One of the most acclaimed Met Opera productions of the last two decades, James Robinson's highly acclaimed production of the landmark American classic, returns for the 2025/26 season! Starring Alfred Walker and Brittany Renee as the titular couple, the Gershwin's folk-inspired epic takes us into the heart of 1930s Charleston, where the residents of Catfish Row tell a story of fraught tensions, love, grief, and the search for redemption.

Anthony Minghella's breathtakingly beautiful and powerfully dramatic production returns, with the lead role of Cio-Cio San shared by a trio of stunning performers: Ailyn Perez, Sonya Yoncheva, and Elena Stikhina who will make their Met debuts this season. Widely known as the opera that inspired the Broadway musical Miss Saigon, the tragic story sees a young Japanese bride abandoned by her American husband for a new wife back home.

English Director Carrie Cracknell's sizzling reimagining of Georges Bizet's world-renowned opera returns for the 2025/26 Season! With the action moved to the present day, enjoy the tale of sizzling passion in a whole new way as Carmen makes her way to the Met Opera House one more time! Isobel Leonard and Aigul Akhmetshinaas the titular femme fatale, alongside Michael Fabiano and Matthew Polenzani as her doomed lover Don Jose.

Bellini's final work, a rousing bel canto set during the tumult of the English Civil War concerns a secret love that goes against the social and political divide that drives one of the lovers to the very edge of madness. Returning for the 2025/26 season in this production from director Charles Edwards, who presents the first new staging from the Met in nearly half a century!

Renowned experimenters Richard Foreman and Michael Gordon's viciously biting satirical opera is coming to New York for the first time, opening for a strictly limited run at Brooklyn Academy of Music! Taking devastating aim at the underlying nonsense of societal pressures, this new production of What To Wear is your chance to witness one of the most original pieces of opera of the 21st century.

A tale as old as time, (or at least one thousand years), Tristan and Isolde has long been considered the ultimate tale of passionate, romantic love in forbidden circumstances. With universal themes of all-consuming love and bitter-sweet tragedy, it fits perfectly into Wagner's repertoire of epics. Presented this season in a new staging from Yuval Sharon (making his Met debut), enjoy the story for the first time or return again to see this epic romance play out, starring Michael Spyres and Lise Davison as the titular lovers.

Shining bright amongst the stars of 21st century opera, American diva Joyce DiDonato and her resplendent mezzo-soprano vocals have reigned supreme in the upper echelons of the art form ever since her professional debut in Tod Machover's Resurrection with the Houston Grand Opera in 1999. The Grammy-winning performer enchants wherever she performs, don't miss her live!