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MET Opera: Don Carlos

For the first time in company history, the Met presents the original five-act French version of Verdi’s epic opera of doomed love among royalty, set against the backdrop of the Spanish Inquisition. Met Music Director Yannick Nézet-Séguin leads a starry cast, including tenor Matthew Polenzani in the title role, soprano Sonya Yoncheva as Élisabeth de Valois, and mezzo-soprano Elīna Garanča as Eboli. Bass-baritones Eric Owens and John Relyea are Philippe II and the Grand Inquisitor, and baritone Étienne Dupuis rounds out the principal cast as Rodrigue.

4h 54min

Release Date: 26.03.2022

MET Opera Autumn 2020: Il Trovatore

Soprano Anna Netrebko’s dramatic and vocal skills are on full display in her next new role at the Met—Leonora, the Verdi heroine who sacrifices her own life for the love of the gypsy troubadour. Tenor Yonghoon Lee sings the ill-fated Manrico, baritone Dmitri Hvorostovsky is his rival, and mezzo-soprano Dolora Zajick is the mysterious gypsy with the troubled past. Marco Armiliato conducts Sir David McVicar’s Goya-inspired production. Captured live during The Met: Live in HD on 03.10.2015. The opera is sung in Italian with English subtitles.

2h 43min

Release Date: 12.12.2020

MET Opera Autumn 2020: Tosca

Emmanuel Villaume conducts a new staging of Puccini’s dramatic tragedy, directed by Sir David McVicar. Sonja Jončevastar as the heroine Tosca and Vittorio Grigolo as her lover Cavaradossi, with Bryn Terfel as the villainous Scarpia. Captured live during The Met: Live in HD on 27.01.2018. The opera is sung in Italian with English subtitles.

2h 20min

Release Date: 10.10.2020

MET Opera Summer 2020: Cavalleria Rusticana / Pagliacci

Opera’s most enduring tragic double bill returns in an evocative production by Sir David McVicar, who sets the action across two time periods but in the same Sicilian village. Marcelo Álvarez rises to the challenge of playing the dual tenor roles of Turiddu in Cavalleria Rusticana and Canio in Pagliacci. Sopranos Eva-Maria Westbroek (Cavalleria Rusticana) and Patricia Racette (Pagliacci) sing the unlucky heroines in these two verismo staples. Captured live during The Met: Live in HD on 25.04.2015. The opera is sung in Italian with English subtitles.

2h 51min

Release Date: 05.08.2020

MET Opera: Maria Stuarda

NB! Due to the fact that the cinemas are temporarily closed until futher notice the live broadcast of "Maria Stuarda" is cancelled. All questions regarding tickets please forward to our information email address: info@forumcinemas.ee Donizetti’s drama, focused on the political and personal rivalry between two queens, returns to the Met with Diana Damrau as the doomed Mary, Queen of Scots, and Jamie Barton as her rival, Queen Elizabeth I. Stephen Costello sings the role of Mary’s lover, Leicester; Andrzej Filończyk is the chancellor Cecil; and Michele Pertusi sings the Earl Talbot.

3h 6min

Release Date: 09.05.2020

MET Opera: Tosca

MET Opera: Tosca (2020)

NB! Due to the fact that the cinemas are temporarily closed until futher notice the live broadcast of "Tosca" is cancelled. All questions regarding tickets please forward to our information email address: info@forumcinemas.ee Sir David McVicar’s bold staging of Puccini’s operatic thriller returns to the Live in HD series after its acclaimed broadcast in 2017. This time, star soprano Anna Netrebko is the passionate title diva, opposite Brian Jagde as her lover, the idealistic painter Mario Cavaradossi. Michael Volle is the menacing Baron Scarpia, the evil chief of police.

3h 17min

Release Date: 11.04.2020

MET Opera: Agrippina

In the Met’s first-ever performances of Agrippina, Handel’s satire of sex and power politics, Sir David McVicar reconceives a production he originally created for the Monnaie in Brussels in 2000, evoking a scandalous world in which the Roman Empire never fell but simply kept going right up to the present.

4h 6min

Release Date: 29.02.2020

MET Opera: Adriana Lecouvreur

For the first time at the Met, Anna Netrebko sings the title role of Adriana Lecouvreur, the great 18th-century actress in love with the military hero Maurizio, sung by Piotr Beczała. Gianandrea Noseda conducts Cilea’s tragedy, directed by Sir David McVicar, with the action partially set in a working replica of a Baroque theater. The cast also features Anita Rachvelishvili as the Princess of Bouillon, Adriana’s rival for Maurizio’s affections; Ambrogio Maestri as Michonnet, Adriana’s faithful friend; and Carlo Bosi as the duplicitous Abbé.

3h 40min

Release Date: 12.01.2019

MET Opera Summer 2018: Il Trovatore

Soprano Anna Netrebko’s dramatic and vocal skills are on full display in her next new role at the Met—Leonora, the Verdi heroine who sacrifices her own life for the love of the gypsy troubadour. Tenor Yonghoon Lee sings the ill-fated Manrico, baritone Dmitri Hvorostovsky is his rival, and mezzo-soprano Dolora Zajick is the mysterious gypsy with the troubled past. Marco Armiliato conducts Sir David McVicar’s Goya-inspired production.

2h 41min

Release Date: 11.07.2018

MET Opera: Tosca

MET Opera: Tosca (2018)

Emmanuel Villaume conducts a new staging of Puccini’s dramatic tragedy, directed by Sir David McVicar. Sonja Jončevastar as the heroine Tosca and Vittorio Grigolo as her lover Cavaradossi, with Bryn Terfel as the villainous Scarpia.

