The Metropolitan Opera

Hansel And Gretel

Humperdinck’s Hansel And Gretel From the 22nd December The Met’s wickedly funny production returns as this season’s English-language holiday presentation for families. Aleksandra Kurzak is Gretel, with Kate Lindsey and Alice Coote alternating as Hansel. Robert Brubaker is the Witch who plots to bake them into gingerbread.

The Magic Flute

Mozart’s The Magic Flute (Holiday Encores) From the 21st December (Extra shows by popular demand!!) The Met’s annual holiday presentation offers an ideal opportunity for audiences of all ages to celebrate the season. Julie Taymor’s breathtaking and popular production of Mozart’s masterpiece, The Magic Flute, takes the stage in its abridged, English-language version, with [...]

La Traviata

Verdi – La Traviata From May 17th 2012 (Expected running time 187 mins) Natalie Dessay will put on the red dress in Willy Decker’s stunning production, in her first Violetta at the Met. Matthew Polenzani sings Alfredo, Dmitri Hvorostovsky is Germont, and Principal Guest Conductor Fabio Luisi is on the podium.

Manon

Massenet – Manon From April 26th 2012 (Expected running time 243 mins) Anna Netrebko’s (left) dazzling portrayal of the tragic heroine in Laurent Pelly’s new production travels to the Met from the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden. Piotr Beczala and Paulo Szot also star, with the Met’s Principal Conductor Fabio Luisi on the podium. [...]

Ernani

Verdi – Ernani From March 29th 2012 (Expected running time 229 mins) Angela Meade takes center stage in Verdi’s thrilling early gem. Marcello Giordani is her mismatched lover, and all-star Verdians Dmitri Hvorostovsky and Ferruccio Furlanetto round out the cast.

Götterdämmerung

Wagner – Götterdämmerung From March 8th 2012 (Expected running time 374 mins) With its cataclysmic climax, the Met’s new Ring cycle, directed by Robert Lepage, comes to its resolution. Deborah Voigt (left) stars as Brünnhilde and Jay Hunter Morris is Siegfried—the star-crossed lovers doomed by fate. Fabio Luisi conducts. “Ask any conductor who conducts [...]

The Enchanted Island

Handel, Vivaldi, Rameau – The Enchanted Island From Feb 23rd 2012 (Expected running time 233 mins) In one extraordinary new work, lovers of Baroque opera have it all: the world’s best singers, glorious music of the Baroque masters, and a story drawn from Shakespeare. In The Enchanted Island, the lovers from Shakespeare’s A Midsummer [...]

Faust

Gounod – Faust From Feb 9th 2012 (Expected running time 255 mins) With Jonas Kaufmann in the title role, René Pape as the devil, and Marina Poplavskaya as Marguerite, Gounod’s classic retelling of the Faust legend couldn’t be better served. Tony Award-winning director Des McAnuff updates the story to the first half of the [...]

Rodelinda

Handel – Rodelinda From Jan 19th 2012 (Expected running time 255 mins) Sensational in the 2004 Met premiere of Stephen Wadsworth’s much-heralded production, Renée Fleming reprises the title role. She’s joined by Stephanie Blythe and countertenor Andreas Scholl, and Baroque specialist Harry Bicket conducts.

Satyagraha

Glass’s – Satyagraha From Dec 15 2011 (Expected running time 248 mins) The Met’s visually extravagant production is back for an encore engagement. Richard Croft once again is Gandhi in Philip Glass’s unforgettable opera, which the Washington Post calls “a profound and beautiful work of theater.”

Siegfried

Wagner’s – Siegfried From Dec 1 2011 (Expected running time 301 mins) In part three of the Ring, Wagner’s cosmic vision focuses on his hero’s early conquests, while Robert Lepage’s revolutionary stage machine transforms itself from bewitched forest to mountaintop love nest. Jay Hunter Morris sings the title role and Deborah Voigt’Postss Brünnhilde is [...]

