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GP at the Met: Faust: Clip: Jonas Kaufmann and René Pape in Faust

fultonk — Fri, 04 May 2012 17:44:16 +0000

Jonas Kaufmann (Faust) and René Pape (Méphistophélès) in the prologue of Gounod’s “Faust.” GP at the Met: Faust airs on Sunday, May 13 at 12 p.m. on PBS (check local listings). In New York, THIRTEEN will premiere the program Thursday, May 10 at 8:30 p.m. with an encore presentation Sunday, May 13 at 12:30 p.m.

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GP at the Met: Faust: Clip: Jonas Kaufmann in Faust

fultonk — Wed, 02 May 2012 20:08:17 +0000

Jonas Kaufmann (Faust) sings “Salut, demeure” from Gounod’s “Faust.” GP at the Met: Faust airs on Sunday, May 13 at 12 p.m. on PBS (check local listings). In New York, THIRTEEN will premiere the program Thursday, May 10 at 8:30 p.m. with an encore presentation Sunday, May 13 at 12:30 p.m.

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GP at the Met: Faust: Clip: Jonas Kaufmann and Marina Poplavskaya in Faust

fultonk — Wed, 02 May 2012 18:14:56 +0000

Jonas Kaufmann (Faust) and Marina Poplavskaya (Marguerite) in the “Love Duet” from Gounod’s Faust. GP at the Met: Faust airs on Sunday, May 13 at 12 p.m. on PBS (check local listings). In New York, THIRTEEN will premiere the program Thursday, May 10 at 8:30 p.m. with an encore presentation Sunday, May 13 at 12:30 p.m.

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GP at the Met: Faust: About the Opera

fultonk — Tue, 17 Apr 2012 20:26:30 +0000

Three of the opera world’s leading stars—Jonas Kaufmann, Marina Poplavskaya, and René Pape—sing the principal roles in a new production of Gounod’s Faust, directed by Tony Award winner Des McAnuff in his Met debut. Yannick Nézet-Séguin conducts his first Met performances of the opera, which airs on THIRTEEN’s Great Performances at the Met Sunday, May 13 at 12 p.m. on PBS (check local listings). In New York, THIRTEEN will premiere the program Thursday, May 10 at 8:30 p.m. with an encore presentation Sunday, May 13 at 12:30 p.m.

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The program was originally seen live in movie theaters on December 10 as part of the groundbreaking The Met: Live in HD series, which transmits live performances to more than 1700 movie theaters and performing arts centers in 54 countries around the world.

Great Performances at the Met is a presentation of THIRTEEN for WNET, one of America’s most prolific and respected public media providers. For nearly 50 years, WNET has been producing and broadcasting national and local arts programming to the New York community.

Kaufmann makes his Met role debut as the title character, and Poplavskaya makes hers as Faust’s love interest and eventual victim, Marguerite; Pape returns to one of his greatest Met roles, the wicked tempter Méphistophélès. French-Canadian mezzo-soprano Michèle Losier makes her house role debut as the student Siébel and Russell Braun makes his in the role of Marguerite’s soldier brother, Valentin.

McAnuff is a Tony Award winner for Big River and The Who’s Tommy and the Artistic Director of Canada’s prestigious Stratford Shakespeare Festival. His production of Faust, a co-production with the English National Opera, where it premiered last season, sets the action in the mid-20^th century, with Faust as a nuclear scientist who sees the terrible effects of his life’s work and longs to return to a simpler time. The main part of the opera takes place in a flashback to an earlier part of the 20^th century, with the plot unfolding in the moments before Faust dies from drinking a fatal potion.

Gounod’s opera has been a staple of the Met’s repertory since 1883, when it was the first opera ever presented at the old Metropolitan Opera House.

When this production premiered last November, Associated Press enthused: “Exceptional work by a fine cast of singing actors led by tenor Jonas Kaufmann, soprano Marina Poplavskaya and bass René Pape…their performances, sharply directed by Des McAnuff, guaranteed that Gounod’s opera came across as serious and even gripping theater. And rarely has the score sounded more captivating than in the rhapsodic account by the Met orchestra under the guidance of the young conductor Yannick Nézet-Séguin.”

