2026/27 Season

Twenty Years of the Met in Cinemas: An Anniversary Celebration

Sunday, September 20 at 1pm
Encore in the Anderson Studio at Town Hall Theater
Estimated run tIme: 2 hours, 30 minutes with one intermissions

Celebrate the Met’s two decades of onstage glory as experienced in movie theaters, featuring highlights from the company’s collection of more than 185 extraordinary onscreen performances. Hosted by star soprano Renée Fleming, this special presentation will showcase unforgettable moments from some of opera’s greatest stars, culled from the series’ vast archive of transmissions. FEATURING Renée Fleming, Lise Davidsen, Nadine Sierra, Natalie Dessay, Sondra Radvanovsky, Joyce DiDonato, Elīna Garanča, Jonas Kaufmann, Matthew Polenzani, Dmitri Hvorostovsky, Peter Mattei, and more.

COSÌ FAN TUTTE

Saturday, October 24 at 1pm
Encore in the Anderson Studio at Town Hall Theater
Estimated run tIme: 4 hours with one intermission

Overflowing with gorgeous melody, Mozart’s witty romantic comedy follows two sailors who switch places to test their fiancées’ faithfulness, with hilarious results. Hailed as “colorful, inventive” by The New York Times, Phelim McDermott’s (Satyagraha, Akhnaten, The Hours, The Enchanted Island) production updates the setting to an amusement park inspired by Coney Island in the 1950s, featuring sword swallowers, fire breathers, contortionists, and more.

MACBETH

Saturday, November 21 at 1pm
Encore in the Anderson Studio at Town Hall Theater
Estimated run tIme: 3 hours, 30 minutes with one intermission

Verdi’s thrilling take on the immortal Shakespearean drama centers on the doomed Scottish king, haunted by the ghosts of his murderous ascent to the throne, and his power-mad wife, whose ruinous ambition damns them both. Two of opera’s most extraordinary artists, baritone Quinn Kelsey (Tosca, Rigoletto) and Lise Davidsen (Tristan und Isolde, Fidelio, Tosca, Der Rosenkavalier, Ariadne auf Naxos) star as the scheming couple determined to seize power at any cost in a highly anticipated new production.

SAMSON ET DALILA

Saturday, December 5 at 12pm
LIVE in the Anderson Studio at Town Hall Theater
Estimated run tIme: 3 hours, 55 minutes with two intermissions

Verdi’s thrilling take on the immortal Shakespearean drama centers on the doomed Scottish king, haunted by the ghosts of his murderous ascent to the throne, and his power-mad wife, whose ruinous ambition damns them both. Two of opera’s most extraordinary artists, baritone Quinn Kelsey (Tosca, Rigoletto) and Lise Davidsen (Tristan und Isolde, Fidelio, Tosca, Der Rosenkavalier, Ariadne auf Naxos) star as the scheming couple determined to seize power at any cost in a highly anticipated new production.

LA FANCIULLA DEL WEST

Saturday, February 6 at 1pm
Encore in the Anderson Studio at Town Hall Theater
Estimated run tIme: 3 hours, 15 minutes with one intermission

Set during the California Gold Rush, Minnie, the gun-slinging tavern owner with a heart of gold, finds love in the arms of a dashing outlaw. Celebrated British director Richard Jones brings a new production of Puccini’s exhilarating drama of the Wild West to the Met, which marks the company’s first new staging of La Fanciulla del West in more than 30 years. Soprano Vida Miknevičiūtė makes an important Met debut as Minnie, starring alongside tenor SeokJong Baek as Dick Johnson.

SILENT NIGHT

Saturday, March 20 at 1pm
LIVE in the Anderson Studio at Town Hall Theater
Estimated run tIme: 3 hours with one intermission

One of the 21st century’s most powerful new works, this opera draws inspiration from the true events of the 1914 Christmas truce, when soldiers spontaneously set aside the horrors of the First World War and crossed the trenches to mingle, exchange gifts, and sing carols with the enemy. Composer Kevin Puts (The Hours) returns to the Met with his Pulitzer Prize–winning first opera, hailed as “an overwhelming emotive experience” (The Guardian), in an evocative staging by director James Robinson (Champion, Porgy and Bess) that takes the audience directly to the battlefields of the Western Front.

MANON

Sunday, April 11 at 12pm
Encore in the Anderson Studio at Town Hall Theater
Estimated run tIme: 4 hours, 25 minutes with two intermissions

A masterpiece of the French repertoire, Massenet’s passionate drama follows the young Manon on her journey from Parisian glamour to tragic downfall. Superstar soprano Nadine Sierra (La Sonnambula, Roméo et Juliette, La Traviata, Lucia di Lammermoor) takes on another alluring French heroine, the irresistible title character of Massenet’s passionate drama, in a stylish staging by director Laurent Pelly (Cendrillon).

OTELLO

Saturday, April 24 at 1pm
LIVE in the Anderson Studio at Town Hall Theater
Estimated run tIme: 3 hours, 20 minutes with one intermission

Verdi’s monumental Shakespearean tragedy follows a triumphant war hero driven to dsestruction by jealousy and his enemies’ hatred. The ultimate Italian opera returns to cinemas with tenor Brian Jagde (La Forza del Destino) taking on the tour-de-force title role, opposite soprano Ailyn Pérez (Florencia en el Amazonas, Falstaff) as Desdemona.

PARSIFAL

Saturday, June 26 at 12pm
Encore in the Anderson Studio at Town Hall Theater
Estimated run tIme: 6 hours, 5 minutes with two intermissions

Wagner’s epic final opera, set in a sacred realm of ritual and mystery, unfolds as a meditation on healing and redemption with a medieval knight’s heroic quest for the Holy Grail. François Girard’s celebrated production, a “thoughtful and intrepid staging, full of striking imagery” (The New York Times), features tenor Piotr Beczała (Andrea Chénier, Aida, Carmen, Lohengrin, Fedora) in the title role, alongside an all-star cast.

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