Press Releases

• Nov 19, 2024

  Strauss’s Die Frau ohne Schatten Returns to the Met with Elza van den Heever, Lise Lindstrom, and Nina Stemme in Their Company Role Debuts

• Nov 13, 2024

  Daniele Rustioni Named Principal Guest Conductor

• Oct 31, 2024

  The Met’s Holiday Tradition Continues with Julie Taymor’s Family-Friendly Production of Mozart’s The Magic Flute, starting December 12

• Oct 24, 2024

  Verdi’s Il Trovatore Returns to the Met on October 26 with All-Star Cast

• Sep 30, 2024

  The Metropolitan Opera Presents the Company Premiere of Osvaldo Golijov’s Ainadamar on October 15

• Sep 20, 2024

  Verdi’s Rigoletto Returns to the Met, Starring Baritone Quinn Kelsey and Soprano Nadine Sierra, on September 30

• Sep 13, 2024

  Puccini’s Tosca Returns to the Met on September 25

• Sep 12, 2024

  The Metropolitan Opera Announces Harry Connick, Jr: A Celebration of Cole Porter January 29–February 2

• Aug 28, 2024

  ELLE DECOR to Redesign the Metropolitan Opera’s New Keebler J. Straz Lounge, Formerly Known as the Eleanor Belmont Room

• Aug 26, 2024

  Offenbach’s final masterpiece, Les Contes d’Hoffmann, returns to the Met, starring tenor Benjamin Bernheim in his company role debut as Hoffmann, opening September 24

• Aug 21, 2024

  The Metropolitan Opera Opens Its 2024–25 Season with the Company Premiere of Grounded on September 23

• Aug 06, 2024

  Music Director Yannick Nézet-Séguin signs contract extension through 2029–30 season

• Jun 04, 2024

  The Metropolitan Opera’s Summer HD Festival returns to Lincoln Center Plaza with 11 free screenings, August 23–September 2

• May 28, 2024

  Soprano Leah Hawkins named the Met’s 2024 Beverly Sills Artist Award winner

• May 15, 2024

  Countertenor Anthony Roth Costanzo and soprano Ying Fang make their Met role debuts in Gluck’s Orfeo ed Euridice, opening May 16

• May 02, 2024

  Kevin Puts’s hit opera The Hours returns with its original cast of Renée Fleming, Kelli O’Hara, and Joyce DiDonato, opening May 5

• Apr 24, 2024

  The Metropolitan Opera’s 2024 Summer Recital Series features five free concerts throughout New York City

• Apr 18, 2024

  American composer John Adams returns to the Met with his opera-oratorio El Niño, newly staged by Tony Award–nominated director Lileana Blain-Cruz

• Apr 03, 2024

  Metropolitan Opera appoints Tilman Michael as New Chorus Director

• Mar 22, 2024

  Tenor Jonathan Tetelman makes his Met debut as Ruggero, opposite soprano Angel Blue, in a rare revival of Puccini’s La Rondine, opening March 26

• Mar 18, 2024

  Legendary American soprano Kathleen Battle returns to the Met for a special concert on May 12

• Mar 18, 2024

  Five Singers Named Winners of the 2024 Metropolitan Opera Eric and Dominique Laffont Competition

• Mar 13, 2024

  Ten Singers Advance to the Final Round of the 2024 Metropolitan Opera Eric and Dominique Laffont Competition

• Mar 08, 2024

  The Metropolitan Opera announces its first-ever Met Orchestra Asia tour, with performances in South Korea, Japan, and Taiwan, June 19–30

• Mar 01, 2024

  Soprano Nadine Sierra and tenor Benjamin Bernheim star in Gounod’s Roméo et Juliette starting March 7

• Feb 28, 2024

  The Metropolitan Opera Announces 19 Semifinalists for the 2024 Eric and Dominique Laffont Competition

• Feb 21, 2024

  The Metropolitan Opera announces its 2024–25 season, consisting of four Met premieres and 14 repertory favorites

