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Note the change of venue for some of the preview talks. Some talks will be held at Doc Martin's Restaurant at the Taos Inn. You can purchase breakfast before the talk off the Doc Martin menu. Note the location and time of the talk at the beginning of each opera description below. For talks at Doc Martin's Make your required reservation directly with Doc Martin's, (575) 758-2233 for "opera breakfast." Prepurchase your MetLive ticket for a 20% discount on food. Tickets can be purchased from the box office or by using the links provided. Printed or electronic proof of ticket purchase will need to be presented in order to receive the discount. You may start arriving around 8:45 in order to facilitate staggering breakfast orders. MET Live Ticket Information Tickets for the MET Live in HD performance are $20 for TCA members, $25 for non-members and free for youth 22 and under (see below) and may be purchased by calling (575)758-2052 Monday through Friday, 9am to 5pm or at the TCA office during those hours. Tickets may also be purchased online through the Calendar. We also invite all Taos County youth, age 22 and under, to come to free performances of all the MET Live in HD operas shown at the Taos Center for the Arts. The YOUTH'S tickets are free. The youths simply presents themselves at the TCA box office as an 'invited student guest'. That’s it. A free student ticket will be provided. |
October 5 at 11am. Preview Talk at 10 am by Renee Shortridge Les Contes d'Hoffman October 19 at 11 am Preview Talk at 10 am by Jim White at the TCA Grounded Two-time Tony Award–winning composer Jeanine Tesori’s powerful new opera Grounded, commissioned by the Met and based on librettist George Brant’s acclaimed play, wrestles with the ethical quandaries and psychological toll of 21st-century warfare. Mezzo-soprano Emily D’Angelo, one of opera’s most compelling young stars, portrays Jess, a hot-shot fighter pilot whose unplanned pregnancy takes her out of the cockpit and lands her in Las Vegas, operating a Reaper drone halfway around the world. As she struggles to adjust to this new way of doing battle, she fights to maintain her sanity, and her soul, as she is called to rain down death by remote control. Met Music Director Yannick Nézet-Séguin oversees the Met premiere of Tesori’s kaleidoscopic score and a cast that also features tenor Ben Bliss as the Wyoming rancher who becomes Jess’s husband. Michael Mayer’s high-tech staging, using a vast array of LED screens, presents a variety of perspectives on the action, including the drone’s predatory view from high above. November 23 at 11am, Preview Talk at 9 am by Bob Parker at Doc Martin's Tosca Extraordinary soprano Lise Davidsen stars as the volatile diva Floria Tosca for her first time at the Met. David McVicar’s thrilling production also features tenor Freddie De Tommaso in his eagerly anticipated company debut as Tosca’s revolutionary lover, Cavaradossi, and powerhouse baritone Quinn Kelsey as the sadistic chief of police Scarpia. Met Music Director Yannick Nézet-Séguin conducts the electrifying score, which features some of Puccini’s most memorable melodies. January 25 at 10:30. Preview Talk at 9:30 am by Sharon Barton Aida Soprano Angel Blue makes her long-awaited Met role debut as the Ethiopian princess torn between love and country, one of opera’s defining roles. Music Director Yannick Nézet-Séguin takes the podium for Michael Mayer’s spectacular new staging, which brings audiences inside the towering pyramids and gilded tombs of ancient Egypt with intricate projections and dazzling animations. Mezzo-soprano Judit Kutasi, following her 2024 debut in Verdi’s La Forza del Destino, is Aida’s Egyptian rival Amneris, and tenor Piotr Beczała is the soldier Radamès—completing opera’s greatest love triangle. The all-star cast also features baritone Quinn Kelsey as Amonasro and bass Dmitry Belosselskiy as Ramfis. | March 15 at 11 am. Preview Talk at 10 am by Carolyn Haddock Fidelio Following a string of awe-inspiring Met performances, soprano Lise Davidsen stars as Leonore, who risks everything to save her husband from the clutches of tyranny. Tenor David Butt Philip is the political prisoner Florestan, sharing the stage with bass-baritone Tomasz Konieczny as the villainous Don Pizarro, veteran bass René Pape as the jailer Rocco, and soprano Ying Fang and tenor Magnus Dietrich, in his company debut, as the young Marzelline and Jaquino. Bass Stephen Milling sings the principled Don Fernando, and Susanna Mälkki conducts the Met’s striking production, which finds modern-day parallels in Beethoven’s stirring paean to freedom. April 26 at 11 am. Preview Talk at 10 am by Vicky and Don Zillioux Le Nozze di Figaro Conductor Joana Mallwitz makes her Met debut leading an extraordinary cast in Mozart’s comic masterpiece. Bass-baritone Michael Sumuel stars as the clever valet Figaro, opposite soprano Olga Kulchynska as his betrothed, the wily maid Susanna. Baritone Joshua Hopkins is the skirt-chasing Count, with soprano Federica Lombardi as his anguished wife and mezzo-soprano Marianne Crebassa as the adolescent page Cherubino. May 17 at 11 am. Preview Talk at 10 am by Molly Steinbach Salome Music Director Yannick Nézet-Séguin conducts his first Met performances of Strauss’s white-hot one-act tragedy, which receives its first new production at the company in 20 years. Claus Guth, one of Europe’s leading opera directors, gives the biblical story—already filtered through the beautiful and strange imagination of Oscar Wilde’s play—a psychologically perceptive, Victorian-era setting rich in symbolism and subtle shades of darkness and light. Headlining the new staging is soprano Elza van den Heever as the abused and unhinged antiheroine, who demands the head of Jochanaan, sung by celebrated baritone Peter Mattei. Tenor Gerhard Siegel is Salome’s lecherous stepfather, King Herod, with mezzo-soprano Michelle DeYoung as his wife, Herodias, and tenor Piotr Buszewski as Narraboth. May 31 at 11 am. Preview Talk at 10 am by Vicky or Don Zillioux Il Barbiere di Siviglia Rossini’s effervescent comedy retakes the stage in Bartlett Sher’s madcap production. Mezzo-soprano Aigul Akhmetshina headlines a winning ensemble as the feisty heroine, Rosina, alongside high-flying tenor Jack Swanson, in his Met debut, as her secret beloved, Count Almaviva. Baritone Andrey Zhilikhovsky stars as Figaro, the titular barber of Seville, with bass-baritone Peter Kálmán as Dr. Bartolo and bass Alexander Vinogradov as Don Basilio rounding out the principal cast. Giacomo Sagripanti conducts. |