The Metropolitan Opera is a vibrant home for the most creative and talented singers, conductors, composers, musicians, stage directors, designers, visual artists, choreographers, and dancers from around the world.
Experience The Metropolitian Opera Live in HD here at the Peterborough Players.
The 24/25 Season has 8 Operas in total and is composed of familiar favorites with an incredible new work in the mix.
All our Opera are live streamed on Saturdays at 1pm, except Aida, which begins at 12:30pm.
Tickets go on sale:
Thursday, August 29th to members of the Metropolitian
Thursday, September 5th for renewing subscribers
Thursday, September 12th for individual tickets and new subscription
Experience The Metropolitian Opera Live in HD here at the Peterborough Players.
The 24/25 Season has 8 Operas in total and is composed of familiar favorites with an incredible new work in the mix.
All our Opera are live streamed on Saturdays at 1pm, except Aida, which begins at 12:30pm.
Tickets go on sale:
Thursday, August 29th to members of the Metropolitian
Thursday, September 5th for renewing subscribers
Thursday, September 12th for individual tickets and new subscription
Saturday, October 5th 2024 1pm
Les Contes D'Hoffmann (The Tales of Hoffmann) An ensemble of leading lights takes the stage for Offenbach’s fantastical final work, headlined by tenor Benjamin Bernheim in the title role of the tormented poet.
Hoffmann’s trio of lovers are sung by soprano Erin Morley as the mechanical doll Olympia, soprano Pretty Yende as the plagued diva Antonia, and mezzo-soprano Clémentine Margaine as the Venetian seductress Giulietta. Marco Armiliato conducts Bartlett Sher’s evocative production, which also features bass-baritone Christian Van Horn as the Four Villains and mezzo-soprano Vasilisa Berzhanskaya in an important company debut as Hoffmann’s friend Nicklausse.
This opera is sung in French and has a running time of 4 hours and 5 minutes including 2 intermissions.
Saturday, October 5th 2024 1pm
Les Contes D'Hoffmann (The Tales of Hoffmann) An ensemble of leading lights takes the stage for Offenbach’s fantastical final work, headlined by tenor Benjamin Bernheim in the title role of the tormented poet.
Hoffmann’s trio of lovers are sung by soprano Erin Morley as the mechanical doll Olympia, soprano Pretty Yende as the plagued diva Antonia, and mezzo-soprano Clémentine Margaine as the Venetian seductress Giulietta. Marco Armiliato conducts Bartlett Sher’s evocative production, which also features bass-baritone Christian Van Horn as the Four Villains and mezzo-soprano Vasilisa Berzhanskaya in an important company debut as Hoffmann’s friend Nicklausse.
This opera is sung in French and has a running time of 4 hours and 5 minutes including 2 intermissions.
Saturday, October 19th 2024, 1pm
Two-time Tony Award–winning composer Jeanine Tesori’s powerful new opera Grounded, commissioned by the Met and based on librettist George Brant’s acclaimed play, wrestles with the ethical quandaries and psychological toll of 21st-century warfare.
Mezzo-soprano Emily D’Angelo, one of opera’s most compelling young stars, portrays Jess, a hot-shot fighter pilot whose unplanned pregnancy takes her out of the cockpit and lands her in Las Vegas, operating a Reaper drone halfway around the world. As she struggles to adjust to this new way of doing battle, she fights to maintain her sanity, and her soul, as she is called to rain down death by remote control.
Met Music Director Yannick Nézet-Séguin oversees the Met premiere of Tesori’s kaleidoscopic score and a cast that also features tenor Ben Bliss as the Wyoming rancher who becomes Jess’s husband. Michael Mayer’s high-tech staging, using a vast array of LED screens, presents a variety of perspectives on the action, including the drone’s predatory view from high above.
This exciting new Opera is sung in English and runs 2 hours and 45 minutes, including one intermission.
Saturday, November 23rd 2024, 1pm
One of Puccini's most famous Opera's, with some of his best known lyrical Arias, Tosca returns to the Met with Lise Davidson as the volatile diva Floria Tosca.
