THE METROPOLITAN OPERA
2025 Season
A new season packed with opera's most talented stars, a wide range of repertoire, and a handful of new productions from some of our most gifted stage directors.
The Metropolitan Opera:
Le Nozze di Figaro
Conductor Joana Mallwitz makes her Met debut leading an extraordinary cast in Mozart’s comic masterpiece. Bass-baritone Michael Sumuel stars as the clever valet Figaro, opposite soprano Olga Kulchynska as his betrothed, the wily maid Susanna. Baritone Joshua Hopkins is the skirt-chasing Count, with soprano Federica Lombardi as his anguished wife and mezzo-soprano Marianne Crebassa as the adolescent page Cherubino.
The Metropolitan Opera:
Salome
Music Director Yannick Nézet-Séguin conducts his first Met performances of Strauss’s white-hot one-act tragedy, which receives its first new production at the company in 20 years. Claus Guth, one of Europe’s leading opera directors, gives the biblical story—already filtered through the beautiful and strange imagination of Oscar Wilde’s play—a psychologically perceptive, Victorian-era setting rich in symbolism and subtle shades of darkness and light. Headlining the new staging is soprano Elza van den Heever as the abused and unhinged antiheroine, who demands the head of Jochanaan, sung by celebrated baritone Peter Mattei. Tenor Gerhard Siegel is Salome’s lecherous stepfather, King Herod, with mezzo-soprano Michelle DeYoung as his wife, Herodias, and tenor Piotr Buszewski as Narraboth.
The Metropolitan Opera:
Il Barbiere di Siviglia
Rossini’s effervescent comedy retakes the stage in Bartlett Sher’s madcap production. Mezzo-soprano Aigul Akhmetshina headlines a winning ensemble as the feisty heroine, Rosina, alongside high-flying tenor Jack Swanson, in his Met debut, as her secret beloved, Count Almaviva. Baritone Andrey Zhilikhovsky stars as Figaro, the titular barber of Seville, with bass-baritone Peter Kálmán as Dr. Bartolo and bass Alexander Vinogradov as Don Basilio rounding out the principal cast. Giacomo Sagripanti conducts.
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The Metropolitan Opera Summer Encore 2025
The Metropolitan Opera:
La Traviata
Michael Mayer’s sumptuous production of Verdi’s beloved
tragedy returns, featuring soprano Diana Damrau and tenor Juan Diego Flórez in this
2018 performance. Yannick Nézet-Séguin conducts. Originally broadcast December 15, 2018
The Metropolitan Opera:
Roméo et Juliette
In this dazzling 2024 Met performance, soprano Nadine
Sierra and tenor Benjamin Bernheim are the star-crossed lovers in Gounod’s operatic
adaptation of Shakespeare’s immortal love story. Yannick Nézet-Séguin conducts. Originally broadcast March 23, 2024
The Metropolitan Opera:
Lucia di Lammermoor
Donizetti’s tragedy returns to cinemas, starring
soprano Nadine Sierra and tenor Javier Camarena in this 2022 performance of Simon
Stone’s gripping, modern-day staging. Riccardo Frizza conducts.
The Metropolitan Opera:
Rigoletto
In this electric performance from 2013, baritone Željko Lučić
sings the title role in Michael Mayer’s 1960s-era production of Verdi’s great drama,
sharing the stage with soprano Diana Damrau and tenor Piotr Beczała. Michele Mariotti