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Verdi's Rewuiem" The Met Remembers 9/11
In commemeoration of the 20th Aniversary of 9/11, Musical director Yannick Nezet-Séguin leads a special performance of Verdi's stirring Requiem, featuring the incomparable MetOrchestra and Chorus and fu=our of today's moat compelling artists - Ailyn Pérez, mezzo-soprano Elïna Garanca, tenor Matthew Polenzani, and bass-baritoe Eric Owens. The concert will also be broadcast live on PBS hosed by Mary Copeland. LEARN MORE
Please note that all attendees must wear a facemask while inside the Met and provide proof of full vaccination againdt COVID-19.
Met Opera on Demand
It's the last week to save on the Met's popular streaming service. With this special offer, you can access a full year of extraordinary opera fir just US$99.99.
Relive unfoprgettable Met moments and explore the full catalog of more than 750 complete performancvces-including Live on HD transmissions, classic telecasts, and historic radio broadcasts-anytime, anywhere on all your favourite devices. SUBSCRIBE NOW WATCH TRAILER
At thia time, the Met Opera on Demand apps for Apple TV, iPad, andiPhone are only abailable in the App Store in ther following countires, USA, Albania, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Canada, China, Croatia, Czech Republic, Cyprus, Denmark, Egypt, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, India, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxemberg, Malta, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Rpmania, Russia, Slovalia, South Africa. Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan and UK.
Nightly Opera Streams
During this extraordinary and difficult time, the Metro hopes to brighten the lives of the ausience members evenwhile the stage is dark. Each say, a different encore presentation from the company's Live in HD series is being made avaiable for free streaming on the Met website, with each performance available for a period of 23 hours, from 7.30pm EDT until 6.30pm the following day. The schedule will include outstanding complete performances from the past 14 years of cinema transmissions, starring all of opera's greatest singers.
The streams are also avaible through the Met Opera on Demand, apps for Apple, Amazon, and Roku devices and Samsung Smart TV. To address them without logging in, click "Browse and Preview" in the apps for connected TV and "Explore the App" on tablets and mobile devises/.
Met Stars Live in Concert: New Events!
Last Sunday's breathtaking performance, starring sopranos Atlyn Pérez and Nadine Sierra and mezzo-soprano Isabel Leonardm is available on demand now through to Friday, June 4. 2021. The three dazzling divas sing a program of arias, duets, and trios, transmitted via satellite from the spectacular Royal Opera in Frnace's Palace of Versailles.
Pianist Vlad Iftjnca and guitarist Pablo Sáinz-Villegas accompany the concert, which also includes a selection of enchanting Spanish and Portugese songs.
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Nightly Opera Streams: Black History Month athe the Met, Part II
Enjoy a second week of free Nightly Opera Streams paying tribute to some the remarkable African American stars who have graced the Met stage. Featuring both historic telecasts and recent Live in HD transmissions, the lineup showcases outstanding performances from legendary artists like Jessye Norman, Kathleen Battle and Leona Mitchell, as well as two present-day stars Eric Owens and Nai Brisges. Enhance your viewing experience with a curated collection of related content, including articles, viseos. odcasts, and more.
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Met Stars Live in Concert
Opera's greatest stars perform in a groundgreaking, new series of pay-per-view recitals in striking locations around the globe, each via satellite and shot with multiple cameras. While the Metropolitan Opera HOuse remains dark because of the ongoing health crisis, Meet Stars Live in Concert will allow audiences to experience extraordiary solo and duo performances by top singers - streamed live online - from such locations as a former abbey in Bavaria, a Norwegian castle, an outdoor terrace on a cliff overlooking the Mediterranian Sea, a church in Wales, and an historic mansion in Washington DC.
The series marries the intimacy of the Met's virtual At-Home Gala with the high production value of the company's Live in HD ceries of cinema transmissions.
Tickets for each concert are US$20, and the performances will remain available on demand for 14 days. Each concert will run for approximately 75 minutes. The full schedule os below.
