The Metropolitan Opera’s award-winning Live in HD series returns to cinemas this October! Don’t miss the chance to experience thrilling live opera transmissions, special interviews, and behind-the-scenes features from the comfort of your local cinema.
All live events take place on Saturdays and are followed by special encore presentations of each screening at a later date. The full schedule of presentations in the 2025-26 season is listed below.
Saturday, October 18th, 2025 - 10:00 AM PT
Following triumphant Live in HD performances in Gounod’s Roméo et Juliette, Verdi’s La Traviata, and Donizetti’s Lucia di Lammermoor, Nadine Sierra summits another peak of the soprano repertoire as Amina, who sleepwalks her way into audiences’ hearts in Bellini’s poignant tale of love lost and found. In his new production, Rolando Villazón—the tenor who has embarked on a brilliant second career as a director—retains the opera’s original setting in the Swiss Alps but uses its somnambulant plot to explore the emotional and psychological valleys of the mind. Tenor Xabier Anduaga co-stars as Amina’s fiancé, Elvino, alongside soprano Sydney Mancasola as her rival, Lisa, and bass Alexander Vinogradov as Count Rodolfo. Riccardo Frizza takes the podium for one of opera’s most ravishing works, which will be transmitted live from the Met stage to cinemas on October 18.
SUNG IN
ITALIAN
ESTIMATED RUN TIME
3 HRS 15 MINS, WITH ONE INTERMISSION
Buy tickets for La Sonnambula live in the theatre here.
Buy tickets for La Sonnambula encore in the theatre here.
Saturday, November 8th, 2025 - 10:00 AM PT
With its enchanting setting and spellbinding score, the world’s most popular opera is as timeless as it is heartbreaking. Franco Zeffirelli’s picture-perfect production brings 19th-century Paris to the Met stage as Puccini’s young friends and lovers navigate the joy and struggle of bohemian life. Soprano Juliana Grigoryan is the feeble seamstress Mimì, opposite tenor Freddie De Tommaso as the ardent poet Rodolfo. Keri-Lynn Wilson conducts the November 8 performance, which will be transmitted live from the Met stage to cinemas worldwide. This live cinema transmission is part of the Met’s award-winning Live in HD series, bringing opera to movie theaters across the globe.
SUNG IN
ITALIAN
ESTIMATED RUN TIME
3 HRS 30 MINS, WITH TWO INTERMISSIONS
Buy tickets for La Bohème live in the theatre here.
Buy tickets for La Bohème encore in the theatre here.
Saturday, November 22nd, 2025 - 10:00 AM PT
On November 22, Strauss’s elegant romance brings the glamour and enchantment of 19th-century Vienna to cinemas worldwide in a sumptuous production by legendary director Otto Schenk that “is as beautiful as one could hope” (The New York Times). Soprano Rachel Willis-Sørensen stars as the title heroine, a young noblewoman in search of love on her own terms. Radiant soprano Louise Alder is her sister, Zdenka, and bass-baritone Tomasz Konieczny is the dashing count who sweeps Arabella off her feet.
SUNG IN
GERMAN
ESTIMATED RUN TIME
4 HRS 10 MINS, WITH TWO INTERMISSIONS
Buy tickets for Arabella live in the theatre here.
Buy tickets for Arabella encore in the theatre here.
Saturday, November 22nd, 2025 - 10:00 AM PT
A treasured holiday tradition, Mozart’s heartwarming fairy tale takes the stage in the Met’s abridged, English-language production by Julie Taymor—the Tony Award–winning director of Broadway’s The Lion King. Featuring some of opera’s most popular melodies and brought to life with colorful sets and costumes and dazzling puppetry, it’s perfect for audiences of all ages.
SUNG IN
ENGLISH
Buy tickets for The Magic Flute encore in the theatre here.
Saturday, December 13th, 2025 - 10:00 AM PT
Giordano’s passionate tragedy stars tenor Piotr Beczała as the virtuous poet who falls victim to the intrigue and violence of the French Revolution. Following their celebrated recent partnership in Giordano’s Fedora in the 2022–23 Live in HD season, Beczała reunites with soprano Sonya Yoncheva as Chénier’s aristocratic lover, Maddalena di Coigny, with baritone Igor Golovatenko as Carlo Gérard, the agent of the Reign of Terror who seals their fates. Met Principal Guest Conductor Daniele Rustioni takes the podium to lead Nicolas Joël’s gripping staging, which will be transmitted live from the Met stage to cinemas on December 13.
SUNG IN
ITALIAN
ESTIMATED RUN TIME
3 HRS 30 MINS, WITH TWO INTERMISSIONS
Buy tickets for Andrea Chénier live in the theatre here.
Buy tickets for Andrea Chénier encore in the theatre here.
