We’re thrilled to announce that The Met: Live in HD series is back this fall!

The 2025-2026 Metropolitan Opera Live in HD Season runs October 2025 - June 2026.

All broadcasts and talks will take place in the Anderson Studio in Town Hall Theater’s new wing unless otherwise noted.

Pre-show talks will begin 45 minutes before showtime.

Tickets

Mason Bates’s THE AMAZING ADVENTURES OF KAVALIER & CLAY

Saturday, February 7 at 1pm
Encore in the Anderson Studio at Town Hall Theater
Pre-show talk at 12:15pm with Larry Hamberlin

Due to critical acclaim and overwhelming audience response, the Met-premiere production of The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, recorded live earlier this season, has been added to the Live in HD lineup. This exhilarating operatic adaptation of Michael Chabon’s Pulitzer Prize–winning novel, The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, follows the story of two Jewish cousins who unlock a new avenue of resistance against tyranny through the world of superheroes during World War II. The production by Tony Award–winning director Bartlett Sher provides spectacular visuals with towering sets and projections among the three worlds of the story: Nazi-occupied Prague, the bustling streets of New York City, and the technicolor realm of comic-book fantasy. Music Director Yannick Nézet-Séguin conducts Mason Bates’s eclectic, cinematic score, which incorporates scintillating electronic elements and a variety of musical styles. The New York scenes feature inflections of jazz and big band, the music for Prague is noticeably darker and more somber, and the composer’s trademark use of electronica reaches its full fruition in the scenes set in the comic-book realm.

Wagner’s TRISTAN UND ISOLDE

Saturday, March 21 at 12:00pm
LIVE in the Anderson Studio at Town Hall Theater
Pre-show talk at 11:15am with Jerry Shedd, OCM board member
Estimated run tIme: 5 hours, 10 minutes with two intermissions

After years of anticipation, a truly unmissable event arrives in cinemas worldwide, as the electrifying Lise Davidsen tackles one of the ultimate roles for dramatic soprano: the Irish princess Isolde in Wagner’s transcendent meditation on love and death. Heroic tenor Michael Spyres stars opposite Davidsen as the love-drunk Tristan. The momentous occasion also marks the advent of a new, Met-debut staging by Yuval Sharon—hailed by The New York Times as “the most visionary opera director of his generation” and the first American to direct an opera at the famed Wagner festival in Bayreuth—as well as Music Director Yannick Nézet-Séguin’s first time leading Tristan und Isolde at the Met. Mezzo-soprano Ekaterina Gubanova reprises her portrayal of Brangäne, alongside bass-baritone Tomasz Konieczny, who sings Kurwenal after celebrated Met appearances in Wagner’s Der Fliegende Holländer and Ring cycle. Bass-baritone Ryan Speedo Green makes an important role debut as King Marke.

EL ÚLTIMO SUEÑO DE FRIDA Y DIEGO

Gabriella Lena Frank / Libretto by Nilo Cruz

Saturday, May 30 at 1:00pm
LIVE in the Anderson Studio at Town Hall Theater
Pre-show talk at 12:15 pm with Alejandro Roca, YAP Artistic Director and Yale School of Music lecturer
Estimated run tIme: 2 hours, 50 minutes with one intermission

The Metropolitan Opera’s 2025–26 Live in HD season comes to a close with a live transmission of American composer Gabriela Lena Frank’s first opera, a magical-realist portrait of Mexico’s painterly power couple Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera, with libretto by Pulitzer Prize–winning playwright Nilo Cruz. Fashioned as a reversal of the Orpheus and Euridice myth, the story depicts Frida, sung by leading mezzo-soprano Isabel Leonard, leaving the underworld on the Day of the Dead and reuniting with Diego, portrayed by baritone Carlos Álvarez. The famously feuding pair briefly relive their tumultuous love, embracing both the passion and the pain before bidding the land of the living a final farewell. Music Director Yannick Nézet-Séguin conducts the Met-premiere staging of Frank’s opera, a “confident, richly imagined score” (The New Yorker) that “bursts with color and fresh individuality” (Los Angeles Times). The vibrant new production, taking enthusiastic inspiration from Frida and Diego’s paintings, is directed and choreographed by Deborah Colker.

