Metropolitan Opera Summer HD Festival - Puccini's La Rondine
Tuesday, August 27, 2024 at 08:00pm
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.
Puccini’s La Rondine:
Soprano Angel Blue is the elegant Parisian courtesan Magda, with tenor Jonathan Tetelman as the idealistic young man offering an alternative to her life of excess.
Original transmission: April 20, 2024
Approximate running time: 1 hour, 55 minutes