The Metropolitan Opera Live in HD enters its fourth year of thrilling live broadcasts to the Lincoln Theatre!
Every Saturday live transmission features a pre-opera lecture with the wonderful Stassya Pacheco 30 minutes before the start time. Also, Saturday operas offer the option of pre-ordering your lunch from The Lunch Box. Pre-order lunches are made up during the opera and ready for you to enjoy during the intermission. We will also have recorded encore screenings of all performances.
For more information on individual operas click on the performances listed below:
May 10 – LA CENERENTOLA (Rossini)
Fabio Luisi; Joyce DiDonato, Juan Diego Flórez, Pietro Spagnoli, Alessandro Corbelli, Luca Pisaroni
Cesare Lievi (Production); Maurizio Balò (Set and Costume Designer); Gigi Saccomandi (Lighting Designer); Daniela Schiavone (Choreographer)
Start Time: 9:55APM PDT Encore: MAY 18, 1:00PM
Run Time: 3:40
Past Performances this season:
October 5 – EUGENE ONEGIN (Tchaikovsky) – New Production
Valery Gergiev; Anna Netrebko, Oksana Volkova, Piotr Beczala, Mariusz Kwiecien, Alexei Tanovitsky
Deborah Warner (Production); Tom Pye (Set Designer); Chloe Obolensky (Costume Designer); Jean Kalman (Lighting Designer); Finn Ross and Ian William Galloway (Video Designers); Kim Brandstrup (Choreographer)
Start Time: 9:55 AM PST Encore: OCT 13, 1:00PM
Run Time: 3:45
October 26 – THE NOSE (Shostakovich)
Pavel Smelkov; Andrey Popov, Alexander Lewis, Paulo Szot
William Kentridge (Production); William Kentridge and Luc De Witt (Stage Directors); William Kentridge and Sabine Theunissen (Set Designers); Greta Goiris (Costume Designer); Urs Schönebaum (Lighting Designer)
Start Time: 9:55 AM PST Encore: NOV 10, 1:00PM
Run Time: 2:15
November 9 – TOSCA (Puccini)
Riccardo Frizza; Patricia Racette, Roberto Alagna, George Gagnidze, John Del Carlo
Luc Bondy (Production); Richard Peduzzi (Set Designer); Milena Canonero (Costume Designer); Max Keller (Lighting Designer)
Start Time: 9:55 AM PST Encore: NOV 17, 1:00PM
Run Time: 3:35
December 14 – FALSTAFF (Verdi) – New Production
James Levine; Lisette Oropesa, Angela Meade, Stephanie Blythe, Jennifer Johnson Cano, Paolo Fanale, Ambrogio Maestri, Franco Vassallo, Robert Carsen (Production); Paul Steinberg (Set Designer); Brigitte Reiffenstuel (Costume Designer); Robert Carsen and Peter Van Praet (Lighting Designers)
Start Time: 9:55 AM PST Encore: DEC 29, 1:00PM
Run Time: 3:20
February 8 – RUSALKA (Dvořák)
Yannick Nézet-Séguin; Renée Fleming, Emily Magee, Dolora Zajick, Piotr Beczala, John Relyea
Otto Schenk (Production); Günther Schneider-Siemssen (Set Designer); Sylvia Strahammer (Costume Designer); Gil Wechsler (Lighting Designer); Carmen De Lavallade (Choreographer)
Start Time: 9:55 AM PST Encore: FEB 16, 1:00PM
Run Time: 4:00
March 1 – PRINCE IGOR (Borodin) – New Production
Gianandrea Noseda; Oksana Dyka, Anita Rachvelishvili, Sergey Semishkur, Ildar Abdrazakov, Mikhail Petrenko, Štefan Kocán
Dmitri Tcherniakov (Production); TBA (Costume Designer); Dmitri Tcherniakov (Set Designer); Gleb Filshtinsky (Lighting Designer); TBA (Choreographer)
Start Time: 9:00 AM PST Encore: MAR 9, 12:00PM
Run Time: 4:30
March 15 – WERTHER (Massenet) – New Production
Alain Altinoglu; Lisette Oropesa, Elīna Garanča, Jonas Kaufmann, David Bižić, Jonathan Summers
Richard Eyre (Production); Rob Howell (Set and Costume Designer); Peter Mumford (Lighting Designer); Wendall Harrington
(Video Designer); Sara Erde (Choreographer)
Start Time: 9:55 AM PDT Encore: MAR 23, 1:00PM
Run Time: 3:15
April 5 – LA BOHÈME (Puccini)
Stefano Ranzani; Anita Harting, Susanna Phillips, Vittorio Grigolo, Massimo Cavalletti, Patrick Carfizzi, Oren Gradus,
Donald Maxwell
Franco Zeffirelli (Production); Franco Zeffirelli (Set Designer); Peter J. Hall (Costume Designer); Gil Wechsler (Lighting Designer)
Start Time: 9:55 AM PDT Encore: APR 13, 1:00PM
Run Time: 3:25
April 26 – COSÌ FAN TUTTE (Mozart)
James Levine; Susanna Phillips, Isabel Leonard, Danielle de Niese, Matthew Polenzani, Rodion Pogossov, Maurizio Muraro
Lesley Koenig (Production); Michael Yeargan (Set and Costume Designer); Duane Schuler (Lighting Designer)
Start Time: 9:55 AM PDT Encore: MAY 4, 1:00PM
Run Time: 4:05