Category: Met Opera

2026 WBJC OperaFest

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June 6, 2026: The Bartered Bride

• COMPOSER: Bedřich Smetana
• VENUE: Vienna State Opera, Vienna, Austria
• CAST:
  • Krušina Franz Xaver Schlecht
  • Ludmila Margaret Plummer
  • Mařenka Slávka Zámečníková
  • Mícha Ivo Stanchev
  • Háta Monika Bohinec
  • Jeník Pavol Breslik
  • Vašek Michael Laurenz
  • Kecal Peter Kellner
  • Director of the Comedians Matthäus Schmidlechner
  • Esmeralda Ilia Staple
  • Comedian Alex Ilvakhin
• ENSEMBLE: Vienna State Opera Orchestra & Chorus
• CONDUCTOR: Tomáš Hanus

Approx. Length: 2 hours, 45 minutes

Sung in German

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June 13, 2026: Fidelio

• COMPOSER: Ludwig van Beethoven
• VENUE: Vienna State Opera, Vienna, Austria
• CAST:
  • Don Fernando Simonas Strazdas
  • Don Pizarro Christopher Maltman
  • Florestan David Butt Philip
  • Leonore Malin Byström
  • Rocco Tareq Nazmi
  • Marzelline Kathrin Zukowski
  • Jaquino Daniel Jenz
  • First Prisoner Daniel Lökös
  • Second Prisoner Panajotis Pratsos
  • ENSEMBLE: Vienna State Opera Orchestra & Chorus
  • CONDUCTOR: Franz Welser-Möst

Approx. Length: 2 hours, 27 minutes

Sung in German

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June 20, 2026: Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk

• COMPOSER: Dmitri Shostakovich
• VENUE: Teatro all Scala, Milan, Italy
• CAST:
  • Boris Timofeyevich Izmaylov Alexander Roslavets
  • Katerina Lvovna Izmaylova Sara Jakubiak
  • Sergey Najmiddin Mavlyanov
  • Shabby Peasant Alexander Kravets
  • Priest Valery Gilmanov
  • Zinovy Borisovich Izmaylov Evgeny Akimov
  • Steward Jiří Rajniš
  • Chief of Police Oleg Budaratskiy
  • Aksinya Ekaterina Sannikova
  • Sonetka Elena Maximova
• ENSEMBLE: La Scala Orchestra & Chorus
• CONDUCTOR: Riccardo Chailly

Approx. Length: 2 hours, 55 minutes

Sung in Russian

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June 27, 2026: Ariodante

• COMPOSER: George Frideric Handel
• VENUE: Paris Opera, Paris, France
• CAST:
  • Ariodante Cecilia Molinari
  • Il Re di Scozia Luca Tittoto
  • Ginevra Jacquelyn Stucker
  • Dalinda Sabine Devieilhe
  • Lurcanio Ru Charlesworth
  • Polinesso Christophe Dumaux
  • Odoardo Enrico Casari
• ENSEMBLE: Pygmalion Ensemble; Paris Opera Chorus
• CONDUCTOR: Raphaël Pichon

Approx. Length: 3 hours, 28 minutes

Sung in Italian

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July 4, 2026: Aida

• COMPOSER: Giuseppe Verdi
• VENUE: Paris Opera, Paris, France
• CAST:
  • Aida Saioa Hernández
  • Radamès Piotr Beczała
  • Amneris Eve-Maud Hubeaux
  • Amonasro Roman Burdenko
  • Ramfis Alexander Köpeczi
  • Il Re Krzysztof Bączyk
  • Un messagiero Manase Latu
  • Sacerdotessa Margarita Polonskaya

ENSEMBLE: Paris Opera Orchestra & Chorus

CONDUCTOR: Michele Mariotti

Approx. Length: 2 hours, 45 minutes

Sung in Italian

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July 11, 2026: The Makropulos Affair

• COMPOSER: Leoš Janáček
• VENUE: Royal Ballet & Opera, London, England
• CAST:
  • Emilia Marty Aušrinė Stundytė
  • Albert Gregor Sean Panikkar
  • Baron Jaroslav Prus Johan Reuter
  • Dr. Kolenatý Henry Waddington
  • Vítek Peter Hoare
  • Janek Daniel Matoušek
  • Count Hauk-Šendorf Alan Oke
  • Kristina Heather Engebretson
• ENSEMBLE: Chorus & Orchestra of The Royal Opera
• CONDUCTOR: Jakub Hrůša

Approx. Length: 1 hour, 54 minutes

Sung in Czech

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July 18, 2026: Boris Godunov

• COMPOSER: Modest Mussorgsky
• VENUE: Royal Ballet & Opera, London, England
• CAST:
  • Boris Godunov Sir Bryn Terfel
  • Pimen Adam Pałka
  • Andrei Shchelkalov Andrei Kymach
  • Grigory Otrepiev Jamez McCorkle
  • Prince Shuisky John Daszak
• ENSEMBLE: Chorus & Orchestra of The Royal Opera
• CONDUCTOR: Mark Wigglesworth

Approx. Length: 2 hours, 24 minutes

Sung in Russian

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July 25, 2026: The Marriage of Figaro

• COMPOSER: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
• VENUE: Glyndebourne Festival Opera, Glyndebourne, England
• CAST:
  • Figaro Tommaso Barea
  • Susanna Johanna Wallroth
  • Count Huw Montague Rendall
  • Countess Louise Alder
  • Bartolo Alessandro Corbelli
  • Marcellina Madeleine Shaw
  • Cherubino Adèle Charvet
• ENSEMBLE: Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment
• CONDUCTOR: Riccardo Minasi

Approx. Length: 2 hours, 38 minutes

Sung in Italian

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August 1, 2026: The Elixir of Love

• COMPOSER: Gaetano Donizetti
• VENUE: Gran Teatre del Liceu, Barcelona, Spain
• CAST:
  • Adina Pretty Yende
  • Nemorino Michael Spyres
  • Belcore Jan Antem
  • Dulcamara Fabio Capitanucci
  • Giannetta Núria Vilà
• ENSEMBLE: Gran Teatre del Liceu Orchestra & Chrous
• CONDUCTOR: Diego Matheuz

