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Coming up:

March 7 at 1 p.m.
The Metropolitan Opera
Artist's Choice:
Hector Berlioz’s Les Troyens à Carthage (Part Two of Les Troyens) - Historic performance from 1974

Selected by Yannick Nézet-Séguin, the Met’s current Music Director, in honor of Rafael Kubelík, the Met’s first Music Director

CAST:
Didon - Christa Ludwig
Énée - Jon Vickers
Anna - Mignon Dunn
Narbal - John Macurdy

CONDUCTOR:
Rafael Kubelík

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