Metropolitan Opera has announced its schedule for free summer outdoor screening series (photo by Richard Termine/Metropolitan Opera)
Lincoln Center, Josie Robertson Plaza
Columbus Ave. at 63rd St.
August 26 – September 5, free, starting time between 7:30 and 8:00
212-769-7028
www.metopera.org
Looking to catch up on your opera viewing? The Met has just announced the full schedule for its annual — and free — Summer HD Festival, eleven nights of filmed operas from 2008 to 2016, projected onto a large screen on Josie Robertson Plaza, beginning August 26 with Miloš Forman’s Oscar-winning 1984 drama Amadeus, being shown as a tribute to playwright and screenwriter Peter Shaffer, who passed away in June at the age of ninety. The first-come, first-served festival, which has 3,100 seats up for grabs at every screening, continues August 27 with Mozart’s Le Nozze di Figaro, directed by Richard Eyre, conducted by James Levine, and starring Amanda Majeski, Marlis Petersen, Isabel Leonard, Peter Mattei, and Ildar Abdrazakov; August 28 with Sir David McVicar’s production of Verdi’s Il Trovatore, with Anna Netrebko, Dolora Zajick, Dmitri Hvorostovsky, and Yonghoon Lee; August 29 with Verdi’s Otello, directed by Bartlett Sher, conducted by Yannick Nézet-Séguin, and featuring Aleksandrs Antonenko as Otello, Sonya Yoncheva as Desdemona, and Željko Lučić as Iago; August 30 with Donizetti’s La Fille du Régiment, with Natalie Dessay and Juan Diego Flórez; August 31 with Donizetti’s Lucia di Lammermoor, with Dessay, Joseph Calleja, and Ludovic Tézier; September 1 with Rossini’s La Cenerentola, conducted by Fabio Luisi and with a cast led by Joyce DiDonato and Flórez; September 2 with the popular double bill of Mascagni’s Cavalleria Rusticana and Leoncavallo’s Pagliacci, with Marcelo Álvarez (as the lead in both), Eva-Maria Westbroek, Patricia Racette, and George Gagnidze, conducted by Luisi; September 3 with Renée Fleming singing the title role in Susan Stroman’s adaptation of Lehár’s The Merry Widow, with Nathan Gunn and, in her 2015 Met debut, Kelli O’Hara; September 4 with Franco Zeffirelli’s version of Puccini’s Turandot, starring Nina Stemme; and September 5 with Bizet’s Les Pêcheurs de Perles, with Diana Damrau, Matthew Polenzani, and Mariusz Kwiecien, conducted by Gianandrea Noseda.