The following is a list of live opera and ballet productions announced to be shown in movie theatres and on television. Please submit updates to dgewirtzman@playbill.com.
MACBETH
• U.S. Broadcast Date: Select dates through May 25, 2018
• Genre: Opera
• Theatre: Royal Opera House, London
• Director: Phyllida Lloyd
• Composer: Giuseppe Verdi
• Cast: Željko Lučić, Anna Netrebko, Antonio Pappano
• The Royal Opera performs Verdi's opera based on the Shakespeare tragedy.
• More Information: Royal Opera House
MANON
• U.S. Broadcast Date: Select dates May 24 – June 24, 2018
• Genre: Ballet
• Theatre: Royal Opera House, London
• Choreographer: Kenneth MacMillan
• Composer: Jules Massenet
• Cast: Gary Avis, Ryoichi Hirano, Sarah Lamb, Itziar Mendizabal, Vadim Muntagirov, Martin Yates
• The Royal Ballet performs a ballet based on the novel Manon Lescaut, set to a selection of compositions by Massenet.
• More Information: Royal Opera House
COPPÉLIA
• U.S. Broadcast Date: June 10, 2018
• Genre: Ballet
• Theatre: Bolshoi Theatre, Moscow
• Choreographer: Sergei Vikharev after Marius Petipa and Enrico Cecchetti
• Composer: Léo Delibes
• Cast: TBA
• The Bolshoi Ballet performs the classic comic ballet about a mad inventor who creates a life-like doll.
• More Information: Bolshoi Ballet
TOSCA
• Channel: PBS
• U.S. Broadcast Date: June 15, 2018
• Genre: Opera
• Theatre: Metropolitan Opera House, New York
• Director: David McVicar
• Composer: Giacomo Puccini
• Cast: Vittorio Grigolo, Bryn Terfel, Sonya Yoncheva
• The Metropolitan Opera performs Puccini's opera about a painter who runs afoul of the Chief of Police, and the singer who tries to save him.
• More Information: Great Performances
MADAMA BUTTERFLY
• U.S. Broadcast Date: June 20, 2018
• Genre: Opera
• Theatre: Metropolitan Opera House, New York
• Director: Anthony Minghella
• Composer: Giacomo Puccini
• Cast: Roberto Alagna, Kristine Opolais
• A 2016 Metropolitan Opera performance of Puccini's opera about a young Japanese geisha who clings to the her love of an American naval officer.
• More Information: The Metropolitan Opera
IL TROVATORE
• U.S. Broadcast Date: June 27, 2018
• Genre: Opera
• Theatre: Metropolitan Opera House, New York
• Director: David McVicar
• Composer: Giuseppe Verdi
• Cast: Dmitri Hvorostovsky, Yonghoon Lee, Anna Netrebko, Dolora Zajick
• A 2015 Metropolitan Opera performance of Verdi's opera about four characters caught in a web of family ties, politics, and love.
• More Information: The Metropolitan Opera
SWAN LAKE
• U.S. Broadcast Date: Select dates July 3 – August 3, 2018
• Genre: Ballet
• Theatre: Royal Opera House, London
• Choreographers: Marius Petipa and Lev Ivanov
• Composer: Pyotr Il’yich Tchaikovsky
• Cast: TBA
• The Royal Ballet performs the classic ballet about a prince who falls in love with a swan who turned into a beautiful woman.
• More Information: Royal Opera House
SEMIRAMIDE
• Channel: PBS
• U.S. Broadcast Date: July 8, 2018
• Genre: Opera
• Theatre: Metropolitan Opera House, New York
• Director: John Copley
• Composer: Gioachino Rossini
• Cast: Ildar Abdrazakov, Javier Camarena, Elizabeth DeShong, Ryan Speedo Green, Angela Meade
• The Metropolitan Opera performs Rossini's bel canto opera about the murderous Queen of Babylon.
• More Information: Great Performances
EUGENE ONEGIN
• U.S. Broadcast Date: July 11, 2018
• Genre: Opera
• Theatre: Metropolitan Opera House, New York
• Director: Robert Carsen
• Composer: Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
• Cast: Renée Fleming, Dmitri Hvorostovsky
• A 2007 Metropolitan Opera performance of Tchaikovsky's opera about unrequited love.
• More Information: The Metropolitan Opera
TURANDOT
• U.S. Broadcast Date: July 18, 2018
• Genre: Opera
• Theatre: Metropolitan Opera House, New York
• Director: Franco Zeffirelli
• Composer: Giacomo Puccini
• Cast: Marco Berti, Anita Hartig, Nina Stemme
• A 2016 Metropolitan Opera performance of Puccini's opera about an unknown prince who must thaw the heart of an ice princess or die.
