MET OPERA: LIVE
Ster-Kinekor also screens the Met Opera:
Live season of operas, filmed live at the Metropolitan Opera in New York and
broadcast in select cinemas countrywide. The current season is closing out with
three more operas in June and July. The Met: Live in HD, the Metropolitan
Opera’s award-winning series of live high-definition cinema simulcasts, is now
in its 16th season at select Ster-Kinekor and Cinema Nouveau cinemas.
All the productions are screened at the following sites Gateway in Umhlanga KZN as well as Cinema Nouveau Rosebank Mall, Bedford Centre and Brooklyn Mall in Gauteng; and V&A Waterfront, Blue Route, Somerset, and Garden Route in Western Cape.
(www.sterkinekor.com)
MET LIVE: OPERA PRODUCTION
Champion
(Terence Blanchard)
Filmed live on April 29, 2023. Screened on June 16, 17, 18 and 20, 2023 (210 minutes)
Librettist: Michael Cristofer
Production: James Robinson
Set Designer: Allen Moyer
Costume Designer: Paul Tazewell
Lighting Designer: Donald Holder
Projection Designer: Greg Emetaz
Choreographer: Camille A. Brown
Yannick Nézet-Séguin (Conductor); Latonia Moore (Emelda Griffith), Stephanie Blythe (Kathy Hagan), Ryan Speedo Green (Young Emile Griffith), Eric Owens (Emile Griffith)
Six-time Grammy Award–winning composer Terence Blanchard brings his first opera to the Met after his Fire Shut Up in My Bones made history in the 2021–22 season. Bass-baritone Ryan Speedo Green is the young boxer Emile Griffith, who rises from obscurity to become a world champion, and bass-baritone Eric Owens portrays Griffith’s older self, haunted by the ghosts of his past. Soprano Latonia Moore is Emelda Griffith, the boxer’s estranged mother, and mezzo- soprano Stephanie Blythe is the bar owner Kathy Hagan. Yannick Nézet-Séguin returns to the podium to conduct Blanchard’s second Met premiere. Director James Robinson, whose productions of Fire Shut Up in My Bones and Porgy and Bess brought down the house, oversees the staging. Camille A Brown, whose choreography electrified audiences in Fire and Porgy, also returns.
https://www.sterkinekor.com/details/HO00002536/champion
https://youtu.be/ACE2zdwJJyU
Don Giovanni
(Mozart)
NEW PRODUCTION
Filmed live on May 20, 2023. Screened on June 30 and July 1, 2 and 4, 2023. (195 minutes)
Production: Ivo van Hove
Set and Lighting Designer: Jan Versweyveld
Costume Designer: An D’Huys
Projection Designer: Christopher Ash
Choreographer: Sara Erde
Nathalie Stutzmann (Conductor); Federica Lombardi (Donna Anna), Ana María Martínez (Donna Elvira), Ying Fang (Zerlina), Ben Bliss (Don Ottavio), Peter Mattei (Don Giovanni), Adam Plachetka (Leporello), Alfred Walker (Masetto), Alexander Tsymbalyuk (Commendatore)
Tony Award–winning director Ivo van Hove makes his Met debut with a new staging of Mozart’s tragicomedy Don Giovanni. The tale of deceit and damnation is set in an abstract architectural landscape that explores the dark corners of the story and its characters. Nathalie Stutzmann makes her Met debut conducting a star-studded cast led by baritone Peter Mattei as a magnetic Don Giovanni, alongside the Leporello of bass-baritone Adam Plachetka. Sopranos Federica Lombardi, Ana María Martínez, and Ying Fang are Giovanni’s conquests—Donna Anna, Donna Elvira, and Zerlina—and tenor Ben Bliss sings Don Ottavio.
https://www.sterkinekor.com/details/HO00002537/don-giovanni-2023-mozart
https://youtu.be/XCj3h3bnMPs
Die Zauberflöte
(Mozart)
(NEW PRODUCTION)
Filmed live on June 03, 2023. Screened on July 14, 15, 16 and 17, 2023. (210 minutes)
Production and Choreography: Simon McBurney
Set Designer: Michael Levine
Costume Designer: Nicky Gillibrand
Lighting Designer: Jean Kalman
Projection Designer: Finn Ross
Sound Designer: Gareth Fry
Nathalie Stutzmann (Conductor); Erin Morley (Pamina), Kathryn Lewek (Queen of the Night), Lawrence Brownlee (Tamino), Thomas Oliemans (Papageno), Alan Held (Speaker), Stephen Milling (Sarastro), Brenton Ryan (Monostatos)
Nathalie Stutzmann conducts her second Mozart work this season with a new production of Die Zauberflöte. In his Met-debut staging, Simon McBurney incorporates projections, sound effects, and acrobatics to match the spectacle and drama of Mozart’s fable. The brilliant cast includes soprano Erin Morley as Pamina, tenor Lawrence Brownlee as Tamino, baritone Thomas Oliemans in his Met debut as Papageno, soprano Kathryn Lewek as the Queen of the Night, and bass Stephen Milling as Sarastro.
https://www.sterkinekor.com/details/HO00002538/die-zauberflte-2023-mozart
https://youtu.be/j6wNMU2UsxE
FUTURE SCREENINGS
Also coming up on the big screen at select Ster-Kinekor and Cinema Nouveau cinemas:
Andre Rieu's 2023 Maastricht: Love Is All Around – August 26 and 27, 2023, at select Ster-Kinekor cinemas nationally (times could change, dependent on loadshedding schedules)
TBA CONCERT • 3h 0m
The King of the Waltz invites you to his
all-new cinema concert Love is All Around, from his beautiful hometown
of Maastricht! André Rieu will again stage his glorious annual summer event in
the iconic Vrijthof Square this year. The concert will be a musical feast with
heart-warming pieces lovingly chosen by André, covering classics, popular
sing-alongs, and delightful waltzes that make you want to dance. Along with his
beloved Johann Strauss Orchestra, André teams up with the charming Gospel Choir
and special surprise guests, bringing you and your loved ones a refreshing,
romantic, fun party at your local cinema - you will feel that love is all
around! Share a concert experience filled with music, dance, love and happiness
– exclusive to Ster-Kinekor in select cinemas.
https://www.sterkinekor.com/details/HO00002755/andre-rieus-2023-maastricht-love-is-all-around
https://youtu.be/mjLrD5JKp88
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