The Met Live in HD presents "Armida"

From: May 1, 2010
To: May 14, 2010

Armida
Live:  May 1, 2010 at 11AM
Encore:  May 14, 2010 at 6PM
Approximate running time 4 hours 20 minutes/2 intermissions

This story of a sorceress who enthralls men in her island prison has inspired operatic settings by a multitude of composers, including Gluck, Haydn, and Dvorˇák. Renée Fleming stars in the title role of Rossini’s version, opposite no fewer than six tenors. Tony Award® winner Mary Zimmerman returns to direct this new production of a work she describes as “a buried treasure, a box of jewels.” The fanciful and magical tale, Zimmerman says, “has an epic, enchanted quality and a tremendous visual element.”