A Comedic Play by Larry Gelbert
Directed by Susan Stroman
Starring Dan Bucatinsky, Danny Burstein, Debra Monk & David Hyde Pierce
As Better Late opens, composer Lee Baer (Danny Burstein) is forced by his wife, Nora (Debra Monk), to take in her ex-husband, Julian (David Hyde Pierce), after he suffers a stroke. Tension mounts as Julian’s presence makes it increasingly difficult for Lee to write, while long-simmering family dynamics come to the surface. Matters become even more complicated when Julian and Nora’s son, Billy (Dan Bucatinsky), reveals he is navigating a divorce of his own. How long will Julian stay—and how long before Lee finally cracks?
Directed by five-time Tony Award winner Susan Stroman, this biting December-December romance is a witty, heartfelt comedy about love, family, and the unexpected ways life keeps rewriting the script.
Better Late is presented by arrangement with Concord Theatricals on behalf of Samuel French, Inc.
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.
Celebrate the Met’s two decades of onstage glory as experienced in movie theaters, featuring highlights from the company’s collection of more than 185 extraordinary onscreen performances.
Hosted by star soprano Renée Fleming, this special presentation will showcase unforgettable moments from some of opera’s greatest stars, culled from the series’s vast archive of transmissions.
FEATURING: Renée Fleming, Lise Davidsen, Nadine Sierra, Natalie Dessay, Sondra Radvanovsky, Joyce DiDonato, Elīna Garanča, Jonas Kaufmann, Matthew Polenzani, Dmitri Hvorostovsky, Peter Mattei, and more
ESTIMATED RUNTIME: 2 hours and 30 minutes
Refreshments will be available for purchase at the Coffee Bar, including fresh sandwiches, and are permitted in the theater.
Overflowing with gorgeous melody, Mozart’s witty romantic comedy follows two sailors who switch places to test their fiancées’ faithfulness, with hilarious results.
Hailed as “colorful, inventive” by The New York Times, Phelim McDermott’s (Satyagraha, Akhnaten, The Hours, The Enchanted Island) production updates the setting to an amusement park inspired by Coney Island in the 1950s, featuring sword swallowers, fire breathers, contortionists, and more.
CAST Federica Lombardi, Samantha Hankey, Ana María Martínez, Duke Kim, Andrey Zhilikhovsky, Gerald Finley
CONDUCTOR Nimrod David Pfeffer
DIRECTOR Phelim McDermott
ESTIMATED RUNTIME: 4 hours, with one intermission
Refreshments will be available for purchase at the Coffee Bar, including fresh sandwiches, and are permitted in the theater.
In the Hand of Dante follows the parallel lives of a New York author (Nick Tosches) in the 21st century, who embarks on a violent journey after he is recruited by a mafia don to steal Italian poet Dante Alighieri’s The Divine Comedy written in the poet’s own hand, and Dante in the 14th century seeking inspiration to write his most important work – each man unknowingly connected through time and their obsessive quest for love, beauty, and the divine.
Starring Oscar Isaac, Gerard Butler, John Malkovich, Franco Nero, Gal Gadot, Martin Scorsese, Jason Momoa, Al Pacino, Louis Cancelmi, Sabrina Impacciatore, Benjamin Clementine, and Paolo Bonacelli, the film features an extraordinary international ensemble cast led by acclaimed artist and filmmaker Julian Schnabel.
Directed by Julian Schnabel
USA | 2025 | 153 mins | English
