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Classic Arts Features Schedule of Upcoming Live Opera and Ballet Broadcasts

The opera and ballet fans' guide to where they can view live broadcasts.

The following is a list of live opera and ballet productions announced to be shown in movie theatres and on television. Please submit updates to dgewirtzman@playbill.com.

FIDELIO
• U.S. Broadcast Date: March 15, 2025
• Genre: Opera
• Theatre: Metropolitan Opera House, New York
• Director: Jürgen Flimm
• Composer: Ludwig van Beethoven
• Cast: Lise Davidsen, Ying Fang, David Butt Philip, Magnus Dietrich, Tomasz Konieczny, René Pape, Stephen Milling
• The Metropolitan Opera performs Beethoven's opera about a woman who risks everything to save her husband from the clutches of tyranny.
• More Information: The Metropolitan Opera

LE NOZZE DI FIGARO
• U.S. Broadcast Date: April 26, 2025
• Genre: Opera
• Theatre: Metropolitan Opera House, New York
• Director: Richard Eyre
• Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
• Cast: Federica Lombardi, Olga Kulchynska, Marianne Crebassa, Elizabeth Bishop, Joshua Hopkins, Michael Sumuel, Maurizio Muraro
• The Metropolitan Opera performs Mozart's comic opera that tests the romantic bonds of two couples over the course of one eventful day.
• More Information: The Metropolitan Opera

SALOME
• U.S. Broadcast Date: May 17, 2025
• Genre: Opera
• Theatre: Metropolitan Opera House, New York
• Director: Claus Guth
• Composer: Richard Strauss
• Cast: Elza van den Heever, Michelle DeYoung, Gerhard Siegel, Piotr Buszewski, Peter Mattei
• The Metropolitan Opera performs Strauss's opera based on the play by Oscar Wilde.
• More Information: The Metropolitan Opera

IL BARBIERE DI SIVIGLIA
• U.S. Broadcast Date: May 31, 2025
• Genre: Opera
• Theatre: Metropolitan Opera House, New York
• Director: Bartlett Sher
• Composer: Gioachino Rossini
• Cast: Aigul Akhmetshina, Jack Swanson, Andrey Zhilikhovsky, Peter Kálmán, Alexander Vinogradov
• The Metropolitan Opera performs Rossini's comic opera about the titular barber who helps two young lovers in their quest to be together.
• More Information: The Metropolitan Opera

LA SONNAMBULA
• U.S. Broadcast Date: October 18, 2025
• Genre: Opera
• Theatre: Metropolitan Opera House, New York
• Director: Rolando Villazón
• Composer: Vincenzo Bellini
• Cast: Nadine Sierra, Sydney Mancasola, Xabier Anduaga, Alexander Vinogradov
• The Metropolitan Opera performs Bellini's opera about an innocent woman whose sleepwalking threatens to break up her impending marriage.
• More Information: The Metropolitan Opera

LA BOHÈME
• U.S. Broadcast Date: November 8, 2025
• Genre: Opera
• Theatre: Metropolitan Opera House, New York
• Director: Franco Zeffirelli
• Composer: Giacomo Puccini
• Cast: Juliana Grigoryan, Heidi Stober, Freddie De Tommaso, Lucas Meachem, Sean Michael Plumb, Jongmin Park,
Donald Maxwell
• The Metropolitan Opera performs Puccini's opera about love among young artists in Paris.
• More Information: The Metropolitan Opera

ARABELLA
• U.S. Broadcast Date: November 22, 2025
• Genre: Opera
• Theatre: Metropolitan Opera House, New York
• Director: Otto Schenk
• Composer: Richard Strauss
• Cast: Rachel Willis-Sørensen, Louise Alder, Pavol Breslik, Tomasz Konieczny, Brindley Sherratt
• The Metropolitan Opera performs Strauss' opera about a young noblewoman in search of love on her own terms.
• More Information: The Metropolitan Opera

ANDREA CHÉNIER
• U.S. Broadcast Date: December 13, 2025
• Genre: Opera
• Theatre: Metropolitan Opera House, New York
• Director: Nicolas Joël
• Composer: Umberto Giordano
• Cast: Sonya Yoncheva, Piotr Beczała, Igor Golovatenko
• The Metropolitan Opera performs Giordano's opera about a virtuous poet who falls victim to the intrigue and violence of the French Revolution.
• More Information: The Metropolitan Opera

I PURITANI
• U.S. Broadcast Date: January 10, 2026
• Genre: Opera
• Theatre: Metropolitan Opera House, New York
• Director: Charles Edwards
• Composer: Vincenzo Bellini
• Cast: Lisette Oropesa, Lawrence Brownlee, Artur Ruciński, Christian Van Horn
• The Metropolitan Opera performs Giordano's opera about a couple brought together by love and torn apart by the political rifts of the English Civil War.
• More Information: The Metropolitan Opera

TRISTAN UND ISOLDE
• U.S. Broadcast Date: March 21, 2026
• Genre: Opera
• Theatre: Metropolitan Opera House, New York
• Director: Yuval Sharon
• Composer: Richard Wagner
• Cast: Lise Davidsen, Michael Spyres, Ekaterina Gubanova, Tomasz Konieczny, Ryan Speedo Green
• The Metropolitan Opera performs Wagner's opera inspired by the medieval legend of Tristan and Iseult.
• More Information: The Metropolitan Opera

EUGENE ONEGIN
• U.S. Broadcast Date: May 2, 2026
• Genre: Opera
• Theatre: Metropolitan Opera House, New York
• Director: Deborah Warner
• Composer: Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
• Cast: Asmik Grigorian, Maria Barakova, Stephanie Blythe, Stanislas de Barbeyrac, Igor Golovatenko, Alexander Tsymbalyuk
• The Metropolitan Opera performs Tchaikovsky's opera based on the Alexander Pushkin novel.
• More Information: The Metropolitan Opera

EL ÚLTIMO SUEÑO DE FRIDA Y DIEGO
• U.S. Broadcast Date: May 30, 2026
• Genre: Opera
• Theatre: Metropolitan Opera House, New York
• Director: Deborah Colker
• Composer: Gabriela Lena Frank
• Cast: Gabriella Reyes, Isabel Leonard, Nils Wanderer, Carlos Álvarez
• The Metropolitan Opera performs Gabriela Lena Frank and Nilo Cruz's opera inspired by Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera.
• More Information: The Metropolitan Opera

 

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