The Met: Live in HD 2025–2026 Season — A World of Opera on the Big Screen

Step into the heart of the world’s greatest opera house without leaving your seat. The Met: Live in HD series returns for the 2025–2026 season, bringing the drama, beauty, and emotion of live performance directly to cinemas nationwide. This season celebrates both timeless masterpieces and bold new works, offering audiences a window into the Met’s stagecraft, storytelling, and unparalleled voices.

La Sonnambula, Vincenzo Bellini

Saturday, October 18, 2025 – 1:00 p.m. ET
Bellini’s tender bel canto gem opens the season with soaring melodies and dreamlike romance. Amina’s innocent sleepwalking becomes the center of a village misunderstanding in this pastoral masterpiece that reminds us how love transcends doubt.

La Bohème, Giacomo Puccini

Live Performance: Saturday, November 8, 2025 – 1:00 p.m. ET
Puccini’s immortal tale of Parisian artists returns to the Met in a production filled with youthful exuberance and heartbreak. From the first snowfall to the final farewell, La Bohème captures love, art, and loss in music that never fails to move.

Arabella, Richard Strauss

Live Performance: Saturday, November 22, 2025 – 1:00 p.m. ET
Strauss’s elegant romantic comedy glitters with Viennese waltzes and emotional depth. Torn between suitors and expectations, Arabella must choose between convention and the call of true love in this luminous reflection on desire and destiny.

The Magic Flute — Holiday Presentation, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Encore Presentation: December 6 and varying dates
A holiday favorite returns! Julie Taymor’s dazzling production of The Magic Flute blends fairy-tale wonder with Mozart’s radiant music. This family-friendly English-language presentation is a perfect introduction to opera’s magic.

Andrea Chénier, Umberto Giordano

Live Performance: Saturday, December 13, 2025 – 1:00 p.m. ET
Passion meets revolution in Giordano’s fiery drama. Inspired by the real-life poet Andrea Chénier, this verismo favorite unleashes vocal fireworks and political fervor as love and art collide in the shadow of the guillotine.

I Puritani, Vincenzo Bellini

Live Performance: Saturday, January 10, 2026 – 1:00 p.m. ET
Bellini’s final opera bursts with vocal brilliance and emotional grandeur. Elvira’s struggle between love and loyalty takes flight in some of the most demanding and exquisite music of the bel canto repertoire.

The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay — Special Presentation, Music by Mason Bates / Libretto by Gene Scheer / Based on the novel by Michael Chabon

January 24 and varying dates
A modern operatic event! Mason Bates transforms Michael Chabon’s Pulitzer Prize–winning novel into a sweeping new work that bridges history, magic, and imagination. Follow two young Jewish artists in 1930s New York as they create a comic-book hero who mirrors their dreams of freedom.

Cinderella, Jules Massenet

Encore Presentation: February 14 and varying dates
Massenet’s enchanting adaptation of the classic fairy tale returns just in time for Valentine’s Day. Brimming with charm, wit, and melodic grace, this production invites audiences to believe in the transforming power of love.

Tristan und Isolde, Richard Wagner

Live Performance: Saturday, March 21, 2026 – 12:00 p.m. ET
Few works in all music can match the intensity of Wagner’s transcendent love story. With its endlessly yearning harmonies and monumental scale, Tristan und Isolde is opera at its most rapturous and overwhelming.

Eugene Onegin, Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

Live Performance: Saturday, May 2, 2026 – 1:00 p.m. ET
Tchaikovsky’s masterpiece of youthful passion and regret unfolds in sweeping lyricism. From Tatiana’s heartfelt letter to Onegin’s devastating realization, this quintessentially Russian opera explores the timeless ache of missed chances.

El Último Sueño de Frida y Diego, Gabriela Lena Frank / Libretto by Nilo Cruz

Live Performance: Saturday, May 30, 2026 – 1:00 p.m. ET
The season closes with a visionary new work celebrating two icons of art and love. Gabriela Lena Frank’s El Último Sueño de Frida y Diego imagines a final meeting between Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera in the afterlife — a haunting, poetic meditation on creation and reunion.

Opera Insight

Each Met: Live in HD presentation features exclusive behind-the-scenes access, interviews with cast and creative teams, and a front-row seat to some of the most breathtaking performances of our time. Whether you’re an opera devotee or discovering the art form for the first time, this season offers something for every heart and ear.

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