Great Performances at the Met

Hansel and Gretel

The second-season opener features the Engelbert Humperdinck opera "Hansel and Gretel," about two children (Alice Coote,

Roméo et Juliette

A production of "Roméo et Juliette," starring Anna Netrebko and Roberto Alagna as the star-crossed lovers. Placido Domi

Macbeth

Adrian Noble's version of Verdi's "Macbeth" sets the opera in a decimated post-WWII landscape and stars baritone Željko

Manon Lescaut

Puccini's "Manon Lescaut," about a country girl (Karita Mattila) who's torn between an impoverished student (Marcello Gi

Peter Grimes

Anthony Dean Griffey stars in the title role of Benjamin Britten's "Peter Grimes," about an English fisherman blamed for

Tristan und Isolde

A production of Richard Wagner's "Tristan und Isolde," about the doomed love between a Celtic princess (Deborah Voigt) a

La Bohème

A production of Puccini's "La Bohème," about a doomed love affair between poet Rodolfo (Ramón Vargas) and seamstress M

La Fille du Régiment

Coloratura soprano Natalie Dessay stars as Marie, an orphan adopted by French troops in this production of Donizetti's c

Doctor Atomic

The Season 3 premiere features a production of the John Adams opera "Doctor Atomic," about physicist J. Robert Oppenheim

Salome

A production of the Richard Strauss opera "Salome," about a wild-child princess (Karita Mattila) who performs the Dance

John Adams' Doctor Atomic

The Metropolitan Opera Opening Night Gala Starring Renée Fleming

The Met's 125th opening-night gala features soprano Renée Fleming in excerpts from three of her favorite operas, Verdi'

Thaïs

Soprano Renée Fleming stars in the title role of Jules Massenet's "Thaïs," about an Egyptian courtesan who causes the

Lucia di Lammermoor

A production of Gaetano Donizetti's "Lucia di Lammermoor," a tragic opera about a young woman (Anna Netrebko) whose brot

La Rondine

Soprano Angela Gheorghiu and tenor Roberto Alagna star in a production of Puccini's "La Rodine," about a kept woman who

Orfeo et Euridice

A production of Christoph Willibald Gluck's "Orfeo et Euridice," in which the grieving Orfeo (Stephanie Blythe) braves t

Madama Butterfly

Puccini's classic "Madama Butterfly," about a Japanese geisha (Patricia Racette) who marries an American naval officer (

La Sonnambula

A reimagining of the Bellini opera "La Sonnambula," about a young woman (Natalie Dessay) whose sleepwalking compromises

La Cenerentola

A production of "La Cenerentola," Rossini's adaptation of the "Cinderella" fable, starring mezzo-soprano Elina Garanca i

Tosca

Season 4 opens with Luc Bondy's staging of Puccini's "Tosca," starring soprano Karita Mattila as the title character, wh

The Audition

A documentary about the 2007 Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions, in which contestants compete for cash prizes

Aida

A production of Giuseppe Verdi's "Aida," about an enslaved Ethiopian princess (Violeta Urmana) in ancient Egypt who serv

Turandot

The Puccini opera "Turandot," about a ruthless Chinese princess (Maria Guleghina) who falls for an unknown prince (Marce

Les Contes d'Hoffmann

A production of Jacques Offenbach's opera "Les Contes d'Hoffmann," about the life, loves and psychological manifestation

Der Rosenkavalier

Renée Fleming and Susan Graham star in Richard Strauss' comic "Der Rosenkavalier" as the middle-aged Marschallin and he

Carmen

A production of Bizet's "Carmen," starring Elina Garanca in the title role, a Gypsy girl; and Roberto Alagna as the sold

Simon Boccanegra

A production of Verdi's "Simon Boccanegra," starring Placido Domingo as a pirate-turned-chief magistrate. Soprano Adrian

Hamlet

The Ambroise Thomas opera "Hamlet," based on the Shakespeare play, starring baritone Simon Keenlyside as the prince and

Armida

Renée Fleming stars in the title role of Rossini's "Armida" as the niece of the Damascus king during the Crusades, a so

Don Pasquale

The Season 5 premiere features Donizetti's comic "Don Pasquale," starring soprano Anna Netrebko as a penniless young wom

