New Productions by The Metropolitan Opera

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The New York Metropolitan Opera will be premiering two new productions in February as part of a packed 2014 season which also includes live transmissions to cinemas in the UK.

The first new production is Alexander Borodin's Prince Igor opens which opens on February 6 and has additional performances on Feb 10, 14, 17, 21 and 24, plus March 1, 4 and 8. It is lead by conductors Gianandrea Noseda and Pavel Smelkov. Prince Igor is played by Ildar Abdrazakov, Yaroslavna by Oksana Dyka, Konchakovna by Anita Rachvelishvili, Vladamir Igorevich by SergeySemishkur, Prince Galitsky by Mikhail Petrenko and Khan Konchak by Stefan Kocan.

The second new production this year is Massenet's Werther, with libertto by Edouard Blau, Paul Milliet and Georges Hartmann. It opens on February 18 with performances on Feb 22, and 28 and March 3, 7, 11 and 15, and is conducted by Alain Altinoglu. The role of Sophie is played by Lisette Oropesa, Charlotte by Elina Garanca, Werther by Jonas Kaufmann, Albert by David Bizic and Le Bailli by Jonathan Summers.

On February 26 The Met's Baroque fantasy The Enchanted Island returns after its critically acclaimed world-premiere run in 2011-12. It brings together the music of Handel, Vivaldi, Rameau, Purcell and other composers set to a new English libretto inspired by Shakespeare's The Tempest and A Midsummer Night's Dream. Performances continue on March 1, 5, 12 and 15. The all-star cast is lead by Susan Graham as Sycorax, with David Daniels, Danielle de Niese and the one and only Placido Domingo reprising their roles as Prospero, Ariel and Neptune.

Opera fans heading to New York this year can now book all The Metropolitan Opera's productions for 2014 quickly and easily through a number of UK agents, as The Met is a member of The Broadway Collection, which includes a host of popular Broadway shows.

Other operas being staged by The Met from February are:

• Madama Butterfly

• L'Elisir d'Amore

• Die Fledermaus

• Rusalka

• Wozzeck

• La Sonnambula

• La Boheme

• Andrea Chenier

• Arabella

• I Puritani

• La Cenerentola

• Cosi fan tutte

For 2014 the opera company will also be continuing its hugely successful ‘The Met: Live in HD' series of international broadcasts to 1,900 cinemas in 64 countries, including 173 cinemas in the UK. Since its first broadcast in 2006 The Met Live in HD has been seen by over 3 million opera lovers.

Showings at cinemas in 2014 are:

• Rusalka February 8

• Prince Igor March 1

• Werther March 15

• La Boheme April 15

• Cosi fan tutte April 26

• La Cenerentola May 10

UK viewing times are between 5pm and 6pm. See local cinemas for details.

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