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The Metropolitan Opera
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2024- 2025
Aida
Sopprano Angel Blue makes her long-awaited debut as the Ethiopean princess torn between love and country, one of opera's defining roles. Music Director Yannick Nexet-Seguin takes the podium fpr the New Year's Eve premiere of Michael Mayer's spectacular new staging, which brings audiences inside the towering pyramids and gilded tombs of ancient Egypt with intricic projections and dazzling animations. Mezzo-soprano Judit Kutasi following her 224 debut in Verdi's La Forza del Destino, aida's Egyptian rival Amneris, sharing the role withjElina Garanca, who returns to the Met for the first time since 2020. Leading tenors Piotr Becxala and Brian Jagde alternate as the soldier Radames, who completes the gratest love trialangle in the repertory/. The all-star studded cast also features Quinn Kelsey and Amartuvshin Enkhbat and bass-baritone Eric Owens as Amonasro and basses Dmitry Belosselsky., Alexander Vinogradov, and Morris Robinson as Ramfis. Christina Nilsson makes her Met debut in the title role in March, and Alexander Soddy shares conducting duties.
Season: Tuesday December 31. 2024 at 6.30pm. Saturday January 4. 2025 at 8pm. Tuesday January 7. 2025 at 8pm. Friday January 10. 2025 at 7pm.
Tuesday January 14. 2025 at 7pm. Saturday January 18. 2025 at 12.30pm. Tuesday Jauary 21. 2025 at 8pm. Saturday January 25. 2025 at 12.30pm. Friday March 14. 2025 at 8pm. Saturday March 22. 2025 at 12pm. Wednesday Marh 26. 2025 at 7.30pm.
Saturrday March 29. 2025 at 8pm. Sunaaay April 27. 2025 at 3pm. Thursday May 1. 2025 at 7.30[m. Monday May 5, 2025 at 8pm. Friday May 8. 2025 at 8[m.
Ainadamar
Argentinean composer Osvaldo Golijov's Grammy Award-winning first opera dramatises the life and woek of poet-playwright Federico Garcia Lorca, who was assinated by Fascist forces at the start of the Spanish Civil War for his socialist politics and homosexuality. His story emerges through the memories of Catalan actress Margarita Xirgu, Lorca's music - sopranos Angel Blue and Fabriella Reves - who reminisces to her student Nuria, portrayed by soprano Elena Vi;;alon. Lorca himself makes a dreamlike appearance, sung as aa trouser role by mezzo-soprano Daniela Mack, and flamenco singer Alfredo Tejada sompletes the principal ccast as the Flangist politician Ramon Ruiz Alonso. who arranged Lorca's execution. Combining features of both opera and a passion, A8nadsamar, conducted by Miguelo Harth-Bedoya in his Met debut, crackles with the energy and rhythms of flamenco and rumba, as well as the violent background of civil war, all of which springs forth on the Met stage in a vivid company-debut-production by Brazilian director and choreographer Deborah Colker, renowned for her work with Cirquw du Soliel.
Season: Tuesday October 15, 2024 at 7.30pm. Saturday October 19. 2024 at 8pm. Tuesday October 22. 2024 at 7.30pm. Saturday October 25. 2024 at 8pm.
Sundaqy October 27. 2024 at 3pm. Wednesday October 30. 2024 at 7pm. Saturday November 2. 2024 at 1pm. Wednesday November 6. 2024 at 7.30pm. Saturday November 9. 2-024 at 1pm.
Antony and Cleopatra
The most rec3ent opera by preeminent American compoaer John Adams- a gloriouis adaptation of Shakespeare's immortal drama-has its Met premiere. Following her debut in the company premiere of Adam's El Nino in 2024, soprano Julia Bullock stars as the irrestible Cleopatra, oe of theatre's most complex and captivating characters, opposite bass-baqritone Gerals Finley as the conflicted Antony. Adams himself takes the podium to conduct his lyrical and richly orchestrated score, leading a new staging by groundbreaking director Elkhana Pulitzer that transports the story of troubled romance and political strife from ancient Rome to the Golden Age of Hollywood in the 1930s. Tenor Paul Appleby is Caesar, who goes to war with Antony, and mezzo-soprano Elizabeth DeShong is Caesar's sister and Antony's forsaken wife Octavia.