Boris Godunov

Mussorgsky's "Boris Godunov" stars bass René Pape as the 16th-century Russian tsar whose reign is challenged by a novic

Don Carlo

Verdi's "Don Carlo," about a Spanish prince (Roberto Alagna) who falls for the French princess (Marina Poplavskaya) he's

La Fanciulla del West

A production of Puccini's "La Fanciulla del West," about an Old West saloon owner (Deborah Voigt) in a California gold-r

Iphigénie en Tauride

A production of Christoph Willibald Gluck's "Iphigénie en Tauride," based on a Greek myth in which a high priestess (Su

Nixon in China

Composer John Adams conducts the Met premiere of his acclaimed opera "Nixon in China," about the 37th U.S. president's h

Lucia di Lammermoor

Natalie Dessay stars in Donizetti's "Lucia di Lammermoor" as the fragile title character, whose brother (Ludovic Tézier

Le Comte Ory

Rossini's comic "Le Comte Ory" stars Juan Diego Flórez in the title role, a count who competes with his page (Joyce DiD

Capriccio

Renée Fleming stars in Richard Strauss' "Capriccio," about a widowed countess who ponders whether the music or the writ

Il Trovatore

A production of Verdi's "Il Trovatore," in which brothers (Marcelo Álvarez, Dmitri Hvorostovsky) compete for the affect

Anna Bolena

Season 6 opens with Gaetano Donizetti's "Anna Bolena," based on the last days of Anne Boleyn (Anna Netrebko), the second

Don Giovanni

Baritone Mariusz Kwiecien stars as the serial seducer "Don Giovanni," who swaggers his way to eternal damnation in this

Satyagraha

A performance of Philip Glass' "Satyagraha," about the early years of Mahatma Gandhi (Richard Croft). The production cos

Rodelinda

Renée Fleming stars in the title role of Handel's "Rodelinda," a baroque opera about a queen and her assumed-dead husba

Faust

A production of Gounod's "Faust" updates the story to the mid-20th century, with Faust (Jonas Kaufmann) now a nuclear sc

Ernani

A production of Verdi's "Ernani," about a maiden (Angela Meade) who is romantically pursued by her uncle (Ferruccio Furl

Manon

Soprano Anna Netrebko stars in Jules Massenet's "Manon," about a country girl who, while on her way to a convent, falls

La Traviata

Soprano Natalie Dessay stars in Willy Decker's stylized production of Verdi's "La Traviata," about a frail courtesan who

Wagner's Ring Cycle: Das Rheingold (The Rhine Gold)

The first opera in Richard Wagner's "Ring" cycle, about a power struggle between gods and mortals over a magic ring, beg

Wagner's Ring Cycle: Die Walküre (The Valkyrie)

The second opera in Richard Wagner's "Ring" cycle finds a traveler seeking shelter at the home of a warrior and his wife

Wagner's Ring Cycle: Siegfried

The third opera in Richard Wagner's "Ring" cycle finds the young Siegfried being raised by Alberich's conniving brother

Wagner's Ring Cycle: Götterdämmerung (Twilight of the Gods)

In the final installment in Richard Wagner's "Ring" cycle, the love between Siegfried and Brünnhilde is torn asunder by

L'Elisir d'Amore

Season 7 opens with Gaetano Donizetti's comic opera "L'Elisir d'Amore," about a peasant (Matthew Polenzani) who wins the

Otello

Verdi's "Otello," about a Moorish general (Johan Botha) who comes to suspect his wife (Renée Fleming) of infidelity due

The Tempest

Thomas Adès conducts his operatic adaptation of Shakespeare's "The Tempest." The production stars Simon Keenlyside as t

La Clemenza di Tito

Mozart's "La Clemenza di Tito" stars Elina Garanca in the trouser role of Sesto, who finds himself enmeshed in an assass

Un Ballo in Maschera

Verdi's "Un Ballo in Maschera," about a Swedish king (Marcelo Álvarez) pursuing an affair with his best friend's wife (

Rigoletto

Verdi's "Rigoletto" is updated to 1960s-era Las Vegas, where a womanizing lounge singer (Piotr Beczala) seduces the daug

Aida

Liudmyla Monastyrska and Roberto Alagna star in Verdi's "Aida," about a military commander in ancient Egypt who risks hi

