No confirmation at this stage of which UK cinemas will be participating, but the Metropolitan Opera's 2012-13 live broadcast schedule looks like this:
Donizetti’s L'Elisir d'Amore New Production - October 13, 2012
Cond - Maurizio Benini, Dir - Bartlett Sher, Cast - Anna Netrebko, Matthew Polenzani, Mariusz Kwiecien, Ambrogio Maestri
Verdi’s Otello - October 27, 2012
Cond - Semyon Bychkov, Dir - Elijah Moshinsky, Cast – Johan Botha, Renée Fleming
Adès’s The Tempest Met Premiere - November 10, 2012
Cond - Thomas Adès, Dir - Robert Lepage, Cast – Simon Keenlyside
Mozart’s La Clemenza di Tito - December 1, 2012
Cond - Harry Bicket, Dir - Jean-Pierre Ponnelle, Cast – Elīna Garanča, Giuseppe Filianoti, Barbara Frittoli
Verdi’s Un Ballo in Maschera New Production - December 8, 2012
Cond - Fabio Luisi, Dir - David Alden, Cast – Marcelo Álvarez, Karita Mattila, Dmitri Hvorostovsky, Kathleen Kim, Stephanie Blythe
Verdi’s Aida - December 15, 2012
Cond - Fabio Luisi, Dir - Sonja Frisell, Cast – Liudmyla Monastyrska, Roberto Alagna, Olga Borodina
Berlioz’s Les Troyens - January 5, 2013
Cond - Fabio Luisi, Dir - Francesca Zambello, Cast – Deborah Voigt, Susan Graham, Marcello Giordani, Dwayne Croft
Donizetti’s Maria Stuarda Met Premiere - January 19, 2013
Cond - Maurizio Benini, Dir - David McVicar, Cast – Joyce DiDonato, Elza van den Heever
Verdi’s Rigoletto New Production - February 16, 2013
Cond - Michele Mariotti, Dir - Michael Mayer, Cast – Piotr Beczala, Željko Lucic, Diana Damrau
Wagner’s Parsifal New Production - March 2, 2013
Cond - Daniele Gatti, Dir - François Girard, Cast – Jonas Kaufmann, Katarina Dalayman, Peter Mattei, Evgeny Nikitin, René Pape
Zandonai’s Francesca da Rimini - March 16, 2013
Cond - Marco Armiliato, Dir - Piero Faggioni, Cast – Eva-Maria Westbroek, Marcello Giordani are the doomed lovers. condudcts.
Handel’s Giulio Cesare New Production - April 27, 2013
Cond - Harry Bicket, Dir - David McVicar, Cast – David Daniels, Natalie Dessay
