Jake Heggie’s Moby-Dick

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

Celebrating the 100th anniversary of Ravel’s opera with a performance from February 28, 1981.

Beethoven’s Fidelio

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

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

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

Chosen by Yannick Nézet-Séguin, Leonard Bernstein conducts a performance from March 21, 1964.

Artist’s Choice: Strauss’s Ariadne auf Naxos

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

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

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.

Live Results: Grammy Winners

Sunday, February 2, 2025, is the year’s biggest night for music. Peruse the classical, jazz, contemporary, folk, screen, and stage nominees, and see the winners as they’re announced!

Puccini’s Tosca

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.

Verdi’s Rigoletto

Verdi’s heartbreaking masterpiece returns, with baritone Luca Salsi in the title role, alongside soprano Erin Morley as naïve daughter, Gilda, and rising tenor Pene Pati as the rakish Duke of Mantua, with Daniele Callegari on the podium to conduct Bartlett Sher’s Weimar-inspired production.

Humperdinck: Hansel and Gretel

In this performance from Christmas Day, 1982, Thomas Fulton conducts Frederica von Stade (Hansel) and Judith Blegen (Gretel) plus Rosalind Elias (Witch), Jean Kraft (Gertrud), Michael Devlin (Peter), Betsy Norden (Dew Fairy), and Diane Kesling (Sandman).

Soprano Angel Blue sings her first Metropolitan Opera ‘Aida’ in a new production

The American soprano, one of the most admired singers of her generation, is headlining the Metropolitan Opera’s first new production of Verdi’s “Aida” in 36 years.

Mozart’s The Magic Flute

A family-friendly, English-language holiday presentation of Mozart’s The Magic Flute.

Grammy Nominees 2025

Dive in to the classical, jazz, contemporary, folk, screen, and stage nominees!

Anna Netrebko to sing at Palm Beach Opera gala in first US appearance since 2019

Past Palm Beach Opera galas featured Luciano Pavarotti, Plácido Domingo, José Carreras, Renée Fleming, and Bryn Terfel.

Yuval Sharon to direct Met Opera’s new stagings of Wagner’s Ring Cycle and ‘Tristan und Isolde’

The Met also said Tuesday that Nézet-Séguin’s contract had been extended by six years through 2029-30.

Gluck’s Orfeo ed Euridice

Season Finale: Countertenor Anthony Roth Costanzo stars as the mythic hero who ventures into the underworld to rescue his beloved Euridice, performed by soprano Ying Fang.

Massenet’s Cinderella

An all-new English translation with mezzo-soprano Isabel Leonard as its rags-to-riches princess.

Puccini’s La Fanciulla del West

Soprano Eva-Maria Westbroek gives a fearless performance as Minnie, the opera’s gun-toting heroine, who runs a saloon for a camp of rambunctious miners in the California Gold Rush.

Kevin Puts’s The Hours

Pulitzer Prize–winning composer Kevin Puts’s hit new opera triumphantly returns, as do the original trio of legendary divas—sopranos Renée Fleming and Kelli O’Hara and mezzo-soprano Joyce DiDonato.

Puccini’s Madama Butterfly

Extraordinary soprano Asmik Grigorian makes her highly anticipated Met debut tackling the demanding role of Cio-Cio-San, the loyal geisha at the heart of Puccini’s devastating tragedy

John Adams’s El Niño

Eminent American composer John Adams returns to the Met after a decade-long hiatus for the company premiere of his acclaimed opera-oratorio, an extraordinarily dramatic retelling of the Nativity.

Terence Blanchard’s Fire Shut Up in My Bones

Terence Blanchard’s stirring drama returns following its landmark company premiere in 2021, with bass-baritone Ryan Speedo Green starring as Charles.

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