METROPOLITAN OPERA LIVE IN HD 2021/22

In the 2021/22 season of MET LIVE IN HD, in addition to three contemporary operas, we can see Italian, French, Russian and Austrian classics. Among the contemporaries, the Metropolitan Opera's first opera by an Afro-American author, the well-known jazz musician Terence Blanchard's Fire Shut Up in My Bones, will be featured. In New York, this will be the opening performance of the season, but we will see it second in the series of broadcasts. The other two contemporary pieces are Brett Dean’s great Hamlet adaptation with Allan Clayton in the title role, and the 21st century Eurydice adaptation by American Matthew Aucoin starring Erin Morley.

Among the Italian masters Verdi’s Rigoletto comes to life in the art deco world of the 1920s in Bartlett Sher’s new direction, and Don Carlos with Matthew Polenzani can be seen in an original five-act version never played before in the Met. Also a new direction is Donizetti’s Lucia di Lammermoor in the staging of young Australian actor-director Simon Stone. The title role of Ljudmila Monastyrska in Puccini’s Turandot is a particular attraction. Mussorgsky’s Boris Godunov and René Pape will amuse us in the original, two and a quarter hour uninterrupted version. Richard Strauss’s viennese opera Ariadne in Naxos will be sing by one of the best Ariadnees in the world, Norwegian Lise Davidson, accompanied by stars such as Brenda Rae and Isabel Leonard. True to the traditions of the Met, there will be  family opera performances during the Christmas and New Year festivities in an abbreviated version: at 19 December we will perform the Magic Flute with Erika Miklósa as Queen of the Night (2006), and on the New Year's day we will screeningMassenet’s Cinderella with Isabel Leonard.

9 October 2021, 7 pm
Modest Mussorgsky: Boris Godunov
Conductor: Sebastian Weigle
René Pape (Boris Godunov), David Butt Philip (Grigory), Maxim Paster(Shuisky), Alekszej Bogdanov  (Shchelkalov), Ain Anger (Pimen), Ryan Speedo Green (Varlaam)
Director: Stephen Wadsworth

23 October 2021, Saturday, 7 pm
Terence Blanchard: Fire Shut Up In My Bones
Conductor: Yannick Nézet-Séguin
Angel Blue (Destiny/Loneliness/Greta), Latonia Moore(Billie), Will Liverman (Charles)
Director: James Robinson and Camille A. Brown

4 December 2021, Saturday 7 pm
Matthew Aucoin: Eurydice (New production of MET)
Libretto: Sarah Ruhl
Casts: Erin Morley (Eurydice), Joshua Hopkins (Orfeusz), Jakub Józef Orliński (Orfeusz), Nathan Berg (Eurüdiké apja), Barry Banks (Hádész)
Conductor: Yannick Nézet-Séguin
Director: Mary Zimmerman

19 December 2021, Sunday 10:30 am
Mozart's Magic Flute (2006)
Conductor: James Levine
Starring: Ying Huang, Erika Miklósa, Matthew Polenzani, René Pape, Nathan Gunn
Director: Julie Taymor

1 January 2022, Saturday 7 pm
Jules Massenet: Cinderella
Encore: 9 January 2022, Sunday 6 pm
Cast: Jessica Pratt (Fairy Godmother)), Isabel Leonard (Cinderella), Emily D'Angelo (Prince Charming), Stephanie Blythe (Madame de la Haltière), Laurent Naouri (Pandolfe)
Conductor: Emmanuel Villaume
Director: Laurent Pelly

29 January 2022, Saturday, 7 pm
Giuseppe Verdi: Rigoletto (New production of MET)
Encore: 6 February 2022, Sunday 6 pm
Cast: Rosa Feola (Gilda), Varduhi Abrahamyan (Maddalena), Piotr Beczala (The Duke of Mantua), Quinn Kelsey (Rigoletto), Andrea Mastroni (Sparafucile)
Conductor: Daniele Rustioni
Director: Bartlett Sher

12 March 2022, Saturday 7 pm
Richard Strauss: Ariadne auf Naxos
Encore: 20 March 2022, Sunday 6 pm
Cast: Lise Davidsen (Ariadne), Brenda Rae (Zerbinetta), Isabel Leonard (Composer), Brandon Jovanovich (Bacchus), Sean Michael Plumb (Harlekin), Johannes Martin Kränzle (Music Master), Sir Thomas Allen (Majordomus)
Conductor: Marek Janowski
Director: Elijah Moshinsky

26 March 2022, Saturday, 5 pm
Giuseppe Verdi: Don Carlos (New production of MET)
Encore: 3 April 2022, Sunday 5 pm 
Cast: Sonya Yoncheva (Élisabeth de Valois), Elīna Garanča (Eboli), Matthew Polenzani (Don Carlos), Étienne Dupuis (Rodrigue Posa), Eric Owens (Philippe II), John Relyea (Grand Inquisitor)
Conductor: Yannick Nézet-Séguin
Director: Sir David McVicar

7 May 2022, Saturday, 7 pm
Giacomo Puccini: Turandot
Encore: 15 May 2022, Sunday 6 pm 
Cast: Ljudmila Monasztirszka (Turandot), Ermonela Jaho (Liù), Yonghoon Lee (Kalaf), Ferruccio Furlanetto (Timur)
Conductor: Marco Armiliato
Director: Franco Zeffirelli

21 May 2022, Saturday, 7 pm
Gaetano Donizetti: Lucia di Lammermoor (New production of MET)
Encore: 29 May 2022, Sunday 6 pm 
Cast: Nadine Sierra (Lucia), Javier Camarena (Edgardo), Artur Ruciński (Enrico), Christian Van Horn (Raimondo)
Conductor: Riccardo Frizza
Director: Simon Stone

4 June 2022, Saturday, 7 pm
Brett Dean: Hamlet (New production of MET)
Cast: Brenda Rae (Ophelia), Sarah Connolly (Gertrude), Aryeh Nussbaum Cohen (Rosencrantz), Christopher Lowrey (Guildenstern), Allan Clayton (Hamlet), David Butt Philip (Laertes), William Burden (Polonius), Jacques Imbrailo (Horatio), Rod Gilfry (Claudius), Sir John Tomlinson (Ghost of Hamlet’s father)
Conductor: Nicholas Carter
Director: Neil Armfield

Ticket Prize: 4500 HUF