MET SUMMER ENCORES 2018

In addition to the Met Live in HD 2018/19 seaso , we are pleased to announce four selected titles for Summer Encores.

June 17, 6pm
Puccini: Madama Butterfly
133 min, 2016, in Italian with Hungarian and English subtitles
Director: Anthony Minghella
Libretto: Giuseppe Giacosa Luigi Illica
Conductor: Karel Mark Chichon
Cast: Kristīne Opolais (Cio-Cio-San) / Maria Zifchak (Suzuki) / Roberto Alagna (Pinkerton) / Dwayne Croft (Sharpless)

July 1, 2018, 6pm
Verdi: Il Trovatore
162 min, 2015, in Italian with Hungarian and English subtitles
Director: Sir David McVicar
Conductor: Marco Armiliato
Cast: Anna Netrebko (Leonora), Dolora Zajick (Azucena), Yonghoon Lee (Manrico), Dmitri Hvorostovsky (di Luna), Štefan Kocán (Ferrando)

July 15, 2018, 6pm
Tschaikovsky: Eugene Onegin
172 min, 2007, in original language with Hungarian and English subtitles
Director: Robert Carsen
Conductor: Valery Gergiev
Cast: Renée Fleming (Tatiana) / Ramón Vargas (Lensky)/ Dmitri Hvorostovsky (Onegin) / Sergei Aleksashkin (Gremin)

July, 22, 2018, 6pm
Puccini: Turandot
139 min, 2016, in Italian with Hungarian and English subtitles
Director: Franco Zeffirelli
Libretto: Franco Alfano
Conductor: Paolo Carignani
Cast: Nina Stemme (Turandot), Anita Hartig (Liù), Marco Berti (Calàf), Alexander Tsymbalyuk (Timur)

Still in June, two more encores from the 2017/18 season will be available one more time:

June 3, 2018, 6pm
Mozart: Così fan tutte 

June, 9, 2018, 6pm
Massanet: Cendrillon