The Met Announces 2025 Live in HD Summer Encores, in Cinemas Beginning Wednesday, July 23

 

Lineup features four classics: Verdi’s La Traviata and Rigoletto, Gounod’s Roméo et Juliette, and Donizetti’s Lucia di Lammermoor

 

Tickets on sale now in the United States and Canada

 

 

New York, NY (June 11, 2025)—For four consecutive Wednesdays, July 23 through August 13, the Metropolitan Opera presents the 2025 Summer Encores, featuring four past performances from its renowned Live in HD series of cinema transmissions. The Summer Encore series includes the 2018 transmission of Verdi’s La Traviata, starring soprano Diana Damrau as Violetta and tenor Juan Diego Flórez as Alfredo; the 2024 transmission of Gounod’s Roméo et Juliette, starring tenor Benjamin Bernheim and soprano Nadine Sierra as the titular star-crossed lovers; the 2022 transmission of Donizetti’s Lucia di Lammermoor, with Sierra in the title role and tenor Javier Camarena as Edgardo in a modern-day staging; and the 2013 transmission of Verdi’s Rigoletto, featuring baritone Željko Lučić in the title role, alongside soprano Diana Damrau as Gilda and tenor Piotr Beczała as the Duke.

 

Screening dates at select theaters are listed below. Tickets in the United States can be purchased through Fathom Entertainment, and tickets in Canada can be purchased through Cineplex. Additional encore dates may vary in independent national theaters and in select international venues. Check your local cinema listings. Learn more at metopera.org/summerencores.

 

The Metropolitan Opera’s 2025 Live in HD Summer Encore Schedule in the United States and Canada:

 

#Verdi’s La Traviata (Wednesday, July 23)

From December 15, 2018

 

Juan Diego Flórez as Alfredo and Diana Damrau as Violetta in Verdi's "La Traviata." Photo: Marty Sohl / Met Opera

Michael Mayer’s sumptuous production of Verdi’s beloved tragedy returns, featuring soprano Diana Damrau and tenor Juan Diego Flórez in this 2018 performance. Music Director Yannick Nézet-Séguin conducts.

 

 

#Gounod’s Roméo et Juliette (Wednesday, July 30)

From March 23, 2024

 

Nadine Sierra as Juliette and Frederick Ballentine as Tybalt in Gounod's "Roméo et Juliette." Photo: Marty Sohl / Met Opera

In this dazzling 2024 Met performance, tenor Benjamin Bernheim and soprano Nadine Sierra are the star-crossed lovers in Gounod’s operatic adaptation of Shakespeare’s immortal love story. Music Director Yannick Nézet-Séguin conducts.

 

 

#Donizetti’s Lucia di Lammermoor (Wednesday, August 6)

From May 21, 2022

 

Nadine Sierra as Lucia and Javier Camarena as Edgardo in Donizetti's "Lucia di Lammermoor." Photo: Marty Sohl / Met Opera

 

Donizetti’s tragedy returns to cinemas, starring soprano Nadine Sierra and tenor Javier Camarena in this 2022 performance of Simon Stone’s gripping, modern-day staging. Riccardo Frizza conducts.

 

 

#Verdi’s Rigoletto (Wednesday, August 13)

From February 16, 2013

 

Piotr Beczała as the Duke and Željko Lucic in the title role of Verdi's "Rigoletto."  Photo: Ken Howard / Met Opera

 

In this electric performance from 2013, baritone Željko Lučić sings the title role in Michael Mayer’s 1960s-era production of Verdi’s great drama, sharing the stage with soprano Diana Damrau and tenor Piotr Beczała. Michele Mariotti conducts.

 

The 2025–26 Live in HD season begins October 18, 2025, with Bellini’s La Sonnambula, and continues with Puccini’s La Bohème (November 8, 2025), Strauss’s Arabella (November 22, 2025), Giordano’s Andrea Chénier (December 13, 2025), Bellini’s I Puritani (January 10, 2026), Wagner’s Tristan und Isolde (March 21, 2026), Tchaikovsky’s Eugene Onegin (May 2, 2026), and Gabriela Lena Frank’s El Último Sueño de Frida y Diego, with libretto by Nilo Cruz (May 30, 2026). All performances will be Saturday matinees transmitted live from the Met stage. Tickets will go on sale in the U.S. and Canada on July 23.