New York Metropolitan Opera

Booking Opens Sunday 16th May for Friends. Book online and choose your seats.

The Phoenix is excited to present eight outstanding operas from the New York Metropolitan Opera Season 2010-2011.

Enjoy all the colour and excitement of these magnificent productions when they are transmitted live via satellite from the Metropolitan Opera House in New York directly to our cinema screen. Seating is limited for this season to 255 and so The Phoenix is offering priority booking to Friends of the Phoenix for one week only. Tickets will go on general sale on Sunday 23rd May. These Friends priority bookings are available by telephone 020 8444 6789, in person at the box office or via our online booking website at phoenixcinemaonline.co.uk.

PLEASE NOTE - To book a Friend's ticket online you'll need to have a password which has been assigned to your Friends number. To retrieve this password, please contact our box office to verify or add your email address, and the password will be automatically sent to you via email. Do NOT attempt to register online without this password as you will only create a duplicate account with no membership attached.

We recommend you take advantage of the following special Friends offer:

BEST VALUE Friends Full Season Ticket (all eleven operas) £154. (Non-Friends will be £220 or £176 concessions)
If you prefer a selection: Friends Half Season Ticket (any six operas) £94.50. (Non-Friends price: £135, or £108 concessions )
Friends can also book for individual operas at £17.50. (Non-Friends price: £25 or £20 concessions)

The Season

Wagner’s Das Rheingold – Saturday 9th October at 6pm
3hrs 15 approx. James Levine; Wendy Bryn Harmer, Stephanie Blythe, Patricia Bardon, Richard Croft, Gerhard Siegel, Bryn Terfel, Eric Owens, Franz-Josef Selig.
Robert Lepage’s new production of the Ring cycle opens with the prologue to Wagner’s epic drama with Bryn Terfel singing the leading role of Wotan for the fi rst time with the company, heading an extraordinary cast.

Mussorgsky’s Boris Godunov – Saturday 23rd October at 5pm
5hrs 30 approx. Valery Gergiev; Ekaterina Semenchuk, Aleksandrs Antonenko, Oleg Balashov, Evgeny Nikitin, René Pape, Mikhail Petrenko, Vladimir Ognovenko.
Bass René Pape takes on one of the greatest roles in a production by monumental theatre and opera director Peter Stein, in his Met debut. Valery Gergiev conducts Mussorgsky’s soulful spectacle, which captures the suffering and ambition of a nation.

Donizetti’s Don Pasquale – Saturday 13th November at 6pm
4hrs approx. James Levine; Anna Netrebko, Matthew Polenzani, Mariusz Kwiecien, John Del Carlo.
Anna Netrebko returns to the role that made her a Met star as Norina in Otto

Verdi’s Don Carlo – Saturday 11th December at 5.30pm
5hrs approx. Yannick Nézet-Séguin; Marina Poplavskaya, Anna Smirnova, Roberto Alagna, Simon Keenlyside, Ferruccio Furlanetto, Eric Halfvarson.
Nicholas Hytner (The History Boys, The Madness of King George) makes his Met debut with this new production which was greeted with popular success when it opened in London. Roberto Alagna leads the cast in the title role of Verdi’s most ambitious opera.

Puccini’s La Fanciulla Del West – Saturday 8th January at 6pm
3hrs 50 approx. Nicola Luisotti; Deborah Voigt, Marcello Giordani, Juha Uusitalo.
Puccini’s wild west opera stars all-American diva Deborah Voigt in a performance that marks the 100th anniversary of the opera’s world premiere at the Met.

Gluck’s Iphigénie en Tauride – Saturday 26th February at 6pm
3hrs 15 approx. Patrick Summers; Susan Graham, Plácido Domingo, Paul Groves.
Susan Graham, Plácido Domingo and Paul Groves reprise their starring roles in Gluck’s masterful interpretation of the Greek myth.

Donizetti’s Lucia di Lammermoor – Saturday 19th March at 5pm
4hrs 20 approx. Patrick Summers; Natalie Dessay, Joseph Calleja, Ludovic Tézier, Kwangchul Youn.
Natalie Dessay returns to her triumphant portrayal of the fragile heroine in the Met’s hit production.

Rossini’s Le Comte Ory – Saturday 9th April at 6pm
3hrs 25 approx. Maurizio Benini; Diana Damrau, Joyce DiDonato, Susanne Resmark, Juan Diego Flórez, Stéphane Degout, Michele Pertusi.
Rossini’s vocally dazzling comedy soars with bel canto sensation Juan Diego Flórez in the title role of this Met premiere production. He vies with mezzo-soprano Joyce DiDonato, in the trouser role of Isolier, for the love of the lonely Countess Adele, sung by soprano Diana Damrau.

Strauss’s Capriccio – Saturday 23rd April at 6pm
3hrs 30 approx. Andrew Davis; Renée Fleming, Sarah Connolly, Joseph Kaiser, Russell Braun, Morten Frank Larsen.
Renée Fleming dazzled audiences when she sang Capriccio’s fi nal scene on Opening Night of the 2008-09 season. Now she sings Strauss’s entire diva showvcase, with Andrew Davis conducting.

Verdi’s Il Trovatore – Saturday 30th April at 6pm
3hrs 30 approx. James Levine; Sondra Radvanovsky, Dolora Zajick, Marcelo Álvarez, Dmitri Hvorostovsky.
David McVicar’s gripping production returns with Patricia Racette, Sondra Radvanovsky and Dolora Zajick conducted by Music Director James Levine.

Wagner’s Die Walküre – Saturday 14th May at 5pm
5hrs 35 approx. James Levine; Deborah Voigt, Eva Maria Westbroek, Stephanie Blythe, Jonas Kaufmann, Bryn Terfel, Hans-Peter König.
The Met has assembled an extraordinary cast for the second installment of Robert Lepage’s new production of the Ring cycle, conducted by James Levine. Bryn Terfel is Wotan, lord of the Gods. Deborah Voigt adds the part of Brunnhilde to her extensive Wagnerian repertoire at the Met.