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Classic Arts Features Schedule of Upcoming Live Opera and Ballet Broadcasts

The opera and ballet fans' guide to where they can view live broadcasts.

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].

ROMÉO ET JULIETTE
• U.S. Broadcast Date: March 23, 2024
• Genre: Opera
• Theatre: Metropolitan Opera House, New York
• Director: Bartlett Sher
• Composer: Charles Gounod
• Cast: Nadine Sierra, Benjamin Bernheim, Will Liverman, Frederick Ballentine, Samantha Hankey, Alfred Walker
• The Metropolitan Opera performs Charles Gounod's opera based on the Shakespeare play about two star-crossed lovers.
• More Information: The Metropolitan Opera

FLORENCIA EN EL AMAZONAS
• Channel: PBS
• U.S. Broadcast Date: April 7, 2024
• Genre: Opera
• Theatre: Metropolitan Opera House, New York
• Director: Mary Zimmerman
• Composer: Daniel Catán
• Cast: Ailyn Pérez, Gabriella Reyes, Greer Grimsley, Mattia Olivieri, Mario Chang, Nancy Fabiola Herrera, Michael Chioldi
• A Great Performances broadcast of The Metropolitan Opera production of Catán's opera about an opera diva who returns to her native Brazil to perform and search for her lost lover, who has vanished into the jungle.
• More Information: PBS

LA RONDINE
• U.S. Broadcast Date: April 20, 2024
• Genre: Opera
• Theatre: Metropolitan Opera House, New York
• Director: Nicolas Joël
• Composer: Giacomo Puccini
• Cast: Angel Blue, Jonathan Tetelman, Emily Pogorelc, Bekhzod Davronov
• The Metropolitan Opera performs Puccini's opera about a young woman who leaves behind her luxurious existence to follow her heart.
• More Information: The Metropolitan Opera

NABUCCO
• Channel: PBS
• U.S. Broadcast Date: May 5, 2024
• Genre: Opera
• Theatre: Metropolitan Opera House, New York
• Director: Elijah Moshinsky
• Composer: Giuseppe Verdi
• Cast: George Gagnidze, Liudmyla Monastyrska, Maria Barakova, SeokJong Baek, Dmitry Belosselskiy
• A Great Performances broadcast of The Metropolitan Opera production of Verdi's opera about the fall of ancient Jerusalem at the hands of Nebuchadnezzar.
• More Information: PBS

MADAMA BUTTERFLY
• U.S. Broadcast Date: May 11, 2024
• Genre: Opera
• Theatre: Metropolitan Opera House, New York
• Director: Anthony Minghella
• Composer: Giacomo Puccini
• Cast: Asmik Grigorian, Jonathan Tetelman, Elizabeth DeShong, Lucas Meachem
• The Metropolitan Opera performs Puccini's opera about a young Japanese geisha who falls in love with a visiting American naval officer.
• More Information: The Metropolitan Opera

CARMEN
• Channel: PBS
• U.S. Broadcast Date: June 14, 2024
• Genre: Opera
• Theatre: Metropolitan Opera House, New York
• Director: Carrie Cracknell
• Composer: Georges Bizet
• Cast: Aigul Akhmetshina, Piotr Beczała, Angel Blue, Kyle Ketelsen
• A Great Performances broadcast of The Metropolitan Opera production of Bizet's opera about a soldier who falls in love with a seductress.
• More Information: PBS

LA FORZA DEL DESTINO
• Channel: PBS
• U.S. Broadcast Date: July 7, 2024
• Genre: Opera
• Theatre: Metropolitan Opera House, New York
• Director: Mariusz Treliński
• Composer: Giuseppe Verdi
• Cast: Lise Davidsen, Brian Jagde, Igor Golovatenko, Ekaterina Semenchuk, Patrick Carfizzi, Soloman Howard
• A Great Performances broadcast of The Metropolitan Opera production of Verdi's opera about ill-fated love, deadly vendettas, and family strife.
• More Information: PBS

ROMÉO ET JULIETTE
• Channel: PBS
• U.S. Broadcast Date: August 4, 2024
• Genre: Opera
• Theatre: Metropolitan Opera House, New York
• Director: Bartlett Sher
• Composer: Charles Gounod
• Cast: Nadine Sierra, Benjamin Bernheim, Will Liverman, Frederick Ballentine, Samantha Hankey, Alfred Walker
• A Great Performances broadcast of The Metropolitan Opera production of Charles Gounod's opera based on the Shakespeare play about two star-crossed lovers.
• More Information: PBS

