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 [email protected].
LES CONTES D'HOFFMANN
鈥� Channel: PBS
鈥� U.S. Broadcast Date: April 13, 2025
鈥� Genre: Opera
鈥� Theatre: Metropolitan Opera House, New York
鈥� Director: Bartlett Sher
鈥� Composer: Jacques Offenbach
鈥� Cast: Benjamin Bernheim, Erin Morley, Pretty Yende, Cl茅mentine Margaine
鈥� Great Performances presents the Metropolitan Opera production of Offenbach's opera based on three stories by German writer E.T.A. Hoffmann.
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LE NOZZE DI FIGARO
鈥� U.S. Broadcast Date: April 26, 2025
鈥� Genre: Opera
鈥� Theatre: Metropolitan Opera House, New York
鈥� Director: Richard Eyre
鈥� Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
鈥� Cast: Federica Lombardi, Olga Kulchynska, Marianne Crebassa, Elizabeth Bishop, Joshua Hopkins, Michael Sumuel, Maurizio Muraro
鈥� The Metropolitan Opera performs Mozart's comic opera that tests the romantic bonds of two couples over the course of one eventful day.
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SALOME
鈥� U.S. Broadcast Date: May 17, 2025
鈥� Genre: Opera
鈥� Theatre: Metropolitan Opera House, New York
鈥� Director: Claus Guth
鈥� Composer: Richard Strauss
鈥� Cast: Elza van den Heever, Michelle DeYoung, Gerhard Siegel, Piotr Buszewski, Peter Mattei
鈥� The Metropolitan Opera performs Strauss's opera based on the play by Oscar Wilde.
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TOSCA
鈥� Channel: PBS
鈥� U.S. Broadcast Date: May 18, 2025
鈥� Genre: Opera
鈥� Theatre: Metropolitan Opera House, New York
鈥� Director: David McVicar
鈥� Composer: Giacomo Puccini
鈥� Cast: Lise Davidsen, Freddie De Tommaso, Quinn Kelsey
鈥� Great Performances presents the Metropolitan Opera production of Puccini's opera about a painter who runs afoul of the Chief of Police, and the singer who tries to save him.
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IL BARBIERE DI SIVIGLIA
鈥� U.S. Broadcast Date: May 31, 2025
鈥� Genre: Opera
鈥� Theatre: Metropolitan Opera House, New York
鈥� Director: Bartlett Sher
鈥� Composer: Gioachino Rossini
鈥� Cast: Aigul Akhmetshina, Jack Swanson, Andrey Zhilikhovsky, Peter K谩lm谩n, Alexander Vinogradov
鈥� The Metropolitan Opera performs Rossini's comic opera about the titular barber who helps two young lovers in their quest to be together.
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AIDA
鈥� Channel: PBS
鈥� U.S. Broadcast Date: June 13, 2025
鈥� Genre: Opera
鈥� Theatre: Metropolitan Opera House, New York
鈥� Director: Michael Mayer
鈥� Composer: Giuseppe Verdi
鈥� Cast: Angel Blue, Judit Kutasi, Piotr Becza艂a, Quinn Kelsey, Dmitry Belosselskiy, Morris Robinson
鈥� Great Performances presents the Metropolitan Opera production of Verdi's opera set in ancient Egypt, about an Ethiopian princess torn between love and country.
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FIDELIO
鈥� Channel: PBS
鈥� U.S. Broadcast Date: July 13, 2025
鈥� Genre: Opera
鈥� Theatre: Metropolitan Opera House, New York
鈥� Director: J眉rgen Flimm
鈥� Composer: Ludwig van Beethoven
鈥� Cast: Lise Davidsen, Ying Fang, David Butt Philip, Magnus Dietrich, Tomasz Konieczny, Ren茅 Pape, Stephen Milling
鈥� Great Performances presents the Metropolitan Opera production of Beethoven's opera about a woman who risks everything to save her husband from the clutches of tyranny.
