10. NYC: The Metropolitan Opera Tickets
Choose from the following operas on stage this season:
Le Nozze di Figaro
Two exciting conductors, Daniele Rustioni and James Gaffigan, take the podium to lead Mozart’s breathless and breathtaking comedy.
Idomeneo
The young Mozart’s genius to the world returns to the Met stage, with acclaimed maestro Manfred Honeck making a notable company debut on the podium.
Lady Macbeth
The story of a lonely woman in 19th-century Russia who falls in love with one of her husband's workers and is driven to murder.
Medea
Sondra Radvanovsky opens the new season as the mythic sorceress who will stop at nothing in her quest for vengeance.
Peter Grimes
Benjamin Britten’s masterpiece delivers a tragically realistic rendering of the mistrust, misunderstandings, and dark secrets that lurk within even the closest communities.
Tosca
Puccini’s melodrama about a volatile diva, a sadistic police chief, and an idealistic artist has offended and thrilled audiences for more than a century.
Aida
The mighty walls and towering monuments of ancient Egypt once again fill the Met stage, as Verdi’s great spectacle returns.
Champion
Ryan Speedo Green is the young boxer, Emile Griffith, who rises from obscurity to become a world champion, and Eric Owens portrays Griffith’s older self, haunted by the ghosts of his past.
Der Fliegende Hollander
Tomasz Konieczny stars as the accursed Dutchman in Wagner’s eerie drama, alongside incandescent soprano Elza van den Heever as the woman determined to redeem his soul.
Die Zauberflote
One of opera’s most beloved works—a daring vision by renowned English director Simon McBurney that The Wall Street Journal declared “the best production I’ve ever witnessed of Mozart’s opera.”
Don Carlo
Russell Thomas, one of today’s fastest-rising tenors, takes on the title role, a Spanish nobleman caught between private passion and public duty.
Don Giovanni
Tony Award–winning director, Ivo van Hove, makes a major Met debut with a new take on Mozart’s tragicomedy, re-setting the familiar tale of deceit and damnation in an abstract architectural landscape and shining a light into the dark corners of the story and its characters.
Fedora
Umberto Giordano’s exhilarating drama, packed with memorable melody, showstopping arias, and explosive confrontations.
L'Elisir d'Amore
Donizetti’s heartwarming comedy stars some of today’s most celebrated bel canto singers as the spunky landowner and the hapless peasant in search of love.
La Boheme
Music Director Yannick Nézet-Séguin conducts Puccini’s timeless tragedy for the first time at the Met, leading soprano Eleonora Buratto and tenor Stephen Costello as the bohemian lovers Mimì and Rodolfo
La TraviataThree captivating sopranos with many previous triumphs to their names—Nadine Sierra, Ermonela Jaho, and Angel Blue— star as the self-sacrificing courtesan Violetta, one of opera’s ultimate heroines.
Lohengrin
Wagner’s soaring masterpiece makes its triumphant return to the Met stage. Director François Girard unveils an atmospheric staging that once again weds his striking visual style and keen dramatic insight to Wagner’s breathtaking music.
Magic Flute
The Met’s abridged, family-friendly version of Mozart’s musical fairy tale returns for the holiday season.
Norma
Soprano Sonya Yoncheva adds another major heroine to her impressive list of Met roles, starring as the fearless title priestess of Bellini’s scorching bel canto drama.
Rigoletto
After a lauded premiere on New Year’s Eve 2021, Bartlett Sher’s Art Deco–inspired production of Verdi’s ever-popular masterpiece returns for its first revival.
The Hours
Inspired by Virginia Woolf’s Mrs. Dalloway and made a household name by the Oscar-winning 2002 film version starring Meryl Streep, Julianne Moore, and Nicole Kidman, the powerful story concerns three women from different eras who each grapple with their inner demons and their roles in society.