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New York CityLa bohème

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Puccini: La bohème
Ramón Tebar; Franco Zeffirelli; Metropolitan Opera; Peter J. Hall; Gil Wechsler; The Metropolitan Opera Orchestra

New York CityMacbethNew production

Quinn Kelsey (Macbeth) and chorus © Marty Sohl | Met Opera
Verdi: Macbeth
Yannick Nézet-Séguin; Louisa Proske; Metropolitan Opera; Jon Bausor; Montana Levi Blanco; Adam Silverman; The Metropolitan Opera Orchestra

New York CityCosì fan tutte

Federica Lombardi (Fiordiligi) © Marty Sohl | Met Opera
Mozart: Così fan tutte
Nimrod David Pfeffer; Phelim McDermott; Metropolitan Opera; Tom Pye; Laura Hopkins; Paule Constable; The Metropolitan Opera Orchestra

New York CityLincoln in the BardoWorld premiere

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Mazzoli: Lincoln in the Bardo
Yannick Nézet-Séguin; Lileana Blain-Cruz; Metropolitan Opera; Steven Osgood; Adam Rigg; Montana Levi Blanco; Yi Zhao

New York CityMedea

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Cherubini: Médée/Medea
Carlo Rizzi; Sir David McVicar; Metropolitan Opera; Doey Lüthi; Paule Constable; The Metropolitan Opera Orchestra

New York CityTosca

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Puccini: Tosca
Oksana Lyniv; Sir David McVicar; Metropolitan Opera; John Macfarlane; David Finn; The Metropolitan Opera Orchestra
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Federica Lombardi and Samantha Hankey shine in the Met’s Così revival

Federica Lombardi (Fiordiligi) © Marty Sohl | Met Opera
The Metropolitan Opera’s revival of Phelim McDermott’s bustling production combines circus-like hijinks with superb singing and acting from a fine cast.
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Quinn Kelsey dazzles in the Met Opera’s new Macbeth

Quinn Kelsey (Macbeth) and chorus © Marty Sohl | Met Opera

The American baritone delivers a career-defining performance of the title role in Louisa Proske’s post-apocalyptic setting of Verdi’s first Shakespearean opera, which opens the company’s new season.

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The Met’s Frida y Diego proves visually stunning, musically thrilling

Carlos Álvarez (Diego) and Isabel Leonard (Frida) © Marty Sohl | Met Opera
Deborah Colker and her design team create visually vibrant worlds for the Met’s new production of El último sueño de Frida y Diego, by Pulitzer Prize winner Gabriela Lena Frank. 
*****
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Asmik Grigorian strengthens the Met’s revival of Eugene Onegin

Asmik Grigorian (Tatyana) and Iurii Samoilov (Onegin) © Evan Zimmerman | Met Opera

The Lithuanian soprano’s riveting performance as the central character in Tchaikovsky’s operatic masterpiece lights up Deborah Warner’s mostly bland production.

****1
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Innocence: Saariaho’s final opera receives New York premiere

Joyce DiDonato (the Waitress) and Vilma Jää (Markéta) © Karen Almond | Met Opera
At the Metropolitan Opera, Innocence proves a gripping and perhaps divisive piece which feels real because it is a reflection of our reality, with no realistic hope of finding peace. 
*****
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Tristan und Isolde at the Met: staging gets in the way of the music

Lise Davidsen (Isolde) and Michael Spyres (Tristan) © Karen Almond | Met Opera
Michael Spyres shines in his debut as Tristan alongside powerhouse soprano Lise Davidsen as Isolde in Yuval Sharon's new, beguiling production at the Metropolitan Opera.
***11
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Inside out and upside down: Opera world premieres 2026–27

Mothers of Kherson © Teatr Wielki – Polish National Opera
This season, new operas are depositing characters in limbo between this life and the next – from Lincoln in Missy Mazzoli’s Lincoln in the Bardo, to Bassem Akiki’s supernatural retelling of the life of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk. 

The crisis facing US classical music: Douglas McLennan

President Trump at the Kennedy Center © Daniel Torok | The White House
Longtime music journalist and founder of ArtsJournal talks about the multiple crises facing orchestras and arts organisations in the United States, amid the damage wrought by the second Trump administration.

A jack of all trades: Michael Spyres on Vienna, Tristan and Verdi

Michael Spyres © Andie Bottrell
Chanda VanderHart talks to the American tenor about his Tristan debut at the Met, his love for Vienna and Otto Schenk, and the incredible scope of his repertoire.