Press Releases

• Mar 10, 2023

  Strauss’s Der Rosenkavalier Returns to the Met Stage on March 27

• Feb 23, 2023

  Terence Blanchard’s Champion premieres at the Met on April 10, starring Ryan Speedo Green, Eric Owens, Latonia Moore, and Stephanie Blythe; Music Director Yannick Nézet-Séguin conducts

• Feb 22, 2023

  The Metropolitan Opera announces its 2023–24 season, with the most new works in the company’s modern history

• Feb 14, 2023

  Verdi’s Falstaff returns to the Met on March 12

• Feb 09, 2023

  Met premiere of Terence Blanchard’s Champion and new productions of Wagner’s Lohengrin and Mozart’s Don Giovanni and Die Zauberflöte headline the spring season

• Feb 06, 2023

  The Metropolitan Opera wins 2023 Grammy Award for Best Opera Recording for Terence Blanchard’s Fire Shut Up in My Bones

• Jan 23, 2023

  Sonya Yoncheva returns to the Met to star in Bellini’s Norma, starting February 28

• Jan 20, 2023

  For Ukraine: A Concert of Remembrance and Hope to be presented by the Metropolitan Opera on the one-year anniversary of the invasion Friday, February 24, at 7PM ET

• Jan 18, 2023

  Wagner’s masterpiece Lohengrin returns to the Met after 17 years, in a new production starring Piotr Beczała in the title role

• Jan 04, 2023

  Poulenc’s Dialogues des Carmélites Returns to the Met on January 15

• Jan 03, 2023

  Donizetti’s L’Elisir d’Amore Returns to the Met on January 10

• Dec 23, 2022

  Giordano’s Fedora, starring Sonya Yoncheva in the title role, returns to the Met in a new production by David McVicar

• Nov 21, 2022

  After more than 240 performances, Sonja Frisell’s staging of Verdi’s Aida has its final Met run, beginning December 2

• Nov 04, 2022

  Renée Fleming, Kelli O’Hara, and Joyce DiDonato star in the world-premiere staging of Kevin Puts’s The Hours

• Nov 01, 2022

  Verdi’s Rigoletto returns to the Met on November 10

• Oct 25, 2022

  Verdi’s epic drama Don Carlo returns to the Met on November 3

• Oct 13, 2022

  Michael Mayer’s acclaimed staging of Verdi’s La Traviata returns on October 25 with three casts of bright stars

• Oct 06, 2022

  Tenor Allan Clayton stars in Benjamin Britten’s Peter Grimes, beginning October 16

• Oct 03, 2022

  The Met Announces Launch of New Streaming Platform, Making Live Simulcasts Available for Home Audiences

• Sep 28, 2022

  Puccini’s Tosca returns to the Met on October 4

• Sep 21, 2022

  Keri-Lynn Wilson Leads a Met Revival of Shostakovich’s Searing Drama Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk

• Sep 19, 2022

  Mozart’s Idomeneo returns to the Met on September 28

• Sep 13, 2022

  The Metropolitan Opera premiere of Medea, starring Sondra Radvanovsky, opens the company’s 137th season September 27 at 6pm

• Jul 19, 2022

  The Met’s Free Summer HD Festival Returns to Lincoln Center Plaza, Featuring Ten Outdoor Opera Screenings August 27 through Labor Day

• May 25, 2022

  Stravinsky’s The Rake’s Progress makes rare appearance at the Met on May 30

• May 16, 2022

  Philip Glass’s Akhnaten returns to the Met on May 19

• May 05, 2022

  Brett Dean’s Hamlet has its Met premiere May 13

• May 04, 2022

  Baritone Will Liverman wins the Met’s 2022 Beverly Sills Artist Award

• Apr 26, 2022

  The Metropolitan Opera’s 2022 Summer Recital Series features six free concerts, bringing opera to all five boroughs

• Apr 25, 2022

  Ukrainian Freedom Orchestra formed to tour Europe and U.S. this summer in artistic defense of their country

