Metropolitan Opera Summer HD Festival - Gounod’s Romeo Et Juliette

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.

Gounod’s Roméo et Juliette:

Sparks fly as soprano Nadine Sierra and tenor Benjamin Bernheim come together as the star-crossed lovers of Gounod’s honeyed Shakespeare adaptation.

Original transmission: March 23, 2024
Approximate running time: 2 hours, 40 minutes