The following is a list of live opera and ballet productions announced to be shown in movie theatres and on television. Please submit updates to [email protected].
GROUNDED
• U.S. Broadcast Date: October 19, 2024
• Genre: Opera
• Theatre: Metropolitan Opera House, New York
• Director: Michael Mayer
• Composer: Jeanine Tesori
• Cast: Emily D’Angelo, Kirsten MacKinnon, Ben Bliss, Kyle Miller
• The Metropolitan Opera performs Tesori's opera based on librettist George Brant’s play about a hot-shot fighter pilot whose unplanned pregnancy takes her out of the cockpit and into operating a drone halfway around the world.
• More Information: The Metropolitan Opera
ÉMIGRÉ
• U.S. Broadcast Date: October 25, 2024
• Genre: Opera
• Theatre: David Geffen Hall, New York
• Director: Mary Birnbaum
• Composer: Aaron Zigman
• Cast: Meigui Zhang, Diana Newman, Huiling Zhu, Matthew White, Arnold Livingston Geis, Andrew Dwan, Shenyang
• The New York Philharmonic performs a semi-staged production of Zigman's oratorio telling the story of Jewish refugees in World War II Shanghai.
• More Information: PBS
TOSCA
• U.S. Broadcast Date: November 23, 2024
• Genre: Opera
• Theatre: Metropolitan Opera House, New York
• Director: David McVicar
• Composer: Giacomo Puccini
• Cast: Lise Davidsen, Freddie De Tommaso, Quinn Kelsey
• The Metropolitan Opera performs Puccini's opera about a painter who runs afoul of the Chief of Police, and the singer who tries to save him.
• More Information: The Metropolitan Opera
AIDA
• U.S. Broadcast Date: January 25, 2025
• Genre: Opera
• Theatre: Metropolitan Opera House, New York
• Director: Michael Mayer
• Composer: Giuseppe Verdi
• Cast: Angel Blue, Judit Kutasi, Piotr Beczała, Quinn Kelsey, Dmitry Belosselskiy, Morris Robinson
• The Metropolitan Opera performs Verdi's opera set in ancient Egypt, about an Ethiopian princess torn between love and country.
• More Information: The Metropolitan Opera
FIDELIO
• U.S. Broadcast Date: March 15, 2025
• Genre: Opera
• Theatre: Metropolitan Opera House, New York
• Director: Jürgen Flimm
• Composer: Ludwig van Beethoven
• Cast: Lise Davidsen, Ying Fang, David Butt Philip, Magnus Dietrich, Tomasz Konieczny, René Pape, Stephen Milling
• The Metropolitan Opera performs Beethoven's opera about a woman who risks everything to save her husband from the clutches of tyranny.
• More Information: The Metropolitan Opera
LE NOZZE DI FIGARO
• U.S. Broadcast Date: April 26, 2025
• Genre: Opera
• Theatre: Metropolitan Opera House, New York
• Director: Richard Eyre
• Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
• Cast: Federica Lombardi, Olga Kulchynska, Marianne Crebassa, Elizabeth Bishop, Joshua Hopkins, Michael Sumuel, Maurizio Muraro
• The Metropolitan Opera performs Mozart's comic opera that tests the romantic bonds of two couples over the course of one eventful day.
• More Information: The Metropolitan Opera
SALOME
• U.S. Broadcast Date: May 17, 2025
• Genre: Opera
• Theatre: Metropolitan Opera House, New York
• Director: Claus Guth
• Composer: Richard Strauss
• Cast: Elza van den Heever, Michelle DeYoung, Gerhard Siegel, Piotr Buszewski, Peter Mattei
• The Metropolitan Opera performs Strauss's opera based on the play by Oscar Wilde.
• More Information: The Metropolitan Opera
IL BARBIERE DI SIVIGLIA
• U.S. Broadcast Date: May 31, 2025
• Genre: Opera
• Theatre: Metropolitan Opera House, New York
• Director: Bartlett Sher
• Composer: Gioachino Rossini
• Cast: Aigul Akhmetshina, Jack Swanson, Andrey Zhilikhovsky, Peter Kálmán, Alexander Vinogradov
• The Metropolitan Opera performs Rossini's comic opera about the titular barber who helps two young lovers in their quest to be together.
• More Information: The Metropolitan Opera