• Apr 25, 2022

  Ten singers advance to the final round of the 2022 Metropolitan Opera Eric and Dominique Laffont Competition

• Apr 07, 2022

  New, modern-day production of Donizetti’s Lucia di Lammermoor premieres April 23

• Apr 01, 2022

  Metropolitan Opera announces 21 semifinalists in its Eric and Dominique Laffont Competition

• Mar 28, 2022

  Nina Stemme and Lise Davidsen star in Strauss’s Elektra, returning to the Met stage April 1

• Mar 22, 2022

  Russian baritone Igor Golovatenko stars in Tchaikovsky’s Eugene Onegin, returning to the Met March 25

• Mar 15, 2022

  Puccini’s Madama Butterfly Returns to the Met Stage on March 19

• Mar 08, 2022

  Elza van den Heever Stars in Handel’s Rodelinda, Returning to the Met March 11

• Mar 07, 2022

  The Met Announces A Concert for Ukraine on Monday, March 14, at 6:00pm ET

• Mar 03, 2022

  Anna Netrebko withdraws from Met performances this spring

• Feb 23, 2022

  The Metropolitan Opera announces its 2022–23 season, featuring the world-premiere staging of The Hours, the company premieres of Champion and Medea, and four more new productions

• Feb 18, 2022

  Three new productions, including Don Carlos, Lucia di Lammermoor, and the company premiere of Brett Dean’s Hamlet, headline the Met’s spring season

• Feb 10, 2022

  Lise Davidsen Stars in Strauss’s Ariadne auf Naxos, Returning to the Met March 1

• Feb 03, 2022

  First-ever Met performances of Verdi’s Don Carlos in its original French version begin February 28

• Jan 20, 2022

  Sonya Yoncheva in Recital on January 23

• Jan 04, 2022

  Mozart’s Le Nozze di Figaro returns to the Met on January 8

• Dec 23, 2021

  New production of Verdi’s Rigoletto, directed by Bartlett Sher, premieres on New Year’s Eve

• Dec 15, 2021

  The Met Announces Covid-19 Booster Mandate Beginning January 17

• Dec 13, 2021

  Massenet’s enchanting Cinderella—a new, English-language holiday presentation for families—opens on December 17

• Dec 10, 2021

  Mozart’s The Magic Flute—in its abridged English-language version for families—returns December 10

• Dec 07, 2021

  The Metropolitan Opera will present the company premiere of Terence Blanchard’s Champion

• Dec 01, 2021

  Puccini’s Tosca returns to the Met on December 2

• Nov 18, 2021

  Matthew Aucoin’s Eurydice has its Met premiere November 23

• Nov 05, 2021

  Puccini’s La Bohème returns to the Met stage November 9

• Nov 01, 2021

  The Metropolitan Opera Announces Kristin Chenoweth: Christmas at the Met on December 13

• Oct 28, 2021

  The Gershwins’ Porgy and Bess Returns to the Met on October 31

• Oct 22, 2021

  Wagner’s epic comedy Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg returns to the Met on October 26

• Oct 08, 2021

  Puccini’s Majestic Turandot Returns to the Met on October 12

• Oct 01, 2021

  New Rashid Johnson exhibition, The Chorus, featuring two large-scale mosaics, now on view at the Metropolitan Opera

• Sep 21, 2021

  The Met Presents the Original, One-Act Version of Mussorgsky’s Boris Godunov, Beginning September 28

• Sep 20, 2021

  Debra Lew Harder Named Metropolitan Opera Radio Host, Only the Fifth in the Company’s History

• Sep 16, 2021

  The Metropolitan Opera announces the company premiere of Anthony Davis’s X: The Life and Times of Malcolm X, to be presented in the 2023–24 season

• Sep 15, 2021

  The Met announces free simulcast of the Opening Night performance of Terence Blanchard’s Fire Shut Up in My Bones in Marcus Garvey Park

• Aug 24, 2021

  The Met and its Orchestra Reach Agreement, Providing a Path to September Reopening

