Nov 12, 2009 8:00 pm (Thursday)
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Event details: From the House of the Dead
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Lincoln Center Plaza
Metropolitan Opera House
(at Columbus Avenue)
New York, NY 10023
Tel: (212) 362-6000
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$20-$295
Dates & Hours
Thurs, Nov 12, 2009, 8 pm
Mon, Nov 16, 2009, 8 pm
Sat, Nov 21, 2009, 8 pm
Tues, Nov 24, 2009, 9 pm
Sat, Nov 28, 2009, 8 pm
Wed, Dec 2, 2009, 8 pm
Sat, Dec 5, 2009, 1 pm
Other languages: Czech
Approximate running time 1 hour, 30 minutes.
With this new production, voted Europeâs best opera staging for 2007, one of operaâs great visionaries makes his Met debut. Patrice Chéreau, renowned for his legendary centennial Ring cycle at Bayreuth, directs Leos Janácekâs drama of human resilience inside a Russian prison.
Conductor Esa-Pekka Salonen also makes his Met debut, and Peter Mattei leads the ensemble cast.
A production of the Metropolitan Opera and the Wiener Festwochen, in co-production with Holland Festival, Amsterdam; the Festival dâAix-en-Provence; and Teatro alla Scala, Milan.
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The Metropolitan Opera
The Metropolitan Opera House is located at the center of the Lincoln Center Plaza, behind the Fountain, at Columbus Avenue between 62nd and 65th Streets.Box Office Information: Monday–Saturday 10–8, Sunday Noon–6. Met Ticket Service: 212.362.6000 (Telephone sales, mail order, subscription, information, lost tickets, or ticket donations.) Group Sales: 212.501.3410 (Groups of 20 or more to a single performance.)
Directions: By subway: Take the #1 local train to 66th Street/Lincoln Center Station.
By bus: The M5, M7, M10, M66, and M104 bus lines all stop within one block of Lincoln Center.
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