• Feb 15, 2024

  Puccini’s Turandot returns to the Met on February 28, with notable company debuts by Maestro Oksana Lyniv, soprano Elena Pankratova in the title role, and soprano Juliana Grigoryan in the role of Liù

• Feb 08, 2024

  Soprano Lise Davidsen makes her highly anticipated role debut as Leonora in a new production of Verdi’s La Forza del Destino, opening February 26

• Feb 05, 2024

  The Metropolitan Opera wins 2024 Grammy Award for Best Opera Recording for Terence Blanchard’s Champion

• Jan 05, 2024

  Puccini’s Madama Butterfly returns to the Met on January 11

• Dec 13, 2023

  Acclaimed English director Carrie Cracknell creates daring new production of Bizet’s Carmen, starring mezzo-soprano Aigul Akhmetshina, opening December 31

• Nov 28, 2023

  The Met kicks off the holiday season with Julie Taymor’s family-friendly production of Mozart’s The Magic Flute, starting December 8

• Nov 27, 2023

  Wagner’s Tannhäuser returns to the Met on November 30

• Nov 07, 2023

  The Met Announces Free Simulcast of Anthony Davis’s X: The Life and Times of Malcolm X at The Apollo on Saturday, November 18, at 12:55PM

• Nov 13, 2023

  Daniel Catán’s 1996 opera Florencia en el Amazonas, the first Spanish-language opera at the Met in nearly a century, has its company premiere November 16

• Oct 24, 2023

  Anthony Davis’s groundbreaking opera X: The Life and Times of Malcolm X arrives on the stage of the Met, premiering November 3

• Oct 17, 2023

  Verdi’s Un Ballo in Maschera returns to the Met for the first time since 2015, with performances starting October 20

• Sep 22, 2023

  Neubauer Family Foundation gives $10 million to the Met’s New Works Initiative

• Sep 20, 2023

  The Met to perform Verdi’s Requiem on September 27, 29, and 30, led by Music Director Yannick Nézet-Séguin

• Sep 18, 2023

  Met Chorus Master Donald Palumbo to step down after almost 20 years

• Sep 11, 2023

  The Metropolitan Opera Commissions Ukrainian Composer Maxim Kolomiiets to Write An Opera About Brave Mothers Who Rescued Their Kidnapped Children During The War

• Sep 07, 2023

  Franco Zeffirelli’s classic staging of Puccini’s La Bohème returns to the Met stage October 10

• Aug 30, 2023

  Verdi’s epic drama Nabucco returns to the Met on September 28

• Aug 21, 2023

  The Met opens its 2023–24 season with the company premiere of Dead Man Walking, starring Joyce DiDonato, September 26 at 6:30PM

• Aug 16, 2023

  Lise Davidsen in Recital at the Metropolitan Opera, September 14

• Aug 15, 2023

  The Metropolitan Opera Guild to Streamline Its Operations

• Jun 10, 2023

  The Metropolitan Opera Saturday Matinee Radio Broadcasts Have a New Sponsor: The Robert K. Johnson Foundation

• Jun 09, 2023

  Ukrainian Freedom Orchestra to regroup this summer for a tour of major European festivals and cities

• Jun 06, 2023

  The Metropolitan Opera’s Summer HD Festival returns to Lincoln Center Plaza with ten free opera screenings, August 26–September 4

• May 15, 2023

  Wagner’s Der Fliegende Holländer returns to the Met stage May 30

• May 10, 2023

  The Met Orchestra to embark on international tour in June 2023, its first in more than 20 years

• May 08, 2023

  Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte gets its first new Met staging in 19 years from director Simon McBurney, marking his company debut

• May 08, 2023

  Mozart’s Don Giovanni receives a new production by Tony Award–winning director Ivo van Hove in his Met debut

• Apr 24, 2023

  Six singers named winners of the 2023 Metropolitan Opera Eric and Dominique Laffont Competition

• Apr 28, 2023

  A Mozart doubleheader of new productions of Don Giovanni and Die Zauberflöte close out the Met’s 2022–23 season

• Apr 20, 2023

  Ten singers advance to the final round of the 2023 Metropolitan Opera Eric and Dominique Laffont Competition

