September 30, 2009

Contact:
Lisa Murray
Development & PR Director
lmurray@peterboroughplayers.org
www.peterboroughplayers.org
(603) 924-9344 ext. 105

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

The Met: Live in HD at the Peterborough Players
Tosca - Saturday October 10th

Peterborough, NH (September 30, 2009) – Peterborough, NH (September 30, 2009) – The Peterborough Players will host the Metropolitan Opera’s The Met: Live in HD series, opening Saturday, October 10th with Tosca. The opera will be simulcast live, via satellite and high definition equipment, onto a 10’ X 16’ screen in the Players 250-seat theatre.

Tosca, by Giacomo Puccini, “combines Puccini’s glorious musical inspiration with the melodramatic vitality of one of the great Hitchcock films,” says Met Music Director James Levine, who conducts this new production. The opera tells the story of three people – a famous opera singer, a free-thinking painter, and a sadistic chief of police – caught in a net of love and politics. Soprano Karita Mattila sings the title role. Luc Bondy, acclaimed for his imaginative theatre and opera productions, directs.

Reserved seating tickets are on sale for Tosca, as well as the entire 9-opera season. Tickets sold individually $25 adults/$20 students, or in discounted subscription packages; $162 for 9 operas, $140 for 7 operas, $115 for 5 operas.

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All photos by Deb Porter-Hayes, unless otherwise noted.