“The Met: Live in HD”, the Metropolitan Opera’s award-winning series of live high-definition cinema simulcasts, will begin its 16th season at select Ster-Kinekor and Cinema Nouveau theatres from tomorrow, 18 November 2022.
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All the productions will be screened at the following sites:
- Western Cape: The V&A Waterfront, Blue Route Mall, Garden Route Mall and Somerset Mall
- Gauteng: Rosebank Mall, Bedford Centre, and Brooklyn Mall
- KwaZulu-Natal: Gateway Umhlanga
The season opens with 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 the 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 Beczala; 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 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 Marschalin and Octavian.
The full schedule:
MEDEA (Luigi Cherubini)
NEW PRODUCTION Filmed live on October 22, 2022 |
18, 19, 20, 22 November 2022
Tentative run time: 190 minutes |
LA TRAVIATA (Verdi)
REVIVAL Filmed live on November 5, 2022 |
02, 03, 04, 06 December 2022
195 minutes |
THE HOURS (Kevin Puts)
NEW PRODUCTION Filmed live on December 10, 2022 |
06, 07, 08, 10 January 2023
195 minutes |
FEDORA (Umberto Giordano)
NEW PRODUCTION Filmed live on January 14, 2023 |
10, 11, 12, 14 February 2023
165 minutes |
LOHENGRIN (Richard Wagner)
NEW PRODUCTION Filmed live on March 18, 2023 |
14, 15, 16, 18 April 2023
295 minutes |
FALSTAFF (Verdi)
Filmed live on April 01, 2023 |
05, 06, 07, 09 May 2023
180 minutes |
DER ROSENKAVALIER (R. Strauss)
REVIVAL Filmed live on April 15, 2023 |
26, 27, 28, 30 May 2023
285 minutes |
CHAMPION (Terence Blanchard)
NEW PRODUCTION Filmed live on April 29, 2023 |
16, 17, 18, 20 June 2023
210 minutes |
DON GIOVANNI (Mozart)
NEW PRODUCTION Filmed live on May 20, 2023 |
30 June & 01, 02, 04 July 2023
195 minutes |
DIE ZAUBERFLÖTE (Mozart)
(NEW PRODUCTION) Filmed live on June 03, 2023 |
14, 15, 16, 17 July 2023
210 minutes |
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