The Met Opera 2021-22 SeasonDownload our December/January program

• From: Saturday, 19 February 2022

  MET Opera: Eurydice (Exempt)

  The ancient Greek myth of Orpheus, who attempts to harness the power of music to rescue his beloved Eurydice from the underworld, has inspired composers since opera’s earliest days. Rising American composer Matthew Aucoin now carries that tradition into the 21st century with a captivating new take on the story.

• From: Saturday, 12 March 2022

  MET Opera: Cinderella (Exempt)

  Laurent Pelly’s storybook staging of Massenet’s Cendrillon is presented with an all-new English translation in an abridged 90-minute adaptation, with mezzo-soprano Isabel Leonard as its rags-to-riches princess.

• From: Saturday, 2 April 2022

  MET Opera: Rigoletto (Exempt)

  Tony Award­-winning director Bartlett Sher creates a bold new take on Verdi’s timeless tragedy, resetting the opera’s action in 1920s Europe, with Art Deco sets by Michael Yeargan and elegant costumes by Catherine Zuber. Conducted by Daniele Rustioni and starring Quinn Kelsey, Rosa Feola and Piotr Beczała.

• From: Saturday, 7 May 2022

  MET Opera: Ariadne auf Naxos (Exempt)

  The exhilarating soprano Lise Davidsen makes her Live in HD debut in one of her signature roles, the mythological Greek heroine of Strauss’s enchanting masterpiece, starring Isabel Leonard, Brenda Rae and Brandon Jovanovich. Marek Janowski conducts.

• From: Saturday, 11 June 2022

  MET Opera: Don Carlos (Exempt)

  For the first time in company history, the Met presents the original five-act French version of Verdi’s epic opera of doomed love among royalty, set against the backdrop of the Spanish Inquisition. Met Music Director Yannick Nézet-Séguin leads a starry cast, including Matthew Polenzani, Sonya Yoncheva, Elīna Garanča, Günther Groissböck, John Relyea and Étienne Dupuis.

• From: Saturday, 23 July 2022

  MET Opera: Turandot (Exempt)

  Superstar soprano Anna Netrebko makes her long-awaited Met role debut as Puccini’s icy princess. Tenor Yonghoon Lee is the bold prince determined to win Turandot’s love, alongside soprano Michelle Bradley as the devoted servant Liù and legendary bass Ferruccio Furlanetto as the blind king Timur.

• From: Saturday, 6 August 2022

  MET Opera: Lucia di Lammermoor (Exempt)

  Soprano Nadine Sierra takes on one of the repertory’s most formidable and storied roles, the haunted heroine of Donizetti’s Lucia di Lammermoor, in an electrifying new staging by Australian theater and film director Simon Stone, conducted by Riccardo Frizza.

• From: Saturday, 3 September 2022

  MET Opera: Hamlet (Exempt)

  When Australian composer Brett Dean’s Hamlet had its world premiere at the Glyndebourne Festival in 2017, The Guardian declared, “New opera doesn’t often get to sound this good … Shakespeare offers a gauntlet to composers that shouldn’t always be picked up, but Dean’s Hamlet rises to the challenge.”