An exciting slate featuring a Met Premiere, two new productions, great operatic jewels and a special holiday encore for families.
The 24/25 Met Opera in HD season offers daring new productions of Salome, Aida and Met premiere of Jeanine Tesori's Grounded alongside long-cherished favorites such as opener Les Contes d'Hoffmann by Offenbach, Puccini's Tosca and Rossini's Il Barbiere di Siviglia. A special encore presentation of Julie Taymor's 2006 family-friendly production of Mozart's The Magic Flute returns in December. The Met's Music Director, Yannick Nézet-Séguin sums it up, "This is truly modern—to pay tribute to the essential works of the past while paving the way for an operatic future."
10/5 Les Contes d'Hoffmann
10/19 Grounded
11/23 Tosca
12/7 The Magic Flute
1/25 Aida
3/15 Fidelio
4/26 Le Nozze di Figaro
5/17 Salome
5/31 Il Barbiere di Siviglia
The Met Opera: Live in HD series at the Hop is supported by a gift from Cynthia and Jeffrey Manocherian P'15, '18. Students can attend Met Opera in HD for free. Students, please contact the box office by email or phone 603.646.2422 to claim your tickets.
Please note that this season the Hop is presenting only one broadcast of each title. All broadcasts are general admission. Doors open 30 minutes before start time.
The Metropolitan Opera's award-winning series of live high-definition cinema simulcasts, opens its 18th season on Saturday, October 5, 2024, with a live transmission of Offenbach's Les Contes d'Hoffmann, which stars acclaimed tenor Benjamin Bernheim in the title role of the tormented poet, alongside sopranos Erin Morley and Pretty Yende and mezzo-soprano Clémentine Margaine.
The 2024-25 Live in HD season also features the Met premiere and live transmission of Jeanine Tesori's new opera Grounded, starring mezzo-soprano Emily D'Angelo; new stagings of Strauss's Salome by director Claus Guth, with a cast led by soprano Elza van den Heever and baritone Peter Mattei, and Verdi's Aida, with soprano Angel Blue and tenor Piotr Beczała, directed by Michael Mayer; the first-ever Met Live in HD transmission of Beethoven's Fidelio, along with Puccini's Tosca, both featuring soprano Lise Davidsen as she continues to explore the full range of Italian and German dramatic repertoire; Mozart's Le Nozze di Figaro with an all-star cast; and director Bartlett Sher's beloved take on Rossini's Il Barbiere di Siviglia, with opera's newest star, mezzo-soprano Aigul Akhmetshina, returning to the Met after her hit run this season in the new production of Bizet's Carmen. Met Music Director Yannick Nézet-Séguin conducts Grounded, Aida and Salome.
"From its beginning, The Met: Live in HD was created to connect the Met to a global audience," said Peter Gelb, the Met's Maria Manetti Shrem General Manager. "We're glad to see audiences around the world beginning to return to cinemas in larger numbers since the end of the pandemic."
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