Encore Presentation
The Met Live in HD:
Don Carlo

New Production

Director Nicholas Hytner makes his Met debut with this new production of Verdi’s profound, beautiful, and most ambitious opera. Roberto Alagna leads the cast, and Ferruccio Furlanetto, Marina Poplavskaya, Anna Smirnova, and Simon Keenlyside also star. Yannick Nézet-Séguin, back after his triumphant debut leading Carmen, conducts. “I think Don Carlo is the quintessential Verdi opera,” Hytner says. “Right through this opera there is, on the one hand, an implacable expression of impending doom and, on the other hand, a succession of the most gloriously open-throated arias, the most fantastically determined music.”

Conductor Yannick Nézet-Séguin
El isabeth Marina Poplavskaya
Eboli Anna Smirnova
Don Carlo Roberto Alagna
Rodrigo Simon Keenlyside
Philip II Ferruccio Furlanetto
Grand Inquisitor Eric Halfvarson

This event is sponsored by M&T Bank, Package Pavement Company, Inc. and Red Wing Properties, Inc.

Our 2010/11 The Met: Live in HD broadcasts are made possible in large part through the generous support of the Jane W. Nuhn Charitable Trust, the Louis Greenspan Charitable Trust, the Dr. Edwin A. Ulrich Charitable Trust, and the Benjamin R. Strong Opera Fund and the Stephen & Julia Dunwell Fund, both of the Community Foundations of the Hudson Valley.