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Area Code: New Episode Streaming Now
Un the latest episde of Metro's Aria Code podcast created with WQXR high-flying soprano Erin Morley dives into the dizzying Foll song from Offenbach's Les Contes d'Hoffman.
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2022-2023 Season
Last week Metro opera annouunced the stunning lineup for the 2022-2023 season and subscritions are on sale now! Audiences will be able to enjoy deven new productions, the most in ten seasons. Including the world-premiere staging of Kevin Put's The Hours which brings topgether sopranos Renée Fleming and Kelli O'Hara and mezzo soprano Joyce DiDonato.
The season also features the company premieres of Cherubini's Medea and Terence Blanchsrd's Champion; Francois Girard's atmospheric new ataging of Wagner's Lohengrin: new productions of two Mozart classics Die Zauberflõte andDon Givanni; and a special New Year's e
ve Gala premiere of Giordano's Fedoraa, featuring soprano Sanya Yoncheva in the title role.
The season also features 16 revivals - a mix of repertory favourites, including La Traviata, Tosca and La Boheme, as well as lesser performed masterpieces Peter Grimes, Dialogues des Carmelites, and Lady Macbeth of Misensk. And during the holiday season, the company will also be bringing back the popular abridged English language version of The Magic Flute.
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On Stage this Month
This May, countertenor Anthony Roth Costanzo returns in the role of Philip Glaee' mesmerising masterpiece Akhaten, and soprano Eleonora Buratto and tenor Yusif Eycazov star as the bohemian lovers Mimi and Rodolfo in a limited run of Puccini's La boheme. And at the end of the month, Stravinsky's innovatiove satire The Rakes Progress takes the stage, featuring tenor Ben Elliss as the pleasure-seeking Tom Rakewell.
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New Productions
Medea
Having triumphed at the Met in some of the repertory's fiercest soprano roles, Sondra Radvanovsky opens the new season as the mythic sorceress who will stop at nothing in her quest for vengeance - a tour de force tole made famous by opera's ultimate diva, Maria Callas. The Met premiere of Cherubini's rarely performed masterpiece marks Radvanovsky's fourth new production with director David McVicar, who also designed the setsd for this vivid, atmospheric staging, simoultaneously classical, updated and timeless. Joining Radvanovsky are tenor Matthew Polenzani as Medea's Argonaut husband, Geadone; soprano Janai Brugger as her rival for ihis love, Glance; bass Michele Pertusi as her father, Creonte, the King of Corinth; and mexxo-soorano Ekaterina Gubanova as Medea's confidante, Neris. In an impressive trifecta at the Met, Maestro Carlo Rizzi conducts Medea, in additionto Don Carlo and Tosca.
Season: September 27 - October 28. 2022.
The Hours
Renée Fleming makes her highly anticipated return to the Met in the world-premiere production of Pulitzer Prize-wunning 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 202 fim version starring Meryl Streep, Julianna Moore, and Nicole Kidman, the powerful sory concerns three women from different eras who eaxh grapple with their inncer demons and their roles in society. The exciting premiere radiates with star power, with Kelli O'Hara and mezzo-soprano Joyce DiDonato joining Fleming as the opera'a trio of heroines, Phelina McDermott-who most recently wowed Met audiences with his staging of Philip Glass's Akhaten-directs this compelling drama, with Met Music Director Yanick Nézet-Séguin on the podium to conduct Put's poignant and powerful score.
Season: November 22 - December 15. 2022
Fedora
Umberto Giordano's exhilerating drama returns to the Met reperetory for the first time in 25 years. Packed with memorablemelody, showstopping arias, and exposive 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 Beezala. Soprano Rosa Feola is the Countess Olga, Fedora;s confidant, and bartone Arthur Rucinski is the diplomat De Siriex, with Met maestro Marco Armiliato condeucting, director Davisd McVicar delivers a detailed and dramatic staging based around an ingenious fixed set that, like a Russian nesting doll, unfolds to reveal the opera;s three distinctive settingsd- a palace on St Petersburg, a fashionable Parisian salon, and a picturesque villa in the Swiss alps.
