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The Metropolitan Opera Reveals 2026�"27 Season - LINCOLN IN THE BARDO, MACBETH and More
by Chloe Rabinowitz - Feb 19, 2026

The Metropolitan Opera has revealed its 2026–27 season, featuring five new and 12 repertory productions, a special 60th-anniversary gala, and performances of Mahler’s Eighth Symphony conducted by Yannick Nézet-Séguin.

Review: SALOME Times Seven Doesn’t Add Up to Extra Enjoyment in New Met Production
by Richard Sasanow - May 1, 2025

Even without an over-the-top production—and the Met has had a couple of those—Richard Strauss’s SALOME has been outraging audiences for more than 120 years. This week’s new take by director Claus Guth in his Met debut was no exception.

Review: Heggie-Scheer MOBY-DICK Triumphs in New Foglia Production at the Met
by Richard Sasanow - Mar 4, 2025

MOBY-DICK--Herman Melville’s epic tale of obsession and man-versus-nature, succinctly adapted by composer Jake Heggie with Gene Scheer’s taut libretto--roared into the Met Monday night and begged only one question: What took so long for it to get here?

Photos: First Look at Met Opera's MOBY DICK
by Joshua Wright - Feb 28, 2025

Get a first look at Moby-Dick at the Metropolitan Opera. Following the haunting Met premiere of his first opera, Dead Man Walking, composer Jake Heggie returns to the company with his 2010 adaptation of Herman Melville’s sea-drenched, heaven-storming epic.

The Metropolitan Opera's Summer HD Festival To Return To Lincoln Center Plaza
by Chloe Rabinowitz - Jun 4, 2024

The Metropolitan Opera’s Summer HD Festival will return to Lincoln Center Plaza this August. See full programming and learn how to attend!

The Met Opera Announces First-Ever Met Orchestra Asia Tour
by Joshua Wright - Mar 7, 2024

The Metropolitan Opera has announced its first-ever Met Orchestra Asia Tour this summer, June 19–30, immediately following its annual June residency at Carnegie Hall. Yannick Nézet-Séguin, the Met's Jeanette Lerman-Neubauer Music Director, will conduct the Met Orchestra, with guest artists soprano Lisette Oropesa, mezzo-soprano Elīna Garanča, and bass-baritone Christian Van Horn.

GROUNDED by Jeanine Tesori to Open The Metropolitan Opera's 2024�"25 Season
by Chloe Rabinowitz - Feb 21, 2024

The Metropolitan Opera has unveiled the 2024–25 season lineup. Learn about the operas being presented and see how to purchase tickets.

Video: Yannick Nézet-Séguin and Met Orchestra Members Surprise Park-Goers With Concert at Little Island
by Blair Ingenthron - Jun 24, 2023

Yannick Nézet-Séguin, the Grammy Award-winning conductor and Metropolitan Opera Music Director, led a surprise concert on Little Island on Tuesday, June 20, 2023. Joining Nézet-Séguin at this urban oasis on the Hudson River were a quartet of Met Orchestra horn players – Erik Ralske, Roy Femenella, Javier Gándara and Barbara Jöstlein Currie.  

The Metropolitan Opera's DON GIOVANNI Will Stream as Part of THE MET: LIVE IN HD
by Stephi Wild - May 17, 2023

The Metropolitan Opera presents a live transmission of Tony Award–winning director Ivo van Hove’s new production of Mozart’s Don Giovanni on Saturday 20th May 2023 at 5:55pm as part of The Met: Live in HD series.

The Metropolitan Opera to Present Live Transmission of Ivo van Hove-Directed DON GIOVANNI
by Chloe Rabinowitz - May 12, 2023

The Metropolitan Opera will present a live transmission of Tony Award–winning director Ivo van Hove’s new production of Mozart’s Don Giovanni on Saturday, May 20, at 12:55PM ET as part of The Met: Live in HD series.

