Fathom Events: Win A Pair of Tickets To The Met Opera LIVE In HD – Handel’s Giulio Cesare

The Emmy® and Peabody award-winning “The Met: Live in HD” series is concluding it’s seventh season. Featuring 12 live operas from the Metropolitan Opera’s over the 2012-13 season, the final one is the broadcast of Handel’s Giulio Cesare. It will be presented live for only one day on Saturday, April 27, 2013 at 11:00 AM ET  in the St. Louis area.

WAMG invites you to enter to win tickets to see Handel’s Giulio Cesare. We have one pair of tickets – GOOD FOR TWO – to this event. Tickets are good at the AMC CHESTERFIELD 14 and will be mailed.

TO QUALIFY:

1. YOU MUST BE IN THE ST. LOUIS AREA ON SATURDAY.
2. SEND YOUR FULL NAME TO michelle@wearemoviegeeks.com .
3. WINNERS WILL BE CHOSEN THROUGH A RANDOM DRAWING OF QUALIFYING CONTESTANTS. NO PURCHASE NECESSARY. 

Handel’s Giulio Cesare – New Production
Saturday, April 27, 2013 (12:00PM ET / 9:00AM PT)
Expected Running Time: 4 hours 35 minutes

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Tickets are available at participating cinema box offices and online at www.FathomEvents.com.

The opera that conquered London in Handel’s time comes to the Met in David McVicar’s lively production. The world’s leading countertenor, David Daniels, sings the title role opposite Natalie Dessay as an irresistibly exotic Cleopatra. Baroque specialist Harry Bicket conducts.

An encore presentation of this performance will be exhibited in select movie theaters on Wednesday, May 15, 2013 at 6:30 PM in all time zones.

Casting subject to change.
Running time is approximate.

Photo Credit: Robert Kusel/Lyric Opera of Chicago/Pascal Victor

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“In addition to bringing grand opera directly from our stage into communities across the nation and around the world, our HD programs energize our performers, who know that a sizeable percentage of the global population of opera fans are watching and listening to them,” said Peter Gelb, the Met’s General Manager.

Presented by The Metropolitan Opera and NCM Fathom Events, NCM’s entertainment and events division, the live transmissions of the “The Met: Live in HD” 2012-13 season will be broadcast to 167 U.S. markets in more than 660 select cinemas (the series is also shown in 100 additional independent venues nationwide). The season featured Met premieres of Thomas Adès’s “The Tempest” and Donizetti’s “Maria Stuarda;” five new productions including the aforementioned  “L’Elisir d’Amore,” “Un Ballo in Maschera,” “Rigoletto,” “Parsifal” and “Giulio Cesare.” Other titles in the seventh season of “The Met: Live in HD” include “Otello,” “La Clemenza di Tito,” “Aida,” “Les Troyens” and “Francesca da Rimini.”

“For the seventh straight season, the splendor of ‘The Met: Live in HD’ series continues to captivate fans as the passion and creative spirit of America’s world-reknowned opera company returns to cinemas nationwide,” said Shelly Maxwell, executive vice president of NCM Fathom Events. “With each year, the popularity of the Met’s in-cinema series continues to grow bigger and Fathom is proud to bring opera fans across the U.S. the opportunity to experience this treaure of the arts with their families and friends.”

“The Met: Live in HD” is shown in more than 1,900 cinemas in 60 countries, making the Met the only arts institution with an ongoing global art series of this scale. “The Met: Live in HD” series is made possible by a generous grant from The Neubauer Family Foundation. Global corporate sponsor of “The Met: Live in HD” is Bloomberg.