MetOpera: Armida

The 2009-2010 MetOpera Live in HD is the Metropolitan Opera's third season of live performances, featuring nine transmissions with many of the world's greatest singers featured in brand new roles. James Levine, Music Director at the Met, says "This is a wonderful balance of repertory that includes four new works and a number of great operas that haven’t been performed for a long time". 

ARMIDA – Gioachino Rossini (4 hours 20 minutes / 2 intermissions)
This story of a sorceress who enthralls men in her island prison has inspired operatic settings by a multitude of composers, including Gluck, Haydn, and Dvorˇák. Renée Fleming stars in the title role of Rossini’s version, opposite no fewer than six tenors. Tony Award® winner Mary Zimmerman returns to direct this new production of a work she describes as “a buried treasure, a box of jewels.” The fanciful and magical tale, “has an epic, enchanted quality and a tremendous visual element.”

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