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Armida

This story of a sorceress who enthralls men in her island prison has inspired operatic settings by a multitude of composers, including Gluck, Haydn, and Dvorˇák. Renée Fleming stars in the title role of Rossini’s version, opposite no fewer than six tenors. Tony Award® winner Mary Zimmerman returns to direct this new production of a work she describes as “a buried treasure, a box of jewels.” The fanciful and magical tale, Zimmerman says, “has an epic,
enchanted quality and a tremendous visual element.”

Composer Gioachino Rossini
Libretto by Giovanni Schmidt
Conductor Riccardo Frizza
Production Mary Zimmerman
Set & Costume Designer Richard Hudson
Lighting Designer Brian MacDevitt
Choreographer Graciela Daniele*
Armida Renée Fleming
Rinaldo Lawrence Brownlee
Goffredo Bruce Ford
Gernando José Manuel Zapata
Carlo Barry Banks
Ubaldo Kobie van Rensburg

* debut

Production underwritten by
The Sybil B. Harrington Endowment Fund

Sponsor: Red Wing Package Pavement

Promotional Sponsor: WMHT

Our 2009/10 Met Opera: Live in HD broadcasts are made possible in large part though the generous support of the Jane W. Nuhn Charitable Trust, the Louis Greenspan Charitable Trust, the Dr. Edwin Ulrich Charitable Trust, the Benjamin R. Strong Opera Fund, and the Stephen and Julia Dunwell Fund of the Community Foundation of Dutchess County.