Classically Speaking

The Metropolitan Opera will broadcast operas into movie theaters Live in HD starting on October 9 this year. It's their fifth season of HD movie theater opera broadcasts.

This year, twelve operas will be beamed to movie theaters: two from Wagner (Das Rheingold and Die Walküre), Mussorgsky’s Boris Godunov, Puccini’s Girl of the Golden West, a tragedy and a comedy by Donizetti (Lucia di Lammermoor and Don Pasquale), Nixon in China by John Adams, Capriccio by Richard Strauss, a Rossini rarity – Comte d’Ory, Gluck’s Iphegenie en Tauride, and a pair by Giuseppe Verdi – Don Carlo and Il Trovatore.

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Did I miss any? Don't even get me started listing all the stunning singers and fabulous directors who will be involved in the season.

In West Virginia, you can see these operas at the Huntington Mall in Barboursville and in Granville (Morgantown). Nearby, there are theaters in Ashland, Kentucky; Germantown, Maryland; and Pittsburgh. 

Shawn Patterson, WV Public Broadcasting Marketing Director extraordinaire, has put together a special edition of the Pubcaster newsletter with more information about the movie broadcasts, and a nice introduction to opera terms.  Check it out. Print it out and tape it to the fridge. Send it to all your friends.

Be sure to stay tuned to WV Public Radio and to our Facebook page for more information. I’ll be giving away tickets to screenings in Barboursville, Granville, and Germantown throughout the year.

Hope to see you there:)

More about the Met Opera on the radio and at the movies:
  * 100 years of opera on the radio
  * Hamlet in HD
  * Onegin Once Again
  * Met Opera returns, expands in WV
  * Opera Goes to the Movies in WV

First Opera Series:
  * Tosca
  * Carmen
  * The Love for Three Oranges