Metropolitan Opera HD Live 2008-2009 Season

The Metropolitan Opera has announced the HD Live simulcast season for 2008-2009. Just as soon as ticket information is available, it will be posted in our e-newsletter, here on our web site and in the Leader newspaper.

September 22 - The season kicks off with a gala starring Renee Fleming in fully-staged scenes from Verdi's La Traviata, Massenet's Manon and Strauss's Capriccio
October 11 - Strauss' Salome
November 8 - The premier of John Adams' Doctor Atomic, the story of atomic-bomb creator J. Robert Oppenheimer
November 22 - Berlioz's Le Damnation de Faust
December 20 - Massenet's Thaïs
January 10 - Puccini's La Rondine
January 24 - Gluck's Orfeo and Euridice
February 7 - Donizetti's Lucia di Lammermoor
March 7 - Puccini's Madama Butterfly
March 21 - Bellini's La Sonnambula (The Sleepwalker)
May 9 - Rossini's La Cenerentola (Cinderella)

"The Met's experiment...has created a new art form."-Los Angeles Times