More live performances from the Metropolitan Opera in the Palace of Arts

2010. June 14.

Due to the unprecendeted interest -  for the first time in Hungary - the Palace of Arts repeats six Metropolitan shows in the 2010 – 2011 season. Unlike previously announced, the Palace of Arts shall also present the live transmission of John Adam’s world famous opera Nixon in China.

Tickets for most of next season’s shows were sold in a couple of hours, therefore the Palace of Arts concluded an agreement with the Metropolitan Opera about the repetition of the most demanded productions. These will take place each time at 5pm on the Sunday of the week following the live transmissions of the respective performances. The repetitions will be in the Auditorium. Tickets prizes : 4.000 HUF and 2.500 HUF.

Boris Godunov – 31 October
Don Pasquale – 21 November
Don Carlo – 19 December
La fanciulla del West – 16 January
Lucia di Lammermoor – 27 March
Il trovatore – 8 May

The Metropolitan Opera included in the series of transmitted performances the brand new staging of John Adam’s Nixon in China, which sets to music the tiny, behind-the-scene details of this historic visit, thus presenting the events and the characters from an enitely different perspective than that of the official press in its time. The four-hour opera first performed in 1987 at the Houston Opera House will be transmitted live on the 12th of February, 2011 at 7 pm at the Auditorium.

Tickets for the repeated shows and the Adams opera are available from 10am on the 15th of June online or at the Palace of Arts’ box offices (Budapest IX., Komor Marcell u. 1., and VI., Andrássy út 28.).

The live transmissions are sponsored by Erste Bank, a strategic partner of the Palace of Arts.

14.06.2010