• Apr 19, 2023

  Bass-baritone Ryan Speedo Green wins Met’s 2023 Beverly Sills Artist Award

• Apr 04, 2023

  Puccini’s La Bohème returns to the Met stage April 21

• Mar 21, 2023

  Metropolitan Opera announces 20 semifinalists in 2023 Eric and Dominique Laffont Competition

• Mar 10, 2023

  Strauss’s Der Rosenkavalier Returns to the Met Stage on March 27

• Feb 23, 2023

  Terence Blanchard’s Champion premieres at the Met on April 10, starring Ryan Speedo Green, Eric Owens, Latonia Moore, and Stephanie Blythe; Music Director Yannick Nézet-Séguin conducts

• Feb 22, 2023

  The Metropolitan Opera announces its 2023–24 season, with the most new works in the company’s modern history

• Feb 14, 2023

  Verdi’s Falstaff returns to the Met on March 12

• Feb 09, 2023

  Met premiere of Terence Blanchard’s Champion and new productions of Wagner’s Lohengrin and Mozart’s Don Giovanni and Die Zauberflöte headline the spring season

• Feb 06, 2023

  The Metropolitan Opera wins 2023 Grammy Award for Best Opera Recording for Terence Blanchard’s Fire Shut Up in My Bones

• Jan 23, 2023

  Sonya Yoncheva returns to the Met to star in Bellini’s Norma, starting February 28

• Jan 20, 2023

  For Ukraine: A Concert of Remembrance and Hope to be presented by the Metropolitan Opera on the one-year anniversary of the invasion Friday, February 24, at 7PM ET

• Jan 18, 2023

  Wagner’s masterpiece Lohengrin returns to the Met after 17 years, in a new production starring Piotr Beczała in the title role

• Jan 04, 2023

  Poulenc’s Dialogues des Carmélites Returns to the Met on January 15

• Jan 03, 2023

  Donizetti’s L’Elisir d’Amore Returns to the Met on January 10

• Dec 23, 2022

  Giordano’s Fedora, starring Sonya Yoncheva in the title role, returns to the Met in a new production by David McVicar

• Nov 21, 2022

  After more than 240 performances, Sonja Frisell’s staging of Verdi’s Aida has its final Met run, beginning December 2

• Nov 04, 2022

  Renée Fleming, Kelli O’Hara, and Joyce DiDonato star in the world-premiere staging of Kevin Puts’s The Hours

• Nov 01, 2022

  Verdi’s Rigoletto returns to the Met on November 10

• Oct 25, 2022

  Verdi’s epic drama Don Carlo returns to the Met on November 3

• Oct 13, 2022

  Michael Mayer’s acclaimed staging of Verdi’s La Traviata returns on October 25 with three casts of bright stars

• Oct 06, 2022

  Tenor Allan Clayton stars in Benjamin Britten’s Peter Grimes, beginning October 16

• Oct 03, 2022

  The Met Announces Launch of New Streaming Platform, Making Live Simulcasts Available for Home Audiences

• Sep 28, 2022

  Puccini’s Tosca returns to the Met on October 4

• Sep 21, 2022

  Keri-Lynn Wilson Leads a Met Revival of Shostakovich’s Searing Drama Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk

• Sep 19, 2022

  Mozart’s Idomeneo returns to the Met on September 28

• Sep 13, 2022

  The Metropolitan Opera premiere of Medea, starring Sondra Radvanovsky, opens the company’s 137th season September 27 at 6pm

• Jul 19, 2022

  The Met’s Free Summer HD Festival Returns to Lincoln Center Plaza, Featuring Ten Outdoor Opera Screenings August 27 through Labor Day

• May 25, 2022

  Stravinsky’s The Rake’s Progress makes rare appearance at the Met on May 30

• May 16, 2022

  Philip Glass’s Akhnaten returns to the Met on May 19

• May 05, 2022

  Brett Dean’s Hamlet has its Met premiere May 13

• May 04, 2022

  Baritone Will Liverman wins the Met’s 2022 Beverly Sills Artist Award

• Apr 26, 2022

  The Metropolitan Opera’s 2022 Summer Recital Series features six free concerts, bringing opera to all five boroughs