• Aug 20, 2021

  The Metropolitan Opera Announces Verdi’s Requiem: The Met Remembers 9/11

• Aug 12, 2021

  The Metropolitan Opera’s Free Summer HD Festival Returns to Lincoln Center

• Nightly Met Opera Streams to come to an end July 25

• Jul 08, 2021

  Met announces Week 70 schedule for Nightly Met Opera Streams

• Jun 10, 2021

  Met announces three-week schedule for Nightly Met Opera Streams

• May 28, 2021

  The Met announces the North American premiere of Yannick: An Artist’s Journey

• May 25, 2021

  Met announces two-week schedule for Nightly Met Opera Streams

• May 17, 2021

  Five singers named 2021 Winners of the newly renamed Metropolitan Opera Eric and Dominique Laffont Competition

• May 12, 2021

  The Metropolitan Opera Announces A Concert for New York

• May 11, 2021

  Met announces two-week schedule for Nightly Met Opera Streams

• May 05, 2021

  Ten singers advance to the final round of the 2021 Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions

• Apr 28, 2021

  Met announces two-week schedule for Nightly Met Opera Streams

• Apr 23, 2021

  Metropolitan Opera announces live, streaming plans for its National Council Auditions final rounds

• Apr 14, 2021

  Met announces two-week schedule for Nightly Met Opera Streams

• Apr 08, 2021

  The Met Announces Two Upcoming Programs in the Met Stars Live in Concert Series

• Mar 30, 2021

  Met announces two-week schedule for Nightly Met Opera Streams

• Mar 16, 2021

  Met announces two-week schedule for Nightly Met Opera Streams

• Mar 09, 2021

  Met announces Week 53 schedule for Nightly Met Opera Streams

• Mar 03, 2021

  WQXR and the Metropolitan Opera Announce the Third Season of Aria Code

• Feb 24, 2021

  Met announces two-week schedule for Nightly Met Opera Streams

• Feb 12, 2021

  Sonya Yoncheva Live in Concert

• Feb 09, 2021

  Met announces two-week schedule for Nightly Met Opera Streams

• Jan 27, 2021

  Anna Netrebko Live in Concert

• Jan 25, 2021

  The Met appoints Marcia Sells as its first Chief Diversity Officer

• Jan 22, 2021

  The Met celebrates Black History Month with two weeks of Nightly Opera Streams

• Jan 13, 2021

  Met announces two-week schedule for Nightly Met Opera Streams

• Jan 08, 2021

  Sondra Radvanovsky and Piotr Beczała Live in Concert

• Dec 30, 2020

  Met announces two-week schedule for Nightly Met Opera Streams

• Dec 03, 2020

  Metropolitan Opera announces Family Holiday Festival

• Dec 01, 2020

  Met announces four-week schedule for Nightly Met Opera Streams

• Nov 25, 2020

  Bryn Terfel Live in Concert

• Nov 18, 2020

  New Year’s Eve Gala Live in Concert

• Nov 16, 2020

  Metropolitan Opera Announces 2020 Holiday Gift Guide

• Oct 22, 2020

  Met announces five-week schedule for Nightly Met Opera Streams

• Oct 16, 2020

  Diana Damrau and Joseph Calleja Live in Concert

• Oct 14, 2020

  Met announces two-week schedule for Nightly Met Opera Streams

• Oct 02, 2020

  In Response to the Ongoing Covid-19 Pandemic, the Met’s HD Live in Schools Series Launches 2020–21 Virtual Programming

• Sep 23, 2020

  The Metropolitan Opera Cancels Its 2020–21 Season Due to the Ongoing Covid-19 Pandemic, while also Announcing Its Lineup for 2021–22