3h 24min

Release Date: 27.01.2018

MET Opera: Norma

The season opens with a new production of Bellini’s bel canto tragedy Norma, starring Sondra Radvanovsky in the title role, which she has sung to acclaim at the Met in 2013, as well as at the Canadian Opera Company, San Francisco Opera, Bavarian State Opera, Gran Teatre del Liceu, and Lyric Opera of Chicago—making her one of the world’s leading interpreters of the iconic title character. Joyce DiDonato co-stars as Norma’s colleague and rival, Adalgisa, opposite Joseph Calleja as Pollione and Matthew Rose as Oroveso. Carlo Rizzi conducts and Sir David McVicar directs the new production.

3h 35min

Release Date: 07.10.2017

MET Opera: Roberto Devereux

Soprano Sondra Radvanovsky takes on the extraordinary challenge of singing all three of Donizetti’s Tudor queens in the course of a single season, a rare feat made famous by Beverly Sills—and not attempted on a New York stage since. In this climactic opera of the trilogy, directed by Sir David McVicar, she plays Queen Elizabeth I, forced to sign the death warrant of the nobleman she loves, Roberto Devereux.

3h 9min

Release Date: 16.04.2016

MET Opera: Il Trovatore (2015/2016)

Soprano Anna Netrebko’s dramatic and vocal skills are on full display in her next new role at the Met—Leonora, the Verdi heroine who sacrifices her own life for the love of the gypsy troubadour. Tenor Yonghoon Lee sings the ill-fated Manrico, baritone Dmitri Hvorostovsky is his rival, and mezzo-soprano Dolora Zajick is the mysterious gypsy with the troubled past. Marco Armiliato conducts Sir David McVicar’s Goya-inspired production.

3h 3min

Release Date: 03.10.2015

MET Opera: Cavalleria Rusticana / Pagliacci

Opera’s most enduring tragic double bill returns in an evocative new production from Sir David McVicar, who sets the action across two time periods but in the same Sicilian village. Marcelo Álvarez rises to the challenge of playing the dual tenor roles of Turiddu in Cavalleria Rusticana and Canio in Pagliacci. Rae Smith (War Horse) has designed the moodily atmospheric 1900 village square setting of Cavalleria, which transforms to a 1948 truck stop for the doomed vaudeville troupe of Pagliacci.

3h 30min

Release Date: 25.04.2015

MET Opera Summer 2013: Il Trovatore

David McVicar’s stirring production of Verdi’s intense drama premiered at the Met in the 2008–09 season. This revival stars four extraordinary singers — Sondra Radvanovsky, Dolora Zajick, Marcelo Álvarez, and Dmitri Hvorostovsky — in what might be the composer’s most melodically rich score. Libretto by Salvadore Cammarano and Leone Emanuele Bardare, based on the play El Trovador by Antonio García Gutiérrez. Original transmission date: Saturday, April 30, 2011 Running time 2:41 Sung in Italian with Met Titles in English

3h 2min

Release Date: 26.06.2013

MET Opera: Giulio Cesare

The opera that conquered London in Handel’s time comes to the Met in David McVicar’s lively production. The world’s leading countertenor, David Daniels, sings the title role opposite Natalie Dessay as an irresistibly exotic Cleopatra. Baroque specialist Harry Bicket conducts.

4h 51min

Release Date: 27.04.2013

Maria Stuarda

Mezzo-soprano Joyce DiDonato, one of the world’s most exciting singers, takes on the virtuosic bel canto role of the doomed Mary, Queen of Scots. Director David McVicar turns to the second opera of Donizetti’s Tudor trilogy, which explores regal characters at fateful moments of their lives. Elza van den Heever sings Elizabeth I, and Maurizio Benini conducts.

3h 2min

Release Date: 19.01.2013

MET Opera Summer 2012: Anna Bolena

Libretto by Felice Romani, based on Ippolito Pindemonte’s Enrico VIII ossia Anna Bolena and Alessandro Pepoli’s Anna Bolena Act I England, 1536. At Richmond Castle, courtiers discuss the state of royal affairs: Queen Anne’s star is sinking since King Henry VIII has fallen in love with another woman. Jane Seymour, Anne’s confidante and lady-in-waiting, appears, followed by the queen, who admits to Jane that she is troubled. Anne asks her page Smeton to sing a song to cheer everyone. His words remind her of the happiness of her first love, which she gave up to marry the king.

3h 30min

Release Date: 20.06.2012

MET Opera: Anna Bolena

Anna Netrebko opens the Met season with her portrayal of the ill-fated queen driven insane by her unfaithful king. She sings one of opera's greatest mad scenes in this Met premiere production by David McVicar. Ekaterina Gubanova is her rival, Jane Seymour, Ildar Abdrazakov sings Henry VIII, and Marco Armiliato conducts.

3h 50min

Release Date: 15.10.2011

MET Opera: Il Trovatore

MET Opera: Il Trovatore (2011)

David McVicar’s stirring production of Verdi’s intense drama premiered in the 2008–09 season. James Levine leads this revival, starring four extraordinary singers—Sondra Radvanovsky, Dolora Zajick, Marcelo Álvarez, and Dmitri Hvorostovsky—in what might be the composer’s most melodically rich score. James Levine; Sondra Radvanovsky, Dolora Zajick, Marcelo Álvarez, Dmitri Hvorostovsky

3h 0min

Release Date: 30.04.2011