Approx. Length: 2 hours, 38 minutes

Sung in Italian

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August 8, 2026: Pelléas et Mélisande

• COMPOSER: Claude Debussy
• VENUE: Teatro alla Scala, Milan, Italy
• CAST:
  • Pelléas Bernard Richter
  • Mélisande Sara Blanch
  • Golaud Simon Keenlyside
  • Geneviève Marie-Nicole Lemieux
  • Arkel John Relyea
• ENSEMBLE: La Scala Orchestra & Chorus
• CONDUCTOR: Maxime Pascal

Approx. Length: 2 hours, 55 minutes

Sung in French

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August 15, 2026: Faust

• COMPOSER: Charles Gounod
• VENUE: Bavarian State Opera, Munich, Germany
• CAST:
  • Faust Jonathan Tetelman
  • Méphistophélès Kyle Ketelsen
  • Marguerite Olga Kulchynska
  • Valentin Florian Sempey
  • Wagner Thomas Mole
  • Siebel Emily Sierra
  • Marthe Schwerdtlein Dshamilja Kaiser
• ENSEMBLE: Bavarian State Orchestra & Chorus
• CONDUCTOR: Nathalie Stutzmann

Approx. Length: 3 hours, 9 minutes

Sung in French

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August 22, 2026: Luisa Miller

• COMPOSER: Giuseppe Verdi
• VENUE: Vienna State Opera, Vienna, Austria
• CAST:
  • Graf von Walter Roberto Tagliavini
  • Rodolfo Freddie De Tommaso
  • Federica Daria Sushkova
  • Wurm Marko Mimica
  • Miller George Petean
  • Luisa Nadine Sierra
• ENSEMBLE: Vienna State Opera Orchestra & Chorus
• CONDUCTOR: Michele Mariotti

Approx. Length: 2hours, 40 minutes

Sung in Italian

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August 29, 2026: Die Fledermaus

• COMPOSER: Johann Strauss II
• VENUE: Vienna State Opera, Vienna, Austria
• CAST:
  • Gabriel von Eisenstein Jonas Kaufmann
  • Rosalinde Diana Damrau
  • Frank Jochen Schmeckenbecher
  • Prinz Orlofsky Daria Sushkova
  • Alfred Jörg Schneider
  • Dr. Falke Adrian Eröd
  • Dr. Blind Lukas Schmidt
  • Adele Ilia Staple
  • Ida Hannah-Theres Weigl
  • Frosch Michael Niavarani
• ENSEMBLE: Vienna State Opera Orchestra & Chorus
• CONDUCTOR: Markus Poschner

Approx. Length: 3 hours, 38 minutes

Sung in German

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*All programs, repertoire, and artists are subject to change.

*Part 2 of the Opera Series, beginning Saturday, September 5, will be announced in July

METROPOLITAN OPERA BROADCAST SCHEDULE 25-26 SEASON

All operas begin at 1pm unless otherwise noted

12/06/25 – LA BOHÈME (Puccini)

Daniele Rustioni; Juliana Grigoryan (Mimì), Stephen Costello (Rodolfo), Mané Galoyan (Musetta), David Bizic (Marcello), Alexander Köpeczi (Colline), Iurii Samoilov (Schaunard), Donald Maxwell (Benoit/Alcindoro)

12/13/25 – ANDREA CHÉNIER (Giordano)

Daniele Rustioni; Piotr Beczała (Andrea Chénier), Sonya Yoncheva (Maddalena di Coigny), Igor Golovatenko (Carlo Gérard)

12/20/25 – THE MAGIC FLUTE (Mozart) – Abridged English-language holiday presentation

Steven White; Paul Appleby (Tamino), Joélle Harvey (Pamina), Michael Sumuel (Papageno), Rainelle Krause (Queen of the Night), Alexander Köpeczi (Sarastro), Thomas Capobianco (Monostatos), Harold Wilson (Speaker)

12/27/25 – HANDEL AT THE MET

A celebration of Handel at the holidays, with excerpts from Met performances, in honor of the 300th anniversary of Rodelinda

01/03/25 – THE AMAZING ADVENTURES OF KAVALIER & CLAY (Mason Bates – Libretto by Gene Scheer – Based on the Book by Michael Chabon) – New Production/Met Premiere Performance from fall 2025

Yannick Nézet-Séguin; Andrzej Filończyk (Joe Kavalier), Miles Mykkanen (Sam Clay), Sun-Ly Pierce (Rosa Saks), Lauren Snouffer (Sarah Kavalier), Edward Nelson (Tracy Bacon), Patrick Carfizzi (Sheldon Anapol), Craig Colclough (Gerhard)

01/10/26 – I PURITANI (Bellini) – New Production

Marco Armiliato; Lisette Oropesa (Elvira Walton), Lawrence Brownlee (Lord Arturo Talbot), Artur Ruciński (Riccardo Forth), Christian Van Horn (Giorgio Walton)

01/17/26 – CARMEN (Bizet)

Pier Giorgio Morandi; Aigul Akhmetshina (Carmen), Michael Fabiano (Don José), Janai Brugger (Micaëla), Christian Van Horn (Escamillo)

01/24/26 – The Gershwins’ PORGY AND BESS

Kwamé Ryan; Alfred Walker (Porgy), Brittany Renee (Bess), Ryan Speedo Green (Crown), Frederick Ballentine (Sportin’ Life), Leah Hawkins (Serena), Vuvu Mpofu (Clara),  Denyce Graves (Maria), Benjamin Taylor (Jake)

01/31/26 – ARABELLA (Strauss) Performance from November 22, 2025

Nicholas Carter; Rachel Willis-Sørensen (Arabella), Tomasz Konieczny (Mandryka), Louise Alder (Zdenka), Pavol Breslik (Matteo), Brindley Sherratt (Waldner)

