, Matthew Polenzani, Mariusz Kwiecien, John Del Carlo
Verdi’s Don Carlo Yannick, Saturday December 11
Nézet-Séguin; Marina Poplavskaya, Anna Smirnova, Roberto Alagna, Simon Keenlyside, Ferruccio Furlanetto, Eric Halfvarson
Puccini’s La Fanciulla Del West, Saturday January 8
Nicola Luisotti; Deborah Voigt, Marcello Giordani, Juha Uusitalo
Gluck’s Iphigénie en Tauride Saturday, February 26
Patrick Summers; Susan Graham, Plácido Domingo, Paul Groves, Gordon Hawkins
Donizetti’s Lucia di Lammermoor, Saturday March 19
Patrick Summers; Natalie Dessay, Joseph Calleja, Ludovic Tézier, Kwangchul Youn
Rossini’s Le Comte Ory, Saturday April 9
Maurizio Benini; Diana Damrau, Joyce DiDonato, Susanne Resmark, Juan Diego Flórez, Stéphane Degout, Michele Pertusi
Strauss’s Capriccio, Saturday April 23
Andrew Davis; Renée Fleming, Sarah Connolly, Joseph Kaiser, Russell Braun, Morten Frank Larsen, Peter Rose
Verdi’s Il Trovatore, Saturday April 30
James Levine; Sondra Radvanovsky, Dolora Zajick, Marcelo Álvarez, Dmitri Hvorostovsky
Wagner’s Die Walküre, Saturday May 14
James Levine; Deborah Voigt, Eva Maria Westbroek, Stephanie Blythe, Jonas Kaufmann, Bryn Terfel, Hans-Peter König
For a printable PDF of the event schedule, click here.
All summer season performances take place at the Spa Little Theater located in the Saratoga Spa State Park.