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, at 1:00 p.m. 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.
This season opener, along with the rest of the season, will stream at the Sunrise Theater. The Sunrise will be offering a complimentary mimosa to every member of the audience on opening day as a celebration of the new season.
Tickets are $29.50 per opera with season tickets for $236.25—a $265.50 value. To purchase tickets, go to sunrisetheater.com or call the office at (910)-692-3611 or purchase them at the box office starting at 12:30 p.m. the day of the show. For season tickets, please email [email protected] for more information.
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.
“From its beginning, The Met: Live in HD was created to connect the Met to a global audience,” said Peter Gelb, the Met’s General Manager.
Sunrise Operations Manager Katie Ashlyn Collins had this to say: “It’s always a joy to bring opera to our community. It really combines the love I have for music and drama in such a beautiful way—a way that the Sunrise can share with our whole community.”
Contributed by Sunrise Theater.