02/07/26 – Artist’s Choice: WERTHER (Massenet)

Chosen by Lawrence Brownlee: Alfredo Kraus in a performance from February 3, 1979; Richard Bonynge; Alfredo Kraus (Werther), Régine Crespin (Charlotte), Kathleen Battle (Sophie), Lenus Carlson (Albert)

02/14/26 – Artist’s Choice: IDOMENEO (Mozart)

Chosen by Joyce DiDonato: Frederica von Stade in a performance from February 15, 1986; Jeffrey Tate; David Rendall (Idomeneo), Benita Valente (Ilia), Frederica von Stade (Idamante), Hildegard Behrens (Elettra), John Alexander (Arbace)

02/21/26 – Artist’s Choice: MANON LESCAUT (Puccini)

Chosen by Asmik Grigorian: Mirella Freni in a performance from March 17, 1990; Nello Santi; Mirella Freni (Manon), Peter Dvorsky (Des Grieux), Brian Schexnayder (Lescaut), Italo Tajo (Geronte)

02/28/26 – Artist’s Choice: LA PRISE DE TROIE (LES TROYENS, PART ONE – Berlioz)

Chosen by Yannick Nézet-Séguin: Rafael Kubelík conducting a performance from March 16, 1974 Rafael Kubelík; Shirley Verrett (Cassandre), Jon Vickers (Énée), Louis Quilico (Chorèbe)

03/07/26 – Artist’s Choice: LES TROYENS À CARTHAGE (LES TROYENS, PART TWO – Berlioz)

Chosen by Yannick Nézet-Séguin: Rafael Kubelík conducting a performance from March 16, 1974 Rafael Kubelík; Christa Ludwig (Didon), Jon Vickers (Énée), Mignon Dunn (Anna), John Macurdy (Narbal)

03/14/26 – MADAMA BUTTERFLY (Puccini)

Carlo Rizzi; Sonya Yoncheva (Cio-Cio-San), Adam Smith (Pinkerton), Jennifer Johnson Cano (Suzuki), Quinn Kelsey (Sharpless)

03/21/26 @NOON – TRISTAN UND ISOLDE (Wagner) – New Production

Yannick Nézet-Séguin; Lise Davidsen (Isolde), Michael Spyres (Tristan), Ekaterina Gubanova (Brangäne), Ryan Speedo Green (King Marke), Tomasz Konieczny (Kurwenal)

03/28/26 – LA TRAVIATA (Verdi)

Antonello Manacorda; Lisette Oropesa (Violetta Valéry), Piotr Buszewski (Alfredo Germont), Luca Salsi (Giorgio Germont)

04/04/26 – LA GIOCONDA (Ponchielli)

Celebrating the opera’s 150th anniversary with a performance from March 2, 1968; Fausto Cleva; Renata Tebaldi (La Gioconda), Carlo Bergonzi (Enzo), Fiorenza Cossotto (Laura), Cornell MacNeil (Barnaba), Bonaldo Giaiotti (Alvise), Mignon Dunn (La Cieca)

04/11/26 – DON GIOVANNI (Mozart)  Performance from fall 2025

Yannick Nézet-Séguin; Ryan Speedo Green (Don Giovanni), Federica Lombardi (Donna Anna), Adam Plachetka (Leporello), Janai Brugger (Donna Elvira), Ben Bliss (Don Ottavio), Hera Hyesang Park (Zerlina), William Guanbo Su (Masetto), Adam Palka (Commendatore)

04/18/26 – INNOCENCE (Kaija Saariaho – Libretto by Sofi Oksanen – Multilingual Libretto and English Translation by Aleksi Barrière) – New Production/Met Premiere

Susanna Mälkki; Jacquelyn Stucker (Bride), Kathleen Kim (Mother-In-Law), Joyce DiDonato (Waitress), Miles Mykkanen (Bridegroom), Rod Gilfry (Father-In-Law), Stephen Milling (Priest), Lucy Shelton (Teacher), Vilma Jää (Markéta), Beate Mordal (Lily), Julie Hega (Iris), Simon Kluth (Anton), Camilo Delgado Díaz (Jerónimo), Marina Dumont Anastassiadou (Alexia)

04/25/26 – LA SONNAMBULA (Bellini) – New Production, Performance from October 18, 2025

Riccardo Frizza; Nadine Sierra (Amina), Xabier Anduaga (Elvino), Alexander Vinogradov (Rodolfo), Sydney Mancasola (Lisa)

05/02/26 – EUGENE ONEGIN (Tchaikovsky)

Timur Zangiev; Igor Golovatenko (Onegin), Asmik Grigorian (Tatiana), Stanislas de Barbeyrac (Lenski), Maria Barakova (Olga), Alexander Tsymbalyuk (Prince Gremin), Stephanie Blythe (Filippyevna)

05/09/26 – LA FILLE DU RÉGIMENT (Donizetti)

Performance from fall 2025; Giacomo Sagripanti; Erin Morley (Marie), Lawrence Brownlee (Tonio), Alice Coote (Marquise of Berkenfield), Peter Kálmán (Sulpice)

05/16/26 – Listeners’ Choice: Great Met Broadcasts Opera TBA, to be selected by listener voting

05/23/26 – TURANDOT (Puccini)

Oksana Lyniv; Anna Pirozzi (Turandot), Brian Jagde (Calàf), Angel Blue (Liù), John Relyea (Timur)

05/30/26 – EL ÚLTIMO SUEÑO DE FRIDA Y DIEGO (Gabriela Lena Frank – Libretto by Nilo Cruz)

New Production/Met Premiere Yannick Nézet-Séguin; Isabel Leonard (Frida), Carlos Álvarez (Diego), Gabriella Reyes (Catrina), Nils Wanderer (Leonardo)

September 13 – Cavalleria rusticana/Pagliacci / Mascagni/Leoncavallo

From Bavarian State Opera in Munich, Germany.

