Galas & Special Events

JAKE HEGGIE / LIBRETTO BY GENE SCHEER

Moby-Dick
Gala Premiere

Monday, March 3, 2025

One of mankind’s great epics arrives on the Met stage with the company premiere of Jake Heggie’s gripping take on Moby-Dick, a triumph of American contemporary opera. Celebrate the moment with a special gala evening that begins with cocktails and dinner on the Grand Tier before the performance, followed by dessert at intermission.

Moby-Dick Gala Committee

GALA CHAIR

Franci Neely

 

PRINCIPAL BENEFACTORS

C. Graham Berwind, III

Marlene Hess and James D. Zirin

Cindy and Tod Johnson

Sheila Johnson and William T. Newman, Jr.

Matthew Christopher Pietras

Diane B. Wilsey

Ann Ziff

 

PRIME BENEFACTOR

Rolex

 

BENEFACTORS

Steven and Betsy Bush

Dominique Laffont

Debra and Vincent Maffeo

 

PRINCIPAL SPONSORS

Judith-Ann Corrente

Mark Houston Dalzell

Ms. Annabelle Fowlkes

Joan Granlund

Kathryn L. Ketelsen

Jeanette Lerman-Neubauer and Joseph Neubauer

Diana Prince

Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Saul

Susan R. Shapiro

Ted Snowdon and Duffy Violante

Melinda and Paul Sullivan

Barbara Walkowski

 

PRIME SPONSORS

Connie and Tom Cigarran

Judy and Jim Pohlman

Al Roker and Deborah Roberts

Matthew Rooney

Barbara Tober

 

SPONSORS

David Chou

Prudence S. Crozier

Valerie Dixon

Carol E. and David A. Domina

Robert E. Evanson

Edward Frank and Sarah Ratchye

Nicole Gerber

Matthew and Lexi Gibbs

Wendy Morton Hudson

Robert L. and Myra Barker Hull

Kristin Kovner de Guzman

Richard Lum

Lara Marcon and J.V. Kodali

The Otto Muller Family Fund

Yasuko Noguchi and George Shelden

Valerie Paley

Physicians Research Center, LLC

Benjamin and Janet Pyne

Janet Sherlund

Ms. Carla Stearns

Esther Friesner-Stutzman and Walter Stutzman

Mr. Emory Waters

Marnie and Kern Wildenthal

 

COMMITTEE MEMBERS

Christian Keesee 

Nix and Virginia Lauridsen

Sabina and Harlan Stone

Kevin and Jennifer Woodruff

 

Committee as of February 24

RICHARD STRAUSS

Salome
Gala Premiere

Tuesday, April 29, 2025

Leading opera director Claus Guth unveils the first new Met production of Strauss’s white-hot one-act tragedy in 20 years. Conducted for the first time with the company by Music Director Yannick Nézet-Séguin and starring soprano Elza van den Heever and baritone Peter Mattei, it’s an event not to be missed. Join us for cocktails and a pre-show gala dinner on the Mercedes T. Bass Grand Tier.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.