GIACOMO PUCCINI La Bohème Franco Zeffirelli's definitive staging of the world’s most popular opera returns for another season with several luxury casts gracing the garrets of bohemian Paris. Tenors Piero Pretti, Dmytro Popov, and Matthew Polenzani are the tortured poet Rodolfo, with sopranos A...

CHARLES GOUNOD Roméo et Juliette Yannick Nézet-Séguin conducts one of the most sumptuous scores in the repertoire, leading Gounod's honeyed adaptation of Shakespeare’s timeless tragedy. Radiant soprano Nadine Sierra makes her Met role debut as the effervescent Juliette, opposite tenors Stephen...

GIUSEPPE VERDI La Traviata   Verdi's poignant look at the fragility of love stars three compelling sopranos—Ailyn Pérez, Anita Hartig, and Lisette Oropesa—as the opera’s ill-fated heroine. Tenors Atalla Ayan and Migran Agadzhanyan trade off as Violetta’s idealistic young lover, Alfredo, with b...

GEORGES BIZET Carmen Fresh off her sensational Met debut as Nefertiti in Philip Glass's Akhnaten, mezzo-soprano J’Nai Bridges takes on the role of the Gypsy temptress in Richard Eyre’s dazzling production. Ramona Zaharia, Clémentine Margaine, and Varduhi Abrahamyan sing later performances, and...

GEORGE FRIDERIC HANDEL Giulio Cesare One of the Met's most inventive productions, Sir David McVicar’s vibrant Bollywood-inspired take on Handel’s Baroque masterpiece transports the tale of Julius Caesar and Cleopatra to the age of British imperialism. Countertenor Iestyn Davies portrays the mo...

GIOACHINO ROSSINI Il Barbiere di Siviglia Opera's most popular comedy returns in Bartlett Sher’s delightfully madcap production. After a celebrated Met debut last season in Agrippina, soprano Brenda Rae stars as the crafty Rosina, alongside bass-baritone Adam Plachetka as Figaro, the swaggerin...

ANTONÍN DVOŘÁK Rusalka Star soprano Sonya Yoncheva adds a new role to her repertoire: the water sprite Rusalka, who yearns to become human in order to find love—singing the sublime Song to the Moon in the process. In Mary Zimmerman's evocative staging of Dvořák’s tragic take on the Little Merm...

GIUSEPPE VERDI Nabucco Further cementing her place as one of history's most riveting dramatic sopranos, Anna Netrebko adds the bloodthirsty Babylonian princess Abigaille to her already impressive lineup of Met roles—trading off with Oksana Dyka. Baritone George Gagnidze is the tyrannical ruler...

NEW PRODUCTION   JAKE HEGGIE / LIBRETTO BY TERRENCE MCNALLY Dead Man Walking American composer Jake Heggie's 21st-century masterpiece, the most widely performed new opera of the last 20 years, has its highly anticipated Met premiere, in Ivo van Hove’s second new staging of the season. Ba...

RICHARD STRAUSS Die Frau ohne Schatten Yannick Nézet-Séguin conducts Herbert Wernicke's sensational staging of Strauss’s magisterial vision of otherworldly love, which requires a cast of the very best dramatic voices. Tenor Klaus Florian Vogt and soprano Elza van den Heever are the unearthly E...

VINCENZO BELLINI Il Pirata Soprano Diana Damrau stars in this Bellini vehicle for bel canto pyrotechnics, the story of a woman driven mad by love for her exiled pirate. Tenor Javier Camarena shows off his spectacular high notes as the buccaneer. Maurizio Benini conducts the striking production...

GIUSEPPE VERDI Il Trovatore Two remarkable casts share in Verdi's supreme showcase of Italianate singing. Sopranos Sonya Yoncheva and Krassimira Stoyanova sing the role of the passionate young noblewoman Leonora, with tenors Roberto Aronica and Russell Thomas as the outlaw Manrico and baritone...