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As we head into March, the Emmy® and Peabody award-winning “The Met: Live in HD” series is in full swing in U.S. cinemas for a seventh season featuring 12 live operas from the Metropolitan Opera’s 2012-13 season.

The next one is the broadcast of Wagner’s Parsifal. It will be presented live for only one day on Saturday, March 2, 2013 at 11:00 Am Et in the St. Louis area.

Wamg invites you to enter to win tickets to see Parsifal This Saturday! We have one pair of tickets – Good For Two – to this event. Tickets are good at the AMC Chesterfield 14 and will be mailed.

To Qualify:

1. You Must Be In The St. Louis Area On Saturday.

2. Send Your Full Name To [email protected] .

3. Winners Will Be Chosen Through A Random Drawing Of Qualifying Contestants. No Purchase Necessary.

“The Met has assembled about the best Parsifal cast available today…...

Today we are concluding our two-part look at the life and career of legendary stage and screen icon Christopher Plummer by focusing on some of the finest films, television and filmed stage performances of his career thus far, as we anticipate the nationwide release of his newest stage and screen venture, the cinematic presentation of his recent turn as Prospero at the Stratford Shakespeare Festival in Des McAnuffs The Tempest, presented by Fathom-equipped movie theaters on June 13, followed by a QampA with Plummer. From his stage debut in the late-1940s through to his spectacular screen career begun with Sidney Lumets Stage Struck in 1958, in this career-spanning clip collection we will be sampling many of the most memorable and most notable projects from a rich resume ranging from almost every major male role in the canon of Shakespeare - As You Like It to The Winters Tale - to the work of Lilian Hellman,...

Today we are shining a light on one of the most respected and revered stage and screen stars of the last several decades who is known the world over for not only his stirring and commanding dramatic performances and touching and rib-tickling comedies on film, but also for his iconic roles on the stage playing Shakespeare, and, perhaps most of all, for his essaying of Captain Von Trapp in the celebrated Robert Wise film adaptation of Rodgers amp Hammersteins Tony Award-winning The Sound Of Music - the elegant, graceful and eminently gifted Christopher Plummer. Looking back at a career spanning nearly seven decades, today we will focus on Plummers most important and most fondly remembered roles to date - ranging from Sidney Lumets Stage Struck in 1958 to his Shakespeare stage work, The Sound Of Music, The Return Of The Pink Panther, TVs The Thorn Birds, and, of course, his Academy...

Bruce Dow wanted to be a leading man and believed it was necessary for him to become one lean dude. He spent a decade as an anorexic and then a bulimic. (No, it's not only a woman's issue). He landed leading roles, but these were not especially satisfying and he ultimately regained the weight. When director Susan H. Schulman cast him as the rotund Pancho Sanza in "Man of La Mancha" at the Stratford Shakespeare Festival, he had a life and career altering revelation.It was not simply his success in the part or the juicy character roles that poured in—from the emcee in "Cabaret," to Trinculo in "The Tempest" to his current gig as the wild and campy King Herod in the Broadway revival of Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice's rock opera, "Jesus Christ Superstar."It turned out to be a lesson in self-acceptance. "When I was thin,...

New York — Ewan McGregor was having a hard time keeping up with Christopher Plummer.

At the suggestion of director Mike Mills, McGregor had brought his 81-year-old co-star to Barney's in Los Angeles to pick up a scarf for Plummer's elderly gay character in their film "Beginners." But Plummer had other designs.

"Christopher only wanted to get skinny black jeans," recalls McGregor. "That was his main goal in life. When we got there, he asked where the jeans department was, and off he went to find skinny jeans."

That one of the finest living interpreters of Shakespeare and one of the few remaining greats of classical acting was hell-bent on procuring a hipster staple might seem odd. But then again, Plummer has seldom acceded to the stereotypes of old age.

"I'm glad (my ambition) is still there," said Plummer in a recent interview. "If it faded, what's there to live for?...

The New York Times has called him the most accomplished classical actor in North America. He’s been compared to acting legends Sir Laurence Olivier and Sir John Gielgud. Michael Caine said his Hamlet was one the best he’s ever seen. He has made more than 100 movies. And, until last year, he may very well have been the finest actor of his generation never to receive an Academy Award nomination. His portrayal of Leo Tolstoy in The Last Station finally earned him the nod.

All this, and he’s Canadian. Born in Toronto in 1929, and raised in Quebec, Plummer’s great-grandfather was Sir John Abbott, our third Prime Minister. In 2008, Plummer published his autobiography In Spite of Myself, but he’s far from done. His performance in The Tempest at this year’s Stratford Shakespeare Festival earned raves; The New York Times’ Charles Isherwood wrote, “The real magic — and...

Yesterday, we reported on the acquisitions of Beautiful Boy, The Conspirator, Submarine, and Insidious at this year’s Toronto International Film Festival. Today, we have three more purchases to report. First up, The Wrap is reporting that Lionsgate has picked up the drama Rabbit Hole, which stars Nicole Kidman as a mother grieving over the loss of her child. The studio plans to release it before the end of the year as Kidman is receiving heavy awards buzz for her performance. Next, there’s Pedro Almodovar’s The Skin That I Inhabit, which hasn’t started filming yet, but Sony Pictures Classics now owns the North American distribution rights. The film stars Antonio Banderas as a father avenging the death of his daughter. Finally, IFC Films has purchased Unauthorized: The Harvey Weinstein Project. The documentary is billed as a “powerful, uncensored, no-holds-barred account” biopic of the Hollywood mogul. Hit the...