- Season will feature the world-premiere staging of The
Hours, company premieres of Champion and Medea,
and four additional new productions
- Roster of artists to appear on screen include
Piotr Beczała, Lise
Davidsen, Joyce DiDonato,
Renée Fleming, Ryan Speedo Green, Kelli
O'Hara, Ailyn Pérez, Nadine
Sierra, Michael Volle, Sonya
Yoncheva, and more
- Live in HD season kicks off on October 22 with Medea starring Sondra
Radvanovsky
DENVER, July 25,
2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Met: Live in HD, the
Metropolitan Opera's award-winning series of live high-definition
cinema simulcasts, will begin its 16th season on October 22 and will feature ten Saturday matinee
performances broadcast from the Met stage to movie theaters.
Tickets are on sale now through Fathom Events or participating
theater box offices. For a complete list of theater locations,
visit www.fathomevents.com (participating theaters are
subject to change).
In addition to Fathom's live Saturday transmissions, an encore
of each opera will be broadcast in theaters on the following
Wednesday, with presentations in both the afternoon and
evening.
The 2022–23 season begins with a live transmission of
Cherubini's Medea, a Met-premiere production starring
soprano Sondra Radvanovsky in the title role.
In addition to Medea, the 2022–23 Live in HD
season will feature two more company premieres, both led by Met
Music Director Yannick Nézet-Séguin: Kevin Puts's The
Hours, in its world-premiere production, starring the
powerhouse trio of soprano Renée Fleming, mezzo-soprano Joyce DiDonato, and soprano Kelli O'Hara, and the Met premiere of
Terence Blanchard's first
opera, Champion, about the life of boxer Emile Griffith. Four additional new productions
will be presented throughout the season: Giordano's Fedora
with soprano Sonya Yoncheva in the title role; Wagner's
Lohengrin starring tenor Piotr Beczała; and two
Mozart operas conducted by Nathalie
Stutzmann, including a cinematic staging of
Don Giovanni by
Ivo van Hove and
Simon McBurney's production
of Die Zauberflöte, which raises the orchestra pit to allow
interaction with the cast.
"Our 2022–23 Live in HD season picks up where we will
have left off at the end of the current season, with more new
productions and more Met premieres than in recent decades," said
Met General Manager Peter
Gelb. "Our lessons learned during the two years of the
pandemic are that the future of the Met, and of opera, rely upon
ceaselessly breaking new and diverse artistic ground. It's our path
forward."
Live in HD audiences will also have the chance to see
Michael Mayer's celebrated
production of Verdi's La Traviata starring soprano
Nadine Sierra as
Violetta; and the return of two of Robert Carsen's productions, including
Verdi's Falstaff, with baritone Michael Volle singing the title role in his
first Verdi opera at the Met, and Strauss's Der
Rosenkavalier, with soprano Lise Davidsen and mezzo-soprano
Isabel Leonard as the Marschallin and
Octavian.
"We're excited for this next season of The Met: Live
in HD series," said Ray
Nutt, CEO of Fathom Events. "We are always proud
of Fathom's ability to bring the best in live opera to theater
audiences all over the country – especially in communities that may
not have the chance to see such amazing artistry live."
Complete details, including casting, are available below.
2022–23 Live in HD Season at a Glance:
The
Live in HD season will begin on October 22 with Medea and continues with
La Traviata (November 5),
The Hours (December 10),
Fedora (January 14),
Lohengrin (March 18),
Falstaff (April 1), Der
Rosenkavalier (April 15),
Champion (April 29),
Don Giovanni (May 20), and Die Zauberflöte (June 3). All performances will be Saturday
matinees transmitted live from the Met stage. A special encore
screening of The Magic Flute will also be presented on
December 3.
Click here and enter the password MetOpera2020
for
promotional photos for the 2022–23 season.
The Met: Live in HD 2022–23
Schedule
Cherubini's Medea—MET PREMIERE
Live in HD date: October 22, 2022
Encore date: October 26,
2022
Production: David McVicar
Set Designer: David
McVicar
Costume Designer: Doey Lüthi
Lighting Designer: Paule
Constable
Projection Designer: S. Katy
Tucker
Movement Director: Jo
Meredith
Carlo Rizzi (Conductor); Sondra
Radvanovsky (Medea), Janai Brugger
(Glauce), Ekaterina Gubanova
(Neris), Matthew Polenzani
(Giasone), Michele Pertusi
(Creonte)
Having triumphed at the Met in some of the repertory's fiercest
soprano roles, 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.
