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 [email protected].


TURANDOT
• Channel: PBS
• U.S. Broadcast Date: September 4, 2022
• Genre: Opera
• Theatre: Metropolitan Opera House, New York
• Director: Franco Zeffirelli
• Composer: Giacomo Puccini
• Cast: Liudmyla Monastyrska, Yonghoon Lee, Ermonela Jaho, Ferruccio Furlanetto
• A Great Performances broadcast of the Metropolitan Opera production of Puccini's opera about a cold-hearted princess, and the bold prince determined to win her love.
• More Information: PBS

BLACK LUCY AND THE BARD
• Channel: PBS
• U.S. Broadcast Date: September 16, 2022
• Genre: Ballet
• Theatre: Tennessee Performing Arts Center, Nashville
• Choreographer: Paul Vasterling
• Composers: Rhiannon Giddens and Francesco Turrisi
• Cast: Claudia Monja, Owen Thorne, Nicolas Scheuer, Caroline Randall Williams
• A Great Performances broadcast of the Nashville Ballet production exploring the love life of William Shakespeare and his muses, the “Dark Lady” and the “Fair Youth.”
• More Information: PBS

INTIMATE APPAREL
• Channel: PBS
• U.S. Broadcast Date: September 23, 2022
• Genre: Opera
• Theatre: Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater, New York
• Director: Bartlett Sher
• Composer: Ricky Ian Gordon
• Cast: Kearstin Piper Brown, Justin Austin, Adrienne Danrich, Arnold Livingston Geis
• A Great Performances broadcast of the Lincoln Center Theater production of Ricky Ian Gordon and Lynn Nottage's opera, based on Nottage's play about a lonely, single African-American woman who makes her living sewing in 1905 New York.
• More Information: PBS

LUCIA DI LAMMERMOOR
• Channel: PBS
• U.S. Broadcast Date: October 2, 2022
• Genre: Opera
• Theatre: Metropolitan Opera House, New York
• Director: Simon Stone
• Composer: Gaetano Donizetti
• Cast: Nadine Sierra, Javier Camarena, Artur Ruciński, Matthew Rose
• A Great Performances broadcast of the Metropolitan Opera production of Donizetti's opera about a bride who is driven to madness.
• More Information: PBS

MEDEA
• U.S. Broadcast Date: October 22, 2022
• Genre: Opera
• Theatre: Metropolitan Opera House, New York
• Director: David McVicar
• Composer: Luigi Cherubini
• Cast: Sondra Radvanovsky, Matthew Polenzani, Janai Brugger, Michele Pertusi, Ekaterina Gubanova
• The Metropolitan Opera performs Cherubini's opera based on the Greek tragedy.
• More Information: The Metropolitan Opera

LA TRAVIATA
• U.S. Broadcast Date: November 5, 2022
• Genre: Opera
• Theatre: Metropolitan Opera House, New York
• Director: Michael Mayer
• Composer: Giuseppe Verdi
• Cast: Nadine Sierra, Stephen Costello, Luca Salsi
• The Metropolitan Opera performs Verdi's opera about a courtesan's tragic sacrifice for love.
• More Information: The Metropolitan Opera

HAMLET
• Channel: PBS
• U.S. Broadcast Date: November 6, 2022
• Genre: Opera
• Theatre: Metropolitan Opera House, New York
• Director: Neil Armfield
• Composer: Brett Dean
• Cast: Allan Clayton, Brenda Rae, Sarah Connolly, Rod Gilfry, John Tomlinson
• A Great Performances broadcast of the Metropolitan Opera production of Dean's opera based on the Shakespeare play.
• More Information: PBS

THE HOURS
• U.S. Broadcast Date: December 10, 2022
• Genre: Opera
• Theatre: Metropolitan Opera House, New York
• Director: Phelim McDermott
• Composer: Kevin Puts
• Cast: Renée Fleming, Kelli O'Hara, Joyce DiDonato
• The Metropolitan Opera performs the world premiere of Puts's opera based on Michael Cunningham's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel.
• More Information: The Metropolitan Opera

FEDORA
• U.S. Broadcast Date: January 14, 2023
• Genre: Opera
• Theatre: Metropolitan Opera House, New York
• Director: David McVicar
• Composer: Umberto Giordano
• Cast: Sonya Yoncheva, Piotr Beczała, Rosa Feola, Artur Ruciński
• The Metropolitan Opera performs Giordano's opera about a Russian princess who falls in love with her fiancé's murderer.
• More Information: The Metropolitan Opera

LOHENGRIN
• U.S. Broadcast Date: March 18, 2023
• Genre: Opera
• Theatre: Metropolitan Opera House, New York
• Director: François Girard
• Composer: Richard Wagner
• Cast: Piotr Beczała, Tamara Wilson, Christine Goerke, Evgeny Nikitin, Günther Groissböck
• The Metropolitan Opera performs Wagner's opera about the heroic Knight of the Grail.
• More Information: The Metropolitan Opera

FALSTAFF
• U.S. Broadcast Date: April 1, 2023
• Genre: Opera
• Theatre: Metropolitan Opera House, New York
• Director: Robert Carsen
• Composer: Giuseppe Verdi
• Cast: Michael Volle, Hera Hyesang Park, Ailyn Pérez, Jennifer Johnson Cano, Marie-Nicole Lemieux, Bogdan Volkov, Christopher Maltman
• The Metropolitan Opera performs Verdi's opera based on Shakespeare's The Merry Wives of Windsor.
• More Information: The Metropolitan Opera

DER ROSENKAVALIER
• U.S. Broadcast Date: April 15, 2023
• Genre: Opera
• Theatre: Metropolitan Opera House, New York
• Director: Robert Carsen
• Composer: Richard Strauss
• Cast: Lise Davidsen, Isabel Leonard, Erin Morley, Günther Groissböck, Markus Brück
• The Metropolitan Opera performs Strauss's opera about an aristocratic young man who is torn between two women.
• More Information: The Metropolitan Opera

CHAMPION
• U.S. Broadcast Date: April 29, 2023
• Genre: Opera
• Theatre: Metropolitan Opera House, New York
• Director: James Robinson
• Composer: Terence Blanchard
• Cast: Ryan Speedo Green, Eric Owens, Latonia Moore, Stephanie Blythe
• The Metropolitan Opera performs Blanchard's opera about a young boxer who rises from obscurity to become a world champion.
• More Information: The Metropolitan Opera

DON GIOVANNI
• U.S. Broadcast Date: May 20, 2023
• Genre: Opera
• Theatre: Metropolitan Opera House, New York
• Director: Ivo van Hove
• Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
• Cast: Peter Mattei, Adam Plachetka, Federica Lombardi, Ana María Martínez, Ying Fang, Ben Bliss
• The Metropolitan Opera performs Mozart's opera based on the legend of seducer Don Juan.
• More Information: The Metropolitan Opera

DIE ZAUBERFLÖTE
• U.S. Broadcast Date: June 3, 2023
• Genre: Opera
• Theatre: Metropolitan Opera House, New York
• Director: Simon McBurney
• Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
• Cast: Erin Morley, Lawrence Brownlee, Thomas Oliemans, Kathryn Lewek, Stephen Milling
• The Metropolitan Opera performs Mozart's opera about a noble prince on a quest to rescue a maiden
• More Information: The Metropolitan Opera