Cavalleria rusticana – Yulia Matochkina (Santuzza), Ican Gyngazov (Turiddu), Rosalind Plowright (Lucia), Wolfgang Koch (Alfio), Ekaterine Buachidze (Lola)

Pagliacci – Ailyn Pérez (Nedda), Jonas Kaufmann (Canio), Wolfgang Koch (Tonio), Andres Agudelo (Beppe), Thomas Mole (Silvio), Christian Rieger (peasant), Zachary Rioux (peasant)

Approximate length: 2 hours, 29 minutes

 

September 20  – Pénélope / Fauré

From Bavarian State Opera in Munich, Germany. Brandon Jovanovich (Ulysse), Thomas Mole (Eumée), Loïc Felix (Antinoüs), Leigh Melrose (Eurymaque), Joel Williams (Léodès), Zachary Rioux (Ctésippe), Dafydd Jones (Pisandre), Soloist from the Tölzer Boys Choir (A Shepherd), Victoria Karkacheva (Pénélope), Rinat Shaham (Eryclée), Valerie Eickhoff (Cléone), Seonwoo Lee (Mélantho), Marina Myskohlid (Alkandre), Ena Pngrac (Phylo), Eirin Rognerud (Lydie), Elene Gvritishvili (Eurynome), Bavarian State Orchestra, Susanna Mälkki (conductor)

Approximate length: 2 hours

 

September 27  – Rigoletto / Verdi*

From LA Opera in Los Angeles, California. Quinn Kelsey (Rigoletto), Lisette Oropesa (Gilda), René Barbera (Duke of Mantua), Blake Denson (Count Monterone), Peixin Chen (Sparafucile), Sarah Saturnino (Maddalena), Hyungjin Son (Marullo) Nathan Bowles (Borsa), Vinícius Costa (Count Ceprano), Madeleine Lyon (Giovanna), Gabrielle Turgeon (Countess Ceprano/Page)

Approximate length: 2 hours, 35 minutes

 

October 4   –  Così fan tutte / Mozart

From LA Opera in Los Angeles, California. Erica Petrocelli (Fiordiligi), Rihab Chaieb (Dorabella), Ana María Martínez (Despina), Anthony León (Ferrando), Justin Austin (Guglielmo), Rod Gilfry (Don Alfonso)

Approximate length: 3 hours, 30 minutes

 

October 11   –   Giulio Cesare / Handel

From Le Concert d’Astrée/Salzburg Festival. Christophe Dumaux (Giulio Cesare), Olga Kulchynska (Cleopatra), Lucile Rechardot (Cornelia), Federico Florio (Sesto), Yurly Mynenko (Tolomeo), Adrey Zhilikhovsky (Achilla), Jake Ingbar (Nireno), Salzburg Bach Choir, Michael Schneider (chorus director), Le Concert d’Astrée, Emmanuelle Haïm (conductor)

Approximate length: TBA

 

October 18   –   Louise / Charpentier

From Le Concert d’Astrée/Salzburg Festival. Elsa Dreisig (Louise), Adamn Smith (Julien), Sophie Koch (Mother), Nicolas Courjal (Father), Grégoire Mour (Un Marchand d’habits), Annick Massis (Balayeuse), Marianne Croux (Irma), Carol Garcia (Gertrude), Karolina Bengtsson (Camille), Marie Thérèse Keller (Madeleine), Julie Pasturaud (Marguerite), Marion Bergez-Pascal (Élise), Marion Lebègue (Suzanne), Jennifer Courceir (Blanche), Céleste Pinel (L’Apprentie), Frédéric Caton (Le Bricoleur), Lyon Opera Children’s Chorus, Lyon Opera Chorus, Ciacomo Sagripanti (conductor)

Approximate length: 2 hours, 30 minutes

 

October 25   –   Pearl Fishers / Bizet

From Les Musiciens du Louvre/Aix-en-Provence Festival. Elsa Benoit (Leïla), Pene Pati (Nadir), Florian Sempey (Zurga), Edwin Crossley-Mercer (Nourabad), Grand Avignon Opera Chorus, Les Musiciens du Louvre, Marc Minkowski (conductor).

Approximate length: 2 hours, 15 minutes

 

November 1  –  Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg / Wagner

From Bayreuth Festival in Bayreuth, Germany. Georg Zeepenfeld (Hans Sachs), Jongmin Park (Veit Pgoner), Martin Koch (Kunz Vogelgesang), Werner Van Mechelen (Konrad Nachtigall), Michael Nagy (Sixtus Beckmesser), Jordan Shanahan (Fritz Kothner), Daniel Jenz (Balthasar Zorn), Matthew Newlin(Ulrich Eisslinger), Gideon Poppe (Augustin Moser), Alexander Grassauer (Hermann Ortel), Tijl Faveyts (Hans Shwatz), Patrick Zielke (Hans Foltz), Michael Spyres (Walther von Stolzing), Matthias Stier (David), Christina Nilsson (Eva), Christa Mayer (Magdalena), Tobias Kehrer (a night watchman), Bayreuth Festival Chorus, Bayreuth Festival Orchestra, Danele Gatti (conductor).

