Metropolitan Opera Summer HD Festival - Bizet's Carmen
Saturday, August 31, 2024 at 07:30pm
Metropolitan Opera Summer HD Festival
Metropolitan Opera
30 Lincoln Center Plaza
The Met’s 15th Summer HD Festival features ten thrilling performances from the company’s Live in HD series of cinema transmissions-plus a special screening of the Oscar-winning film The Red Violin, co-presented with Film at Lincoln Center. The showings run nightly, with approximately 3,000 seats set up in front of the opera house, as well as additional standing room in designated areas around Lincoln Center Plaza.
The Met’s HD Festival presentations will include full open captions.
Bizet’s Carmen:
Dazzling young mezzo-soprano Aigul Akhmetshina takes on the title role in a bold new production that reimagines Bizet’s classic masterpiece playing out in our own time.
Original transmission: January 27, 2024
Approximate running time: 2 hours, 40 minutes
