Metropolitan Opera
Opera company in New York City
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| May 3 2025 | List of performers at the Metropolitan Opera last updated, documenting performers with at least 100 performances at the opera house. |
| April 26 2025 | Broadcast of Le Nozze di Figaro featuring Michael Sumuel, Olga Kulchynska, Federica Lombardi, Joshua Hopkins, Marianne Crebassa, conducted by Joana Mallwitz |
| 2025 | Sadie Cheslak (mezzo-soprano), Alissa Goretsky (soprano), Emma Marhefka (soprano), Michelle Mariposa (mezzo-soprano), and Luke Sutliff (baritone) were selected as National Council Auditions winners. |
| March 15 2025 | Broadcast of Fidelio featuring Lise Davidsen, David Butt Philip, René Pape, Tomasz Konieczny, Ying Fang, conducted by Susanna Mälkki |
| January 25 2025 | Broadcast of Aida featuring Angel Blue, Piotr Beczala, Judit Kutasi, Quinn Kelsey, Morris Robinson, conducted by Yannick Nézet-Séguin |
| 2024 | Daniel Espinal (tenor), Lydia Grindatto (soprano), Navasard Hakobyan (baritone), Meridian Prall (mezzo-soprano), and Emily Richter (soprano) were named National Council Auditions winners. |
| 2024 | Conducted the first-ever Metropolitan Opera Orchestra tour of Asia, performing in Seoul, Hyogo, Tokyo, and Taipei. |
| November 2024 | The company announces the appointment of Daniele Rustioni as its next principal guest conductor, effective with the 2025-2026 season. |
| November 23 2024 | Broadcast of Tosca featuring Lise Davidsen, Freddie De Tommaso, Quinn Kelsey, Patrick Carfizzi, conducted by Xian Zhang |
| October 19 2024 | Broadcast of Grounded featuring Emily D'Angelo, Ellie Dehn, Ben Bliss, Kyle Miller, Greer Grimsley, conducted by Yannick Nézet-Séguin |
| October 5 2024 | Broadcast of Les Contes d'Hoffmann featuring Benjamin Bernheim, Christian Van Horn, Erin Morley, Pretty Yende, Clémentine Margaine, Vasilisa Berzhanskaya, conducted by Marco Armiliato |
| August 2024 | The Metropolitan Opera announces the extension of Yannick Nézet-Séguin's contract as music director through the 2029–2030 season. |
| May 11 2024 | Metropolitan Opera Live in HD broadcast of 'Madama Butterfly', featuring Asmik Grigorian, Jonathan Tetelman, Lucas Meachem, Elizabeth DeShong, and conducted by Xian Zhang. |
| April 20 2024 | Metropolitan Opera Live in HD broadcast of 'La Rondine', featuring Angel Blue, Jonathan Tetelman, Emily Pogorelc, Bekhzod Davronov, and conducted by Speranza Scappucci. |
| March 23 2024 | Metropolitan Opera Live in HD broadcast of 'Roméo et Juliette', featuring Nadine Sierra, Benjamin Bernheim, Will Liverman, Samantha Hankey, Alfred Walker, and conducted by Yannick Nézet-Séguin. |
| March 9 2024 | Metropolitan Opera Live in HD broadcast of 'La Forza del Destino', featuring Lise Davidsen, Brian Jagde, Igor Golovatenko, Soloman Howard, Judit Kutasi, and conducted by Yannick Nézet-Séguin. |
| January 27 2024 | Metropolitan Opera Live in HD broadcast of 'Carmen', featuring Aigul Akhmetshina, Piotr Beczala, Angel Blue, Kyle Ketelsen, and conducted by Daniele Rustioni. |
| January 6 2024 | Metropolitan Opera Live in HD broadcast of 'Nabucco', featuring Liudmyla Monastyrska, George Gagnidze, SeokJong Baek, Dmitry Belosselskiy, Maria Barakova, and conducted by Daniele Callegari. |
