THE MET: LIVE

students are welcome to attend any opera at no cost

Grand opera patrons have provided funding to pay for student tickets - K through college. Email Kim Fitch for reservations.

 

Reserved Seating $29 Adult $27 Grand Member $22 Students (15 & under)

 Season Ticket - Reserved Seating $180 Adult - $172 Grand Member

TOSCA

PUCCINI

 Saturday, November 23, 1:00 pm

Following a string of acclaimed Live in HD performances, renowned Norwegian soprano Lise Davidsen stars in the title role for the first time at the Met. Joining the distinguished cast is tenor Freddie De Tommaso in his highly anticipated company debut as Cavaradossi and baritone Quinn Kelsey, who makes a Met role debut as Scarpia. Bass-baritone Patrick Carfizzi returns as the Sacristan, and Yannick Nézet-Séguin, the Met’s Jeanette Lerman-Neubauer Music Director, takes the podium to conduct Met veteran David McVicar’s production.

 RUN TIME: 2 HRS 55 MINS

AIDA

VERDI 

Saturday, January 25, 1pm

Encore Wednesday, January 29, 1pm 

Soprano Angel Blue makes Met role debut as the Ethiopian princess torn between love and country, one of opera’s defining roles. Music Director Yannick Nézet-Séguin takes the podium for the New Year’s Eve premiere of Michael Mayer’s spectacular new staging, which brings audiences inside the towering pyramids and gilded tombs of ancient Egypt with intricate projections and dazzling animations.

RUN TIME: 3 HRS 10 MINS

FIDELIO (ENCORE)

BEETHOVEN

 Saturday, March 29, 1:00 pm

 Following a string of awe-inspiring Met performances, soprano Lise Davidsen stars as Leonore, who risks everything to save her husband from the clutches of tyranny. Tenor David Butt Philip is the political prisoner Florestan, sharing the stage with bass-baritone Tomasz Konieczny as the villainous Don Pizarro, veteran bass René Pape as the jailer Rocco, and soprano Ying Fang and tenor Magnus Dietrich as the young Marzelline and Jaquino.

RUN TIME: 2 HRS 35 MINS

LE NOZZE DI FIGARO

MOZART

Saturday, April 26, 1:00 pm 

Conductor Joana Mallwitz makes her Met debut, leading two extraordinary casts in Mozart’s comic masterpiece. Bass-baritones Michael Sumuel and Luca Pisaroni star as the clever valet Figaro, opposite sopranos Olga Kulchynska and Rosa Feola as his betrothed, the wily maid Susanna. Baritone Joshua Hopkins and bass-baritone Adam Plachetka alternate as the skirt-chasing Count, sopranos Federica Lombardi and Jacquelyn Stucker trade-off as his wife, and Marianne Crebassa and Emily D’Angelo share the role of Cherubino. 

RUN TIME: 3 HRS 30 MINS

SALOME

STRAUSS 

Saturday, May 17, 1:00 pm 

Music Director Yannick Nézet-Séguin conducts his first Met performances of Strauss’s white-hot one-act tragedy, which receives its first new production at the company in 20 years. Claus Guth, one of Europe’s leading opera directors, gives the biblical story—already filtered through the beautiful and strange imagination of Oscar Wilde’s play—a psychologically perceptive Victorian-era setting rich in symbolism and subtle shades of darkness and light.

 RUN TIME: 1 HRS 40 MINS

IL BARBIERE DI SIVIGLIA

ROSSINI

Saturday, May 31, 1:00 pm 

Rossini’s effervescent comedy retakes the stage in Bartlett Sher’s madcap production. Two star mezzo-sopranos—Isabel Leonard and Aigul Akhmetshina—headline a winning ensemble as the feisty heroine, Rosina, alongside high-flying tenors Lawrence Brownlee and Jack Swanson, as her secret beloved, Count Almaviva. Baritones Davide Luciano and Andrey Zhilikhovsky star as Figaro, the infamous barber of Seville. Giacomo Sagripanti conducts. 

ESTIMATED RUN TIME: 3 HRS