The Metropolitan Opera's Summer HD Festival, an annual series of free screenings on Lincoln Center Plaza, will return this year, beginning Friday August 22 with a screening of the 2023 film Maestro, starring Bradley Cooper as conductor and composer Leonard Bernstein.
The Summer HD festival will offer more than 2,500 seats nightly, with no tickets required. The festival continues with 10 operas from the Met's Live in HD catalog, primarily from the most recent season of Live in HD broadcasts. The full schedule is as follows:
Friday, August 22, 8PM: Maestro
Starring Bradley Cooper, Carey Mulligan
Directed by Bradley Cooper
Saturday, August 23, 8 PM: Verdi's Aida
Starring Angel Blue, Judit Kutasi, Piotr Beczala, Quinn Kelsey, Morris Robinson
Conducted by Yannick Nézet-Séguin
Directed by Michael Mayer
Originally transmitted January 25, 2025
Sunday, August 24, 8 PM: Beethoven's Fidelio
Starring Lise Davidsen, Ying Fang, David Butt Philip, Magnus Dietrich, Tomasz Konieczny, René Pape
Conducted by Susanna Mälkki
Directed by Jürgen Flimm
Originally transmitted March 15, 2025
Monday, August 25, 8 PM: Strauss' Salome
Starring Elza van den Heever, Michelle DeYoung, Gerhard Siegel, Peter Mattei
Conducted by Yannick Nézet-Séguin
Directed by Claus Guth
Originally transmitted May 17, 2025
Tuesday, August 26, 7:30 PM: Mozart's Le Nozze di Figaro
Starring Federica Lombardi, Olga Kulchynska, Sun-Ly Pierce, Joshua Hopkins, Michael Sumuel
Conducted by Joana Mallwitz
Directed by Richard Eyre
Originally transmitted April 26, 2025
Wednesday, August 27, 8 PM: Jeanine Tesori's Grounded
Starring Emily D'Angelo, Ben Bliss, Greer Grimsley
Conducted by Yannick Nézet-Séguin
Directed by Michael Mayer
Originally transmitted October 19, 2024
Thursday, August 28, 7:30 PM: Offenbach's Les Contes d'Hoffmann
Starring Erin Morley, Pretty Yende, Clémentine Margaine, Vasilisa Berzhanskaya, Benjamin Bernheim, Christian Van Horn
Conducted by Marco Armiliato
Directed by Bartlett Sher
Originally transmitted October 5, 2024
Friday, August 29, 8 PM: Daniel Catán's Florencia en el Amazonas
Starring Ailyn Pérez, Gabriella Reyes, Mario Chang, Greer Grimsley
Conducted by Yannick Nézet-Séguin
Directed by Mary Zimmerman
Originally transmitted December 9, 2023
Saturday, August 30, 8 PM: Puccini's Tosca
Starring Lise Davidsen, Freddie De Tommaso, Quinn Kelsey
Conducted by Yannick Nézet-Séguin
Directed by David McVicar
Originally transmitted November 23, 2024
Sunday, August 31, 7:30 PM: Rossini's Il Barbiere di Siviglia
Starring Aigul Akmetshina, Jack Swanson, Andrey Zhilikhovsky, Peter Kálmán
Conducted by Giacomo Sagripanti
Directed by Bartlett Sher
Originally transmitted May 31, 2025
Monday, September 1, 8 PM: Puccini's La Fanciulla del West
Starring Eva-Maria Westbroek, Jonas Kaufmann, Zeljko Lucic
Conducted by Marco Armiliato
Directed by Giancarlo Del Monaco
Originally transmitted October 27, 2018
