Seven New Productions, Including a World Premiere, a Met Premiere, and the Complete Ring Cycle,
James Levine conducts the final two installments of Robert Lepage’s production of the Ring: Siegfried and Götterdämmerung; complete cycles scheduled for April and May 2012

 View the Season Trailer here

The season opens with the first-ever Met performance of Donizetti’s Anna Bolena, starring Anna Netrebko in the first of two new productions she sings this season; Laurent Pelly’s production of Manon follows in April

The world premiere of The Enchanted Island, a pastiche of Baroque music and Shakespearean comedy, opens on New Year’s Eve

Tony Award-winning stage directors Michael Grandage and Des McAnuff make their Met debuts with new productions of Don Giovanni and Faust In its sixth season, The Met: Live in HD series will feature 11 live transmissions

The 2011 – 2012 Line-up
Anna Bolena – Gaetano Donizetti October 15, 2011, 11 AM - Run Time: 250 minutes
Don Giovanni – Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart October 29, 2011, 11 AM - Run Time: 230 minutes
Siegfried – Richard Wagner November 5, 2011, 10 AM - Run Time: 351 minutes
Satyagraha – Phillip Glass November 19, 2011, 11 AM - Run Time: 248 minutes
Rodelinda – George Frideric Handel December 3, 2011, 10:30 AM - Run Time: 255 minutes
Faust – Charles Gounod December 10, 2011, 11 AM - Run Time: 255 minutes
The Enchanted Island – Various January 21, 2012, 11 AM - Run Time: 210 minutes
Götterdämmerung – Richard Wagner February 11, 2012, 10 AM - Run Time: 374 minutes
Ernani – Giuseppe Verdi February 25, 2012, 11 AM - Run Time: 229 minutes
Manon – Jules Massenet April 7, 2012, 10 AM - Run Time: 243 minutes
La Traviata – Giuseppe Verdi April 14, 2012, 11 AM - Run Time: 187

Tickets are $20 General Admission, $17 for TCA Members, $10 for children under 18 and students. Season tickets can be purchased for $200 General Admission and $170 for TCA members. Tickets go on sale for Metropolitan Opera Members on Friday, August 19, 2011, for TCA Members on Friday, August 25, 2011 and General Admission on Monday August 29, 2011. You can purchase tickets or find more information by calling the TCA office at 575-758-2052 or by going to our website; tcataos.org.

Donizetti’s Anna Bolena – New Production
October 15, 2011
Anna Netrebko opens the Met season with her portrayal of the ill-fated queen driven insane by her unfaithful king. She sings one of opera’s greatest mad scenes in a production that also stars El?na Garan?a as her rival, Jane Seymour, and Ildar Abdrazakov as Henry VIII. Marco Armiliato conducts.
 

Donizetti’s AnnaMozart’s Don Giovanni – New Production
October 29, 2011
Mariusz Kwiecien brings his youthful and sensual interpretation of Mozart’s timeless anti-hero to the Met for the first time, under the direction of Tony Award®-winning director Michael Grandage and with James Levine conducting. A troupe of refined Mozartians appears in this new production, including Marina Rebeka, Barbara Frittoli, Isabel Leonard, Matthew Polenzani, Ramón Vargas, and John Relyea. Gerald Finley steps into the title role later in the season, and Andrew Davis also conducts.

Wagners’s Siegfried– New Production
November 5, 2011
In part three of the Ring, Wagner’s cosmic vision focuses on his hero’s early conquests, while Robert Lepage’s revolutionary stage machine transforms itself from bewitched forest to mountaintop love nest. Gary Lehman sings the title role and Deborah Voigt’s Brünnhilde is his prize. Bryn Terfel is the Wanderer. James Levine conducts.

Glass’s Satyagraha
November 19, 2011
The Met’s visually extravagant production is back for an encore engagement. Richard Croft (right) once again is Gandhi in Philip Glass’s unforgettable opera, which the Washington Post calls “a profound and beautiful work of theater.”