• Apr 25, 2022

  Ukrainian Freedom Orchestra formed to tour Europe and U.S. this summer in artistic defense of their country

• Apr 25, 2022

  Ten singers advance to the final round of the 2022 Metropolitan Opera Eric and Dominique Laffont Competition

• Apr 07, 2022

  New, modern-day production of Donizetti’s Lucia di Lammermoor premieres April 23

• Apr 01, 2022

  Metropolitan Opera announces 21 semifinalists in its Eric and Dominique Laffont Competition

• Mar 28, 2022

  Nina Stemme and Lise Davidsen star in Strauss’s Elektra, returning to the Met stage April 1

• Mar 22, 2022

  Russian baritone Igor Golovatenko stars in Tchaikovsky’s Eugene Onegin, returning to the Met March 25

• Mar 15, 2022

  Puccini’s Madama Butterfly Returns to the Met Stage on March 19

• Mar 08, 2022

  Elza van den Heever Stars in Handel’s Rodelinda, Returning to the Met March 11

• Mar 07, 2022

  The Met Announces A Concert for Ukraine on Monday, March 14, at 6:00pm ET

• Mar 03, 2022

  Anna Netrebko withdraws from Met performances this spring

• Feb 23, 2022

  The Metropolitan Opera announces its 2022–23 season, featuring the world-premiere staging of The Hours, the company premieres of Champion and Medea, and four more new productions

• Feb 18, 2022

  Three new productions, including Don Carlos, Lucia di Lammermoor, and the company premiere of Brett Dean’s Hamlet, headline the Met’s spring season

• Feb 10, 2022

  Lise Davidsen Stars in Strauss’s Ariadne auf Naxos, Returning to the Met March 1

• Feb 03, 2022

  First-ever Met performances of Verdi’s Don Carlos in its original French version begin February 28

• Jan 20, 2022

  Sonya Yoncheva in Recital on January 23

• Jan 04, 2022

  Mozart’s Le Nozze di Figaro returns to the Met on January 8

• Dec 23, 2021

  New production of Verdi’s Rigoletto, directed by Bartlett Sher, premieres on New Year’s Eve

• Dec 15, 2021

  The Met Announces Covid-19 Booster Mandate Beginning January 17

• Dec 13, 2021

  Massenet’s enchanting Cinderella—a new, English-language holiday presentation for families—opens on December 17

• Dec 10, 2021

  Mozart’s The Magic Flute—in its abridged English-language version for families—returns December 10

• Dec 07, 2021

  The Metropolitan Opera will present the company premiere of Terence Blanchard’s Champion

• Dec 01, 2021

  Puccini’s Tosca returns to the Met on December 2

• Nov 18, 2021

  Matthew Aucoin’s Eurydice has its Met premiere November 23

• Nov 05, 2021

  Puccini’s La Bohème returns to the Met stage November 9

• Nov 01, 2021

  The Metropolitan Opera Announces Kristin Chenoweth: Christmas at the Met on December 13

• Oct 28, 2021

  The Gershwins’ Porgy and Bess Returns to the Met on October 31

• Oct 22, 2021

  Wagner’s epic comedy Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg returns to the Met on October 26

• Oct 08, 2021

  Puccini’s Majestic Turandot Returns to the Met on October 12

• Oct 01, 2021

  New Rashid Johnson exhibition, The Chorus, featuring two large-scale mosaics, now on view at the Metropolitan Opera

• Sep 21, 2021

  The Met Presents the Original, One-Act Version of Mussorgsky’s Boris Godunov, Beginning September 28

• Sep 20, 2021

  Debra Lew Harder Named Metropolitan Opera Radio Host, Only the Fifth in the Company’s History

• Sep 16, 2021

  The Metropolitan Opera announces the company premiere of Anthony Davis’s X: The Life and Times of Malcolm X, to be presented in the 2023–24 season

