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THE MET LIVE IN HD
The Metropolitan Opera’s The Met: Live in HD events include live interviews with singers, directors,
designers, and stage technicians, as well as documentaries and other short features.
Tickets for all productions are $25.00 per person and can be purchased at the door. Advance reservations are not required.
X: THE LIFE AND TIMES
OF MALCOLM X
ROMEO ET JULIETTE
MADAMA BUTTERFLY
by Charles Gounod
by Giacomo Puccini
By Anthony Davis/Libretto by Thulani Davis/
Story by Christopher Davis
Saturday, March 30 • 12:55pm
Saturday, May 11 • 12:55pm
Saturday, November 18 • 12:55pm
Radiant soprano Nadine Sierra and
tenor sensation Benjamin Bernheim —
come together as the star-crossed lovers
in Gounod’s sumptuous Shakespeare
adaptation, with Met Music Director
Yannick Nézet-Séguin on the podium.
Bartlett Sher’s towering staging also features baritone Will Liverman and tenor
Frederick Ballentine, mezzo-soprano
Samantha Hankey, and bass-baritone
Alfred Walker.
Extraordinary soprano Asmik Grigorian
tackles the demanding role of Cio-Cio-San,
the loyal geisha at the heart of Puccini’s
devastating tragedy. Tenor Jonathan Tetelman stars as the callous American naval
officer Pinkerton, whose betrayal destroys
her. Acclaimed maestro Xian Zhang takes
the podium to conduct Anthony Minghella’s vivid production.
Robert O’Hara oversees a potent new
staging that imagines Malcolm as an
Everyman whose story transcends time
and space. Baritone Will Liverman sings
Malcolm X, alongside soprano Leah
Hawkins as his mother. Kazem Abdullah conducts the newly revised score,
which provides a layered, jazz-inflected
setting for the esteemed writer Thulani
Davis’s libretto.
LIVE Runtime: 3:22
ENCORE Runtime 3:31
NABUCCO
by Giuseppe Verdi
By Daniel Catán
Libretto by Marcela Fuentes-Berain
5:00PM
5:30PM
7:30PM
8:30PM
Saturday, December 16 • 12:55pm
ENCORE Runtime 2:35
CARMEN
by Georges Bizet
Saturday, February 24 • 12:55pm
Acclaimed English director Carrie
Cracknell brings a vital new production of one of opera’s most enduringly
powerful works. Dazzling young mezzo-soprano Aigul Akhmetshina leads
alongside tenor Piotr Beczała as Carmen’s troubled lover. Daniele Rustioni
conducts Bizet’s heart-pounding score.
ENCORE Runtime 3:44
LA FORZA DEL DESTINO
Wine & Cheese
First & Second Acts
Dinner
Third Act
$63++ per person, reservations required
tickets@oceanreef.com
by Giuseppe Verdi
Saturday, April 6 • 12:55pm
Music Director Yannick Nézet-Séguin
conducts with stellar soprano Lise
Davidsen as the noble Leonora. Director Mariusz Treliński delivers the company’s first new Forza in nearly 30
years, setting the scene in a contemporary world.
ENCORE Runtime 4:22
LA RONDINE
by Giacomo Puccini
Saturday, April 20 • 12:55pm
Soprano Angel Blue stars as the French
courtesan Magda, opposite tenor Jonathan Tetelman as Ruggero, an idealistic
young man who offers her an alternative
to her life of excess. Maestro Speranza
Scappucci conducts Nicolas Joël’s Art
Deco–inspired staging, which transports audiences from the heart of Parisian nightlife to a dreamy vision of the
French Riviera.
LIVE Runtime: 2:47
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DINNER AT THE OPERA
Monday, March 11
FLORENCIA EN EL
AMAZONAS
Sung in Spanish and inspired by the
magical realism of Gabriel García
Márquez, Mexican composer Daniel
Catán’s 1996 opera tells the enchanting story of a Brazilian opera diva who
returns to her homeland to perform at
the legendary opera house of Manaus—
and to search for her lost lover. The performance stars soprano Ailyn Pérez as
Florencia Grimaldi, with Music Director
Yannick Nézet-Séguin on the podium to
lead a spellbinding new production by
Mary Zimmerman.
LIVE Runtime 3:15
Ancient Babylon comes to life in a
classic Met staging of biblical proportions. Baritone George Gagnidze
makes his Met role debut as the imperious king Nabucco, alongside soprano
Liudmyla Monastyrska reprising her
thrilling turn as his vengeful daughter
Abigaille. Daniele Callegari conducts
Verdi’s exhilarating early masterpiece,
which features the ultimate showcase
for the great Met Chorus, the moving
Va, pensiero.
ENCORE Runtime: 2 hours, 6 minutes