• Sep 21, 2020

  Metropolitan Opera releases Leontyne Price at the Met

• Sep 17, 2020

  Met announces Week 28 schedule for Nightly Met Opera Streams

• Sep 02, 2020

  Joyce DiDonato Live in Concert

• Aug 20, 2020

  Met announces three-week schedule for Nightly Met Opera Streams

• Aug 19, 2020

  Lise Davidsen Live in Concert

• Jul 24, 2020

  Renée Fleming Live in Concert

• Jul 17, 2020

  Met announces Week 19 schedule for Nightly Met Opera Streams

• Jul 11, 2020

  MET STARS LIVE IN CONCERT

• Jul 10, 2020

  Met announces Week 18 schedule for Nightly Met Opera Streams

• Jun 25, 2020

  Met announces Week 16 schedule for Nightly Met Opera Streams

• Jun 18, 2020

  Met announces Week 15 schedule for Nightly Met Opera Streams

• Jun 06, 2020

  Met announces Weeks 13 and 14 schedules for Nightly Met Opera Streams

• Jun 01, 2020

  Metropolitan Opera announces new opening date of December 31, 2020

• May 27, 2020

  Metropolitan Opera launches Met Opera Global Summer Camp

• May 18, 2020

  Met announces Weeks 11 and 12 schedules for Nightly Met Opera Streams

• May 11, 2020

  Met announces Week 10 schedule for Nightly Met Opera Streams

• May 06, 2020

  Met announces Week 9 schedule for Nightly Met Opera Streams

• Apr 28, 2020

  Met announces Week 8 schedule for Nightly Met Opera Streams

• Apr 21, 2020

  Met announces Week 7 schedule for Nightly Met Opera Streams

• Apr 14, 2020

  Met announces Week 6 schedule for Nightly Met Opera Streams

• Apr 13, 2020

  The Met announces plans to live-stream an all-star At-Home Gala on Saturday, April 25, at 1pm EDT

• Apr 06, 2020

  Met announces Week 5 schedule for Nightly Met Opera Streams

• Apr 03, 2020

  Metropolitan Opera launches weekly Free Student Streams

• Mar 31, 2020

  Met announces Week 4 schedule for Nightly Met Opera Streams

• Mar 13, 2020

  Met launches “Nightly Met Opera Streams,” a free series of encore Live in HD presentations streamed on the company website during the coronavirus closure

• Mar 10, 2020

  Tara Erraught and Javier Camarena star in a revival of La Cenerentola, Rossini’s take on the classic Cinderella tale, opening March 12

• Feb 26, 2020

  A new production of Wagner’s Der Fliegende Holländer opens March 2, directed by François Girard and conducted by Valery Gergiev

• Feb 25, 2020

  Nine singers advance to the final round of the 2020 Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions

• Feb 24, 2020

  Met Orchestra to tour internationally in June 2021, for the first time in almost 20 years

• Feb 18, 2020

  Metropolitan Opera announces 23 semifinalists in its National Council Auditions

• Feb 14, 2020

  The Met’s Coney Island-set production of Mozart’s Così fan tutte returns to the repertory on February 15

• Feb 13, 2020

  New Productions of Aida, Die Zauberflöte, and Don Giovanni and Met Premieres of The Fiery Angel and Dead Man Walking Headline the Metropolitan Opera’s 2020–21 Season

• Feb 04, 2020

  Agrippina has its Met premiere on Thursday, February 6

• Jan 23, 2020

  La Damnation de Faust returns to the Met stage for the first time in a decade

• Dec 26, 2019

  Visionary artist William Kentridge directs a new production of Berg’s Wozzeck, conducted by Met Music Director Yannick Nézet-Séguin and opening December 27

• Jan 09, 2020

  Michael Mayer’s acclaimed staging of Verdi’s La Traviata returns in January with two casts of bright stars

• Nov 06, 2019

  Met to Host Jessye Norman Celebration, Open to the Public

• Oct 21, 2019

  Philip Glass’s Akhnaten has its Met premiere November 8

• Oct 16, 2019

  Franco Zeffirelli’s iconic production of La Bohème returns to the Met stage on October 25

• Oct 15, 2019

  A rare revival of Gluck’s Orfeo ed Euridice opens at the Met on October 20

• Oct 10, 2019

  Anthony Minghella’s groundbreaking production of Puccini’s Madama Butterfly returns to the Met stage October 11

