THE MET: LIVE
This season, The Grand will be screening ENCORES of all operas. These are recordings of the full live broadcast.
Students are welcome to attend any opera at no cost.
Grand opera patrons have provided funding to pay for student tickets - K through college. Email Kim Fitch for reservations.
Reserved Seating $29 Adult $27 Grand Member $22 Students (15 & under)
Season Ticket - Reserved Seating $180 Adult - $172 Grand Member
LA SONNAMBULA
BELLINI
(Recorded live October 14)
Saturday, November 1 - 1:00 pm
Following triumphant Met turns in Roméo et Juliette, La Traviata, and Lucia di Lammermoor, Nadine Sierra summits another peak of the soprano repertoire as Amina, who sleepwalks her way into audiences’ hearts in Bellini’s poignant tale of love lost and found. In his new production, Rolando Villazón—the tenor who has embarked on a brilliant second career as a director—retains the opera’s original setting in the Swiss Alps but uses its somnambulant plot to explore the emotional and psychological valleys of the mind. Tenor Xabier Anduaga returns after his acclaimed 2023 Met debut in L’Elisir d’Amore, co-starring as Amina’s fiancé Elvino, alongside soprano Sydney Mancasola as her rival, Lisa, and bass Alexander Vinogradov as Count Rodolfo. Riccardo Frizza takes the podium for one of opera’s most ravishing works.
ESTIMATED RUN TIME: 2 HRS 45 MINS (ONE INTERMISSION)
$29 Adults, $27 Grand Members, $22 Students (15&under) Reserved Seating
LA BOHEME
GIACOMO PUCCINI
(Recorded live November 4 )
Saturday, November 18 - 1:00 pm
With its enchanting setting and spellbinding score, the world’s most popular opera is as timeless as it is heartbreaking. Franco Zeffirelli’s picture-perfect production brings 19th-century Paris to the Met stage as Puccini’s young friends and lovers navigate the joy and struggle of bohemian life. Sopranos Juliana Grigoryan, Angel Blue, and Aleksandra Kurzak trade off as the feeble seamstress Mimì, opposite tenors Freddie De Tommaso, Stephen Costello, Adam Smith, and Long Long as the ardent poet Rodolfo.
ESTIMATED RUN TIME 3 HRS 5 MINS (TWO INTERMISSIONS)
$29 Adults, $27 Grand Members, $22 Students (15&under) Reserved Seating
Andrea Chenier
UMBERTO GIORDANO
(Recorded live December 9)
Saturday, January 17 - 1:00 pm
Giordano’s passionate tragedy stars tenor Piotr Beczała as the virtuous poet who falls victim to the intrigue and violence of the French Revolution. Following their celebrated recent partnership in Giordano’s Fedora, Beczała reunites with soprano Sonya Yoncheva as Chénier’s aristocratic lover, Maddalena di Coigny, with baritone Igor Golovatenko as Carlo Gérard, the agent of the Reign of Terror who seals their fates. Daniele Rustioni takes the podium to lead Nicolas Joël’s gripping staging.
ESTIMATED RUN TIME: 3 HRS 10 MINS (TWO INTERMISSIONS)
$29 Adults, $27 Grand Members, $22 Students (15&under) Reserved Seating
I Puritani
VINCENZO BELLINI
(Recorded live January 6)
Saturday, January 31 - 12:00 pm
For gorgeous melody, spellbinding coloratura, and virtuoso vocal fireworks, I Puritani has few equals. On New Year’s Eve, the curtain goes up on the first new Met production of Bellini’s final masterpiece in nearly 50 years—a striking staging by Charles Edwards, who makes his company directorial debut after many successes as a set designer. The Met has assembled a world-beating quartet of stars, conducted by Marco Armiliato, for the demanding principal roles. Soprano Lisette Oropesa and tenor Lawrence Brownlee are Elvira and Arturo, brought together by love and torn apart by the political rifts of the English Civil War, with baritone Artur Ruciński as Riccardo, betrothed to Elvira against her will, and bass-baritone Christian Van Horn as Elvira’s sympathetic uncle, Giorgio.
ESTIMATED RUN TIME: 3 HRS 20 MINS (ONE INTERMISSION)
$29 Adults, $27 Grand Members, $22 Students (15&under) Reserved Seating
Tristan Und Isolde
RICHARD WAGNER
(Recorded live)
Saturday, April 18 - 1:00 pm
After years of anticipation, a truly unmissable event arrives as the electrifying Lise Davidsen tackles one of the ultimate roles for dramatic soprano: the Irish princess Isolde in Wagner’s transcendent meditation on love and death. Heroic tenor Michael Spyres stars opposite Davidsen as the love-drunk Tristan. The momentous occasion also marks the advent of a new, Met-debut staging by Yuval Sharon—hailed by The New York Times as “the most visionary opera director of his generation” and the first American to direct an opera at the famed Wagner festival in Bayreuth—as well as Music Director Yannick Nézet-Séguin’s first time leading Tristan und Isolde at the Met. Mezzo soprano Ekaterina Gubanova reprises her signature portrayal of Brangäne, alongside bass-baritone Tomasz Konieczny, who sings Kurwenal after celebrated Met appearances in Wagner’s Der Fliegende Holländer and Ring cycle. Bass-baritone Ryan Speedo Green makes an important role debut as King Marke.
ESTIMATED RUN TIME: 4 HRS 50 MINS (TWO INTERMISSIONS)
$29 Adults, $27 Grand Members, $22 Students (15&under) Reserved Seating
Eugene Onegin
PYOTR ILYICH TCHAIKOVSKY
(Recorded live April 28)
Saturday, May 16 - 1:00 pm
Following her acclaimed 2024 company debut in Puccini’s Madama Butterfly, soprano Asmik Grigorian returns to the Met as Tatiana, the lovestruck young heroine in this ardent operatic adaptation of Pushkin. Baritone Igor Golovatenko reprises his portrayal of the urbane Onegin, who realizes his affection for her all too late. The Met’s evocative production, directed by Tony Award–winner Deborah Warner, “offers a beautifully detailed reading of … Tchaikovsky’s lyrical romance” (The Telegraph).
ESTIMATED RUN TIME: 3 HRS 45 MINS (TWO INTERMISSIONS)
$29 Adults, $27 Grand Members, $22 Students (15&under) Reserved Seating
El Ultimo Suero De Frida Y Diego
Gabriela Lena Frank/Libretto by Nilo Cruz
(Recorded live May 26)
Saturday, June 6 - 1:00 pm
American composer Gabriela Lena Frank makes her Met debut with her first opera, a magical-realist portrait of Mexico’s painterly power couple Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera, with libretto by Pulitzer Prize–winning playwright Nilo Cruz. Fashioned as a reversal of the Orpheus and Euridice myth, the story depicts Frida, sung by leading mezzo soprano Isabel Leonard, leaving the underworld on the Day of the Dead and reuniting with Diego, portrayed by baritone Carlos Álvarez. The famously feuding pair briefly relive their tumultuous love, embracing both the passion and the pain before bidding the land of the living a final farewell. Yannick Nézet-Séguin conducts the Met premiere of Frank’s opera, a “confident, richly imagined score” (The New Yorker) that “bursts with color and fresh individuality” (Los Angeles Times). The vibrant new production, taking enthusiastic inspiration from Frida and Diego’s paintings, is directed and choreographed by Deborah Colker, following her remarkable 2024 debut staging of Ainadamar.
ESTIMATED RUN TIME: 2 HRS 25 MINS (ONE INTERMISSION)
$29 Adults, $27 Grand Members, $22 Students (15&under) Reserved Seating