Approximate length: TBA

 

November 8  –  Parsifal / Wagner

From Bayreuth Festival in Bayreuth, Germany. Andreas Schager (Parsifal), Michael Volle (Armfortas), Tobias Kehrer (Titurel), Georg Zeppenfeld (Gurnemanz), Jordan Shanahan (Klingsor), Ekaterina Gubanova (Kundry), Daniel Jenz (1^st Knight of the Grail), Tijl Faveyts (2^nd Knight of the Grail), Lavinia Dames (1^st Esquire), Margaret Plummer (2^nd Esquire), Gideon Poppe (3^rd Esquire), Matthew Newlin (4^th Esquire), Evelin Novak (flowermaiden), Catalina Bertucci (flowermaiden), Victoria Randem (flowermaiden), Marie Henriette Reinhold (flowermaiden), Bayreuth Festival Chorus, Bayreuth Festival Orchestra, Pablo Heras-Casado (conductor)

Approximate length: TBA

 

November 15 – Lohengrin / Wagner

From Bayreuth Festival in Bayreuth, Germany. Piotr Beczala (Lohengrin), Mika Kares (Heinrich der Vogler), Elza van den Heever (Elsa of Brabant), Ólafur Sigurðarson (Friedrich von Telramund), Miina-Liisa Värelä (Ortrud), Michael Kupfer-Radecky (King’s Herald), Martin Koch (first nobleman of Brabant), Felix Pacher (third nobleman of Brabant), Markus Suihkonen (fourth nobleman of Brabant), Bayreuth Festival Chorus, Thomas Eitier-de Lint (chorus director), Bayreuth Festival Orchestra, Christian Thielemann (conductor)

Approximate length: TBA

 

November 22 – Iolanta / Tchaikovsky

From Vienna State Opera in Vienna, Austria. Sonya Yoncheva (blind daughter of King René), Ivo Stanchev (René, King of Provence), Boris Pinkhasovich (Robert, Duke of Burgundy), Dmytro Popov (Count Vaudémont), Attila Mokus (Ibn-Hakia), Daniel Jez (Alméric), Simonas Strazdas (Bertrand), Monika Bohinec (Marta), Maria Nazarova (Brigitta), Daria Sushkova (Laura), Vienna State Opera Chorus, Tugan Sokhiev (conductor)

Approximate length: 1 hour, 38 minutes

 

November 29 – Arabella / Strauss

From Vienna State Opera in Vienna, Austria. Camilla Nylund (Arabella), Sabine Devieilhe (Zdenka), Michael Volle (Mandruka), Margaret Plummer (Adelaide), Wolfgang Bankl (Count Waldner), Michael Laurenz (Matteo), Vienna State Opera Chorus, Vienna State Opera Orchestra, Christian Thielemann (conductor)

Approximate length: 2 hours, 35 minutes

 

12/6/25 –  Metropolitan Opera Broadcast Season begins

* Indicates performers are subject to change.

More operas included in the 2025 WBJC Operafest Series will be announced in the coming months. Please stay tuned for more information!

All start times at 1pm unless otherwise noted. 

June 14 – La forza del destino / Giuseppe Verdi

From La Scala in Milan, Italy. Anna Netrebko (Donna Leonora); Ludovic Tézier (Don Carlo di Vargas); Brian Jagde (Don Alvaro); Vasilisa Berzhansaya (Preziosilla); Alexander Vinogradov (Padre Guardiano); Marco Filippo Romano (Fra Melitone); Fabrizio Beggi (Marchese de Calatrave); Hunhong Li (Alcade); Carlo Bosi (Maestro Trabuco); Xhieldo Hyseni (Surgeon); La Scala Chorus and Orchestra; Riccardo Chailly, conductor.
Approximate length: 3 hours, 20 minutes

June 21 – Eugene Onegin / Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

From La Scala in Milan, Italy. Aida Garifullina (Tatiana); Alexey Markov (Onegin); Dmitry Korchak (Lensky); Elmina Hasan (Olga); Alisa Kolosova (Larina); Yulya Gertseva (Filippyevna); Dmitry Ulyanov (Prince Gremin); Yaroslav Abaimov (Triquet); Oleg Budaratskiy (Zaretski); Huanhong Li (Captain); La Scala Chorus and Orchestra; Timur Zangiev, conductor.
Approximate length: 2 hours, 45 minutes

June 28 – L’Orontea / Antonio Cesti

From La Scala in Milan, Italy. Stéphanie d’Oustrac (Orontea); Mirco Palazzi (Creonte); Francesca Pia Vitale (Silandra); Hugh Cutting (Corindo); Luca Tittoto (Gelone); Sara Blanch (Tibrino); Marianna Pizzolato (Aristea); Carlo Vistoli (Alidoro); Maria Nazarova (Giacinta); La Scala Orchestra; Giovanni Antonini, conductor.

Approximate length: 2 hours, 55 minutes

July 5 – Les Fêtes d’Hébé / Jean-Philippe Rameau

From Les Arts Florissants and Opéra Comique in Paris, France. Emmanuelle de Negri, (Hébé / The Naiad); Lea Desandre (Sapho / Iphise / Eglé); Ana Vieira Leite (Cupid / A Spartan woman / The stream / A shepherdess); Antonin Rondepierre (Thélème); Cyril Auvity (The stream / Lycurgue); Marc Mauillon (Momus / Mercure); Lisandro Abadie (Eurilas / Alcée); Renato Dolcini (Hymas / Tirtée); Matthieu Walendzik (The river); Les Arts Florissants; William Christie, conductor.
Approximate length: 2 hours, 47 minutes

July 12 – Manon Lescaut / Daniel Auber

From Teatro Regio in Turin, Italy. Rocío Pérez (Manon Lescaut); Sébastien Guèze (Des Grieux); Armando Noguera (Le Marquis d’Hérigny); Francesco Salvadori (Lescaut); Manuela Custer (Madame Bancelin); Guillaume Andrieux (Monsieur Renaud); Lamia Beuque (Marguerite); Anicio Zorzi Giustiniani (Gervais); Paolo Battaglia ( Monsieur Durozeau); Tyler Zimmermann (Sergeant); José Medina (A Bourgeois); Albina Tonkikh (Zaby); Chorus and Orchestra of Teatro Regio, Turin; Guillaume Tourniaire, conductor.
Approximate length: 2 hours, 40 minutes

July 19 – Manon / Jules Massenet

From Teatro Regio in Turin, Italy. Ekaterina Bakanova (Manon Lescaut); Atalla Ayan (Le Chevalier des Grieux); Björn Bürger (Lescaut); Roberto Scandiuzzi (Le Comte des Grieux); Thomas Morris (Guillot de Morfontaine); Allen Boxer (Brétigny); Ugo Rabec (Innkeeper); Olivia Doray (Poussette); Marie Kalinine (Javotte); Lilia Istratii (Rosette); Chorus and Orchestra of Teatro Regio, Turin; Evelino Pidò, conductor.
Approximate length: 3 hours

