The Met: Live in HD presents

Aida

Verdi

Soprano Angel Blue makes her long-awaited Met role debut as the Ethiopian princess torn between love and country, one of opera’s defining roles. Music Director Yannick Nézet-Séguin takes the podium to conduct the January 25 performance, which will be transmitted live from the Metropolitan Opera stage to cinemas worldwide. Michael Mayer’s spectacular new staging, brings audiences inside the towering pyramids and gilded tombs of ancient Egypt with intricate projections and dazzling animations. Romanian-Hungarian mezzo-soprano Judit Kutasi also stars as Aida’s Egyptian rival, Amneris, alongside Polish tenor Piotr Beczala as the soldier Radame`s—completing opera’s greatest love triangle.

Packed with magnificent choruses, complex ensembles, and elaborate ballets, the opera never loses sight of its three protagonists: Amneris, the proud daughter of the pharaoh; her slave Aida, who is secretly the princess of the rival kingdom of Ethiopia; and Radamès, the Egyptian warrior whom they both love. Few operas have matched Aida in its exploration of the conflict of private emotion and public duty, and perhaps no other has remained to the present day so unanimously appreciated by audiences and critics alike.

This live cinema transmission is part of the Met’s award-winning Live in HD series, bringing opera to movie theaters across the globe.

Encores:
Saturday, February 8, 2025
Monday, February 10, 2025

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Aida