This new twist on Arizona Opera’s popular summer opera film festivals will bring the art form to the newly created outdoor Pavilion at the Herberger Theater Center in downtown Phoenix. The first such collaboration of its kind between The Metropolitan Opera and a regional US opera company will present socially distanced screenings of La Traviata, Hansel and Gretel, and The Barber of Seville from the popular series, The Met: Live in HD for the weekend of November 20-22.
The festival will showcase the Met’s productions of Verdi’s La Traviata featuring Diana Damrau, Juan Diego Floréz and Quinn Kelsey; Rossini’s The Barber of Seville with Juan Diego Floréz, Joyce DiDonato and Peter Mattei; and an English-language version of Humperdinck’s Hansel and Gretel featuring Alice Coote, Christine Schäfer and Philip Langridge.
A limited number of individual screening tickets set up in socially distant pods – which will be $15 for adults and $7 for children or students with a valid ID – will be available for purchase. The screenings will take place on Friday, November 20; Saturday, November 21; and Sunday, November 22. All screenings will begin at 6 PM. Please see below for a list of health and safety protocols that will be followed for these engagements.