Met’s 2025-26 Season
Met Opera’s 2025-26 Season Kicks Off with ‘The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay’
The 2025-26 Met: Live in HD series
The 2025-26 Met: Live in HD series will feature screenings of “La Sonnambula,” “La Bohéme,” “Arabella,” “Andrea Chenier,” “I Puritani,” “Tristan und Isolde,” “Eugene Onegin,” and “El Último Sueño de Frida y Diego.” Eight titles in total.
Six of our old friends are starring in Met’s new season
Our previous guest Joyce DiDonato will star as the waitress in the Met premiere of Innocence, the final opera by Finnish composer Kaija Saariaho.
Director Yuval Sharon is set to make his highly anticipated debut at the Met with a new production of Wagner’s “Tristan und Isolde.” The production will feature soprano Lise Davidsen as Princess Isolde and tenor Michael Spyres, our interviewee earlier as Tristan.
Charles Edwards will also make his directorial debut at the Met, leading the first new production of “I Puritani” since 1976. Edwards’ set designs have previously been featured at the Met in productions such as “Il Trovatore,” “Adriana Lecouvreur,” “Don Carlos,” and “Fedora.” Set against the backdrop of the English Civil War, “I Puritani” will star two magnifisent singers who talked to us before: soprano Lisette Oropesa as Elvira, with tenor Lawrence Brownlee and baritone Artur Ruciński portraying her rival suitors, a Royalist and a Roundhead, who vie for her affection and the future of England. Brownlee returns to his renowned role of Arturo, which includes the famously high F above C, the highest tenor note in standard operatic repertoire. Brownlee and Oropesa are becoming a powerhouse duo in “I Puritani,” currently performing these roles at the Opera National de Paris and having released a recording of the opera in December 2024.
Charles I won’t be the only monarch facing a dramatic fate this season, as Umberto Giordano’s “Andrea Chenier” returns to the Met for the first time since 2014. Set during the French Revolution, this opera stars our prior interviewee, tenor Piotr Beczała, as the titular Romantic poet, soprano Sonya Yoncheva as the noblewoman Maddalena di Coigny, and baritone Igor Golovatenko as the revolutionary Carlo Gérard. Daniele Rustioni will conduct, marking the beginning of his three-year tenure as Principal Guest Conductor at the Met.
Richard Strauss’ “Arabella” will return to the Met for the first time since 2014. This opera, the final collaboration between Strauss and librettist Hugo von Hofmannsthal, explores the complex engagements of Arabella and her sister Zdenka, who has been raised as a boy named Zdenko due to financial constraints. Sopranos Rachel Willis-Sørensen and Louise Alder will star as Arabella and Zdenka/Zdenko, respectively, with Willis-Sørensen making her role debut and Alder her house debut. Baritone Tomasz Konieczny and the former guest of ours tenor Pavol Breslik will portray Mandryka and Matteo, Arabella’s rival suitors, with Matteo receiving assistance from Arabella’s “brother,” who secretly loves him.
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