- The season features three Met premieres including
Jake Heggie's Dead Man Walking, Anthony
Davis's X: The Life and Times of Malcolm X, and
Daniel Catán's Florencia en el Amazonas—the Met's first
Spanish-language opera in almost a century
- Joyce DiDonato stars in
Dead Man Walking, which kicks
off the season on Saturday, October
21
- The upcoming season also includes audience favorites
Roméo et Juliette and Madama Butterfly, as well as a
new production of Carmen by English director Carrie Cracknell
- Other season highlights include Live in HD-debut
performances of Asmik Grigorian,
SeokJong Baek, Benjamin Bernheim, and Jonathan Tetelman, as well as the return of
Piotr Beczala, Angel Blue, Lise
Davidsen, Susan Graham,
Will Liverman, Latonia Moore, and Nadine Sierra
DENVER, Sept. 27,
2023 /PRNewswire/ -- The Met: Live in HD, the
Metropolitan Opera's award-winning series of live high-definition
cinema simulcasts, will begin its 17th season on
Saturday, October 21, and will
feature nine Saturday matinee performances transmitted from the Met
stage to movie theaters nationwide. Tickets are on sale through
Fathom Events or participating theater box offices. For a complete
list of theater locations, visit fathomevents.com (participating
theaters are subject to change).
In addition to Fathom's live Saturday transmissions, encore
screenings of each opera will be shown in theaters on Wednesdays,
with presentations in both the afternoon and evening.
The 2023–24 season opens with a live transmission of
Jake Heggie's Dead
Man Walking, a Met premiere
of a new production by Ivo van
Hove, starring mezzo-soprano Joyce DiDonato as Sister Helen Prejean.
In addition to Dead Man
Walking, the 2023–24 Live in HD season
includes two more company premieres: Anthony Davis's X: The Life and Times
of Malcolm X and Daniel Catán's Florencia en
el Amazonas, the company's first opera in Spanish in nearly
a century. The season lineup also includes new productions of
Bizet's Carmen and Verdi's La
Forza del Destino, as well as revivals of Verdi's
Nabucco, Gounod's Roméo et
Juliette, Puccini's La Rondine, and
Puccini's Madama Butterfly.
Live in HD audiences will have the opportunity to
watch the major Met-debut performance of Jonathan Tetelman as Ruggero in La
Rondine, as well as performances by returning Met stars:
soprano Lise Davidsen as
Leonora in La Forza del Destino; soprano
Angel Blue as Magda in
La Rondine and Micaëla in Carmen,
alongside mezzo-soprano Aigul Akhmetshina in the title role
and tenor Piotr Beczala as
Don José; and soprano Nadine
Sierra and tenor Benjamin
Bernheim as the star-crossed lovers of Roméo et
Juliette. Bernheim will also be making his first Live in
HD appearance in Roméo et Juliette.
"What began as an experiment 17 years ago has become a staple
experience for opera lovers all over the world," said Met General
Manager Peter Gelb. "Our
2023-24 season in cinemas reflects how opera is changing at the
Met, where we're balancing timeless classics with accessible new
work that is advancing the art form and attracting younger and more
diverse audiences."
"The Met: Live in HD series continues to be a
popular offering for Fathom Events, and we are excited to once
again give audiences nationwide the best seats in the house with
this upcoming slate of powerhouse performances and moving dramas,"
said Ray Nutt, CEO of Fathom
Events. "As a longtime supporter of the opera, Fathom is proud to
provide a strong platform for the absolute best that the medium has
to offer—presenting the incredible visuals, dynamic vocals, and
groundbreaking artistry in stunning detail on the big screen, while
giving viewers of all ages a chance to witness the Met's trademark
spectacle live."
Complete details, including casting, for the upcoming season are
available below.
2023–24 Live in HD Season at a
Glance:
The Live in HD season begins on
October 21 with Dead Man Walking and continues with X: The
Life and Times of Malcolm X (November
18), Florencia en el Amazonas (December 9), Nabucco (January 6), Carmen (January 27), La Forza del Destino
(March 9), Roméo et Juliette
(March 23), La Rondine
(April 20), and Madama
Butterfly (May 11). All
performances will be Saturday matinees transmitted live from the
Met stage.
An encore screening of Mozart's The Magic Flute will
also be presented on Saturday, December
2.