Les Troyens

Berlioz's "Les Troyens," about a Trojan military commander (Bryan Hymel) who flees the fallen Troy and lands in the Nort

Maria Stuarda

A performance of Gaetano Donizetti's "Maria Stuarda," about the rivalry between Mary, Queen of Scots (Joyce DiDonato) an

Parsifal

Richard Wagner's "Parsifal," about a fool (Jonas Kaufmann) who may be key to a wounded king's recovery. The cast also in

Francesca da Rimini

A production of Riccardo Zandonai's "Francesca da Rimini," about a doomed romance between a warlord's wife (Eva-Maria We

Giulio Cesare

David Daniels and Natalie Dessay star in David McVicar's imaginative take on "Giulio Cesare," Handel's opera about Caesa

Eugene Onegin

Season 8 opens with Tchaikovsky's "Eugene Onegin," starring Anna Netrebko as Tatiana, a young Russian who's rebuffed by

The Nose

William Kentridge's production of Shostakovich's "The Nose," about a hapless bureaucrat (Paulo Szot) and his runaway nos

Tosca

Puccini's "Tosca" stars soprano Patricia Racette as the title character, whose lover (Roberto Alagna) is arrested and th

Falstaff

A production of Verdi's "Falstaff," updated to take place in 1950s-era London. The boorish Sir John Falstaff (Ambrogio M

Rusalka

Renée Fleming stars in Dvorák's "Rusalka," about a water sprite who loves a human prince (Piotr Beczala). The cast als

Prince Igor

Alexander Borodin's "Prince Igor," about a 12th-century Russian ruler (Ildar Abdrazakov) who defends his country against

La Bohème

Puccini's "La Bohème," about a doomed love affair between poet Rodolfo (Vittorio Grigolo) and seamstress Mimi (Kristine

Werther

Richard Eyre, whose hit production of Bizet’s Carmen premiered at the Met in 2009, directs the new staging, which is c

Così fan tutte

Lesley Koenig‘s sleek production features a cast filled with rising Met stars, including Susanna Phillips and Isabel L

La Cenerentola

Joyce DiDonato sings the title role in Rossini’s Cinderella story, La Cenerentola, with bel canto master Juan Diego Fl

Le Nozze di Figaro

The season nine premiere of Great Performances at the Met is Mozart’s elegant masterpiece of marital discord, Le Nozze

Macbeth

The starry cast includes Serbian baritone Željko Lučić in the title role; Russian star soprano Anna Netrebko in her N

Carmen

Acclaimed director Richard Eyre’s production of Carmen stars Georgian mezzo-soprano Anita Rachvelishvili in the title

Il Barbiere di Siviglia

In an acclaimed staging by Bartlett Sher, Il Barbiere di Siviglia stars Lawrence Brownlee as the lovestruck Count Almavi

Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg

Met Music Director James Levine leads Wagner’s grand comedy Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg (The Master-Singer of Nure

Les Contes d’Hoffmann

Italian tenor Vittorio Grigolo stars as the tortured poet unlucky in love in Broadway director Bartlett Sher's productio

The Merry Widow

Broadway director and choreographer Susan Stroman, whose many credits include the Tony Award-winning musicals Crazy for

Iolanta and Bluebeard’s Castle

Valery Gergiev conducts the double bill, which is a co-production with Teatr Wielki-Polish National Opera. Anna Netrebko

La Donna del Lago

Joyce DiDonato and Juan Diego Flórez star in Rossini’s La Donna del Lago, the Met’s first production of the bel can

Cavalleria Rusticana and Pagliacci

Sir David McVicar directs the first new Met production of the popular verismo double bill in 45 years, with Argentinean

Il Trovatore

Soprano Anna Netrebko appears in her Met role debut as Leonora, the tortured heroine who sacrifices her own life for the

Otello

For this production of Verdi's tragic opera, Aleksandrs Antonenko, one of the world’s leading interpreters of Otello,

Tannhauser

Richard Wagner’s early masterpiece Tannhäuser comes to Great Performances at the Met for the first time. James Levine

Lulu

Alban Berg’s tragedy of a sexually irresistible woman who destroys the lives of everyone around her. Marlis Petersen s

The Pearl Fishers (Pêcheurs de Perles)

The Met’s acclaimed new production of Bizet’s The Pearl Fishers (Les Pêcheurs de Perles), a rarity by the composer

