THE MET LIVE IN HD 2018-19

Adult $21 ♦ Student $11 ♦ Met Season $157.50

All performances start at 10:55am with the exception of March 30th.

Season tickets are on sale now and will be available until October 13.  Individual operas will go on sale August 29!

Guiseppe Verdi’s Aida
Saturday, October 13, 10:55AM

Run time 3:36/two intermissions
(Act I 40/Intermission 30/Act II 43/Intermission 36/Act III 67)

In what should be a highlight of the new season, soprano Anna Netrebko sings her first Met Aida, going toe-to-toe with mezzo-soprano Anita Rachvelishvili as Amneris. Later in the season, a second star-studded cast takes over, with Sondra Radvanovsky and Dolora Zajick as the leading ladies.Tenors Aleksandrs Antonenko and Yonghoon Lee alternate as Radamès, and Nicola Luisotti and Plácido Domingo take the podium for the Met’s monumental production.

 

Giacomo Puccini’s La Fanciulla del West
Saturday, October 27, 10:55AM

Run time 3:22/two intermissions
(Act I 59/Intermission 36/Act II 46/Intermission 35/Act III 26)

Soprano Eva-Maria Westbroek sings Puccini’s gun-slinging heroine in this romantic epic of the Wild West, with the heralded return of tenor Jonas Kaufmann in the role of the outlaw she loves. Tenor Yusif Eyvazov also sings some performances. Baritone Željko Lučić is the vigilante sheriff Jack Rance, and Marco Armiliato conducts.

 

Camille Saint-Saëns Samson et Dalila
Saturday, November 3, 10:55AM

Run time 3:04/two intermissions
(Act I 46/Intermission 30/Act II 42/Intermission 30/Act III 36)

When mezzo-soprano Elīna Garanča and tenor Roberto Alagna joined forces for a new production of Carmen at the Met, the results were electrifying. Now this star duo reunites for another sensual French opera when they open the season in the title roles of Saint-Saëns’s biblical epic Samson et Dalila. Darko Tresnjak, who won a Tony Award for Best Direction of a Musical in 2014 for A Gentleman’s Guide to Love & Murder, makes his Met debut directing a vivid, seductive staging, featuring a monumental setting for the last-act Temple of Dagon, where the hero crushes his Philistine enemies. Sir Mark Elder conducts the first new Met production of the work in 20 years.

 

Nico Muhly Marnie
Saturday, November 10, 10:55AM

Run time 2:52/one intermission
(Act I 70/Intermission 30/Act II 72)

Composer Nico Muhly unveils his second new opera for the Met with this gripping reimagining of Winston Graham’s novel, set in the 1950s, about a beautiful, mysterious young woman who assumes multiple identities. Director Michael Mayer and his creative team have devised a fast-moving, cinematic world for this exhilarating story of denial and deceit, which also inspired a film by Alfred Hitchcock. Mezzo-soprano Isabel Leonard sings the enigmatic Marnie, and baritone Christopher Maltman is the man who pursues her—with disastrous results. Robert Spano conducts.
Commissioned by the Metropolitan Opera
Music by Nico Muhly, libretto by Nicholas Wright, based on the novel by Winston Graham
By special arrangement with Universal Pictures

 

Guiseppe Verdi’s La Traviata
Saturday, December 15, 10:55AM

Run time 3:07/two intermissions
(Act I 30/Intermission 30/Act II 64/Intermission 30/Act III 33)

Yannick Nézet-Séguin conducts Michael Mayer’s richly textured new production, featuring a dazzling 18th-century setting that changes with the seasons. Soprano Diana Damrau plays the tragic heroine, Violetta, and tenor Juan Diego Flórez returns to the Met for the first time in five seasons to sing the role of Alfredo, Violetta’s hapless lover. Baritone Quinn Kelsey is Alfredo’s father, Germont, who destroys their love. Later performances feature Anita Hartig, Stephen Costello, Artur Ruciński, and Plácido Domingo.