Season: December 31, 2022 - January 31. 2023
Lohengrin
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 agaqin weds his striking visual style and keen dramatic indight to Wagner's greathtaking music, with Music Director Yannink Nézet-Séguin on gthe podium to cionduct a supreme cast led by tenor Piotr Beezaqla in the title role of the mysterious swan kinght. soprano Tamara Wilson and Elena Stikhina, as the virtuous duchess Elsa, falsely accused of murder, go head-tohead with soprano Christine Goerke as the cunning sorceress Ortrud who seeks to lay her low. Bass-baritone Evgeny Nikitin is Ortrud's power-hungry husband. Telramund. and bass Gûnther Groissbõck is King Heinrich.
Season: February 26 - April 1. 2023.
Champion
When Terence Blanchard's Fire Shut Up in My Bones opened the Met's 2021-2022 season to universal acclaimm it marked an historic moment in the annals of the company. Now, the six-time Grmmy Award-winning composer's first opera arrives at the Met. Bass-baritone Ryan Speedo Green is the young boxer Emile Griffith, who reises from obscurity to become a world chamion and bass-baritone Eric Owens portrays Griffith's older self, haunted by the ghosts of his past. Soprano Latonia Moore os Emelda Griffith, the boxer'ss estranged mother, and mezzo-soprano Stephanie Blythe is the bar owner Kathy Hagan.
Yannicj Nézet-Séguin is again on the podium for Blanchard;'s second Met premiere, and director James Robinson - whose prodction of Fire and Porgy and Bess brought down the house - oversees the ataging. Camille A. Brown, whose choreography electrified ausiences in Fire and Porgy and Bess, also returns.
Season: April 10 - May 13. 2023.
Don Giovanni
Tony Award-winning director of Broadway's A Viewfrom the Bridge and West Side Story, Ivo van Hove kmakes 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, alongside the Leporello of bass-baritone Adam Plachetka. Soprano Federca Lombardi, Anna Maria Martinezm and Ying Fang make a suprlative trio as Giovanni's conquests-Donna Anna, Donna Elvira, andZerlina-and tenor Ben Bliss as Don Octavio.
Season: May 5 - June 2. 2023.
Die Zauberflõte
One of opera's most beloved works receives its first Mat staging in 19 years - a daring vision by renowned Englidh dorector 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 aucence and allow interjection with the cast. In his Met debut staging, McBurney lets loose a volley of theatrical flourishesm incorporating projenctions, sound erffects, and acrobatics to match the spectacle and drama of Mozart's fable. The brilliant cast includes soprano Erin Morley as Pamina, tenor Lawrence Broenlee as Tamino, baritone Thomas Oliemans in his Met debut as Papageno, soprano Kathryn Lewek as the Queen of the Night, and bass Stephen Milling as Sarasto.
Season: May 19 - June 10. 2023
La Traviata - Live in HD
Soprano Nadine Sierra stars as the self-sacrificing courtedan Violetta - one of the opera's dream 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 Callegri on the podium. this live cinema transmission is part of the Met's award - winning Live in HD seres, bringing opera to movie theatres across the globe
Season: November 5. 2022
The Hours
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 starring Meryl Streep, Julianne Moore, and Nicole Kidman, the powerful story follows three women from different eras who each grapple with their inner demons and their roles in society. The exciting premiere radiates with star power with Kelli O’Hara and Joyce DiDonato joining Fleming as the opera’s trio of heroines. Phelim McDermott directs this compelling drama, with Met Music Director Yannick Nézet-Séguin on the podium to conduct Puts’s poignant and powerful score. This live cinema transmission is part of the Met’s award-winning Live in HD series, bringing opera to movie theaters across the globe.
Season: Saturday December 10. 2022.
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