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The Met: Live in HD 2023–24
Schedule
Jake Heggie's Dead Man
Walking—MET PREMIERE
Live in HD date: October 21, 2023
Encore date: October 25,
2023
Librettist: Terrence McNally
Production: Ivo van Hove
Set and Lighting Designer: Jan Versweyveld
Costume Designer: An D'Huys
Projection Designer: Christopher Ash
Sound Designer: Tom Gibbons
Yannick Nézet-Séguin (Conductor), Joyce
DiDonato (Sister Helen
Prejean), Ryan McKinny
(Joseph De Rocher), Susan Graham (Mrs. Patrick De Rocher) Latonia Moore (Sister
Rose)
Jake Heggie's powerful work has
its highly-anticipated Met premiere in a new production by
Ivo van Hove. Based on Sister
Helen Prejean's memoir about her
fight for the soul of a condemned murderer, Dead Man Walking matches the high drama of its
subject with Heggie's poignant music and a libretto by Tony and
Emmy Award-winner Terrence McNally.
Met Music Director Yannick
Nézet-Séguin takes the podium, with mezzo-soprano
Joyce DiDonato starring as Sister
Helen. The cast also features bass-baritone Ryan McKinny as the death-row inmate
Joseph De Rocher, soprano
Latonia Moore as Sister Rose, and
mezzo-soprano Susan Graham—who sang Helen
Prejean in the opera's 2000 premiere—as De Rocher's
mother.
Anthony Davis's X: The Life
And Times Of Malcolm X—MET PREMIERE
Live in HD date: November 18, 2023
Encore date: November 29,
2023
Librettist: Thulani Davis
Production: Robert
O'Hara
Set Designer: Clint Ramos
Costume Designer: Dede
Ayite
Lighting Designer: Alex Jainchill
Projection Designer: Yee Eun
Nam
Choreographer: Rickey
Tripp
Kazem Abdullah (Conductor),
Leah Hawkins (Louise/Betty), Raehann
Bryce-Davis (Ella), Victor Ryan
Robertson (Elijah/Street), Will
Liverman (Malcolm), Michael
Sumuel (Reginald)
Anthony Davis's groundbreaking
opera, which premiered in 1986, arrives at the Met at long last.
Robert O'Hara, who was nominated for
a Tony Award in 2020 for his direction of Slave Play,
oversees a new staging that imagines Malcolm as an Everyman whose
story transcends time and space. A cast of breakout artists take
part in the operatic retelling of Malcolm X's life: baritone
Will Liverman, who triumphed in the
Met premiere of Terence Blanchard's
Fire Shut Up in My Bones,
sings Malcolm; soprano Leah Hawkins
plays his mother, Louise; mezzo-soprano Raehann Bryce-Davis is his
sister Ella; bass-baritone Michael
Sumuel is his brother Reginald; and tenor Victor Ryan Robertson is the Nation of Islam
leader Elijah Muhammad. Kazem Abdullah conducts the newly-revised score,
which provides a layered, jazz-inflected setting for the esteemed
writer Thulani Davis's libretto.
Daniel Catán's Florencia en el Amazonas—MET
PREMIERE
Live in HD date: December 9, 2023
Encore date: December 13,
2023
Production: Mary
Zimmerman
Set Designer: Riccardo
Hernandez
Costume Designer: Ana Kuzmanic
Lighting Designer: T.J. Gerckens
Projection Designer: S. Katy
Tucker
Choreographer: Alex Sanchez
Yannick Nézet-Séguin (Conductor), Ailyn
Pérez (Florencia Grimaldi),
Gabriella Reyes (Rosalba),
Nancy Fabiola Herrera (Paula),
Mario Chang (Arcadio), Michael Chioldi (Álvaro), Mattia Olivieri (Riolobo), Greer Grimsley (Captain)
Sung in Spanish and inspired by the magical realism of Gabriel
García Márquez, Mexican composer Daniel Catán's 1996 opera focuses
on an opera diva, Florencia
Grimaldi, who returns to her native Brazil to perform and to search for her lost
lover, who has vanished into the jungle. The Met premiere stars
soprano Ailyn Pérez as Florencia in a new production by
Mary Zimmerman that brings the
mystical realm of the Amazon to the Met stage. The distinguished
ensemble of artists portraying the diva's fellow travelers on the
river boat to Manaus features Gabriella
Reyes as the journalist Rosalba, bass-baritone Greer Grimsley as the ship's captain, baritone
Mattia Olivieri as his enigmatic
first mate, tenor Mario Chang as the
captain's nephew Arcadio, and mezzo-soprano Nancy Fabiola Herrera and baritone Michael Chioldi as the feuding couple Paula and
Álvaro, with Yannick Nézet-Séguin on the podium.