• More Information: The Metropolitan Opera
COSÌ FAN TUTTE
• Channel: PBS
• U.S. Broadcast Date: July 29, 2018
• Genre: Opera
• Theatre: Metropolitan Opera House, New York
• Director: Phelim McDermott
• Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
• Cast: Ben Bliss, Amanda Majeski, Serena Malfi, Christopher Maltman, Kelli O'Hara, Adam Plachetka
• The Metropolitan Opera performs Mozart's comic opera set in a carnival-esque, funhouse environment inspired by 1950s Coney Island.
• More Information: Great Performances
LUISA MILLER
• Channel: PBS
• U.S. Broadcast Date: August 12, 2018
• Genre: Opera
• Theatre: Metropolitan Opera House, New York
• Director: Elijah Moshinsky
• Composer: Giuseppe Verdi
• Cast: Piotr Beczala, Dmitry Belosselskiy, Plácido Domingo, Olesya Petrova, Alexander Vinogradov, Sonya Yoncheva
• The Metropolitan Opera performs Verdi's tragic opera of fatherly love.
• More Information: Great Performances
CENDRILLON
• Channel: PBS
• U.S. Broadcast Date: September 9, 2018
• Genre: Opera
• Theatre: Metropolitan Opera House, New York
• Director: Laurent Pelly
• Composer: Jules Massenet
• Cast: Stephanie Blythe, Alice Coote, Joyce DiDonato, Kathleen Kim, Laurent Naouri
• The Metropolitan Opera performs Massenet's opera inspired by the story of Cinderella.
• More Information: Great Performances
AIDA
• U.S. Broadcast Date: October 6, 2018
• Genre: Opera
• Theatre: Metropolitan Opera House, New York
• Director: Sonja Frisell
• Composer: Giuseppe Verdi
• Cast: Anna Netrebko, Anita Rachvelishvili, Aleksandrs Antonenko
• The Metropolitan Opera performs Verdi's opera set in ancient Egypt.
• More Information: The Metropolitan Opera
SAMSON ET DALILA
• U.S. Broadcast Date: October 20, 2018
• Genre: Opera
• Theatre: Metropolitan Opera House, New York
• Director: Darko Tresnjak
• Composer: Camille Saint-Saëns
• Cast: Roberto Alagna, Elīna Garanča
• The Metropolitan Opera performs Saint-Saëns' opera based on the biblical story of Samson and Delila.
• More Information: The Metropolitan Opera
LA FANCIULLA DEL WEST
• U.S. Broadcast Date: October 27, 2018
• Genre: Opera
• Theatre: Metropolitan Opera House, New York
• Director: Giancarlo del Monaco
• Composer: Giacomo Puccini
• Cast: Eva-Maria Westbroek, Jonas Kaufmann, Željko Lučić
• The Metropolitan Opera performs Puccini's romantic epic of the Wild West.
• More Information: The Metropolitan Opera
MARNIE
• U.S. Broadcast Date: November 10, 2018
• Genre: Opera
• Theatre: Metropolitan Opera House, New York
• Director: Michael Mayer
• Composer: Nico Muhly
• Cast: Isabel Leonard, Christopher Maltman
• The Metropolitan Opera performs Muhly's new opera based on Winston Graham's novel about a mysterious young woman who assumes multiple identities.
• More Information: The Metropolitan Opera
LA SYLPHIDE
• U.S. Broadcast Date: November 11, 2018
• Genre: Ballet
• Theatre: Bolshoi Theatre, Moscow
• Choreographer: Johan Kobborg
• Composer: Herman Severin Løvenskiold
• Cast: TBD
• The Bolshoi Ballet performs the ballet about a a young Scotsman who is awoken by a kiss from an ethereal winged creature.
• More Information: Bolshoi Ballet
DON QUIXOTE
• U.S. Broadcast Date: December 2, 2018
• Genre: Ballet
• Theatre: Bolshoi Theatre, Moscow
• Choreographer: Alexei Fadeyechev
• Composer: Léon Minkus
• Cast: Alexei Loparevich
• The Bolshoi Ballet performs the ballet based on the classic Miguel de Cervantes novel.
• More Information: Bolshoi Ballet
LA TRAVIATA
• U.S. Broadcast Date: December 15, 2018
• Genre: Opera
• Theatre: Metropolitan Opera House, New York
• Director: Michael Mayer
• Composer: Giuseppe Verdi
• Cast: Diana Damrau, Juan Diego Flórez, Quinn Kelsey
• The Metropolitan Opera performs Verdi's opera about a courtesan's tragic sacrifice for love.
• More Information: The Metropolitan Opera
THE NUTCRACKER
• U.S. Broadcast Date: December 23, 2018
• Genre: Ballet
• Theatre: Bolshoi Theatre, Moscow
• Choreographer: Yuri Grigorovich
• Composer: Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
• Cast: TBD
• The Bolshoi Ballet performs the classic Christmas ballet about a young girl's adventures with her Nutcracker-turned-Prince.
