Met Opera Summer Encores 2024

ROSSINI

La Cenerentola

Wednesday, July 31   12:30 & 6:30pm

Rossini’s charming take on the Cinderella story returns to cinemas, starring mezzo-soprano Joyce DiDonato and tenor Juan Diego Flórez in Cesare Lievi’s whimsical production. Fabio Luisi conducts…MORE INFO

Met Opera Summer Encores 2024

PUCCINI

Turandot

Wednesday, August 7   12:30 & 6:30pm

In this 2016 Met performance of Puccini’s extravagant masterpiece, soprano Nina Stemme and tenor Marco Berti star in a larger-than-life staging from legendary director Franco Zeffirelli. Paolo Carignani conducts…MORE INFO

Met Opera Summer Encores 2024

THE GERSHWINS’

PORGY AND BESS

Wednesday, August 14   12:30 & 6:30pm

In an unforgettable Met performance from 2020, one of America’s greatest operas returns, featuring soprano Angel Blue and bass-baritone Eric Owens alongside a phenomenal ensemble cast. David Robertson conducts…MORE INFO

EXHIBITION On Screen

Painting The Modern Garden: Monet to Matisse

ENCORES JUST ADDED! Tuesday, August 13 1 & 7pm

For many great artists the garden has long been considered a desirable subject for the expression of colour, light and atmosphere. Claude Monet is perhaps the most well-known painter of gardens but other greats such as Van Gogh, Pissarro, Matisse and Sargent all viewed the garden as a meaningful focus for their talents…MORE INFO

National Theatre Live

Present Laughter

Thursday, August 15   1 & 7pm

The multi award-winning production of Noël Coward‘s provocative comedy featuring Andrew Scott (Vanya, Fleabag) returns to the big screen. As he prepares to embark on an overseas tour, star actor Garry Essendine’s colorful life is in danger of spiraling out of control. Filmed live during its sold-out run at The Old Vic in 2019…MORE INFO

EXHIBITION On Screen

John Singer Sargent

ENCORES JUST ADDED! Tuesday, August 27 1 & 7pm

John Singer Sargent is known as the greatest portrait artist of his era. What made his ‘swagger’ portraits remarkable was his power over his sitters, what they wore and how they were presented to the audience. Through interviews with curators, contemporary fashionistas and style influencers…MORE INFO

Great Art On Screen

Picasso: A Rebel In Paris

Tuesday, September 24  1 & 7pm

Fifty years after his passing, we embark on a journey through Pablo Picasso’s Paris, amidst sunshine and shadow, convictions and contradictions, from a young, impoverished foreigner to one of the most important icons of the 20th-century. The film moves continuously in and out of the Musée Picasso in Paris, that has the largest existing collection dedicated to the painter…MORE INFO

National Theatre Live

PRIMA FACIE

Thursday, September 26 1 & 7pm

Jodie Comer’s (Killing Eve) Olivier and Tony Award-winning performance in Suzie Miller’s gripping one-woman play returns to cinemas. Tessa is a young, brilliant barrister. She has worked her way up from working class origins to be at the top of her game; defending; cross examining and winning. An unexpected event forces her to confront the lines where the patriarchal power of the law, burden of proof and morals diverge…MORE INFO

Met Opera Live in HD 24-25 Season

OFFENBACH

Les Contes D’Hoffmann

Saturday, October 5   10am
Wednesday, October 9   1 & 6:30pm

Offenbach’s fantastical opera kicks off the Metropolitan Opera’s season of Live in HD performance transmissions, starring French tenor Benjamin Bernheim in the title role of the tormented poet. Joining Bernheim is American soprano Erin Morley as Olympia, South African soprano Pretty Yende as Antonia, and French mezzo-soprano Clémentine Margaine as Giulietta to complete Hoffmann’s trio of lovers… MORE INFO

Great Art On Screen

Munch: Love, Ghosts and Lady Vampires

Tuesday, October 22  1 & 7pm

Munch: Love, Ghosts and Lady Vampires strives to shed new light on Edvard Munch, a profoundly mysterious, fascinating man, a trailblazer and a master for everyone who came after him. Now marks a turning point in our knowledge of the artist: the new MUNCH museum which opened in October 2021 in Oslo houses the immense legacy the artist left to his city: 28,000 works of art including paintings, prints, drawings, notebooks, sketches, photographs and his experiments with film…MORE INFO

Met Opera Live in HD 24-25 Season

JEANINE TESORI

Grounded

Saturday, October 19   10am
Wednesday, October 23   1 & 6:30pm

Tony Award–winning composer Jeanine Tesori’s powerful new opera Grounded premieres at the Metropolitan Opera, wrestling with often-overlooked issues created by 21st-century warmaking: the ethical conflicts created by the use of modern military technology and the psychological and emotional toll supposedly safe remote technology takes on our servicepersons. Canadian mezzosoprano Emily D’Angelo stars as the hot-shot fighter pilot whose unplanned pregnancy takes her out of the cockpit and lands her in Las Vegas, operating a Reaper drone halfway around the world… MORE INFO

EXHIBITION On Screen

Van Gogh: Poets & Lovers

Tuesday, November 12   1 & 7pm
Thursday, December 5   1pm

200 years after its opening and a century after acquiring its first Van Gogh works, the National Gallery is hosting the UK’s biggest ever Van Gogh exhibition. Van Gogh is not only one of the most beloved artists of all time, but perhaps the most misunderstood. This film is a chance to reexamine and better understand this iconic artist…MORE INFO

