ENTER FOR A CHANCE TO WIN free passes to the Fathom Event’s The Met Series 2015 Live and Encore one night events! 

Enter to win by emailing fathomeventsboston@gmail.com with “(Name of production) & JOYCE’S CHOICES” in the subject line.  5 admit 2 winners will be selected and emailed their complimentary passes!

 The passes will be valid for the AMC Framingham Theater. For more information visit: www.fathomevents.com

Schedule:

 IL TROVATORE (Verdi)    

October 3 – Live Performance

October 7 – Encore Performance

Soprano Anna Netrebko’s dramatic and vocal skills are on full display in her next new role at the Met – Leonora, the Verdi heroine who sacrifices her own life for the love of the gypsy troubadour. Tenor Yoonghoon Lee sings the ill-fated Manrico, baritone Dmitri Hvorostovsky is his rival, and mezzo-soprano Dolora Zajick is the mysterious is the mysterious gypsy with the troubled past. Angela Meade sings Leonora in later performances. Marco Armiliato conducts Sir David McVicar’s Goya-inspired production.

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OTELLO (Verdi)

October 17– Live Performance

October 21 – Encore Performance

“The Met season opens with Verdi’s masterful Otello, inspired by Shakespear’s play and matching it in tragic intensity. Director Bartlett Sher probes the Moor’s dramatic downfall with an outstanding cast: tenor Aleksandrs Antonenko plays the doomed Otello; new soprano star Sonya Yoncheva sings Desdemona, Otello’s innocent wife and victim; and baritone Zeljko Lucic plays the evil Iago, who masterminds Otello’s demise. Dynamic maestro Yannick Nezet-Seguin conducts.

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TANNHÄUSER (Wagner)    

October 31 –Live Performance

November 4 – Encore Performance

 James Levine conducts Wagner’s early masterpiece in its first return to the Met stage in more than a decade. Today’s leading Wagnerian tenor, Johan Botha, takes on the daunting title role of the young knight caught between true love and passion. Eva-Maria Westbroek is Elisabeth, adding another Wagner heroine to her Met repertoire after her acclaimed Sieglinde in the Ring a few seasons ago. On the heels of his recent triumph in Parsifal, Peter Mattei sings Wolfram, and Michelle DeYoung is the love goddess, Venus.