• Sep 26, 2019

  Music Director Yannick Nézet-Séguin conducts his first Puccini opera at the Met: Turandot, starring Christine Goerke, which opens October 3

• Sep 25, 2019

  Anna Netrebko and Željko Lučić star in Verdi’s Macbeth, opening September 25

• Sep 23, 2019

  Lisette Oropesa and Michael Fabiano star in Massenet’s Manon, opening September 24

• Sep 13, 2019

  A new production of the Gershwins’ Porgy and Bess— starring Eric Owens and Angel Blue—opens the Metropolitan Opera’s 135th season on September 23

• Jun 05, 2019

  The Metropolitan Opera’s Summer HD Festival, Returning August 24, Will Present Ten Free Outdoor Opera Screenings in Lincoln Center Plaza

• May 07, 2019

  Soprano Lisette Oropesa wins the Met’s 2019 Beverly Sills Artist Award

• Apr 26, 2019

  Michael Mayer’s Las Vegas-themed production of Verdi’s Rigoletto returns to the Met April 26

• Apr 23, 2019

  The Metropolitan Opera’s 2019 Summer Recital Series features six free concerts, bringing opera to all five boroughs

• Apr 19, 2019

  Yannick Nézet-Séguin conducts Dialogues des Carmélites to conclude his first season as Met Music Director

• Apr 05, 2019

  Nicola Luisotti conducts Michael Mayer’s new production of Verdi’s La Traviata, returning April 5 

• Apr 04, 2019

  Mozart’s masterpiece Don Giovanni returns to the Met April 4

• Mar 31, 2019

  Five singers named winners of the 2019 Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions

• Mar 25, 2019

  Nine opera singers advance to the final round of the 2019 Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions 

• Mar 20, 2019

  La Clemenza di Tito returns to the Met on March 30 

• Mar 18, 2019

  Puccini’s masterpiece Tosca returns to the Met on March 18 with Jennifer Rowley, Joseph Calleja, and Wolfgang Koch

• Mar 13, 2019

  Saint-Saëns’s Samson et Dalila returns to the Met on March 13 starring Anita Rachvelishvili and Aleksandrs Antonenko

   

• Mar 12, 2019

  Metropolitan Opera announces 21 semifinalists in its National Council Auditions

• Feb 20, 2019

  New Productions of Porgy and Bess, Der Fliegende Holländer, and Wozzeck, and Met Premieres of Agrippina and Akhnaten Headline the Metropolitan Opera’s 2019–20 Season

• Feb 08, 2019

  Ambrogio Maestri reprises his acclaimed portrayal of the title role of Verdi’s Falstaff, opening February 22

• Feb 07, 2019

  Michael Mayer’s Las Vegas-themed production of Verdi’s Rigoletto returns to the Met February 12

• Jan 29, 2019

  Wagner’s epic Der Ring des Nibelungen returns to the Met, March 9–May 11, 2019

• Jan 18, 2019

  Free Opera Tickets for Furloughed Federal Workers

• Jan 09, 2019

  Donizetti’s comic romp La Fille du Régiment returns with an all-star cast on February 7

• Jan 09, 2019

  Carmen returns to the Met January 9

   

• Jan 08, 2019

  Mozart’s masterpiece Don Giovanni returns to the Met January 30

• Jan 07, 2019

  Kristin Lewis makes her Met debut in the title role of Aida for four performances beginning January 7

• Dec 17, 2018

  The double bill of Iolanta / Bluebeard’s Castle returns to the Met repertory on January 24 in Mariusz Treliński’s haunting production 

• Dec 14, 2018

  Yannick Nézet-Séguin conducts a rare revival of Debussy’s Pelléas et Mélisande, opening January 15

• Nov 30, 2018

  Julie Taymor’s production of Mozart’s The Magic Flute returns in its English-language, abridged holiday version, December 19 to January 5 