| 2023 | Anthony León (tenor), Natalie Lewis (mezzo-soprano), Teresa Perrotta (soprano), Sarah Saturnino (mezzo-soprano), Christian Simmons (bass-baritone), and Meredith Wohlgemuth (soprano) were recognized as National Council Auditions winners. |
| December 9 2023 | Metropolitan Opera Live in HD broadcast of 'Florencia en el Amazonas', featuring Ailyn Pérez, Mattia Olivieri, Gabriella Reyes, Mario Chang, Nancy Fabiola Herrera, Michael Chioldi, Greer Grimsley, and conducted by Yannick Nézet-Séguin. |
| November 18 2023 | Metropolitan Opera Live in HD broadcast of 'X, The Life and Times of Malcolm X', featuring Will Liverman, Leah Hawkins, Raehann Bryce-Davis, Victor Ryan Robertson, Michael Sumuel, and conducted by Kazem Abdullah. |
| October 21 2023 | Metropolitan Opera Live in HD broadcast of 'Dead Man Walking', featuring Joyce DiDonato, Susan Graham, Ryan McKinny, Latonia Moore, and conducted by Yannick Nézet-Séguin. |
| June 2023 | Reinstated Metropolitan Opera Orchestra tours with a European tour including stops in London, Paris, and Baden-Baden, marking the orchestra's first European tour in over 20 years. |
| June 3 2023 | Metropolitan Opera Live in HD broadcast of Die Zauberflöte, featuring Lawrence Brownlee, Erin Morley, Kathryn Lewek, Thomas Oliemans, Stephen Milling, conducted by Nathalie Stutzmann. |
| May 20 2023 | Metropolitan Opera Live in HD broadcast of Don Giovanni, featuring Peter Mattei, Adam Plachetka, Federica Lombardi, Ana María Martínez, Ying Fang, and Ben Bliss, conducted by Nathalie Stutzmann. |
| April 29 2023 | Metropolitan Opera Live in HD broadcast of Champion, featuring Eric Owens, Ryan Speedo Green, Latonia Moore, and Stephanie Blythe, conducted by Yannick Nézet-Séguin. |
| April 15 2023 | Metropolitan Opera Live in HD broadcast of Der Rosenkavalier, featuring Lise Davidsen, Samantha Hankey, Erin Morley, and Günther Groissböck, conducted by Simone Young. |
| April 1 2023 | Metropolitan Opera Live in HD broadcast of Falstaff, featuring Michael Volle, Ailyn Pérez, Christopher Maltman, Hera Hyesang Park, Marie-Nicole Lemieux, Bogdan Volkov, and Jennifer Johnson Cano, conducted by Daniele Rustioni. |
| March 18 2023 | Metropolitan Opera Live in HD broadcast of Lohengrin, featuring Piotr Beczala, Tamara Wilson, Christine Goerke, Evgeny Nikitin, Günther Groissböck, and Brian Mulligan, conducted by Yannick Nézet-Séguin. |
| February 24 2023 | The Met Opera holds a concert titled 'For Ukraine: A Concert of Remembrance and Hope' to mark the one-year anniversary of the Ukraine invasion, led by Yannick Nézet-Séguin. |
| January 14 2023 | Metropolitan Opera Live in HD broadcast of Fedora, featuring Sonya Yoncheva, Piotr Beczala, Rosa Feola, and Lucas Meachem, conducted by Marco Armiliato. |
| 2022 | Le Bu (bass-baritone), Matthew Cairns (tenor), Alexandra Razskazoff (soprano), Julie Roset (soprano), Anne Marie Stanley (mezzo-soprano), and Esther Tonea (soprano) were selected as National Council Auditions winners. |
| December 10 2022 | Metropolitan Opera Live in HD broadcast of The Hours, featuring Renée Fleming, Kelli O'Hara, Joyce DiDonato, Denyce Graves, William Burden, and Kyle Ketelsen, conducted by Yannick Nézet-Séguin. |
