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.
DOUBT
• Channel: PBS
• U.S. Broadcast Date: January 25, 2019
• Genre: Opera
• Theatre: Ordway Center for Performing Arts, Minnesota
• Director: Kevin Newbury
• Composer: Douglas J. Cuomo
• Cast: Christine Brewer, Denyce Graves, Matthew Worth, Adriana Zabala
• A Great Performances broadcast of the Minnesota Opera production of Cuomo and John Patrick Shanley's opera based on Shanley's play of the same name.
• More Information: PBS
MARNIE
• Channel: PBS
• U.S. Broadcast Date: February 1, 2019
• Genre: Opera
• Theatre: Metropolitan Opera House, New York
• Director: Michael Mayer
• Composer: Nico Muhly
• Cast: Isabel Leonard, Christopher Maltman
• A Great Performances broadcast of the Metropolitan Opera production of Muhly's opera based on Winston Graham's novel about a mysterious young woman who assumes multiple identities.
• More Information: PBS
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 FANCIULLA DEL WEST
• Channel: PBS
• U.S. Broadcast Date: February 24, 2019
• Genre: Opera
• Theatre: Metropolitan Opera House, New York
• Director: Giancarlo del Monaco
• Composer: Giacomo Puccini
• Cast: Eva-Maria Westbroek, Jonas Kaufmann
• A Great Performances broadcast of the Metropolitan Opera production of Puccini's romantic epic of the Wild West.
• More Information: PBS
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: Fathom Events
SAMSON ET DALILA
• Channel: PBS
• U.S. Broadcast Date: March 24, 2019
• Genre: Opera
• Theatre: Metropolitan Opera House, New York
• Director: Darko Tresnjak
• Composer: Camille Saint-Saëns
• Cast: Roberto Alagna, Elīna Garanča
• A Great Performances broadcast of the Metropolitan Opera production of Saint-Saëns' opera based on the biblical story of Samson and Delila.
• More Information: PBS
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
LA TRAVIATA
• Channel: PBS
• U.S. Broadcast Date: April 5, 2019
• Genre: Opera
• Theatre: Metropolitan Opera House, New York
• Director: Michael Mayer
• Composer: Giuseppe Verdi
• Cast: Diana Damrau, Juan Diego Flórez, Quinn Kelsey
• A Great Performances broadcast of the Metropolitan Opera production of Verdi's opera about a courtesan's tragic sacrifice for love.
• More Information: PBS
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: Fathom Events
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: Fathom Events