Don Giovanni

Mozart’s – Don Giovanni From Nov 17th 2011 (Expected running time 230 mins) Mariusz Kwiecien brings his youthful and sensual interpretation of Mozart’s timeless anti-hero to the Met for the first time, under the direction of Tony Award®-winning director Michael Grandage and with James Levine conducting. A troupe of refined Mozartians appears in this [...]

Don Carlo (Winter Encore)

Don Carlo (Winter Encore) From 17th October (Expected running time 3 hours 36 minutes) Director Nicholas Hytner made his Met debut with this new production of Verdi’s profound, beautiful, and most ambitious opera. Roberto Alagna leads the cast, and Ferruccio Furlanetto, Marina Poplavskaya, Anna Smirnova, and Simon Keenlyside also star. Yannick Nézet-Séguin, back after his [...]

Don Pasquale (Winter Encore)

Don Pasquale (Winter Encore) From 29th September (Expected running time: 2 hours 22 minutes) Anna Netrebko revives her sensational turn in this sophisticated bel canto comedy, opposite Matthew Polenzani, Mariusz Kwiecien, and John Del Carlo in the title role. Music Director James Levine conducts. When Otto Schenk’s production premiered in 2006, the New York Times [...]

Tosca (Winter Encore)

Tosca (Winter Encore) From 22nd Sept 2011 (Expected running time 2 hours 17 minutes) “Tosca combines Puccini’s glorious musical inspiration with the melodramatic vitality of one of the great Hitchcock films,” says Met Music Director James Levine, who conducts this new production. The opera tells the story of three people—a famous opera singer, a free-thinking [...]

Madame Butterfly (Winter Encore)

Madame Butterfly (Winter Encore) From the 8th September 2011 (expected running time 2 hours 41 minutes) Patricia Racette sings the title role in the late Anthony Minghella’s stunning production of Puccini’s tragedy, a new classic of the Met repertory that opened the 2006 – 2007 season. Marcello Giordani is American Navy Lieutenant B.F. Pinkerton and [...]

Anna Bolena

Donizetti – Anna Bolena From Nov 3rd 2011 (Expected running time 213 mins plus intermission) Star soprano Anna Netrebko takes on the legendary title role in Donizetti’s bel canto masterpiece, which has been a musical and dramatic showpiece for many of history’s greatest singers. The opera, based on the final tragic days of Anne Boleyn, [...]

Capriccio

On Opening Night of the 2008-09 season, Renée Fleming dazzled audiences when she sang the final scene of Strauss’s wise and worldly meditation on art and life.

Le Comte Ory

Rossini’s vocally dazzling comedy stars bel canto sensation Juan Diego Flórez in the title role of this Met premiere production. He vies with mezzo-soprano Joyce DiDonato, in the trouser role of Isolier, for the love of the lonely Countess Adèle, sung by soprano Diana Damrau.

Lucia di Lammermoor

Natalie Dessay triumphed as the fragile heroine of Donizetti’s masterpiece on Opening Night of the 2007-08 season in Mary Zimmerman’s hit production.

Iphigénie en Tauride

Susan Graham and Plácido Domingo reprise their starring roles in Gluck’s nuanced and elegant interpretation of this primal Greek myth.

Nixon in China

Peter Sellars makes his Met debut directing. The composer will be on the podium to conduct. James Maddalena, who sang the role of Richard Nixon at the world premiere, brings his acclaimed interpretation to the Met.

La Fanciulla del West

Puccini’s wild-west opera had its world premiere in 1910 at the Met. Now, on the occasion of its centennial, all-American diva Deborah Voigt sings the title role of the “girl of the golden west,” starring opposite Marcello Giordani.

Don Carlo

Director Nicholas Hytner makes his Met debut with this new production of Verdi’s profound, beautiful, and most ambitious opera. Roberto Alagna leads the cast, and Ferruccio Furlanetto, Marina Poplavskaya, Anna Smirnova, and Simon Keenlyside also star.

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