• Sep 15, 2021

  The Met announces free simulcast of the Opening Night performance of Terence Blanchard’s Fire Shut Up in My Bones in Marcus Garvey Park

• Aug 24, 2021

  The Met and its Orchestra Reach Agreement, Providing a Path to September Reopening

• Aug 20, 2021

  The Metropolitan Opera Announces Verdi’s Requiem: The Met Remembers 9/11

• Aug 12, 2021

  The Metropolitan Opera’s Free Summer HD Festival Returns to Lincoln Center

• Nightly Met Opera Streams to come to an end July 25

• Jul 08, 2021

  Met announces Week 70 schedule for Nightly Met Opera Streams

• Jun 10, 2021

  Met announces three-week schedule for Nightly Met Opera Streams

• May 28, 2021

  The Met announces the North American premiere of Yannick: An Artist’s Journey

• May 25, 2021

  Met announces two-week schedule for Nightly Met Opera Streams

• May 17, 2021

  Five singers named 2021 Winners of the newly renamed Metropolitan Opera Eric and Dominique Laffont Competition

• May 12, 2021

  The Metropolitan Opera Announces A Concert for New York

• May 11, 2021

  Met announces two-week schedule for Nightly Met Opera Streams

• May 05, 2021

  Ten singers advance to the final round of the 2021 Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions

• Apr 28, 2021

  Met announces two-week schedule for Nightly Met Opera Streams

• Apr 23, 2021

  Metropolitan Opera announces live, streaming plans for its National Council Auditions final rounds

• Apr 14, 2021

  Met announces two-week schedule for Nightly Met Opera Streams

• Apr 08, 2021

  The Met Announces Two Upcoming Programs in the Met Stars Live in Concert Series

• Mar 30, 2021

  Met announces two-week schedule for Nightly Met Opera Streams

• Mar 16, 2021

  Met announces two-week schedule for Nightly Met Opera Streams

• Mar 09, 2021

  Met announces Week 53 schedule for Nightly Met Opera Streams

• Mar 03, 2021

  WQXR and the Metropolitan Opera Announce the Third Season of Aria Code

• Feb 24, 2021

  Met announces two-week schedule for Nightly Met Opera Streams

• Feb 12, 2021

  Sonya Yoncheva Live in Concert

• Feb 09, 2021

  Met announces two-week schedule for Nightly Met Opera Streams

• Jan 27, 2021

  Anna Netrebko Live in Concert

• Jan 25, 2021

  The Met appoints Marcia Sells as its first Chief Diversity Officer

• Jan 22, 2021

  The Met celebrates Black History Month with two weeks of Nightly Opera Streams

• Jan 13, 2021

  Met announces two-week schedule for Nightly Met Opera Streams

• Jan 08, 2021

  Sondra Radvanovsky and Piotr Beczała Live in Concert

• Dec 30, 2020

  Met announces two-week schedule for Nightly Met Opera Streams

• Dec 03, 2020

  Metropolitan Opera announces Family Holiday Festival

• Dec 01, 2020

  Met announces four-week schedule for Nightly Met Opera Streams

• Nov 25, 2020

  Bryn Terfel Live in Concert

• Nov 18, 2020

  New Year’s Eve Gala Live in Concert

• Nov 16, 2020

  Metropolitan Opera Announces 2020 Holiday Gift Guide

• Oct 22, 2020

  Met announces five-week schedule for Nightly Met Opera Streams

• Oct 16, 2020

  Diana Damrau and Joseph Calleja Live in Concert

• Oct 14, 2020

  Met announces two-week schedule for Nightly Met Opera Streams

• Oct 02, 2020

  In Response to the Ongoing Covid-19 Pandemic, the Met’s HD Live in Schools Series Launches 2020–21 Virtual Programming

• Sep 23, 2020

  The Metropolitan Opera Cancels Its 2020–21 Season Due to the Ongoing Covid-19 Pandemic, while also Announcing Its Lineup for 2021–22