• Nov 20, 2018

  A new production of Cilea’s Adriana Lecouvreur, starring Anna Netrebko in the title role, opens December 31 in a special New Year’s Eve gala

• Nov 12, 2018

  Gustavo Dudamel makes his Metropolitan Opera debut conducting Verdi’s Otello on December 14

• Nov 08, 2018

  The Met celebrates the centennial of Puccini’s  Il Trittico with performances beginning November 23

• Nov 07, 2018

  Yannick Nézet-Séguin makes his first appearances as Met Music Director with a new production of La Traviata

• Nov 06, 2018

  Pretty Yende, Javier Camarena, and Mariusz Kwiecien star in Bizet’s Les Pêcheurs de Perles

• Nov 06, 2018

  Mefistofele returns to the Met November 8

• Oct 25, 2018

  Carmen returns to the Met October 30

• Oct 25, 2018

  Sondra Radvanovsky and Joseph Calleja Will Star in Puccini’s Tosca, Opening October 25

• Oct 11, 2018

  Kathleen Turner to perform in  Donizetti’s La Fille du Régiment at the Met 

• Oct 03, 2018

  Metropolitan Opera presents North American premiere of Nico Muhly’s Marnie October 19

• Oct 01, 2018

  Jonas Kaufmann Returns to the Met in La Fanciulla del West, Sharing the Role of Dick Johnson with Yusif Eyvazov, Opposite Eva-Maria Westbroek as Minnie

• Sep 27, 2018

  Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions Launches 65th Annual Competition for Young Singers

• Sep 25, 2018

  Met to Open New Entrance to Lobby this Fall to Ease Audience Congestion

• Sep 20, 2018

  Cecily Brown’s Exhibition, Triumph of the Vanities,  Opens September 24 at the Met Opera

• Sep 14, 2018

  Met Opera and Union Groups Reach Ground-Breaking Agreement to Allow Sunday Matinee Performances

• Sep 11, 2018

  Acclaimed Soprano Anna Netrebko Sings Her First Met Aida

• Sep 07, 2018

  Vittorio Grigolo and Nicole Car star in Puccini’s La Bohème, as James Gaffigan Conducts at the Met for the First Time

• Sep 06, 2018

  A New Production of Saint-Saëns’s Samson et Dalila Opens The Metropolitan Opera’s 2018-19 Season on September 24

• Jul 31, 2018

  Met Opera Appoints Matthew Rose as Artistic Consultant  to the Lindemann Young Artist Development Program

• Feb 15, 2018

  Yannick Nézet-Séguin to Become Met Music Director in September 2018, Two Seasons Earlier Than Originally Planned

• Jan 27, 2017

  Mezzo-Soprano Jamie Barton Wins the 2017 Beverly Sills Artist Award 

• Feb 15, 2017

  The Metropolitan Operas’s 2017-18 Season Will Feature 220 Performances of 26 Works,  With Five New Productions, Including Two Met Premieres 

• Apr 10, 2017

  The Metropolitan Opera’s 2017 Summer Recital Series  Offers Six Free Concerts Featuring Rising Opera Stars

• Jul 12, 2017

  Five Young Artists Join the Metropolitan Opera’s Lindemann Young Artists Development Program

• Jul 20, 2017

  The Metropolitan Opera’s 2017 Summer HD Festival  Will Once Again Offer Ten Free Screenings of Met Performances on  Lincoln Center Plaza From August 26 Through Labor Day

• Jan 17, 2018

  The Opera House - A film by Susan Froemke

• Jul 18, 2018

  The Metropolitan Opera’s 2018 Summer HD Festival Will Once Again Offer Ten Free Screenings of Met Performances on Lincoln Center Plaza From August 24 Through Labor Day

• Feb 26, 2018

  Yannick Nézet-Séguin Appoints Benjamin Bowman as new Concertmaster of the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra

• Mar 12, 2018

  Statement from the Metropolitan Opera Regarding James Levine

• Apr 25, 2018

  Soprano Nadine Sierra Wins the 2018 Beverly Sills Artist Award