The Met: Live in HD — The Sembrich 500356657281527 The Met: Live in HD The Sembrich is proud to partner with The Hyde Collection to bring screenings of The Met: Live in HD to our region. Join us before each screening for an exclusive pre-performance program illuminating the production and featuring musicians and scholars from the musical world! A scene from Strauss's "Arabella." Photo: Marty Sohl / Met Opera May Tchaikovsky: Eugene Onegin Saturday, May 2, 2026 12:30 PM 5:00 PM The Hyde Collection (map) Google Calendar ICS Following her acclaimed 2024 company debut in Puccini’s Madama Butterfly, soprano Asmik Grigorian returns to the Met as Tatiana, the lovestruck young heroine in this ardent operatic adaptation of Pushkin. View Event → May 30 Gabriella Lena Frank: El Último Sueño de Frida y Diego Saturday, May 30, 2026 12:30 PM 4:00 PM The Hyde Collection (map) Google Calendar ICS American composer Gabriela Lena Frank’s first opera, a magical-realist portrait of Mexico’s painterly power couple Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera, with libretto by Pulitzer Prize–winning playwright Nilo Cruz. View Event → Mar 21 Wagner: Tristan und Isolde Saturday, March 21, 2026 11:30 AM 5:15 PM The Hyde Collection (map) Google Calendar ICS After years of anticipation, a truly unmissable event arrives in cinemas worldwide as the electrifying Lise Davidsen tackles one of the ultimate roles for dramatic soprano: the Irish princess Isolde in Wagner’s transcendent meditation on love and death. View Event → Feb 14 Massenet: Cinderella (Encore) Saturday, February 14, 2026 12:30 PM 3:30 PM The Hyde Collection (map) Google Calendar ICS In this abridged, English-language version of Massenet’s enchanting fairy-tale opera stars beloved mezzo-soprano Isabel Leonard as the rags-to-riches title princess, with Emmanuel Villaume on the podium. View Event → Jan 24 Bates: The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay (Encore) Saturday, January 24, 2026 12:30 PM 5:00 PM The Hyde Collection (map) Google Calendar ICS Added due to popular demand, the exhilarating operatic adaptation of Michael Chabon’s Pulitzer Prize–winning novel follows two Jewish cousins who create a comic-book superhero, hoping to recruit America into the fight against Nazism. View Event → Jan 10 Bellini: I Puritani Saturday, January 10, 2026 12:30 PM 5:00 PM The Hyde Collection (map) Google Calendar ICS For gorgeous melody, spellbinding coloratura, and virtuoso vocal fireworks, I Puritani has few equals. The first new Met production of Bellini’s final masterpiece in nearly 50 years—a striking staging by Charles Edwards, who makes his company directorial debut after many successes as a set designer. View Event → Dec 13 Giordano: Andrea Chénier Saturday, December 13, 2025 12:30 PM 5:00 PM The Hyde Collection (map) Google Calendar ICS Giordano’s passionate tragedy stars tenor Piotr Beczała as the virtuous poet who falls victim to the intrigue and violence of the French Revolution. View Event → Nov 22 Strauss: Arabella Saturday, November 22, 2025 12:30 PM 5:15 PM The Hyde Collection (map) Google Calendar ICS Strauss’s elegant romance brings the glamour and enchantment of 19th-century Vienna to cinemas worldwide in a sumptuous production by legendary director Otto Schenk that “is as beautiful as one could hope” (The New York Times). View Event → Nov Puccini: La Bohème Saturday, November 8, 2025 12:30 PM 5:00 PM The Hyde Collection (map) Google Calendar ICS With its enchanting setting and spellbinding score, the world’s most popular opera is as timeless as it is heartbreaking. Franco Zeffirelli’s picture-perfect production brings 19th-century Paris to the Met stage as Puccini’s young friends and lovers navigate the joy and struggle of bohemian