Upcoming Concerts & Performances
10 upcoming concerts and performances from The Metropolitan Opera, with dates, venues and ticket links taken from the organization’s own pages and refreshed weekly. All opera in Greater Boston →
Sat Oct 17
Verdi's Macbeth, transmitted live in HD from the Met: soprano Lise Davidsen and baritone Quinn Kelsey as Shakespeare's scheming, murderous couple in Louisa Proske's powerful new production, with tenor Freddie De Tommaso as Macduff. Met music director Yannick Nézet-Séguin conducts, screened from the Met stage into cinemas.
Sat Nov 14 · 1:00pm
Richard Eyre's Met production of Bizet's opera, recorded in January 2010 and brought back to the Kendall Square screen as part of the Live in HD series' twentieth-anniversary season. Elīna Garanča is the cigarette girl who lives and dies on her own terms, Roberto Alagna the soldier who cannot let her go. Yannick Nézet-Séguin conducted, in his first Met season.
Sat Dec 5
Saint-Saëns's grand opera Samson et Dalila, screened live in HD from the Met: mezzo-soprano Aigul Akhmetshina and tenor Clay Hilley in the title roles of the biblical tale of seduction and vengeance, in Darko Tresnjak's epic staging. Giacomo Sagripanti conducts, transmitted from the Met stage.
Sat Dec 12 · 1:00pm
The abridged English-language Magic Flute that opened the Met's cinema series in December 2006, returned to theatres for the holidays. Julie Taymor's puppet-filled staging of Mozart's fairy tale features Matthew Polenzani as Tamino, Nathan Gunn as the bird-catcher Papageno and René Pape as Sarastro. A recorded performance of about two hours, suited to families and first-time opera-goers.
Sat Jan 23
Puccini's Gold Rush opera, which had its premiere at the Met in 1910, follows Minnie, who runs a saloon in a California mining camp and stakes the life of the bandit she loves on a poker game with the sheriff. This live HD transmission shows Richard Jones's new staging, with Vida Miknevičiūtė making her Met debut as Minnie opposite SeokJong Baek and Christopher Maltman; Keri-Lynn Wilson conducts.
Sat Mar 20
Kevin Puts's Pulitzer-winning Silent Night, receiving its Met premiere and a live-HD cinema transmission: the true story of the 1914 Christmas truce, when First World War soldiers crossed the trenches to sing carols with the enemy. Dalia Stasevska conducts James Robinson's staging.
Sat Apr 3
Massenet's passionate drama Manon, screened live in HD from the Met: soprano Nadine Sierra in the title role opposite tenor Matthew Polenzani as her idealistic lover, the Chevalier des Grieux, in Laurent Pelly's breathtaking Belle Époque production. Yves Abel conducts, transmitted from the Met stage.
Sat Apr 24
Verdi's monumental Shakespearean drama Otello, transmitted live in HD from the Met: tenor Brian Jagde in the tour-de-force title role with soprano Ailyn Pérez as Desdemona, in Bartlett Sher's production. Michele Mariotti leads the full forces of the Met orchestra and chorus, screened in cinemas.
Sat May 8 · 1:00pm
David McVicar's Met production of Puccini's thriller of painter, diva and police chief in Napoleonic Rome, recorded in November 2024 and screened again as an encore. Lise Davidsen sings Tosca, Freddie De Tommaso is Cavaradossi and Quinn Kelsey the predatory Scarpia. Yannick Nézet-Séguin conducts; the Kendall Square showing is the series' last encore of the season.
Sat Jun 5
Wagner's transcendent final opera Parsifal, screened live in HD from the Met in François Girard's acclaimed production. Tenor Piotr Beczała sings the title role, with mezzo-soprano Elīna Garanča as Kundry and baritone Peter Mattei as Amfortas; music director Yannick Nézet-Séguin conducts the nearly six-hour work.