 

Francesco Cilea’s Adriana Lecouvreur
Saturday, January 12, 10:55AM

Run time 3:33/two intermissions
(Act I 86/Intermission 30/Act II 28/Intermission 25/Act III 44)

Soprano Anna Netrebko joins the ranks of Renata Tebaldi, Montserrat Caballé, and Renata Scotto, taking on—for the first time at the Met—the title role of the real-life French actress who dazzled 18th-century audiences with her on-and offstage passion. The soprano is joined by tenor Piotr Beczała as Adriana’s lover, Maurizio. The principal cast also features mezzo-soprano Anita Rachvelishvili and baritone Ambrogio Maestri. Gianandrea Noseda conducts. Sir David McVicar’s staging, which sets the action in a working replica of a Baroque theater, premiered at the Royal Opera House in London, where the Guardian praised the “elegant production, sumptuously designed … The spectacle guarantees a good night out.”

 

Georges Bizet’s Carmen
Saturday, February 2, 10:55AM

Run time 3:21/one intermission
(Act I 101/Intermission 36/Act II 64)

Mezzo-soprano Clémentine Margaine reprises her remarkable portrayal of opera’s ultimate seductress, a triumph in her 2017 debut performances, with impassioned tenors Yonghoon Lee and Roberto Alagna as her lover, Don José. Omer Meir Wellber and Louis Langrée share conducting duties for Sir Richard Eyre’s powerful production, a Met favorite since its 2009 premiere.

 

Gaetano Donizett’s La Fille due Régiment
Saturday, March 2, 10:55AM

Run time 2:35/one intermission
(Act I 77/Intermission 28/Act II 50)

Tenor Javier Camarena and soprano Pretty Yende team up for a feast of bel canto vocal fireworks—including the show-stopping tenor aria “Ah! Mes amis,” with its nine high Cs. Alessandro Corbelli and Maurizio Muraro trade off as the comic Sergeant Sulpice, with mezzo-soprano Stephanie Blythe as the outlandish Marquise of Berkenfield. Enrique Mazzola conducts.

 

Richard Wagner’s Die Walküre
Saturday, March 30, 10:00AM  **** note start time ****

Run time 4:55/two intermissions
(Act I 65/Intermission 39/Act II 90/Intermission 35/Act III 66)

In what is expected to be a Wagnerian event for the ages, soprano Christine Goerke plays Brünnhilde, Wotan’s willful warrior daughter, who loses her immortality in opera’s most famous act of filial defiance. Tenor Stuart Skelton and soprano Eva-Maria Westbroek play the incestuous twins Siegmund and Sieglinde. Greer Grimsley sings Wotan. Philippe Jordan conducts.

 

Francis Poulenc’s Dialogues des Carmélites
Saturday, May 25, 10:55AM

Run time 3:09/one intermission
(Act I 89/Intermission 30/Act II 72)

Yannick Nézet-Séguin leads the classic John Dexter production of Poulenc’s devastating story of faith and martyrdom. Mezzo-soprano Isabel Leonard sings the touching role of Blanche and soprano Karita Mattila, a legend in her own time, returns to the Met as the Prioress.

Holly Jolly Holiday Film Series

Thursday, December 13, 6:30pm
Sing-a-Long White Christmas
Bring a toy for Toys for Tots and get a discounted ticket

Friday, December 14, 6:30pm
It’s a Wonderful Life
Wear an Ugly Christmas sweater and get a discounted ticket

Saturday, December 15, 6:30pm
Miracle on 34th St. (1947)
Bring an item for the Food Group and get a discounted ticket
(items needed are peanut butter, canned chicken, canned tuna, and low sugar granola bars)

Sunday, December 16, 2pm
Polar Express
Wear your pajamas and get a discounted ticket

Special pricing for families!

