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Great Performances at the Met

200720 Seasons180m episodes

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Runtime: 180m episodes
Genre: Documentary
Certificate: TV-G
Origin: US

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The Metropolitan Opera's series of live performance transmissions to movie theaters around the world.

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Status: Returning Series
First aired: Jan 24, 2007
Next episode: S20 E9 · Oct 18, 2026
Network: PBS

Time to finish

588 hrs

196 episodes. About 84 weeks at an hour a night.

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Cast

Metropolitan Opera Chorus

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MET Orchestra

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Metropolitan Opera Ballet

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SERIES

Great Performances at the Met

200720 Seasons180m episodes

Documentary

Your rating

Runtime: 180m episodes
Genre: Documentary
Certificate: TV-G
Origin: US

About

The Metropolitan Opera's series of live performance transmissions to movie theaters around the world.

Where to watch

Region

Not available to stream in United States yet.

Episodes

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E1 · Airs Jan 24, 2007 · 3h 0m
The Magic Flute
Mozart's "The Magic Flute," with Matthew Polenzani (Tamino); Nathan Gunn (Papageno); Erika Miklósa (Queen of the Night); René Pape (Sarastro); Ying Huang (Pamina); Greg Fedderly (Monostatos); and Jennifer Aylmer (Papagena). James Levine conducts.
E2 · Airs Feb 17, 2007 · 3h 0m
I Puritani
Anna Netrebko stars in Bellini's bel canto opera "I Puritani" as a bride-to-be whose wedding day is disrupted when her betrothed (Eric Cutler) helps the condemned Queen Enrichetta (Maria Zifchak) escape from the Roundheads (Oliver Cromwell supporters during the English Civil War of the 1640s). Sir Riccardo Forth: Franco Vassallo. Sir Giorgio Walton: John Relyea. Lord Walton: Valerian Ruminski. Sir Bruno Robertson: Eduardo Valdes.
E3 · Airs Mar 24, 2007 · 3h 0m
The First Emperor
Placido Domingo stars in “The First Emperor” as Chinese ruler Qin Shi Huang, who attempts to unify his kingdom with a national anthem penned by a childhood-friend-turned-composer (Paul Groves). Complications arise, however, when Qin's daughter Yueyang (Elizabeth Futral) seduces the songsmith. Composed by Tan Dun, who won an Oscar for his “Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon” score and cowrote the libretto with novelist Ha Jin. Shaman: Michelle DeYoung. Yueyang's Mother: Susanne Mentzer.
E4 · Airs Apr 21, 2007 · 3h 0m
Eugene Onegin
Tchaikovsky's “Eugene Onegin,” starring Renée Fleming as Tatiana, a young Russian who's rebuffed by the object of her affection, Eugene Onegin (Dmitri Hvorostovsky). Years later, after she has married a prince (Sergei Aleksashkin), the two meet again and Onegin realizes his error. Olga: Elena Zaremba. Larina: Svetlana Volkova. Lenski: Ramón Vargas.
E5 · Airs May 26, 2007 · 3h 0m
The Barber of Seville
Gioacchino Rossini's classic comic opera “The Barber of Seville” stars Peruvian tenor Juan Diego Flórez as Count Almaviva, whose pursuit of the lovely Rosina (Joyce DiDonato) is aided by the wily barber Figaro (Peter Mattei). Standing in his way is her guardian Dr. Bartolo (John Del Carlo), who plans to marry her himself. Don Basilio: John Relyea. Fiorello: Brian Davis. Ambrogio: Rob Besserer.
E6 · Airs Jun 16, 2007 · 3h 0m
Il trittico
“Il Trittico,” Puccini's collection of three one-act operas. “Il Tabarro” concerns doomed lovers (Maria Guleghina, Salvatore Licitra); “Suor Angelica,” is about the salvation of a nun (Barbara Frittoli); “Gianni Schicchi” is a charismatic scoundrel (Alessandro Corbelli) out to steal a fortune willed to the church.

Details

Status: Returning Series
First aired: Jan 24, 2007
Next episode: S20 E9 · Oct 18, 2026
Network: PBS

Time to finish

588 hrs

196 episodes. About 84 weeks at an hour a night.

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Metropolitan Opera Chorus

Self

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Metropolitan Opera Ballet

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