Newport Performing Arts Center to screen “Twenty Years of the Met in Cinemas” anniversary celebration in HD

NEWPORT, OR: Coast Council for the Arts (OCCA) will present “Twenty Years of the Met in Cinemas,” a special anniversary screening celebrating two decades of the Metropolitan Opera’s groundbreaking Live in HD series, on Wednesday, September 23, 2026, at 10:00 am, on the big screen in Newport Performing Arts Center’s Alice Silverman Theatre.

Originally recorded live on the Metropolitan Opera stage in New York, the encore presentation, hosted by acclaimed soprano Renée Fleming, will showcase highlights drawn from the Met’s archive of more than 185 on-screen performances broadcast to theaters worldwide since the series began. The program brings together unforgettable moments from some of opera’s most celebrated stars, including Lise Davidsen, Natalie Dessay, Joyce DiDonato, Elīna Garanča, Dmitri Hvorostovsky, Jonas Kaufmann, Peter Mattei, Matthew Polenzani, Sondra Radvanovsky, Nadine Sierra, and Fleming herself, among…