July 26 – Manon Lescaut / Giacomo Puccini

From Teatro Regio in Turin, Italy. Erika Grimaldi (Manon Lescaut); Roberto Aronica (Des Grieux); Alessandro Luongo (Lescaut); Carlo Lepore (Geronte); Giuseppe Infantino (Edmondo); Didier Pieri (Lamplighter / Dance Master); Reut Ventorero (A singer); Janusz Nosek (Sergeant); Lorenzo Battagion (Captain); Chorus and Orchestra of Teatro Regio, Turin; Renato Palumbo, conductor.
Approximate length: 2 hours, 20 minutes

August 2 – Trouble in Tahiti / Leonard Bernstein * AND A Quiet Place / Leonard Bernstein *

From the Royal Ballet and Opera in London, England. Trouble in Tahiti: Henry Neill (Sam); Wallis Giunta (Dinah), Kirsty McLean (Trio), Guy Elliott (Trio), Peer Edge (Trio). A Quiet Place: Grant Doyle (Sam); Henry Neill (Junior); Rowan Pierce (Dede); Elgan Llŷr Thomas (François). Chorus and Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden; Nicholas Chalmers, conductor.
Approximate length: 2 hours, 43 minutes

August 9 – Turandot / Giacomo Puccini *

From the Royal Ballet and Opera in London, England. Sondra Radvanovsky (Turandot); SeokJong Baek (Calaf); Gemma Summerfield (Liù); Adam Palka (Timur); Paul Hopwood (Altoum); Hansung Yoo (Ping); Aled Hall (Pang); Michael Gibson (Pong); Ossian Huskinson (A Mandarin); Chorus and Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden; Rafael Payare, conductor.
Approximate length: 2 hours, 25 minutes

August 16 – Die Walküre / Richard Wagner*

From the Royal Ballet and Opera in London, England. Christopher Maltman (Wotan); Elisabet Strid (Brünnhilde); Natalya Romaniw (Sieglinde), Stanislas de Barbeyrac (Siegmund); Soloman Howard (Hunding); Marina Prudenskaya (Fricka); Maida Hundeling (Helmwige); Kaie Lowe (Ortlinde); Lee Bisset (Gerhilde); Claire Barnett-Jones (Waltraute); Catherine Carby (Siegrune); Alison Kettlewell (Rossweisse); Monika-Evelin Liiv (Grimgerde); Rhonda Browne (Schwertleite); Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden; Sir Antonio Pappano, conductor.
Approximate length: 4 hours, 20 minutes

August 23 – Werther / Jules Massenet

From Théâtre des Champs-Elysées in Paris, France. Benjamin Bernheim (Werther); Marina Viotti (Charlotte); Jean-Sébastien Bou (Albert); Sandra Hamaoui (Sophie); Marc Scoffoni (The bailiff); Yuri Kissin (Johann); Rodolphe Briand (Schmidt); Maîtrise des Hauts-de-Seine; Gaël Darchen, chorus master; Les Siècles; Orchestre National de France; Marc Leroy-Calatayud, conductor.
Approximate length: 2 hours, 35 minutes

August 30 – Der Rosenkavalier / Richard Strauss

From Théâtre des Champs-Elysées in Paris, France. Marlis Petersen (The Marschallin); Marina Viotti (Octavian); Regula Mühlemann (Sophie); Peter Rose (Baron Ochs); Jean-Sébastien Bou (Faninal); Éléonore Pancrazi (Annina); Kresimir Spicer (Valzacchi); Laurène Paternò (Marianne); François Piolino (Major-domo); Yoann Le Lan (Innkeeper); Maîtrise des Hauts-de-Seine; Gaël Darchen, chorus master; Orchestre National de France; Henrik Nánási, conductor.
Approximate length: 3 hours, 50 minutes

September 6 – Dido and Aeneas / Henry Purcell AND The Seven Deadly Sins / Kurt Weill

From the Danish National Symphony Orchestra in Copenhagen, Denmark. Dido and Aeneas: Danielle De Niese (Dido); Jóhann Kristinsson (Aeneas); Julie Roset (Belinda); Jasmin White (Sorceress); Sara Swietlicki (Second Woman / Second Witch); Katherine Koester (First Witch); Lasse Flaaten Husmer (Spirit); Kieran Carrel (Sailor). The Seven Deadly Sins: Danielle De Niese (Anna I and Anna II); Kristoffer Appel (Father); Benjamin Nellemose (Brother); Mads Skovgaard Andersen (Brother); Per Hoyer (Mother). Malmö Opera Chorus and Danish National Symphony Orchestra; Geoffrey Paterson, conductor.
Approximate length: 1 hour, 50 minutes

 

* Indicates performers are subject to change.

 

 

 

LA Opera

 September 14, 2024
Double Bill: Highway 1, USA & The Dwarf
William Grant Still & Alexander Zemlinsky

September 21, 2024
Turandot
Giacomo Puccini

Bayreuth Festival

September 28, 2024
Tristan und Isolde
Richard Wagner

Aix-en-Provence Festival

October 5, 2024
Madama Butterfly
Giacomo Puccini

October 12, 2024
La clemenza di Tito
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

October 19, 2024
Samson
Jean-Philippe Rameau

Lyric Opera of Kansas City

October 26, 2024
The Shining
Paul Moravec

National Centre for the Performing Arts Opera, Beijing, China

November 2, 2024
La sonnambula
Vincenzo Bellini

November 9, 2024
LAN Huahua
ZHANG Qianyi

November 16, 2024
Der fliegende Holländer
Richard Wagner

November 23, 2024
Un ballo in maschera
Giuseppe Verdi

Saltzburg Festival

November 30, 2024
Capriccio
Richard Strauss

Vienna State Opera (Austria)

