About the Event
GEORGES Bizet’s Carmen will be the featured presentation of the CCP Met Opera in HD on March 8, 2016, 6:30 p.m. at the Greenbelt 3 Cinema 5.
Directed by Richard Eyre, Carmen stars Georgian mezzo-soprano Anita Rachvelishvili in the title role of the seductive gypsy, a part she has sung to acclaim at many of the world’s leading opera houses. Aleksandrs Antonenko sings the obsessed soldier Don José, soprano Anita Hartig makes her highly-anticipated HD debut as Micaëla, and Ildar Abdrazakov is the toreador Escamillo in this performance, led by Spanish conductor Pablo Heras-Casado.Christopher Wheeldon, artistic director and founder of Morphoses/The Wheeldon Company, created the choreography.
The Cultural Center of the Philippines partners with the Metropolitan Opera of New York to bring its exemplary productions to Filipino audiences through its MetOpera in HD program. The groundbreaking program delivers world class performances to offsite venues all over the world using high-definition video technology and Dolby sound recreating the experience of watching an opera production at the Met “live”.
The CCP has brought the productions La Donna Del Lago, Tosca, Iolanta/Bluebeard’s Castle, La Boheme, Werther and Enchanted Island. An added feature of each program are backstage tours and interviews with performers and artistic staff conducted during the intermission.
Other productions scheduled for screening at Greenbelt 3 cinemas for 2016 are: The Merry Widow (Franz Lehár) on April 12, 2016; and Macbeth (Giuseppe Verdi) on May 10, 2016.
For more information, please call Greenbelt 3 cinemas Customer Service Hotline: (63 2) 757-7883 or CCP Sales and Promotions at (63 2) 832-3706; e-mail address: ccpsalesandpromo@gmail.com