Verdi's La Traviata—REVIVAL
Live in HD date: November 5, 2022
Encore date: November 9,
2022
Production: Michael Mayer
Set Designer: Christine
Jones
Costume Designer: Susan
Hilferty
Lighting Designer: Kevin
Adams
Choreographer: Lorin Latarro
Daniele Callegari (Conductor);
Nadine Sierra (Violetta Valéry),
Stephen Costello (Alfredo Germont), Luca
Salsi (Giorgio Germont)
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.
Kevin Puts's The Hours—WORLD-PREMIERE
PRODUCTION
Live in HD date: December 10, 2022
Encore date: December 14,
2022
Librettist: Greg Pierce
Production: Phelim
McDermott
Set and Costume Designer: Tom
Pye
Lighting Designer: Bruno
Poet
Projection Designer: Finn
Ross
Choreographer: Annie-B Parson
Dramaturg: Paul Cremo
Yannick Nézet-Séguin (Conductor); Renée Fleming (Clarissa
Vaughan), Kelli O'Hara
(Laura Brown), Joyce DiDonato (Virginia
Woolf), Sean Panikkar
(Leonard Woolf), William Burden (Louis), Kyle Ketelsen (Richard), Brandon Cedel (Dan
Brown),
The world-premiere staging of Kevin Puts's The Hours,
adapted from Michael Cunningham's
acclaimed novel, which also served as the inspiration for the
Oscar-winning film, arrives in cinemas this December. In her highly
anticipated return to the Met, soprano Renée Fleming joins soprano Kelli O'Hara and mezzo-soprano Joyce DiDonato to portray three women from
different eras who grapple with their inner demons and their roles
in society. Phelim McDermott, who
recently created the Met's acclaimed production of Philip Glass's Akhnaten, directs this
compelling drama, and Yannick Nézet-Séguin takes the podium to
conduct Puts's powerful score.
Giordano's Fedora—NEW PRODUCTION
Live in HD date: January 14, 2023
Encore date: January 18,
2023
Production: David McVicar
Set Designer: Charles
Edwards
Costume Designer: Brigitte Reiffenstuel
Lighting Designer: Adam
Silverman
Marco Armiliato (Conductor);
Sonya Yoncheva (Fedora), Rosa Feola
(Olga), Piotr Beczała (Loris Ipanoff), Artur Ruciński (De
Siriex)
Giordano's exhilarating drama Fedora returns to the Met
for the first time in 25 years, starring soprano Sonya Yoncheva in
the title role of the 19th-century princess who falls in love with
her fiancé's murderer, Count Loris, sung by tenor Piotr Beczała.
Soprano Rosa Feola is the Countess
Olga, Fedora's confidante, and baritone Artur Ruciński is the
diplomat De Siriex. Marco Armiliato
conducts David McVicar's intricate
production, with a fixed set that unfolds to reveal the opera's
settings: a palace in St.
Petersburg, a fashionable Parisian salon, and a picturesque
villa in the Swiss Alps.
Wagner's Lohengrin—NEW PRODUCTION
Live in HD date: March 18, 2023
Encore date: March 22,
2023
Production: François Girard
Set and Costume Designer: Tim
Yip
Lighting Designer: David
Finn
Projection Designer: Peter
Flaherty
Choreographer: TBA
Yannick Nézet-Séguin (Conductor); Tamara
Wilson (Elsa), Christine
Goerke (Ortrud), Piotr Beczała (Lohengrin), Evgeny Nikitin (Telramund), Brian Mulligan (Herald), Günther Groissböck
(Heinrich)
Wagner's Lohengrin returns to the Met stage after an
absence of 17 years with this atmospheric new staging by François
Girard. Yannick Nézet-Séguin conducts a 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. Bass-baritone Evgeny Nikitin is Ortrud's power-hungry husband,
Telramund, and bass Günther Groissböck is King Heinrich.
