Opera lovers in Buenos Aires will now be able to enjoy the best productions, with the greatest singers and reggisseurs of the moment, of the 2010-11 opera season, live from the Metropolitan Opera House in New York City, presented by Fundacion Beethoven de Argentina.

The live high-definition performances are transmitted to movie theaters around the world. The fifth season of The Met Live in HD features 12 transmissions and begins and ends with the first two installments of Wagner’s epic Der Ring des Nibelungen (The Ring of the Nibelungs). More than 40 countries around the world are participating in The Met: Live in HD this season.

The series starts on October 9th, 2010, and all performances will be transmitted at Teatro El Nacional, Av. Corrientes 960 & Carlos Pellegrini, Buenos Aires.

Schedule:

October 9, 2010, 2.00 pm

Wagner’s Das Rheingold – New Production

James Levine; Wendy Bryn Harmer, Stephanie Blythe, Patricia Bardon, Richard Croft, Gerhard Siegel, Bryn Terfel, Eric Owens, Franz-Josef Selig, Hans-Peter König

October 23, 2010 1.00 pm

Mussorgsky’s Boris Godunov – New Production

Valery Gergiev; Ekaterina Semenchuk, Aleksandrs Antonenko, Oleg Balashov, Evgeny Nikitin, René Pape, Mikhail Petrenko, Vladimir Ognovenko

November 13, 3pm:

Donizetti’s Don Pasquale

James Levine; Anna Netrebko, Matthew Polenzani, Mariusz Kwiecien, John Del Carlo

December 11, 2010 2.30 pm:

Verdi’s Don Carlo – New Production

Yannick Nézet-Séguin; Marina Poplavskaya, Anna Smirnova, Roberto Alagna, Simon Keenlyside, Ferruccio Furlanetto, Eric Halfvarson

January 8, 2011, 3.00 pm:

Puccini’s La Fanciulla del West

Nicola Luisotti; Deborah Voigt, Marcello Giordani, Lucio Gallo

February 12, 2011, 3.00 pm:

Adams’s Nixon in China – New Production

John Adams; Kathleen Kim, Janis Kelly, Robert Brubaker, Russell Braun, James Maddalena, Richard Paul Fink

February 26, 2011, 3.00 pm:

Gluck’s Iphigénie en Tauride

Patrick Summers; Susan Graham, Plácido Domingo, Paul Groves, Gordon Hawkins

March 19, 2011, 2.00 pm:

Donizetti’s Lucia di Lammermoor

Patrick Summers; Natalie Dessay, Joseph Calleja, Ludovic Tézier, Kwangchul Youn

April 9, 2011, 2.00 pm:

Rossini’s Le Comte Ory - New Production

Maurizio Benini; Diana Damrau, Joyce DiDonato, Susanne Resmark, Juan Diego Flórez, Stéphane Degout, Michele Pertusi

April 23, 2011, 2.00 pm:

Strauss’s Capriccio

Andrew Davis; Renée Fleming, Sarah Connolly, Joseph Kaiser, Russell Braun, Morten Frank Larsen, Peter Rose

April 30, 2011, 2.00 pm:

Verdi’s Il Trovatore

James Levine; Sondra Radvanovsky, Dolora Zajick, Marcelo Álvarez, Dmitri Hvorostovsky

May 14, 2011, 2.00 pm:

Wagner’s Die Walküre – New Production

James Levine; Deborah Voigt, Eva-Maria Westbroek, Stephanie Blythe, Jonas Kaufmann, Bryn Terfel, Hans-Peter König

More information and tickets: Fundacion Beethoven de Argentina

A spectacular free open air concert by the great conductor Zubin Mehta, in front of the  the Munich Philharmonic Orchestra, will be presented on Saturday, October 2nd, 2010,  at 1pm, at the Obelisk in Buenos Aires.

The stage will be located in Plaza de la Republica looking south, and 8000 seats will be placed in the front. There will also be two large screens for better viewing of the show.
The concert, organized by the Ministry of Culture of the City of Buenos Aires, will consist of works from Johann Strauss Jr., Fritz Kreisler, Max Bruch, Antonin Dvorak, Johannes Brahms, Pablo de Sarasate and Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, and a surprise ending.
The young violin player Mayuko Kamio will join the orchestra as invited soloist.

The traditional Tortugas Country Club Open Polo Championship will kick off on Tuesday, September 28, 2010, a tournament where some of the teams with the highest handicap in the world, including La Dolfina and Ellerstina, will be disputing the Emilio de Anchorena Cup.