Verdi's Nabucco—REVIVAL
Live in HD date: January 6, 2024
Encore date: January 10, 2024
Production: Elijah Moshinsky
Set Designer: John Napier
Costume Designer: Andreane Neofitou
Lighting Designer: Howard Harrison
Daniele Callegari (Conductor),
Liudmyla Monastyrska (Abigaille), Maria Barakova (Fenena),
SeokJong Baek (Ismaele),
George Gagnidze (Nabucco), Dmitry
Belosselskiy (Zaccaria)
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 Ukrainian soprano Liudmyla Monastyrska reprising
her thrilling turn as his vengeful daughter Abigaille.
Mezzo-soprano Maria Barakova and tenor SeokJong Baek, in his company debut, are Fenena
and Ismaele, and bass Dmitry Belosselskiy repeats his celebrated
portrayal of the high priest Zaccaria. Daniele Callegari conducts Verdi's early
masterpiece, which features the ultimate showcase for the great Met
Chorus, the moving "Va, pensiero."
Bizet's Carmen—NEW PRODUCTION
Live in HD date: January 27, 2024
Encore date: January 31,
2024
Production: Carrie Cracknell
Set Designer: Michael
Levine
Costume Designer: Tom Scutt
Lighting Designer: Guy
Hoare
Projection Designer: rocafilm/Roland Horvath
Choreographer: Ann
Yee
Daniele Rustioni (Conductor),
Angel Blue (Micaëla), Aigul
Akhmetshina (Carmen), Piotr Beczała (Don José), Kyle Ketelsen (Escamillo)
Acclaimed English director Carrie
Cracknell makes her Met debut, reinvigorating the classic
story of deadly passion with a staging that moves the action to the
present day, amid a band of human traffickers. Mezzo-soprano Aigul
Akhmetshina leads a powerhouse quartet of stars in the touchstone
role of the irresistible femme fatale, alongside tenor Piotr Beczala as Carmen's lover Don José,
soprano Angel Blue as the devoted
Micaëla, and bass-baritone Kyle
Ketelsen as the swaggering Escamillo. Daniele Rustioni conducts Bizet's heart-pounding
score.
Verdi's La Forza del Destino—NEW PRODUCTION
Live in HD date: March 9, 2024
Encore date: March 13,
2024
Production: Mariusz Treliński
Set Designer: Boris Kudlička
Costume Designer: Moritz
Junge
Lighting Designer: Marc
Heinz
Projection Designer: Bartek
Macias
Choreographer: Maćko Prusak
Yannick Nézet-Séguin (Conductor), Lise Davidsen (Leonora); Judit Kutasi (Preziosilla); Brian Jagde (Don
Alvaro); Igor Golovatenko (Don Carlo
di Vargas); Patrick Carfizzi
(Fra Melitone); Soloman Howard
(Marquis of Calatrava/Padre Guardiano)
Yannick Nézet-Séguin conducts Verdi's La Forza del
Destino, with stellar soprano Lise
Davidsen, following a string of recent Met triumphs, in her
role debut 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. The cast also features tenor Brian Jagde as Don
Alvaro, baritone Igor Golovatenko as Don Carlo, mezzo-soprano Judit Kutasi as Preziosilla, bass-baritone
Patrick Carfizzi as Fra Melitone,
and bass Soloman Howard as both
Leonora's father and Padre Guardiano.
Gounod's Roméo et Juliette—REVIVAL
Live in HD date: March 23, 2024
Encore date: March 27,
2024
Production: Bartlett Sher
Set Designer: Michael Yeargan
Costume Designer: Catherine Zuber
Lighting Designer: Jennifer
Tipton
Choreographer: Chase Brock
Fight Director: B.H. Barry
Yannick Nézet-Séguin (Conductor), Nadine
Sierra (Juliette), Samantha
Hankey (Stéphano), Benjamin
Bernheim (Roméo), Will
Liverman (Mercutio), Alfred
Walker (Frére Laurent), Frederick
Ballentine (Tybalt)
Two singers at the height of their powers—soprano Nadine Sierra and tenor Benjamin Bernheim—come
together as the star-crossed lovers in Gounod's Shakespeare
adaptation, with Yannick Nézet-Séguin on the podium to conduct one
of the repertoire's most romantic scores. Bartlett Sher's staging
also features baritone Will Liverman
and tenor Frederick Ballentine as
the archrivals Mercutio and Tybalt, mezzo-soprano Samantha Hankey as the mischievous pageboy
Stéphano, and bass-baritone Alfred
Walker as Frére Laurent.