• Sep 21, 2020

  Metropolitan Opera releases Leontyne Price at the Met

• Sep 17, 2020

  Met announces Week 28 schedule for Nightly Met Opera Streams

• Sep 02, 2020

  Joyce DiDonato Live in Concert

• Aug 20, 2020

  Met announces three-week schedule for Nightly Met Opera Streams

• Aug 19, 2020

  Lise Davidsen Live in Concert

• Jul 24, 2020

  Renée Fleming Live in Concert

• Jul 17, 2020

  Met announces Week 19 schedule for Nightly Met Opera Streams

• Jul 11, 2020

  MET STARS LIVE IN CONCERT

• Jul 10, 2020

  Met announces Week 18 schedule for Nightly Met Opera Streams

• Jun 25, 2020

  Met announces Week 16 schedule for Nightly Met Opera Streams

• Jun 18, 2020

  Met announces Week 15 schedule for Nightly Met Opera Streams

• Jun 06, 2020

  Met announces Weeks 13 and 14 schedules for Nightly Met Opera Streams

• Jun 01, 2020

  Metropolitan Opera announces new opening date of December 31, 2020

• May 27, 2020

  Metropolitan Opera launches Met Opera Global Summer Camp

• May 18, 2020

  Met announces Weeks 11 and 12 schedules for Nightly Met Opera Streams

• May 11, 2020

  Met announces Week 10 schedule for Nightly Met Opera Streams

• May 06, 2020

  Met announces Week 9 schedule for Nightly Met Opera Streams

• Apr 28, 2020

  Met announces Week 8 schedule for Nightly Met Opera Streams

• Apr 21, 2020

  Met announces Week 7 schedule for Nightly Met Opera Streams

• Apr 14, 2020

  Met announces Week 6 schedule for Nightly Met Opera Streams

• Apr 13, 2020

  The Met announces plans to live-stream an all-star At-Home Gala on Saturday, April 25, at 1pm EDT

• Apr 06, 2020

  Met announces Week 5 schedule for Nightly Met Opera Streams

• Apr 03, 2020

  Metropolitan Opera launches weekly Free Student Streams

• Mar 31, 2020

  Met announces Week 4 schedule for Nightly Met Opera Streams

• Mar 13, 2020

  Met launches “Nightly Met Opera Streams,” a free series of encore Live in HD presentations streamed on the company website during the coronavirus closure

• Mar 10, 2020

  Tara Erraught and Javier Camarena star in a revival of La Cenerentola, Rossini’s take on the classic Cinderella tale, opening March 12

• Feb 26, 2020

  A new production of Wagner’s Der Fliegende Holländer opens March 2, directed by François Girard and conducted by Valery Gergiev

• Feb 25, 2020

  Nine singers advance to the final round of the 2020 Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions

• Feb 24, 2020

  Met Orchestra to tour internationally in June 2021, for the first time in almost 20 years

• Feb 18, 2020

  Metropolitan Opera announces 23 semifinalists in its National Council Auditions

• Feb 14, 2020

  The Met’s Coney Island-set production of Mozart’s Così fan tutte returns to the repertory on February 15

• Feb 13, 2020

  New Productions of Aida, Die Zauberflöte, and Don Giovanni and Met Premieres of The Fiery Angel and Dead Man Walking Headline the Metropolitan Opera’s 2020–21 Season

• Feb 04, 2020

  Agrippina has its Met premiere on Thursday, February 6

• Jan 23, 2020

  La Damnation de Faust returns to the Met stage for the first time in a decade

• Dec 26, 2019

  Visionary artist William Kentridge directs a new production of Berg’s Wozzeck, conducted by Met Music Director Yannick Nézet-Séguin and opening December 27

• Jan 09, 2020

  Michael Mayer’s acclaimed staging of Verdi’s La Traviata returns in January with two casts of bright stars

• Nov 06, 2019

  Met to Host Jessye Norman Celebration, Open to the Public

• Oct 21, 2019

  Philip Glass’s Akhnaten has its Met premiere November 8

• Oct 16, 2019

  Franco Zeffirelli’s iconic production of La Bohème returns to the Met stage on October 25