Holly Jolly Holiday Film Series

Thursday, December 13, 6:30pm
Sing-a-Long White Christmas
Bring a toy for Toys for Tots and get a discounted ticket

Friday, December 14, 6:30pm
It’s a Wonderful Life
Wear an Ugly Christmas sweater and get a discounted ticket

Saturday, December 15, 6:30pm
Miracle on 34th St. (1947)
Bring an item for the Food Group and get a discounted ticket
(items needed are peanut butter, canned chicken, canned tuna, and low sugar granola bars)

Sunday, December 16, 2pm
Polar Express
Wear your pajamas and get a discounted ticket

Special pricing for families!

Bolshoi Ballet in Cinema
2018-2019 Season

Adult $21 ♦ Student $11 ♦ Season $110.25

Season tickets are on sale now and will be available until November 13. 

La Sylphide
Tuesday, November 13, 6:00pm
Run time: 1:45 with one intermission

This is a work which marks a turning point in the genre: first, it is the oldest of the classical ballets which are known today, second, the ballet of the same name marks the start of dancing on pointe, third, it is not fortuitous that it was in that ballet that the ballerina — Marie Taglioni, the first ballerina of the romantic era — was to rise on pointe, the sylphide, after all, is a maiden of the air.

La Sylphide — produced by the prima ballerina’s father Filippo Taglioni — was premiered in Paris in 1832. Two years later, it was seen by August Bournonville, the man who made the name of Danish ballet, who decided to do a version of it for his Company. He did not have enough money to acquire the rights to the score but, nothing daunted, he commissioned new music from a Danish composer. And so — in 1836 — the Danish La Sylphide which was to become famous the world over, saw the light of day. And, thanks to the reverent attitude to this ballet of generation after generation of Royal Danish Ballet dancers, it has been preserved for posterity.

This new production of Bournonville’s La Sylphide at the Bolshoi is by the Dane Johan Kobborg who is eminently qualified to do the job. He was trained to dance Bournonville’s works from the cradle. At 18, he was chosen as a model for a demonstration of the Danish ’designer label’ technique, to be recorded on video under the title The Bournonville Technique. He has danced in nearly all the Bournonville ballets which have come down to us and he became one of the world’s leading interpreters of the role of James in La Sylphide. Finally, he produced his own version of the ballet for London’s Royal Ballet and received an excellent press.

Don Quixote
Tuesday, December 18, 6:00pm
Run time: 2:55

Inspired by heroic stories of brave knights, with his faithful servant Sancho Panza at his side, Don Quixote sets out on an adventure to meet his ideal woman, Dulcinea. With panache and sparkling technique, principal dancers Ekaterina Krysanova and Semyon Chudin lead the spectacular cast of toreadors, flamenco dancers, gypsies, and dryads in the Bolshoi’s critically-acclaimed staging of this exalted performance. A quintessential Bolshoi event.

The Nutcracker
Tuesday, December 25, 6:00pm
Run time: 2:20

On Christmas Eve, Marie’s Nutcracker doll magically transforms into a prince and together their wonderful adventure begins. The Nutcracker invites audiences of all ages on a magical journey, through a world of enchantment, complete with dancing snowflakes and dolls that have come to life, accompanied by Tchaikovsky’s beloved score. The timeless holiday classic returns to the Bolshoi stage this December.

La Bayadere
Tuesday, February 5, 6:00pm
Run time: 3:20

The temple dancer Nikiya and the warrior Solor fall deeply in love, igniting heated passions and murderous intrigues when the Rajah and his daughter Gamzatti discover their forbidden love. La Bayadere is one of the greatest works in classical ballet history – a story of love, death and vengeful judgment, set in India. Dazzling sets and costumes, with one of the most iconic scenes in ballet, the “Kingdom of the Shades,” illuminate the tragic tale of the temple dancer Nikiya’s doomed love for the warrior Solor, and their ultimate redemption. A must-see theatrical event.

