Singer

A square in Sevilla. Soldiers are whiling away the time in front of their guardhouse. Micaela enters and asks after Don Jose, who, however, is not expected until the changing of the guard. She says she will return again and runs off as the men laugh at her.

Carmen

Max-Joseph-Platz

Sixty years after the opening of the new Metropolitan Opera House at Lincoln Center ushered in a spectacular new age of grand opera, the Met celebrates the diamond anniversary of its magnificent home with a glittering gala—conducted by Yannick Nézet-Séguin and fully staged by director Julian Crouch, with immersive video and projections by 59 Studio, and featuring a dazzling array of opera’s brightest stars and the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and Chorus. The program will include a broad selection of arias, duets, and scenes from more than 30 operas, including thrilling excerpts from Die Walküre, Der Rosenkavalier, La Forza del Destino, Akhnaten, Pagliacci, Romeo et Juliette, and The Queen of Spades. In addition to the star-studded performance, the historic evening will include a special gala dinner.

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Diamond Jubilee: 60 Years at Lincoln Center

Lincoln Center

Following the LA Phil’s acclaimed production of Das Rheingold, Gustavo Dudamel, famed architect Frank Gehry, and director Alberto Arvelo take on the second installment in Wagner’s grand Ring Cycle: Die Walküre. Envisioned as a three-part saga with each act standing on its own, this production boasts a cast of international opera superstars who bring to life a grand tale of love, fate, duty, and self-determination.

Die Walküre Act III

Walt Disney Concert Hall

A profound philosophical meditation on compassion and reconciliation, Wagner’s transcendent rendering of a medieval knight’s heroic quest for the Holy Grail returns in François Girard’s celebrated production, a “thoughtful and intrepid staging, full of striking imagery” (The New York Times). Yannick Nézet-Séguin conducts a cast of Wagnerian superstars, including tenor Piotr Beczała in the title role, mezzo-soprano Elīna Garanča as the enigmatic Kundry, baritone Peter Mattei as the ailing Amfortas, bass-baritone Ryan Speedo Green as the sorcerer Klingsor, and bass Jongmin Park as the wise Gurnemanz.

Parsifal

The nickname “Symphony of a Thousand” scarcely does justice to Mahler’s epic work — one of the greatest in the concert repertoire. Its immense scope makes performances rare and, therefore, are to be treasured. Part One of Mahler’s mystical work begins with a powerful unleashing of sound that sets the hymn, “Come, Creative Spirit,” a text that also foreshadows the message of Part Two of the Symphony. The expansive second half transports us to the final scene of Goethe’s dramatic poem Faust, the title character who had bargained away his soul to the devil and thus to eternal damnation. But the beatific voices of a “chorus mysticus,” underscored by thunderous timpani rolls, reach into the stratosphere and promise that Faust’s soul — borne higher and ever higher to heaven through the intercession of hosts of penitent women and holy men and ultimately angels, will be redeemed through “the eternally feminine” — the power of love.

Mahler’s Symphony of a Thousand

Morton H. Meyerson Symphony Center

Volumes have been written about the influential music of Tristan und Isolde . The music is based on the idea of ​​an insatiable longing that can never be fulfilled in this life. The prelude sweeps the listener into an ecstatic but agonizing world of desire, and the vocal parts are of unique dignity. The opera culminates in Isolde's famous closing aria, Mild und leise, with a final octave leap that concludes this unique musical-dramatic journey.

Opera (live) at the cinema: Tristan and Isolde

Umeå Folkets Hus

Dressed as a man and calling herself “Fidelio”, Leonore surreptitiously gains the confidence of the jailer Rocco and his daughter Marzelline, thus gaining access to the high security tract where her husband Florestan has been despotically incarcerated by Don Pizarro. Florestan is in mortal danger, but this does not intimidate his wife, who is determined to liberate him. Finally, however, the two of them can only be rescued by an emissary from the monarch. At the end, a Utopia in the form of a final chorus sets the stage aglow, not only as a plea for freedom and justice, but also concurrently as a condemnation of the anxieties and restrictions of human existence.

Fidelio

Bass-baritone Alfred Walker and soprano Brittany Renee headline one of the defining works of American music theater. With its fusion of opera, jazz, and Broadway, the Gershwins’ enduring masterpiece features a number of tunes whose popularity has transcended the opera house, including the classics “Summertime” and “It Ain’t Necessarily So.” Hailed by The Washington Post as “a Porgy of its time that speaks to ours,” James Robinson’s vivid staging features electrifying choreography by Camille A. Brown, with an all-star ensemble portraying the community of Catfish Row.

Porgy and Bess

Richard Tucker Music Foundation Gala,  50th Anniversary | Miami Edition, marks the first time that the Richard Tucker Gala travels beyond New York. It also celebrates the 50th anniversary of this historic institution, which has helped launch so many of today’s—and yesterday’s—great opera stars.

Richard Tucker Music Foundation 50th Anniversary Gala | Miami Edition

Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts

This afternoon's performance by the Tanglewood Festival Chorus is supported by the Alan J. and Suzanne W. Dworsky Fund for Voice and Chorus.

