2009-10 SEASON ANNOUNCED - CLICK HERE for full details

Dendy Cinemas proudly presents the WINTER HIGHLIGHTS Met Opera season concurrent with the performances in New York - captured live on High Definition. The Metropolitan Opera is one of the world's great opera companies and the lavishness of their productions is legendary. Don’t miss the chance to enjoy thrilling, world-class opera at Dendy Cinemas!

'The Met's experiment of merging film with live performance has created a new art form,' says the Los Angeles Times of the groundbreaking series of high-definition performance transmissions to cinemas around the world.

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 With the extraordinary success of the 2008-09 season of The Metropolitan Opera productions, cinema audiences have cried out for an encore. To inspire you for the 2009-2010 season of operas direct from New York (starting in October), we present these highlights from the last two seasons plus one classic Met production we haven’t screened previously - Eugene Onegin.

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La Fille du Régiment - AUG 22 at 11.30am, AUG 23 at 1.00pm & AUG 27 at 11:30am
Lucia Di Lammermoor - SEP 12 at 11.30am, SEP 13 at 1.00pm & SEP 17 at 11:30am
Madama Butterfly - SEP 26 at 11.30am, SEP 27 at 1.00pm, OCT 1 at 11:30am

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La Fille du Régiment - AUG 22 at 11.30am, AUG 23 at 1.00pm
Lucia Di Lammermoor - SEP 12 at 11.30am, SEP 13 at 1.00pm
Madama Butterfly - SEP 26 at 11.30am, SEP 27 at 1.00pm

PROGRAMME   

Donizetti’s LA FILLE DU REGIMENT
Experience the “exceedingly yummy operatic cake” that was called “the operatic show of the season” by The Times of London when it opened at Covent Garden. Audiences were dazzled by Natalie Dessay’s fearless coloratura and impeccable comic timing and by Juan Diego Flórez’s remarkable musicality - complete with the famous high Cs. Conductor: Marco Armiliato; Production: Laurent Pelly Natalie Dessay, Juan Diego Flórez, Marian Seldes. (2hr 49mins)

Donizetti’s LUCIA DI LAMMERMOOR
Anna Netrebko sings the title role of Donizetti’s fragile heroine for the first time at the Met, with tenor Piotr Beczala in the part of her lover, Edgardo. Baritone Mariusz Kwiecien is her tyrannical brother. Mary Zimmerman’s hit production is staged as a Victorian ghost story. Conductor: Marco Armiliato; Production: Mary Zimmerman; Anna Netrebko, Piotr Beczala, Mariusz Kwiecien . (3hr 48mins)

Puccini’s MADAMA BUTTERFLY
Patricia Racette returns to the title role in the late Anthony Minghella’s (The English Patient, Talented Mr Ripley) stunning production, a new classic of the Met repertory, opposite Marcello Giordani. Conductor: Patrick Summers; Production: Anthony Minghella; Patricia Racette & Marcello Giordani.  (3hr 19mins).

Casting subject to change. Running times are approximate.

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