| November 22 2022 | World premiere of Kevin Puts's opera 'The Hours' at the Metropolitan Opera |
| November 5 2022 | Metropolitan Opera Live in HD broadcast of La Traviata, featuring Nadine Sierra, Stephen Costello, Luca Salsi, and conducted by Daniele Callegari. |
| October 24 2022 | The Metropolitan Opera, in conjunction with the NY Philharmonic and Carnegie Hall, dropped their final COVID-related mask requirements. |
| October 22 2022 | Metropolitan Opera Live in HD broadcast of Medea, featuring Sondra Radvanovsky, Matthew Polenzani, Janai Brugger, and Michele Pertusi, conducted by Carlo Rizzi. |
| June 4 2022 | Metropolitan Opera Live in HD broadcast of Hamlet (composed by Brett Dean), featuring Allan Clayton, Brenda Rae, Rod Gilfry, Sarah Connelly, Sir John Tomlinson, Willian Burden, Jacques Imbrailo, and conducted by Nicholas Carter |
| May 21 2022 | Metropolitan Opera Live in HD broadcast of Lucia di Lammermoor, featuring Nadine Sierra, Javier Camarena, Artur Rucinski, Christian Van Horn, and conducted by Riccardo Frizza |
| May 7 2022 | Metropolitan Opera Live in HD broadcast of Turandot, featuring Liudmyla Monastyrska, Yonghoon Lee, Ermonela Jaho, Ferruccio Furlanetto, and conducted by Marco Armiliato |
| March 26 2022 | Metropolitan Opera Live in HD broadcast of Don Carlos, featuring Matthew Polenzani, Sonya Yoncheva, Jamie Barton, Etienne Dupuis, Eric Owens, John Relyea, and conducted by Patrick Furrer |
| March 14 2022 | The Met hosts a benefit concert for Ukraine relief efforts, broadcast worldwide, with Ukraine's UN Representative in attendance. |
| March 12 2022 | Metropolitan Opera Live in HD broadcast of Ariadne auf Naxos, featuring Lise Davidsen, Brenda Rae, Isabel Leonard, Brandon Jovanovich, Johannes Martin Kränzle, Sean Michael Plumb, Wolfgang Brendel, and conducted by Marek Janowski |
| February 28 2022 | Gelb announces the Met will sever ties with supporters of Russian President Vladimir Putin due to the invasion of Ukraine. The Met's chorus and orchestra perform the Ukrainian national anthem before a performance. |
| January 29 2022 | Metropolitan Opera Live in HD broadcast of Rigoletto, featuring Quinn Kelsey, Piotr Beczala, Rosa Feola, Andrea Mastroni, Varduhi Abrahamyan, and conducted by Daniele Rustioni |
| January 1 2022 | Metropolitan Opera Live in HD broadcast of Cinderella, featuring Isabel Leonard, Stephanie Blythe, Emily D'Angelo, Jessica Pratt, Laurent Naouri, and conducted by Emmanuel Villaume |
| 2021 | Duke Kim (tenor), Kim Hyo-young (soprano), Raven McMillon (soprano), Emily Sierra (mezzo-soprano), and Emily Treigle (mezzo-soprano) were named National Council Auditions winners. |
| 2021 | The Met reopened for the 2021–2022 season, beginning with a concert of Verdi's Requiem to mark the 20th anniversary of 9/11. |
| December 4 2021 | Metropolitan Opera Live in HD broadcast of Eurydice, featuring Erin Morley, Joshua Hopkins, Jakub Józef Orliński, Barry Banks, Nathan Berg, and conducted by Yannick Nézet-Séguin |
| October 23 2021 | Metropolitan Opera Live in HD broadcast of Fire Shut Up in My Bones, featuring Will Liverman, Angel Blue, Latonia Moore, Ryan Speedo Green, and conducted by Yannick Nézet-Séguin |
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