LA RONDINE
• Channel: PBS
• U.S. Broadcast Date: September 8, 2024
• Genre: Opera
• Theatre: Metropolitan Opera House, New York
• Director: Nicolas Joël
• Composer: Giacomo Puccini
• Cast: Angel Blue, Jonathan Tetelman, Emily Pogorelc, Bekhzod Davronov
• A Great Performances broadcast of The Metropolitan Opera production of Puccini's opera about a young woman who leaves behind her luxurious existence to follow her heart.
• More Information: PBS

LES CONTES D'HOFFMANN
• U.S. Broadcast Date: October 5, 2024
• Genre: Opera
• Theatre: Metropolitan Opera House, New York
• Director: Bartlett Sher
• Composer: Jacques Offenbach
• Cast: Benjamin Bernheim, Erin Morley, Pretty Yende, Clémentine Margaine
• The Metropolitan Opera performs Offenbach's opera based on three stories by German writer E.T.A. Hoffmann.
• More Information: The Metropolitan Opera

MADAMA BUTTERFLY
• Channel: PBS
• U.S. Broadcast Date: October 6, 2024
• Genre: Opera
• Theatre: Metropolitan Opera House, New York
• Director: Anthony Minghella
• Composer: Giacomo Puccini
• Cast: Asmik Grigorian, Jonathan Tetelman, Elizabeth DeShong, Lucas Meachem
• The Metropolitan Opera performs Puccini's opera about a young Japanese geisha who falls in love with a visiting American naval officer.
• More Information: PBS

GROUNDED
• U.S. Broadcast Date: October 19, 2024
• Genre: Opera
• Theatre: Metropolitan Opera House, New York
• Director: Michael Mayer
• Composer: Jeanine Tesori
• Cast: Emily D’Angelo, Kirsten MacKinnon, Ben Bliss, Kyle Miller
• The Metropolitan Opera performs Tesori's opera based on librettist George Brant’s play about a hot-shot fighter pilot whose unplanned pregnancy takes her out of the cockpit and into operating a drone halfway around the world.
• More Information: The Metropolitan Opera

TOSCA
• U.S. Broadcast Date: November 23, 2024
• Genre: Opera
• Theatre: Metropolitan Opera House, New York
• Director: David McVicar
• Composer: Giacomo Puccini
• Cast: Lise Davidsen, Freddie De Tommaso, Quinn Kelsey
• 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: The Metropolitan Opera

AIDA
• U.S. Broadcast Date: January 25, 2025
• Genre: Opera
• Theatre: Metropolitan Opera House, New York
• Director: Michael Mayer
• Composer: Giuseppe Verdi
• Cast: Angel Blue, Judit Kutasi, Piotr Beczała, Quinn Kelsey, Dmitry Belosselskiy, Morris Robinson
• The Metropolitan Opera performs Verdi's opera set in ancient Egypt, about an Ethiopian princess torn between love and country.
• More Information: The Metropolitan Opera

FIDELIO
• U.S. Broadcast Date: March 15, 2025
• Genre: Opera
• Theatre: Metropolitan Opera House, New York
• Director: Jürgen Flimm
• Composer: Ludwig van Beethoven
• Cast: Lise Davidsen, Ying Fang, David Butt Philip, Magnus Dietrich, Tomasz Konieczny, René Pape, Stephen Milling
• The Metropolitan Opera performs Beethoven's opera about a woman who risks everything to save her husband from the clutches of tyranny.
• More Information: The Metropolitan Opera

LE NOZZE DI FIGARO
• U.S. Broadcast Date: April 26, 2025
• Genre: Opera
• Theatre: Metropolitan Opera House, New York
• Director: Richard Eyre
• Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
• Cast: Federica Lombardi, Olga Kulchynska, Marianne Crebassa, Elizabeth Bishop, Joshua Hopkins, Michael Sumuel, Maurizio Muraro
• The Metropolitan Opera performs Mozart's comic opera that tests the romantic bonds of two couples over the course of one eventful day.
• More Information: The Metropolitan Opera

SALOME
• U.S. Broadcast Date: May 17, 2025
• Genre: Opera
• Theatre: Metropolitan Opera House, New York
• Director: Claus Guth
• Composer: Richard Strauss
• Cast: Elza van den Heever, Michelle DeYoung, Gerhard Siegel, Piotr Buszewski, Peter Mattei
• The Metropolitan Opera performs Strauss's opera based on the play by Oscar Wilde.
• More Information: The Metropolitan Opera

IL BARBIERE DI SIVIGLIA
• U.S. Broadcast Date: May 31, 2025
• Genre: Opera
• Theatre: Metropolitan Opera House, New York
• Director: Bartlett Sher
• Composer: Gioachino Rossini
• Cast: Aigul Akhmetshina, Jack Swanson, Andrey Zhilikhovsky, Peter Kálmán, Alexander Vinogradov
• The Metropolitan Opera performs Rossini's comic opera about the titular barber who helps two young lovers in their quest to be together.
• More Information: The Metropolitan Opera

 

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