Live in HD – The Metropolitan Opera’s live, high definition broadcast to thousands of theatres – returns for the 2022-23 season in October but you can see summer encore performances starting in July.
Four popular operas from the Met’s award-winning series of live cinema presentations return to theaters on this schedule:
July 13
Lehár’s The Merry Widow
The great Renée Fleming stars as the heiress who captivates all of Paris in Lehár’s enchanting operetta, recorded live from the Metropolitan Opera in 2015. Baritone Nathan Gunn co-stars as Danilo, and Broadway legend Kelli O’Hara is Valencienne, in a dazzling production directed and choreographed by Tony Award–winner Susan Stroman. Andrew Davis conducts. Below is a preview.
July 27
Puccini’s Madama Butterfly
Anthony Minghella’s beautiful, atmospheric production of Puccini’s tragedy returns to cinemas this summer in a stunning performance recorded live from the Metropolitan Opera in 2009. Soprano Patricia Racette stars as Cio-Cio-San, the trusting and innocent young geisha who disastrously falls in love with American Navy lieutenant B. F. Pinkerton, sung by tenor Marcello Giordani. Patrick Summers conducts. Below is a preview.
August 3
Puccini’s La Bohème
In this encore performance from 2018, soprano Sonya Yoncheva and tenor Michael Fabiano star as the young lovers Mimì and Rodolfo in Puccini’s timeless love story. Rounding out the cast are soprano Susanna Phillips, baritones Lucas Meachem and Alexey Lavrov, and bass Matthew Rose as the rambunctious gang of bohemian friends in Franco Zeffirelli’s classic staging, an audience favorite for more than 40 years. Marco Armiliato conducts.
August 10
Donizetti’s La Fille du Régiment
In this encore performance from 2008, madcap comedy and impeccable coloratura come together in Natalie Dessay’s indelible portrayal of the feisty tomboy Marie, raised by a regiment of French soldiers. Tenor Juan Diego Flórez stars alongside her as the young Swiss villager who conquers her heart—and a slew of high Cs—in Laurent Pelly’s charming staging. Marco Armiliato conducts.
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Metropolitan Opera 2022-23 Season
The Metropolitan Opera concluded its 2022 season on Saturday, June 11, 2022 and returns for the 2022-23 season in September.
Opening night for the new season is September 27, 2022, with Cherubini’s Medea. Read more about the new season at:
Metropolitan Opera 2022-23 Season Announcement
Met Opera on SiriusXM Radio
Tune in to Met Opera Radio on Sirius XM channel 355 throughout the season to hear opera performed live from the Met stage. Join Met radio host Debra Lew Harder and commentator William Berger each week for broadcasts of premieres and revivals, chats with Met stars, and insightful commentary. Also listen around the clock to recent and historic Met performances of favorite works and rarities, and more, presented exclusively on Sirius XM.
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Metropolitan Opera Free Streaming
You can tune into an audio stream of select operas from The Met on your PC or smartphone. These are usually evening performances. You can find the schedule and more details at:
Metropolitan Opera Free Streaming+
Met Opera in Theatres
Live in HD – The Met’s live, high definition broadcast to thousands of theatres – returns for the 2022-23 season in October. Ten live broadcasts are scheduled. Each live performance is on a Saturday, starting at 12:55 PM ET. Usually there is an encore screening later in the week.
The Met: Live in HD series is produced with HD cameras placed around and behind the stage, capturing the beauty and power of live performances. Each broadcast is hosted by opera stars and includes behind-the-scenes features and live interviews during intermission. Subtitles in English and other languages are provided to theatre goers.
The 2022-23 Met Live in HD schedule is as follows:
Medea Sat, Oct 22, 2022 12:55 PM. Live performance. Sondra Radvanovsky stars as the mythic sorceress who will stop at nothing in her quest for vengeance. Joining Radvanovsky in the Met-premiere production of Cherubini’s rarely performed masterpiece is tenor Matthew Polenzani as Medea’s Argonaut husband, Giasone; soprano Janai Brugger as her rival for his love, Glauce; bass Michele Pertusi as her father, Creonte, the King of Corinth; and mezzo-soprano Ekaterina Gubanova as Medea’s confidante, Neris.
La Traviata Sat, Nov 05, 2022 12:55 PM. Live Performance. Soprano Nadine Sierra stars as the self-sacrificing courtesan Violetta—one of opera’s ultimate heroines—in Michael Mayer’s vibrant production of Verdi’s beloved tragedy. Tenor Stephen Costello is her self- centered lover Alfredo, alongside baritone Luca Salsi as his disapproving father, and Maestro Daniele Callegari on the podium.
The Hours Sat, Dec 10, 2022 12:55 PM. Live Performance. Renée Fleming makes her highly anticipated return to the Met in the world-premiere production of Pulitzer Prize–winning composer Kevin Puts’s The Hours, adapted from Michael Cunningham’s acclaimed novel. Inspired by Virginia Woolf’s Mrs. Dalloway and made a household name by the Oscar-winning 2002 film version. The powerful story follows three women from different eras who each grapple with their inner demons and their roles in society.
