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World class opera is coming to town, direct from New York to Castlebar. Verdi’s Aida opens a glittering season of live streamed opera coming direct from the stage of the world famous Metropolitan Opera in New York to the Linenhall Arts Centre in Castlebar: live, as it happens, and in high definition. The Met’s lavish production of Verdi’s ancient Egyptian drama, to be screened on Saturday December 15 at 5.55pm, heralds a season of wonderful Saturday night operas that continues into April 2013 with a programme comprising Les Troyens (Berlioz), Maria Stuarda (Donizetti), Rigoletto (Verdi), Parsifal (Wagner), Francesca da Rimini (Zandonai), and Giulio Cesare (Handel).

GIUSEPPE VERDI’S La Traviata will be performed at the Metropolitan Opera in New York and broadcast live to The Eye Cinema this Saturday at 6pm.

2011 IS a landmark year for Opera Theatre Company, being its 25th birthday, and to mark the occasion it is touring Mozart’s much-loved The Magic Flute in a sparkling new production which arrives at the Town Hall, for one night only, this coming Tuesday at 8pm.

I had seen advertisements for dinner and opera at the g Hotel and was not quite sure what the details were until I spoke to the Eye Cinema manager. The Metropolitan Opera in New York (‘The Met’ to those in the know) decided to license a satellite connection with cinemas around the world that had a digital projection capability. The Eye Cinema in Wellpark has the technology to do this, and you can watch a live performance of what is being performed at the matinee in New York. The broadcast is in high definition and is screened here at approximately 6pm, which gives you time to have something to eat beforehand or afterwards. The g Hotel offers packages such as a two course meal and opera ticket for €49 per person, or pink afternoon tea and opera ticket for €55 per person.

PLACIDO DOMINGO, one of the world’s greatest ever tenors, will be performing live at The Eye Cinema in Wellpark, via satellite from New York.

Midlands’ audiences will have an opportunity to escape local and national politics for a few hours, and immerse themselves in some historic global politics when the dramatic spectacle and haunting beauty of John Adams’ great opera Nixon in China, comes live by satellite from the Metropolitan Opera in New York to the IMC Athlone on Saturday February 12 at 6pm.

The Metropolitan Opera’s 100th anniversary revival of Puccini’s La Fanciulla del West will be transmitted to movie theatres worldwide, including the Eye Cinema in Galway, on Saturday, January 8 at 6pm as part of The Met: Live in HD series.

It was inspired by a farcical concert, it got up and running thanks to a whip round in a living room, and was sustained by much perspiration from its members during economically depressed times.

MUSIC FOR Galway is proud to announce that Metropolitan Opera star Rodion Pogossov has agreed to come to Galway to celebrate MFG’s 30th Anniversary Season on Saturday October 16, at the Town Hall Theatre.

MUSIC FOR Galway, which has been bringing the very best classical music performers to the city since 1980, will celebrate its 30th birthday this year.