Warner Theatre To Screen THE MET LIVE: DON GIOVANNI, May 20
by A.A. Cristi - May 11, 2023

The Met: Live in HD, the Metropolitan Opera's award-winning series of live high-definition cinema simulcasts, presents Mozart's DON GIOVANNI on Saturday, May 20 at 12:55 pm ET, in the Warner Theatre's Oneglia Auditorium (Main Stage). 

Review Roundup: Ivo van Hove's DON GIOVANNI Opens at the Metropolitan Opera
by Blair Ingenthron - May 6, 2023

Ivo van Hove, the Tony Award–winning director of Broadway’s A View from the Bridge, is making a major Met debut with Mozart’s Don Giovanni (May 5–June 2), re-setting the familiar tale of deceit and damnation in an abstract architectural landscape and shining a light into the work’s dark corners. Read what the critics have to say!

VIDEO: Get A First Look At Ivo van Hove's DON GIOVANNI at the Met Opera
by Alan Henry - May 4, 2023

Get a sneak peek at Ivo van Hove's debut at the Met Opera with his production of Mozart's Don Giovanni, featuring Peter Mattei and an exceptional cast.

Mozart's DON GIOVANNI Receives A New Production By Ivo Van Hove In His Met Debut
by Stephi Wild - May 3, 2023

​​​​​​​Ivo van Hove, the Tony Award–winning director of Broadway's A View from the Bridge, makes a major Met debut with Mozart's Don Giovanni (May 5–June 2), re-setting the familiar tale of deceit and damnation in an abstract architectural landscape and shining a light into the work's dark corners.

A Mozart Doubleheader Of New Productions Of DON GIOVANNI And DIE ZAUBERFLÖTE Close Out The Met's 2022�"23 Season
by A.A. Cristi - Apr 29, 2023

The Metropolitan Opera will close out its 2022–23 season with Don Giovanni, starting May 5, and Die Zauberflöte, starting May 19. Nathalie Stutzmann will make her Met debut as conductor of both works, with Ivo van Hove directing Don Giovanni and Simon McBurney staging Die Zauberflöte—also both making their Met debuts.

VIDEO: Get A First Look At Rehearsals for Ivo van Hove's DON GIOVANNI at the Met Opera
by Alan Henry - Apr 24, 2023

Get a first look at Baritone Peter Mattei singing the title character’s Act II aria, “Deh vieni alla finestra,” in an early rehearsal, accompanied by assistant conductor Jonathan C. Kelly. 

The Ridgefield Playhouse To Screen MET Opera Live in HD's DON GIOVANNI and National Theatre in HD's BEST OF ENEMIES
by A.A. Cristi - Mar 14, 2023

Great opera and theater continue being screened at the Ridgefield Playhouse this spring courtesy of its FirstLight Home Care Classical Series. From the MET Opera Live in HD it's Don Giovanni on Saturday, May 20, 2023 at 1pm.

Ivo van Hove's DON GIOVANNI, Terence Blanchard's CHAMPION & More to Headline The Metropolitan Opera Spring Season
by Chloe Rabinowitz - Feb 9, 2023

The Metropolitan Opera will present the company premiere of Terence Blanchard’s Champion, Ivo van Hove's Met debut with Don Giovanni, and more this spring season. See how to purchase tickets!

Met Opera Broadcasts Coming To Theaters Across The Country Include FALSTAFF, LOHENGRIN & More
by Team BWW - Jan 19, 2023

The Met Opera brings magic and splendor to cinemas across the country with The Met: Live in HD. 

Review: DON CARLO Returns to the Met, This Time in Italian
by Richard Sasanow - Nov 13, 2022

Last season, the company gave its first presentation of the French version (that’s the one called DON CARLOS, with a final S to his first name), in the five-act version that lasted almost 5 hours. This year, we’re back to Italian, under Carlo Rizzi’s firm baton, in one of a number of versions (this one running about 4 hours) of DON CARLO, which uses shortcuts to tell the story elements deleted with the excision of the first act (usually referred to as “the Fontainebleau scene”).