Wagner’s epic final opera, set in a sacred realm of ritual and mystery, unfolds as a meditation on healing and redemption with a medieval knight’s heroic quest for the Holy Grail.

François Girard’s celebrated production, a “thoughtful and intrepid staging, full of striking imagery” (The New York Times), features tenor Piotr Beczała (Andrea Chénier, Aida, Carmen, Lohengrin, Fedora) in the title role, alongside an all-star cast.

CAST: Elīna Garanča, Piotr Beczała, Peter Mattei, Ryan Speedo Green, Jongmin Park, Alfred Walker
CONDUCTOR: Yannick Nézet-Séguin
DIRECTOR: François Girard

ESTIMATED RUNTIME: 6 hours and 5 minutes, with two intermissions

Refreshments will be available for purchase at the Coffee Bar, including fresh sandwiches, and are permitted in the theater.

Verdi’s monumental Shakespearean tragedy follows a triumphant war hero driven to destruction by jealousy and his enemies’ hatred. The ultimate Italian opera returns to cinemas with tenor Brian Jagde (La Forza del Destino) taking on the tour-de-force title role, opposite soprano Ailyn Pérez (Florencia en el Amazonas, Falstaff) as Desdemona.

CAST: Ailyn Pérez, Deborah Nansteel, Brian Jagde, Piotr Buszewski, Artur Ruciński, Vitalij Kowaljow
CONDUCTOR: Michele Mariotti
DIRECTOR: Bartlett Sher

ESTIMATED RUNTIME: 3 hours and 20 minutes, with one intermission

Refreshments will be available for purchase at the Coffee Bar, including fresh sandwiches, and are permitted in the theater.

A masterpiece of the French repertoire, Massenet’s passionate drama follows the young Manon on her journey from Parisian glamour to tragic downfall.

Superstar soprano Nadine Sierra (La Sonnambula, Roméo et Juliette, La Traviata, Lucia di Lammermoor) takes on another alluring French heroine, the irresistible title character of Massenet’s passionate drama, in a stylish staging by director Laurent Pelly (Cendrillon).

CAST: Nadine Sierra, Matthew Polenzani, Carlo Bosi, Andrzej Filończyk, Rod Gilfry, Jean Teitgen
CONDUCTOR: Yves Abel
DIRECTOR: Laurent Pelly

ESTIMATED RUNTIME: 4 hours and 25 minutes, with two intermissions

Refreshments will be available for purchase at the Coffee Bar, including fresh sandwiches, and are permitted in the theater.

One of the 21st century’s most powerful new works, this opera draws inspiration from the true events of the 1914 Christmas truce, when soldiers spontaneously set aside the horrors of the First World War and crossed the trenches to mingle, exchange gifts, and sing carols with the enemy.

Composer Kevin Puts (The Hours) returns to the Met with his Pulitzer Prize–winning first opera, hailed as “an overwhelming emotive experience” (The Guardian), in an evocative staging by director James Robinson (Champion, Porgy and Bess) that takes the audience directly to the battlefields of the Western Front.

CAST: Elza van den Heever, Ben Bliss, Rolando Villazón, Ben Reisinger, Mattia Olivieri, Justin Austin, Ryan McKinny, Kyle Ketelsen
CONDUCTOR: Dalia Stasevska
DIRECTOR: James Robinson

ESTIMATED RUNTIME: 3 hours, with one intermission

Refreshments will be available for purchase at the Coffee Bar, including fresh sandwiches, and are permitted in the theater.

Saint-Saëns’s operatic take on the classic biblical story follows Samson, the hero of legendary strength, and Dalila, the seductive Philistine whose beauty overpowers him.

The Met’s larger-than-life production returns, featuring a massiv orchestra and chorus and some of opera’s most spellbinding tunes. Mezzo-soprano Aigul Akhmetshina (Il Barbiere di Siviglia, Carmen) and tenor Clay Hilley star as the title pair.

CAST: Aigul Akhmetshina, Clay Hilley, Quinn Kelsey, Alfred Walker, Morris Robinson
CONDUCTOR: Giacomo Sagripanti
DIRECTOR: Darko Tresnjak

ESTIMATED RUNTIME: 3 hours and 55 minutes, with two intermissions

Refreshments will be available for purchase at the Coffee Bar, including fresh sandwiches, and are permitted in the theater.

Set during the California Gold Rush, Minnie, the gun-slinging tavern owner with a heart of gold, finds love in the arms of a dashing outlaw. Celebrated British director Richard Jones brings a new production of Puccini’s exhilarating drama of the Wild West to the Met, which marks The company’s first new staging of La Fanciulla del West in more than 30 years. Soprano Vida Miknevičiūtė makes an important Met debut as Minnie, starring alongside tenor SeokJong Baek as Dick Johnson.

CAST: Vida Miknevičiūtė, SeokJong Baek, Christopher Maltman
CONDUCTOR: Keri-Lynn Wilson
DIRECTOR: Richard Jones

ESTIMATED RUNTIME: 3 hours and 15 minutes, with one intermission

Refreshments will be available for purchase at the Coffee Bar, including fresh sandwiches, and are permitted in the theater.