Verdi's Falstaff—REVIVAL
Live in HD date: April 1, 2023
Encore date: April 5,
2023
Production: Robert Carsen
Set Designer: Paul
Steinberg
Costume Designer: Brigitte Reiffenstuel
Lighting Designers: Robert
Carsen and Peter Van
Praet
Daniele Rustioni (Conductor);
Hera Hyesang Park (Nannetta); Ailyn Pérez (Alice Ford); Marie-Nicole Lemieux (Mistress Quickly);
Jennifer Johnson Cano (Meg Page); Bogdan
Volkov (Fenton); Michael
Volle (Falstaff); Christopher
Maltman (Ford)
Verdi's Shakespearean comedy features a brilliant ensemble cast
in Robert Carsen's celebrated
staging. Baritone Michael Volle
sings his first Verdi role at the Met as the caddish knight
Falstaff, gleefully tormented by a trio of clever women who deliver
his comeuppance. Reuniting after their acclaimed performances in
the production's 2019 run are soprano Ailyn Pérez as Alice Ford, soprano Jennifer Johnson Cano as Meg Page, and mezzo-soprano Marie-Nicole Lemieux as Mistress Quickly.
Soprano Hera Hyesang Park and tenor Bogdan
Volkov are the young couple Nannetta and Fenton, and
Daniele Rustioni conducts.
Strauss's Der Rosenkavalier—REVIVAL
Live in HD date: April 15, 2023
Encore date: April 19,
2023
Production: Robert Carsen
Set Designer: Paul
Steinberg
Costume Designer: Brigitte Reiffenstuel
Lighting Designers: Robert
Carsen and Peter Van
Praet
Choreographer: Philippe
Giraudeau
Simone Young (Conductor);
Lise Davidsen (Marschallin),
Isabel Leonard (Octavian),
Erin Morley (Sophie), Katharine Goeldner (Annina), René Barbera
(Italian Singer), Thomas Ebenstein
(Valzacchi), Markus Brück (Faninal), Günther Groissböck
(Baron Ochs)
A stellar trio assembles to take on the lead roles of Strauss's
comedy, with soprano Lise Davidsen
in her Met role debut as the Marschallin, opposite mezzo-soprano
Isabel Leonard in her Met role debut
as Octavian, and soprano Erin Morley
as Sophie. Bass Günther Groissböck returns as Baron Ochs, and Markus Brück is Sophie's
father, Faninal. Maestro Simone
Young takes the podium to oversee Robert Carsen's fin-de-siècle staging.
Terence Blanchard's
Champion—MET PREMIERE
Live in HD date: April 29, 2023
Encore date: May 3,
2023, 2023
Librettist: Michael
Cristofer
Production: James
Robinson
Set Designer: Allen Moyer
Costume Designer: Paul
Tazewell
Lighting Designer: Donald
Holder
Projection Designer: Greg
Emetaz
Choreographer: Camille A.
Brown
Yannick Nézet-Séguin (Conductor); Latonia Moore (Emelda
Griffith), Stephanie Blythe
(Kathy Hagan), Ryan Speedo Green
(Young Emile Griffith), Eric Owens (Emile
Griffith)
Six-time Grammy Award–winning composer Terence Blanchard brings his first opera to the
Met after his Fire Shut Up in My
Bones made history in the 2021–22 season. 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. Soprano Latonia Moore is Emelda
Griffith, the boxer's estranged mother, and mezzo- soprano
Stephanie Blythe is the bar owner
Kathy Hagan. Yannick Nézet-Séguin returns to the podium to conduct
Blanchard's second Met premiere. Director James Robinson, whose productions of Fire
Shut Up in My Bones and Porgy
and Bess brought down the house, oversees the staging.
Camille A. Brown, whose choreography
electrified audiences in Fire and Porgy, also
returns.