• Oct 15, 2019

  A rare revival of Gluck’s Orfeo ed Euridice opens at the Met on October 20

• Oct 10, 2019

  Anthony Minghella’s groundbreaking production of Puccini’s Madama Butterfly returns to the Met stage October 11

• Sep 26, 2019

  Music Director Yannick Nézet-Séguin conducts his first Puccini opera at the Met: Turandot, starring Christine Goerke, which opens October 3

• Sep 25, 2019

  Anna Netrebko and Željko Lučić star in Verdi’s Macbeth, opening September 25

• Sep 23, 2019

  Lisette Oropesa and Michael Fabiano star in Massenet’s Manon, opening September 24

• Sep 13, 2019

  A new production of the Gershwins’ Porgy and Bess— starring Eric Owens and Angel Blue—opens the Metropolitan Opera’s 135th season on September 23

• Jun 05, 2019

  The Metropolitan Opera’s Summer HD Festival, Returning August 24, Will Present Ten Free Outdoor Opera Screenings in Lincoln Center Plaza

• May 07, 2019

  Soprano Lisette Oropesa wins the Met’s 2019 Beverly Sills Artist Award

• Apr 26, 2019

  Michael Mayer’s Las Vegas-themed production of Verdi’s Rigoletto returns to the Met April 26

• Apr 23, 2019

  The Metropolitan Opera’s 2019 Summer Recital Series features six free concerts, bringing opera to all five boroughs

• Apr 19, 2019

  Yannick Nézet-Séguin conducts Dialogues des Carmélites to conclude his first season as Met Music Director

• Apr 05, 2019

  Nicola Luisotti conducts Michael Mayer’s new production of Verdi’s La Traviata, returning April 5 

• Apr 04, 2019

  Mozart’s masterpiece Don Giovanni returns to the Met April 4

• Mar 31, 2019

  Five singers named winners of the 2019 Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions

• Mar 25, 2019

  Nine opera singers advance to the final round of the 2019 Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions 

• Mar 20, 2019

  La Clemenza di Tito returns to the Met on March 30 

• Mar 18, 2019

  Puccini’s masterpiece Tosca returns to the Met on March 18 with Jennifer Rowley, Joseph Calleja, and Wolfgang Koch

• Mar 13, 2019

  Saint-Saëns’s Samson et Dalila returns to the Met on March 13 starring Anita Rachvelishvili and Aleksandrs Antonenko

   

• Mar 12, 2019

  Metropolitan Opera announces 21 semifinalists in its National Council Auditions

• Feb 20, 2019

  New Productions of Porgy and Bess, Der Fliegende Holländer, and Wozzeck, and Met Premieres of Agrippina and Akhnaten Headline the Metropolitan Opera’s 2019–20 Season

• Feb 08, 2019

  Ambrogio Maestri reprises his acclaimed portrayal of the title role of Verdi’s Falstaff, opening February 22

• Feb 07, 2019

  Michael Mayer’s Las Vegas-themed production of Verdi’s Rigoletto returns to the Met February 12

• Jan 29, 2019

  Wagner’s epic Der Ring des Nibelungen returns to the Met, March 9–May 11, 2019

• Jan 18, 2019

  Free Opera Tickets for Furloughed Federal Workers

• Jan 09, 2019

  Donizetti’s comic romp La Fille du Régiment returns with an all-star cast on February 7

• Jan 09, 2019

  Carmen returns to the Met January 9

   

• Jan 08, 2019

  Mozart’s masterpiece Don Giovanni returns to the Met January 30

• Jan 07, 2019

  Kristin Lewis makes her Met debut in the title role of Aida for four performances beginning January 7

• Dec 17, 2018

  The double bill of Iolanta / Bluebeard’s Castle returns to the Met repertory on January 24 in Mariusz Treliński’s haunting production 

• Dec 14, 2018

  Yannick Nézet-Séguin conducts a rare revival of Debussy’s Pelléas et Mélisande, opening January 15

• Nov 30, 2018

  Julie Taymor’s production of Mozart’s The Magic Flute returns in its English-language, abridged holiday version, December 19 to January 5 

