About Chapala Opera Guild & The Met Live

Visit Casa del Sol and buy your Guild membership at only $700 Mx annually. M - F 10 - 5. Javier Mina #7.  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.

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 HD transmissions in a high-quality, safe theatrical environment.

 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.

               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

Season / 11 Operas for Price of 10: $2,700 mx

    Price per Opera: $270

Season / Pick 7 Operas: $2,100 mx

    Price per Opera: $300

 Single-Ticket Seats: $330

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.