TRISTAN UND ISOLDE, I PURITANI and More to Screen at The Met’s Summer HD Festival
You can also see Gabriela Lena Frank’s El Último Sueño de Frida y Diego, starring Isabel Leonard and Carlos Álvarez.
The Metropolitan Opera’s 2026 Summer HD Festival returns to Lincoln Center Plaza Wednesday, September 2, through Monday, September 7. The free festival features five performances from the company’s celebrated The Met: Live in HD series—projected onto a large screen on the façade of the opera house—including three of this season’s new productions and two beloved classics: Wagner’s Tristan und Isolde, Bellini’s I Puritani, Tchaikovsky’s Eugene Onegin, Gabriela Lena Frank and Nilo Cruz’s El Último Sueño de Frida y Diego, and Puccini’s La Bohème. The festival will commence with Yuval Sharon’s celebrated Met-debut staging of Wagner’s masterpiece, screened across two evenings.
For each presentation, more than 2,500 seats will be available on the plaza on a first-come, first-served basis. No tickets are required, and there are no rain dates. For more information, please visit metopera.org/HDFestivalhttp://metopera.org/HDFestival.
The complete listing of operas and start times can be found below.
The Summer HD Festival is generously supported by The Robert W. Wilson Charitable Trust.
The Met: Live in HD series is made possible by a generous grant from its founding sponsor, the Neubauer Family Foundation. Digital support of The Met: Live in HD is provided by Bloomberg Philanthropies. The Met: Live in HD is in partnership with Rolex.
2026 MET SUMMER HD FESTIVAL SCHEDULE
TRISTAN UND ISOLDE, ACT I
Wednesday, September 2, 8PM
Wagner’s transcendent meditation on love and death features a powerhouse pair as the Irish princess Isolde and the love-drunk Tristan in a revelatory new production by acclaimed director Yuval Sharon. Due to its extended run time, the performance will be offered over the course of two evenings.
The cast will feature Lise Davidsen as Isolde and Michael Spyres as Tristan.
Original transmission: March 21, 2026
Approximate running time: 1 hour, 25 minutes
TRISTAN UND ISOLDE, ACTS II AND III
Thursday, September 3, 8PM
The cast will feature Lise Davidsen as Isolde and Michael Spyres as Tristan.
Original transmission: March 21, 2026
Approximate running time: 2 hours, 35 minutes
I PURITANI
Friday, September 4, 7:30PM
A world-beating quartet of stars takes the stage in the Met’s first new production of Bellini’s Bel Canto masterpiece in nearly 50 years.
The cast will feature Lisette Oropesa as Elvira and Lawrence Brownlee as Arturo.
Original transmission: January 10, 2026
Approximate running time: 3 hours
EUGENE ONEGIN
Saturday, September 5, 8PM
A timeless story of love and regret, Tchaikovsky’s ardent adaptation of Pushkin follows the naïve country girl Tatiana, whose youthful passion for the aloof Onegin is rejected—until they meet again years later.
The cast will feature Asmik Grigorian as Tatiana and Iurii Samoilov as Eugene Onegin.
Original transmission: May 2, 2026
Approximate running time: 2 hours, 40 minutes
EL ÚLTIMO SUEÑO DE FRIDA Y DIEGO
Sunday, September 6, 8PM
Gabriela Lena Frank’s celebrated new opera, with libretto by Nilo Cruz, offers a magical-realist portrait of Mexico’s painterly power couple Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera, who reunite on the Day of the Dead to relive their tumultuous love.
The cast will feature Isabel Leonard as Frida and Carlos Álvarez as Diego.
Original transmission: May 30, 2026
Approximate running time: 2 hours
LA BOHÈME
Monday, September 7, 8PM
Franco Zeffirelli’s picture-perfect production brings 19th-century Paris to the Met stage as Puccini’s young friends and lovers navigate the joy and struggle of bohemian life.
The cast will feature Juliana Grigoryan as Mimì and Freddie De Tommaso as Rodolfo.
Original transmission: November 8, 2025
Approximate running time: 2 hours, 5 minutes
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