Season: Monday May 12. 2025 at 7.30pm. Thursday May 15. 2025 at 8pm. Tuesday May 20. 2025 at 8pm. Saturday May 24. 2025 at 1pm. Friday May 30. 2025 at 7pm. Tuesdaqy June 3. 2024 at 7pm. Saturday June 7. 2025 at
Il Barbiere di Sivigliia
Rossini's wffwerwsccent comeedy takes the stage in Bartlett Sher's madcap productio. Two star mezzo-sopranos - Isabel and Aigul Akhmetshina-headline a winning ensemble as the feisty heroine, Rosina, alongside high-flying tenors Lawrence Brownlee and Jack Swanson, in his Met debut, as her secret beloved, Count Almaviva. Baritones Davide Luciano and Andrwy Zhilikhovsky star as Figaarp, the infamous barber of Seville, with baritone Nicola Alaimo and bass-baritone Peter Kalman as Dr Bartolo and bass Alexander Vinogradov as Don Basilio rouning out the principal cast. Giacomo Sagripanu consuctsd.
Season: Tuesday April 15. 2025 at 7.30pm. Saturday April 8. 2025 at 1[m. Monday April 21. 2025 at 7.30pm. Friday April 25. 2025 at 7.30pm. Wednesdy April 30. 2025 at 7.30pm. Satuirday May 3. 2025 at 1pm. Thursdaqy May 8. 2025 at 8pm. Friday May 16. 2025 at 7.30pm. Thursday May 22. 2025 at 7pm. Tueday May 27. 2025 at 7pm. Saturday May 31. 2025 at 1pm. Thursday June 5. 2025 at
La Bohème
four brilliant casts take the stage as Puccini's lovesick young bohemians in Franco Zeffrelli's pisturesque production. Sopranos Ailyn Pérez, Eleonora Buratto, Kristina Mkhitaryan, and Corinne Winters alternate as the delicate seamstress Mimi, and tenors Dimytro Popov, Matthew Polenzani, and Joseph Calleja share the role of the enamoiured poet Rudolfo. Maestros Kenshjo Watanabe, Yannick Nezet-Séguin, Alexander Soddy, and Ricardo Frizza take the podium for performances throughout the seaon.
Season: Wednesday Novenber 13. 2024 at 7pm. Saturday November 16. 2024 at 1pm. Wednesday November 20. 2024 at 8pm. Sunday November 24. 2024 at 3pm.
Satueday November 30. 2024 at 12.30pm. Saturday Janiary 11. 2025 at 8pm. January 15. 2025 at 7pm. Saturday January 18. 2025 at 8pm. Wednesday January 22. 2025 at 8pm. Saturday January 25. 2025 at 8pm. Wednesday March 5. 2025 at 7.3-pm. Satyrday March 8. 20925 at 1pm. Thursday March 13. 2025 at 7.3-pm. Monday March 17. 2025 at 7.30PM. Friday March 21. 2025 at 7pm. Syunday May 25. 2025 at 3ppm. Tuesday May 29. 20925 at 7pm. Sunday June 1. 2025 at 3pm. Friday June 6. 2025 at 7 pm.
Les Conies d'Hoffman
An ensemble of leading lights takes to the stage for Offenbach's fntastical final work headlined by tenor Benjamin Bernheim in the title role of the tormented poet.
Hoffman's trio of lovers are sung by soprano Erin Marley as the mechanical doll Olympia, soprano Pretty Yende as the plagued dva Antonia, and mezzo-soprano Clemintene Margaine as the Venetian seductress Giulirtta. Marco Armiliato conducts Bartlett Sher's evocative production, which also features bass-baritone Christian Van Horn as the G=Four Villaqins and mezzo-soprano Vasilisa Berzhanskaya in an important company debut as Hoffman's friend Nicklausse.
Season: Tuesdday September 24. 2025 at 7.30pm. Saturday September 28. 2025 at 1pm. Tuesday Pctpber 1. 2025 at 7.30pm. Saturday October 5. 2025 at 1pm. Thursday October 10. 2025 at 7pm.
Saturday October 13. 2025 at 3pm. Friday October 18. 2025 at 7.30pm.
