Les Contes d’Hoffmann 

Sunday, 15th December 2024 

Jacques Offenbach’s fantastical final work, which takes inspiration from the successful play based on the stories of German writer E. T. A. Hoffmann, opens the season. French tenor Benjamin Bernheim, who performed at the closing ceremony of the Paris 2024 Summer Olympic Games to millions of viewers, makes his Met role debut as the title character. Soprano Erin Morley, soprano and winner of Operalia 2011 Pretty Yende and mezzosoprano Clémentine Margaine complete the leading ensemble. 

Grounded 

Saturday, 19th January 2024 

Two-time Tony Award-winning composer Jeanine Tesori makes her company debut with the first of two operas by female composers commissioned by the Met. This multi-character adaptation of George Brant’s acclaimed play is a production that wrestles with the ethical quandaries and psychological toll of 21st-century warfare. Canadian mezzo-soprano  Emily D’Angelo, for whom Tesori wrote this role, portrays Jess, an F-16 fighter pilot.  “Grounded… reflects our commitment to expanding the operatic canon with works that comment on the world in which we live,” says  Peter Gelb, the company’s Maria Manetti Shrem General Manager. “It is with such operas that the Met is attracting a younger and broader audience.

Tosca 

Sunday, 22nd February 2025 

A highlight of the season is the Met’s revival of Tosca with the return of the powerhouse Norwegian soprano Lise Davidsen— winner of Operalia 2015— as the passionate titular diva. David McVicar’s thrilling production of Puccini’s most memorable melodies features British-Italian tenor Freddie De Tommaso as Tosca’s revolutionary lover, Cavaradossi, and award-winning American baritone Quinn Kelsey as the sadistic chief of police Scarpia. Maestro Xian Zhang conducts the electrifying score. 

Aida 

Saturday, 23rd March 2025 

She moved the audiences at the NCPA with her stirring rendition of Strauss’s Four Last Songs under the baton of Zubin Mehta at the SOI Autumn 2024 Season and now, celebrated soprano Angel Blue headlines as the Ethiopian princess torn between love and country in a new production of Verdi’s Aida. Mezzo-soprano Judit Kutasi stars as Aida’s rival, Amneris, alongside tenor Piotr Beczała as Radamès—completing opera’s greatest love triangle. Music Director Yannick Nézet-Séguin conducts the Met orchestra in this production by Michael Mayer that brings audiences inside the towering pyramids and gilded tombs of ancient Egypt with intricate projections and dazzling animations.

Fidelio 

Sunday, 19th April 2025 

The first-ever Met Live in HD transmission of Beethoven’s Fidelio features the extraordinary Lise Davidsen as Leonore, the faithful wife who risks everything to save her husband from the clutches of tyranny. The sole opera by the great German composer was, in fact, originally titled Leonore, or The Triumph of Marital Love. Completing the distinguished cast is British tenor David Butt Philip as the political prisoner Florestan, Polish bass-baritone Tomasz Konieczny as the villainous Don Pizarro and veteran German bass René Pape as the jailer Rocco. Susanna Mälkki conducts the performance, which will be broadcast as a screening.

Le Nozze di Figaro 

Saturday, 31st May 2025 

An all-star cast features in the revival of Mozart’s timeless comedy under the baton of Joana Mallwitz, making her Met debut. American bass-baritone Michael Sumuel as the clever valet Figaro, Ukrainian soprano Olga Kulchynska as the wily maid Susanna, Canadian baritone Joshua Hopkins as the skirt-chasing Count, Italian soprano Federica Lombardi as his anguished wife, and French mezzo-soprano Marianne Crebassa as the adolescent pageboy Cherubino complete the ensemble. The opera is based on the Figaro trilogy by French playwright Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais. To read about how Beaumarchais almost presaged the French Revolution in writing Le Nozze di Figaro, please refer to The Printed Word section in this issue.

Salome 

Saturday, 28th June 2025 

Met Music Director Yannick Nézet-Séguin takes the podium to conduct Strauss’s one-act tragedy. Leading the company’s first new production of the work in 20 years, Claus Guth, one of Europe’s leading opera directors, gives the biblical story a psychologically perceptive Victorian-era setting. South African soprano Elza van den Heever leads a celebrated cast as the abused and unhinged anti-heroine, with Swedish baritone Peter Mattei as the imprisoned prophet Jochanaan and German tenor Gerhard Siegel as Salome’s lecherous stepfather, King Herod.

The Barber of Seville 

Saturday, 2nd August 2025 

The season comes to a close with a screening of Rossini’s effervescent comedy, also from the aforementioned Figaro trilogy. Rising Russian star Aigul Akhmetshina headlines a winning ensemble as the feisty heroine, Rosina, alongside American tenor Jack Swanson, in his Met debut, as her secret beloved, Count Almaviva. Moldovan baritone Andrey Zhilikhovsky stars as Figaro, the ingenious barber of Seville, with Hungarian bass-baritone Peter Kálmán as Dr. Bartolo and Russian bass Alexander Vinogradov as Don Basilio rounding out the principal cast. Giacomo Sagripanti conducts Bartlett Sher’s madcap production.

All screenings include English subtitles and will be held at the Godrej Dance Theatre. 

(Photo Credits)

AMES HOLE (LISE DAVIDSEN, TOSCA)

LERA NURGALIEVA (AIGUL AKHMETSHINA, THE BARBER OF SEVILLE)