The Metropolitan Opera Presents a Special Encore of Richard Eyre’s Production of Bizet’s Carmen in Select Cinemas Worldwide for 20th-Anniversary Season of The Met: Live in HD
Published by on Oct 30, 2026 12:58 PM
The Metropolitan Opera Presents a Special Encore of
Richard Eyre’s Production of Bizet’s Carmen
in Select Cinemas Worldwide for 20th-Anniversary Season of
The Met: Live in HD
Elīna Garanča and Roberto Alagna star in the most popular transmission of the series’s 20-year history
The Met: Live in HD is available through Fathom Entertainment
in nearly 650 theaters nationwide
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New York, NY and Denver, Colo. (October 30, 2026)—Continuing the 20th-anniversary season of The Met: Live in HD, the Metropolitan Opera’s acclaimed 2010 performance of Bizet’s Carmen returns to select U.S. cinemas on Saturday, November 14 at 1PM ET.
In his Met-debut staging, director Richard Eyre sets Bizet’s popular masterpiece in the 1930s during the Spanish Civil War, with mezzo-soprano Elīna Garanča in the title role, opposite tenor Roberto Alagna as Don José. Soprano Barbara Frittoli sings the role of Micaëla, with baritone Teddy Tahu Rhodes as Escamillo. Conducted by Yannick Nézet-Séguin, now the Met’s Jeanette Lerman-Neubauer Music Director, the production marked the first opera Maestro Nézet-Séguin conducted at the Met. This transmission remains the bestselling title in the series’s 20-year history
Alongside Eyre, the production’s creative team also includes set and costume designer Rob Howell, lighting designer Peter Mumford, and choreographer Christopher Wheeldon. Gary Halvorson directed the Live in HD presentation for cinemas, which was originally transmitted live on January 16, 2010.
Tickets for Carmen are available online and at participating theatre box offices (theatre locations are subject to change). For more information, visit Fathom Entertainment.
The Stars of Carmen
Barbara Frittoli, Micaëla; Milan, Italy
Elīna Garanča, Carmen; Riga, Latvia
Roberto Alagna, Don José; Clichy-sous-Bois, France
Teddy Tahu Rhodes, Escamillo; Christchurch, New Zealand
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The 2026–27 Live in HD season continues with Saint-Saëns’s Samson et Dalila (December 5, 2026, with encores on December 9), Puccini’s La Fanciulla del West (January 23, 2027, with encores on January 27), Kevin Puts’s Silent Night (March 20, 2027, with encores on March 24), Massenet’s Manon (April 3, 2027, with encores on April 7), Verdi’s Otello (April 24, 2027, with encores on April 28), and Wagner’s Parsifal (June 5, 2027, with encores on June 9). All performances will be Saturday matinees transmitted live from the Met stage. Encores of Bizet’s Carmen from 2010 will be presented on November 14, 2026; Mozart’s The Magic Flute from 2006 will be presented on December 12, 2026; and Puccini’s Tosca from 2024 will be presented on May 8, 2027.
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 in partnership with Rolex.
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