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Season Finale: Tchaikovsky’s The Queen of Spades
June 7, 2025
Tchaikovsky’s macabre thriller, set against the backdrop of Tsarist Russia, is back in the Met’s atmospheric staging.
Rossini’s Barber of Seville
May 31, 2025
Rossini’s effervescent comedy retakes the stage in Bartlett Sher’s madcap production. Star mezzo-sopranos Aigul Akhmetshina headlines a winning ensemble as the feisty heroine, Rosina, alongside high-flying tenor Lawrence Brownlee as her secret beloved, Count Almaviva. Baritone Andrey Zhilikhovsky stars as Figaro, the inimitable barber of Seville, with bass-baritone Peter Kálmán as Dr. Bartolo and bass Alexander Vinogradov as Don Basilio ...
John Adams’s Antony and Cleopatra
May 24, 2025
The most recent opera by preeminent American composer John Adams—a glorious adaptation of Shakespeare’s immortal drama—has its Met premiere. Following her debut in the company premiere of Adams’s El Niño in 2024, soprano Julia Bullock stars as the irresistible Cleopatra, one of theater’s most complex and captivating characters, opposite bass-baritone Gerald Finley as the conflicted Antony. Adams himself takes the ...
Strauss’s Salome
May 17, 2025
Music Director Yannick Nézet-Séguin conducts his first Met performances of Strauss’s white-hot one-act tragedy, which receives its first new production at the company in 20 years. Claus Guth, one of Europe’s leading opera directors, gives the biblical story—already filtered through the beautiful and strange imagination of Oscar Wilde’s play—a psychologically perceptive Victorian-era setting rich in symbolism and subtle shades of ...
Verdi’s Il Trovatore
May 3, 2025
Verdi’s charged drama of family strife and forbidden love stars tenor Michael Fabiano as Manrico, the bold troubadour unwittingly at war with his own brother. Soprano Rachel Willis-Sørensen performs the role of the noble Leonora, with mezzo-soprano Jamie Barton as Manrico’s tormented mother, Azucena. Baritone Igor Golovatenko is the unbending Count di Luna, with bass-baritone Ryan Speedo Green as the ...
Mozart’s Le Nozze di Figaro
April 26, 2025
Conductor Joana Mallwitz makes her Met debut leading Mozart’s comic masterpiece. Bass-baritone Michael Sumuel stars as the clever valet Figaro, opposite soprano Olga Kulchynska as his betrothed, the wily maid Susanna. Baritone Joshua Hopkins is the philandering Count, soprano Federica Lombardi is his anguished wife, and mezzo-soprano Sun-Ly Pierce plays the role of the adolescent page Cherubino.
Rossini’s L’assedio di Corinto
April 19, 2025
Celebrating the 50th anniversary of Beverly Sills’s Met debut with a performance from April 19, 1975
Mozart’s Magic Flute
April 12, 2025
Simon McBurney’s uproarious full-length German-language production of Mozart’s beloved fable—with its ingenious theatrical concoction of projections, puppetry, and special effects—returns to the Met stage following its celebrated 2023 premiere.
Golijov’s Ainadamar
April 5, 2025
Osvaldo Golijov’s Grammy–winning first opera dramatizes the life and work of poet-playwright Federico García Lorca, who was assassinated by fascist forces at the start of the Spanish Civil War.
Jake Heggie’s Moby-Dick
March 29, 2025
Jake Heggie returns to the company with his 2010 adaptation of Herman Melville’s sea-drenched, heaven-storming epic.
Ravel’s L’Enfant et les Sortilèges & Poulenc’s Les Mamelles de Tirésias
March 22, 2025
Celebrating the 100th anniversary of Ravel's opera with a performance from February 28, 1981.
Beethoven’s Fidelio
March 15, 2025
Soprano Lise Davidsen stars as Leonore, who risks everything to save her husband from the clutches of tyranny, with Susanna Mälkki conducting.
Puccini’s La Bohème
March 8, 2025
Kristina Mkhitaryan and Joseph Calleja take the stage as Puccini’s lovesick young bohemians in Franco Zeffirelli’s picturesque production, with Alexander Soddy conducting.
Bizet’s Carmen
March 1, 2025
Celebrating the 150th anniversary of Bizet’s opera with a performance from January 16, 2010. Yannick Nézet-Séguin conducts Elīna Garanča (Carmen), Roberto Alagna (Don Jose), Barbara Frittoli (Micaela), Teddy Tahu Rhodes (Escamillo).
Artist’s Choice: Verdi’s Falstaff
February 22, 2025
Chosen by Yannick Nézet-Séguin, Leonard Bernstein conducts a performance from March 21, 1964.
Artist’s Choice: Strauss’s Ariadne auf Naxos
February 15, 2025
Chosen by Lise Davidsen, Jessye Norman shines as Ariadne in a performance from January 5, 1985. Sir Andrew Davis conducts Norman alongside Gianna Rolandi (Zerbinetta), William Cochran (Bacchus), Maria Ewing (Composer), Dale Duesing (Harlekin).
Artist’s Choice: Wagner’s Der Fliegende Holländer
February 8, 2025
Chosen by Ryan Speedo Green, George London stars as the Wagner’s accursed Dutchman in a performance from March 5, 1960. Thomas Schippers conducts a cast that also features Leonie Rysanek (Senta), Karl Liebl (Erik), and Giorgio Tozzi (Daland).
Artist’s Choice: Verdi’s La traviata
February 1, 2025
Chosen by Angel Blue, hear Renée Fleming in a performance from November 7, 2007. Fleming is the the self-sacrificing courtesan Violetta—one of opera’s ultimate heroines. Tenor Matthew Polenzani is her self-centered lover Alfredo, alongside baritone Dwayne Croft as his disapproving father, and Marco Armiliato on the podium.
Verdi’s Aida
January 25, 2025
This grandest of grand operas — set in Ancient Egypt and packed with magnificent choruses, complex ensembles, and elaborate ballets — is in essence, an intimate love story.
Puccini’s Tosca
January 18, 2025
The extraordinary Lise Davidsen sings Tosca for her first time at the Met, alongside tenor Freddie De Tommaso in his eagerly anticipated company debut and powerhouse baritone Quinn Kelsey. Yannick Nézét-Séguin conducted this performance from November 23, 2024.