Handel’s Rodelinda
December 3, 2011
Sensational in the 2004 Met premiere of Stephen Wadsworth’s much-heralded production, Renée Fleming
reprises the title role. She’s joined by Stephanie Blythe and countertenor Andreas Scholl, and Baroque specialist Harry Bicket conducts

Gounod’s Faust– New Production
December 10, 2011
With Jonas Kaufmann in the title role, René Pape as the devil, and Angela Gheorghiu as Marguerite, Gounod’s classic retelling of the Faust legend couldn’t be better served. Tony Award-winning director Des McAnuff updates the story to the first half of the 20th century with a production that won praise in London last season. A later run features another first-tier Faust cast: Roberto Alagna, Joseph Calleja, Marina Poplavskaya, and Ferruccio Furlanetto. Yannick Nézet-Séguin conducts on the heels of his Don Carlo success.

The Enchanted Island– New Production
January 21, 2012
Inspired by the musical pastiches and masques of the 18th century, the Met presents an original Baroque fantasy, featuring a who’s who of Baroque stars led by eminent conductor William Christie. With music by Handel, Vivaldi, Rameau, and others, the new libretto by Jeremy Sams combines elements of The Tempest and A Midsummer Night’s Dream. David Daniels is Prospero, Joyce DiDonato is Sycorax, Danielle de Niese is Ariel, Luca Pisaroni is Caliban, and Plácido Domingo makesa special appearance as Neptune. Lisette Oropesa and Anthony Roth Costanzo also star. This dazzling production is directed and designed by Phelim McDermott and Julian Crouch (Satyagraha and the Met’s 125th Anniversary Gala).

Wagner’s Götterdämmerung
February 11, 2012
With its cataclysmic climax, the Met’s new Ring cycle, directed by Robert Lepage, comes to its resolution. Deborah Voigt stars as Brünnhilde and Gary Lehman is Siegfried—the star-crossed lovers doomed by fate. James Levine conducts.

Verdi’s Ernani
February 25, 2012
Angela Meade takes center stage in Verdi’s thrilling early gem. Salvatore Licitra is her mismatched lover, and all-star Verdians Dmitri Hvorostovsky and Ferruccio Furlanetto round out the cast.

Massenet’s Manon– New Production
April 7, 2012
Anna Netrebko’s dazzling portrayal of the tragic heroine in Laurent Pelly’s new production travels to the Met from the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden. Piotr Beczala and Paulo Szot also star, with the Met’s Principal Guest Conductor Fabio Luisi on the podium.
 

Verdi’s La Traviata
April 14, 2012
Natalie Dessay will put on the red dress in Willy Decker’s stunning production, in her first Violetta at the Met. Matthew Polenzani sings Alfredo, Dmitri Hvorostovsky is Germont, and Principal Guest Conductor Fabio Luisi is on the podium.
 

The Taos Shortz Film Festival is rapidly becoming an internationally known short film festival and has been buzzed as "the sundance for short films". This year we will screen over 70 short films from around the globe and offer more diversity in programming, including Thursday screenings spotlighting New Mexican students and local filmmakers, free public panel discussions on film related topics with industry professionals, an animation hotline where a phone message will be transformed into a short film, and many social event opportunities to meet and mingle. We are also excited to host the 48 Hour Film Project International Filmapalooza. Through this new partnership, Taos will host over 150 filmmakers and special guest from around the world, including cities such as Rome, Paris, Beijing, Hong Kong, and Brisbane. The weekend festival will culminate on Sunday March 4th with two separate award ceremonies at the TCA. Our goal is to grow as a leader in presenting world class indie cinema to our community and to put Taos on the map as a world-wide cinematic destination.
Go to www.taosshortz.com for screening information.

Monday, March 5 through Tuesday March 13, Mon. – Sat. 7:30 PM
Sunday March 11 at 2:00 PM
Country: UK/USA, Language: English, Runtime: 99 min., Rated R for some language
“The luminous Michelle Williams goes bone-deep here. Monroe’s beauty was one of a kind. No one, not even Williams, can act it. What Williams does, with fierce artistry and feeling, is illuminate Monroe’s insights and insecurities about herself at the height of her fame. Her scenes with a superb Kenneth Branagh, his wit martini-dry as the thin-lipped, defensive Ol- ivier, ignite. Less potent is Monroe’s flirtation with Colin (Eddie Redmayne, solid nonetheless). It took a toll on Monroe to look effortlessly buoyant on camera. Williams lets us see why. It’s a great, soulful performance. Sit back and behold.” Peter Travers – Rolling Stone

Tickets: $6.50 TCA Members, $7.50 Regular Admission.
Tickets at the box office 45 minutes prior to screening

