The Met: Live in HD
The Sembrich is proud to partner with The Hyde Collection to bring screenings of The Met: Live in HD to our region. Join us before each screening for an exclusive pre-performance program illuminating the production and featuring musicians and scholars from the musical world!
Page Cover Photo: Ailyn Pérez as Florencia Grimaldi in Daniel Catán’s “Florencia en el Amazonas.” Photo: Paola Kudacki / Met Opera
The Met: Live in HD | Madama Butterfly
Extraordinary soprano Asmik Grigorian tackles the demanding role of Cio-Cio-San, the loyal geisha at the heart of Puccini’s devastating tragedy.
The Met: Live in HD | La Rondine
Puccini’s bittersweet love story arrives in cinemas on April 20, with soprano Angel Blue starring as the French courtesan Magda, opposite tenor Jonathan Tetelman as Ruggero, an idealistic young man who offers her an alternative to her life of excess.
The Met: Live in HD | Romeo et Juliette
Two singers at the height of their powers—radiant soprano Nadine Sierra and tenor sensation Benjamin Bernheim—come together as the star-crossed lovers in Gounod’s sumptuous Shakespeare adaptation, with Met Music Director Yannick Nézet-Séguin on the podium to conduct one of the repertoire’s most romantic scores.
The Met: Live in HD | La Forza del Destino
Music Director Yannick Nézet-Séguin conducts Verdi’s grand tale of ill-fated love, deadly vendettas, and family strife, with stellar soprano Lise Davidsen as the noble Leonora, one of the repertory’s most tormented—and thrilling—heroines.
The Met: Live in HD | Carmen
Acclaimed English director Carrie Cracknell brings a vital new production of one of opera’s most enduringly powerful works, reinvigorating the classic story with a staging that moves the action to the modern day and finds at the heart of the drama issues that could not be more relevant today: gendered violence, abusive labor structures, and the desire to break through societal boundaries.
The Met: Live in HD | Nabucco
Baritone George Gagnidze makes his Met role debut as the imperious king Nabucco, alongside soprano Liudmyla Monastyrska reprising her thrilling turn as his vengeful daughter Abigaille.
The Met: Live in HD | Florencia en el Amazonas
Sung in Spanish and inspired by the magical realism of Gabriel García Márquez, Mexican composer Daniel Catán’s 1996 opera tells the enchanting story of a Brazilian opera diva who returns to her homeland to perform at the legendary opera house of Manaus—and to search for her lost lover, who has vanished into the jungle.
The Met: Live in HD | The Magic Flute
The Met’s family-friendly production of Mozart’s dazzling fairy tale returns, sung in English and running under two hours.
The Met: Live in HD | X: The Life and Times of Malcolm X
Theater luminary and Tony-nominated director of Slave Play Robert O’Hara oversees a potent new staging that imagines Malcolm as an Everyman whose story transcends time and space.
The Met: Live in HD | Dead Man Walking
Based on Sister Helen Prejean’s memoir about her fight for the soul of a condemned murderer, Dead Man Walking matches the high drama of its subject with Heggie’s beautiful and poignant music and a brilliant libretto by Tony and Emmy Award–winner Terrence McNally.
The Met: Live in HD | Regional Provider
The Hyde Collection is proud to be the regional provider of the 2023-24 Met Opera Live season. Pre-screening programming is provided in partnership with The Sembrich.