Part of the Metropolitan Opera Live Series: The exhilarating soprano Lise Davidsen makes her Live in HD debut in one of her signature roles, the mythological Greek heroine of Strauss’s enchanting masterpiece. The outstanding cast for this March 12 transmission also features mezzo-soprano Isabel Leonard as the Composer of the opera-within-an-opera around which the plot revolves, with soprano Brenda Rae as the spirited Zerbinetta and tenor Brandon Jovanovich as Ariadne’s lover, the god Bacchus. Marek Janowski conducts. This live cinema transmission is part of the Met’s award-winning Live in HD series, bringing opera to movie theaters across the globe. Sung in German with subtitles.

3 hrs, 5 min.

Conductor: Marek Janowski
Ariadne: Lise Davidsen
Zerbinetta: Brenda Rae
Composer: Isabel Leonard
Bacchus: Brandon Jovanovich
Harlekin: Sean Michael Plumb
Music Master: Johannesburg Martin Kranzle
Major-Domo: Thomas Allen