Opera at the Met with pre-opera dinner! Mozart´s "La Clemenza di Tito"

Hello friends!

Here is a great chance to get together and enjoy great music and a nice production at the Metropolitan Opera House!.

For those of you who are new to Opera, this is a good opportunity to start, as this is a friendly opera and this is a joint event with THE NEW YORK OPERA MEETUP, a group of nice folks who love culture, music and getting together to make new friends.

La Clemenza di Tito is Mozart's last opera (as The Magic Flute was mostly written by the time he took the commision for La Clemenza, to be completed in 3 weeks!), and has beautiful music. Sets for this production are also great, don´t miss the chance to join us if you can.

ALL MET OPERA SEATS HAVE SUBTITLES WITH AN ENGLISH TRANSLATION of lyrics.

We will meet for dinner at 6.20 PM at:

La Fenice Restaurante
2012 Broadway
(@ 69th St)
New York, NY

Reservation is under my name (Nestor)

See the restaurant in a map ---> HERE

We will be there at 6.15 pm, to start dinner 6.20 pm. We will leave the restaurant at 7.30-7.40 pm to arrive at the Met in time for the start of "La Clemenza de Tito" at 8 pm.

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Please kindly SPECIFICALLY STATE IN YOUR RSVP, in the "Please add a comment" box, if you would join us for dinner, so I can include you in the restaurant reservation. When arriving at the restaurant, please ask for our group´s table or for Nestor.

OPERA STARTS AT 8 pm and runs until 10:50 pm (approximate ending, with intermission/s). For this performance, there still are seats available in almost all sections.

You can easily purchase any of these online or at the box office.

YOU BUY YOUR OWN TICKET ANYWHERE YOU WANT INSIDE THE MET, we meet during intermissions a the Meeting point (see below).

TO BUY ONLINE click ------> HERE

See DETAILED SEATING CHARTS ----> HERE

If you buy one full price ticket for this performance, you can now get the second ticket at half price! So, grab a friend, buy two tickets, RSVP "Yes" and join us for a fun evening at dinner and the opera.

PLEASE SEE HERE FOR DETAILS ON HOW TO GET THE "TWO FOR ONE" TICKETS.

WHERE TO MEET DURING INTERMISSIONS:

Meeting point during intermissions is exactly where the arrow is pointing, on the FIRST FLOOR, right under the red CHAGALL MURAL. Go to the level that leads out onto the outside balcony. If you are facing the Lincoln Center Plaza, there will be a wine bar on your right, and the red Chagall mural will be above it. During intermission/s you will find us right next to the door exiting to the outside balcony (see photo).

You will be able to recognize me because I will be wearing the NEW New York Opera Meetup badge:

This is the event agenda:

Saturday, May 3rd, 2008

6:20 pm - 7:40 PM Dinner at La Fenice

8:00 pm - 10:50 PM La Clemenza di Tito at the Met

Read about this opera by Wolfgang Mozart ----> HERE

La Clemenza di Tito at the Metropolitan Opera

Cast on May 3rd, 2008 performance:

Conductor: Harry Bicket
Servilia: Heidi Grant Murphy
Vitellia: Tamar Iveri
Sesto: Susan Graham (see her in video below)
Annio: Anke Vondung
Tito: Ramón Vargas
Publio: Oren Gradus

WATCH American mezzo-soprano Susan Graham singing as Sesto in Mozart´s "La Clemenza di Tito"

See you all at the restaurant or at the Met!

Nestor