The Metropolitan Opera announces 2024–25 The Met: Live in HD season

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.

• Offenbach’s Les Contes d’Hoffmann (October 5, 2024)
• Jeanine Tesori’s Grounded (October 19, 2024)
• Puccini’s Tosca (November 23, 2024)
• Verdi’s Aida (January 25, 2025)
• Beethoven’s Fidelio (March 15, 2025)
• Mozart’s Le Nozze di Figaro (April 26, 2025)
• Strauss’s Salome (May 17, 2025)
• Rossini’s Il Barbiere di Siviglia (May 31, 2025)

Irish venues and booking details to be announced soon. 

For more info on the current The Met: Live in HD season click HERE.