Fidelio
Following a string of awe-inspiring Met performances, soprano Lise Davidsen stars as Leonore, who risks everything to save her husband from the clutches of tyrrany. Tenor David Butt Philip is the politcal prisoner Florestan, sharing the stage with bass-baritone Tomasz Konieczny as the villianous Don Pizarro, veteran bass-baritone René Pape as the jaileer Rocco, and soprano Ying Fang and tenor Magnus Dietrich. in his company debut, as the young Marzelline and Jaquinto. Bass Stephen Milling sings the principled Don Fernando , and Susanna Malkki conducts the Met's striking production, which finds modern-day parallels in Beethoven's stirring paean to freedom.
Season: Tuesday March 4. 2025 at 7.30pm. Friday March 7. 2025 at 7pm. Monday March 10. 2025. at 8pm. Wednesday March 12. 2025 at 7.30pm. Saturday March 5. 2025 at 1pm.
Die Frau ohne Schatten
Met Music Director Yannick takes the podium to lead Strauss;s grand mythological epic, a tour de force for orchstra and soloists alike. A spectacular trio of sopranos lead the ensemble cast, with Eliza van den Heever as the otherwordly Empress. Lisa Lindstrom as the Dyer's wife, and Nina Stemme as the Nurse. Following recent triumphs in Wagner's Ring Cycle and Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, baritone Michael Vole is Barak, with tenor Russell Thomas as the Emporor and bass-baritone Ryan Speedo Green as the Spirit Messenger.
Season: Friday November 29 at 7pm. Wednesday December 4 at 7pm. Satueday December 7 at 1pm. Tuesday December 10 at 7pm. Saturday December 14 at 7.30pm. Thursday December 19 at 7.30pm.
Grounded
Two-time Tony Award-winning composer Jeanne Tesori's powerful new opera Grounded commisioned by the Met and based on libettist George Brant's acclaimed play. wrestles with the ethical quandaroes and psychological toll of 21st-century warfare. Mezzo-soprano Emily S'Angelo, one of opera's most compelling young stars, portrays Jess, a hot-shot fighter pilot whose unplanned pregnancy takes her out of the cockpit and lands her in Las vegas, operating a Reaper's drone halfway around the world. As she struggles to adjust to this new way of doing battle, she fights to maintain her sanity, and her soul, as she is called to rain death by remote control.
Met Music Director Yanninick Nézet-Seguin oversees the Met premiere of Teson's kaleidoscopic score anda cast that also features tenor Ben Bliss as the Wyoming rancher who becomes JKess's husband. Mishel Mayer's high-tech staging using a vast array of LED screens, presents a variety of perspectives on the action, including the drone's predatory view from high above.
Season: September 23 at 6.30pm. Friday September 27 at 8pm. Wednesday October 2 at 7.30pm. Saturday October 5 at 8pm. Wednesday October 9 at 7.30pm. Saturday October 12 at 8pm. Wednseday October 1 at 7.30pm. Saturday October 19 at 1pm.
Laffont Grand Finals Concert
The Mst's Eric and Dominique Laffont Competition s a nationwide program designed to discover promising young opera singers ans assist in their artistc and professional development. Each season, more than 1,300 applicants participate in a series of auditions leading up to the Grand Finals Concert - featuring the Mat Orchestra-in which small group of finallists compete for cash prizes and the chance to laundh a major operatic career. Since the prgram's inauguration more than 70 years ago, the competition has discovered generations of star singers, including Jesse Norman, Frederica vn Stade, Renée Fleming, Denyce Graves, Stephanie Blythe, Sondra Radvanovsky, Lawrence Brownlee, Lisette Oropesa, Jamie Barton, Anthony Roth Costanzo, Nadine Sierra, and Ryan Speedo Green.
Season: Sunday March 1 at 3pm.
