The Met: Live in HD 2024/25 Season
The Met: Live in HD presents high-definition screenings of opera performances in the Metropolitan Opera House, one of the best opera houses in the world. Its dazzling productions are filmed by 14 different cameras in high-definition format and transmitted to cinemas across the world. The Metropolitan Opera pioneered live HD movie-theatre simulcasts in 2006. The acclaimed performances now reach over 2,000 venues in 70 countries and receive rave reviews. The impact of the live performance remains spectacular on screen.
For The Met: Live in HD 2024-25 season, Emperor Cinemas brings the Hong Kong premieres of Puccini’s Tosca, one of Puccini’s most well-known masterpieces, this season featuring extraordinary soprano Lise Davidsen as the iconic title role with David McVicar’s thrilling production. Another premiere is Verdi’s Aida, with this season's grand new production bringing audiences inside the towering pyramids and gilded tombs of ancient Egypt with varied stage presentations and an assembly of singers at the height of their powers.
More classic titles include Offenbach’s Les Contes d’Hoffmann, Jeanine Tesori’s Grounded, Beethoven’s Fidelio, Mozart’s Le Nozze di Figaro, Strauss's Salome, and Rossini's Il Barbiere di Siviglia. Now available at Entertainment Building and Emperor Cinemas Plus+ (THE SOUTHSIDE).
The Met: Live in HD presents high-definition screenings of opera performances in the Metropolitan Opera House, one of the best opera houses in the world. Its dazzling productions are filmed by 14 different cameras in high-definition format and transmitted to cinemas across the world. The Metropolitan Opera pioneered live HD movie-theatre simulcasts in 2006. The acclaimed performances now reach over 2,000 venues in 70 countries and receive rave reviews. The impact of the live performance remains spectacular on screen.
For The Met: Live in HD 2024-25 season, Emperor Cinemas brings the Hong Kong premieres of Puccini’s Tosca, one of Puccini’s most well-known masterpieces, this season featuring extraordinary soprano Lise Davidsen as the iconic title role with David McVicar’s thrilling production. Another premiere is Verdi’s Aida, with this season's grand new production bringing audiences inside the towering pyramids and gilded tombs of ancient Egypt with varied stage presentations and an assembly of singers at the height of their powers.
More classic titles include Offenbach’s Les Contes d’Hoffmann, Jeanine Tesori’s Grounded, Beethoven’s Fidelio, Mozart’s Le Nozze di Figaro, Strauss's Salome, and Rossini's Il Barbiere di Siviglia. Now available at Entertainment Building and Emperor Cinemas Plus+ (THE SOUTHSIDE).
Mozart's Le Nozze di Figaro (The Met 2025)
250 Minutes
Mozart’s timeless comedy returns to cinemas worldwide with a live transmission from the Metropolitan Opera. Conductor Joana Mallwitz, in her Met debut, takes the podium to conduct a stellar ensemble cast including American bass-baritone Michael Sumuel as the clever valet Figaro, Ukrainian soprano Olga Kulchynska as the wily maid Susanna, Canadian baritone Joshua Hopkins as the skirt-chasing Count, Italian soprano Federica Lombardi as his anguished wife, and French mezzo-soprano Marianne Crebassa as the adolescent page Cherubino.
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Strauss's Salome (The Met 2025)
150 Minutes
Met Music Director Yannick Nézet-Séguin takes the podium to conduct Strauss’s one-act tragedy. Leading the company’s first new production of the work in 20 years, Claus Guth, one of Europe’s leading opera directors, gives the biblical story a psychologically perceptive Victorian-era setting. South African soprano Elza van den Heever leads a celebrated cast as the abused and unhinged antiheroine, with Swedish baritone Peter Mattei as the imprisoned prophet Jochanaan; German tenor Gerhard Siegel as Salome’s lecherous stepfather, King Herod; American mezzo-soprano Michelle DeYoung as his wife, Herodias; and Polish tenor Piotr Buszewski as Narraboth.
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Rossini's Il Barbiere di Siviglia (The Met 2025)
228 Minutes
Rossini’s effervescent comedy retakes the stage in Bartlett Sher’s madcap production. Russian mezzo-soprano Aigul Akhmetshina headlines a winning ensemble as the feisty heroine, Rosina, alongside American tenor Jack Swanson, in his Met debut, as her secret beloved, Count Almaviva. Moldovan baritone Andrey Zhilikhovsky stars as Figaro, the ingenious barber of Seville, with Hungarian bass-baritone Peter Kálmán as Dr. Bartolo and Russian bass Alexander Vinogradov as Don Basilio rounding out the principal cast. Giacomo Sagripanti conducts Bartlett Sher’s madcap production.
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