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.
PORGY AND BESS
• Channel: PBS
• U.S. Broadcast Date: July 17, 2020
• Genre: Opera
• Theatre: Metropolitan Opera House, New York
• Director: James Robinson
• Composer: George Gershwin
• Cast: Eric Owens, Angel Blue
• A Great Performances at the Met broadcast of Gershwin's opera about the inhabitants of Catfish Row in Charleston, South Carolina.
• More Information: PBS
AIDA
• U.S. Broadcast Date: October 10, 2020
• Genre: Opera
• Theatre: Metropolitan Opera House, New York
• Director: Sonja Frisell
• Composer: Giuseppe Verdi
• Cast: TBA
• The Metropolitan Opera presents an encore screening of Verdi's opera set in ancient Egypt.
• More Information: The Metropolitan Opera
IL TROVATORE
• U.S. Broadcast Date: November 7, 2020
• Genre: Opera
• Theatre: Metropolitan Opera House, New York
• Director: David McVicar
• Composer: Giuseppe Verdi
• Cast: TBA
• The Metropolitan Opera presents an encore screening of Verdi's opera about four characters caught in a web of family ties, politics, and love.
• More Information: The Metropolitan Opera
FIDELIO
• U.S. Broadcast Date: December 12, 2020
• Genre: Opera
• Theatre: Metropolitan Opera House, New York
• Director: Jürgen Flimm
• Composer: Ludwig van Beethoven
• Cast: TBA
• The Metropolitan Opera presents an encore screening of Beethoven's opera about a political prisoner whose wife sets out to rescue him.
• More Information: The Metropolitan Opera
DIE ZAUBERFLÖTE
• U.S. Broadcast Date: January 16, 2021
• Genre: Opera
• Theatre: Metropolitan Opera House, New York
• Director: Julie Taymor
• Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
• Cast: Stanislas de Barbeyrac, Christiane Karg, Kathryn Lewek, Stephen Milling, Thomas Oliemans
• The Metropolitan Opera performs Mozart's opera about a prince who sets out to rescue the daughter of the Queen of the Night.
• More Information: The Metropolitan Opera
ROMÉO ET JULIETTE
• U.S. Broadcast Date: January 30, 2021
• Genre: Opera
• Theatre: Metropolitan Opera House, New York
• Director: Bartlett Sher
• Composer: Charles Gounod
• Cast: Stephen Costello, Nadine Sierra
• The Metropolitan Opera performs Gounod's opera based on Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet.
• More Information: The Metropolitan Opera
DON GIOVANNI
• U.S. Broadcast Date: March 27, 2021
• Genre: Opera
• Theatre: Metropolitan Opera House, New York
• Director: Michael Grandage
• Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
• Cast: Peter Mattei, Gerald Finley, Isabel Leonard, Hera Hyesang Park, Ailyn Pérez
• The Metropolitan Opera performs Mozart's opera based on the legend of seducer Don Juan.
• More Information: The Metropolitan Opera
DEAD MAN WALKING
• U.S. Broadcast Date: April 17, 2021
• Genre: Opera
• Theatre: Metropolitan Opera House, New York
• Director: Ivo van Hove
• Composer: Jake Heggie
• Cast: Joyce DiDonato, Etienne Dupuis, Susan Graham, Latonia Moore
• The Metropolitan Opera performs Heggie's opera based on Sister Helen Prejean's memoir about her fight for the soul of a condemned murderer.
• More Information: The Metropolitan Opera
DIE FRAU OHNE SCHATTEN
• U.S. Broadcast Date: April 24, 2021
• Genre: Opera
• Theatre: Metropolitan Opera House, New York
• Director: Herbert Wernicke
• Composer: Richard Strauss
• Cast: Elza van den Heever, Evelyn Herlitzius, Nina Stemme, Klaus Florian Vogt, Michael Volle
• The Metropolitan Opera performs Strauss' opera about a half-human Empress in search of a shadow.
• More Information: The Metropolitan Opera
NABUCCO
• U.S. Broadcast Date: May 8, 2021
• Genre: Opera
• Theatre: Metropolitan Opera House, New York
• Director: Elijah Moshinsky
• Composer: Giuseppe Verdi
• Cast: Anna Netrebko, George Gagnidze, Varduhi Abrahamyan, Dmitry Belosselskiy, Najmiddin Mavlyanov,
• The Metropolitan Opera performs Verdi's opera about a the King of Babylon, and his daughter who is in love with an Israelite.
• More Information: The Metropolitan Opera
IL PIRATA
• U.S. Broadcast Date: May 22, 2021
• Genre: Opera
• Theatre: Metropolitan Opera House, New York
• Director: John Copley
• Composer: Vincenzo Bellini
• Cast: Diana Damrau, Javier Camarena
• The Metropolitan Opera performs Bellini's opera about a woman driven mad by her love for an exiled pirate.
• More Information: The Metropolitan Opera
