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Season Begins Saturday, October 9
with Boris Godunov!

Afer the longest closure in the Met's history we are thrilled to bring The Met Opera Live in HD back to the big screen at Rialto Cinemas with ten dazzling performances.

The 2021-22 season includes three contemporary premieres, six new productions, Anna Netrebko, René Pape and all of your opera favorites!

Wed, Sep 22 1 & 7pm

Sir David McVicar's ravishing production offers a splendid backdrop for the extraordinary soprano in the title role of the jealous prima donna, Sonya Yoncheva...

Thu, September 23 7pm $15
Benefits the Occidental Arts & Ecology Center

Q&A with stars Guinevere Turner (co-writer/ star of the classic Go Fish, writer of American Psycho, writers and actor on the original L Word, etc.), writer/ director Angie Powers, and the many local cast and crew!

Winner of Best Feature Award at Broad Humor Film Festival 2019 and a Festival Favorite at Cinema Diverse 2019!

A group of friends in their 40's come together the year after helping a friend die with dignity. They didn't do a great job at it, sure, but they did their best, each of them...

National Silent Movie Day
Wed, Sep 29 Only!
(1:00 4:00) 7:00
All Seats $8

"Watching Chaplin's Mutual Comedies is a revelation because one can witness a master filmmaker coming of age." - Los Angeles Times

"Gorgeous presentations of the most breathtakingly stunt-filled and funny pictures from what some consider Charlie Chaplin's most free-wheelingly creative period; these movies are legendary." - RogerEbert.com

2021 marks the 107th anniversary of Charlie Chaplin's first appearance as "The Little Tramp," his chaos-prone but balletically nimble underdog everyman, often unlucky, always plucky and, eventually, iconic the world over.

Sat, Oct 9 10am
Wed, Oct 13 1 & 7pm

Mussorgsky
conductor Sebastian Weigle
production Stephen Wadsworth

starring René Pape, David Butt Philip, Maxim Paster, Aleksey Bogdanov, Ain Anger, Ryan Speedo Green

Bass René Pape, the world's reigning Boris, reprises his tremendous portrayal of the tortured tsar caught between grasping ambition...

Sat, Oct 23 10am
Wed, Oct 27 1 & 7pm

Terence Blanchard / Libretto by Kasi Lemmons
conductor Yannick Nézet-Séguin production James Robinson and Camille A. Brown

starring Will Liverman, Angel Blue, Latonia Moore

Met Music Director Yannick Nézet-Séguin conducts Grammy Award–winning jazz musician and composer Terence Blanchard's adaptation of Charles M. Blow's moving memoir. The first opera by a Black composer presented on the Met stage and featuring a libretto by filmmaker Kasi Lemmons...

Sat, Dec 4 10am
Wed, Dec 8 1 & 7pm

Matthew Aucoin / Libretto by Sarah Ruhl
conductor Yannick Nézet-Séguin
production Mary Zimmerman

starring Erin Morley, Joshua Hopkins, Jakub Józef Orliński, Barry Banks, Nathan Berg

The ancient Greek myth of Orpheus, who attempts to harness the power of music to rescue his beloved Eurydice from the underworld, has inspired composers since opera's earliest days. Rising American composer Matthew Aucoin...

Holiday Special!
Sat, Dec 11 10am

Mozart
production Julie Taymor

starring Ying Huang as Pamina, Matthew Polenzani as Tamino, and Nathan Gunn as Papageno

The Met's first-ever Live in HD transmission—the abridged, English-language version of Mozart's The Magic Flute—returns to cinemas this holiday season. Tony Award–winner Julie Taymor conjures a spellbinding staging...

Sat, Jan 1 10am
Wed, Jan 5 1 & 7pm

Massenet / English translation by Kelley Rourke
conductor Emmanuel Villaume
production Laurent Pelly

starring Isabel Leonard, Emily D’Angelo, Jessica Pratt, Stephanie Blythe, Laurent Naouri

Laurent Pelly's storybook staging of Massenet's Cendrillon is presented with an all-new English translation in an abridged 90-minute adaptation, with mezzo-soprano Isabel Leonard...

Sat, Jan 29 10am
Wed, Feb 2 1 & 7pm

Verdi
conductor Daniele Rustioni
production Bartlett Sher

starring Quinn Kelsey, Rosa Feola, Piotr Beczała, Varduhi Abrahamyan, Quinn Kelsey, Andrea Mastroni

Tony Award¬–winning director Bartlett Sher creates a bold new take on Verdi's timeless tragedy, resetting the opera's action in 1920s Europe, with Art Deco sets by Michael Yeargan and elegant costumes by Catherine Zuber...

Sat, Mar 12 10am
Wed, Mar 16 1 & 7pm

Strauss
conductor Marek Janowski
production Elijah Moshinsky

starring Lise Davidsen, Isabel Leonard, Brenda Rae, Brandon Jovanovich, Sean Michael Plumb, Johannes Martin Kränzle, Thomas Allen

The exhilarating soprano Lise Davidsen makes her Live in HD debut in one of her signature roles, the mythological Greek heroine of Strauss's enchanting masterpiece...

Sat, Mar 26 9am
Wed, Mar 30 12 & 6pm

Verdi
conductor Yannick Nézet-Séguin
production David McVicar

starring Matthew Polenzani, Élisabeth de Valois, Elīna Garanča, Günther Groissböck, John Relyea, Étienne Dupuis

For the first time in company history, the Met presents the original five-act French version of Verdi's epic opera of doomed love among royalty, set against the backdrop of the Spanish Inquisition. Met Music Director Yannick Nézet-Séguin leads a starry cast, including tenor Matthew Polenzani...

Sat, May 7 10am
Wed, May 11 1 & 7pm

Puccini
conductor Marco Armiliato
production Franco Zeffirelli

starring Anna Netrebko, Yonghoon Lee, Ermonela Jaho, Ferruccio Furlanetto

Superstar soprano Anna Netrebko makes her long-awaited Met role debut as Puccini's icy princess—live in cinemas on May 7. Tenor Yonghoon Lee is the bold prince determined to win Turandot's love...

Sat, May 21 10am
Wed, May 25 1 & 7pm

Donizetti
conductor Riccardo Frizza
production Simon Stone

starring Nadine Sierra, Javier Camarena, Artur Ruciński, Matthew Rose

Soprano Nadine Sierra takes on one of the repertory's most formidable and storied roles, the haunted heroine of Donizetti's Lucia di Lammermoor, in an electrifying new staging by Australian theater...

Sat, June 4 10am
Wed, June 8 1 & 7pm

Brett Dean / Libretto by Matthew Jocelyn
conductor Nicholas Carter
production Neil Armfield

starring Allan Clayton, Brenda Rae, Sarah Connolly, Rod Gilfry, John Tomlinson

When Australian composer Brett Dean's Hamlet had its world premiere at the Glyndebourne Festival in 2017, The Guardian declared, "New opera doesn't often get to sound this good... Shakespeare offers a gauntlet to composers that shouldn't always be picked up, but Dean's Hamlet...