The Met’s popular Summer HD Festival, first presented in 2009, returns on August 28 with screenings of ten productions from the company’s Peabody and Emmy Award-winning Live in HD series. The HD productions will be shown in Lincoln Center Plaza on consecutive nights—for free.
The series kicks off with Luc Bondy’s season-opening new production of Puccini’s Tosca, starring Karita Mattila and Marcelo Álvarez, and features two more of 2009–10’s new productions: Tony-Award winner Bartlett Sher’s staging of Offenbach’s Les Contes d’Hoffmann, conducted by James Levine and starring Joseph Calleja, Anna Netrebko, and Alan Held, will be seen on September 1, and Richard Eyre’s acclaimed production of Bizet’s Carmen, with Elīna Garanča and Roberto Alagna in the leading roles, concludes the series on September 6.
The screenings are free with no tickets required; 2,800 seats will be available each night on a first-come, first-served basis. There are no rain dates.
New! For your convenience–and comfort–during the HD Festival:
- We have extended box office hours until 8 pm.
- The Met Opera Shop will remain open 30 minutes after each performance.
- Met seat cushions are available for sale at the Opera Shop. Or call 212-501-3482 to order one now.
- The following restaurants in the Lincoln Center area are offering special boxed dinner packages for audiences to enjoy during the Summer HD Festival screenings: Bar Boulud, Sushi A-Go-Go, and 'wichcraft. Learn more.
The Met’s Summer HD Festival is made possible by The Neubauer Family Foundation and Macy’s and Bloomingdale’s.
The Met: Live in HD series is made possible by a generous grant from its founding sponsor, The Neubauer Family Foundation.
Bloomberg is the global corporate sponsor of The Met: Live in HD.
Here is the full schedule.