Programs

American composer Jake Heggie’s compelling masterpiece about a condemned murderer gets a haunting new production by Ivo van Hove.

Anthony Davis’s groundbreaking, jazz-inflected opera about the civil right’s leader arrives at the Met at long last in a potent new staging from Slave Play director Robert O’Hara.

Inspired by the magical realism of Gabriel García Márquez, Mexican composer Daniel Catán’s enchanting opera set in the Amazon receives a spellbinding new production by Mary Zimmerman.

Ancient Babylon comes to life in this classic Met staging of Verdi’s exhilarating early masterpiece of love, vengeance, and political intrigue.

A vital new production of one of opera’s most enduringly powerful works, which acclaimed English director Carrie Cracknell sets in a contemporary American industrial town.

Verdi’s grand tale of ill-fated love, deadly vendettas, and family strife stars stellar soprano Lise Davidsen as one of the repertory’s most tormented—and thrilling—heroines.

Two singers at the height of their powers—radiant soprano Nadine Sierra and tenor sensation Benjamin Bernheim—come together in Charles Gounod’s sumptuous Shakespeare adaptation.

Puccini’s bittersweet love story returns in Nicolas Joël’s Art Deco–inspired staging, which transports audiences from the heart of Parisian nightlife to a dreamy vision of the French Riviera.

Extraordinary soprano Asmik Grigorian tackles the demanding central role of Puccini’s devastating tragedy in Anthony Minghella’s vivid production.