The Metropolitan Opera is America’s largest classical music organization, and one of the world’s great opera companies.
The Met Opera has embraced jazz as American opera. It is nurturing young talent and producing artists of color. Thank you.
Many people think the Met Opera is expensive, but it’s not. In 2023-24, 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.
To see more diversity, we need to support it. Let’s go to the opera.
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Latin Culture at the Metropolitan Opera
Roméo et Juliette Stars Puerto Rican Soprano Nadine Sierra at the Metropolitan Opera
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Mexican Opera “Florencia en el Amazonas” Stars Ailyn Pérez in Spanish at the Metropolitan Opera
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Magic Flute Stars Mexican Tenor Rolando Villazón at the Metropolitan Opera
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Metropolitan Opera News
French Opera
NEW PRODUCTION
Carrie Cracknell’s new production of Bizet’s “Carmen,” sets the classic story of a fiery woman whose passion knows no boundaries, in the present day; starring African American soprano Angel Blue as Micaëla from December 31 – January 27, 2024, and Mexican American soprano Ailyn Pérez from April 25 – May 25, 2024; at the Metropolitan Opera in Lincoln Center. In French with Met Titles. From $37. metopera.org 🇫🇷 ~ 🇺🇸 🇲🇽
January
Italian Opera
Puccini’s “Madama Butterfly,” about how an American soldier breaks a Japanese geisha’s true heart; is at the Metropolitan Opera in Lincoln Center; for 16 performances between January 11 and May 11, 2024. In Italian with Met Titles. From $37. metopera.org 🇮🇹
February
Italian Opera
NEW PRODUCTION
Mariusz Trelinski’s new production of Verdi’s “La Forza del Destino,” a tale of ill-fated love, a vendetta, and family troubles; is conducted by French Canadian Yannick Nézet-Séguin at the Metropolitan Opera in Lincoln Center; with two casts February 26 – March 16; and March 21-29, 2024. In Italian with Met Titles. From $37. metopera.org 🇮🇹 ~ 🇨🇦
Italian Opera
Puccini’s “Turandot,” a tale set in old China about how love conquers all, features African American soprano Angel Blue, and Nicaraguan American soprano Gabriella Reyes; at the Metropolitan Opera in Lincoln Center; for 17 performances between February 28 and June 7, 2023; In Italian with Met Titles. From $37. metopera.org 🇮🇹 ~ 🇺🇸 🇳🇮
March
French Opera
Gounoud’s “Roméo et Juliette,” the classic star-crossed love story, stars Italian Portuguese Puerto Rican soprano Nadine Sierra; at the Metropolitan Opera in Lincoln Center, for seven performances between March 7-30, 2024. In French with Met Titles. From $37. metopera.org 🇫🇷 ~ 🇮🇹 🇵🇹 🇵🇷
French Opera
Puccini’s “La Rondine,” a bittersweet love story set in Paris and the French Riviera, stars African American soprano Angel Blue; at the Metropolitan Opera in Lincoln Center for eight performances between March 26 and April 20, 2024. In Italian with Met Titles. From $37. metopera.org 🇮🇹 ~ 🇺🇸
Terrence Blanchard’s jazz opera “Fire Shut Up in My Bones,” stars African American sopranos Brittany Renee and Latonia Moore, and bass-baritone Ryan Speedo Green; at the Metropolitan Opera in Lincoln Center for seven performances between April 8 and May 2, 2024. From $37. metopera.org 🇺🇸
John Adams’ “El Niño,” a dramatic retelling of the Nativity; stars African American soprano Julia Bullock and African American mezzo-soprano J’Nai Bridges; at the Metropolitan Opera in Lincoln Center; for seven performances between April 23 and May 17, 2024. From $37. metopera.org 🇺🇸
This Mark Morris production of Christoph Willibald Gluck’s “Orfeo ed Euridice,” tells the Greek story of Orpheus who went to the underworld to retrieve his dead wife, and thereby explains why we have the seasons; at the Metropolitan Opera in Lincoln Center for eight performances between May 16 and June 8, 2023. From $37. In Italian with Met Titles. metopera.org 🇮🇹
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Latin Opera Singers
Because of its Italian origins, at some level all opera is Latin. Then there are French, Italian, Portuguese, Romanian, and Spanish operas, composers, and performers.
But the Americas have strong opera traditions too, especially in Brazil and Mexico. Argentines are mostly of Italian descent. Tango is an Argentine form of people’s opera.
Lately, The Met has recognized the artistry of African American jazz and gospel, the American opera.
Today there are many great Latin and Black opera singers. Some trained in school, some trained in church, some trained on the streets, and one trained in the shower (really). Regardless, these are great voices that deserve to be heard.
Isabel Leonard is a Grammy-winning New York Argentine mezzo-soprano. 🇦🇷
Javier Camarena is a Mexican tenor famous for his endless standing ovations. That goes against opera etiquette, but audiences love him. 🇲🇽
Nadine Sierra is an American opera singer of Italian, Portuguese, and Puerto Rican descent. What a great mix. 🇮🇹 🇵🇹 🇵🇷
Plácido Domingo is a Spanish opera singer who was raised and started his career in Mexico. Originally a tenor, he transitioned to baritone roles as he aged. 🇪🇸 🇲🇽
Roland Villazón is a Mexican tenor. 🇲🇽
Yannick Nézet-Séguin, the Met Opera’s Music Director, is French Canadian from Montréal, the nearest Latin city to New York. 🇨🇦
About the 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, 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.
Repertoire
- La Bohème by Puccini 🇮🇹
- Carmen by Bizet 🇫🇷
- Florencia en el Amazonas by Catán 🇲🇽
- The Magic Flute by Mozart 🎄
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