Puccini's La Rondine—REVIVAL
Live in HD date: April 20, 2024
Encore date: April 24,
2024
Production: Nicolas Joël
Set Designer: Ezio
Frigerio
Costume Designer: Franca Squarciapino
Lighting Designer: Duane Schuler
Speranza Scappucci (Conductor),
Angel Blue (Magda), Emily Pogorelc (Lisette), Jonathan Tetelman (Ruggero), Bekhzod Davronov
(Prunier)
Puccini's bittersweet love story makes a rare Met appearance,
with soprano Angel Blue starring as
the sophisticated French courtesan Magda, opposite tenor
Jonathan Tetelman in his company
debut 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.
Soprano Emily Pogorelc and tenor
Bekhzod Davronov—both making their Met debuts—complete the cast as
Lisette and Prunier.
Puccini's Madama Butterfly—REVIVAL
Live in HD date: May
11, 2024
Encore date: May 15, 2024
Production: Anthony Minghella
Director and Choreographer: Carolyn Choa
Set Designer: Michael Levine
Costume Designer: Han Feng
Lighting Designer: Peter Mumford
Puppetry: Blind Summit Theatre
Xian Zhang (Conductor); Asmik
Grigorian (Cio-Cio-San), Elizabeth
DeShong (Suzuki), Jonathan
Tetelman (Pinkerton), Lucas
Meachem (Sharpless)
In her Met debut, Asmik Grigorian
tackles the demanding role of Cio-Cio-San, the trusting geisha at
the heart of Puccini's tragedy. Tenor Jonathan Tetelman is the callous American naval
officer Pinkerton whose betrayal destroys her. Mezzo-soprano
Elizabeth DeShong is the steadfast
maid Suzuki, and baritone Lucas
Meachem is the American consul Sharpless. Acclaimed maestro
Xian Zhang makes her Met debut conducting Anthony Minghella's vivid production.
Mozart's The Magic Flute—SPECIAL ENCORE
PRESENTATION
Originally transmitted live on December 30, 2006
Live in HD Encore Date: December 2, 2023
Production: Julie Taymor
Set Designer: George Tsypin
Costume Designer: Julie Taymor
Lighting Designer: Donald
Holder
Puppet Designers: Julie
Taymor and Michael Curry
Choreographer: Mark Dendy
English Adaptation: J.D. McClatchy
James Levine (Conductor),
Ying Huang (Pamina), Erika Miklósa
(Queen of the Night), Matthew
Polenzani (Tamino), Nathan
Gunn (Papageno), René Pape (Sarastro)
The Met made history in December
2006 when it presented its first Live in HD
transmission to cinemas worldwide: the abridged English-language
version of Mozart's The Magic Flute. Julie Taymor's whimsical production features a
winning ensemble, including tenor Matthew
Polenzani, baritone Nathan
Gunn, and bass René Pape. The opera returns to select movie
theaters for a special encore presentation during the holiday
season.
About The Met: Live in HD
The Met: Live in HD series has made the Met the world's
leading provider of alternative cinema content and the only arts
institution with an ongoing global series of this scale. When the
series launched in 2006, the Met was the first arts company to
experiment with alternative cinema content. Since then, the program
has expanded, with more than 30 million tickets sold to date and
robust attendance in the world's five largest cinema markets:
the United States, Germany, Canada, France, and the United Kingdom. In North America, weekend box office ratings also
remain strong, often placing Live in HD presentations among
the weekend's top 15 highest-grossing films.
The Met: Live in HD series has increased
accessibility to Met performances for audiences around the world.
With a global average ticket price of $23, the series has made world-class performances
accessible to millions of opera lovers each season.
Met artists and celebrity opera lovers serve as hosts for the
Live in HD series, providing background on the operas,
introducing exciting behind-the-scenes features, and conducting
live interviews with stars, crew, and production teams.
The Met: Live in HD series is made possible by a
generous grant from its founding sponsor, the Neubauer Family
Foundation. Digital support of The Met: Live in HD is
provided by Bloomberg Philanthropies. The Met: Live in HD
series is supported by Rolex.
Within months of their initial live transmissions, the Live
in HD programs are shown on PBS in the United States. The PBS series Great
Performances at the Met is produced in association with PBS and
WNET.
For more information about The Met: Live in HD,
visit metopera.org/hd.
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