• Nov 20, 2018

  A new production of Cilea’s Adriana Lecouvreur, starring Anna Netrebko in the title role, opens December 31 in a special New Year’s Eve gala

• Nov 12, 2018

  Gustavo Dudamel makes his Metropolitan Opera debut conducting Verdi’s Otello on December 14

• Nov 08, 2018

  The Met celebrates the centennial of Puccini’s  Il Trittico with performances beginning November 23

• Nov 07, 2018

  Yannick Nézet-Séguin makes his first appearances as Met Music Director with a new production of La Traviata

• Nov 06, 2018

  Pretty Yende, Javier Camarena, and Mariusz Kwiecien star in Bizet’s Les Pêcheurs de Perles

• Nov 06, 2018

  Mefistofele returns to the Met November 8

• Oct 25, 2018

  Carmen returns to the Met October 30

• Oct 25, 2018

  Sondra Radvanovsky and Joseph Calleja Will Star in Puccini’s Tosca, Opening October 25

• Oct 11, 2018

  Kathleen Turner to perform in  Donizetti’s La Fille du Régiment at the Met 

• Oct 03, 2018

  Metropolitan Opera presents North American premiere of Nico Muhly’s Marnie October 19

• Oct 01, 2018

  Jonas Kaufmann Returns to the Met in La Fanciulla del West, Sharing the Role of Dick Johnson with Yusif Eyvazov, Opposite Eva-Maria Westbroek as Minnie

• Sep 27, 2018

  Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions Launches 65th Annual Competition for Young Singers

• Sep 25, 2018

  Met to Open New Entrance to Lobby this Fall to Ease Audience Congestion

• Sep 20, 2018

  Cecily Brown’s Exhibition, Triumph of the Vanities,  Opens September 24 at the Met Opera

• Sep 14, 2018

  Met Opera and Union Groups Reach Ground-Breaking Agreement to Allow Sunday Matinee Performances

• Sep 11, 2018

  Acclaimed Soprano Anna Netrebko Sings Her First Met Aida

• Sep 07, 2018

  Vittorio Grigolo and Nicole Car star in Puccini’s La Bohème, as James Gaffigan Conducts at the Met for the First Time

• Sep 06, 2018

  A New Production of Saint-Saëns’s Samson et Dalila Opens The Metropolitan Opera’s 2018-19 Season on September 24

• Jul 31, 2018

  Met Opera Appoints Matthew Rose as Artistic Consultant  to the Lindemann Young Artist Development Program

• Feb 15, 2018

  Yannick Nézet-Séguin to Become Met Music Director in September 2018, Two Seasons Earlier Than Originally Planned

• Jan 27, 2017

  Mezzo-Soprano Jamie Barton Wins the 2017 Beverly Sills Artist Award 

• Feb 15, 2017

  The Metropolitan Operas’s 2017-18 Season Will Feature 220 Performances of 26 Works,  With Five New Productions, Including Two Met Premieres 

• Apr 10, 2017

  The Metropolitan Opera’s 2017 Summer Recital Series  Offers Six Free Concerts Featuring Rising Opera Stars

• Jul 12, 2017

  Five Young Artists Join the Metropolitan Opera’s Lindemann Young Artists Development Program

• Jul 20, 2017

  The Metropolitan Opera’s 2017 Summer HD Festival  Will Once Again Offer Ten Free Screenings of Met Performances on  Lincoln Center Plaza From August 26 Through Labor Day

• Jan 17, 2018

  The Opera House - A film by Susan Froemke

• Jul 18, 2018

  The Metropolitan Opera’s 2018 Summer HD Festival Will Once Again Offer Ten Free Screenings of Met Performances on Lincoln Center Plaza From August 24 Through Labor Day

• Feb 26, 2018

  Yannick Nézet-Séguin Appoints Benjamin Bowman as new Concertmaster of the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra

• Mar 12, 2018

  Statement from the Metropolitan Opera Regarding James Levine

• Apr 25, 2018

  Soprano Nadine Sierra Wins the 2018 Beverly Sills Artist Award