Mezzo-soprano Clémentine Margaine reprises her remarkable portrayal of opera’s ultimate seductress, a triumph in her 2017 debut performances, with impassioned tenors Yonghoon Lee and Roberto Alagna as her lover, Don José. Omer Meir Wellber and Louis Langrée share conducting duties for Sir Richard Eyre’s powerful production, a Met favorite since its 2009 premiere.
The opera takes place in and around Seville, a city that, by the time Carmen was written, had already served many operatic composers as an exotic setting conducive to erotic intrigues and turmoil (Rossini’s Il Barbiere di Siviglia and Verdi’s La Forza del Destino, among others). The hometown of Don Juan, the city also inspired Mozart with Don Giovanni, and Beethoven used Seville as the setting for a study of marital fidelity in Fidelio.
- Estimated Run Time: 3 hrs 21 mins
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Sung In French, Met titles in English
TICKETS:
- $13.90 + hst Member Price
- $17.40 + hst General Price
- $ 6.95 + hst Youth Price
Reserved seating. Tickets on sale in advance online, by phone, at the Theatre, and at the door.
Doors open 45 minutes before the show.
Martha Henry as Prospero and Michael Blake as Caliban in The Tempest. Photography by David Hou.
“I have never seen anything quite like the experience of watching Martha Henry as Propsero” – Chicago Tribune
VISUALLY STUNNING FANTASY
In Shakespeare’s great drama of loss and reconciliation, a long-deposed ruler uses magical arts to bring within her power the enemies who robbed her of her throne and marooned her on a remote island. But what revenge does she mean to take?
This version of The Tempest is quite beautifully staged and deliciously magical! … Martha Henry was born to play the role of Prospero, exiled Duchess of Milan.
TICKETS:
- $13.90 + hst Member Price
- $17.40 + hst General Price
- $ 6.95 + hst Youth Price
Reserved seating. Tickets on sale in advance online, by phone, at the Theatre, and at the door.
Doors open 45 minutes before the show.