Metropolitan Opera Summer HD Festival 2024

The Metropolitan Opera’s 2024 Summer HD Festival, an annual New York tradition, returns to Lincoln Center Plaza. With a different presentation projected onto a big screen on the façade of the opera house each night, the free festival features ten screenings from the Met’s celebrated Live in HD series, including some of this season’s critically acclaimed new productions and beloved classics—Jake Heggie’s Dead Man Walking, Anthony Davis’s X: The Life and Times of Malcolm X, Verdi’s La Forza del Destino, Daniel Catán’s Florencia en el Amazonas, Puccini’s Madama Butterfly, and Bizet’s Carmen.

A special screening of the 1998 film The Red Violin, directed by François Girard and starring Samuel L. Jackson, Greta Scacchi, and Carlo Cecchi, opens the festival on August 23rd at 8pm, co-presented with Film at Lincoln Center. The subsequent screenings feature many of today’s most renowned opera stars, including Aigul Akhmetshina, SeokJong Baek, Piotr Beczała, Angel Blue, Benjamin Bernheim, Lise Davidsen, Joyce DiDonato, Asmik Grigorian, Leah Hawkins, Soloman Howard, Brian Jagde, Will Liverman, Federica Lombardi, Peter Mattei, Ailyn Pérez, Gabriella Reyes, and Nadine Sierra.

For each presentation, more than 2,500 seats will be available on the plaza on a first-come, first-served basis. No tickets are required, and there are no rain dates.

Start times: 7:30pm or 8pm