The Metropolitan Opera in New York has been the vibrant home for the world's most creative operatic artists since 1883. Known as one of the great music venues in the world, its work is renowned for being both ground-breaking and classic.
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In the spirit of honouring enduring operatic jewels while embracing contemporary works that reflect our times, the 2024-25 lineup features three new productions and five revivals, including the Met premiere of Grounded by Tony Award-winning composer Jeanine Tesori. The season kicks off with the fantastical Les Contes d’Hoffmann, followed by timeless classics like Tosca, Le Nozze di Figaro, and the first-ever Met Live in HD production of Beethoven’s Fidelio.
Ticket prices:
Adults $28 | Seniors $23
The Met Opera 2024-25 SeasonDownload our printed program
From: Saturday, 25 January 2025
Met Opera: Tosca (Exempt)
Extraordinary Norwegian soprano Lise Davidsen stars as the passionate title diva in David McVicar’s thrilling production. British-Italian tenor Freddie De Tommaso makes his eagerly anticipated company debut as Tosca’s revolutionary lover, Cavaradossi, and powerhouse American baritone Quinn Kelsey is the sadistic chief of police Scarpia. Maestro Xian Zhang conducts the electrifying score, which features some of Puccini’s most memorable melodies.
From: Saturday, 8 February 2025
Met Opera: Aida (Exempt)
American soprano Angel Blue headlines as the Ethiopian princess torn between love and country in a new production of Verdi’s Aida by Michael Mayer that brings audiences inside the towering pyramids and gilded tombs of ancient Egypt with intricate projections and dazzling animations. Romanian-Hungarian mezzo-soprano Judit Kutasi also stars as Aida’s rival, Amneris, alongside Polish tenor Piotr Beczała as the soldier Radamès—completing opera’s greatest love triangle. Met Music Director Yannick Nézet-Séguin takes the podium.
From: Saturday, 29 March 2025
Met Opera: Fidelio (Exempt)
Following a string of awe-inspiring performances, Norwegian soprano Lise Davidsen returns to the Metropolitan Opera as Leonore, the faithful wife who risks everything to save her husband from the clutches of tyranny in Beethoven’s Fidelio.
From: Saturday, 10 May 2025
Met Opera: Le Nozze di Figaro (Exempt)
Mozart’s timeless comedy returns to the Met this season. Conductor Joana Mallwitz, in her Met debut, takes the podium to conduct a stellar ensemble cast including American bass-baritone Michael Sumuel as the clever valet Figaro, Ukrainian soprano Olga Kulchynska as the wily maid Susanna, Canadian baritone Joshua Hopkins as the skirt-chasing Count, Italian soprano Federica Lombardi as his anguished wife, and French mezzo-soprano Marianne Crebassa as the adolescent page Cherubino.
From: Saturday, 7 June 2025
Met Opera: Salome (Exempt)
Met Music Director Yannick Nézet-Séguin takes the podium to conduct Strauss’s one-act tragedy. Leading the company’s first new production of the work in 20 years, Claus Guth, one of Europe’s leading opera directors, gives the biblical story a psychologically perceptive Victorian-era setting.
From: Saturday, 5 July 2025
Met Opera: Il Barbiere di Siviglia (Exempt)
Russian mezzo-soprano Aigul Akhmetshina headlines a winning ensemble as the feisty heroine, Rosina, with American tenor Jack Swanson, in his Met debut, as her secret beloved, Count Almaviva, in Rossini’s effervescent comedy.
Ticket Prices
- 2D screenings:
Adults $14 • Members $11 • Children (aged 3 to 12) $13 - 3D screenings:
All tickets $15 or $55 for family of four (max two adults, children aged 3 to 12) - NT Live:
Adults $25 • Seniors $23 • Full-time students/children $15 • Student groups (10+) $12 each - MET Opera:
Adults $28 • Seniors $23
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