Tickets are on sale now at the Strand Theatre for the 2019-2020 season of The Met: Live in HD, the Metropolitan Opera’s award-winning series of live high-definition cinema simulcasts. The season kicks off October 12 with Puccini’s Turandot, starring Christine Goerke in the title role, led by the Met’s Jeanette Lerman-Neubauer Music Director, Yannick Nézet-Séguin. All ten operas will be Saturday matinee performances, transmitted live from the Met stage at 12:55pm. The Strand will present Encore re-broadcasts on following Tuesdays.

The 2019-20 season includes five new productions: the Met premiere of Philip Glass’s groundbreaking 20th-century opera Akhnaten, starring Anthony Roth Costanzo as the title pharaoh, conducted by Karen Kamensek; Peter Mattei in the title role of Berg’s Wozzeck, in a new staging by acclaimed visual artist and stage director William Kentridge, conducted by Yannick Nézet-Séguin; a new production of the Gershwins’ classic American opera Porgy and Bess, last performed at the Met in 1990, starring Eric Owens and Angel Blue, directed by James Robinson and conducted by David Robertson; the Met premiere of Handel’s Agrippina, starring Joyce DiDonato in a contemporary staging by Sir David McVicar that promises to resonate with modern audiences; and a new take on Wagner’s Der Fliegende Holländer, starring Sir Bryn Terfel in the title role.                                                                               

In addition to Turandot and the five new productions, Live in HD audiences will have the chance to see Massenet’s lush French masterpiece Manon; the return of Anthony Minghella’s inspired vision of Puccini’s Madama Butterfly, with Plácido Domingo as Sharpless; Anna Netrebko in the title role of Puccini’s Tosca; and Diana Damrau and Jamie Barton as the dueling queens of Maria Stuarda, the second opera of Donizetti’s Tudor trilogy.                                

The simulcast dates are as follows: Turandot (October 12); Manon (October 26); Madama Butterfly (November 9); Akhnaten (November 23); Wozzeck (January 11); Porgy and Bess (February 1); Agrippina (February 29); Der Fliegende Holländer (March 14); Tosca (April 11); and Maria Stuarda (May 9).

The Met: Live in HD is the largest provider of alternative cinema content in the world, with more than 26 million tickets sold since the inception of the series in 2006. The series brings live Met performances to more than 2,200 movie theaters and performing arts centers in more than 70 countries. 

Tickets for the Live broadcasts are $27/Adult, $15/Student. Student ticket pricing is offered to college students with ID. A Ten-Performance Season Ticket Package is also available. Tickets can be purchased online at www.RocklandStrand.com; by calling the box office at (207) 594-0070 (Monday-Friday, noon - 4pm); or at the theater when it is open for scheduled shows.

Encore performance tickets are $23/Adult, $20/Strand Members, $5/Student, and are sold Day of Show only, at the box office one hour prior to showtime.  

For more information, visit www.rocklandstrand.com. Tel: (207) 594-0070 EX 3  Email: info@rocklandstrand.com. Strand Theatre, 345 Main Street, Rockland, ME  04841