life. View Event → Oct 18 Bellini: La Sonnambula Saturday, October 18, 2025 12:30 PM 5:00 PM The Hyde Collection (map) Google Calendar ICS Following triumphant Live in HD performances in Gounod’s Roméo et Juliette, Verdi’s La Traviata, and Donizetti’s Lucia di Lammermoor, Nadine Sierra summits another peak of the soprano repertoire as Amina, who sleepwalks her way into audiences’ hearts in Bellini’s poignant tale of love lost and found. View Event → May 31 Il Barbiere di Siviglia (Rossini) Saturday, May 31, 2025 12:30 PM 5:00 PM The Hyde Collection (map) Google Calendar ICS The Metropolitan Opera’s 2024–25 Live in HD season comes to a close with a live transmission of Rossini’s effervescent comedy on May 31. Russian mezzo-soprano Aigul Akhmetshina headlines a winning ensemble as the feisty heroine, Rosina, alongside American tenor Jack Swanson, in his Met debut, as her secret beloved, Count Almaviva. Moldovan baritone Andrey Zhilikhovsky stars as Figaro, the ingenious barber of Seville, with Hungarian bass-baritone Peter Kálmán as Dr. Bartolo and Russian bass Alexander Vinogradov as Don Basilio rounding out the principal cast. Giacomo Sagripanti conducts Bartlett Sher’s madcap production. View Event → May 17 Salome (Strauss) Saturday, May 17, 2025 12:30 PM 3:30 PM The Hyde Collection (map) Google Calendar ICS Met Music Director Yannick Nézet-Séguin takes the podium on May 17 to conduct Strauss’s one-act tragedy, which will be transmitted live from the Metropolitan Opera stage to cinemas worldwide. Leading the company’s first new production of the work in 20 years, Claus Guth, one of Europe’s leading opera directors, gives the biblical story a psychologically perceptive Victorian-era setting. South African soprano Elza van den Heever leads a celebrated cast as the abused and unhinged antiheroine, with Swedish baritone Peter Mattei as the imprisoned prophet Jochanaan; German tenor Gerhard Siegel as Salome’s lecherous stepfather, King Herod; American mezzo-soprano Michelle DeYoung as his wife, Herodias; and Polish tenor Piotr Buszewski as Narraboth. View Event → Apr 26 Le Nozze di Figaro (Mozart) Saturday, April 26, 2025 12:30 PM 5:00 PM The Hyde Collection (map) Google Calendar ICS On April 26, Mozart’s timeless comedy returns to cinemas worldwide with a live transmission from the Metropolitan Opera. Conductor Joana Mallwitz, in her Met debut, takes the podium to conduct a stellar ensemble cast including American bass-baritone Michael Sumuel as the clever valet Figaro, Ukrainian soprano Olga Kulchynska as the wily maid Susanna, Canadian baritone Joshua Hopkins as the skirt-chasing Count, Italian soprano Federica Lombardi as his anguished wife, and French mezzo-soprano Marianne Crebassa as the adolescent page Cherubino. View Event → Mar 15 Fidelio (Beethoven) Saturday, March 15, 2025 12:30 PM 4:00 PM The Hyde Collection (map) Google Calendar ICS Following a string of awe-inspiring Live in HD performances, Norwegian soprano Lise Davidsen returns to the Metropolitan Opera as Leonore, the faithful wife who risks everything to save her husband from the clutches of tyranny in Beethoven’s Fidelio. Completing the distinguished cast is British tenor David Butt Philip as the political prisoner Florestan, Polish bass-baritone Tomasz Konieczny as the villainous Don Pizarro, veteran German bass René Pape as the jailer Rocco, Chinese soprano Ying Fang and German tenor Magnus Dietrich as the young Marzelline and Jaquino, and Danish bass Stephen Milling as the principled Don Fernando. Susanna Mälkki conducts the March 15 performance, which will be transmitted live from the Met stage to cinemas worldwide. View Event → Jan 25 Aida (Verdi) Saturday, January 25, 2025 12:30 PM 4:30 PM The Hyde Collection (map) Google Calendar ICS