JUNE 15  Guillaume Tell / Gioachino Rossini

JUNE 22  Die Frau ohne Schatten / Richard Strauss

 

Utrecht Early Music Festival (Netherlands)

JUNE 29  The Fairy Queen / Henry Purcell

 

Opéra de Lille (France)

JULY 6  Don Giovanni / Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

 

Royal Opera House (London)

JULY 13  Das Rheingold / Richard Wagner

JULY 20  Elektra / Richard Strauss

 

Opéra de Paris (France)

JULY 27  Médée / Marc-Antoine Charpentier

 

French National Orchestra (France)

AUGUST 3  Damnation of Faust / Hector Berlioz

 

La Scala (Italy)

AUGUST 10  Don Carlo / Giuseppe Verdi

 

Opéra Royal de Wallonie (Belgium)

AUGUST 17  Rusalka / Antonín Dvořák

 

Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra and Chorus (Germany)

AUGUST 24  Idomeneo / Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

 

Bavarian State Opera (Germany)

AUGUST 31  Tosca / Giacomo Puccini

SEPTEMBER 7  The Queen of Spades / Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsk

December 9 FLORENCIA EN EL AMAZONAS (Daniel Catán) – New Production/Met Premiere – Yannick Nézet-Séguin; Ailyn Pérez (Florencia), Gabriella Reyes (Rosalba), Mario Chang (Arcadio), Mattia Olivieri (Riolobo), Nancy Fabiola Herrera (Paula), Michael Chioldi (Álvaro), Greer Grimsley (Captain) 

December 16 THE MAGIC FLUTE (Mozart) – Patrick Furrer; Piotr Buszewski (Tamino), Janai Brugger (Pamina), Rolando Villazón (Papageno), Brindley Sherratt (Sarastro), Kathryn Lewek (Queen of the Night), Brenton Ryan (Monostatos), Patrick Carfizzi (Speaker) 

December 23 TANNHÄUSER (Wagner) – Donald Runnicles; Andreas Schager (Tannhäuser), Elza van den Heever (Elisabeth), Ekaterina Gubanova (Venus), Christian Gerhaher (Wolfram), Georg Zeppenfeld (Landgraf Hermann) 

December 30 LE NOZZE DI FIGARO (Mozart) – Honoring the centenaries of Cesare Siepi and Victoria de los Angeles with a performance from April 7, 1956 – Max Rudolf; Cesare Siepi (Figaro), Victoria de los Angeles (Countess Almaviva), Nadine Conner (Susanna), Frank Guarrera (Count Almaviva), Mildred Miller (Cherubino) 

January 6 NABUCCO (Verdi) – Daniele Callegari; George Gagnidze (Nabucco), Liudmyla Monastyrska (Abigaille), Dmitry Belosselskiy (Zaccaria), SeokJong Baek (Ismaele), Maria Barakova (Fenena) 

January 13 LA BOHÈME (Puccini) – Marco Armiliato; Elena Stikhina (Mimì), Joseph Calleja (Rodolfo), Kristina Mkhitaryan (Musetta), Adam Plachetka (Marcello), Krzysztof Bączyk (Colline), Rodion Pogossov (Schaunard), Donald Maxwell (Benoit/Alcindoro) 

January 20 DEAD MAN WALKING (Jake Heggie) – Libretto by Terrence McNally – Based on the Book by Sister Helen Prejean – New Production/Met Premiere – Performance from October 21, 2023 – Yannick Nézet-Séguin; Joyce DiDonato (Sister Helen Prejean), Ryan McKinny (Joseph De Rocher), Susan Graham (Mrs. Patrick De Rocher), Latonia Moore (Sister Rose)  

January 27 CARMEN (Bizet) – New Production – Daniele Rustioni; Aigul Akhmetshina (Carmen), Piotr Beczała (Don José), Angel Blue (Micaëla), Kyle Ketelsen (Escamillo) 

February 3 X: THE LIFE AND TIMES OF MALCOLM X (Anthony Davis) – Libretto by Thulani Davis – Story by Christopher Davis – New Production/Met Premiere – Network Premiere – Performance from November 18, 2023 – Kazem Abdullah; Will Liverman (Malcolm), Victor Ryan Robertson (Elijah/Street), Leah Hawkins (Louise/Betty), Raehann Bryce-Davis (Ella), Michael Sumuel (Reginald)  

February 10 Valentines from the Met: Great Love Duets – Archival Broadcast – Romantic moments in memorable performances from the Met’s radio archives  

February 17 UN BALLO IN MASCHERA (Verdi) – Performance from fall 2023 – Carlo Rizzi; Charles Castronovo (Gustavo III), Elena Stikhina (Amelia), Quinn Kelsey (Count Anckarström), Nina Minasyan (Oscar), Olesya Petrova (Ulrica) 

February 24 Mozart and Beethoven in Concert at the Met – Network Premiere – Mozart’s Requiem from February 24, 2023 and the finale of Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 from March 14, 2022 – Yannick Nézet-Séguin; Golda Schultz, Emily D’Angelo, Dmytro Popov, Vladyslav Buialskyi / Elza van den Heever, Jamie Barton, Piotr Beczala, Ryan Speedo Green  

March 2 Listeners’ Choice: Great Met Broadcasts – Opera TBA 

March 9 LA FORZA DEL DESTINO (Verdi) – New Production – Yannick Nézet-Séguin; Lise Davidsen (Leonora), Brian Jagde (Don Alvaro), Igor Golovatenko (Don Carlo di Vargas), Soloman Howard (Marquis of Calatrava/Padre Guardiano), TBA (Preziosilla), Patrick Carfizzi (Fra Melitone) 

March 16 TURANDOT (Puccini) – Oksana Lyniv; Elena Pankratova (Turandot),  SeokJong Baek (Calàf), Aleksandra Kurzak (Liù),Vitalij Kowaljow (Timur) 

