MET OPERA – COSÌ FAN TUTTE LIVE BROADCAST Saturday, October 3, 2026 10:00am 3h 57m with Intermission SBIFF’s Film Center 916 State St CLICK HERE FOR TICKETS The Met: Live in HD season kicks off with Mozart’s satirical comedy of fickle young love, one of the composer’s most sublime creations. Phelim McDermott’s “colorful, inventive” (The New York Times) staging, inspired by Coney Island in the 1950s, sets the uproarious story at a boardwalk amusement park, where the two pairs of […]

MET OPERA – MACBETH LIVE BROADCAST Saturday, October 17, 2026 10:00am 3h 29m with Intermission SBIFF’s Film Center 916 State St CLICK HERE FOR TICKETS Two of opera’s most extraordinary artists return to The Met: Live in HD for Verdi’s thrilling take on the immortal Shakespearean tale of the scheming couple determined to seize power at any cost. Following past triumphs in many of Verdi’s signature baritone roles, Quinn Kelsey is the Scottish king haunted by the ghosts of his […]

MET OPERA – SAMSON ET DALILA LIVE BROADCAST Saturday, December 5, 2026 9:00am 3h 54m with 2 Intermissions SBIFF’s Film Center 916 State St CLICK HERE FOR TICKETS Sacred, scandalous, and irresistibly alluring, Saint-Saëns’s spectacular take on the biblical hero of legendary strength and the seductive Philistine whose beauty overpowers him returns in the Met’s larger-than-life production. Featuring a massive orchestra and chorus and some of opera’s most spellbinding tunes, this masterpiece of French grand opera is a feast for […]

MET OPERA – LA FANCIULLA DEL WEST LIVE BROADCAST Saturday, January 23, 2027 10:00am 3h 15m with Intermission SBIFF’s Film Center 916 State St CLICK HERE FOR TICKETS Puccini’s exhilarating drama of the Wild West returns in a new staging by celebrated British director Richard Jones, marking the company’s first new production of La Fanciulla del West in more than 30 years. Soprano Vida Miknevičiūtė makes an important Met debut as the larger-than-life Minnie, the tough tavern owner with a […]

MET OPERA – SILENT NIGHT LIVE BROADCAST Saturday, March 20, 2027 10:00am 3h with Intermission SBIFF’s Film Center 916 State St CLICK HERE FOR TICKETS Following his smash-hit company debut with The Hours, composer Kevin Puts returns to the Met with his Pulitzer Prize–winning first opera, inspired by the true events of the 1914 Christmas truce, when soldiers spontaneously set aside the horrors of the First World War and crossed the trenches to mingle, exchange gifts, and sing carols with […]

MET OPERA – MANON LIVE BROADCAST Saturday, April 3, 2027 9:00am 4h 24m with 2 Intermissions SBIFF’s Film Center 916 State St CLICK HERE FOR TICKETS Following her radiant performance in Gounod’s Roméo et Juliette—which garnered raves for “high notes that spun like liquid gold … Sierra touched the operatic firmament” (The New York Times)—superstar soprano Nadine Sierra takes on another alluring French heroine, the irresistible title character of Massenet’s passionate drama, live from the Met stage to cinemas worldwide. […]

MET OPERA – OTELLO LIVE BROADCAST Saturday, April 24, 2027 10:00am 3h 21m with Intermission SBIFF’s Film Center 916 State St CLICK HERE FOR TICKETS One of today’s leading dramatic tenors, Brian Jagde takes on the tour-de-force title role of what many consider the ultimate Italian opera, live to cinemas worldwide. Verdi’s monumental Shakespearean tragedy also features soprano Ailyn Pérez in her company role debut as the long-suffering Desdemona, alongside baritone Artur Ruciński as the sinister Iago. Michele Mariotti leads […]

MET OPERA – PARSIFAL LIVE BROADCAST Saturday, June 5, 2027 9:00am 6h 5m with 2 Intermissions SBIFF’s Film Center 916 State St CLICK HERE FOR TICKETS A profound philosophical meditation on compassion and reconciliation, this transcendent rendering of a medieval knight’s heroic quest for the Holy Grail returns to the big screen in François Girard’s celebrated production, a “thoughtful and intrepid staging, full of striking imagery” (The New York Times). Music Director Yannick Nézet-Séguin conducts a cast of Wagnerian superstars, […]