Opera Idaho

First broadcast is Monday, September 22, 7 PM

Opera Idaho partners with The Metropolitan Opera as the Met’s groundbreaking series of live, high-definition performance transmissions to movie theaters around the world expands in its third season. To meet increasing global demand, The Met: Live in HD will present 11 transmissions in 2008–09, up from eight. The HD productions will be seen in almost 800 venues and a number of new countries in South America and Europe are joining the network this season. Don’t miss the chance to experience the Met live at Edwards 21 Cinema, located at Overland & Cole in Boise.

For the season-opening gala, shown Monday, Sept. 22, 7 PM (delayed showing), and starring Renée Fleming, Music Director James Levine and Marco Armiliato conduct fully staged performances of the second act of Verdi’s La Traviata, the third act of Massenet’s Manon, and the final scene from Richard Strauss’s Capriccio. Tenor Ramón Vargas and baritones Thomas Hampson and Dwayne Croft join the soprano.

Attend and enter a drawing for a pair of tickets to Opera Idaho’s production of Lucia di Lammermoor.