The extraordinary Lise Davidsen sings Tosca for her first time at the Met, alongside tenor Freddie De Tommaso in his eagerly anticipated company debut and powerhouse baritone Quinn Kelsey.
Maestro Xian Zhang conducts.
Tosca is sung in Italian and runs 3 hours and 30 minutes including 2 intermissions.
Content warning: This show contains depictions of torture, murder, and suicide.
Saturday, January 25th 2025, 12:30pm
Soprano Angel Blue makes her long-awaited Met role debut as the Ethiopian princess torn between love and country, one of opera’s defining roles, Aida. Music Director Yannick Nézet-Séguin takes the podium for the New Year’s Eve premiere of Michael Mayer’s spectacular new staging, which brings audiences inside the towering pyramids and gilded tombs of ancient Egypt with intricate projections and dazzling animations.
Mezzo-soprano Judit Kutasi, following her 2024 debut in Verdi’s La Forza del Destino, is Aida’s Egyptian rival Amneris, sharing the role with Elīna Garanča,, who returns to the Met for the first time since 2020. Leading tenor Piotr Beczała is the soldier Radamès, who completes the greatest love triangle in the repertory.
The all-star cast also features baritones Quinn Kelsey and bass-baritone Eric Owens as Amonasro and bass Morris Robinson as Ramfis.
Verdi's tragic opera holds a central place in the operatic canon, receiving performances every year around the world. At New York's Metropolitan Opera alone, Aida has been sung more than 1,100 times since 1886.
3 hours and 40 minutes, including 1 intermission, it is sung in Italian.
*You may see a familar face from our stage as Second Company member Matthew Windsor will be on stage for this production.
Saturday, March 15th 2025, 1pm
Following a string of awe-inspiring Met performances, soprano Lise Davidsen stars as Leonore, who risks everything to save her husband from the clutches of tyranny in Fidelio.
Tenor David Butt Philip is the political prisoner Florestan, sharing the stage with bass-baritone Tomasz Konieczny as the villainous Don Pizarro, veteran bass René Pape as the jailer Rocco, and soprano Ying Fang and tenor Magnus Dietrich, in his company debut, as the young Marzelline and Jaquino. Bass Stephen Milling sings the principled Don Fernando, and Susanna Mälkki conducts the Met’s striking production, which finds modern-day parallels in Beethoven’s stirring paean to freedom.
Originally titled Leonore, oder Der Triumph der ehelichen Liebe (Leonore, or The Triumph of Marital Love), Fidelio is the only opera by German composer Ludwig van Beethoven.
Sung in German, this show runs 3 hours and 5 minutes including 1 intermission.
Saturday, April 26th 2025, 1pm
Conductor Joana Mallwitz makes her Met debut leading two extraordinary casts in Mozart’s comic masterpiece, Le Nozze di Figaro.
Bass-baritones Michael Sumuel stars as the clever valet Figaro, opposite sopranos Olga Kulchynska as his betrothed, the wily maid Susanna. Baritone Joshua Hopkins is the skirt-chasing Count, sopranos Federica Lombardi as his anguished wife, and mezzo-sopranos Marianne Crebassa in the role of the adolescent page Cherubino.
Considered one of the greatest operas ever written,it is a cornerstone of the repertoire and appears consistently among the top ten in the Operabase list of most frequently performed opera.
A profoundly humane comedy, Le Nozze di Figaro is a remarkable marriage of Mozart’s music at the height of his genius and one of the best librettos ever set. In adapting a play that caused a scandal with its revolutionary take on 18th-century society, librettist Lorenzo Da Ponte focused less on the original topical references and more on the timeless issues embedded in the frothy drawing-room comedy.
Sung in Italian, this opera runs 3 hours and 55 minutes and has 1 intermission.
Conductor Joana Mallwitz makes her Met debut leading two extraordinary casts in Mozart’s comic masterpiece, Le Nozze di Figaro.