• More Information: Bolshoi Ballet
ORPHÉE ET EURYDICE
• Channel: PBS
• U.S. Broadcast Date: 2018
• Genre: Opera
• Theatre: Lyric Opera House, Chicago
• Director: John Neumeier
• Composer: Christoph Willibald Gluck
• Cast: Andriana Chuchman, Dmitry Korchak, Lauren Snouffer
• A Great Performances broadcast of the Lyric Opera of Chicago and Joffrey Ballet production of Gluck's opera about a poet who travels to the Underworld to bring his love back to life.
• More Information: Great Performances
ADRIANA LECOUVREUR
• U.S. Broadcast Date: January 12, 2019
• Genre: Opera
• Theatre: Metropolitan Opera House, New York
• Director: David McVicar
• Composer: Francesco Cilea
• Cast: Anna Netrebko, Piotr Beczała, Anita Rachvelishvili, Ambrogio Maestri
• The Metropolitan Opera performs Cilea's opera inspired by the relationship between French actor Adrienne Lecouvreur and soldier Maurice de Saxe.
• More Information: The Metropolitan Opera
LA BAYADÈRE
• U.S. Broadcast Date: January 20, 2019
• Genre: Ballet
• Theatre: Bolshoi Theatre, Moscow
• Choreographer: Yuri Grigorovich
• Composer: Leon Minkus
• Cast: TBD
• The Bolshoi Ballet performs the ballet about a temple dancer and warrior who fall in love.
• More Information: Bolshoi Ballet
CARMEN
• U.S. Broadcast Date: February 2, 2019
• Genre: Opera
• Theatre: Metropolitan Opera House, New York
• Director: Richard Eyre
• Composer: Georges Bizet
• Cast: Clémentine Margaine, Roberto Alagna
• The Metropolitan Opera performs Bizet's opera about a soldier who falls in love with a gypsy woman.
• More Information: The Metropolitan Opera
LA FILLE DU RÉGIMENT
• U.S. Broadcast Date: March 2, 2019
• Genre: Opera
• Theatre: Metropolitan Opera House, New York
• Director: Laurent Pelly
• Composer: Gaetano Donizetti
• Cast: Javier Camarena, Pretty Yende, Maurizio Muraro, Stephanie Blythe
• The Metropolitan Opera performs Donizetti's opera about an orphan girl raised by an army regiment.
• More Information: The Metropolitan Opera
THE SLEEPING BEAUTY
• U.S. Broadcast Date: March 10, 2019
• Genre: Ballet
• Theatre: Bolshoi Theatre, Moscow
• Choreographer: Yuri Grigorovich
• Composer: Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
• Cast: Olga Smirnova, Semyon Chudin
• The Bolshoi Ballet performs the ballet based on the classic fairy tale.
• More Information: Bolshoi Ballet
DIE WALKÜRE
• U.S. Broadcast Date: March 30, 2019
• Genre: Opera
• Theatre: Metropolitan Opera House, New York
• Director: Giancarlo del Monaco
• Composer: Richard Wagner
• Cast: Christine Goerke, Stuart Skelton, Eva-Maria Westbroek, Greer Grimsley
• The Metropolitan Opera performs the second opera from Wagner's Ring cycle.
• More Information: The Metropolitan Opera
THE GOLDEN AGE
• U.S. Broadcast Date: April 7, 2019
• Genre: Ballet
• Theatre: Bolshoi Theatre, Moscow
• Choreographer: Yuri Grigorovich
• Composer: Dmitri Shostakovich
• Cast: Nina Kaptsova, Ruslan Skvortsov, Mikhail Lobukhin
• The Bolshoi Ballet performs the ballet about a young fisherman who falls in love with a beautiful cabaret dancer.
• More Information: Bolshoi Ballet
DIALOGUES DES CARMÉLITES
• U.S. Broadcast Date: May 11, 2019
• Genre: Opera
• Theatre: Metropolitan Opera House, New York
• Director: John Dexter
• Composer: Francis Poulenc
• Cast: Isabel Leonard, Karita Mattila
• The Metropolitan Opera performs Poulenc's opera inspired by the martyrdom of 16 Carmelite nuns in 1794.
• More Information: The Metropolitan Opera
CARMEN SUITE / PETRUSHKA
• U.S. Broadcast Date: May 19, 2019
• Genre: Ballet
• Theatre: Bolshoi Theatre, Moscow
• Choreographers: Alberto Alonso (Carmen Suite), Edward Clug (Petrushka)
• Composer: Georges Bizet and Rodion Shchedrin (Carmen Suite), Igor Stravinsky (Petrushka)
• Cast: TBD
• The Bolshoi Ballet performs a pair of one-act ballets.
• More Information: Bolshoi Ballet
