Festival Details

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The Met: Live in HD 2025-26 Season, the Metropolitan Opera’s award- winning series of live high-definition cinema simulcasts, opens its 19th season in October 2025. The season kicks off with a live transmission of Bellini’s La Sonnambula starring Nadine Sierra who 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. Alongside Sierra is 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. The season continues with the enchanting setting and spellbinding score, the world’s most popular opera, Puccini’s love story, La Bohème featuring Juliana Grigoryan as Mimì and Freddie De Tommaso as Roldolfo. Moving on to Strauss’s elegant romance, Arabella, it brings the glamour and enchantment of 19th-century Vienna starring soprano Rachel Willis-Sørensen in the title-role of a young noblewoman in search of love on her own terms. The radiant soprano Louise Alder is her sister, Zdenka, and bass-baritone Tomasz Konieczny is the Dashing Count who sweeps Arabella off her feet.  The Live in HD season continues with Giordano’s passionate tragedy, Andrea Chénier starring tenor Piotr Beczała as the virtuous poet who falls victim to the intrigue and violence of the French Revolution. 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. Next up is the first new Met production of Bellini’s final masterpiece, I Puritani in nearly 50 years, known for it’s gorgeous melodies, spellbinding coloratura singing and virtuoso vocal fireworks. This will be a striking staging by Charles Edwards, who makes his company directorial debut after many successes as a set designer—arrives in cinemas worldwide. 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. As part of the Met’s Encore series, a special treat awaits you, the fairy-tale by Massenet, Cinderella starring Isabel Leonard as Cinderella, Jessica Pratt as the Fairygodmother, Emily D’Angelo as Prince Charming, Stephanie Blythe as Madame de la Haltière and Laurent Naouri as Pandolfe. The season continues with a a truly unmissable event 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. Up next is a revival of a well-known example of lyric opera, to which Tchaikovsky added music of a dramatic nature, Eugene Onegin starring acclaimed soprano Asmik Grigorian as Tatiana, the lovestruck young heroine in this ardent operatic adaptation of Pushkin. Baritone Igor Golovatenko reprises his portrayal of the urbane Onegin, who realizes his affection for her all too late. The Met Live in HD 2025-26 Season comcludes with an opera première of American composer, Gabriela Lena Franks’ El Último Sueño de Frida y Diego which tells the tale of a magical-realist portrait of Mexico’s painterly power couple Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera. The story depicts Frida is sung by leading mezzo-soprano Isabel Leonard, leaves 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.

Box Office: 26th November for Members & 29th November for Public.