Now celebrating 20 years in cinemas, The Met: Live in HD is the Metropolitan Opera’s Peabody and Emmy Award–winning series of opera performances transmitted live from the stage of the Met in New York into movie theaters and event spaces worldwide. Highlights of the season ahead include the company premiere of Silent Night, the Pulitzer Prize-winning first opera by composer Kevin Puts (The Hours) with librettist Mark Campbell; a new production of Verdi’s riveting Macbeth pairing superstar soprano Lise Davidsen with charismatic baritone Quinn Kelsey, staged by rising star director Louisa Proske; and the first new Met production in more than 30 years of La Fanciulla del West, Puccini’s California Gold Rush drama, staged by celebrated British director Richard Jones. The rest of the season promises beloved classics featuring Met favorites like Nadine Sierra, Ailyn Pérez, Elīna Garanča, Brian Jagde, and Piotr Beczała. See everything from the best seat in the house, enhanced by pre-show discussions with opera experts.
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Screenings
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Opera | FilmCosì fan tutte
Sat, Oct 3, 2026
Così fan tutte
Sat, Oct 3, 2026REVIVALMozart’s satirical comedy of fickle young love, one of the composer’s most sublime creations, returns in Phelim McDermott’s “colorful, inventive” (The New York Times) Coney Island-inspired staging.Pre-screening lecture with Marc Scorca begins at 12pm with screening to follow at 1pm. -
Live Broadcast | Opera | FilmMacbeth
Sat, Oct 17, 2026
Macbeth
Sat, Oct 17, 2026NEW PRODUCTIONTwo of opera’s most extraordinary artists, soprano Lise Davidsen and baritone Quinn Kelsey, star in Verdi’s thrilling take on Shakespeare’s immortal tale, in a penetrating new production by Louisa Proske.Pre-screening lecture with Fred Plotkin begins at 12pm with screening to follow at 1pm. -
Live Broadcast | Opera | FilmSamson et Dalila
Sat, Dec 5, 2026
Samson et Dalila
Sat, Dec 5, 2026REVIVALSacred, scandalous, and alluring, Saint-Saëns’s spectacular take on the biblical hero and the Philistine seductress whose beauty overpowers him returns in the Met’s larger-than-life production.Pre-screening lecture with Fred Plotkin begins at 11am with screening to follow at 12pm. -
Live Broadcast | Opera | FilmLa Fanciulla del West
Sat, Jan 23, 2027
La Fanciulla del West
Sat, Jan 23, 2027NEW PRODUCTIONPuccini’s exhilarating California Gold Rush drama returns in a new staging by celebrated British director Richard Jones, marking the Met’s first new production of the opera in more than 30 years.Pre-screening lecture with Marc Scorca begins at 12pm with screening to follow at 1pm. -
Live Broadcast | Opera | FilmSilent Night
Sat, Mar 20, 2027
Silent Night
Sat, Mar 20, 2027NEW PRODUCTIONFollowing his smash-hit company debut with The Hours, composer Kevin Puts returns to the Met with his Pulitzer Prize–winning first opera, inspired by the true events of the 1914 Christmas truce.Pre-screening lecture with Fred Plotkin begins at 12pm with screening to follow at 1pm. -
Live Broadcast | Opera | FilmManon
Sat, Apr 3, 2027
Manon
Sat, Apr 3, 2027REVIVALFollowing her radiant performance in Gounod’s Roméo et Juliette, superstar soprano Nadine Sierra takes on another alluring French heroine: the irresistible title character of Massenet’s passionate drama.Pre-screening lecture with Marc Scorca begins at 11am with screening to follow at 12pm. -
Live Broadcast | Opera | FilmOtello
Sat, Apr 24, 2027
Otello
Sat, Apr 24, 2027REVIVALDramatic tenor Brian Jagde takes on the tour-de-force title role of what many consider the ultimate Italian opera, Verdi’s monumental Shakespearean tragedy, featuring soprano Ailyn Pérez as Desdemona.Pre-screening lecture with Fred Plotkin begins at 12pm with screening to follow at 1pm. -
Live Broadcast | Opera | FilmParsifal
Sat, Jun 5, 2027
Parsifal
Sat, Jun 5, 2027REVIVALMet Music Director Yannick Nézet-Séguin conducts a cast of Wagnerian superstars, including tenor Piotr Beczała, in this transcendent rendering of a medieval knight’s heroic quest for the Holy Grail.Pre-screening lecture with Marc Scorca begins at 11am with screening to follow at 12pm.
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Discussion Info
BAM offers pre-screening discussions with a noted opera expert before every presentation unless noted otherwise.
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