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).

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

Plus beloved titles from Puccini, Mozart, Verdi, and more.

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!

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.

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.

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.

Emily D’Angelo, one of opera’s most compelling young stars, headlines in the tour-de-force role of Jess, a hot-shot fighter pilot who operates a Reaper drone halfway around the world.

Met Music Director Yannick Nézet-Séguin takes the podium to lead Strauss’s grand mythological epic, a tour de force for orchestra and soloists alike.

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

Yannick Nézet-Séguin takes the podium for a performance of Verdi’s soul-stirring Requiem alongside a thrilling quartet of soloists.

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.

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.

Marian Anderson, an acclaimed and boundary-breaking Black contralto, was born in Philadelphia in 1897.

Two concert presentations of pivotal classical works in performances from February 2023 and March 2022.

Four contemporary operas have their Met premieres.

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“It was a very ambitious and therefore expensive project, and unfortunately in the current conditions, it wasn’t something that we can manage,” LA Opera CEO Christopher Koelsch said.

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.

Marin Alsop, one of the most respected American conductors, gets another appointment.

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.

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An interview with one of the world’s most celebrated classical guitarists on the release of his new album, Baroque.

The deal eliminates a lower rate of overtime for playing movies and calls for two days of rest after most Sunday concerts.