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Opera News

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

“Grounded” Met Premiere
“Ainadamar” Met Premiere 🇦🇷
“Aida” New Production, Angel Blue, Judit Kutasi 🇺🇸 🇷🇴
“Moby-Dick” Met Premiere
“Salome” New Production
“Antony and Cleopatra” Met Premiere

METROPOLITAN OPERA HOUSE, Lincoln Center

The New York Opera Alliance NYOANext Brings Opera To and From The Bronx

Bronx Opera, International Brazilian Opera Company, Manhattan Opera Repertory Ensemble, Encompass New Opera Theatre, Little Opera Theatre of NY with Harlem Opera Theater, SAS Performing Arts Company, Opera Praktikos (deaf opera).

OPEN AUDITIONS
Bronx Music Heritage Center
Melrose, The Bronx
Thursday, April 20, 2023

PERFORMANCES
Bronx House
Pelham Parkway, The Bronx
Saturday, April 22, 2023

Bronx Music Heritage Center
Melrose, The Bronx
Sunday, April 23, 2023

🇺🇸 🇧🇷

Madama Butterfly

OPENING NIGHT
Wednesday, April 1, 2020
METROPOLITAN OPERA HOUSE
Lincoln Center
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Puerto Rican soprano Ana María Martínez stars as Cio-Cio-San opposite Italian tenor Giorgio Berrugi.

Così fan tutte

Wednesday, March 4, 2020
METROPOLITAN OPERA HOUSE
Lincoln Center, NYC
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Mozart’s Italian rom-com opera is back in McCermott’s Coney Island setting February 15-March 14, 2020.

Porgy and Bess

Sep 23, 2029 – Feb 1, 2020
METROPOLITAN OPERA
Lincoln Center, NYC
James Robinson’s new English National Opera production of the Gershwin classic about African-American life in the old South. “Summertime, and the livin’ is easy…”

Aida

LINCOLN CENTER; Winter cast Jan 7 – Mar 7, 2019; Italian opera live music ~ Kristen Lewis stars in the final performances of Sonja Frisell’s production of Verdi’s grand opera set in ancient Egypt

Rigoletto

LINCOLN CENTER | CLOSING Fri, May 10, 2019 | Live music Italian opera | The womanizing duke stirs trouble when he wants to sleep with the court jester’s daughter

Pelléas et Mélisande

LINCOLN CENTER, Thu, Jan 31 ~ Debussy’s only French opera is a slice of tragedy.
# french opera argentine star

Carmen

LINCOLN CENTER, Oct 30, 2018 to Feb 8, 2019 ~ French opera of Spanish Romani culture. French mezzo-soprano Clémentine Margaine and tenor Roberto Alagna star.

Samson et Dalila

LINCOLN CENTER; Sep 24, 2018 – Mar 28, 2019; French opera live music ~ Starring Anita Rachvelishvili (Georgia) and Aleksandr Antonenko (Latvia)

Kamchatka

Produced by Americas Society
Dixon Place
Lower East Side, Manhattan
Tuesday – Wednesday
June 5 – 6, 2018

Plácido Domingo

Metropolitan Opera House
Lincoln Center
April 23 – May 12, 2018

Luisa Miller

Metropolitan Opera House
Lincoln Center
March 29 – April 21, 2018

Semiramide

Metropolitan Opera House
Lincoln Center
February – March
FINAL PERFORMANCE
Saturday, March 17, 2018

Elektra

Metropolitan Opera House
Lincoln Center
March 2018
Friday, March 23, 2018

Parsifal

Those who sit through this five-hour opera say they would immediately sit through it again. The music is that good.
Metropolitan Opera House
Lincoln Center
February 5 – 27, 2018

Il Trovatore

Metropolitan Opera House
Lincoln Center
January 22 – February 15, 2018

L’Elisir d’Amore

Metropolitan Opera House
Lincoln Center
January – February
Saturday, February 17, 2018

Hansel and Gretel

Metropolitan Opera House
Lincoln Center
December – January
CLOSES
Saturday, January 6, 2018

Merry Widow

Metropolitan Opera House
Lincoln Center
December – January
Thursday, January 11, 2018

Le Nozze di Figaro

Metropolitan Opera House
Lincoln Center
December – January
Friday, January 19, 2018

Verdi’s Requiem

Metropolitan Opera
Lincoln Center
November – December
FINAL PERFORMANCE
Saturday, December 2, 2017

Thaïs

Metropolitan Opera
Lincoln Center
November – December
CLOSES
Saturday, December 2, 2017

The Exterminating Angel

Metropolitan Opera
Lincoln Center
October – November
CLOSING NIGHT
Tuesday, November 21, 2017