March 23 ROMÉO ET JULIETTE (Gounod) – Yannick Nézet-Séguin; Nadine Sierra (Juliette), Benjamin Bernheim (Roméo), Will Liverman (Mercutio), Alfred Walker (Frère Laurent), Samantha Hankey (Stéphano), Frederick Ballentine (Tybalt)  

March 30 REQUIEM (Verdi) – Performance from September 27, 2023 – Yannick Nézet-Séguin; Leah Hawkins, Karen Cargill, Matthew Polenzani, Dmitry Belosselskiy 

April 6 L’ELISIR D’AMORE (Donizetti) – Performance from April 6, 1974 – Max Rudolf; Luciano Pavarotti (Nemorino), Judith Blegen (Adina), John Reardon (Belcore), Ezio Flagello (Dr. Dulcamara) 

April 13 DIE FLEDERMAUS (J. Strauss) – Celebrating the opera’s 150th anniversary with a performance from December 27, 1986 – Jeffrey Tate; Kiri Te Kanawa (Rosalinde), Håkan Hagegård (Eisenstein), Judith Blegen (Adele), Tatiana Troyanos (Prince Orlofsky), David Rendall (Alfred), Michael Devlin (Dr. Falke) 

April 20 LA RONDINE (Puccini) – Speranza Scappucci; Angel Blue (Magda), Jonathan Tetelman (Ruggero), Emily Pogorelc (Lisette), Bekhzod Davronov (Prunier) 

April 27 FIRE SHUT UP IN MY BONES (Terence Blanchard) – Libretto by Kasi Lemmons – Evan Rogister; Ryan Speedo Green (Charles), Latonia Moore (Billie), Brittany Renee (Destiny/Loneliness/Greta) 

May 4 EL NIÑO (John Adams) – New Production/Met Premiere – Network Premiere – Marin Alsop; Julia Bullock (Soprano), Daniela Mack (Mezzo-Soprano), Davóne Tines (Bass-Baritone), Key’mon W. Murrah (Countertenor), Siman Chung (Countertenor), Eric Jurenas (Countertenor) 

May 11 MADAMA BUTTERFLY (Puccini) – Xian Zhang; Asmik Grigorian (Cio-Cio-San), Jonathan Tetelman (Pinkerton), Elizabeth DeShong (Suzuki), Lucas Meachem (Sharpless) 

May 18 THE HOURS (Kevin Puts) – Libretto by Greg Pierce – Kensho Watanabe; Renée Fleming (Clarissa Vaughan), Joyce DiDonato (Virginia Woolf), Kelli O’Hara (Laura Brown), Kyle Ketelsen (Richard), Sean Panikkar (Leonard Woolf), Brandon Cedel (Dan Brown), William Burden (Louis) 

May 25 LA FANCIULLA DEL WEST (Puccini) Performance from October 27, 2018 Marco Armiliato; Eva-Maria Westbroek (Minnie), Jonas Kaufmann (Dick Johnson), Željko Lučić (Jack Rance), Carlo Bosi (Nick), Michael Todd Simpson (Sonora), Matthew Rose (Ashby), Oren Gradus (Jake Wallace)

June 1 CINDERELLA (Massenet) – Abridged English-language version by Kelley Rourke Performance from January 1, 2022 Emmanuel Villaume; Isabel Leonard (Cinderella), Emily D’Angelo (Prince Charming), Stephanie Blythe (Madame de la Haltière), Laurent Naouri (Pandolfe), Jessica Pratt (Fairy Godmother)

June 8 ORFEO ED EURIDICE (Gluck) – Christian Curnyn; Anthony Roth Costanzo (Orfeo), Ying Fang (Euridice), Elena Villalón (Amore) 

National Centre for the Performing Arts (China)

SEPTEMBER 2   Tannhäuser / Wagner

SEPTEMBER 9   The Ballad of the Canal / YIN Qing

SEPTEMBER 16   La Fille du Régiment / Donizetti

SEPTEMBER 23   La fanciulla del West / Puccini

Aix-en-Provence Festival (France)

SEPTEMBER 30   Picture a Day Like This / George Benjamin

Music of the Baroque (Chicago)

OCTOBER 7   Jephtha / Handel

Opera Festival of Chicago (Chicago)

OCTOBER 14   Assassinio nella cattedrale / Pizzetti

OCTOBER 21   Attila / Verdi

Opera Southwest (New Mexico)

OCTOBER 28   Le comte Ory / Rossini

NOVEMBER 4  Zorro / Héctor Armienta

Bayreuth Festival (Germany)

NOVEMBER 11   Der fliegende Holländer / Wagner

Haymarket Opera (Chicago)

NOVEMBER 18   Marc’Antonio e Cleopatra / Hasse

LA Opera (Los Angeles)

NOVEMBER 25 Pelléas et Mélisande / Debussy

DECEMBER 2  Omar / Rhiannon Giddens & Michael Abels

Vienna State Opera (Austria)

JUNE 17 – Fidelio / Beethoven

JUNE 24 – Salome / Strauss

Opéra de Paris (France)

JULY 1 – Nixon in China / Adams

Opera Rara (UK)

JULY 8 – il Proscritto / Mercadante

Munich Radio Opera (Germany)

JULY 15 – I Lombardi / Verdi

Royal Opera House (UK)

JULY 22 – Wozzeck / Berg

La Scala (Italy)

JULY 29 – Li zite ‘ngalera / Vinci

Budapest Festival Orchestra (Hungary)

AUGUST 5 – Turn of the Screw / Britten

Opéra Royal de Wallonie (Belgium)

AUGUST 12 – La sonnambula / Bellini

Gran Teatre del Liceu (Spain)

AUGUST 19 – Manon / Massenet

AUGUST 26 – L’Incoronazione di Poppea / Monteverdi

National Centre for the Performing Arts (China)

SEPTEMBER 2 – William Tell / Rossini

SEPTEMBER 9 – The Ballad of the Canal / YIN Qing

SEPTEMBER 16 – Otello / Verdi

SEPTEMBER 23 – Tannhäuser / Wagner