Galas & Special Events
For information about galas and other events during the 2024-25 season, please call 212.362.6000.
2025-26 Season
MASON BATES / LIBRETTO BY GENE SCHEER
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay
Opening Night Gala
Sunday, September 21, 2025
Join us for a special gala celebrating the Met premiere of Mason Bates’s exhilarating new opera and the opening of the 2025–26 season. Enjoy cocktails before curtain and a post-performance gala dinner with the cast and creative team, including Met Music Director Yannick Nézet-Séguin and director Bartlett Sher, who has created a dazzling production for this riveting adaption of Michael Chabon’s Pulitzer Prize–winning novel.
Production a gift of the Walter and Leonore Annenberg Endowment Fund, the Edgar Foster Daniels Foundation, Lynne and Richard Pasculano, and the Rosalie J. Coe Weir Endowment Fund
Additional support from Gordon P. Getty and The Halff Windham Foundation
The Met gratefully acknowledges the support of the Laidlaw Foundation
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay is part of the Neubauer Family Foundation New Works Initiative
Based on the Book by Michael Chabon
Commissioned by the Metropolitan Opera
A co-production of the Metropolitan Opera and the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music
GALA CHAIRMEN
Jeanette Lerman-Neubauer and Joseph Neubauer
- 5:30PM Cocktail Reception
- 6:30PM Performance
- Post-Performance Cast Dinner
- BLACK TIE
VINCENZO BELLINI
La Sonnambula
Gala Premiere
Monday, October 6, 2025
Following several recent Met triumphs, Nadine Sierra summits another peak of the soprano repertoire as Amina in Bellini’s poignant tale of love lost and found. Mark this important company role debut, and the premiere of Rolando Villazón’s new production, with a gala evening including cocktails and dinner on the Mercedes T. Bass Grand Tier before the performance and dessert at intermission.
A co-production of the Metropolitan Opera, Opéra de Nice Côte d’Azur, Semperoper Dresden, and Théâtre des Champs-Elysées
- 6PM Performance
- 6:30PM Gala Dinner
- 8PM Performance
- Intermission Champagne and Dessert
- BLACK TIE
VINCENZO BELLINI
I Puritani
New Year's Eve Gala
Wednesday, December 31, 2025
The Met’s annual New Year’s Eve celebration features dazzling vocal pyrotechnics and actual fireworks, beginning with the premiere of the Met’s first new production of Bellini’s I Puritani in nearly half a century. After the performance, mark the turning of the calendar with dinner, dancing, and a midnight toast on the Grand Tier, alongside the cast and creative team.
Production a gift of The Sybil B. Harrington Endowment Fund
- 6PM Performance
- Post-Performance Dinner Dance
- BLACK TIE
RICHARD WAGNER
Tristan und Isolde
Gala Premiere
Monday, March 9, 2026
In an unmissable event of Wagnerian proportions, generational soprano Lise Davidsen makes her role debut as Isolde after years of anticipation, starring in a new company debut production by Yuval Sharon, one of the most innovative minds working in opera today. The gala occasion includes cocktails and dinner on the Grand Tier before curtain and dessert at intermission.
The Met gratefully acknowledges the support of William N. Buffett and Susan E. Kennedy and the Gramma Fisher Foundation, Marshalltown, Iowa
Additional support from Dr. Jack A. Roth and Dr. Elizabeth A. Grimm
- 5:00PM Gala Dinner
- 6:30PM Performance
- Intermission Champagne and Dessert
- BLACK TIE
PYOTR ILYICH TCHAIKOVSKY
Eugene Onegin
Gala Premiere
Monday, April 20, 2026
This gala evening marks the awaited return of captivating soprano Asmik Grigorian following her sensational 2024 Met debut in Madama Butterfly. Grigorian stars as Tatiana, one of her signature roles, opposite baritone Igor Golovatenko as Onegin, in a production for the ages of Tchaikovsky’s soaring romance. Enjoy cocktails and dinner under the chandeliers before the performance and dessert at intermission.
Production a gift of Ambassador and Mrs. Nicholas F. Taubman
The Met gratefully acknowledges the support of Elizabeth M. and Jean-Marie R. Eveillard
- 6PM Cocktail Reception
- 6:30PM Gala Dinner
- 8PM Performance
- Intermission Champagne and Dessert
- BLACK TIE