Mozart's Don
Giovanni—NEW PRODUCTION
Live in HD date: May
20, 2023
Encore date: May 24,
2023
Production: Ivo van Hove
Set and Lighting Designer: Jan
Versweyveld
Costume Designer: An D'Huys
Projection Designer: Christopher
Ash
Choreographer: Sara Erde
Nathalie Stutzmann (Conductor);
Federica Lombardi (Donna Anna), Ana María Martínez (Donna Elvira), Ying
Fang (Zerlina), Ben Bliss
(Don Ottavio), Peter Mattei (Don
Giovanni), Adam Plachetka
(Leporello), Alfred Walker
(Masetto), Alexander Tsymbalyuk
(Commendatore)
Tony Award–winning director Ivo van
Hove makes his Met debut with a new staging of Mozart's
tragicomedy Don Giovanni. The
tale of deceit and damnation is set in an abstract architectural
landscape that explores the dark corners of the story and its
characters. 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. Sopranos Federica
Lombardi, Ana María Martínez, and Ying Fang are Giovanni's conquests—Donna Anna,
Donna Elvira, and Zerlina—and tenor
Ben Bliss sings Don Ottavio.
Mozart's Die Zauberflöte—NEW PRODUCTION
Live in HD date: June 3, 2023
Encore date: June 7,
2023
Production and Choreography: Simon
McBurney
Set Designer: Michael
Levine
Costume Designer: Nicky
Gillibrand
Lighting Designer: Jean
Kalman
Projection Designer: Finn
Ross
Sound Designer: Gareth
Fry
Nathalie Stutzmann (Conductor);
Erin Morley (Pamina), Kathryn Lewek (Queen of the Night), Lawrence Brownlee (Tamino), Thomas Oliemans (Papageno), Alan Held (Speaker), Stephen Milling (Sarastro), Brenton Ryan (Monostatos)
Nathalie Stutzmann conducts her
second Mozart work this season with a new production of Die
Zauberflöte. In his Met-debut staging, Simon McBurney incorporates projections, sound
effects, and acrobatics to match the spectacle and drama of
Mozart's fable. The brilliant cast includes soprano Erin Morley as Pamina, tenor Lawrence Brownlee 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 Sarastro.
Mozart's The Magic Flute—SPECIAL ENCORE
PRESENTATION
Originally transmitted live on December 30, 2006
Live in HD Encore Date: December 3, 2022
Production: Julie Taymor
Set Designer: George
Tsypin
Costume Designer: Julie
Taymor
Lighting Designer: Donald
Holder
Puppet Designers: Julie
Taymor and Michael Curry
Choreographer: Mark Dendy
English Adaptation: J.D. McClatchy
James Levine (Conductor);
Ying Huang (Pamina), Erika Miklósa
(Queen of the Night), Matthew
Polenzani (Tamino), Greg
Fedderly (Monostatos), Nathan
Gunn (Papageno), David
Pittsinger (Speaker), René Pape (Sarastro)
The Met made history in December
2006 when it presented its first Live in HD
transmission to cinemas worldwide—the abridged English-language
version of Mozart's The Magic Flute. Julie Taymor's whimsical production features a
winning ensemble, including tenor Matthew
Polenzani, baritone Nathan
Gunn, and bass René Pape. The opera returns to select movie
theaters in a special encore presentation during the holiday
season.
About The Met: Live in HD
The Met: Live in
HD series has made the Met the world's leading provider of
alternative cinema content and the only arts institution with an
ongoing global series of this scale. When the series launched in
2006, the Met was the first arts company to experiment with
alternative cinema content. Since then, the program has expanded,
with more than 29.4 million tickets sold to date and robust
attendance in the world's five largest cinema markets: the United States, Germany, Canada, France, and the United Kingdom. In North America, weekend box office ratings also
remain strong, often placing Live in HD presentations among
the weekend's top 15 highest-grossing films.
The Met: Live in HD series has increased
accessibility to Met performances for audiences around the world.
With a global average ticket price of $23, the series has made world-class performances
accessible to millions of opera lovers each season.
Met artists serve as hosts for the Live in HD series,
providing background on the operas, introducing exciting
behind-the-scenes features, and conducting live interviews with
stars, crew, and production teams.
The Met: Live in HD series is made possible by a
generous grant from its founding sponsor, the Neubauer Family
Foundation. Digital support of The Met: Live in HD is
provided by Bloomberg Philanthropies. The Met: Live in HD
series is supported by Rolex. The HD broadcasts are also supported
by Toll Brothers, America's luxury homebuilder®.
For more information about The Met: Live in HD,
visit metopera.org/hd.
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