The Met's 15th Summer HD Festival will be screening nightly from August 23 to September 2, 2024. There will be 3,000 seats set up in front of The Metropolitan Opera House at Lincoln Center. Additionally, a standing room area will be designated around Lincoln Center Plaza. The Met's HD Festival presentation will include full open captions. Ten performances plus a special screening of the Oscar winning film The Red Violin, co-presented by Film at Lincoln Center are part of the programmed evenings. The Red Violin will be the first evening on Friday, August 23 at 8pm.
Screenings will go on as planned in the case of rain. If thunder and lighting or high wind is in the forecast, then the screening will be canceled. Canceled screenings will not be rescheduled. The Summer HD Festival is generously supported by the Robert W. Wilson Charitable Trust. 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.