MET EVENTS
Co-Sponsored by
Opera Company of Middlebury & Town Hall Theater
Broadcast from the Metropolitan Opera House
Met Live in HD operas not available at Town Hall Theater can be seen at Essex Cinema.
The 2023-2024 Metropolitan Opera Live in HD Season runs October 2023 - May 2024.
A free pre-broadcast talk will take place in the Byers Studio (lower level of Town Hall Theater) 45 minutes before the five Saturday broadcasts.
Please join us to hear insights and excerpts of the music, history, and cast of each opera presented by the knowledgeable members of Opera Company of Middlebury's board of directors and staff.
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DEAD MAN WALKING
Jake Heggie / Libretto by Terrence McNally
Saturday, October 21st, 2023 | 1:00 pm
with free Pre-broadcast Talk by OCM Board Member Jim Pugh beginning at 12:15 pm
American composer Jake Heggie’s compelling masterpiece, the most widely performed new opera of the last 20 years, arrives in cinemas on October 21 in a haunting new production by Ivo van Hove. Based on Sister Helen Prejean’s memoir about her fight for the soul of a condemned murderer, Dead Man Walking matches the high drama of its subject with Heggie’s beautiful and poignant music and a brilliant libretto by Terrence McNally.
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X: THE LIFE AND TIMES OF MALCOLM X
Anthony Davis / Libretto by Thulani Davis / Story by Christopher Davis
Saturday, November 18th, 2023 | 1:00 pm | Run-time 3h20m
with free Pre-broadcast Talk by OCM Board Member Richard Marshak beginning at 12:15 pm
Anthony Davis’s groundbreaking and influential opera, which premiered in 1986, arrives at in cinemas on November 18. Theater luminary and Tony-nominated director of Slave Play Robert O’Hara oversees a potent new staging that imagines Malcolm as an Everyman whose story transcends time and space.
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FLORENCIA EN EL AMAZONAS
Daniel Catán / Libretto by Marcela Fuentes-Berain
Wednesday, December 20th, 2023 | 11:00 am (rebroadcast) | Run-time 2h15m
Sung in Spanish and inspired by the magical realism of Gabriel García Márquez, Mexican composer Daniel Catán’s 1996 opera tells the enchanting story of a Brazilian opera diva who returns to her homeland to perform at the legendary opera house of Manaus—and to search for her lost lover, who has vanished into the jungle.
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NABUCCO
Giuseppe Verdi
Saturday, January 6th, 2024 | 1:00 pm | Run-time 2h55m
with free Pre-broadcast Talk by OCM Board Member Jim Pugh beginning at 12:15 pm
On January 6, ancient Babylon comes to life in a classic Met staging of biblical proportions. Baritone George Gagnidze makes his Met role debut as the imperious king Nabucco, alongside soprano Liudmyla Monastyrska reprising her thrilling turn as his vengeful daughter Abigaille.
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CARMEN
Georges Bizet
Wednesday, January 31st, 2024 | 11:00 am (rebroadcast) | Run-time 3h25m
On January 31 (rebroadcast), acclaimed English director Carrie Cracknell brings a vital new production of one of opera’s most enduringly powerful works, reinvigorating the classic story with a staging that moves the action to the modern day and finds at the heart of the drama issues that could not be more relevant today: gendered violence, abusive labor structures, and the desire to break through societal boundaries.
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LA FORZA DEL DESTINO
Guiseppe Verdi
Saturday, March 9th, 2024 | 12:00 pm | Run-time 4h5m
with free Pre-broadcast Talk by OCM Board Member Jim Pugh beginning at 11:15 am
On March 9, Music Director Yannick Nézet-Séguin conducts Verdi’s grand tale of ill-fated love, deadly vendettas, and family strife, with stellar soprano Lise Davidsen as the noble Leonora, one of the repertory’s most tormented—and thrilling—heroines.
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ROMEO ET JULIETTE
Charles Gounod
Wednesday, March 27th, 2024 | 11:00 am (rebroadcast) | Run-time 3h10m
On March 27 (rebroadcast), two singers at the height of their powers—radiant soprano Nadine Sierra and tenor sensation Benjamin Bernheim—come together as the star-crossed lovers in Gounod’s sumptuous Shakespeare adaptation, with Met Music Director Yannick Nézet-Séguin on the podium to conduct one of the repertoire’s most romantic scores.
LA RONDINE
Giacomo Puccini
Saturday, April 20th, 2024 | 1:00 pm | Run-time 2h35m
with free Pre-broadcast Talk by OCM Board Member David Clark beginning at 12:15 pm
Puccini’s bittersweet love story arrives in cinemas on April 20, with soprano Angel Blue starring as the French courtesan Magda, opposite tenor Jonathan Tetelman as Ruggero, an idealistic young man who offers her an alternative to her life of excess. Maestro Speranza Scappucci conducts Nicolas Joël’s Art Deco–inspired staging, which transports audiences from the heart of Parisian nightlife to a dreamy vision of the French Riviera.