Opera for BEGINNERS: Madama Butterfly at the Metropolitan Opera!

Hello,

This will be a great oportunity for those new or kind of new to the world of Opera to enjoy a performance of a great opera masterpiece at the Met, Puccini´s opera "Madama Butterfly".

This is an event specially planned for BEGINNERS!

JOINT EVENT with members of The New York Opera Meetup - have fun with us and meet a lot of new people!

Madama Butterfly is sung in italian (all seats at the Met have individual screens with English subtitles), combines gorgeous melodies, great dramatic action and a very interesting production at the Met Opera. You will be delighted by this great masterpiece, whether this is your first time watching this opera or not.

INTRODUCTORY TALK (30 min approx.) FREE

We´ll meet and get to know each other inside the Metropolitan Opera, at the basement level, at 7.00 pm, on November 11th, 2008. Just walk in through the revolving door at the Met Opera entrance (see red dot on the Lincoln Center Map below), and walk straight 10 yards: there will be a stairs down RIGHT IN FRONT of you, please go downstairs. As soon as you cross the glass doors, you will find us by the Chase ATM machine right there, can´t miss it.

Please note that the pre-opera talk is outside the ticket area, very near the parking lot and at the basement area.

IF THE AREA IS CLOSED - ALTERNATIVE PLACE: find us just outside the revolving door, very close, in the square (north of the door).

Talk will start at 7.15 pm, I will be glad to introduce all who attend to the Met history and the opera season, operas and this opera in particular.

SEE WHAT MEMBERS SAID ABOUT A PREVIOUS PRE-OPERA TALK & OPERA FOR BEGINNERS EVENT!----> HERE

Red dot indicates revolving door entrance to the Met Opera:

HOW TO BUY TICKETS FOR THE OPERA Get your tickets ASAP before they get sold out!
Buy your own ticket in any section you want, prices range from $15 to $275 - All sections had available seats when this event was posted 2 months ago, now (Nov/08) only $65+ tickets are available.

We meet during intermissions at the meeting point inside the Met (see below).

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

or call the Met Opera Ticket Service at [masked].

EVENT AGENDA:
Tuesday, November 11th, 2008
7.00 pm : we meet at the the Met - basement level, where ATM machine is and near parking lot.
7.15 pm: Introductory talk for opera beginners.
7.45 pm: We walk upstairs and get into the ticket area.
8.00 pm: "Madama Butterfly" starts (approx. ending: 11.20 pm)

WHERE TO MEET DURING INTERMISSIONS:

Meeting point during INTERMISSIONS (NOT for the pre-opera talk) is shown by the arrow, on the FIRST FLOOR, right under the red CHAGALL MURAL and where the Board of Contributors is (seen on the right photo). 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.

I will be wearing the New York Opera Meetup badge:

American soprano (and actress) Geraldine Farrar (1882-1967), one of the Met superstars from 1906-1922. Her most famous opera role was as Madama Butterfly (Cio-Cio-San, which means "butterfly" in japanese).

Read about Madama Butterfly --> HERE

Cast on the November 11th, 2008 performance:

Conductor: Patrick Summers
Cio-Cio-San: Patricia Racette
Suzuki: Maria Zifchak
Pinkerton: Roberto Aronica
Sharpless: Dwayne Croft

Download seating charts for Met Opera as PDF files here: FILES

WATCH PATRICIA RACETTE SINGING A FAMOUS ARIA FROM "MADAMA BUTTERFLY" in concert

(Click on center of image to start playing)

See you all for the talk or directly at the Met during intermissions!

Nestor