MET Opera HD LIVE 2023-24 Season

The Met returns to the Big Screen this October with their 2023-24 season of live movie theatre transmissions. This season features an extraordinary lineup, including exciting company premieres, new productions, and classic repertory favourites.

What began as an experiment 17 years ago has become a staple experience for music lovers all around the world. The 2023–24 season in movie theatres reflects how opera is changing at the Met, where they’re balancing timeless classics with accessible new work that is advancing the art form and attracting younger and more diverse audiences.

When the Metropolitan Opera was founded in 1883 — and for the first decades of its existence — new and recent work by the likes of Verdi, Wagner, and Puccini were the norm. And as the largest performing-arts company in the United States and the country’s premier opera house, The Met will continue to present the music of these great composers long after their operas have come to define the standard repertory. But for the art form to continue, new works need to be presented — and the Met has made that a priority in their programming.

The upcoming cinema season will present three Met premieres, starting with Jake Heggie’s Dead Man Walking, based on the memoir by Sister Helen Prejean and featuring extraordinary mezzo-soprano Joyce DiDonato. In November, the Met will present Anthony Davis’s X: The Life and Times of Malcolm X, with baritone Will Liverman as the legendary civil-rights leader. Then, soprano Ailyn Pérez headlines the late Mexican composer Daniel Catán’s Florencia en el Amazonas, just the third Spanish-language opera in Met history.

Two new productions of popular favourites are sure to be highlights of the season as well. Director Carrie Cracknell makes her Met debut with a new production of Bizet’s Carmen, with rising mezzo-soprano Aigul Akhmetshina in the title role. And superstar soprano Lise Davidsen features in a new production of Verdi’s La Forza del Destino, the first Met performances of this stirring drama since 2006.

Of course, the Met will also present top-notch revivals featuring the world’s greatest singers, including leading soprano Liudmyla Monastyrska as Abigaille in Verdi’s Nabucco, Gounod’s Roméo et Juliette with radiant soprano Nadine Sierra and acclaimed tenor Benjamin Bernheim as the star-crossed lovers, incandescent soprano Angel Blue headlining Puccini’s La Rondine, and the highly anticipated Met debut of soprano Asmik Grigorian in the title role of Puccini’s Madama Butterfly.

Met: Live in HD is the largest provider of alternative cinema content in the world, with more than 30 million tickets sold since the inception of the series in 2006. The series brings live Met performances to more than 2,200 movie theatres and performing arts centres in more than 70 countries.

 

PRICING

Tickets for the 2023-2024 scheduled performances listed on this page are now on sale at participating locations' Box Office and Concession, as well as online through the links below.

SINGLE PERFORMANCE PRICING

Location General
(3-65+)
Landmark Cinemas 24 Kanata $24.95
Landmark Cinemas 16 Country Hills Calgary $24.95
Landmark Cinemas 12 Guildford Surrey $24.95
Landmark Cinemas 10 Kingston $24.95
Landmark Cinemas 10 Pen Centre St. Catharines* $24.95
Landmark Cinemas 8 London $24.95
Landmark Cinemas 7 Penticton $24.95
Landmark Cinemas Rialto Courtenay $24.95
Landmark Cinemas 5 Showcase Campbell River $24.95

All prices include applicable taxes.
*Advanced ticket sales may not be available at Landmark Cinemas 10 Pen Centre St. Catharines – check showtimes weekly for available performances.

PERFORMANCES

MET Opera: Dead Man Walking

October 21, 2023 | 194 min | Event: Opera
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American composer Jake Heggie’s masterpiece, the most widely performed new opera of the last 20 years, has its highly anticipated Met premiere, in a haunting new production by Ivo van Hove.click for more

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MET Opera: X: The Life Of Malcolm X

November 18, 2023 | 222 min | Event: Opera
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Anthony Davis’s groundbreaking and influential opera, which premiered in 1986, arrives at the Met at long last. Theater luminary and Tony-nominated director of Slave Play Robert O’Hara overseesclick for more

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MET Opera: Florencia En El Amazonas

December 9, 2023 | 155 min | Event: Opera
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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 returnsclick for more

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MET Opera: Nabucco

January 6, 2024 | 186 min | Event: Opera
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Ancient Babylon comes to life in a classic Met staging of biblical proportions. Baritone George Gagnidze makes his Met role debut as the imperious king Nabucco, alongside soprano Liudmyla Monastyrska reprisingclick for more

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MET Opera: Carmen

January 27, 2024 | 224 min | Event: Opera
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The Met begins the New Year with a vital new production of one of opera’s most enduringly powerful works. Acclaimed English director Carrie Cracknell makes her Met debut, reinvigorating the classic storyclick for more

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MET Opera: La Forza Del Destino

March 9, 2024 | 262 min | Event: Opera
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Yannick Nézet-Séguin conducts Verdi’s grand tale of ill-fated love, deadly vendetta, and family strife, with stellar soprano Lise Davidsen following a string of recent Met triumphs with her role debut as theclick for more

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MET Opera: Romeo Et Juliette

March 23, 2024 | 211 min | Event: Opera
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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 adaptationclick for more

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MET Opera: La Rondine

April 20, 2024 | 167 min | Event: Opera
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Puccini’s bittersweet love story makes a rare Met appearance, with soprano Angel Blue starring as the French courtesan Magda, opposite tenor Jonathan Tetelman in his highly anticipated companyclick for more

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MET Opera: Madama Butterfly

May 11, 2024 | 195 min | Event: Opera
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Three extraordinary sopranos—Aleksandra Kurzak, Eleonora Buratto, and Asmik Grigorian (in her highly anticipated Met debut)—tackle the demanding role of Cio-Cio-San, the loyal geisha at the heart ofclick for more

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ABOUT the Metropolitan Opera

The MET Opera

Known as the venue for the world’s greatest voices, The Metropolitan Opera was founded in 1883, with its first opera house built on Broadway and 39th Street by a group of wealthy businessmen who wanted their own theatre. In the company’s early years, the management changed course several times, first performing everything in Italian (even Carmen and Lohengrin), then everything in German (even Aida and Faust), before finally settling into a policy of performing most works in their original language, with some notable exceptions.

The Metropolitan Opera is a vibrant home for the most creative and talented singers, conductors, composers, musicians, stage directors, designers, visual artists, choreographers, and dancers from around the world. The Met has been elevating its theatrical standards by significantly increasing the number of new productions, staged by the most imaginative directors working in theatre and opera, and has launched a series of initiatives to broaden its reach internationally. These efforts to win new audiences prominently include the successful Live in HD series of high-definition performance transmissions to movie theatres everywhere.

 


 

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