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CARMEN
FEBRUARY 2
ANTONY & CLEOPATRA
MARCH 16
T he Peterborough Players is delighted to present our 2018-
2019 Arts on Screen Season. The Season includes eleven
operas presented by the MET: Live in HD and eight plays
from London’s National Theatre Live.
The stunning ultra high resolution cinematography of our
Arts on Screen series allows the audience to see every detail and
feel as if they have been transported to New York and London
while remaining in the comfort of our theatre. In addition, the
Dolby® sound is custom designed for our theatre and gives you
breathtaking realism. For all of our programs, the audience is
Tickets on sale now for all offerings! treated to exclusive interviews with singers, actors, dancers,
directors, and designers – it is an exclusive backstage pass to
some of the greatest companies in the world, at a fraction of the
cost of a live opera or theatre ticket.
2018-2019 Season at a Glance
MET: LIVE IN HD
OCT 6 Aida
The Met: Live in HD series is made possible by
OCT 27 La Fanciulla del West
a generous grant from its founding sponsor:
NOV 3 Samson et Dalila
The Neubauer Family Foundation NOV 10 Marnie
DEC 1 The Magic Flute (Encore)
Global corporate sponsorship of
The Met: Live in HD is provided by DEC 15 La Traviata
JAN 12 Adriana Lecouvreur
Bloomberg Philanthropies FEB 2 Carmen
MAR 2 La Fille du Régiment
MAR 30 Die Walküre
MAY 11 Dialogues des Carmélites
RESTAURANT
NATIONAL THEATRE LIVE
OPER A BI T E S
is back for the MET HD Live! NOV 4 King Lear
NOV 17 The Curious Incident of the Dog in
OPERA BITES: $4.50 – $9.00 the Nighttime
Sold pre-show & at intermissions JAN 5 Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
for MET HD Live shows.
These are just some of the selections JAN 26 The Madness of George III
that might be available for purchase: MAR 16 Antony & Cleopatra
• Hot Soups • Quiche APR 6 Julie
• Assorted Sandwiches and Wraps APR 20 I’m Not Running
• Hummus with Vegetables and Pita or Crackers MAY 4 Macbeth
• Cheese, Fruit and Crackers
Presentation dates/times at the Peterborough Players are subject to
• A Variety of Delectable Sweets!
change pending scheduling of other events and severe weather.THE METROPOLITAN OPERA: LIVE IN HD 2018-2019
ful, mysterious
Verdi’s AIDA young woman
OCTOBER 6 who assumes
1:00 P.M. multiple iden-
tities. Director
Michael Mayer
and his creative
team have devised a fast-moving, cine-
matic world for this exhilarating story of
denial and deceit. Mezzo-soprano Isabel
Leonard sings the enigmatic Marnie, and
baritone Christopher Maltman is the man
who pursues her—with disastrous results.
Robert Spano conducts. Music by Nico
Muhly, libretto by Nicholas Wright, based
on the novel by Winston Graham.
Mozart’s THE MAGIC FLUTE
DECEMBER 1 • 1:00 P.M. (Encore)
In what will be a highlight of the sea- Saint-Saëns’ Now a holiday tradition, Julie Taymor’s
son, soprano Anna Netrebko sings her SAMSON ET DALILA beloved production of Mozart’s enchant-
first Met Aida, going toe-to-toe with NOVEMBER 3 • 1:00 P.M. ing fairy tale returns in its abridged,
mezzo-soprano Anita Rachvelishvili as Recorded live on October 20 English-lan-
Amneris. Tenors Aleksandrs Antonenko guage version
Mezzo-soprano Elīna Garanča and tenor
and Yonghoon Lee alternate as Radamès, for families.
Roberto Alagna reunite in the title roles
and Nicola Luisotti and Plácido Soprano Erin
Domingo take the podium for the Met’s Morley is the
monumental production. empowered
Pamina, and
Puccini’s LA FANCIULLA
tenor Ben Bliss is the valiant Tamino.
DEL WEST
Baritone Nathan Gunn is the comic
OCTOBER 27 • 1:00 P.M. birdcatcher Papageno, and soprano
Soprano Eva-Maria Westbroek sings Kathryn Lewek reprises her hair-raising
Puccini’s gun-slinging heroine in this rendition of the malevolent Queen of the
romantic epic of the Wild West, with the of Saint-Saëns’s biblical epic Samson et Night. Harry Bicket conducts.
heralded return of tenor Jonas Kaufmann Dalila. Darko Tresnjak, who won a Tony
as the outlaw she loves. Baritone Željko Award for Best Direction of a Musical in Verdi’s LA TRAVIATA
Lučić is the vigilante sheriff, and Marco 2014 for A Gentleman’s Guide to Love & DECEMBER 15 • 1:00 P.M.
