✕ ✕
Turning tips into memories
Login
Signup

You have reached the limit of free articles.


To enjoy unlimited access to Culture Whisper sign up for FREE.
Find out more about Culture Whisper

Please fix the following input errors:

  • dummy

Each week, we send newsletters and communication featuring articles, our latest tickets invitations, and exclusive offers.

Occasional information about discounts, special offers and promotions.


OR
LOG IN

OR
  • LOG IN WITH FACEBOOK

Thanks for signing up to Culture Whisper.
Please check your inbox for a confirmation email and click the link to verify your account.



EXPLORE CULTURE WHISPER
✕ ✕
Turning tips into memories
Login
Signup

Please fix the following input errors:

  • dummy
Forgot your username or password?
Don't have an account? Sign Up

OR
  • LOG IN WITH FACEBOOK

If you click «Log in with Facebook» and are not a Culture Whisper user, you agree to our Terms & Conditions and to our Privacy Policy, which includes our Cookie Use

Support Us Login
  • Home
  • Going Out
    • Things to do
    • Food & Drink
    • Theatre
    • Visual Arts
    • Cinema
    • Kids
    • Festival
    • Gigs
    • Dance
    • Classical Music
    • Opera
    • Immersive
    • Talks
  • Staying In
    • TV
    • Books
    • Cook
    • Podcast
    • Design
    • Netflix
  • Life & Style
    • Beauty
    • Fashion
    • Gifting
    • Wellbeing
    • Lifestyle
    • Shopping
    • Jewellery
  • Explore
  • Shopping
  • CW SHOPS
  • Support Us
  • Get Started
  • Tickets
  • CW SHOPS
Get the Best of London Life, Culture and Style
By entering my email I agree to the CultureWhisper Privacy Policy (we won`t share data & you can unsubscribe anytime).
Cinema

Live in HD: Metropolitan Opera New York

18 Mar 23 – 03 Jun 23, Six live relays from New York at London cinemas and nationwide

Join New Yorkers in the best seats in the house for a season of global live opera relays, featuring world-class singers

By Claudia Pritchard on 16/1/2023

Sonya Yoncheva in the title role of Giordano's Fedora at the Met, with Piotr Bczała. Other operas follow. Photo: Ken Howard
Sonya Yoncheva in the title role of Giordano's Fedora at the Met, with Piotr Bczała. Other operas follow. Photo: Ken Howard
Live in HD: Metropolitan Opera New York Live in HD: Metropolitan Opera New York Claudia Pritchard
For a night at the opera with a difference, try the brilliant cinema screenings live from the Metropolitan Opera New York, at cinemas across London.


Now established for 15 years, the Live in HD relays convey all the excitement of attending a live performance with the bonus of going backstage and peeking at the artists and stage crew at work.


This year's relays have just begun with Giordano's passionate and twisting romance Fedora, and there are six more productions ahead, some of them new, some of them revivals of acclaimed stagings.


When the curtain goes up, there are opera-lovers comfortable not only in London but in the cinemas of 70 countries worldwide, from Tromsø in the north to Uruguay in the south. Take your seat at a London relay, and you are joining 350,000 other music-lovers. Fedora marked the 150th such relay, with 30 million tickets sold to date. Everything about opera at the Met is BIG!



Der Rosenkavalier is relayed live in HD from the Met on 15 April. Photo: Karen Almond


Before the overture, the scene is set by expert commentators, between acts you can look down on stage hands transforming the sets, and in the interval, when there is time for a quick bite, singers chat about their roles. It all adds up to a fascinating experience, viewed as if from the best seats in the famous opera house at the Lincoln Center, with illuminating close-ups of the world's greatest singers.


Next up is Wagner's Lohengrin, newly staged at the Met for the first time in 17 years. Polish tenor Piotr Bczała and sopranos Tamara Wilson and Christine Goerke star as a mysterious knight, a falsely accused noblewoman and a sorceress (Sat 18 Mar).


Verdi's Falstaff follows (Sat 1 April). The comedy based on Shakespeare's Merry Wives of Windsor stars baritone Michael Volle in the title role of this revival of Robert Carsen's staging, with gorgeous costumes by Brigitte Reiffenstuel.


There is chance to see another great production revived when Carsen's staging to Richard Strauss's Der Rosenkavalier stars the great soprano Lise Davidsen as the Marschallin and Isabel Leonard as Octavian, the young lover she releases (Sat 15 April).



Tim Yip's set for a new production of Lohengrin, relayed live from the Met on 18 March

A brand new opera, set in the tense world of boxing, Terence Blanchard's Champion, is relayed live on Saturday 29 April. Singers include Latonia Moore, Stephanie Blythe, Ryan Speedo Green and Eric Owens, and there promises to be some spectacular choreography.


Two Mozart operas close the season. On Saturday 20 May, Ivo van Hove's new production of Don Giovanni is screened. The cast includes Federica Lombardi (Donna Anna), Ana María Martínez (Donna Elvira), Peter Mattei (Don Giovanni) and Adam Plachetka (Leporello).


And finally, Saturday 3 June, Mozart's Der Zauberflöte brings down the curtain in a new production by Simon McBurney. The strong cast includes Erin Morley (Pamina), Kathryn Lewek (Queen of the Night), Lawrence Brownlee (Tamino) and Thomas Oliemans (Papageno).


With tickets around the £35 mark, Live in HD is a great way to see great opera between live performances at London's own opera houses, and many of the artists will be familiar to the capital's audiences.

by Claudia Pritchard

What Live in HD: Metropolitan Opera New York
When 18 Mar 23 – 03 Jun 23, Six live relays from New York at London cinemas and nationwide
Price £Prices vary
Website Click here for details and booking



Most popular

Things to do in London this weekend: 3–5 February
Things to do in London this weekend: 3–5 February
Helena Bonham Carter in Nolly, ITVX (Photo: ITV)
What to watch on TV this week
London exhibitions on now — Peter Doig, Courtauld Gallery
Top 15 exhibitions on now in London

Editor's Picks

Tannahaüser returns to the Royal Opera
Best Concerts and Opera in January
Pianist Fiachra Garvey and musical friends open Classical Vauxhall. Photo: Alan Place
Classical Vauxhall 2023
Carmen at English National Opera is set in Franco's Spain. Photo: Adiam Yemane
Carmen, English National Opera review
Ed Lyon in the title role of our favourite opera production, Garsington's Orfeo
Classical and Opera 2022: our pick of the year
Tchaikovsky's Eugene Onegin was one of the 2022 hits at Opera Holland Park. The 2023 season is under way. Photo: Ali Wright
Opera Holland Park 2023
Glyndebourne Festival Opera is loved for its music – and its gardens. Photo: James Bellorini
Glyndebourne Festival Opera 2023
Sign up to CW’s newsletter
By entering my email I agree to the CultureWhisper Privacy Policy (we won`t share data & you can unsubscribe anytime).

Metropolitan Opera New York

Wagner

Verdi

Richard Strauss

Mozart



  • The Culture Whisper team
  • Support Us
  • Tickets
  • Contact us
  • Press
  • FAQ
  • Privacy
  • Terms and conditions
  • Cookies
  • Discover
  • Venues
  • Restaurants
  • Stations
  • Boroughs
Sign up to CW’s newsletter
By entering my email I agree to the CultureWhisper Privacy Policy (we won`t share data & you can unsubscribe anytime).
×