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  • World Cinema Series: Even the Rain

    (Director:
    Iciar Bollain 2010) Spanish director Sebastián, his
    executive producer Costa and all his crew are in Bolivia, in the Cochabamba
    area, to shoot a motion picture about Christopher Columbus, his first
    explorations and the way the Spaniards treated the Indians at the time. Costa
    has chosen this place because the budget of the film is tight and here he can
    hire supernumeraries, local actors and extras on the cheap. Things go more or
    less smoothly until a conflict erupts over the privatization of the water
    supply. The trouble is that one of the local actors is a leading activist in
    the protest movement.

    Not
    Rated (103 minutes)

     

  • World Cinema Series: The Reluctant Fundamentalist

    (Director:
    Mira Nair, 2012) A young Pakistani man is chasing corporate success on Wall
    Street. He finds himself embroiled in a conflict between his American Dream, a
    hostage crisis, and the enduring call of his family’s homeland.

    Rated R (130 minutes)

  • World Cinema Series: Mountains May Depart

    (Director:
    Zhangke Jia, 2015) China, 1999. Childhood friends Liangzi and Zhang are both in
    love with Tao, the town beauty. Tao eventually decides to marry the wealthier
    Zhang. They soon have a son he names Dollar… From China to Australia, the
    lives, loves, hopes and disillusions of a family over two generations in a society
    changing at breakneck speed.

    Not Rated (131 minutes)

  • Human Capital

    (Director:
    Paolo Virzi 2013) Dino Ossola, a small-time real estate agent who dreams of
    bigger things; Serena Ossola, his teenage daughter who dates a spoiled rich
    brat; Carla Bruneschi, an actress who has given up her career to marry a
    wealthy businessman; Massimiliano Giovanni Bernaschi, her husband, a powerful
    player; Massimiliano Bernaschi, the troubled son of the Bernaschis; Roberta
    Ossola, a psychologist, Dino’s second wife; Donato Russomano, a brilliant drama
    teacher who is stuck on Carla; Luca Ambrosini, a teenager frowned upon by
    others; an anonymous cyclist… They are all shareholders of the human capital.

    Not Rated (111 minutes)

  • Millie and the Lords

    (Director Jennica Carmona 2015) Millie and the Lords tells the story of Milagros Baez, a young,
    working class under-confident Puerto Rican woman whose life is changed for the
    better when she begins to learn about the Young Lords Party and her rich Puerto
    Rican history.       
    This event is part of Hispanic Heritage Month. 

    Rated PG (90 minutes)

  • Norma

    The season opens with a new production of Bellini’s bel canto tragedy Norma, starring Sondra Radvanovsky in the title role, which she has sung to acclaim at the Met in 2013, as well as at the Canadian Opera Company, San Francisco Opera, Bavarian State Opera, Gran Teatre del Liceu, and Lyric Opera of Chicago—making her one of the world’s leading interpreters of the iconic title character. Joyce DiDonato co-stars as Norma’s colleague and rival, Adalgisa, opposite Joseph Calleja as Pollione and Matthew Rose as Oroveso. Carlo Rizzi conducts and Sir David McVicar directs the new production.

    Total runtime: 2 hours, 34 minutes

  • Norma (Encore)

    The season opens with a new production of Bellini’s bel canto tragedy Norma, starring Sondra Radvanovsky in the title role, which she has sung to acclaim at the Met in 2013, as well as at the Canadian Opera Company, San Francisco Opera, Bavarian State Opera, Gran Teatre del Liceu, and Lyric Opera of Chicago—making her one of the world’s leading interpreters of the iconic title character. Joyce DiDonato co-stars as Norma’s colleague and rival, Adalgisa, opposite Joseph Calleja as Pollione and Matthew Rose as Oroveso. Carlo Rizzi conducts and Sir David McVicar directs the new production.

    Total runtime: 2 hours, 34 minutes

  • Die Zauberflöte

    Met Music Director Emeritus James Levine conducts Tony Award winner Julie Taymor’s production of Mozart’s masterpiece, Die Zauberflöte. Golda Schultz makes her Met debut as Pamina with Kathryn Lewek as the Queen of the Night, Charles Castronovo as the fairy tale prince Tamino, Markus Werba as the bird-catching Papageno, Christian Van Horn as Sprecher, and René Pape as Sarastro. The holiday presentation of The Magic Flute, an abridged staging sung in English for families, was the first Live in HD performance to be transmitted. This is the first time the full-length German opera will be seen in the series.

    Total runtime: 2 hours, 48 minutes

  • Die Zauberflöte (Encore)

    Met Music Director Emeritus James Levine conducts Tony Award winner Julie Taymor’s production of Mozart’s masterpiece, Die Zauberflöte. Golda Schultz makes her Met debut as Pamina with Kathryn Lewek as the Queen of the Night, Charles Castronovo as the fairy tale prince Tamino, Markus Werba as the bird-catching Papageno, Christian Van Horn as Sprecher, and René Pape as Sarastro. The holiday presentation of The Magic Flute, an abridged staging sung in English for families, was the first Live in HD performance to be transmitted. This is the first time the full-length German opera will be seen in the series.

    Total runtime: 2 hours, 48 minutes

  • The Exterminating Angel

    The Exterminating Angel has its Met premiere this season, conducted by the composer, Thomas Adès. The 2016 opera, co-commissioned by the Met and sung in English, is based on the screenplay by Luis Buñuel and Luis Alcoriza for the acclaimed 1962 Buñuel film. Directed by the librettist Tom Cairns, the ensemble cast features Audrey Luna as Leticia Maynar; Amanda Echalaz as Lucia de Nobile; Sally Matthews as Silvia de Ávila and Sophie Bevan as Beatriz, both in Met debuts; Alice Coote as Leonora Palma; Christine Rice as Blanca Delgado; Iestyn Davies as Francisco de Ávila; Joseph Kaiser as Edundo de Nobile; Frédéric Antoun in his Met debut as Raúl Yebenes; David Portillo as Edmundo; David Adam Moore in his Met debut as Col. Álvaro Gómez; Rod Gilfry as Alberto Roc; Kevin Burdette as Señor Russell; Christian Van Horn as Julio; and John Tomlinson as Dr Carlos Conde. The Exterminating Angel is a co-commission and co-production with the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden; Royal Danish Theatre; and Salzburg Festival, where the production premiered in 2016.

    Total runtime: 2 hours, 34 minutes