Saturday, January 10th, 2026 – 10:00 AM PT
For gorgeous melody, spellbinding coloratura, and virtuoso vocal fireworks, I Puritani has few equals. On January 10, the first new Met production of Bellini’s final masterpiece in nearly 50 years—a striking staging by Charles Edwards, who makes his company directorial debut after many successes as a set designer—arrives in cinemas worldwide. The Met has assembled a world-beating quartet of stars, conducted by Marco Armiliato, for the demanding principal roles. Soprano Lisette Oropesa and tenor Lawrence Brownlee are Elvira and Arturo, brought together by love and torn apart by the political rifts of the English Civil War, with baritone Artur Ruciński as Riccardo, betrothed to Elvira against her will, and bass-baritone Christian Van Horn as Elvira’s sympathetic uncle, Giorgio.
SUNG IN
ITALIAN
ESTIMATED RUN TIME
3 HRS 45 MINS, WITH ONE INTERMISSION
Buy tickets for I Puritani live in the theatre here.
Buy tickets for I Puritani encore in the theatre here.
Saturday, January 10th, 2026 – 10:00 AM PT
For gorgeous melody, spellbinding coloratura, and virtuoso vocal fireworks, I Puritani has few equals. On January 10, the first new Met production of Bellini’s final masterpiece in nearly 50 years—a striking staging by Charles Edwards, who makes his company directorial debut after many successes as a set designer—arrives in cinemas worldwide. The Met has assembled a world-beating quartet of stars, conducted by Marco Armiliato, for the demanding principal roles. Soprano Lisette Oropesa and tenor Lawrence Brownlee are Elvira and Arturo, brought together by love and torn apart by the political rifts of the English Civil War, with baritone Artur Ruciński as Riccardo, betrothed to Elvira against her will, and bass-baritone Christian Van Horn as Elvira’s sympathetic uncle, Giorgio.
SUNG IN
ITALIAN
ESTIMATED RUN TIME
3 HRS 45 MINS, WITH ONE INTERMISSION
Buy tickets for I Puritani live in the theatre here.
Buy tickets for I Puritani encore in the theatre here.
Saturday, March 21st, 2026 – 9:00 AM PT
After years of anticipation, a truly unmissable event arrives in cinemas worldwide on March 21 as the electrifying Lise Davidsen tackles one of the ultimate roles for dramatic soprano: the Irish princess Isolde in Wagner’s transcendent meditation on love and death. Heroic tenor Michael Spyres stars opposite Davidsen as the love-drunk Tristan. The momentous occasion also marks the advent of a new, Met-debut staging by Yuval Sharon—hailed by The New York Times as “the most visionary opera director of his generation” and the first American to direct an opera at the famed Wagner festival in Bayreuth—as well as Music Director Yannick Nézet-Séguin’s first time leading Tristan und Isolde at the Met. Mezzo-soprano Ekaterina Gubanova reprises her signature portrayal of Brangäne, alongside bass-baritone Tomasz Konieczny, who sings Kurwenal after celebrated Met appearances in Wagner’s Der Fliegende Holländer and Ring cycle. Bass-baritone Ryan Speedo Green makes an important role debut as King Marke.
SUNG IN
GERMAN
ESTIMATED RUN TIME
5 HRS 10 MINS, WITH TWO INTERMISSIONS
Buy tickets for Tristan und Isolde live in the theatre here.
Buy tickets for Tristan und Isolde encore in the theatre here.
Saturday, May 2nd, 2026 – 10:00 AM PT
Following her acclaimed 2024 company debut in Puccini’s Madama Butterfly, soprano Asmik Grigorian returns to the Met as Tatiana, the lovestruck young heroine in this ardent operatic adaptation of Pushkin, which will be transmitted live from the Metropolitan Opera stage to cinemas worldwide on May 2. Baritone Igor Golovatenko is the urbane Onegin, who realizes his affection for her all too late. The Met’s evocative production, directed by Tony Award–winner Deborah Warner, “offers a beautifully detailed reading of … Tchaikovsky’s lyrical romance” (The Telegraph).
SUNG IN
RUSSIAN
ESTIMATED RUN TIME
4 HRS 5 MINS, WITH TWO INTERMISSIONS
Buy tickets for Eugene Onegin live in the theatre here.
Buy tickets for Eugene Onegin encore in the theatre here.
Saturday, May 30th, 2026 – 10:00 AM PT
On May 30, the Metropolitan Opera’s 2025–26 Live in HD season comes to a close with a live transmission of American composer Gabriela Lena Frank’s first opera, a magical-realist portrait of Mexico’s painterly power couple Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera, with libretto by Pulitzer Prize–winning playwright Nilo Cruz. Fashioned as a reversal of the Orpheus and Euridice myth, the story depicts Frida, sung by leading mezzo-soprano Isabel Leonard, leaving the underworld on the Day of the Dead and reuniting with Diego, portrayed by baritone Carlos Álvarez. The famously feuding pair briefly relive their tumultuous love, embracing both the passion and the pain before bidding the land of the living a final farewell. Music Director Yannick Nézet-Séguin conducts the Met-premiere staging of Frank’s opera, a “confident, richly imagined score” (The New Yorker) that “bursts with color and fresh individuality” (Los Angeles Times).
SUNG IN
SPANISH
ESTIMATED RUN TIME
2 HRS 50 MINS, WITH ONE INTERMISSION
Buy tickets for El Último Sueño de Frida y Diego live in the theatre here.
Buy tickets for El Último Sueño de Frida y Diego encore in the theatre here.