Bass-baritones Michael Sumuel stars as the clever valet Figaro, opposite sopranos Olga Kulchynska as his betrothed, the wily maid Susanna. Baritone Joshua Hopkins is the skirt-chasing Count, sopranos Federica Lombardi as his anguished wife, and mezzo-sopranos Marianne Crebassa in the role of the adolescent page Cherubino.
Considered one of the greatest operas ever written,it is a cornerstone of the repertoire and appears consistently among the top ten in the Operabase list of most frequently performed opera.
A profoundly humane comedy, Le Nozze di Figaro is a remarkable marriage of Mozart’s music at the height of his genius and one of the best librettos ever set. In adapting a play that caused a scandal with its revolutionary take on 18th-century society, librettist Lorenzo Da Ponte focused less on the original topical references and more on the timeless issues embedded in the frothy drawing-room comedy.
Sung in Italian, this opera runs 3 hours and 55 minutes and has 1 intermission.
Saturday, May 17th 2025, 1pm
Music Director Yannick Nézet-Séguin conducts his first Met performances of Strauss’s white-hot one-act tragedy, Salome, which receives its first new production at the company in 20 years.
Claus Guth, one of Europe’s leading opera directors, gives the biblical story—already filtered through the beautiful and strange imagination of Oscar Wilde’s play—a psychologically perceptive Victorian-era setting rich in symbolism and subtle shades of darkness and light.
Headlining the new staging is soprano Elza van den Heever as the abused and unhinged antiheroine, who demands the head of Jochanaan, sung by celebrated baritone Peter Mattei. Tenor Gerhard Siegel is Salome’s lecherous stepfather, King Herod, with mezzo-soprano Michelle DeYoung as his wife, Herodias, and tenor Piotr Buszewski as Narraboth.
The opera is famous (at the time of its premiere, infamous) for its "Dance of the Seven Veils". The final scene is frequently heard as a concert-piece for dramatic sopranos.
The opera is in German and has a running time of 2 hours and 15 minutes.
The opera was banned in England until 1907!
Music Director Yannick Nézet-Séguin conducts his first Met performances of Strauss’s white-hot one-act tragedy, Salome, which receives its first new production at the company in 20 years.
Claus Guth, one of Europe’s leading opera directors, gives the biblical story—already filtered through the beautiful and strange imagination of Oscar Wilde’s play—a psychologically perceptive Victorian-era setting rich in symbolism and subtle shades of darkness and light.
Headlining the new staging is soprano Elza van den Heever as the abused and unhinged antiheroine, who demands the head of Jochanaan, sung by celebrated baritone Peter Mattei. Tenor Gerhard Siegel is Salome’s lecherous stepfather, King Herod, with mezzo-soprano Michelle DeYoung as his wife, Herodias, and tenor Piotr Buszewski as Narraboth.
The opera is famous (at the time of its premiere, infamous) for its "Dance of the Seven Veils". The final scene is frequently heard as a concert-piece for dramatic sopranos.
The opera is in German and has a running time of 2 hours and 15 minutes.
The opera was banned in England until 1907!
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Saturday, May 31st 2025, 1pm
Rossini’s effervescent comedy, Il Barbiere Di Siviglia, retakes the stage in Bartlett Sher’s madcap production. Mezzo-sopranos, Aigul Akhmetshina, headlines a winning ensemble as the feisty heroine, Rosina, alongside high-flying tenor Jack Swanson, in his Met debut, as her secret beloved, Count Almaviva. Baritone Andrey Zhilikhovsky stars as Figaro, the infamous barber of Seville, with bass-baritone Peter Kálmán as Dr. Bartolo and bass Alexander Vinogradov as Don Basilio rounding out the principal cast. Giacomo Sagripanti conducts. Rossini’s perfectly honed treasure survived a famously disastrous opening night (caused by factions and local politics more than any reaction to the work itself) to become what may be the world’s most popular comic opera. Its buoyant good humor and elegant melodies have delighted the diverse tastes of every generation for two centuries, and several of the opera’s most recognizable tunes have entered the world’s musical unconscious, most notably the introductory patter song of the swaggering Figaro, the titular barber of Seville. Sung in Italian, this opera runs 3 hours and 35 minutes with one intermission |
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