The Met: Live in HD Season Continues with Verdi’s Aida on Saturday, January 25

Published by Fathom Entertainment on Jan 08, 2025 10:14 AM

Spectacular new production stars soprano Angel Blue as Aida,  alongside tenor Piotr Beczała, mezzo-soprano Judit Kutasi, and baritone Quinn Kelsey

Music Director Yannick Nézet-Séguin conducts

The Met: Live in HD is available through Fathom Entertainment in more than 700 theatres nationwide

Denver (January 8, 2025)—The Metropolitan Opera’s 2024–25 Live in HD season continues with a dazzling new production of Verdi’s Aida on Saturday, January 25, at 12:30 PM ET.

Fathom Entertainment will also present three encores of Aida including Wednesday, January 29, at 1PM and 6:30 PM local time, and due to popular demand, a special encore presentation added on Saturday, February 1 at 1PM local time.

Tickets for Aida are on sale now at participating U.S. theatre locations. To purchase tickets for Aida, please visit the Fathom Entertainment website or participating theatre box offices (participating theatres are subject to change).

Following a series of celebrated cinema turns in the Gershwins’ Porgy and Bess (2020), Terence Blanchard’s Fire Shut Up in My Bones (2021), Bizet’s Carmen (2024), and Puccini’s La Rondine (2024), soprano Angel Blue returns to the Live in HD series to sing her first Aida at the Met. Joining the distinguished cast is tenor Piotr Beczała as the soldier Radamès; mezzo-soprano Judit Kutasi, who made her 2024 debut in Verdi’s La Forza del Destino, as Amneris; baritone Quinn Kelsey as Amonasro; bass Morris Robinson as the King;  and bass Dmitry Belosselskiy as Ramfis. Yannick Nézet-Séguin, the Jeanette Lerman-Neubauer Music Director, takes the podium to conduct Tony Award–winner Michael Mayer’s new production. Mayer directed this season’s company-premiere production of Jeanine Tesori’s Grounded, as well as Met stagings of Verdi’s Rigoletto and La Traviata and Nico Muhly’s Marnie.

This is the first new production of Aida on the Met stage in 36 years, replacing the Sonja Frisell production that retired in 2023 after 262 performances. Inspired by French archaeologist Auguste Mariette—who provided the scenario that Verdi and his librettist adapted into Aida—Mayer frames his new production around a group of early–20th-century Egyptologists.

Mayer’s creative team includes Broadway veteran set designer Christine Jones, costume designer Susan Hilferty, lighting designer Kevin Adams, projection design by 59, choreographer Oleg Glushkov in his company debut, and production consultant Stephen Pickover. The January 25^th broadcast marks the 1,199^th Met performance since 1886. With three previous Live in HD transmissions to cinemas worldwide, Aida is the second most performed opera in the company’s repertory.

Gary Halvorson will direct the Live in HD presentation for cinemas, and Pulitzer Prize–winning composer and musician Rhiannon Giddens will host the transmission, sharing exclusive behind-the-scenes content and interviews during the intermission.

The Stars of Aida

Yannick Nézet-Séguin, conductor; Montreal, Canada

Angel Blue, Aida; Los Angeles, California

Judit Kutasi, Amneris; Timișoara, Romania

Piotr Beczała, Radamès; Czechowice-Dziedzice, Poland

Quinn Kelsey, Amonasro; Honolulu, Hawaii

Dmitry Belosselskiy, Ramfis; Pavlohrad, Ukraine

Morris Robinson, The King; Atlanta, Georgia

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The 2024–25 Live in HD season continues with Beethoven’s Fidelio (March 15 with encores on March 19), Mozart’s Le Nozze di Figaro (April 26 with encores on April 30), Strauss’s Salome (May 17 with encores on May 21), and Rossini’s Il Barbiere di Siviglia (May 31 with encores on June 4). All performances will be Saturday matinees transmitted live from the Met stage.

The Met: Live in HD series is made possible by a generous grant from its founding sponsor, the Neubauer Family Foundation. Digital support of The Met: Live in HD is provided by Bloomberg Philanthropies. The Met: Live in HD series is supported by Rolex.

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