Here's Next Season Line-up for Live-at-the-Met-Operas-in-HD

By Marlies Wolf

The 2015-2016 season of Live-at-the-Met-in-HD-at-the-Movies starts off on October 3rd. So it’s time to get those coveted tickets. Met Opera Guild members, of course, lined up days ago, as is their privilege as paying Guild members. Now it’s your turn -- you loyal opera fans all over the United States and much of the globe.

Most of you plan to get there very early, which is advisable, because these HD transmissions have become marvelously popular and tickets sell out fast.

So fast, that in selected movie venues, they have added a pleasant opportunity for additional chances for tickets. As usual, all initial live performances are scheduled on Saturday afternoons, with an encore on the followingWednesday evening. Well, now, in specially selected movie theaters, they have added an additional encore on Thursday, at matinee time. It is a very welcome addition and we here locally are lucky: The City Center Cinema in White Plains is one of those “selected” movie venues.

Here, then, the opera Line-up:

VERDI -- Il Trovatore

October 3, 2015

VERDI -- Otello (New Production)

October 17, 2015

WAGNER --Tannhaueser

October 31, 2015

BERG -- Lulu (New Production)

November 21, 2015

BIZET -- Les Pecheurs de Perles (New Production)

JANUARY 16, 2016

PUCCINI -- Turandot

January 30, 2016

PUCCINI -- Manon Lescaut (New Production)

March 5, 2016

PUCCINI -- Madama Butterfly

April 2, 2016

DONIZETTI -- Roberto Devereux (Met Premiere)

April 16, 2016

STRAUSS -- Elektra (New Production)

April 30, 2016

Good luck with the ticket-buying and let us hope that the currently ill fabulous baritone Dmitry Hvorostovsky will have recovered in time for his scheduled appearance in Il Trovatore.