The Sleeping Beauty
Tuesday, March 12, 6:00pm
Run time: 2:50

On her sixteenth birthday, Princess Aurora falls under the curse of the Evil Fairy Carabosse and into a deep slumber lasting one hundred years. Only the kiss of a prince can break the spell. A resplendent fairytale ballet, The Sleeping Beauty features scores of magical characters including fairies, the Little Red Riding Hood, Puss in Boots, and a beautiful young Princess Aurora performed by Olga Smirnova, a “truly extraordinary talent” (The Telegraph). This is classical ballet at its finest.

The Golden Age
Tuesday, April 9, 6:00pm
Run time: 2:20

In the 1920’s, The Golden Age cabaret is a favorite nightly haunt. The young fisherman Boris falls in love with Rita. He follows her to the cabaret and realizes that she is the beautiful dancer “Mademoiselle Margot,” but also the love interest of the local gangster Yashka. With its jazzy score by Dmitri Shostakovich and its music-hall atmosphere featuring beautiful tangos, The Golden Age is a refreshing and colorful dive into the roaring 20’s. A historic ballet that can be seen only at the Bolshoi!

Carmen Suite/Petrushka
Tuesday, May 21, 6:00pm
Run time: 2:20

Carmen is as sensual and free-spirited as ever as she finds herself caught in a love triangle. The passionate one act ballet by Cuban choreographer Alberto Alonso, originally conceived for legendary Bolshoi prima ballerina Maya Plisetskaya, will captivate audiences alongside Petrushka, a new creation for the Bolshoi by contemporary choreographer Edward Clug. The double-bill event for cinemas encapsulates and showcases the soul of Russian Ballet.

t’s bluegrass time, with local musicians playing some of the oldies … your favorites. Some old fiddle tunes and maybe a little bit of country too. Free and open to the public. $2 burgers also available.

For more information, call Bill Bradshaw at (307) 751-1852 or the Senior Center at (307) 672-2240.

The Munsick Family Christmas

Friday, December 21, 7:30pm

It’s happening! The boys are coming back to town and they’re bringing The Munsick Family Christmas show with them. Whether this is your first or your twelfth year at the show, you can expect the unexpected – songs that range from hand forged originals and old favorites to newly discovered treasures. Get your tickets early for an evening of stories and songs, an invitation to join into the lives and times of a family for an event that’s become part of a Sheridan custom. This has become the traditionally non traditional way that the Munsicks say Merry Christmas and thank you to Sheridan. It’s a thank you that you won’t want to miss.

Adult $25 ♦ Senior $20 ♦ Student $20

Bolshoi Ballet in Cinema
2018-2019 Season

Adult $21 ♦ Student $11 ♦ Season $110.25

Season tickets are on sale now and will be available until November 13. 

La Sylphide
Tuesday, November 13, 6:00pm
Run time: 1:45 with one intermission

This is a work which marks a turning point in the genre: first, it is the oldest of the classical ballets which are known today, second, the ballet of the same name marks the start of dancing on pointe, third, it is not fortuitous that it was in that ballet that the ballerina — Marie Taglioni, the first ballerina of the romantic era — was to rise on pointe, the sylphide, after all, is a maiden of the air.

La Sylphide — produced by the prima ballerina’s father Filippo Taglioni — was premiered in Paris in 1832. Two years later, it was seen by August Bournonville, the man who made the name of Danish ballet, who decided to do a version of it for his Company. He did not have enough money to acquire the rights to the score but, nothing daunted, he commissioned new music from a Danish composer. And so — in 1836 — the Danish La Sylphide which was to become famous the world over, saw the light of day. And, thanks to the reverent attitude to this ballet of generation after generation of Royal Danish Ballet dancers, it has been preserved for posterity.

