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26 Fall 2022 • sai-national.org The Met The Met: Live in HD Ten live Met performances will be transmitted to cinemas across the globe as part of e Met: Live in HD series, which begins October 22, 2022, with Medea and continues with La Traviata (November 5, 2022), e Hours (December 10, 2022), Fedora (January 14, 2023), Lohengrin (March 18, 2023), Falstaff (April 1, 2023), Der Rosenkavalier (April 15, 2023), Champion (April 29, 2023), Don Giovanni (May 20, 2023), and Die Zauberflöte (June 3, 2023). e Met: Live in HD series is made possible by a generous grant from its founding sponsor, the Neubauer Family Foundation. Digital support of e Met: Live in HD is provided by Bloomberg Philanthropies. e Met: Live in HD series is supported by Rolex. The HD Broadcasts are supported by Toll Brothers, America's luxury home builder®. Within months of their initial live transmissions, the Live in HD programs are shown on PBS in the United States. The PBS series Great Performances at the Met is produced in association with PBS and WNET, with support from Toll Brothers, America's luxury homebuilder®. Education The Met's HD Live in Schools program, which brings the Met's live HD transmissions to 59 school districts in 45 states across the country, will continue in the 2022–23 season. Live cinema transmissions of Medea (October 22, 2022), e Hours (December 10, 2022), Champion (April 29, 2023), and Don Giovanni (May 20, 2023) will be included in the program, as well as curriculum for Rossini's comic opera La Cenerentola. Met Education will also continue to provide access to Met Opera on Demand for all students and teachers. The National Educators Conference, a professional development initiative that brings together teachers and administrators from across the United States and has been hosted virtually the past two years, will return to an in-person conference at the Met. The Met on the Radio and Online The Met's 92nd consecutive Saturday Matinee Radio Broadcast season begins December 10, 2022, with the network broadcast premiere of Kevin Puts's e Hours and runs through June 10, 2023, concluding with Wagner's Der Fliegende Holländer. The broadcast season will once again be heard over the Toll Brothers–Metropolitan Opera International Radio Network. Debra Lew Harder returns as host and Ira Siff returns as commentator for the broadcasts. The Metropolitan Opera Saturday Matinee Radio Broadcast series will be sponsored by Toll Brothers, America's luxury homebuilder®, with generous long- term support from the Annenberg Foundation and GRoW @ Annenberg, The Neubauer Family Foundation, and the Vincent A. Stabile Endowment for Broadcast Media, and through contributions from listeners worldwide. Metropolitan Opera Radio on SiriusXM Channel 355 will present its 17th season as the country's premier subscription radio channel dedicated to opera. Up to three live performances will be broadcast each week during the season, hosted by Debra Lew Harder with commentator William Berger, as well as historic broadcasts from the Met's vast collection, stretching back to 1931. The channel also features lively interviews and previews of upcoming Met performances. The live broadcast season begins with the Met's Opening Night performance of Medea on September 27, 2022. Metropolitan Opera Radio on SiriusXM is available to subscribers in the United States and Canada. Met Opera on Demand The Met's exclusive streaming service now features more than 790 full-length Met performances, available worldwide on multiple platforms that include computers; Amazon Fire TV and Tablet; iPad, iPhone, and Apple TV; Android; Roku; and Samsung Smart TV. The Met Opera on Demand library includes more than 135 presentations from the Live in HD series, as well as more than 80 classic telecasts and more than 550 radio broadcasts dating back to 1935. Met Opera on Demand: Student Access allows university and college libraries to make this digital resource from the Met accessible to their student populations. Now in its ninth year, Student Access is currently available at more than 160 schools around the world. — The Metropolitan Opera The Met Opera's 2022-2023 Special Programs Photo: Florian Kalotay Timothy White Decca Photo: Florian Kalotay Timothy White Decca Mezzo-soprano Joyce DiDonato and sopranos Renée Fleming, SAI Honorary Member, and Kelli O'Hara will star in the Metropolitan Opera premiere of Kevin Puts's Mezzo-soprano Joyce DiDonato and sopranos Renée Fleming, SAI Honorary Member, and Kelli O'Hara will star in the Metropolitan Opera premiere of Kevin Puts's The Hours The Hours

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