American soprano Angel Blue headlines as the Ethiopian princess torn between love and country in a new production of Verdi’s Aida by Michael Mayer that brings audiences inside the towering pyramids and gilded tombs of ancient Egypt with intricate projections and dazzling animations. Romanian-Hungarian mezzo-soprano Judit Kutasi also stars as Aida’s rival, Amneris, alongside Polish tenor Piotr Beczała as the soldier Radamès—completing opera’s greatest love triangle. Met Music Director Yannick Nézet-Séguin takes the podium to conduct the January 25 performance, which will be transmitted live from the Metropolitan Opera stage to cinemas worldwide. View Event → Dec The Magic Flute (Mozart) Saturday, December 7, 2024 12:30 PM 3:00 PM The Hyde Collection (map) Google Calendar ICS The Met made history in December 2006 when it presented its first Live in HD transmission to cinemas worldwide: the abridged English-language version of Mozart’s The Magic Flute. Julie Taymor’s whimsical production features a winning ensemble, including tenor Matthew Polenzani, baritone Nathan Gunn, and bass René Pape. The opera returns to select movie theaters for a special encore presentation during the holiday season. View Event → Nov 23 Tosca (Puccini) Saturday, November 23, 2024 12:30 PM 4:30 PM The Hyde Collection (map) Google Calendar ICS Extraordinary Norwegian soprano Lise Davidsen stars as the passionate title diva in David McVicar’s thrilling production, transmitted live from the Metropolitan Opera stage to cinemas on November 23. British-Italian tenor Freddie De Tommaso makes his eagerly anticipated company debut as Tosca’s revolutionary lover, Cavaradossi, and powerhouse American baritone Quinn Kelsey is the sadistic chief of police Scarpia. Maestro Xian Zhang conducts the electrifying score, which features some of Puccini’s most memorable melodies. View Event → Oct 19 Grounded (Jeanine Tesori) Saturday, October 19, 2024 12:30 PM 4:00 PM The Hyde Collection (map) Google Calendar ICS Tony Award–winning composer Jeanine Tesori’s powerful new opera Grounded premieres at the Metropolitan Opera, wrestling with often-overlooked issues created by 21st-century warmaking: the ethical conflicts created by the use of modern military technology and the psychological and emotional toll supposedly safe remote technology takes on our servicepersons. Canadian mezzosoprano Emily D’Angelo stars as the hot-shot fighter pilot whose unplanned pregnancy takes her out of the cockpit and lands her in Las Vegas, operating a Reaper drone halfway around the world. American tenor Ben Bliss costars as the Wyoming rancher Eric in a production by Michael Mayer that brings this story to life in a high-tech staging which presents a variety of perspectives on the action. Met Music Director Yannick Nézet-Séguin takes the podium to conduct Tesori’s kaleidoscopic opera, which will be transmitted live from the Met stage to cinemas on October 19. View Event → Oct Les Contes d’Hoffmann (Offenbach) Saturday, October 5, 2024 12:30 PM 5:00 PM The Hyde Collection (map) Google Calendar ICS Offenbach’s fantastical opera kicks off the Metropolitan Opera’s season of Live in HD performance transmissions, starring French tenor Benjamin Bernheim in the title role of the tormented poet. Joining Bernheim is American soprano Erin Morley as Olympia, South African soprano Pretty Yende as Antonia, and French mezzo-soprano Clémentine Margaine as Giulietta to complete Hoffmann’s trio of lovers. Marco Armiliato conducts Bartlett Sher’s evocative production, which also features American bass-baritone Christian Van Horn as the Four Villains and Russian mezzo-soprano Vasilisa Berzhanskaya in her company debut as Nicklausse. View Event → May 11 The Met: Live in HD | Madama Butterfly Saturday, May 