This new production of Bournonville’s La Sylphide at the Bolshoi is by the Dane Johan Kobborg who is eminently qualified to do the job. He was trained to dance Bournonville’s works from the cradle. At 18, he was chosen as a model for a demonstration of the Danish ’designer label’ technique, to be recorded on video under the title The Bournonville Technique. He has danced in nearly all the Bournonville ballets which have come down to us and he became one of the world’s leading interpreters of the role of James in La Sylphide. Finally, he produced his own version of the ballet for London’s Royal Ballet and received an excellent press.

Don Quixote
Tuesday, December 18, 6:00pm
Run time: 2:55

Inspired by heroic stories of brave knights, with his faithful servant Sancho Panza at his side, Don Quixote sets out on an adventure to meet his ideal woman, Dulcinea. With panache and sparkling technique, principal dancers Ekaterina Krysanova and Semyon Chudin lead the spectacular cast of toreadors, flamenco dancers, gypsies, and dryads in the Bolshoi’s critically-acclaimed staging of this exalted performance. A quintessential Bolshoi event.

The Nutcracker
Tuesday, December 25, 6:00pm
Run time: 2:20

On Christmas Eve, Marie’s Nutcracker doll magically transforms into a prince and together their wonderful adventure begins. The Nutcracker invites audiences of all ages on a magical journey, through a world of enchantment, complete with dancing snowflakes and dolls that have come to life, accompanied by Tchaikovsky’s beloved score. The timeless holiday classic returns to the Bolshoi stage this December.

La Bayadere
Tuesday, February 5, 6:00pm
Run time: 3:20

The temple dancer Nikiya and the warrior Solor fall deeply in love, igniting heated passions and murderous intrigues when the Rajah and his daughter Gamzatti discover their forbidden love. La Bayadere is one of the greatest works in classical ballet history – a story of love, death and vengeful judgment, set in India. Dazzling sets and costumes, with one of the most iconic scenes in ballet, the “Kingdom of the Shades,” illuminate the tragic tale of the temple dancer Nikiya’s doomed love for the warrior Solor, and their ultimate redemption. A must-see theatrical event.

The Sleeping Beauty
Tuesday, March 12, 6:00pm
Run time: 2:50

On her sixteenth birthday, Princess Aurora falls under the curse of the Evil Fairy Carabosse and into a deep slumber lasting one hundred years. Only the kiss of a prince can break the spell. A resplendent fairytale ballet, The Sleeping Beauty features scores of magical characters including fairies, the Little Red Riding Hood, Puss in Boots, and a beautiful young Princess Aurora performed by Olga Smirnova, a “truly extraordinary talent” (The Telegraph). This is classical ballet at its finest.

The Golden Age
Tuesday, April 9, 6:00pm
Run time: 2:20

In the 1920’s, The Golden Age cabaret is a favorite nightly haunt. The young fisherman Boris falls in love with Rita. He follows her to the cabaret and realizes that she is the beautiful dancer “Mademoiselle Margot,” but also the love interest of the local gangster Yashka. With its jazzy score by Dmitri Shostakovich and its music-hall atmosphere featuring beautiful tangos, The Golden Age is a refreshing and colorful dive into the roaring 20’s. A historic ballet that can be seen only at the Bolshoi!

Carmen Suite/Petrushka
Tuesday, May 21, 6:00pm
Run time: 2:20

Carmen is as sensual and free-spirited as ever as she finds herself caught in a love triangle. The passionate one act ballet by Cuban choreographer Alberto Alonso, originally conceived for legendary Bolshoi prima ballerina Maya Plisetskaya, will captivate audiences alongside Petrushka, a new creation for the Bolshoi by contemporary choreographer Edward Clug. The double-bill event for cinemas encapsulates and showcases the soul of Russian Ballet.

t’s bluegrass time, with local musicians playing some of the oldies … your favorites. Some old fiddle tunes and maybe a little bit of country too. Free and open to the public. $2 burgers also available.

For more information, call Bill Bradshaw at (307) 751-1852 or the Senior Center at (307) 672-2240.