Brown-two of the creators of the recent production of the Gershwins’ Porgy and Bess-co-direct this new staging. The first opera by a Black composer presented on the Met stage and featuring a libretto by filmmaker Kasi Lemmons, the opera tells a poignant and profound story about a young man’s journey to overcome a life of trauma and hardship. James Robinson and Camille A. Met Music Director Yannick Nézet-Séguin conducts Grammy Award–winning jazz musician and composer Terence Blanchard’s adaptation of Charles M. Terence Blanchard’s Fire Shut Up in My Bones- Met Premiere Conductor Sebastian Weigle leads Mussorgsky’s masterwork, a pillar of the Russian repertoire, in its original 1869 version. Stephen Wadsworth’s affecting production poignantly captures the hope and suffering of the Russian people, as well as the title ruler himself. Live in HD : October 9, 2021, at 12:55PM ETīass René Pape reprises his tremendous portrayal of the tortured tsar caught between grasping ambition and crippling paranoia, kicking off the 2021–22 Live in HD season. Tickets for the 2021–22 Live in HD season are on sale now and can be purchased online at at participating theater box offices. A complete list of theater locations is available on the Fathom Events website (theaters and participants are subject to change). A holiday encore of The Magic Flute will also screen on December 11. Encores of each performance will take place on the Wednesday following the live broadcast.

The season begins on October 9, 2021, with Boris Godunov, the 138th transmission of the series. The season continues with Fire Shut Up in My Bones (October 23, 2021), Eurydice (December 4, 2021), Cinderella (January 1, 2022), Rigoletto (January 29, 2022), Ariadne auf Naxos (March 12, 2022), Don Carlos (March 26, 2022), Turandot (May 7, 2022), Lucia di Lammermoor (May 21, 2022), and Hamlet (June 4, 2022).

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