Met at the Hett

Be part of a worldwide audience from a "better than front row seat" for the New York's Metropolitan Opera Emmy award-winning "Live in HD" series of high-definition simulcast transmissions to over a million viewers in 35 countries. For more information on each opera, visit the Metropolitan Opera website.

Seating is general admission. Programs and casting are subject to change.

L'Elisir d'Amore (Donizetti):
Met at the Hett

Saturday, October 13, 2012 @ 12:00 p.m. - Metropolitan Opera broadcasts live in HD

Anna Netrebko and Matthew Polenzani star in Bartlett Sher's new production of one of the greatest comic gems in opera, as the fickle Adina and her besotted Nemorino. Mariusz Kwiecien is the blustery sergeant Belcore and Ambrogio Maestri is Dulcamara, the loveable quack and dispenser of the elixir. Maurizio Benini conducts.

 

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Otello (Verdi): Met at the Hett

Saturday, October 27, 2012 @ 12:00 p.m. - Metropolitan Opera broadcasts live in HD

Verdi’s Shakespearean masterpiece returns to the Met with Johan Botha in the title role opposite the acclaimed Desdemona of star soprano Renée Fleming. Semyon Bychkov conducts.

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The Tempest (Adès): Met at the Hett

Saturday, November 10, 2012 @ 12:00 p.m. - Metropolitan Opera broadcasts live in HD

Composer Thomas Adès conducts the Metropolitan Opera premiere of his own work, with baritone Simon Keenlyside starring as Prospero. Director Robert Lepage recreates the interior of 18th-century La Scala in this inventive staging.

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La Clemenza di Tito (Mozart): Met at the Hett

Saturday, December 1, 2012 @ 12:00 p.m. - Metropolitan Opera broadcasts live in HD

The virtuosic Elīna Garanča sings Sesto in Mozart’s drama set in ancient Rome. Giuseppe Filianoti is the noble Tito and Barbara Frittoli is Vitellia, in this handsome revival of one of the composer’s final masterpieces. Harry Bicket conducts.

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Un Ballo in Maschera (Verdi):
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Saturday, December 8, 2012 @ 12:00 p.m. - Metropolitan Opera broadcasts live in HD

Director David Alden’s dreamlike setting provides a compelling backdrop for this dramatic story of jealousy and vengeance. Marcelo Álvarez stars as the conflicted king; Sondra Radvanovsky is Amelia, the object of his secret passion; and Dmitri Hvorostovsky is her suspicious husband. Kathleen Kim is the page Oscar, and Stephanie Blythe sings the role of the fortune-teller Ulrica. Fabio Luisi conducts.

 

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Aida (Verdi): Met at the Hett

Saturday, December 15, 2012 @ 12:00 p.m. -
Metropolitan Opera broadcasts live in HD

The Met's unforgettable production of Verdi's ancient Egyptian drama stars Liudmyla Monastyrska as the enslaved Ethiopian princess caught in a love triangle with the heroic Radamès, played by Roberto Alagna, and the proud Egyptian princess Amneris, sung by Olga Borodina. Fabio Luisi conducts.

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Les Troyens (Berlioz): Met at the Hett

Saturday, January 5, 2013 @ 11:00 a.m. -
Metropolitan Opera broadcasts live in HD

The Met offers a rare opportunity to witness Berlioz’s vast epic, last performed at the Met in 2003. Deborah Voigt, Susan Graham, Marcello Giordani, and Dwayne Croft lead the starry cast, portraying characters from the Trojan War. Met Principal Conductor Fabio Luisi marshals the large-scale musical forces.

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Maria Stuarda (Donizetti):
Met at the Hett

Saturday, January 19, 2013 @ 12:00 p.m. - Metropolitan Opera broadcasts live in HD

Mezzo-soprano Joyce DiDonato, one of the world’s most exciting singers, takes on the virtuosic bel canto role of the doomed Mary, Queen of Scots. Director David McVicar turns to the second opera of Donizetti’s Tudor trilogy, which explores regal characters at fateful moments of their lives. Elza van den Heever sings Elizabeth I, and Maurizio Benini conducts.

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Rigoletto (Verdi): Met at the Hett

Sunday, February 17, 2013 @ 12:00 p.m. -
This show will not be shown live (tape delay of live 2/16/13 broadcast).

Director Michael Mayer has placed his new production of Verdi’s towering tragedy in Las Vegas in 1960. In this production, inspired by the antics of the Rat Pack, Piotr Beczala is the womanizing Duke of Mantua, Željko Lucic is his tragic sidekick, Rigoletto, and Diana Damrau is Rigoletto's daughter, Gilda.

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Parsifal (Wagner): Met at the Hett

Saturday, March 2, 2013 @ 11:00 a.m. - Metropolitan Opera broadcasts live in HD

onas Kaufmann stars in the title role of the innocent who finds wisdom in François Girard's new vision for Wagner's final masterpiece. His fellow Wagnerian luminaries include Katarina Dalayman as the mysterious Kundry, Peter Mattei as the ailing Amfortas, Evgeny Nikitin as the wicked Klingsor, and René Pape as the noble knight Gurnemanz. Daniele Gatti conducts.

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Francesca da Rimini (Zandonai): Met at the Hett

Saturday, March 16, 2013 @ 11:00 a.m. - Metropolitan Opera broadcasts live in HD

Zandonai's compelling opera, inspired by an episode from Dante's Inferno, returns in the Met's ravishingly beautiful production, last seen in 1986. Dramatic soprano Eva-Maria Westbroek and tenor Marcello Giordani are the doomed lovers. Marco Armiliato conducts.

$18 adults, $15 seniors, $10 student/child 

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Giulio Cesare (Handel): Met at the Hett

Saturday, April 27, 2013 @ 11:00 a.m. - Metropolitan Opera broadcasts live in HD

The opera that conquered London in Handel’s time comes to the Met in David McVicar’s lively production. The world’s leading countertenor, David Daniels, sings the title role opposite Natalie Dessay as an irresistibly exotic Cleopatra. Baroque specialist Harry Bicket conducts.

$18 adults, $15 seniors, $10 student/child