Click Here to Visit The Met's Website The Met has a 77-year tradition of broadcasting live performances to millions of radio listeners globally on the Toll Brothers–Metropolitan Opera International Radio Network. This offered the springboard for the Live in HD program. Most of the HD transmissions are simulcast on radio. The Live in HD events are enhanced by specially produced features that offer audiences a look behind the scenes. These include live interviews with singers, directors, designers, and stage technicians, as well as documentaries and other short features. Tickets for all live and encore productions are $25.00 per person and can be purchased at the door. Advance reservations are not required. The Cultural Center at Ocean Reef 2017-18 LIVE in HD Metropolitan Opera Schedule Encore: Tuesday, January 13, 2018 – 1:00PM ____________________________________________________________________________________ LIVE: Saturday, January 27, 2018 – 12:55PM ____________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________ LIVE: Saturday, February 24, 2018 – 12:30PM The world’s most popular opera returns in Franco Zeffirelli’s classic production, with a series of exciting casts. Angel Blue, Anita Hartig, and Sonya Yoncheva share the role of the fragile Mimì, with Dmytro Popov, Russell Thomas, and Michael Fabiano alternating as the poet Rodolfo. Alexander Soddy and Marco Armiliato share conducting duties. _____________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________ LIVE: Saturday, March 10, 2018 - 12:55PM Encore: Saturday, March 24, 2018 - 1:00PM Following the rapturous response to his last opera, The Tempest, the Met presents the American premiere of Thomas Adès’s The Exterminating Angel, inspired by the classic Luis Buñuel film of the same name. Hailed by the New York Times at its 2016 Salzburg Festival premiere as “inventive and audacious … a major event,” The Exterminating Angel is a surreal fantasy about a dinner party from which the guests can’t escape. Tom Cairns, who wrote the libretto, directs the new production, and Adès conducts his own adventurous new opera. _____________________________________________________________________________________ LIVE: Saturday, April 14, 2018 – 12:30PM _____________________________________________________________________________________ Encore: Saturday, April 21, 2018 – 1:00PM _____________________________________________________________________________________
Bellini
Norma New Production
Runtime: 3:29 “Ponselle, Milanov, Sutherland, Callas … after last night, Radvanovsky can add her name to the list,” declared the Huffington Post when Sondra Radvanovsky made her Met role debut as Norma in 2013. The 2017–18 season opens with a new production of Bellini’s masterpiece, starring Radvanovsky as the Druid priestess and Joyce DiDonato as her archrival, Adalgisa—a casting coup for bel canto fans. Tenor Joseph Calleja is Pollione, Norma’s unfaithful lover, and Carlo Rizzi conducts. Sir David McVicar’s evocative production sets the action deep in a Druid forest where nature and ancient ritual rule. 
Puccini
Tosca New Production
Runtime: 3:18 Sir David McVicar’s ravishing new production offers a splendid backdrop for two extraordinary sopranos sharing the title role of the jealous prima donna: Sonya Yoncheva (pictured above in La Traviata) and Anna Netrebko. Vittorio Grigolo and Marcelo Álvarez alternate in the role of Tosca’s revolutionary artist lover Cavaradossi, with Sir Bryn Terfel, Michael Volle, and Željko Luèiæ as the depraved police chief Scarpia. Music Director Emeritus James Levine conducts. 
Donizetti
L'Elisir d'AmoreLIVE: Saturday, February 10, 2018 – 12:00PM
Runtime: 2:59 Pretty Yende debuts a new role at the Met with her first Adina opposite Matthew Polenzani, who enthralled Met audiences as Nemorino in 2013 with his ravishing “Una furtiva lagrima.” Bartlett Sher’s production is charming, with deft comedic timing, but also emotionally revealing. Domingo Hindoyan conducts. 
Puccini
La Bohème
Runtime: 3:16
Mozart
Die ZauberflöteEncore: Saturday, March 3, 2018 – 1:00PM
Runtime: 3:29 Music Director Emeritus James Levine conducts the full-length German version of Mozart’s magical fable, seen in Julie Taymor’s spectacular production, which captures both the opera’s earthy comedy and its noble mysticism. 
Rossini
Semiramide
Runtime: 3:50 This masterpiece of dazzling vocal fireworks makes a rare Met appearance—its first in nearly 25 years—with Maurizio Benini on the podium. The all-star bel canto cast features Angela Meade in the title role of the murderous Queen of Babylon, who squares off in breathtaking duets with Arsace, a trouser role sung by Elizabeth DeShong. Javier Camarena, Ildar Abdrazakov, and Ryan Speedo Green complete the stellar cast. __________________________________________________________________________________
Adès
The Exterminating Angel New Production
Runtime: 2:52
Verdi
Luisa Miller
Runtime: 3:58
Mozart
Così fan tutte New Production
Runtime: 3:56
Massenet
CendrillonLIVE: Saturday, April 28, 2018 – 12:55PM
Runtime: 3:12“Glorious,” raved the New York Times when Joyce DiDonato sang the title role of Cendrillon at the Royal Opera in 2011. “Her performance was thoroughly enchanting.” Now, for the first time ever, Massenet’s sumptuous take on the Cinderella story comes to the Met, with DiDonato starring in the title role. She is paired with mezzo-soprano Alice Coote in the trouser role of Prince Charming, Kathleen Kim as the Fairy Godmother, and Stephanie Blythe as the imperious Madame de la Haltière. Bertrand de Billy conducts Laurent Pelly’s imaginative storybook production.