The Met: Live in HD Begins New Season on October 9 with Robert Lepage’s Das Rheingold

The Met: Live in HD will begin its fifth season with a live transmission of Robert Lepage’s new production of Das Rheingold on October 9. The HD broadcasts will now be available in 46 participating countries, including Portugal, Egypt and Spain.

In addition to the transmission of Das Rheingold, which features Bryn Terfel, Stephanie Blythe and Eric Owens, The Met: Live in HD will offer the next installment in “The Ring Cycle”: Die Walküre, with Terfel, Deborah Voigt and Jonas Kaufmann, on May 14.

The upcoming season of Live in HD features four other new productions: Mussorgsky’s Boris Godunov (October 23) starring René Pape, directed by Stephen Wadsworth; Verdi’s Don Carlo (December 11) with Roberto Alagna in the title role, directed by Nicholas Hytner; John Adams’ Nixon in China (February 12), with Adams conducting his own work, directed by Peter Sellars, and starring James Maddalena; and Bartlett Sher’s new production of Rossini’s Le Comte Ory (April 9), starring Juan Diego Flórez and conducted by Maurizio Benini.

Other offerings in the series will be Don Pasquale (November 13) starring Anna Netrebko; Marcelo Álvarez; Puccini’s La Fanciulla del West (January 8), featuring Voigt and Marcello Giordani; Gluck’s Iphigénie en Tauride (February 26), with Susan Graham and Plácido Domingo; Donizetti’s Lucia di Lammermoor (March 19), with Natalie Dessay; Strauss’s Capriccio (April 23), featuring Renée Fleming; and Verdi’s Il Trovatore (April 30), with Sondra Radvanovsky.

For further information, visit: www.metoperafamily.org.