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The Met: Live in HD – 2024-25 season at The Quick Center

Quick Center for the Arts announces The Met: Live in HD season

(Marty Sohl/Metropolitan Opera)

Quick Center for the Arts announcesThe Met: Live in HD season

On Sale Dates:

July 18: The Met: Live in HD Members – SubscriptionsJuly 23: Quick Members – Subscriptions and Single TicketsJuly 29: General Public – Subscriptions and Single Tickets

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Offenbach's Les Contes d'Hoffman

Saturday, October 5, 2024 | 1 p.m. (live)

Benjamin Bernheim embodies the role of the tormented poet in Offenbach's fantastical opera. Joining him, Erin Morley dazzles as Olympia, Pretty Yende brings depth to Antonia, and Clémentine Margaine captivates as Giulietta, completing Hoffmann's trio of lovers.

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Jeanine Tesori’sGrounded

Saturday, October 26, 2024 | 1 p.m. (encore)

Tony Award-winning composer Jeanine Tesori debuts her powerful new opera, Grounded, at the Metropolitan Opera. The production grapples with 21st-century warmaking's ethical and psychological complexities, featuring Canadian mezzo-soprano Emily D'Angelo as a fighter pilot grounded by pregnancy, alongside American tenor Ben Bliss as Wyoming rancher Eric.




Puccini’sTosca

Saturday, November 23, 2024 | 1 p.m. (live)

Renowned Norwegian soprano Lise Davidsen headlines David McVicar’s thrilling production. British-Italian tenor Freddie De Tommaso makes his highly anticipated company debut as Tosca’s revolutionary lover, Cavaradossi, while powerhouse American baritone Quinn Kelsey portrays the sadistic chief of police.




Verdi’sAida

Saturday, January 25, 2025 | 12:30 p.m. (live)

American soprano Angel Blue takes the lead as the Ethiopian princess caught between love and country in a new production of Verdi’s Aida by Michael Mayer. The staging immerses audiences in the grandeur of ancient Egypt with intricate projections and dazzling animations.




Beethoven’sFidelio

Saturday, March 15, 2025 | 1 p.m. (live)

Joined by a stellar cast, Norwegian soprano Lise Davidsen returns to the Metropolitan Opera as Leonore, the devoted wife who risks all to rescue her husband from tyranny in Beethoven’s Fidelio.




Mozart’sLe Nozze di Figaro

Saturday, April 26, 2025 | 1 p.m. (live)

Mozart’s timeless comedy returns with an incredible cast including American bass-baritone Michael Sumuel as the clever valet Figaro, Ukrainian soprano Olga Kulchynska as the wily maid Susanna, and French mezzo-soprano Marianne Crebassa as the adolescent page Cherubino.




Strauss’sSalome

Tuesday, May 20, 2025 | 1 p.m. (encore)

Met Music Director Yannick Nézet-Séguin takes the podium to conduct Strauss’s one-act tragedy. Leading the company’s first new production of the work in 20 years, Claus Guth, one of Europe’s leading opera directors, gives the biblical story a psychologically perceptive Victorian-era setting. South African soprano Elza van den Heever leads a celebrated cast as the abused and unhinged antiheroine.




Rossini’sIl Barbiere di Siviglia

Tuesday, June 10, 2025 | 1 p.m. (encore)

Russian mezzo-soprano Aigul Akhmetshina stars as the feisty heroine, Rosina, alongside American tenor Jack Swanson, making his Met debut as her secret beloved, Count Almaviva.

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