Armiliato conducts. Murder, makes his Met debut directing a Yannick Nézet-Séguin
vivid, seductive staging, featuring a mon- conducts Michael
umental setting for the last-act Temple of Mayer’s richly tex-
Dagon, where the hero crushes his Phi- tured new production,
listine enemies. Sir Mark Elder conducts featuring a dazzling
the first new Met production of the work 18th-century setting
in 20 years. that changes with the
Muhly’s MARNIE seasons. Soprano Diana
Damrau plays the
NOVEMBER 10 • 1:00 P.M.
tragic heroine, Vio-
Composer Nico Muhly unveils his second letta, and tenor Juan Diego Flórez sings
new opera for the Met with this grip- the role of Alfredo, Violetta’s hapless
ping reimagining of Winston Graham’s lover. Baritone Quinn Kelsey is Alfredo’s
novel, set in the 1950s, about a beauti- father, Germont, who destroys their love.THE METROPOLITAN OPERA: LIVE IN HD 2018-2019
Cilea’s Donizetti’s LA FILLE DE
ADRIANA RÉGIMENT
LECOUVREUR MARCH 2 • 1:00 P.M.
JANUARY 12 Tenor Javier Camarena and soprano
1:00 P.M. Pretty Yende team up for a feast of bel
and soprano Eva-Maria Westbroek play
the incestuous twins Siegmund and
Sieglinde. Greer Grimsley sings Wotan.
Philippe Jordan conducts.
Soprano Anna Netrebko joins the ranks
of Renata Tebaldi, Montserrat Caballé, Poulenc’s DIALOGUES DES
and Renata Scotto, taking on—for the CARMÉLITES
first time at the Met—the title role of MAY 11 • 12:00 P.M.
the real-life French actress who daz- canto vocal fireworks—including the Yannick Nézet-Séguin leads the classic
zled 18th-century audiences with her show-stopping tenor aria “Ah! Mes John Dexter production of Poulenc’s dev-
on-and-offstage passion. The soprano is amis,” with its nine high Cs. Alessandro astating story of faith and martyrdom.
joined by tenor Piotr Beczała as Adri- Corbelli and Maurizio Muraro trade Mezzo-soprano Isabel Leonard sings the
ana’s lover, Maurizio. Sir David McVic- off as the comic Sergeant Sulpice, with touching role of Blanche and soprano
ar’s staging, which sets the action in a mezzo-soprano Stephanie Blythe as the Karita Mattila, a legend in her own time,
working replica of a Baroque theater, has outlandish Marquise of Berkenfield. returns to the Met as the Prioress.
been praised as an “elegant production, Enrique Mazzola conducts.
sumptuously designed … The spectacle
guarantees a good night out.” Wagner’s DIE WALKÜRE
MARCH 30 • 12:00 P.M.
In what is expected to be a Wagnerian
event for the ages, soprano Christine
Goerke plays Brünnhilde, Wotan’s
willful warrior daughter, who loses her
immortality in opera’s most famous act
of filial defiance. Tenor Stuart Skelton
NATIONAL THEATRE LIVE 2018–19
Starring Ian McKellen, Jonathan
KING LEAR
Bizet’s CARMEN Munby directs this contemporary
NOVEMBER 4 retelling of Shakespeare’s tender,
FEBRUARY 2 • 1:00 P.M. 1:00 P.M. violent, moving and shocking play.
Mezzo-soprano Clémentine Margaine
Considered by many to be the
reprises her remarkable portrayal of
greatest tragedy ever written, King
opera’s ultimate seductress, a triumph
Lear sees two aging fathers – one
in her 2017 debut performances, with
a King, one his courtier – reject
impassioned tenors Yonghoon Lee and
the children who truly love them.
Roberto Alagna as her lover, Don José.
Their blindness unleashes a tornado
Omer Meir Wellber and Louis Langrée
of pitiless ambition and treachery,
share conducting duties for Sir Richard
as family and state are plunged into
Eyre’s powerful production, a Met favor-
a violent power struggle with bitter
ite since its 2009 premiere.
ends.NATIONAL THEATRE LIVE 2018-2019
THE CURIOUS at stake, which version of the truth is power. Caesar and his assassins are dead.
INCIDENT real – and which will win out? Following General Mark Antony now rules along-
side his fellow defenders of Rome. But
OF THE DOG his smash hit production of A Street-
car Named Desire, Benedict Andrews’ at the fringes of a war-torn empire the
IN THE Egyptian Queen Cleopatra and Mark
NIGHTTIME ‘thrilling revival’ (New York Times) stars
Sienna Miller alongside Jack O’Connell Antony have fallen fiercely in love. In a
NOVEMBER 17 tragic fight between devotion and duty,
1:00 P.M. and Colm Meaney.
obsession becomes a catalyst for war.
