Metropolitan Opera Live in HD 2024/2025

The Met: Live in HD, the Metropolitan Opera’s award-winning series of live high-definition cinema simulcasts, opens its 18th season on Saturday, October 5, 2024, with a live transmission of Offenbach’s Les Contes d’Hoffmann, which stars acclaimed tenor Benjamin Bernheim in the title role of the tormented poet, alongside sopranos Erin Morley and Pretty Yende and mezzo-soprano Clémentine Margaine. The 2024–25 Live in HD season also features the Met premiere and live transmission of Jeanine Tesori’s new opera Grounded, starring mezzo-soprano Emily D’Angelo; new stagings of Strauss’s Salome by director Claus Guth, with a cast led by soprano Elza van den Heever and baritone Peter Mattei, and Verdi’s Aida, with soprano Angel Blue and tenor Piotr Beczała, directed by Michael Mayer; the first-ever Met Live in HD transmission of Beethoven’s Fidelio, along with Puccini’s Tosca, both featuring soprano Lise Davidsen as she continues to explore the full range of Italian and German dramatic repertoire; Mozart’s Le Nozze di Figaro with an all-star cast; and director Bartlett Sher’s beloved take on Rossini’s Il Barbiere di Siviglia, with opera’s newest star, mezzo-soprano Aigul Akhmetshina, returning to the Met after her hit run this season in the new production of Bizet’s Carmen. Met Music Director Yannick Nézet-Séguin conducts Grounded, Aida, and Salome.

Ticket prize: 5900 HUF
Discounted ticket price: 4900 HUF (in case you buy tickets at once for at least 8 events from the Met Opera 2024/2025 Season)

Jacques Offenbach: Les Contes d’Hoffmann
October 5, 2024, Saturday 7pm - Live Broadcast
Encore: October 13, 2024, Sunday 6pm
Director: Bartlett Sher
Conductor: Marco Armiliato
Cast: Erin Morley (Olympia), Pretty Yende (Antonia/Stella), Clémentine Margaine (Giulietta),Vasilisa Berzhanskaya (Nicklausse/Muse), Benjamin Bernheim (Hoffmann), Aaron Blake (Four Servants), Christian Van Horn (Four Villains)

Jeanine Tesori: Grounded (The Met’s new production)
October 19, 2024, Saturday 7pm - Live Broadcast
Director: Michael Mayer
Conductor: Yannick Nézet-Séguin
Cast: Emily D’Angelo (Jess), Kirsten MacKinnon (Jess), Ben Bliss (Eric), Kyle Miller (Sensor)

Giacomo Puccini: Tosca 
November 23, 2024, Saturday 7pm - Live Broadcast
Encore: December 8, 2024, Sunday 6pm
Director: David McVicar
Conductor: Yannick Nézet-Séguin
Cast: Lise Davidsen (Tosca), Freddie De Tommaso (Cavaradossi), Quinn Kelsey (Scarpia), Patrick Carfizzi (Sacristan)

W. A. Mozart - The Magic Flute (2006)
December 26, 2024, Thursday 11 am
Director: Julie Taymor
Conductor: James Levine
Cast: Erika Miklósa (Queen of the Night), Ying Huang (Pamina), Matthew Polenzani (Tamino), René Pape (Sarastro),Nathan Gunn (Papageno), Jennifer Aylmer (Papagena), Greg Fedderly (Monostatos)

GiuseppeVerdi: Aida (The Met’s new production)
January 25, 2025, Saturday 6.30pm - Live Broadcast
Encore: February 2, 2025, Sunday 6pm
Director: Michael Mayer
Conductor: Yannick Nézet-Séguin
Cast: Angel Blue (Aida), Kutasi Judit (Amneris), Piotr Beczała (Radamès), Quinn Kelsey (Amonasro), Dmitry Belosselskiy (Ramfis), Morris Robinson (King)

Ludwig van Beethoven: Fidelio 
March15, 2025, Saturday 6pm - Live Broadcast
Encore: March, 23, 2025, Sunday 6pm
Director:  Jürgen Flimm
Conductor: Susanna Mälkki
Cast: Lise Davidsen (Leonore), Ying Fang (Marzelline), David Butt Philip (Florestan), Magnus Dietrich (Jaquino), Tomasz Konieczny (Don Pizarro), René Pape (Rocco), Stephen Milling (Don Fernando)

Wolgang Amadeus Mozart: Le Nozze di Figaro
April 26, 2025, Saturday 7pm - Live Broadcast
Encore: May 4, 2025, Sunday 6mp
Director:  Richard Eyre
Conductor:  Joana Mallwitz
Cast: Federica Lombardi (Grófné), Olga Kulchynska (Susanna), Marianne Crebassa (Cherubino), Elizabeth Bishop (Marcellina), Joshua Hopkins (Gróf), Michael Sumuel (Figaro), Maurizio Muraro (Dr. Bartolo)

Richard Strauss: Salome (The Met’s new production)
May 17, 2025, Saturday 7pm – Live Brodcast
Encore: May 25, 2025, Sunday 6pm
Director: Claus Guth
Conductor: Yannick Nézet-Séguin
Cast: Elza van den Heever (Salome), Michelle DeYoung (Heródiás), Gerhard Siegel (Heródes), Piotr Buszewski (Narraboth), Peter Mattei (Jochanaan)

Gioachino Rossini: Il Barbiere di Siviglia
May 31, 2025, Saturday 7pm – Live Brodcast
Encore: June 8, 2025, Sunday 6pm
Director: Bartlett Sher
Conductor: Giacomo Sagripanti
Cast: Aigul Akhmetshina (Rosina), Jack Swanson (Almaviva Gróf), Andrey Zhilikhovsky (Figaro), Kálmán Péter (Dr. Bartolo), Alexander Vinogradov (Don Basilio) 

Operas are screened with Hungarian and English subtitles.

For more general information about the series, please visit the Met's page.