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Bellini’s I Puritani
January 10, 2026
A new production of Bellini’s I Puritani graces the Metropolitan Opera stage for the first time in almost 50 years. Directed by successful set designer Charles Edwards, the opera follows the story of two lovers torn apart in the political and social upheavals caused by the English Civil War. Lisette Oropesa is Elvira Walton, Lawrence Brownlee is Lord Arturo Talbot, Artur ...
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay
January 3, 2026
Based on the book by Michael Chabon, The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay focuses on two cousins who invent an anti-fascist superhero to try and convince the United States to join the fight against Nazis. Composer Mason Bates provides an eclectic store combining acoustic and electronic elements in this new production that was also a Met Premiere. Yannick Nézet-Séguin ...
Handel at the Met
December 27, 2025
A celebration of Handel at the holidays, with excerpts from Met performances, in honor of the 300th anniversary of Rodelinda.
Mozart’s The Magic Flute – Holiday Presentation
December 20, 2025
Steven White conducts a family-friendly holiday version of The Magic Flute. This English language production was created by Julie Taymor – Tony Award-winning director of Broadway’s The Lion King – and features colorful sets and puppets. The broadcast’s cast includes Michael Sumuel as Papageno, Rainelle Krause as Queen of the Night, Alexander Köpeczi as Sarastro, and more. Harold Wilson is ...
Umberto Giordano’s Andrea Chénier
December 13, 2025
Piotr Beczała stars as the French poet Andrea Chénier in this verismo opera based loosely upon his life story. The rich poet, unhappy with the social inequity around him, falls in love with Maddalena di Coigny, portrayed by Sonya Yoncheva. Igor Golovatenko is the jealous family servant Carlo Gérard, in love with Maddalena despite his deep resentment of the aristocracy.
Puccini’s La bohème
December 6, 2025
Season Premiere: The 2025-26 radio series from The Metropolitan Opera opens with one of opera’s most beloved classics. Puccini’s La bohème is brought to life on stage with Juliana Grigoryan (Mimì), Stephen Costello (Rodolfo), Mané Galoyan (Musetta), and David Bizic (Marcello). Daniele Rustioni conducts the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra.
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).





















