COSÌ FAN TUTTE (Mozart)
October 3, 2026 at 1pm
Runtime: 240 minutes
Overflowing with gorgeous melody, Mozart’s witty romantic comedy follows two sailors who switch places to test their fiancées’ faithfulness, with hilarious results.
Hailed as “colorful, inventive” by The New York Times, Phelim McDermott’s (Satyagraha, Akhnaten, The Hours, The Enchanted Island) production updates the setting to an amusement park inspired by Coney Island in the 1950s, featuring sword swallowers, fire breathers, contortionists, and more.
MACBETH (Verdi)
New Production
October 17, 2026 at 1pm
Runtime: 210 minutes
Verdi’s thrilling take on the immortal Shakespearean drama centers on the doomed Scottish king, haunted by the ghosts of his murderous ascent to the throne, and his power-mad wife, whose ruinous ambition damns them both. Two of opera’s most extraordinary artists, baritone Quinn Kelsey (Tosca, Rigoletto) and Lise Davidsen (Tristan und Isolde, Fidelio, Tosca, Der Rosenkavalier, Ariadne auf Naxos) star as the scheming couple determined to seize power at any cost in a highly anticipated new production.
SAMSON ET DALILA (Saint-Saëns)
December 5, 2026 at 12pm
Runtime: 235 minutes
Saint-Saëns’s operatic take on the classic biblical story follows Samson, the hero of legendary strength, and Dalila, the seductive Philistine whose beauty overpowers him. The Met’s larger-than-life production returns, featuring a massive orchestra and chorus and some of opera’s most spellbinding tunes. Mezzo-soprano Aigul Akhmetshina (Il Barbiere di Siviglia, Carmen) and tenor Clay Hilley star as the title pair.
LA FANCIULLA DEL WEST (Puccini)
Jan 23, 2027 at 1pm
Runtime: 195 minutes
Set during the California Gold Rush, Minnie, the gun-slinging tavern owner with a heart of gold, finds love in the arms of a dashing outlaw.
Celebrated British director Richard Jones brings a new production of Puccini’s exhilarating drama of the Wild West to the Met, which marks the company’s first new staging of La Fanciulla del West in more than 30 years. Soprano Vida Miknevičiūtė makes an important Met debut as Minnie, starring alongside tenor SeokJong Baek as Dick Johnson.
SILENT NIGHT (Puts)
March 20, 2027 at 1pm
Runtime: 180 minutes
One of the 21st century’s most powerful new works, this opera draws inspiration from the true events of the 1914 Christmas truce, when soldiers spontaneously set aside the horrors of the First World War and crossed the trenches to mingle, exchange gifts, and sing carols
with the enemy.
Composer Kevin Puts (The Hours) returns to the Met with his Pulitzer Prize–winning first opera, hailed as “an overwhelming emotive experience” (The Guardian), in an evocative staging by director
James Robinson (Champion, Porgy and Bess) that takes the audience directly to the battlefields of the Western Front.
MANON (Massenet)
April 3, 2027 at 12pm
Runtime: 265 minutes
A masterpiece of the French repertoire, Massenet’s passionate drama follows the young Manon on her journey from Parisian glamour to tragic downfall.
Superstar soprano Nadine Sierra (La Sonnambula, Roméo et Juliette, La Traviata, Lucia di Lammermoor) takes on another alluring French heroine, the irresistible title character of Massenet’s passionate drama, in a stylish staging by director Laurent Pelly (Cendrillon).
OTELLO (Verdi)
April 24, 2027 at 1pm
Runtime: 200 minutes
Verdi’s monumental Shakespearean tragedy follows a triumphant war hero driven to destruction by jealousy and his enemies’ hatred.
The ultimate Italian opera returns to cinemas with tenor Brian Jagde (La Forza del Destino) taking on the tour-de-force title role, opposite soprano Ailyn Pérez (Florencia en el Amazonas, Falstaff) as Desdemona.
PARSIFAL (Wagner)
June 5, 2027 at 12pm
Runtime: 365 minutes
Wagner’s epic final opera, set in a sacred realm of ritual and mystery, unfolds as a meditation on healing and redemption with a medieval knight’s heroic quest for the Holy Grail.
François Girard’s celebrated production, a “thoughtful and intrepid staging, full of striking imagery” (The New York Times), features tenor Piotr Beczała (Andrea Chénier, Aida, Carmen, Lohengrin, Fedora) in
the title role, alongside an all-star cast.