Anna Netrebko, Dmitri Hvorostovsky, Diana Damrau & Sonya Yoncheva Lead Metropolitan Opera’s Free Summer HD Festival

By Francisco Salazar

The Met’s Summer HD Festival is set to return on August 28 featuring 10 free encore presentations from the company’s Live in HD series.

The festival will also feature a special pre-festival screening of Susan Froemke’s acclaimed documentary “The Opera House.”

The screenings will be free and open to the public, with approximately 2,500 seats set up next to the opera house in Damrosch Park. General-admission seating will open 10 minutes before each presentation on a first-come-first-served basis.

There will also be reserved seating, which will be available via the TodayTix lottery, and lottery winners must arrive at least 10 minutes before showtime.

Screenings will go on as scheduled in the case of rain but will be canceled in the event of thunder/lightning or high wind. Canceled screenings will not be rescheduled.

Here is a look at the full schedule:

Friday, August 27, at 8:00 p.m. – The Opera House

In this documentary, award-winning filmmaker Susan Froemke explores the creation of the Metropolitan Opera’s storied Lincoln Center home.

Saturday, August 28, at 7:30 p.m. – Verdi’s La Traviata

Conducted by Yannick Nézet-Séguin; starring Diana Damrau, Juan Diego Flórez, and Quinn Kelsey. From December 15, 2018.

Sunday, August 29, at 7:30 p.m. – Verdi’s Otello

Conducted by Yannick Nézet-Séguin; starring Sonya Yoncheva, Aleksandrs Antonenko, Dimitri Pittas, Željko Lučić, and Günther Groissböck. From October 17, 2015.

Monday, August 30, at 7 p.m. – Philip Glass’s Satyagraha

Conducted by Dante Anzolini; starring Rachelle Durkin, Richard Croft, Kim Josephson, and Alfred Walker. From November 19, 2011.

Tuesday, August 31, at 7:30 p.m. – Wagner’s Der Fliegende Holländer

Conducted by Valery Gergiev; starring Anja Kampe, Mihoko Fujimura, Sergey Skorokhodov, David Portillo, Evgeny Nikitin, and Franz-Josef Selig. From March 10, 2020.

Wednesday, September 1, at 7:30 p.m. – Nico Muhly’s Marnie

Conducted by Robert Spano; starring Isabel Leonard, Janis Kelly, Denyce Graves, Iestyn Davies, and Christopher Maltman. From November 10, 2018.

Thursday, September 2, at 7:30 p.m. – Berg’s Wozzeck

Conducted by Yannick Nézet-Séguin; starring Elza van den Heever, Tamara Mumford, Christopher Ventris, Gerhard Siegel, Andrew Staples, Peter Mattei, and Christian Van Horn. From January 11, 2020.

Friday, September 3, at 7 p.m.-  Massenet’s Manon

Conducted by Fabio Luisi; starring Anna Netrebko, Piotr Beczała, Paulo Szot, and David Pittsinger. From April 7, 2012.

Saturday, September 4, at 7 p.m. – Mozart’s Così fan tutte

Conducted by David Robertson; starring Amanda Majeski, Kelli O’Hara, Serena Malfi, Ben Bliss, Adam Plachetka, and Christopher Maltman. From March 31, 2018.

Sunday, September 5, at 7:30 p.m. – Donizetti’s La Fille du Régiment

Conducted by Enrique Mazzola; starring Pretty Yende, Stephanie Blythe, Kathleen Turner, Javier Camarena, and Maurizio Muraro. From March 2, 2019.

Monday, September 6, at 7:30 p.m. – Verdi’s Il Trovatore

Conducted by Marco Armiliato, starring Anna Netrebko, Dolora Zajick, Yonghoon Lee, Dmitri Hvorostovsky, and Stefan Kocán. From October 3, 2015.

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