Metropolitian Opera: Live in HD

LIVE IN HD is your opportunity to watch the Metropolitian Opera shows for less - in high defintion at the Avalon Theatre! For further information, visit the Metropolitian Opera’s official website.

Adult
Full Season: $253.00
Half Season: $115.00
Single Show: $23.00

Senior
Full Season: $231.00
Half Season: $105.00
Single Show: $21.00

Student
Full Season: $165.00
Half Season: $75.00
Single Show: $15.00

Children 8 & under
FREE admission!

October 13, 2012
L'ELISIR D'AMORE
Start time: 12:55 PM ET
Approximate Runtime: 3:02

October 27, 2012
OTELLO
Start time: 12:55 PM ET
Approximate Runtime: 3:27

November 24, 2012
TEMPEST
Start time: 12:55 PM ET
Approximate Runtime: 3:30

December 1, 2012
CLEMENZA DI TITO
Start time: 12:55 PM ET
Approximate Runtime: 3:13

December 8, 2012
UN BALLO IN MASCHERA
Start time: 12:55 PM ET
Approximate Runtime: 3:54

December 15, 2012
AIDA
Start time: 12:55 PM ET
Approximate Runtime: 3:54

January 5, 2013
LES TROYENS
Start time: 12:00 PM ET
Approximate Runtime: 5:41

January 19, 2013
MARIA STUARDA
Start time: 12:55 PM ET
Approximate Runtime: 3:15

February 16, 2013
RIGOLETTO
Start time: 12:55 PM ET
Approximate Runtime: 3:31

March 2, 2013
PARSIFAL
Start time: 12:00 PM ET
Approximate Runtime: 5:40

March 16, 2013
FRANCESCA DA RIMINI
Start time: 12:00 PM ET
Approximate Runtime: 3:57

April 27, 2013
GIULIO CESARE
Start time: 12:00 PM ET
Approximate Runtime: 4:31

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L'ELISIR D'AMORE

Anna Netrebko and Matthew Polenzani star in one of the greatest comic gems in opera, as the fickle Adina and her besotted Nemorino. Bartlett Sher, whose previous productions of Il Barbiere di Siviglia, Le Comte Ory, and Les Contes d’Hoffmann have delighted Met audiences, guides this lively staging, where surface charm will meet with real emotion. Mariusz Kwiecien is the blustery sergeant Belcore; Ambrogio Maestri and Erwin Schrott share the role of Dulcamara, the loveable quack and dispenser of the elixir. Maurizio Benini conducts.

OTELLO

Verdi’s Shakespearean masterpiece is back at the Met, starring a “chilling and touching” Johan Botha (Huffington Post) in the title role. Renée Fleming as Desdemona is “sublime” and “knows exactly how to spin the gentle lines of the ‘Willow Song’ and ‘Ave Maria’ so that they softly fill the hall” (New York Times). Falk Struckmann is Iago and Semyon Bychkov conducts. Later in the season, José Cura, Krassimira Stoyanova, and Thomas Hampson take on the principal roles, with Alain Altinoglu on the podium.

TEMPEST

Thomas Adès, Britain’s preeminent contemporary composer, conducts the Met premiere of his Shakespearean masterpiece in a production the New York Times says “should be the most significant artistic statement of the Met season.” Visionary director Robert Lepage’s production, which the Times calls “a dazzling concoction,” conjures a breathtaking world of illusion where Prospero (Simon Keenlyside) practices his magical arts.

CLEMENZA DI TITO

The virtuosic Elina Garanca sings Sesto in Mozart’s drama set in ancient Rome. Giuseppe Filianoti is the noble Tito and Barbara Frittoli is Vitellia, in this handsome revival of one of the composer’s final masterpieces. Harry Bicket conducts.

UN BALLO IN MASCHERA

Accompanied by a thrilling score, Verdi’s vivid characters grapple with life and love, betrayal and death. Director David Alden’s dreamlike setting provides a compelling backdrop for this dramatic story of jealousy and vengeance. Marcelo Álvarez stars as the conflicted king; Sondra Radvanovsky is Amelia, the object of his secret passion; and Dmitri Hvorostovsky is her suspicious husband. Kathleen Kim is the page Oscar, and mezzosoprano powerhouses Dolora Zajick and Stephanie Blythe take turns singing the fortuneteller Ulrica. Fabio Luisi conducts.

AIDA

The Met’s unforgettable production of Verdi’s ancient Egyptian drama stars Liudmyla Monastyrska and Hui He. They share the title role of the enslaved Ethiopian princess caught in a love triangle with the heroic Radamès, played by Marco Berti and Roberto Alagna, and the proud Egyptian princess Amneris, sung by Dolora Zajick and Olga Borodina. Fabio Luisi conducts this revival, which features recent choreography by Alexei Ratmansky.

LES TROYENS

The Met offers a rare opportunity to witness Berlioz’s vast epic, last performed at the Met in 2003. Deborah Voigt, Susan Graham, Marcello Giordani, and Dwayne Croft lead the starry cast, portraying characters from the Trojan War. Met Principal Conductor Fabio Luisi marshals the large-scale musical forces.

MARIA STUARDA

Fresh from her triumph in the Met’s The Enchanted Island, mezzo-soprano Joyce DiDonato, one of the world’s most exciting singers, takes on the virtuosic bel canto role of the doomed Mary, Queen of Scots. Having scored a major success with his production of Anna Bolena, director David McVicar now turns to the second opera of Donizetti’s Tudor trilogy, which explores regal characters at fateful moments of their lives. Elza van den Heever sings Elizabeth I, and Maurizio Benini conducts.

RIGOLETTO

Director Michael Mayer has placed his new production of Verdi’s towering tragedy in Las Vegas in 1960—an ideal setting for this eternal conflict of depravity and innocence. Piotr Beczala is the womanizing Duke, Zeljko Lucic is his tragic sidekick, Rigoletto, and Diana Damrau sings Rigoletto's daughter, Gilda. Diana Damrau is Rigoletto’s daughter—and their victim. Michele Mariotti conducts.

PARSIFAL

Director François Girard’s timeless new vision for Wagner’s final masterpiece explores the many facets of this mystical score, while designer Michael Levine (Eugene Onegin) creates a surreal landscape. Jonas Kaufmann stars in the title role of the innocent who finds wisdom. His fellow Wagnerian luminaries include Katarina Dalayman as the mysterious Kundry, Peter Mattei as the ailing Amfortas, Evgeny Nikitin as the wicked Klingsor, and René Pape as the noble knight Gurnemanz. Daniele Gatti conducts.

FRANCESCA DA RIMINI

Zandonai’s compelling opera, inspired by an episode from Dante’s Inferno, returns in the Met’s ravishingly beautiful production, last seen in 1986. Dramatic soprano Eva-Maria Westbroek and tenor Marcello Giordani are the doomed lovers. Marco Armiliato conducts.

GIULIO CESARE

The opera that conquered London in Handel’s time comes to the Met in David McVicar’s inventive production—which triumphed at its Glyndebourne premiere in 2005. The Guardian praised McVicar’s “witty, sexy, and tragic post-colonial framing of Handel’s Caesar and Cleopatra tale,” which incorporates elements of Baroque theater and 19th-century British imperialism to illuminate the opera’s ideas of love, war, and empire building. The world’s leading countertenor, David Daniels, sings the title role opposite Natalie Dessay as an irresistibly exotic Cleopatra. Baroque specialist Harry Bicket conducts.