Metropolitan Opera

The Met presents Verdi’s masterful Otello, inspired by Shakespeare’s play and matching it in tragic intensity. Director Bartlett Sher probes the Moor’s dramatic downfall with an outstanding cast: tenor Aleksandrs Antonenko plays the doomed Otello; new soprano star Sonya Yoncheva sings Desdemona, Otello’s innocent wife and victim; and baritone Zeljko Lucic plays the evil Iago, […]

James Levine conducts Wagner’s early masterpiece in its first return to the Met stage in more than a decade. Today’s leading Wagnerian tenor, Johan Botha, takes on the daunting title role of the young knight caught between true love and passion. Eva-Maria Westbroek is Elisabeth, adding another Wagner heroine to her Met repertoire after her […]

Acclaimed artist and director William Kentridge (The Nose) applies his unique theatrical vision to Berg’s notorious femme fatale who shatters lives, including her own. Musically, the masterful score is in the sure hands of Met Music Director James Levine. Soprano Marlis Petersen has excited audiences around the world with her portrayal of the tour-de-force title […]

Bizet’s gorgeous opera of lust and longing set in the Far East returns to the Met stage for the first time in 100 years. Soprano Diana Damrau stars as Leïla, the beautiful Hindu priestess pursued by rival pearl divers competing for her hand. Her suitors are tenor Matthew Polenzani and baritone Mariusz Kwiecien, who sing […]

In Puccini's final opera, Nina Stemme, one of opera’s greatest dramatic sopranos, plays the title role of the proud princess of ancient China, whose riddles doom every suitor who seeks her hand. Tenor Marco Berti is Calàf, the brave prince who sings “Nessun dorma” and wins her love. Franco Zeffirelli’s golden production is conducted by […]

The Met stage ignites when soprano Kristine Opolais and tenor Jonas Kaufmann join forces in Puccini’s obsessive love story. Opolais sings the title role of the country girl who transforms herself into a Parisian temptress, while Kaufmann is the dashing student who desperately woos her. Director Richard Eyre places the action in occupied France in […]

Anthony Minghella's breathtaking production has thrilled audiences ever since its premiere in 2006. Kristine Opolais reprises her acclaimed portrayal of the title role, opposite Roberto Alagna as Pinkerton, the naval officer who breaks Butterfly's heart. Karel Mark Chichon conducts. Patricia Racette and Marcello Giordani in Anthony Minghella’s production of Madama Butterfly (2009).

Soprano Sondra Radvanovsky takes on the extraordinary challenge of singing all three of Donizetti’s Tudor queens in the course of a single season, a rare feat made famous by Beverly Sills—and not attempted on a New York stage since. In this climactic opera of the trilogy, she plays Queen Elizabeth I, forced to sign the […]

The genius director Patrice Chéreau (From the House of the Dead) didn’t live to see his great Elektra production, previously presented in Aix and Milan, make it to the stage of the Met. But his overpowering vision lives on with soprano Nina Stemme—unmatched today in the heroic female roles of Strauss and Wagner—who portrays Elektra’s […]

Composer: Richard Wagner Conductor: Sir Simon Rattle Featuring: Nina Stemme, Rene Pape Tristan und Isolde opens the Met's season in a new production by Mariusz Trelinski (the director responsible for the 2014-15 double bill of Iolanta and Bluebeard's Castle), and will be well served by a cast of outstanding Wagnerians: Nina Stemme as Isolde, Stuart […]

Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Conductor: Fabio Luisi Featuring: Simon Keenlyside, Rolando Villazon The charismatic baritone Simon Keenlyside plays the title hero, opera's ultimate cad, who goes to hell in a dazzling coup de theatre. The ensemble of great Mozartean singers includes Hibla Gerzmava, Malin Bystrom, Rolando Villazon, and Kwangchul Youn. Principal Conductor Fabio Luisi is […]

A scene from Verdi's "Nabucco" with Zeljko Lucic in the title role.Photo: Marty Sohl/Metropolitan OperaTaken at the Metropolitan Opera during the rehearsal on September 23, 2011. Composer: Guiseppe Verdi Conductor: James Levine Featuring: Placido Domingo The legendary Placido Domingo brings another new baritone role to the Met under the baton of his longtime collaborator James […]

Composer: Charles Gounod Conductor: Gianandrea Noseda Featuring: Diana Damrau, Vittorio Grigolo When Diana Damrau and Vittorio Griolo starred opposite each other in Manon at the Met in 2015, the New York Times said, "the temperature rises nearly to boiling every time Damrau and Grigolo are on stage together." Now they're back as opera's classic lovers […]

Composer: Antonin Dvorak Conductor: Sir Mark Elder Featuring: Kristine Opolais, Eric Owens Kristine Opolais stars in the role that helped launch her international career, the mythical Rusalka, who sings the haunting "Song of the Moon." Director Mary Zimmerman brings her wondrous theatrical imagination to Dvorak's fairytale of love and longing, rejection and redemption. Brandon Jovanovich, […]

Composer: Guiseppe Verdi Conductor: Nicola Luisotti Featuring: Sonya Yoncheva, Michael Fabiano, Thomas Hampson Sonya Yoncheva sings one of opera's most beloved heroines, the tragic courtesan Violetta, a role in which she triumphed on the Met stage in 2015, opposite Michael Fabiano as her lover, Alfredo, and Thomas Hampson as his father, Germont. Nicola Luisotti conducts.

Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Conductor: James Levine Featuring: Alice Coote, Matthew Polenzani Mozart's first operatic masterpiece returns to the Met in the classic Jean-Pierre Ponnelle production, conducted by James Levine. The superb ensemble includes Matthew Polenzani as the king torn by a rash vow; mezzo-soprano Alice Coote in the trouser role of his noble son […]

Composer: Peter Tchaikovsky Conductor: Robin Ticciati Featuring: Anna Netrebko, Dmitri Hvorostovsky Tchaikovsky's setting of Pushkin's timeless verse novel is presented on the Met stage in Deborah Warner's moving production, starring Anna Netrebko and Dmitri Hvorostovsky as the lovestruck Tatiana and the aristocratic Onegin. Alexey Dolgov sings the role of Lenski, and Robin Ticciati conducts.