Nézet-Séguin, the Music Director Designate of the Philadelphia Orchestra, had two previous Met engagements: the new productions of Bizet’s Carmen (2009) and Verdi’s Don Carlo (2010), both broadcast on Great Performances at the Met. Kaufmann is currently one of the world’s most in-demand tenors, starring in a varied repertory that has included Met performances of Siegmund in Wagner’s Die Walküre (2011 new production), Cavaradossi in Puccini’s Tosca, Don José in Carmen, Alfredo in Verdi’s La Traviata, and Tamino in Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte. In October, he became the first Met artist since Luciano Pavarotti (in 1984) to sing a solo recital from the Met stage, and this spring, he will reprise his Siegmund in complete Ring cycles.

Last season, Poplavskaya received critical praise for her singing and acting in two Met role debuts. She sang Elisabeth de Valois in the new production of Don Carlo, also seen on Great Performances at the Met, and she also starred as Violetta in Willy Decker’s staging of La Traviata. Pape, whose last Met engagement was as King Philip to Poplavskaya’s Elisabeth on the Japan tour, sang Méphistophélès in the Met’s 2004-05 season. Last season, he starred in the title role of a new production of Mussorgsky’s Boris Godunov (seen on Great Performances at the Met).

McAnuff’s design team for Faust includes two Tony nominees in their Met debuts: scenic designer Robert Brill and costume designer Paul Tazewell. Peter Mumford, whose work at the Met includes Madama Butterfly, Carmen, and Peter Grimes, designed the lighting for the production. Choreographer Kelly Devine and video designer Sean Nieuwenhuis also made their Met debuts with this production.

Mezzo soprano Joyce DiDonato hosts. Barbara Willis Sweete directs the telecast.

Major funding for the telecast is provided by M. Beverly and Robert G. Bartner. Corporate support for Great Performances at the Met is provided by Toll Brothers, America’s luxury home builder®. This Great Performances presentation is funded by the Philip and Janice Levin Foundation.

For the Met, Mia Bongiovanni and Elena Park are Supervising Producers, and Louisa Briccetti and Victoria Warivonchik are Producers. Peter Gelb is Executive Producer. For Great Performances, Bill O’Donnell is Series Producer; David Horn is Executive Producer.

GP at The Met: Roméo et Juliette: Introduction

daniel ross — Sun, 06 Apr 2008 21:43:37 +0000

Ken Howard/Metropolitan Opera

Composer: Charles Gounod

Librettists: Jules Barbier and Michel Carré

Production: Guy Joosten

Conductor: Plácido Domingo

Performers: Anna Netrebko (Juliette), Roberto Alagna (Roméo), Marc Heller (Tybalt), Louis Otey (Paris), Charles Taylor (Capulet), Jane Bunnell (Gertrude), David Won (Grégorio), Tony Stevenson (Benvolio), Dean Peterson (Duke of Verona)

Synopsis:
Soprano Anna Netrebko teams up with tenor Roberto Alagna in Charles Gounod’s sensual interpretation of Shakespeare’s timeless love story. Originally premiered in 1867, Gounod’s opera was a triumph in its time, and is still praised today for its remarkable musical take on Shakespeare. Plácido Domingo presides on the conductor’s podium for this tour-de-force presentation.

Opera synopsis courtesy of the Metropolitan Opera

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GP at The Met: Roméo et Juliette: Production Credits

daniel ross — Sun, 06 Apr 2008 21:43:37 +0000

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GREAT PERFORMANCES AT THE MET: “Roméo et Juliette”

Directed By
Gary Halvorson

Conductor
Plácido Domingo

Production
Guy Joosten

Set Designer
Johannes Leiacker

Costume Designer
Jorge Jara

Lighting Designer
David Cunningham

Choreographer
Sean Curran

Cast In Order Of Vocal Appearance

Tybalt
Marc Heller

Pâris
Luis Otey

Capulet
Charles Taylor

Juliette
Anna Netrebko

Mercurio
Nathan Gunn

Roméo
Roberto Alagna

Gertrude
Jane Bunnell

Grégorio
David Won

Frère Laurent
Robert Lloyd

Stéphano
Isabel Leonard

Benvolio
Tony Stevenson

The Duke Of Verona
Dean Peterson

Chorus Master
Donald Palumbo

Musical Preparation
Joan Dornemann
Paul Nadler
Denise Massé
Derrick Inouye
Lydia Brown

