Broadcast live via satellite from the Metropolitan Opera House in New York
The Tyneside Cinema is proud to continue these special live satellite broadcasts of world-class opera live from the Metropolitan Opera House in New York. The MET Opera season for 2010-2011 will begin in October. Booking details will be announced later in the year.
Tickets for individual performances
Classic stalls: £20/£18. Classic Circle: £25/£23. Friends of Tyneside Cinema: £1 off ticket price.
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Broadcast live via satellite
Running time: 3hrs 43mins with two intermissions.
Saturday 27 March 2010, 5.00pmBuy tickets
The works of Shakespeare have inspired more operatic adaptations than any other writer’s. Simon Keenlyside and Natalie Dessay bring their extraordinary acting and singing skills to two of the Bard's most unforgettable characters in this new production of Ambroise Thomas’ Hamlet.
Conductor: Louis Langree; Production: Patrice Caurier/Moshe Leiser; Natalie Dessay, Jennifer Larmore, Toby Spence, SImon Keenlyside, James Morris.
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Broadcast live via satellite
Running time: 4hrs 19mins with two intermisisons.
Saturday 1 May 2010, 6.00pmBuy tickets
This mythical story of a sorceress who enthralls men in her island prison stars Renne Flemming opposite no fewer than six tenors. Tony award winner Mary Zimmerman returns to direct this new production of a work she describes as a ‘buried treasure, a box of jewels.’
Conductor: Riccardo Frizza; Production: Mary Zimmerman; Renee Fleming, Lawrence Brownlee, Bruce Ford, Jose Manuel Zapata, Barry Banks, Kobie van Rensburg.