Turandot

Hear Swedish soprano Nina Stemme sing the demanding title role of Puccini’s Chinese ice princess, with Anita Hartig as

Manon Lescaut

Hear Kristine Opolais and Roberto Alagna as the ill-fated lovers in Puccini’s passionate adaptation of the classic nov

Madama Butterfly

Kristine Opolais brings her heartbreaking interpretation of the title role to the series for the first time. Roberto Ala

Roberto Devereux

The last opera in Donizetti’s Tudor trilogy, directed by Sir David McVicar, stars Sondra Radvanovsky as Elizabeth I an

Elektra

Elektra, Richard Strauss’s blazing tragedy about an ancient Greek princess hell-bent on revenge, is the final opera pr

Tristan und Isolde

Sir Simon Rattle Conducts Tristan und Isolde on the season premiere of Great Performances. Nina Stemme and Stuart Skelto

Don Giovanni

Baritone Simon Keenlyside stars as Don Giovanni, bringing his acclaimed interpretation of the role to Great Performances

L’Amour de Loin

Kaija Saariaho’s Acclaimed Contemporary Opera L’Amour de Loin Comes to Great Performances at the Met Sunday.

Romeo et Juliette

Diana Damrau and Vittorio Grigolo “sizzle” as the star-crossed lovers in Gounod’s Roméo et Juliette on Great Perf

Nabucco

The legendary Plácido Domingo brings another new baritone role to the Met as the title king in Nabucco, under the baton

Rusalka

Kristine Opolais stars in her first Met performances of her breakthrough role, the title character in Antonin Dvořák's

Idomeneo

Music Director Emeritus James Levine conducts an extraordinary ensemble in Idomeneo, Mozart’s early masterpiece of lov

Eugene Onegin

Anna Netrebko stars as Tatiana, the naïve heroine of Tchaikovsky’s opera, with Peter Mattei as the title character wh

La Traviata

Sonya Yoncheva reprises her widely praised interpretation of the heroine Violetta Valéry in Verdi’s La Traviata. Mich

Der Rosenkavalier

The Met’s first new production since 1969 of Strauss’s rich, romantic masterpiece stars Renée Fleming in one of her

Norma

Season 12 of Great Performances at the Met begins with a new production of Bellini’s masterpiece about a woman scorned

The Exterminating Angel

L’Elisir D’Amore

La Bohème

Tosca

Semiramide

Cosí Fan Tutte

Luisa Miller

Cendrillon

Aida

La Fanciulla del West

Samson et Dalila

La Traviata

Adriana Lecouvreur

Carmen

Die Walkure

Dialogues des Carmelites

Episode 9

Episode 10

Manon

Madama Butterfly

Turandot

Akhnaten

Wozzeck

Handel: Agrippina

Der Fliegende Hollander

The Gershwins' Porgy and Bess

Maria Stuarda

Renee Fleming in Concert

Jonas Kaufmann in Concert

Lise Davidsen in Concert

Aleksandra Kurzak & Roberto Alagna in Concert

Anna Netrebko in Concert

Joyce DiDonato in Concert

Diana Damrau & Joseph Calleja in Concert

Sonya Yoncheva in Concert

Sondra Radvanovsky & Piotr Beczala in Concert

Three Divas at Versailles

The Wagnerians in Concert

Bryn Terfel in Concert

New Year's Eve Gala

Boris Godunov

Eurydice

Fire Shut Up in My Bones

Cinderella

Rigoletto

Ariadne Auf Naxos

Don Carlos

Turandot

Lucia Di Lammermoor

Hamlet

The Hours

La Traviata

Fedora

Medea

Lohengrin

Falstaff

Der Rosenkavalier

Don Giovanni

Champion

Die Zauberflöte

X: The Life and Times of Malcolm X

Dead Man Walking

Florencia en el Amazonas

Nabucco

Carmen

La Forza del Destino

Roméo et Juliette

La Rondine

Madama Butterfly

Grounded

Les Contes D'Hoffmann

Tosca

Aida

Fidelio

Le Nozze di Figaro

Salome

Il Barbiere di Siviglia

La Bohème

The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay

La Sonnambula

Arabella

Andrea Chénier

I Puritani

Eugene Onegin

Tristan Und Isolde

El Último Sueño de Frida y Diego