The Warner Theatre is excited to announce its 2016-17 Met Opera: Live in HD Season, featuring 10 operas, 5 new to the series, and 2 encores, streaming live from the Met. A complimentary pre-opera lecture will be offered to all ticketholders in the Nancy Marine Studio Lobby for 45 minutes of pre-opera information and entertainment, 2 hours before broadcast. Full and Half Season Subscriptions are available.
October 8, 2016 at 12:00 pm - Wagner's TRISTAN UND ISOLDE (New Production): The Met season opens with a new production by Mariusz Treli?ski (the director responsible for last season's double billing of Iolanta and Bluebeard's Castle), and will be well served by a cast of outstanding Wagnerians:
Nina Stemme as Isolde, Stuart Skelton as Tristan, Ekaterina Gubanova as Bragäne and Re?e Pape as King Marke, with
Sir Simon Rattle conduction in one of his rare appearance as the Met. Approx. Runtime: 5:15
October 22, 2016 at 12:55 pm - Mozart's DON GIOVANNI: Three charismatic singers,
Simon Keenlyside, Ildar Abdrazakov and
Mariusz Kwiecien, share the role of the title hero, who goes to hell in a dazzling coup de théâtre. The ensemble of great Mozartean singers includes
Isabel Leonard, Angela Meade,
Matthew Polenzani,
Marina Rebeka,
Erwin Schrott, Ramón Vargas and Rolando Villazón. Fabio Luisi and
Plácido Domingo conduct. Approx. Runtime: 3:45
January 7, 2017 at 12:55 pm - Verdi's NABUCCO: The legendary
Plácido Domingo brings another new baritone role to the Met under the baton of his longtime collaborator
James Levine. Liudmyla Monastyrska is Abigaille, the warrior woman determined to rule empires, and
Jamie Barton is the heroic Fenena. Dmitri Belosselskiy is the stentorian voice of the oppressed Hebrew people. Approx. Runtime: 3:05
January 21, 2017 at 12:55 pm - ROMÉO ET JULIETTE (New Production):When
Diana Damrau and
Vittorio Grigolo starred opposite each other in Manon at the Met in 2015, the New York Times said, "the temperature rises nearly to boiling every time Damrau and Grigolo are on stage together." Now they're back as opera's classic lovers, in Gounod's lush Shakespeare adaptation. The production, by director
Bartlett Sher, has already won acclaim for its vivid 18th-century milieu and stunning costumes during runs at Salzburg and La Scala. Gianandrea Noseda conducts the sumptuous score. Approx. Runtime: 3:30
February 4, 2017 at 12:55 pm - Saariaho's L'AMOUR DE LOIN (Encore Presentation): Finnish composer Kaija Saariaho's breakthrough opera was described by the New York Times as "transfixing...a lushly beautiful score." Commissioned by the Salzburg Festival, where it was first seen in 2000, it will now finally have its Metropolitan Opera premiere in a dazzling new production by
Robert Lepage, featuring glimmering ribbons of LED lights that extend across the length of the stage and over the orchestra pit.
Eric Owens is the knight on a quest of love and
Susanna Phillips is his lover on the other side of the sea. Conductor Susanna Mälkki makes her Met debut. Approx. Runtime: 3:00
March 4, 2017 at 12:55 pm - Dvo?ák's RUSALKA (New Production - Encore Presentation in the Main Theatre): Kristine Opolais stars in the role that helped launch her international career, the mythical Rusalka, who sings the haunting "Song to the Moon."
Mary Zimmerman brings her wondrous theatrical imagination to Dvo?ák's fairytale of love and longing, rejection and redemption.
Brandon Jovanovich,
Jamie Barton,
Katarina Dalayman, and
Eric Owens complete the all-star cast, and Mark Elder conducts. Approx. Runtime: 4:05
March 11, 2017 at 12:55 pm - Verdi's LA TRAVIATA: Sonya Yoncheva sings one of opera's most beloved heroines, the tragic courtesan Violetta, a role in which she triumphed on the Met stage in 2015, opposite Michael Fabiano as her lover, Alfredo, and
Thomas Hampson as his father, Germont. Carmen Giannattasio sings later performances of the title role opposi
Te Atalla Ayan, with the great
Plácido Domingo as Germont. Nicola Luisotti conducts. Approx. Runtime: 2:55
March 25, 2017 at 12:55 pm - Mozart's IDOMENEO: Mozart's first operatic masterpiece returns to the Met in the classic Jean-Pierre Ponnelle production, conducted by Music Director
James Levine. The superb ensemble includes
Matthew Polenzani as the king torn by a rash vow; mezzo-soprano
Alice Coote in the trouser role of his noble son Idamante; soprano
Nadine Sierra as Ilia; and soprano Elza van den Heever as the volatile Elettra, who loves Idamante to the bounds of madness. Approx. Runtime: 4:20
April 22, 2017 at 12:55 pm - Tchaikovsky's EUGENE ONEGIN: Tchaikovsky's setting of Pushkin's timeless verse novel is presented on the Met stage in
Deborah Warner's moving production, starring
Anna Netrebko and Dmitri Hvorostovsky as Tatiana and Onegin. Alexey Dolgov sings the role of Lenski, and Robin Ticciati conducts. Approx. Runtime: 4:00
May 13, 2017 at 12:30 pm - Strauss's DER ROSENKAVALIER (New Production): The dream cast of Renée Fleming as the Marschallin and El?na Garan?a as Octavian star in Strauss's grandest opera. In his new production,
Robert Carsen, the director behind the Met's recent Falstaff, places the action at the end of the Habsburg Empire, underscoring the opera's subtext of class and conflict against a rich backdrop of gilt and red damask, in a staging that also stars Günther Groissböck as Baron Ochs. Sebastian Weigle conducts the sparklingly perfect score. Approx. Runtime: 4:50
Full and Half Season Subscriptions are available. Call
(860) 489-7180 x 189 for more information on subscriptions. Single ticket price $27, Senior ticket $25, Student ticket (with ID) $20, Child ticket $16. For single tickets, call the Warner Box Office at
(860) 489-7180.
The 2016-17 Met Opera Live in HD Series is underwritten by Viron Rondo Osteria. The 2016-17 Met Opera Lecture Series is underwritten by Mitchell Auto Group.
