The Met: Live in HD, the Metropolitan Opera’s award-winning series of live performance transmissions, returns to Greenbrier Valley Theatre this October with a lineup of eight productions, a range of bold new stagings and beloved classics. Experience extraordinary opera and special behind-the-scenes features live from the comfort of our local theatre!

Les Contes d'Hoffmann

october 5, 2024 at 1:00 PM

Offenbach's fantastical opera kicks off the Metropolitan Opera's season of Live in HD performance transmissions, starring French tenor Benjamin Bernheim in the title role of the tormented poet. Joining Bernheim is American soprano Erin Morley as Olympia, South African soprano Pretty Yende as Antonia, and French mezzo-soprano Clementine Margaine as Giulietta to complete Hoffmann's trio of lovers. Marco Armiliato conducts Bartlett Sher's evocative production, which also features American bass-baritone Christian Van Horn as the Four Villians and Russian mezzo-soprano Vasilisa Berzhanskaya in her company debut as Nicklausse.

Grounded

october 20, 2024 at 1:00 PM

Two-time Tony Award-winning composer Jeanine Tesori's powerful new opera Grounded commissioned by the Met and based on librettist George Brant's acclaimed play, wrestles with the ethical quandaries and psychological toll of 21st-century warfare. Mezzo-soprano Emily D'Angelo, one of opera's most compelling young stars, portrays Jess, a hot-shot fighter pilot whose unplanned pregnancy takes her out of the cockpit and lands her in Las Vegas, operating a Reaper drone halfway around the world. As she struggles to adjust to this new way of doing battle, she fights to maintain her sanity, and her soul, as she is called to rain down death by remote control. Met Music Director Yannick Nezet-Seguin oversees the Met premiere of Tesori's kaleidoscopic opera, which will be transmitted live from the Met stage to cinemas.

Doors will open at 11:30am, and a talk will be provided at 11:45am.

We’re excited for the return of the pre-performance talks about the history, composition, interesting items about the opera, and it's performance.

Tosca

november 23, 2024 at 1:00 PM

Extraordinary Norwegian soprano Lise Davidsen stars as the passionate title diva in David McVicar's thrilling production, transmitted live from the Metropolitan Opera stage to cinemas on November 23. British-Italian tenor Freddie De Tommaso makes his eagerly anticipated company debut as Tosca's revolutionary lover, Cavaradossi, and powerhouse American baritone Quinn Kelsey is the sadistic chief of police Scarpia. Maestro Xian Zhang conducts the electrifying score, which features some of Puccini's most memorable melodies.

Aida

January 25, 2025 at 12:30 PM

American soprano Angel Blue headlines as the Ethiopian princess torn between love and country in a new production of Verdi's Aida by Michael Mayer that brings audiences inside the towering pyramids and gilded tombs of ancient Egypt with intricate projections and dazzling animations. Romanian-Hungarian mezzo-soprano Judit Kutasi also stars as Aida's rival, Amneris, alongside Polish tenor Piotr Beczala as the soldier Radames---completing opera's greatest love triangle. Met Music Director Yannich Nezet-Seguin takes the podium to conduct the January 25 performance, which will be transmitted live from the Metropolitan Opera stage to cinemas worldwide.

Fidelio

March 15, 2025 at 1:00 PM

Following a string of awe-inspiring Live in HD performances, Norwegian Lise Davidsen returns to the Metropolitan Opera as Leonore, the faithful wife who risks everything to save her husband from the clutches of tyranny in Beethoven's Fidelio. Completing the distinguished cast is British tenor David Philip as the political prisoner Florestan, Polish bass-baritone Tomasz Konieczny as the villainous Don Pizarro, veteran German bass Rene Pape as the jailer Rocco, Chinese soprano Ying Fang and German tenor Magnus Dietrich as the young Marzelline and Jaquino, and Danish bass Stephen Milling as the principled Don Fernando. Susanna Malkki conducts the March 15 performance, which will be transmitted live from the Met stage to cinemas worldwide.

Le Nozze di Figaro

april 26, 2025 at 1:00 PM

On April 26, 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, Ukranian 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.

Salome

may 17, 2025 at 1:00 PM

Met music director Yannick Nezet-Seguin takes the podium on May 17 to conduct Strauss's one-act tragedy, which will be transmitted live from the Metropolitan Opera stage to cinemas worldwide. 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.