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09/01/2016

Donizetti's Anna Bolena

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With Sondra Radvanovsky in the title role and Ildar Abdrazakov as King Henry VIII.

Live from the Metropolitan Opera, New York, with Sondra Radvanovsky in the title role, Ildar Abdrazakov as King Henry VIII and Milijana Nikolic as Jane Seymour, the King's consort.

Donizetti's Anne Bolena, with Sondra Radvanovsky in the title role, Ildar Abdrazakov as King Henry VIII, Milijana Nikolic as Jane Seymour, the king's consort. Marco Armiliato conducts.

Presented by Mary Jo Heath and Ira Siff
Live from the Metropolitan Opera, New York

Donizetti: Anna Bolena

Anna Bolena ..... Sondra Radvanovsky (soprano)
Giovanna Seymour ..... Milijana Nikolic (mezzo-soprano)
Smeton ..... Tamara Mumford (mezzo-soprano)
Lord Riccardo Percy ..... Stephen Costello (tenor)
Enrico VIII ..... Ildar Abdrazakov (bass-baritone)

The Chorus of the Metropolitan Opera, New York
The Orchestra of the Metropolitan Opera, New York
Marco Armiliato (conductor)

The first of Donizetti's operas to achieve wide success, Anna Bolena is based on the historical episode of the fall and death of England's Queen Anne Boleyn, second wife of Henry VIII.
Courtiers comment that the queen's star is setting, because the king's fickle heart burns with another love.
Anne meanwhile admits to herself that the ashes of her first love are still burning, and that she is now unhappy in her vain splendor. In Donizetti's story of the doomed queen, Sondra Radvanovsky takes the title role as Anne Boleyn, Ildar Abdrazakov is King Henry VIII, Milijana Nikolic is Jane Seymour, the king's consort, and Stephen Costello plays the queen's love interest in Sir David McVicar's gripping period production. Marco Armiliato conducts.

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