Metropolitan Opera Arrives in Friday Harbor!

San Juan Community Theatre’s new HD-live program features the Metropolitan Opera’s first production of the 2013-2014 season, Tchaikovsky’s Eugene Onegin, on Sunday, October 6 at 2:00 p.m.

Thanks to new satellite, projection and sound systems, SJCT joins more than 1,900 theaters in 64 countries, recording the live transmissions via a satellite feed and then presenting them to theater audiences.

A co-production of the Metropolitan Opera and English National Opera, Eugene Onegin features Anna Netrebko and Mariusz Kwiecien as the lovestruck Tatiana and the imperious Onegin in Tchaikovsky’s fateful romance. Deborah Warner’s new production, set in the late 19th century, moves episodically from farmhouse to ballroom, with a powerful snowstorm providing the dramatic setting for the finale. Piotr Beczala is Lenski, Onegin’s friend turned rival. Russian maestro Valery Gergiev conducts.

In addition to The Met: Live in HD presentations, San Juan Community Theatre also rebroadcasts National Theatre Live productions from Great Britain, including the upcoming encore presentation of Frankenstein on November 1. A complete schedule of the HD-live events is available at www.sjctheatre.org. SJCT’s new partnership with both programs was made possible through a generous bequest from the late Dodie Gann.

Tickets for Eugene Onegin are $20 for adults, $18 for SJCT members and $10 for student reserved, with $5 Student RUSH at the door. The SJCT box office (378-3210) is open Monday through Friday from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. and Saturdays from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Tickets are also available on-line at www.sjctheatre.org

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