The Met Opera’s award-winning series of operas captured live in high definition continues for its 14th year, featuring new productions and premieres, screening concurrently with the New York season.
Ticket prices:
Adults $28 | Seniors $23
2019 - 2020 SeasonDownload our November/December programme.
From: Saturday, 18 January 2020
MET Opera: Madama Butterfly (Exempt)
Anthony Minghella’s vividly cinematic staging returns to cinemas, featuring soprano Hui He in the devastating title role. Pier Giorgio Morandi conducts one of opera’s most beautiful and heartbreaking scores, with a cast that also includes tenor Piero Pretti as Pinkerton and baritone Paulo Szot as Sharpless.
MoreFrom: Saturday, 15 February 2020
MET Opera: Akhnaten (Exempt)
Countertenor Anthony Roth Costanzo headlines American composer Philip Glass’s transcendent contemporary creation, with Karen Kamensek conducting. Phelim McDermott’s stunning production employs a virtuosic company of acrobats and jugglers to conjure a mystical reimagining of ancient Egypt.
MoreFrom: Saturday, 14 March 2020
MET Opera: Wozzeck (Exempt)
Berg’s 20th-century shocker stars baritone Peter Mattei in the title role, with Music Director Yannick Nézet-Séguin on the podium and soprano Elza van den Heever as the long-suffering Marie. Groundbreaking visual artist and director William Kentridge unveils a bold new staging set in an apocalyptic wasteland.
MoreFrom: Saturday, 4 April 2020
MET Opera: The Gershwins' Porgy and Bess (Exempt)
The Gershwins’ modern American masterpiece has its first Met performances in almost three decades, starring bass-baritone Eric Owens and soprano Angel Blue in the title roles.
MoreFrom: Saturday, 2 May 2020
MET Opera: Agrippina (Exempt)
As the imperious title empress, mezzo-soprano Joyce DiDonato leads the Met premiere of Handel’s tale of deception and deceit. Harry Bicket conducts Sir David McVicar’s wry new production, which gives this Baroque black comedy a politically charged, modern updating.
MoreFrom: Saturday, 30 May 2020
MET Opera: The Flying Dutchman (Der Fliegende Holländer) (Exempt)
Sir Bryn Terfel returns to the Met for the first time since 2012, as the mysterious seafarer searching for salvation. Director François Girard, whose mesmerising production of Parsifal recently wowed Met audiences, returns to stage Wagner’s eerie early masterwork.
MoreFrom: Saturday, 20 June 2020
MET Opera: Tosca (Exempt)
Superstar soprano Anna Netrebko appears in her 16th Live in HD transmission, taking on the soaring title diva of Puccini’s grand melodrama. Bertrand de Billy conducts Sir David McVicar’s evocative production, with tenor Brian Jagde as Tosca’s impassioned lover, Cavaradossi, and baritone Michael Volle as the sinister Scarpia.
MoreFrom: Saturday, 18 July 2020
MET Opera: Maria Stuarda (Exempt)
A pseudo-historical opera about Mary, Queen of Scots, and her bitter rivalry with Queen Elizabeth I, Donizetti’s drama thrills with intense stand-offs and impressive vocal displays. Soprano Diana Damrau and mezzo-soprano Jamie Barton square off as two of history’s most formidable monarchs, with Maurizio Benini conducting.
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Ticket Prices
- 2D screenings:
Adults $12 • Seniors $11 • Children (aged 3 to 12) $10 • Two movies same day/person $20 - includes tea or coffee (3D films excluded) - 3D screenings:
All tickets $13 or $45 for family of four (max two adults, children aged 3 to 12) - NT Live:
Adults $25 • Seniors $23 • Full-time students/children $15 • Student groups (10+) $12 each - MET Opera:
Adults $28 • Seniors $23
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