About Chapala Opera Guild & The Met Live

Visit our new office location at Av. Hidalgo #421 (adjacent on right to S & S Auto Sales) in Riberas del Pilar. Ask for Meredith! and buy your Guild membership at only $700 Mx annually at (12) months. M - F 10 - 5.  Moviespace offers Guild members one comp. beverage at each performance - take your Guild card and don’t forget a shawl or jacket if the A/C gets chilly.

Your paid membership goes directly to fund expenses incurred by the Guild.  The Guild is now an approved non-profit organization titled "Amigos de Chapala Opera, Sociedad Anonima SA". 

On-going Guild expenses include: 

Legal and accounting fees to form and maintain the S.A.;  Desk rental at our new location;  advertising including the Ojo del Lago, Guadalajara Reporter;  printing; peridic Guild meetings, etc.  We work to limit expenses - there are no paid staff nor other forms of overhead.  

After exploratory discussions for the Met to consider Lakeside as a new venue, Howard  obtained a production license with the Met and its’ Mexico licensee, Auditorio Nacional.

This agreement allowed us to organize a non-profit organization to produce the Met Live HD broadcasts in an Ajijic cinema.

There were three requirements for the Lakeside Arts Community to take advantage of this Met opportunity: first, the license to produce HD live here locally. Second, a convenient and appealing venue for screening the shows, and third, a local support group – an Opera Guild - to provide ticket sales support and funding in order to sustain the broadcast licenses and fees year to year. 

While there are other worthy goals for the Guild – including member education and social events, local opera student financial support and community awareness-building of Opera as an art form – our focus now is to re-start and support the Met Live in HD transmissions in a high-quality, safe theatrical environment

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 In December 2006, the company launched The Met: Live in HD, a  series of performance transmissions shown live in high definition in  movie theaters around the world. The series expanded from an initial six  transmissions to 10 in the 2014–15 season and today reaches more than  2,000 venues in 73 countries across six continents.  Including Mexico!

 The Met’s 2021–22 season in Ajijic of live movie theater transmissions features eleven spectacular productions, including four Met premieres—kicking off on  Dec. 4, 2021 with Eurydice.  

Please note: Due to Covid and financing limitations, the first two performances of Oct. 9 and Oct. 23 will be presented in digital format Feb. 12 & Feb.26, 2022.

       CAMPAIGN TRES ANOS 

The Chapala  Opera Guild is now asking for Met Live Transmission Sponsors ... for the next Three Met Opera Seasons.  

In order to sustain the production partnership we formed with the Moviespace Cine, we seek commitments of $10,000 MX for each live broadcast.  This would be for year to year funding for the 2022-2023 Season, the 2023-2024 Season and the 2024-2025 season.  Pre-payment is not necessary - just your approval to fund at the beginning of each season.  

We are truly grateful for the out-pouring of Sponsorships for the 2019-2020 and 2021-2022 Seasons.  

Please e-mail your offer of support to service@chapalaoperaguild.org.

Note:; Cash or checks are acceptable for Guild memberships and Broadcast Sponsorships. Please make checks payable to: 

"Amigos de Chapala Opera, SA"  

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               Ajijic  Met HD Season 2021 / 2022

Dec 4: Eurydice.           Dec. 18: Magic Flute.
Jan. 8: Cinderella.        Jan. 29: Rigoletto

Feb12: Boris Gudunov.      Feb. 26: Fire Shut up in My Bones

Mar 12: Ariadne aux Naxos. Mar. 26: Don Carlos

May 7: Turandot       

May 21: Lucia dI Lammermoor 

Jun. 4: Hamlet 

Ticket Prices

         2021-2022 SEASON 

Full Season: 10 Operas + Bonus "The Magic Flute")

TOTAL: $2,700 pesos  

($270 each + 1 Free Ticket for "The Magic Flute")

 "Pick Package Tickets"/ 1 Purchaser

      - Pick Your Preferred Operas and Combine with a Friend or Partner

Pick 10 TICKETS - $270 pesos each

Pick 7-9 TICKETS  $300 pesos each 

INDIVIDUAL TICKETS  $330 pesos each   

    GUILD MEMBER BENEFITS 

 Full Season: All (11) Operas                

($270 each one + 1 Ticket for "The Magic Flute") + 1   COMPLIMENTARY DRINK* PER OPERA

Pick Ten Operas:

$270 pesos each one + 1 COMPLIMENTARY DRINK* PER OPERA

 Pick 7 - 9 Operas: 

$300 pesos each one + 1 COMPLIMENTARY DRINK* PER OPERA

INDIVIDUAL / MULTIPLE OPERAS:

$330 pesos each one + 1 COMPLIMENTARY DRINK* PER OPERA

 *Participant beverages

Based on the Moviespace ticketing system, at the time of purchasing tickets, customers must select their seats, so all attendees are given their tickets with their numbered places (H1, A5... etc.) 

That is why it is important that people who book their places, go to the box office to buy their tickets and choose their place.

In the fall of 2018, after meeting with The Met and Auditorio Nacional, Howard Willis presented the owners of MovieSpace the opportunity to present HD Live.  This led to the succesful opening season in 2019 - 2020.  This effort would not have been possible without the generosity and cultural contributions to Lakeside by the MovieSpace officers and employees.  

 To insure this Opera Season begins on Dec. 4, 2021, The Guild has committed to help MovieSpace sell (200) season tickets at $2,700 mx each. We also must underwrite the  Met transmission fees and licenses: we need ten Sponsors at $10,000 mx.