Made possible with the help of these underwriters:
William Schackel DDS, James Day DDS, The UPS Store, Sleep Sanctuary, Peoples Bank, Webb Design, High Country Real Estate, Creative Framing and Crating, Knight Financial Ltd., Heritage Trust Co., Metric Motors, Wolfgang Spa Works, Mariposa Realty, Dimond Mortgage, KKIT/KVOT, \ KTAO, KRZA,

Please join us for a Reception, March 23, 4-6 pm
Paintings and Sculpture
Parks Gallery
March 24 to April 22, 2012
110 A Paseo del Pueblo Norte, Taos
(No Reception)

For more than 30 years, Melissa Zink’s art was fueled by her great love of books. From the sculptural ceramic tableaus of the late 1970s and early ‘80s, to trompe l’oeil paintings of the early ‘90s, the bronzes, some of them heroic, of the last decade, and her most recent work which combined sculpture and painting with immaculate mixed media construction, Zink was on a restless quest for more accurate and satisfying expressions of what she has termed “the book experience.”

The quest ended with her death in July, 2009, at the age of 77. She left a rich body of work which the gallery will continue to represent.

Also visit the comprehensive website about Melissa Zink's career here: www.melissazink.com

Join us for a screening of the National Theatre of London's live production of "The Comedy Of Errors" By William Shakespeare
Screenings are March 16 and March 23 at 7 PM
Running Time: 3 hours, 15 minutes (estimate) including host introduction and one 20 minute intermission (10 minutes of programming; 10 minutes of countdown clock)

I in earth, in heaven, or in hell?
Sleeping or waking? mad or well advised?
Known unto these, and to myself disguised!

Two sets of twins separated at birth collide in the same city without meeting for one crazy day, as multiple mistaken identities lead to confusion on a grand scale. And for no one more so than Antipholus of Syracuse and his servant Dromio who, in search of their brothers, arrive in a land entirely foreign to their distant home. A buzzing metropolis, to the outsiders it appears a place of wonderment and terror, where baffling gifts and unexplained hostilities abound.

Do you know me, sir? Am I Dromio? Am I your
man? Am I myself?

Consistently recognised by strangers, the visitors question their very selves as the turmoil escalates. Meanwhile, Aegeon, father to the Antipholus twins, has been captured searching for his sons and, as an illegal immigrant, is sentenced to death at sunset. Shakespeare’s furiously paced comedy will be staged in a contemporary world into which walk three prohibited foreigners who see everything for the first time. Lenny Henry plays Antipholus of Syracuse.




Ticket prices are $12 for TCA members, $15 for the general public and $10 for students18 and under. Tickets may be purchased by calling the TCA office at 575-758-2052 or at the box office

Sun., March 18 at 2:00 PM, Mon. and Tues. , March 19 & 20 at 7:30 PM
Country: UK, Language: English, Runtime: 101 min., Rated NC-17 for some explicit sexual content

Brandon (Michael Fassbender) is a 30-something man living in New York who is unable to manage his sex life. After his wayward younger sister moves into his apartment, Brandon’s world spirals out of control. From director Steve McQueen (Hunger), Shame is a compelling and timely examination of the nature of addiction.

“Fassbender and Mulligan both give massive, irresistible performances (the former won the act- ing prize in Venice) as people drowning in a hostile sea of commodified sexuality and self-hatred. McQueen combines ’80s disco-pop and 19th-century Romantic music brilliantly, in one of the best soundtracks of the year. “Shame” isn’t an easy film to sit through, to describe or to figure out, but it’s riveting, spectacular, passionate cinema.” – Andrew O’Hehur, Salon.com

Tickets: $6.50 TCA Members, $7.50 Regular Admission.
Tickets at the box office 45 minutes prior to screening

Made possible with the help of these underwriters:
William Schackel DDS, James Day DDS, The UPS Store, Sleep Sanctuary, Peoples Bank, Webb Design, High Country Real Estate, Creative Framing and Crating, Knight Financial Ltd., Heritage Trust Co., Metric Motors, Wolfgang Spa Works, Mariposa Realty, Dimond Mortgage, KKIT/KVOT, \ KTAO, KRZA,

Sun., March 18 at 2:00 PM, Mon. and Tues. , March 19 & 20 at 7:30 PM
Country: UK, Language: English, Runtime: 101 min., Rated NC-17 for some explicit sexual content

Brandon (Michael Fassbender) is a 30-something man living in New York who is unable to manage his sex life. After his wayward younger sister moves into his apartment, Brandon’s world spirals out of control. From director Steve McQueen (Hunger), Shame is a compelling and timely examination of the nature of addiction.