11, 2024 12:30 PM 4:30 PM The Hyde Collection (map) Google Calendar ICS Extraordinary soprano Asmik Grigorian tackles the demanding role of Cio-Cio-San, the loyal geisha at the heart of Puccini’s devastating tragedy. View Event → Apr 20 The Met: Live in HD | La Rondine Saturday, April 20, 2024 12:30 PM 4:00 PM The Hyde Collection (map) Google Calendar ICS Puccini’s bittersweet love story arrives in cinemas on April 20, with soprano Angel Blue starring as the French courtesan Magda, opposite tenor Jonathan Tetelman as Ruggero, an idealistic young man who offers her an alternative to her life of excess. View Event → Apr The Met: Live in HD | Romeo et Juliette Saturday, April 6, 2024 12:30 PM 4:30 PM The Hyde Collection (map) Google Calendar ICS 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 adaptation, with Met Music Director Yannick Nézet-Séguin on the podium to conduct one of the repertoire’s most romantic scores. View Event → Mar The Met: Live in HD | La Forza del Destino Saturday, March 9, 2024 11:30 AM 4:30 PM The Hyde Collection (map) Google Calendar ICS Music Director Yannick Nézet-Séguin conducts Verdi’s grand tale of ill-fated love, deadly vendettas, and family strife, with stellar soprano Lise Davidsen as the noble Leonora, one of the repertory’s most tormented—and thrilling—heroines. View Event → Jan 27 The Met: Live in HD | Carmen Saturday, January 27, 2024 12:30 PM 5:00 PM The Hyde Collection (map) Google Calendar ICS Acclaimed English director Carrie Cracknell brings a vital new production of one of opera’s most enduringly powerful works, reinvigorating the classic story with a staging that moves the action to the modern day and finds at the heart of the drama issues that could not be more relevant today: gendered violence, abusive labor structures, and the desire to break through societal boundaries. View Event → Jan The Met: Live in HD | Nabucco Saturday, January 6, 2024 12:30 PM 4:00 PM The Hyde Collection (map) Google Calendar ICS Baritone George Gagnidze makes his Met role debut as the imperious king Nabucco, alongside soprano Liudmyla Monastyrska reprising her thrilling turn as his vengeful daughter Abigaille. View Event → Dec The Met: Live in HD | Florencia en el Amazonas Saturday, December 9, 2023 12:30 PM 3:30 PM The Hyde Collection (map) Google Calendar ICS 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 returns to her homeland to perform at the legendary opera house of Manaus—and to search for her lost lover, who has vanished into the jungle. View Event → Dec The Met: Live in HD | The Magic Flute Saturday, December 2, 2023 12:30 PM 3:00 PM The Hyde Collection (map) Google Calendar ICS The Met’s family-friendly production of Mozart’s dazzling fairy tale returns, sung in English and running under two hours. View Event → Nov 18 The Met: Live in HD | X: The Life and Times of Malcolm X Saturday, November 18, 2023 12:30 PM 5:00 PM The Hyde Collection (map) Google Calendar ICS Theater luminary and Tony-nominated director of Slave Play Robert O’Hara oversees a potent new staging that imagines Malcolm as an Everyman whose story transcends time and space. View Event → Oct 21 The Met: Live in HD | Dead Man Walking Saturday, October 21, 2023 12:30 PM 4:15 PM The Hyde Collection (map) Google Calendar ICS Based on Sister Helen Prejean’s memoir about her fight for the soul of a condemned murderer, Dead Man Walking matches the high drama of its subject with Heggie’s beautiful and poignant music and a brilliant libretto by Tony and Emmy Award–winner Terrence McNally. View Event → The Met: Live in HD | Regional Provider The Hyde Collection is proud to be the regional provider of the 2025-26 Met Opera Live season. Pre-screening programming is provided in partnership with The Sembrich.