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The auditorium of the Metropolitan Opera House in New York City (Photo: Jonathan Tichler/Metropolitan Opera)
Since 1931, the Metropolitan Opera’s radio broadcasts have brought performances from New York City to listeners around the world.
From its opening in 1883, the Metropolitan Opera has been one of the world’s leading opera companies. Today, the Met continues to present high-quality performances with many of the world’s most renowned artists, a superior company of orchestral and choral musicians, a large repertory of works, and the resources to make performances available to the public. Each season the Metropolitan stages more than 200 opera performances in New York which more than 800,000 people attend. Millions more, throughout the world, experience the Metropolitan Opera on television, through cinemacasts, radio, on tour and recordings.
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J. Strauss’s Die Fledermaus
April 13, 2024
Celebrating the opera’s 150th anniversary with a performance featuring conductor Jeffrey Tate leading Kiri Te Kanawa (Rosalinde), Håkan Hagegård (Eisenstein), and more.
Donizetti’s L’Elisir d’Amore
April 6, 2024
Exactly fifty years after its recording, a performance starring Luciano Pavarotti (Nemorino), Judith Blegen (Adina), and more.
Verdi’s Requiem
March 30, 2024
Yannick Nézet-Séguin takes the podium for a performance of Verdi’s soul-stirring Requiem alongside a thrilling quartet of soloists.
Gounod’s Roméo et Juliette
March 23, 2024
Two singers at the height of their powers—radiant soprano Nadine Sierra and tenor sensation Benjamin Bernheim—come together as the star-crossed lovers in Gounod’s sumptuous Shakespeare adaptation.
Puccini’s Turandot
March 16, 2024
Franco Zeffirelli’s dazzling vision of mythic China retakes the stage, with soprano Elena Pankratova making her Met debut as the legendary—and lethal—title princess.
Verdi’s La Forza del Destino
March 9, 2024
Yannick Nézet-Séguin conducts Verdi’s grand tale of ill-fated love, deadly vendetta, and family strife, with stellar soprano Lise Davidsen as the lead role.
Listeners’ Choice: Verdi’s Ernani
March 2, 2024
A 1962 audience-favorite Met Broadcast featuring Carlo Bergonzi and Leontyne Price.
Mozart and Beethoven in Concert at the Met
February 24, 2024
Two concert presentations of pivotal classical works in performances from February 2023 and March 2022.
Verdi’s Un Ballo in Maschera
February 17, 2024
Carlo Rizzi conducts an all-star ensemble that features soprano Angela Meade, Quinn Kelsey, and Charles Castronovo.
Valentines from the Met: Great Love Duets
February 10, 2024
Romantic moments in memorable performances from the Met’s radio archives.
Anthony Davis’s X: The Life and Times of Malcolm X
February 3, 2024
Anthony Davis’s groundbreaking and influential opera, which premiered in 1986, arrives at the Met at long last.
Bizet’s Carmen
January 27, 2024
The Met begins the New Year with a vital new production of one of opera’s most enduringly powerful works.
Jake Heggie’s Dead Man Walking
January 20, 2024
Starring Joyce DiDonato and Ryan McKinny, Yannick Nézet-Séguin conducts this landmark premiere of the most widely performed new opera of the last 20 years.
Puccini’s La Bohème
January 13, 2024
Soprano Elena Stikhina is the heartbreaking seamstress Mimì, and tenor Joseph Calleja is the role of the love-struck poet Rodolfo.
Verdi’s Nabucco
January 6, 2024
Ancient Babylon comes to life in a classic Met staging of biblical proportions.
Mozart’s Le Nozze di Figaro
December 30, 2023
The legendary Cesare Siepi sings one of his most popular roles in this historic broadcast—the effervescent servant Figaro in this classic performance from 1956.
Wagner’s Tannhäuser
December 23, 2023
Dashing Austrian tenor Andreas Schager returns as the knight Tannhäuser in Wagner’s ravishing opera of love, lust, and redemption.
Mozart’s The Magic Flute
December 16, 2023
The Met’s English-sung, family-friendly production of Mozart’s dazzling fairy tale returns.
Daniel Catán’s Florencia en el Amazonas
December 9, 2023
Sung in Spanish and inspired by Gabriel García Márquez, Florencia en el Amazonas tells the story of an opera diva who returns to her homeland to perform at the legendary opera house of Manaus... and to search for her lost lover.
Wagner’s Der Fliegende Holländer
June 10, 2023
Season Finale: Following his acclaimed 2019 performances as Alberich in the Ring cycle, bass-baritone Tomasz Konieczny stars as the accursed Dutchman in Wagner’s eerie drama.