“Fassbender and Mulligan both give massive, irresistible performances (the former won the act- ing prize in Venice) as people drowning in a hostile sea of commodified sexuality and self-hatred. McQueen combines ’80s disco-pop and 19th-century Romantic music brilliantly, in one of the best soundtracks of the year. “Shame” isn’t an easy film to sit through, to describe or to figure out, but it’s riveting, spectacular, passionate cinema.” – Andrew O’Hehur, Salon.com

Tickets: $6.50 TCA Members, $7.50 Regular Admission.
Tickets at the box office 45 minutes prior to screening

Made possible with the help of these underwriters:
William Schackel DDS, James Day DDS, The UPS Store, Sleep Sanctuary, Peoples Bank, Webb Design, High Country Real Estate, Creative Framing and Crating, Knight Financial Ltd., Heritage Trust Co., Metric Motors, Wolfgang Spa Works, Mariposa Realty, Dimond Mortgage, KKIT/KVOT, \ KTAO, KRZA,

Sun., March 18 at 2:00 PM, Mon. and Tues. , March 19 & 20 at 7:30 PM
Country: UK, Language: English, Runtime: 101 min., Rated NC-17 for some explicit sexual content

Brandon (Michael Fassbender) is a 30-something man living in New York who is unable to manage his sex life. After his wayward younger sister moves into his apartment, Brandon’s world spirals out of control. From director Steve McQueen (Hunger), Shame is a compelling and timely examination of the nature of addiction.

“Fassbender and Mulligan both give massive, irresistible performances (the former won the act- ing prize in Venice) as people drowning in a hostile sea of commodified sexuality and self-hatred. McQueen combines ’80s disco-pop and 19th-century Romantic music brilliantly, in one of the best soundtracks of the year. “Shame” isn’t an easy film to sit through, to describe or to figure out, but it’s riveting, spectacular, passionate cinema.” – Andrew O’Hehur, Salon.com

Tickets: $6.50 TCA Members, $7.50 Regular Admission.
Tickets at the box office 45 minutes prior to screening

Made possible with the help of these underwriters:
William Schackel DDS, James Day DDS, The UPS Store, Sleep Sanctuary, Peoples Bank, Webb Design, High Country Real Estate, Creative Framing and Crating, Knight Financial Ltd., Heritage Trust Co., Metric Motors, Wolfgang Spa Works, Mariposa Realty, Dimond Mortgage, KKIT/KVOT, \ KTAO, KRZA,

Join us for a screening of the National Theatre of London's live production of "The Comedy Of Errors" By William Shakespeare
Screenings are March 16 and March 23 at 7 PM
Running Time: 3 hours, 15 minutes (estimate) including host introduction and one 20 minute intermission (10 minutes of programming; 10 minutes of countdown clock)

I in earth, in heaven, or in hell?
Sleeping or waking? mad or well advised?
Known unto these, and to myself disguised!

Two sets of twins separated at birth collide in the same city without meeting for one crazy day, as multiple mistaken identities lead to confusion on a grand scale. And for no one more so than Antipholus of Syracuse and his servant Dromio who, in search of their brothers, arrive in a land entirely foreign to their distant home. A buzzing metropolis, to the outsiders it appears a place of wonderment and terror, where baffling gifts and unexplained hostilities abound.

Do you know me, sir? Am I Dromio? Am I your
man? Am I myself?

Consistently recognised by strangers, the visitors question their very selves as the turmoil escalates. Meanwhile, Aegeon, father to the Antipholus twins, has been captured searching for his sons and, as an illegal immigrant, is sentenced to death at sunset. Shakespeare’s furiously paced comedy will be staged in a contemporary world into which walk three prohibited foreigners who see everything for the first time. Lenny Henry plays Antipholus of Syracuse.




Ticket prices are $12 for TCA members, $15 for the general public and $10 for students18 and under. Tickets may be purchased by calling the TCA office at 575-758-2052 or at the box office