Assistant Stage Directors
Valerie Kuinka
Gina Lapinski

Fight Director
Dale Anthony Girard

Dramaturg
Paul Cremo

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Joan Dornemann

Met Titles
Cori Ellison

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Michael Bachmann

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Supervising Producers
Mia Bongiovanni
Elena Park

Producers
Louisa Briccetti
Victoria Warivonchik

Audio Producer
Jay David Saks

Associate Director
Christine Clark Bradley

Engineer-In-Charge
Mark Schubin

Technical Supervisor
Ron Washburn

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Emmett Loughran

Production Mixer
Tom Holmes

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Bill King

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Wayne Chouinard

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Matt Dobkin
Ellen Keel

Camera
Miguel Armstrong
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Charlie Huntley
John Kosmaczewski
Bob Long
Jay Millard
Lyn Noland
Alain Onesto
David Smith
Ron Washburn
Mark Whitman

Robotic Camera Technicians
Rick Compeau
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Video
Billy Steinberg
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Matty Randazzo

Audio
Mel Becker
Chris Callus
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Louise De La Fuente
Skip Kent
John Kerswell
Steve Lamphere
Blake Norton
Michael Shoskes

Videotape
Alan Buchner
Steven Joyce

Television Stage Managers
Terence Benson
Electa Brown
Phyllis Digilio

English Subtitles Adapted By
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Broadcast Graphics
Deborah Cavanaugh

Score Reader
Ben Sosland

Make-Up For
Ms. Netrebko
Matiki Anoff
Media Librarian/Archivist
Michael Griebel

Production Associates
Marisa Biaggi
Yolanda S. Williams

Backstage Camera
Larry Solomon
Tim Quigley

Steadicam
Claus Stuhlweissenburg

Assistant Camera
Kevin Murphy

Utilities
Tom Carroll
James Washburn

Title Sequence Edited By
Sakae Ishikawa

Production Assistants
Alexandra Eastman
Lisa Hampton
Alyse Horn
Enzo E. Martinez
Harriet Snyder

Video Editor
Gary Bradley

Hd Nitris Editor
Laura Young

Audio Editor
John Bowen

Post-Production Audio Mix
Ken Hahn

Metropolitan Opera Association

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Peter Gelb

Music Director
James Levine

Assistant Managers
Artistic
Sarah Billinghurst

Technical
Joseph Clark

Editorial & Creative Content
Elena Park

Operations
Stewart Pearce

Finance
Bill Thomas

Development
Coralie Toevs

Director Of Media & Presentations
Mia Bongiovanni

Director Of Worldwide Hd Distribution
Julie Borchard-Young

Artistic Administrator
Jonathan Friend

General Counsel
Sharon E. Grubin

Director Of Development
Elizabeth Hurley

Director Of Marketing
Karen Karp

Senior Artistic Advisor
Eva Wagner-Pasquier

Director Of Human Resources & Labor Relations
Ann Marie Hackett

Director Of Music Administration
Craig Rutenberg

House Manager
James Naples

Press Director
Sommer Hixson

Director New Business Development
Laura Mitgang

Metropolitan Opera Orchestra
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Robert Sirinek

Concertmaster
David Chan

Librarian
Robert Sutherland

Metropolitan Opera Chorus

Metropolitan Opera Ballet

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Diana Levy

Stage Managers
Margo Maier
Raymond Menard
Jonathan Waterfield
Scott Moon

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Paul Donahue

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James R. Blumenfeld

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Tom Watson

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Victor Callegari

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William Malloy

Costume Shop Head
Lesley Weston

Resident Costume Designer
Sylvia Nolan

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All Mobile Video Inc.

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Dolby Laboratories
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Media Counsel
Franklin, Weinrib, Rudell & Vasallo, P.C.

This Stage Production Of Roméo Et Juliette Made Possible By The

Gramma Fisher Foundation, Marshalltown, Iowa

And The Annenberg Foundation

Additional Stage Production Funding Provided By

Mr. And Mrs. Sid R. Bass

Hermione Foundation

Karen And Kevin Kennedy

Mr. And Mrs. William R. Miller

Bill Rollnick And Nancy Ellison Rollnick

And

Mr. And Mrs. Ezra K. Zilkha

For Great Performances

Director, Program Development
Bill O’donnell

Series Producer
David Horn

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Peter Gelb

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