The 2025-26 season of the Met: Live in HD announced
The Metropolitan Opera has unveiled its 2025-26 season, including the repertoire of The Met: Live in HD series. The 19th season of opera productions transmitted to movie theaters and other venues across the globe is also available to Polish viewers. From fall 2025 to late spring 2026, the New York opera will present eight unique titles – including both audience favourite masterpieces and exciting new productions. Viewers will have the opportunity to admire world opera stars, as well as the work of renowned directors, conductors and set and costume designers.
The season will be launched on October 18, 2025, beginning with the broadcast of Bellini’s “La Sonnambula” and continuing with Puccini’s “La Bohème” (November 8, 2025), R. Strauss’s “Arabella” (November 22, 2025), Giordano’s “Andrea Chénier” (December 13, 2025), Bellini’s “I Puritani” (January 10, 2026), Wagner’s “Tristan und Isolde” (March 21, 2026), Tchaikovsky’s “Eugene Onegin” (May 2, 2026) and Gabriela Lena Frank’s “El Último Sueño de Frida y Diego” (May 30, 2026).
In the 2025-26 season, the Met stage will feature Juliana Grigoryan and Freddie De Tommaso who will play one of the most famous opera couples in the immortal, iconic production of “La Bohème” directed by Franco Zeffirelli. The show will be conducted by Keri-Lynn Wilson, who also collaborates with the Polish National Opera in Warsaw. Nadine Sierra will charm audiences as Amina in ” Bellini’s “La Sonnambula.” Piotr Beczała and Sonya Yoncheva join forces again after their famous appearance in “Fedora” in 2023. This time we will admire them as the main characters of the verismo opera “Andrea Chénier.” The new staging of Bellini’s “I Puritani” prepared by Charles Edwards stars Lisette Oropesa, Lawrence Brownlee and Artur Ruciński. Acclaimed soprano Lise Davidsen plays the Irish princess Isolde in Wagner’s “Tristan und Isolde”. Tenor Michael Spyres stars opposite her as the love-drunk Tristan, alongside Tomasz Konieczny, who sings Kurwenal. After her enthusiastically received portrayal of Cio-Cio-San in 2024, soprano Asmik Grigorian returns to the Met stage as Tatiana in Tchaikovsky’s “Eugene Onegin.”
The premiere of Gabriela Lena Frank’s “Último Sueño de Frida y Diego,” a magical-realist portrait of Mexico’s painterly power couple Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera, will close the broadcast season. The story depicts Frida, sung by mezzo-soprano Isabel Leonard, alongside Diego, portrayed by baritone Carlos Álvarez. The production, drawing on the myth of Orpheus and Eurydice, is directed and choreographed by Deborah Colker, who is making her debut at the Met.
The list of cinemas, theaters, opera houses and philharmonic halls broadcasting the Met performances is available here.