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Opera with Popcorn on the Side

No need to go to New York City this time around.

It's usually around this point in the summer where one more episode of America's Got Talent is enough to have you swearing off of American culture once and for all. Luckily, for one night next week, there's an alternative to reality television, and it arrives in the unlikeliest of local haunts.

Next Wednesday, July 27, at 6:30 p.m., Showcase Cinemas in Revere will screen the encore presentation of the Metropolitan Opera's performance of Verdi's Don Carlo. Originally transmitted live from the Met in December of last year, the lush opera (and love story rife with juicy conflict) featuring Roberto Alagna in the title role will be available one more time for a glorious three hours and forty minutes next week. And that will be it for in-theater screenings, at least until the Met starts up its The Met: Live in HD series once again this October (promised: 11 live transmissions, kicking off with Donizetti's Anna Bolena).

So turn off the television before Sharon Osbourne crops up and reserve your Don Carlo tickets at MovieTickets.com. (Tickets are $13.50 each, plus the Web site's $1 service fee. Of course, you can also take your chances and try to get tickets in person on the 27th.) We bet any amount of money that Verdi will be more enjoyable than watching Sharon judge the Justin Bieber doppelgänger again, or that guy who high dives into a bathtub.

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