The Metropolitan Opera’s Emmy and Peabody Award-winning series of live performance transmissions to movie theaters around the world continues for its fifth season, featuring 11 transmissions.  Tickets go on sale in September, with priority access for qualified Met members starting August 27, 2010.  To become a Met member, visit metopera.org/HDLive.  Don’t miss the chance to experience the Met live at The Lensic Theatre in Santa Fe!

2011

La Fanciulla del West – Puccini, January 8, Start Time: 11am MST

Conductor: Nicola Luisotti

Minnie: Deborah Voigt

Dick Johnson: Marcello Giordani

Jack Rance: Juha Uusitalo

Iphigenie en Tauride – Gluck, February 26, Start Time: 11am MST

Conductor: Patrick Summers

Iphigenie: Susan Graham

Oreste: Placido Domingo

Pylade: Paul Groves

Thoas: Gordon Hawkins

Lucia di Lammermoor – Donizetti, March 19, Start Time: 11am MDT

Conductor: Patrick Summers

Lucia: Natalie Dessay

Edgardo: Joseph Calleja

Enrico: Ludovic Tezier

Raimondo: Kwangchul Youn

Le Comte Ory – Rossini, April 9 New Production, Start Time: 11am MDT

Conductor: Maurizio Benini

Countess Adele: Diana Damrau

Isolier: Joyce DiDonato

Ragonde: Susanne Resmark

Count Ory: Juan Diego Florez

Raimbaud: Stephane Degout

Tutor: Michele Pertusi

Capriccio- R. Strauss, April 23, Start Time: 11am MDT

Conductor: Andrew Davis

Countess: Renee Fleming

Clairon: Sarah Connolly

Flamand: Joseph Kaiser

Olivier: Russell Braun

Count Morten: Frank Larsen

La Roche: Peter Rose

Il Trovatore – Verdi, April 30, Start Time: 11am MDT

Conductor: James Levine

Leonora: Sondra Radvanovsky

Azucena: Dolora Zajick

Manrico: Marcelo Alvarez

Di Luna: Dmitri Hvorostovsky

Die Walkure – Wagner, May 14 New Production, Start Time: 10am MDT

Conductor: James Levine

Brunnhilde: Deborah Voigt

Sieglinde: Eva-Maria Westbroek

Fricka: Stephanie Blythe

Siegmund: Jonas Kaufmann

Wotan: Bryn Terfel

Hunding: Hans-Peter Konig

The Metropolitan Opera’s Emmy and Peabody Award-winning series of live performance transmissions to movie theaters around the world continues for its fifth season, featuring 11 transmissions.  Tickets go on sale in September, with priority access for qualified Met members starting August 27, 2010.  To become a Met member, visit metopera.org/HDLive.  Don’t miss the chance to experience the Met live at The Lensic Theatre in Santa Fe!

2010

Das Rheingold – Wagner, October 9 New Production, Start Time: 11am MDT

Conductor: James Levine

Freia: Wendy Bryn Harmer

Fricka: Stephanie Blythe

Erda: Patricia Bardon

Loge: Richard Croft

Mime: Gerhard Siegel

Wotan: Bryn Terfel

Alberich: Eric Owens

Fasolt: Franz-Josef Selig

Fafner: Hans-Peter Konig

Boris Godunov – Mussorgsky, October 23 New Production, Start Time: 10am MDT

Conductor: Valery Gergiev

Princess Marina: Ekaterina Semenchuk

Dimitri: Aleksandrs Antonenko

Shuisky: Oleg Balashov

Rangoni: Evgeny Nikitin

Boris Godunov: Rene Pape

Pimen: Mikhail Petrenko

Varlaam: Vladimir Ognovenko

Don Pasquale – Donizetti, November 13, Start Time: 11am MST

Conductor: James Levine

Norina: Anna Netrebko

Ernesto: Matthew Polenzani

Dr. Malatesta: Mariusz Kwiecien

Don Pasquale: John Del Carlo

Don Carlo – Verdi, December 11 New Production, Start Time: 10:30am MST

Conductor: Yannick Nezet-Seguin

Elisabeth: Marina Poplavskaya

Eboli: Anna Smirnova

Don Carlo: Roberto Alagna

Rodrigo: Simon Keenlyside

Phillip II: Ferruccio Furlanetto

Grand Inquisitor: Eric Halfvarson

Art Delivery Service is one of Santa Fe’s premier art shipping and delivery company. They provide crating, packing, shipping, custom box building and soft wrap / blanket wrap delivery of paintings, sculptures, pottery and other fragile artwork and antiques.

Since 1998 they have been providing very specialized services to art galleries and artists, art consultants and collectors, antique dealers and private clients. They help you get your artwork to where it needs to be delivered – from artist to gallery, gallery to client, from artist or gallery to art shows and museums. They ship globally and deliver using their fleet of customized trucks throughout Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas, New Mexico, Colorado, Arizona, California, and Nevada.

Art Delivery Service is located at 2019 Galisteo Street, Building O, Suite 2 in Santa Fe.  Call 505-982-6155 or email info@artdeliveryservice.com.  Visit www.artdeliveryservice.com for more information.

Armadillo Protective Packaging, with over 15 years industry experience, specializes in ensuring the safe transport of your valuables.  Quality hand crafted and custom cartons, insulated with high density foam, insure superior protection for even the most fragile pieces.  Safely ship: artwork, instruments, glass antiques, artifacts, electronics, furniture, paintings, sculpture, pottery, frames and more.  Armadillo Protective Packagings are easy to pack and available for next day delivery.  Armadillo is located at 2810 Siler Lane, one block north of Cerillos.  Call 505-983-2161 to order your box or email info@armadillosantafe.com.  Check out www.armadillosantafe.com for more information.

Technically, animals are not allowed in our restaurants in Santa Fe but there are ways of leashing dogs on outside borders in patios in our restaurants… with that disclaimer… search Dog Friendly Restaurants in Santa Fe for a complete list.