1. A Tribute to Beverly Sills to be held September 16Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, the Met, and New York City Opera have announced A Tribute to Beverly Sills, a free public event dedicated to the memory of the great soprano. The program will be held at the Met on Sunday, September 16, 2007 at 5 p.m. and feature performances by Natalie Dessay,
Plácido Domingo, Nathan Gunn, James Levine, Anna Netrebko, and Craig Rutenberg. Tickets will be free of charge and available at the Met box office on a first-come, first-served basis starting at noon on September 16, the day of the event (limit two tickets per person).
Speakers at the event will include Susan Baker, Chairman of the Board of New York City Opera; Frank A. Bennack, Jr., Chairman of Lincoln Center; Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg; Carol Burnett; Peter Gelb, General Manager of the Metropolitan Opera;
Henry Kissinger; Nathan Leventhal, former President of Lincoln Center; Julius Rudel, conductor and former General Director of New York City Opera; Stanley Sills, brother of Ms. Sills; and
Barbara Walters.
Sills is one the top 10 sopranos.
2. Free Open House and Dress Rehearsal on 9/20For just the second time in company history, the Met will open its doors to the general public, on Thursday, September 20, for a free day-long Open House. The final dress rehearsal of Mary Zimmerman’s new production of Donizetti’s Lucia di Lammermoor—conducted by James Levine and starring Natalie Dessay, Marcello Giordani, and Mariusz Kwiecien—forms the centerpiece of the event, with the artists on hand afterwards to answer audience questions. The opera house will be set up with special exhibits relating to the production, including set and costume designs, and audiences are invited to walk across the famed Met stage after the 11 A.M. rehearsal. As with last season’s wildly popular Open House, the event is being underwritten by Met Board member Agnes Varis and her hu*****and Karl Leichtman.
Tickets for the Lucia di Lammermoor Open House, which are limited to two per person, can be reserved via the Met’s website or by phone beginning at 10 A.M. on Monday, September 17. Customers have until Tuesday, September 18, at 8 P.M. to pick up their reserved tickets at the box office.
For further details on how to reserve tickets online, visit MetOpera.org on September 17, and we will take you to our reservation page. You can also reserve your tickets by phone on September 17, by calling 212-362-6000.
3. Opening Night: Live in Times Square on September 24The Met’s 2007-08 season opens September 24 in a true citywide celebration, with a live transmission of Mary Zimmerman’s new production of Lucia di Lammermoor beamed to Times Square and to the Lincoln Center plaza. As with last season’s Opening Night broadcast of Madama Butterfly, the company will once again literally stop traffic, with approximately 1,500 seats set up in Times Square for audiences to watch the performance on enormous Panasonic AstroVision, Reuters, NASDAQ, and Toys ‘R’ Us screens.
Met Music Director James Levine conducts his first performances ever of Donizetti’s bel canto masterpiece, with Natalie Dessay starring in the title role, Marcello Giordani as Edgardo, and Mariusz Kwiecien as Enrico. The Met once again rolls out the red carpet for the Opening Night festivites—which can be experienced live in the center of New York City, outside the Met on the Lincoln Center plaza, on Metropolitan Opera Radio (channel 85 on Sirius Satellite radio), and streamed live on metopera.org.
The Times Square relay is free and tickets are not required. Two thousand tickets for the Lincoln Center plazacast will be available to the public at the Met box office starting at noon on Sunday, September 23. These tickets are free and available on a first come, first served basis, with a limit of two tickets per customer.
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