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With its enchanting setting and spellbinding score, the world’s most popular opera is as timeless as it is heartbreaking. Franco Zeffirelli’s picture-perfect production brings 19th-century Paris to the Met stage as Puccini’s young friends and lovers navigate the joy and struggle of bohemian life. Soprano Juliana Grigoryan is the feeble seamstress Mimì, opposite tenor Freddie De Tommaso as the ardent poet Rodolfo. Keri-Lynn Wilson conducts this live cinema transmission, part of the Met’s award-winning Live in HD series, presented in Jackson Hole by the Grand Teton Music Festival.

Crowd-favorite woodwind quintet WindSync returns to the Grand Teton Music Festival for an evening of world-class chamber music. Featuring works by Mozart, Phillip Glass, Nadia Boulanger and more, the quintet imbues classic and modern works with their infectious energy and virtuosic musicianship.

Versatile and vibrant, the musicians of WindSync “play many idioms authoritatively, elegantly, with adroit technique, and with great fun” (All About the Arts), showing off the uniquely wide-ranging sounds of the wind quintet. WindSync’s charismatic and personal performance style, combined with a three-pronged mission of artistry, education and community-building, lends the group its reputation as “virtuosos who are also wonderful people, too" (Alison Young, Classical MPR).

WindSync is Garrett Hudson (flute), Noah Kay (oboe), Graeme Steele Johnson (clarinet), Anni Hochhalter (horn) and Kara LaMoure (bassoon).

Strauss’ elegant romance brings the glamour and enchantment of 19th-century Vienna to cinemas worldwide in a sumptuous production by legendary director Otto Schenk that “is as beautiful as one could hope” (The New York Times). Soprano Rachel Willis-Sørensen stars as the title heroine, a young noblewoman in search of love on her own terms. Radiant soprano Louise Alder is her sister, Zdenka, and bass-baritone Tomasz Konieczny is the dashing count who sweeps Arabella off her feet. The Grand Teton Music Festival presents this live cinema transmission as part of the Met’s award-winning Live in HD series, bringing opera to movie theaters across the globe.

Laurent Pelly’s storybook staging of Massenet’s Cinderella is presented with an English translation in an abridged 90-minute adaptation, with mezzo-soprano Isabel Leonard as its rags-to-riches princess. Maestro Emmanuel Villaume leads a delightful cast, which includes mezzo-soprano Emily D’Angelo as Cinderella’s Prince Charming, soprano Jessica Pratt as her Fairy Godmother, and mezzo-soprano Stephanie Blythe and bass-baritone Laurent Naouri as her feuding guardians. The Grand Teton Music Festival presents this cinematic Encore revival from the Metropolitan’s 2021-22 Live in HD series.

Led by GRAMMY®-nominated violinist Jeremy Kittel, Kittel & Co. stands at the forefront of American acoustic music. Hailed as "a stunning melting pot of classical and folk music” (Earmilk), the genre-bending ensemble draws inspiration from Celtic, bluegrass, jazz and classical music to create an unforgettable sound all their own.

Following her acclaimed 2024 company debut in Puccini’s Madama Butterfly, soprano Asmik Grigorian returns to the Met as Tatiana, the lovestruck young heroine in this ardent operatic adaptation of Pushkin. Baritone Igor Golovatenko is the urbane Onegin, who realizes his affection for her all too late. The Met’s evocative production, directed by Tony Award–winner Deborah Warner, “offers a beautifully detailed reading of … Tchaikovsky’s lyrical romance” (The Telegraph). The Grand Teton Music Festival presents this live cinema transmission as part of the Met’s award-winning Live in HD series, bringing opera to movie theaters across the globe.