Metropolitan Opera is One of the World's Great Opera Companies

Ailyn Pérez in "Florencia el el Amazonas" (Ken Howard/Metropolitan Opera) — Ailyn Pérez in “Florencia el el Amazonas” (Ken Howard/Metropolitan Opera)

The Metropolitan Opera is America’s largest classical music organization. It’s been innovative at growing the opera audience:

“The Met: Live in HD” series presents opera in movie theaters around the world.
Metropolitan Opera Radio broadcasts some performances live on the SiriusXM app.
Fridays under 40 features discounts and pre-performance parties for opera lovers 40 and under. metopera.org

Young people of color are driving a classical music renaissance in New York City, right now, as they connect with its contemporary forms. The Met has long nurtured young, diverse talent. Lately, it has embraced jazz as American opera and is commissioning new work by women and artists of color.

To see more diversity in the arts, we need to support it. Many think the Met Opera is expensive, but it’s not. In 2024-2025, regular tickets start at $35, and rush tickets are $25. Many opera lovers say the Family Circle in the top balcony are the best seats in the house. So gather your family and let’s go to the opera!

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Metropolitan Opera in New York City

The Met’s 2024-2025 Season continues to expand its focus on new opera, including operas written by women.

The Metropolitan Opera is in residence at the Metropolitan Opera House in Lincoln Center.

French Canadian Yannick Nézet-Séguin continues as Music Director. 🇨🇦
Peter Gelb continues as General Manager.

The Metropolitan Opera 2024-2025 Season is at the Metropolitan Opera House in Lincoln Center; from September 23, 2024 to June 7, 2025. From $35.

Met Company Premieres 2024-2025

“Grounded”

The Met Opera’s 2024-2025 Season opens with the World Premiere of Two-time Tony Award-winning composer Jeanine Tesori’s “Grounded,” with librettist George Brant, starring mezzo-soprano Emily D’Angelo, for whom the piece was written. It’s the story of Jess, a pregnant F-16 fighter pilot who gets reassigned to piloting a Reaper drone, and must balance her life as a mother and her own sanity as she does her job killing people. It’s at the Metropolitan Opera House in Lincoln Center, for seven performances between September 23 and October 19, 2024.

September 23 and October 9 performances will be broadcast live on Metropolitan Opera Radio on the SiriusXM app, and streamed live on metopera.org

“Ainadamar”

The Metropolitan Opera Premiere of “Ainadamar” by Argentine composer Osvaldo Golijov, is at the Metropolitan Opera House in Lincoln Center; between October 15 and November 9, 2024. 🇦🇷

“Moby-Dick”

The Metropolitan Opera Premiere of “Moby-Dick” by Jake Heggie, is at the Metropolitan Opera House in Lincoln Center; between March 3-29, 2025.

“Antony and Cleopatra”

The Metropolitan Opera Premiere of “Antony and Cleopatra” by John Adams; is at the Metropolitan Opera House in Lincoln Center; between May 12 and June 7, 2024.

New Met Productions 2024-2025

“Aida”

A new Michael Mayer production of Verdi’s “Aida” set in ancient Egypt, opens with African American soprano Angel Blue as Aida, Romanian mezzo-soprano Judit Kutasi, and Polish tenor Piotr Beczała; at the Metropolitan Opera House in Lincoln Center, between December 31, 2024 and May 9, 2025. 🇺🇸 🇷🇴

“Salome”

A new production of Strauss’s “Salome;” is at the Metropolitan Opera House in Lincoln Center, between April 29 – May 24, 2025.

Metropolitan Opera

The Metropolitan Opera was founded in Midtown South in 1883. It has long been one of the places where New York’s elite gather. It still is, but today the Met Opera is for everyone.

Enrico Caruso, the Italian who was one of the most famous opera singers of all time, starting performing with The Met in 1903. He sang there more than anywhere else in the world. Maybe that is why he was so famous in the United States. Up into the 1960s, New Yorkers used to line up on the street for Met operas. Opera singers were like rock stars. The Met moved to the Metropolitan Opera House, a state-of-the-art, theater at Lincoln Center in 1966.

Today it trains artists through its National Council Auditions and Lindemann Young Artist Development Program. That’s important because this is where you will see rising young talent ~ and they look a lot like us, because they are people like us.