Beethoven Symphony No. 9, Ode to Joy

Tanglewood Music Center

Summer, energy, passion – Gustavo Dudamel and the Berliner Philharmoniker invite you to a end-of-season concert at the Waldbühne. The Venezuelan conductor performed at this venue back in 2008 under the motto Los ritmos de la noche. It was his debut with the Berliner Philharmoniker, and was met with great acclaim by the audience. Dudamel now celebrates the end of the season with the orchestra in the open air for the fourth time. The programme will include rousing dances from Bernstein’s musical West Side Story, in which Latin American sounds and rhythms are all-pervasive.

End-of-season concert: Berliner Philharmoniker and Gustavo Dudamel at the Waldbühne

Waldbühne

Die Walküre Act II

Blood, sex, magic and redemption come together in an astonishing musical odyssey. This psychological drama about family duty and private desire, how we die and why we live, is staged at Glyndebourne for the first time.

Glyndebourne

After years of anticipation, a truly unmissable event arrives 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. The momentous occasion also marks the advent of a new, Met-debut staging by Yuval Sharon—hailed by The New York Times as “the most visionary opera director of his generation” and the first American to direct an opera at the famed Wagner festival in Bayreuth—as well as Music Director Yannick Nézet-Séguin’s first time leading Tristan und Isolde at the Met. Mezzo-soprano Ekaterina Gubanova reprises her signature portrayal of Brangäne, alongside bass-baritone Tomasz Konieczny, who sings Kurwenal after celebrated Met appearances in Wagner’s Der Fliegende Holländer and Ring cycle. Bass-baritone Ryan Speedo Green makes an important role debut as King Marke.

Tristan und Isolde

The season opens with hair-raising drama and spectacular singing as two of opera’s most extraordinary artists star in Macbeth, Verdi’s thrilling take on the immortal Shakespearean tale of the scheming couple determined to seize power at any cost. Following past triumphs in many of Verdi’s signature baritone roles, Quinn Kelsey is the Scottish king haunted by the ghosts of his murderous ascent to the throne, opposite Lise Davidsen—the world’s reigning dramatic soprano—as the power-mad Lady Macbeth, whose ruinous ambition damns them both. Met Music Director Yannick Nézet-Séguin takes the podium for a penetrating production by Louisa Proske, a brilliant young director making waves around the world. Rounding out the all-star cast are tenor Freddie De Tommaso as the heroic Macduff and bass-baritone Ryan Speedo Green as Macbeth’s friend-turned-victim Banquo.

Macbeth

Gabriella Reyes stars in Carlisle Floyd’s apocryphal Appalachian fable, presented at Lyric Opera of Chicago for the first time since 2002.

In small-town Tennessee, young Susannah’s beauty and gentleness earn her admiration from some — and envy from others. But in this devout community where modesty is tantamount to holiness, rumors of Susannah’s impropriety threaten more than just her humble reputation.

With a taut, visceral libretto sung in English and a score that infuses lush orchestration with flavors of Broadway and American folk music, this modern masterpiece is as raw and gripping today as when it premiered more than five decades ago.

Susannah

Lyric Opera House

Don’t miss a rare opportunity to experience Mahler’s most ambitious masterpiece, performed with a magnificent array of musical forces that only the Met can muster. Music Director Yannick Nézet-Séguin takes the podium to lead the unsurpassed Met Orchestra, Chorus, and Children’s Chorus in their largest and mightiest incarnations, joined by a selection of opera’s biggest stars as vocal soloists. A grand monument of the choral and symphonic repertory, Mahler’s Eighth Symphony combines a sublime setting of a medieval hymn to the Holy Spirit with a dramatic rendering of the mystical final scene of Goethe’s Faust, melding into something transcendent and unique in all of music. “Try to imagine the whole universe beginning to ring and resound,” the composer wrote of the symphony he considered the culmination of his life’s work. “There are no longer human voices, but planets and suns revolving.”

Bass-baritone

Ryan Speedo Green

Events

Upcoming events

Mar 8 - Jul 18, 2026

Fidelio · Bayerische Staatsoper

Sep 22 - Oct 20, 2026

Macbeth · The Metropolitan Opera

11 - 23 Apr, 2027

Susannah · Lyric Opera of Chicago

10 - 12 Jun, 2027

Mahler: Symphony No. 8 · The Metropolitan Opera

Past events

13 - 21 Jun, 2026

Carmen · Bayerische Staatsoper

May 25, 2026

Diamond Jubilee: 60 Years at Lincoln Center · The Metropolitan Opera

Future and recently performed repertoire

Banquo in Macbeth by Verdi

The Metropolitan Opera

Singer in Tristan and Isolde by Wagner

Umeå Folkets Hus

King Marke in Tristan und Isolde by Wagner

The Metropolitan Opera

Singer in Symphony No. 8 by Mahler

Dallas Symphony Orchestra

Wotan in Die Walküre by Wagner

Los Angeles Philharmonic

Crown in Porgy and Bess by Gershwin

The Metropolitan Opera

Singer in Old American Songs by Copland

Berliner Philharmoniker

Olin Blitch in Susannah by Floyd

Lyric Opera of Chicago

Klingsor in Parsifal by Wagner

London Philharmonic Orchestra

Singer in Symphony No. 9 by Beethoven

Tanglewood

Don Fernando in Fidelio by Beethoven

Bayerische Staatsoper

Wotan in Die Walküre Ride of the Valkyries by Wagner

Los Angeles Philharmonic

Singer in Words and Prayers of My Fathers by Simon

Tanglewood

Escamillo in Carmen by Bizet

Bayerische Staatsoper

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