The Met’s 13th Summer HD Festival features 10 thrilling performances from the Met’s Live in HD series. Approximately 3,000 seats are set up in front of the opera house each night, and additional standing room is available in designated areas around Lincoln Center Plaza.

2023 Schedule:

Friday, August 25, 8pm | Moonstruck (PG)
Co-presented with Film at Lincoln Center
Approximate running time: 1 hour, 40 minutes

Saturday, August 26, 8pm | La Traviata
Incandescent soprano Nadine Sierra stars as the doomed heroine Violetta Valéry in Verdi’s timeless tragedy, headlining a vivid staging by Tony Award–winner Michael Mayer.
Original transmission: November 5, 2022
Approximate running time: 2 hours, 15 minutes

Sunday, August 27, 8pm | Medea
Soprano Sondra Radvanovsky gives a tour-de-force performance as the bloodthirsty sorceress Medea, going head to head with tenor Matthew Polenzani as her unfaithful lover.
Original transmission: October 22, 2022
Approximate running time: 2 hours, 20 minutes

Monday, August 28 | 8PM | Puts/Pierce The Hours
Sopranos Renée Fleming and Kelli O’Hara and mezzosoprano Joyce DiDonato join forces in Kevin Puts’s adaptation of the award-winning novel and film.
Original transmission: December 10, 2022
Approximate running time: 2 hours, 30 minutes

Tuesday, August 29, 8PM Giuseppe Verdi Falstaff Baritone Michael Volle leads Verdi’s Shakespearean comedy, starring in an uproarious staging that updates the action to the 1950s. Original transmission: April 1, 2023 Approximate running time: 2 hours, 15 minutes

Wednesday, August 30 | 7:30PM | Dean /Jocelyn Hamlet
Shakespeare’s great tragedy gets a contemporary reimagining starring tenor Allan Clayton.
Original transmission: June 4, 2022
Approximate running time: 2 hours, 45 minutes

Thursday, August 31 | 7:30PM | Mozart Così fan tutte
Phelim McDermott’s witty and whimsical staging transports Mozart’s sly comedy to a seaside boardwalk inspired by Coney Island—with Broadway legend Kelli O’Hara as the cunning Despina.
Original transmission: March 31, 2018
Approximate running time: 3 hours

Friday, September 1 | 8PM | Umberto Giordano Fedora
For the first time in 25 years, Giordano’s passionate melodrama retakes the Met stage, with soprano Sonya Yoncheva as the elegant Russian princess who falls in love with her fiancé’s murderer.
Original transmission: January 14, 2023
Approximate running time: 1 hour, 55 minutes

Saturday, September 2 | 8PM Blanchard/Cristofer Champion
Grammy Award–winning jazz composer Terence Blanchard’s knockout first opera stars bass-baritones Ryan Speedo Green and Eric Owens as boxer Emile Griffith.
Original transmission: April 29, 2023
Approximate running time: 2 hours, 30 minutes
Content Advisory: Champion contains adult themes, sexually explicit language, and physical violence.

Sunday, September 3 | 8PM | Giuseppe Verdi Rigoletto
Baritone Quinn Kelsey stars as Verdi’s cursed court jester, sharing the stage with soprano Rosa Feola as his headstrong daughter, Gilda, and tenor Piotr Beczała as the libertine Duke of Mantua.
Original transmission: January 29, 2022
Approximate running time: 2 hours, 15 minutes

Monday, September 4 | 8PM | Giacomo Puccini La Bohème
Franco Zeffirelli’s ever-popular staging stars soprano Sonya Yoncheva as the fragile seamstress Mimì and tenor Michael Fabiano as her lover, the poet Rodolfo.
Original transmission: February 24, 2018
Approximate running time: 2 hours, 5 minutes

Seating is general admission on a first-come, first-served basis.

Summer HD Festival screenings goes on as scheduled in the case of rain but is canceled in the event of thunder/lightning or high wind. Canceled screenings are not rescheduled.