Events - Chester Playhouse

The Magic Flute

A treasured holiday tradition, Mozart’s heartwarming fairy tale The Magic Flute, takes the stage in the Met’s abridged, English-language production by Julie Taymor—the Tony Award–winning director of Broadway’s The Lion King. Featuring some of opera’s most popular melodies and brought to life with colorful sets and costumes and dazzling puppetry, it’s perfect for audiences of […]

Samson et Dalila

Sacred, scandalous, and irresistibly alluring, join us for Samson et Dalila as our MET Opera Live in HD presentations continue into 2027. Camille Saint-Saëns’s spectacular take on the biblical hero of legendary strength and the seductive Philistine whose beauty overpowers him returns in the Met’s larger-than-life production. Featuring a massive orchestra and chorus and some […]

La Fanciulla del West

Puccini’s exhilarating drama of the Wild West returns in a new staging by celebrated British director Richard Jones, marking the company’s first new production of La Fanciulla del West in more than 30 years. Soprano Vida Miknevičiūtė makes an important Met debut as the larger-than-life Minnie, the tough tavern owner with a heart of gold […]

Silent Night

Inspired by the true events of the 1914 Christmas truce.

Otello

Our 2026-2027 MET Live in HD season comes to an glorious end with Otello. Two of today’s leading dramatic tenors—Michael Fabiano and Brian Jagde, take on the tour-de-force title role of Otello, what many consider the ultimate Italian opera, live to cinemas worldwide. Verdi’s monumental Shakespearean tragedy also features soprano Ailyn Pérez in her company […]

Cosi Fan Tutte

Our 2027-2027 MET Live in HD season kicks off with Mozart’s satirical comedy of fickle young love, Cosi Fan Tutte, one of the composer’s most sublime creations Phelim McDermott’s “colorful, inventive” (The New York Times) staging, inspired by Coney Island in the 1950s, sets the uproarious story at a boardwalk amusement park, where the two […]