Fedora Sat, Jan 14, 2023 12:55 PM. Live Performance. Umberto Giordano’s exhilarating drama returns to the Met repertory for the first time in 25 years. Packed with memorable melodies, showstopping arias, and explosive confrontations, Fedora requires a cast of thrilling voices to take flight, and the Met’s new production promises to deliver. Soprano Sonya Yoncheva, one of today’s most riveting artists, sings the title role of the 19th-century Russian princess who falls in love with her fiancé’s murderer, Count Loris, sung by star tenor Piotr Beczała. Soprano Rosa Feola is the Countess Olga, Fedora’s confidant, and baritone Artur Ruciński is the diplomat De Siriex.
Lohengrin Sat, Mar 18, 2023 11:55 AM. Live Performance. Wagner’s soaring masterpiece makes its triumphant return to the Met stage after 17 years. In a sequel to his revelatory production of Parsifal, director François Girard unveils an atmospheric staging that once again weds his striking visual style and keen dramatic insight to Wagner’s breathtaking music, with Music Director Yannick Nézet-Séguin on the podium to conduct a supreme cast led by tenor Piotr Beczała in the title role of the mysterious swan knight. Soprano Tamara Wilson is the virtuous duchess Elsa, falsely accused of murder, going head-to-head with soprano Christine Goerke as the cunning sorceress Ortrud, who seeks to lay her low.
Falstaff Sat, Apr 01, 2023 12:30 PM. Live Performance. Baritone Michael Volle stars as the caddish knight Falstaff, gleefully tormented by a trio of clever women who deliver his comeuppance, in Verdi’s glorious Shakespearean comedy.
Der Rosenkavalier Sat, Apr 15, 2023 11:55 AM. Live Performance. A dream cast assembles for Strauss’s grand Viennese comedy. Soprano Lise Davidsen is the aging Marschallin, opposite mezzo-soprano Isabel Leonard as her lover Octavian and soprano Erin Morley as Sophie, the beautiful younger woman who steals his heart. Bass Günther Groissböck returns as the churlish Baron Ochs, and Markus Brück is Sophie’s wealthy father, Faninal.
Champion Sat, Apr 29, 2023 12:55 PM. Live Performance. Six-time Grammy Award–winning composer Terence Blanchard brings his first opera to the Met after his Fire Shut Up in My Bones triumphantly premiered with the company to universal acclaim in 2021–22. Bass-baritone Ryan Speedo Green is the young boxer Emile Griffith, who rises from obscurity to become a world champion, and bass-baritone Eric Owens portrays Griffith’s older self, haunted by the ghosts of his past.
Don Giovanni Sat, May 20, 2023 12:55 PM. Live Performance. Tony Award–winning director of Broadway’s A View from the Bridge and West Side Story, Ivo van Hove makes a major Met debut with a new take on Mozart’s tragicomedy, re-setting the familiar tale of deceit and damnation in an abstract architectural landscape and shining a light into the dark corners of the story and its characters. Maestro Nathalie Stutzmann makes her Met debut conducting a star-studded cast led by baritone Peter Mattei as a magnetic Don Giovanni,
Die Zauberflöte Sat, Jun 03, 2023 12:55 PM. Live Performance. One of opera’s most beloved works receives its first new Met staging in 19 years—a daring vision by renowned English director Simon McBurney that The Wall Street Journal declared “the best production I’ve ever witnessed of Mozart’s opera.” Nathalie Stutzmann conducts the Met Orchestra, with the pit raised to make the musicians visible to the audience and allow interaction with the cast. In his Met-debut staging, McBurney lets loose a volley of theatrical flourishes, incorporating projections, sound effects, and acrobatics to match the spectacle and drama of Mozart’s fable.
For more information on the 2022-23 season of The Met: Live in HD, visit:
Metropolitan Opera 2022-2023 HD Live In Cinemas
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The Met on Stage
The Met has resumed its on live, on-stage performances. Live, on-stage operas this year include Aida, La Boheme, Tosca and more classics from the great masters. For the complete Metropolitan Opera 2022-23 season, visit:
Metropolitan Opera 2022-23 Season
The Met on Demand
True opera buffs may want to subscribe to The Met Opera on Demand, which provides online streaming access to more than 750 full-length Met performances.
For $14.99 a month or $149.99 a year, you can stream any of the available performances on any device that runs the Met Opera on Demand app. This includes any TV equipped with a Roku, Amazon Fire stick or Apple TV, also TVs with built in Roku and Fire, Samsung Smart TVs, Android TVs, and the Apple iPad, iPhone and Android phones and tablets.
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Connect with The Met
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You can find previews of many of operas on the Met Opera Youtube Channel.
