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The Cultural Center of the Philippines, The Filipinas Opera Society Foundation, Inc. and Ayala Malls Cinemas once again bring New York\u2019s The Met Opera series at Greenbelt 3 Cinemas from December 2016 \u2013 May 2017.<\/p>\n
The prestigious New York\u2019s Met Opera series, now on its third year at Ayala Malls Cinemas will be presented in high-definition format (HD) at Greenbelt 3 featuring six stunning productions that will start on December 6<\/span> with \u201cIl Barbiere di Siviglia.\u201d<\/p>\n Bringing world-class productions has always been at the heart of Ayala Malls Cinemas.\u00a0 Movie patrons seeking classical forms of art will be treated to a series of engaging stage plays as if they are really at the MET.\u00a0 The special screenings continue on January 10<\/span> with \u201cCavalleria Rusticana\/Pagliacci,\u201d followed by \u201cCos\u00ec Fan Tutte\u201d on February 14<\/span>, \u201cMadama Butterfly\u201d on March 14<\/span>, \u201cTurandot\u201d on April 4<\/span> and \u201cTristan and Isolde\u201d on May 9<\/span>.<\/p>\n \u201cMadama Butterfly\u201d is the featured presentation during the opening night of Met Opera last \u00a0November 8 at Greenbelt 3 cinemas.<\/p>\n Through digital technology, the stage plays will be presented at Ayala Malls Cinemas\u2019 Greenbelt 3 as it was recorded during their live performance at The Met \u2013 complete with backstage scenes, interviews with the actors and production crew.\u00a0 Ayala Malls Cinemas brings to the local scene productions composed by world-renowned and legendary artists Giacomo Puccini, Gioachino Rossini, Pietro Mascagni, Ruggero Leoncavallo, Richard Wagner and Wolgang Amadeus Mozart.<\/p>\n Sparkling with wit and energy, \u201cIl Barbiere di Siviglia\u201d (The Barber of Seville) is about a resourceful barber and man-about-town.\u00a0 Count Almaviva arrives in Seville to search for the mysterious woman he met in Madrid. When he learns that she is Rosina, due to be married to her tyrannical guardian Bartolo, he enlists the help of the cunning barber Figaro to win her hand.\u00a0 Almaviva and Rosina fall in love, and Rosina turns her mind to duping Bartolo. The combined conniving of all three is too much for Bartolo, who has to admit defeat when he discovers Almaviva and Rosina have married right under his nose.<\/p>\n \u201cCavalleria Rusticana \/ Pagliacci is about two complementary works that tell dark tales of passionate love that sours to violent jealousy.<\/p>\n \u201cCos\u00ec Fan Tutte\u201d is a romantic comedy that tells the tale of two men testing their fianc\u00e9es\u2019 faithfulness on the prodding of a cynical old man named Don Alfonso.\u00a0 The men, Ferrando and Guglielmo pretended to go to war leaving Fiordiligi and Dorabella while Don Alfonso continues his scheme of luring the sisters to fall for other men.<\/p>\n \u201cMadama Butterfly\u201d is a beautiful atmospheric production is about an unfortunate, doomed love.\u00a0 Soprano Kristine Opolais brings all of her passionate commitment to her role of Cio-Cio-San, the teenage geisha who gives up everything for Lt. Pinkerton.<\/p>\n In \u201cTurandot,\u201d Nina Stemme takes on the title role of the proud princess of ancient China, whose riddles doom every suitor who seeks her hand, opposite Marco Berti as Cal\u00e0f, the brave prince who sings \u201cNessun dorma\u201d and wins her love. Anita Hartig and Leah Crocetto share the role of Li\u00f9, the faithful slave girl.\u00a0 Franco Zeffirelli\u2019s golden production is conducted by Paolo Carignani.<\/p>\n The final presentation of Ayala Malls Cinemas\u2019 Met Opera series, \u201cTristan and Isolde,\u201d an audacious new production by Mariusz Treli\u0144ski (the director responsible for the 2014\u201315 season\u2019s double bill of Iolanta and Bluebeard\u2019s Castle) sees an Irish Princess, Isolde, on board a ship from Ireland to Cornwall, as she marries King Marke who governs Cornwall. She is escorted by Tristan, the King\u2019s loyalist and his nephew.\u00a0 Isolde has already fallen in love with Tristan. But now he delivers her to the King as though she were a prisoner. She compels him to take poison with her because she detests the idea of marrying King Marke. However, her maid, Brangane, prepares medicine of love instead of poison. When their ship calls at the port, they have already fallen passionately in love with each other.<\/p>\n![\"2016-met-opera-flyer-back\"](\"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/event\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2016\/11\/2016-Met-Opera-Flyer-Back.jpg\")
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