THE MADNESS Director Simon Godwin returns to
OF GEORGE III National Theatre Live screens with this
Christopher, fifteen years old, stands JANUARY 26 hotly anticipated production, following
beside Mrs. Shears’ dead dog. It has been 1:00 P.M. previous broadcasts of Twelfth Night,
speared with a garden fork, it is seven Man and Superman and The Beaux’
minutes after midnight and Christopher Stratagem.
is under suspicion. He records each fact
in the book he is writing to solve the
mystery of who murdered Wellington.
It’s 1786 and King George III is the
He has an extraordinary brain, excep-
most powerful man in the world. But
tional at math while ill-equipped to
his behavior is becoming increasingly
interpret everyday life. He has never ven-
erratic as he succumbs to fits of lunacy.
tured alone beyond the end of his road,
With the King’s mind unravelling at a
he detests being touched and he distrusts
dramatic pace, ambitious politicians and
strangers. But his detective work, forbid-
the scheming Prince of Wales threaten
den by his father, takes him on a fright-
to undermine the power of the Crown,
ening journey that upturns his world.
and expose the fine line between a King
This critically acclaimed production
and a man. Written by one of Britain’s
directed by Marianne Elliot (Angels in
best-loved playwrights, Alan Bennett
America, War Horse) has astonished audi-
(The History Boys, The Lady in the Van),
ences around the world and has received
this epic play was also adapted into a
seven Olivier and five Tony Awards®.
BAFTA Award-winning film following
its premiere on stage in 1991. The cast JULIE
of this new production includes Olivier APRIL 6 • 1:00 P.M.
Award-winners Mark Gatiss (Sher-
Vanessa Kirby (The Crown, NT Live: A
lock, Wolf Hall, NT Live: Coriolanus) in
Streetcar Named Desire) and Eric Kofi
the title role, and Adrian Scarborough
Abrefa (The Amen Corner) feature in
(Gavin and Stacey, Upstairs Downstairs,
the cast of this brand new production,
After the Dance).
directed by Carrie Cracknell (NT Live:
ANTONY & CLEOPATRA The Deep Blue Sea) and broadcast
MARCH 16 • 1:00 P.M. live from the National Theatre to
cinemas. Wild and newly single,
CAT ON Julie throws a late night party. In
A HOT TIN ROOF the kitchen, Jean and Kristina clean
JANUARY 5 • 1:00 P.M. up as the celebration heaves above
On a steamy night in Mississippi, a them. Crossing the threshold, Julie
Southern family gathers at their cot- initiates a power game with Jean –
ton plantation to celebrate Big Daddy’s which rapidly descends into a savage
birthday. The scorching heat is almost as fight for survival. This new version
oppressive as the lies they tell. Brick and of August Strindberg’s play Miss
Maggie dance round the secrets and sex- Ralph Fiennes and Sophie Okonedo play Julie, written by Polly Stenham, remains
ual tensions that threaten to destroy their Shakespeare’s famous fated couple in shocking and fiercely relevant in its new
marriage. With the future of the family his great tragedy of politics, passion and setting of contemporary London.NATIONAL THEATRE LIVE 2018-2019
I’M NOT RUNNING with her old boyfriend, a stalwart loyalist Threepenny Opera, London Road), sees
APRIL 20 • 1:00 P.M. in Labour Party politics, she’s faced with Rory Kinnear (Othello) and Anne-Marie
an agonizing decision. What’s involved Duff (Suffragette) play Macbeth and Lady
I’m Not Running is an explosive new
in sacrificing your private life and your Macbeth. Please note this production con-
play by David Hare, premiering at the peace of mind for something more than a tains scenes of a violent nature.
National Theatre single issue? Does she dare?
and broadcast
live to cinemas. MACBETH
Pauline Gibson MAY 4 • 1:00 P.M.
has spent her life The ruined aftermath of a bloody civil
as a doctor, the war. Ruthlessly fighting to survive, the
inspiring leader Macbeths are propelled towards the
of a local health crown by forces of elemental darkness.
campaign. When Shakespeare’s most intense and terrifying
she crosses paths tragedy, directed by Rufus Norris (The
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SEASON
On Saturday, October 20th the
Players will shine the spotlight on YOU as we
host our Annual Gala and Auction.
This fundraiser and social event is one of
the highlights of our year and we invite you
to take center stage as we celebrate the
summer season and the Players!
Mark your calendars now and keep an eye
out for the additional information we will be
sharing with you over the course of
the coming months.
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