Met Opera Live in HD 24-25 Season

PUCCINI

Tosca

Saturday, November 23   10am
Wednesday, December 4   1 & 6:30pm

Extraordinary Norwegian soprano Lise Davidsen stars as the passionate title diva in David McVicar’s thrilling production, transmitted live from the Metropolitan Opera stage to cinemas onNovember 23. British-Italian tenor Freddie De Tommaso makes his eagerly anticipated company debut as Tosca’s revolutionary lover, Cavaradossi, and powerhouse American baritone Quinn Kelsey is the sadistic chief of police Scarpia… MORE INFO

Met Opera Live in HD 24-25 Season

VERDI

aIDA

Saturday, January 25   9:30am
Wednesday, January 29   1 & 6:30pm

American soprano Angel Blue headlines as the Ethiopian princess torn between love and country in a new production of Verdi’s Aida by Michael Mayer that brings audiences inside the towering pyramids and gilded tombs of ancient Egypt with intricate projections and dazzling animations. Romanian-Hungarian mezzo-soprano Judit Kutasi also stars as Aida’s rival, Amneris, alongside Polish tenor Piotr Beczała as the soldier Radamès—completing opera’s greatest love triangle… MORE INFO

Great Art On Screen

Perugino: Eternal Renaissance

Tuesday, February 11  1 & 7pm

Journey through Italy to discover Perugino’s great masterpieces, from the frescoes of the Sistine Chapel to the two rooms entirely dedicated to him in the National Gallery of Umbria. Spectators will be led on a guided discovery of the artist’s harmonious work: a perfect balance between man and nature…MORE INFO

EXHIBITION On Screen

DAWN OF IMPRESSIONISM: PARIS 1874

Tuesday, March 11   1 & 7pm
Thursday, April 17   1pm

The Impressionists are the most popular group in art history – millions flock every year to marvel at their masterpieces. But, to begin with, they were scorned, penniless outsiders. 1874 was the year that changed everything; the first Impressionists, “hungry for independence”, broke the mold by holding their own exhibition outside official channels. Impressionism was born and the art world was changed forever…MORE INFO

Met Opera Live in HD 24-25 Season

BEETHOVEN

FIDELIO

Saturday, March 15   10:00am
Wednesday, March 19   1 & 6:30pm

Following a string of awe-inspiring Live in HD performances, Norwegian soprano Lise Davidsen returns to the Metropolitan Opera as Leonore, the faithful wife who risks everything to save her husband from the clutches of tyranny in Beethoven’s Fidelio… MORE INFO

Great Art On Screen

Florence and the Uffizi Gallery

Tuesday, April 8   1 & 7pm

Florence and the Uffizi Gallery is a journey into the Italian Renaissance through the most beautiful, representative works of art of the period. It is a totally immersive and unique experience and allows the audience to see, listen, feel and savor the most outstanding and celebrated breeding ground of creativity in the history of art…MORE INFO

Met Opera Live in HD 24-25 Season

MOZART

Le Nozze Di Figaro

Saturday, April 26   10:00am
Wednesday, April 30   1 & 6:30pm

Mozart’s timeless comedy returns to cinemas worldwide with a live transmission from the Metropolitan Opera. Conductor Joana Mallwitz, in her Met debut, takes the podium to conduct a stellar ensemble cast including American bass-baritone Michael Sumuel as the clever valet Figaro… MORE INFO

Met Opera Live in HD 24-25 Season

STRAUSS

SALOME

Saturday, May 17   10:00am
Wednesday, May 21   1 & 6:30pm

Met Music Director Yannick Nézet-Séguin takes the podium to conduct Strauss’s one-act tragedy, which will be transmitted live from the Metropolitan Opera stage to cinemas worldwide. Leading the company’s first new production of the work in 20 years, Claus Guth, one of Europe’s leading opera directors, gives the biblical story a psychologically perceptive Victorian-era setting. South African soprano Elza van den Heever leads a celebrated cast as the abused and unhinged antiheroine… MORE INFO

EXHIBITION On Screen

Michelangelo: Love and Death

Tuesday, May 20   1 & 7pm
Thursday, June 26   1pm

Spanning his 88 years, Michelangelo: Love and Death takes a cinematic journey through the print and drawing rooms of Europe through the great chapels and museums of Florence, Rome and the Vatican to seek out a deeper understanding of this legendary figure’s tempestuous life, his relationship with his contemporaries and his incredible legacy…MORE INFO

Met Opera Live in HD 24-25 Season

ROSSINI

Il Barbiere Di Siviglia

Saturday, May 31   10:00am
Wednesday, June 4   1 & 6:30pm

The Metropolitan Opera’s 2024–25 Live in HD season comes to a close with a live transmission of Rossini’s effervescent comedy. Russian mezzo-soprano Aigul Akhmetshina headlines a winning ensemble as the feisty heroine, Rosina, alongside American tenor Jack Swanson, in his Met debut, as her secret beloved, Count Almaviva. Moldovan baritone Andrey Zhilikhovsky stars as Figaro, the ingenious barber of Seville, with Hungarian bass-baritone Peter Kálmán as Dr. Bartolo and Russian bass Alexander Vinogradov as Don Basilio rounding out the principal cast… MORE INFO