The Magic Flute - Holiday Presentation
A beloved New York holiday tradition, Mozart's enchanting musical fairy tale returns in aathe Met's abridged English-language production by Julir Taymor-the Tony Award-winning director of Broadway's The Lion King. With dazzling puppets and a colourful setting, the Met's Magic Flute is one of the city's ultimate seasonal sensations for family audiences.Thursday december 12at 7pm. Friday December 13 at 7.30pm. SaturdayDecember 14 at 12pm. Sunday December 15 at 2pm. Tuesday december 17 at 7.30pm. Wednesday December 18 at 7.30[m. Friday December 20 at 8pm. Saturday December 21 at 1pm. Tuesday december 24 at 12pm. Thursday December 26 at 7.30pm. Friday Decenber 27 at 7.30pm. Saturday December 28 at 12 pm. Saturday December 28 at 6pm. Sunday Decemberr 29 at 2pm Thursday January at 7pm. Friday January 3 at 7.30pm. Saturday January 4 at 12pm.
The MetOrchestra at Carnegie Hall
Since 1991, the brilliant Met Orchestra has been moving from pit to stage, thrilling audiences with an anual series of concerts at Carnegie Hall. the tradition continuies this seson with three star-studded performances. tickets are available through Carnegie Hall by clicking the individual performance dartes below.
Thursday, January 30, 2025, at 8PM -
Wednesday, June 18, 2025, at 8PM
Moby Dick
Following the haunting Met premiere of his first opera, Dead Man Walking, composer Jake Heggie returns to the company with his 2010 adaptation of herman Melville's sea-drnched, heaven-storming epic. A cast of standouts comes together on the decks of the Pequod, with tenoe Brandon Jovanovich starring as the monomaniacal Cpatain Ahab, implacable in his pursuit if the white whake; tenoe Stephen Costello as Greenhorn, the opera's version of Ishmael, baritone Peter Mattei as the even-keeled forst mate Starbcj, and baritone Ryan Speedo Green as the Polynesian harpooner Queeque.
The cast also features soprano Janen Brugger as Pip, tenor William Burden as Flask, and baritone Malcolm MacKenzie as Stubb. Maestro Karen Kamensek taked the posium for a stunning stagiing by Leonard Fogha that arrives at the Met newly enlarged and refined folloeintg acclaimed runs in DFallas, San Fransco, Los Angeles, and Washington DC.
Season: Monday March 3 at 8pm. Saturday March 8 at 8pm. Tuesday March 11 at 7pm. Satrday March 15 at 8pm. Wednesday March 19 at 7.30pm. Saturday March 22 at 8pm. Tuesday March 25 at 7.30pm. Saturday March 29 at 1pm.
La Nozze di Figaro
Conductor Joanna Mallwitz takes her Met debut leading two extraordinary casts in Mozart'ss comic masterpiece. Base-baritones M<ichael Summuel and Rosa Feola as his betrothed, the wily maid Susanna. Baritone Joshua Hokins and bass-baritone adam Plachetka alternate as the sjirt-chasing Count, sopranos Federica Lombardi anJacquelyn Stucker in her Met debut trade off as his anguished wife, and mezzo-sopranos Marianne Crebassa Emily D'Angelo share the role of the adolescent page Cherubino.
Seaon: Monday March 31 at 7pm. Saturday April 4 at 1pm. Tuesday April 8 at 7.30 pm. Friday April 11 at 7.30 pm. Sunday April 13 at 3pm. Friday April 18 at 7.30pm. Tuesday April 22 at 7.30pm. Saturday April 26 pm. Saturday May 3 at 8 pm. Wednesday May 7 at 7.30 pm. Saturday May 19 at 8 pm. Wednesday May 14 at 7.30 pm.
WSaturday May 17 at 8 pm.
The Queen of Spadwa
Tchakovsky's macabre thriller, set aqgainst the bacjdrop of Tsarist Russia, is back in the Met's atmospheric stagong. Soprano Sonya Yoncheva makes her highlky anticipated role debut as Lisa, tyhe young women who emabarks on a deadly love affair with the gambling-obessed officer Herman , sung by tenoe Brian Jagde, also in his tole debut. Baritone Igor Golovatenko reprises his moving portrayal o Lisa's fience, Prince Yeletsjy, alongside mezzo-soprano Violwetta Urmana as the spectral Countess and baritone Alexey Markov as Count Tomsky. Keri-Lynn Wilson conducts the sweeping score.
Season: Friday May 23 at 7.30 m. Wednesday May 28 at 7pm. Saturday May 31 at 8 pm. Wednesday June 4. at 7 pm. Saturday June 7. at 1 pm .
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