Tchaikovsky’s EUGENE ONEGIN

Saturday, June 20 at 1:00pm
ENCORE in the Anderson Studio at Town Hall Theater
Pre-show talk at 12:15 pm with Nathaniel Lew, OCM Chorus Master, Artistic Director of the Counterpoint Vocal Ensemble, and Professor Emeritus of Music at Saint Michael's College

Following her acclaimed 2024 company debut in Puccini’s Madama Butterfly, soprano Asmik Grigorian returns to the Met as Tatiana, the lovestruck young heroine in this ardent operatic adaptation of Pushkin. Baritone Igor Golovatenko reprises his portrayal of the urbane Onegin, who realizes his affection for her all too late. The Met’s evocative production, directed by Tony Award–winner Deborah Warner, “offers a beautifully detailed reading of … Tchaikovsky’s lyrical romance” (The Telegraph). Timur Zangiev has his debut conducting at the Met.

Past Events

Puccini’s LA BOHÈME

Saturday, November 8 at 1:00pm
LIVE in the Anderson Studio at Town Hall Theater
Pre-show talk with OCM Board Member Jerry Shedd at 12:15pm
Estimated run tIme: 3 hours, 30 minutes with two intermissions

With its enchanting setting and spellbinding score, the world’s most popular opera is as timeless as it is heartbreaking. Franco Zeffirelli’s picture-perfect production brings 19th-century Paris to the Met stage as Puccini’s young friends and lovers navigate the joy and struggle of bohemian life. Soprano Juliana Grigoryan is the feeble seamstress Mimì, opposite tenor Freddie De Tommaso as the ardent poet Rodolfo. Keri-Lynn Wilson conducts.

Strauss’s ARABELLA

Saturday, November 22 at 1:00pm
LIVE in the main theater at Town Hall Theater
Pre-show talk with David Clark at 12:15pm
Estimated run tIme: 4 hours, 10 minutes with two intermissions

Strauss’s elegant romance brings the glamour and enchantment of 19th-century Vienna to cinemas worldwide in a sumptuous production by legendary director Otto Schenk that “is as beautiful as one could hope” (The New York Times). Soprano Rachel Willis-Sørensen stars as the title heroine, a young noblewoman in search of love on her own terms. Radiant soprano Louise Alder is her sister, Zdenka, and bass-baritone Tomasz Konieczny is the dashing count who sweeps Arabella off her feet. Nicholas Carter conducts.

Giordano’s ANDREA CHÉNIER

Saturday, December 13 at 1:00pm
LIVE in the Anderson Studio at Town Hall Theater
Pre-show talk at 12:15pm
Estimated run tIme: 3 hours, 30 minutes with two intermissions

Giordano’s passionate tragedy stars tenor Piotr Beczała as the virtuous poet who falls victim to the intrigue and violence of the French Revolution. Following their celebrated recent partnership in Giordano’s Fedora in the 2022–23 Live in HD season, Beczała reunites with soprano Sonya Yoncheva as Chénier’s aristocratic lover, Maddalena di Coigny, with baritone Igor Golovatenko as Carlo Gérard, the agent of the Reign of Terror who seals their fates. Met Principal Guest Conductor Daniele Rustioni takes the podium to lead Nicolas Joël’s gripping staging.

Bellini’s I PURITANI

Saturday, January 10 at 1:00pm
LIVE in the Anderson Studio at Town Hall Theater
Pre-show talk at 12:15 pm with Nathaniel Lew, OCM Chorus Master, Artistic Director of the Counterpoint Vocal Ensemble, and Professor Emeritus of Music at Saint Michael's College
Estimated run tIme: 3 hours, 45 minutes with one intermission

For gorgeous melody, spellbinding coloratura, and virtuoso vocal fireworks, I Puritani has few equals. This is the first new Met production of Bellini’s final masterpiece in nearly 50 years with a striking staging by Charles Edwards, who makes his company directorial debut after many successes as a set designer. The Met has assembled a world-beating quartet of stars, conducted by Marco Armiliato, for the demanding principal roles. Soprano Lisette Oropesa and tenor Lawrence Brownlee are Elvira and Arturo, brought together by love and torn apart by the political rifts of the English Civil War, with baritone Artur Ruciński as Riccardo, betrothed to Elvira against her will, and bass-baritone Christian Van Horn as Elvira’s sympathetic uncle, Giorgio.