This is the first of the three great Polo Open Championships in the 2010 Official Spring Season of the Argentine Polo Association, marking the start of the honorable "Triple Crown" of Argentine Polo, also made up by the 117th Hurlingham Club Open and the 117th Argentine Open in Palermo.

Fixture:

Tuesday, September 28: SUSPENDED FOR RAIN 

New Fixture:

Saturday, October 2:
4.00pm: Pilara vs Indios Chapaleufu I (1)

Sunday, October 3:

4.00pm: La Dolfina vs Indios Chapaleufu II (2)

Tuesday, October 5:

4.00pm: Ellerstina vs Looser Match 1

Wednesday, October 6:

4.00pm: La Aguada vs Looser Match 2

Saturday, October 9:

4.00pm: Ellerstina vs Winner Match 1

Sunday, October 10:

4.00pm: La Aguada vs Winner Match 2

Saturday, October 16:

3.30pm: FINAL
ELLERSTINA vs INDIOS CHAPALEUFU II

Participating Teams:

Zone A

Ellerstina: Facundo Pieres 10, Gonzalo Pieres (Jr) 10, Pablo Mac Donough 10, Juan Martín Nero 10. Total: 40.

Pilará: Agustín Merlos 9, Santiago Chavanne 8, Sebastián Merlos 9, Marcos Heguy 10. Total: 36.

Indios Chapaleufu I: Bautista Heguy 9, Hilario Ulloa 9, Juan Ignacio Merlos 9, Matías Mac Donough 8. Total: 35.

Zone B

La Dolfina: Adolfo Cambiaso (Jr) 10, Lucas Monteverde (Jr) 10, David Stirling (Jr) 9, Bartolomé Castagnola 10. Total: 39.

La Aguada: Javier Novillo Astrada 9, Eduardo Novillo Astrada (Jr) 9, Miguel Novillo Astrada 10, Ignacio Novillo Astrada 9. Total: 37.

Indios Chapaleufú II: Alberto Heguy (Jr) 8, Ignacio Heguy 9, Matías Magrini 8, Eduardo Heguy 9. Total: 34.

The schedule is subject to modifications depending on weather conditions. Check for updates in case of rain.

All matches will be played on fields of Tortugas Country Club, ruta Panamericana Ramal Pilar km. 38.5. Tickets: AR$ 35 to AR$ 250, depending on match and location. On sale at the club.

Don´t miss the opportunity of attending this world class event. You can experience Polo the Argentine way. Contact me so I can arrange transportation for you.

Created in 2004, Copa Petrobras (Petrobras Tennis Cup) has become the most important Challenger Circuit in Latin America. The aim of this competition is to provide young players with the opportunity of competing in top level tournaments, with good prizes and, most importantly, to add points for the ATP world rank.
This year the Cup will be played in 6 countries: Colombia, Uruguay, Brazil, Argentina, Chile and Paraguay. The Argentine series will take place at Vilas Tennis Club in Palermo, from October 2 through October  10, 2010.

The confirmed players in the main keys are:

Rubén Ramírez Hidalgo (ESP) - 82
Pablo Cuevas (URU) - 87
Brian Dabul (ARG) - 92
Carlos Berlocq (ARG) - 111
Nicolás Massú (CHI) - 123
Rui Machado (POR) - 124
Santiago Ventura (ESP) - 135
Ramón Delgado (PAR) - 136
Federico Delbonis (ARG) - 147
Diego Junqueira (ARG) - 185
Gastón Gaudio (ARG) - 188
Diego Hartfiedl (ARG) - 192
Jorge Aguilar (CHI) - 197
Guillermo Alcande (ESP) - 207
Máximo González (ARG) - 210
Juan Pablo Brzezicki (ARG) - 225
Leonardo Tavares (POR) - 236
José Acasuso (ARG) - 250
Nikola Ciric (SRB) - 260
Pavol Cervenak (SVK) - 264
Martín Alund (ARG) - 268
Facundo Bagnis (ARG) - 275
Substitutes:
1. Goran Tosic (MNE) - 292
2. Martín Vassallo Argüello (ARG) - 308
3. Juan Pablo Amado (ARG) - 315
4. Pablo Galdón (ARG) - 317
5. Ivo Klec (SVK) 318

Dates: October 2 - 10, 2010
Location: Vilas Club. Valentín Alsina 1450, Palermo, Buenos Aires
Tickets: Ticketek Argentina
More information: Copa Petrobras official website