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LE NOZZE DI FIGARO
鈥� Channel: PBS
鈥� U.S. Broadcast Date: August 17, 2025
鈥� Genre: Opera
鈥� Theatre: Metropolitan Opera House, New York
鈥� Director: Richard Eyre
鈥� Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
鈥� Cast: Federica Lombardi, Olga Kulchynska, Marianne Crebassa, Elizabeth Bishop, Joshua Hopkins, Michael Sumuel, Maurizio Muraro
鈥� Great Performances presents the Metropolitan Opera production of Mozart's comic opera that tests the romantic bonds of two couples over the course of one eventful day.
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SALOME
鈥� Channel: PBS
鈥� U.S. Broadcast Date: September 14, 2025
鈥� Genre: Opera
鈥� Theatre: Metropolitan Opera House, New York
鈥� Director: Claus Guth
鈥� Composer: Richard Strauss
鈥� Cast: Elza van den Heever, Michelle DeYoung, Gerhard Siegel, Piotr Buszewski, Peter Mattei
鈥� Great Performances presents the Metropolitan Opera production of Strauss's opera based on the play by Oscar Wilde.
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LA SONNAMBULA
鈥� U.S. Broadcast Date: October 18, 2025
鈥� Genre: Opera
鈥� Theatre: Metropolitan Opera House, New York
鈥� Director: Rolando Villaz贸n
鈥� Composer: Vincenzo Bellini
鈥� Cast: Nadine Sierra, Sydney Mancasola, Xabier Anduaga, Alexander Vinogradov
鈥� The Metropolitan Opera performs Bellini's opera about an innocent woman whose sleepwalking threatens to break up her impending marriage.
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IL BARBIERE DI SIVIGLIA
鈥� Channel: PBS
鈥� U.S. Broadcast Date: October 19, 2025
鈥� Genre: Opera
鈥� Theatre: Metropolitan Opera House, New York
鈥� Director: Bartlett Sher
鈥� Composer: Gioachino Rossini
鈥� Cast: Aigul Akhmetshina, Jack Swanson, Andrey Zhilikhovsky, Peter K谩lm谩n, Alexander Vinogradov
鈥� Great Performances presents the Metropolitan Opera production of Rossini's comic opera about the titular barber who helps two young lovers in their quest to be together.
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LA BOH脠ME
鈥� U.S. Broadcast Date: November 8, 2025
鈥� Genre: Opera
鈥� Theatre: Metropolitan Opera House, New York
鈥� Director: Franco Zeffirelli
鈥� Composer: Giacomo Puccini
鈥� Cast: Juliana Grigoryan, Heidi Stober, Freddie De Tommaso, Lucas Meachem, Sean Michael Plumb, Jongmin Park,
Donald Maxwell
鈥� The Metropolitan Opera performs Puccini's opera about love among young artists in Paris.
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ARABELLA
鈥� U.S. Broadcast Date: November 22, 2025
鈥� Genre: Opera
鈥� Theatre: Metropolitan Opera House, New York
鈥� Director: Otto Schenk
鈥� Composer: Richard Strauss
鈥� Cast: Rachel Willis-S酶rensen, Louise Alder, Pavol Breslik, Tomasz Konieczny, Brindley Sherratt
鈥� The Metropolitan Opera performs Strauss' opera about a young noblewoman in search of love on her own terms.
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ANDREA CH脡NIER
鈥� U.S. Broadcast Date: December 13, 2025
鈥� Genre: Opera
鈥� Theatre: Metropolitan Opera House, New York
鈥� Director: Nicolas Jo毛l
鈥� Composer: Umberto Giordano
鈥� Cast: Sonya Yoncheva, Piotr Becza艂a, Igor Golovatenko
鈥� The Metropolitan Opera performs Giordano's opera about a virtuous poet who falls victim to the intrigue and violence of the French Revolution.
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I PURITANI
鈥� U.S. Broadcast Date: January 10, 2026
鈥� Genre: Opera
鈥� Theatre: Metropolitan Opera House, New York
鈥� Director: Charles Edwards
鈥� Composer: Vincenzo Bellini
鈥� Cast: Lisette Oropesa, Lawrence Brownlee, Artur Ruci艅ski, Christian Van Horn
鈥� 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.
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TRISTAN UND ISOLDE
鈥� U.S. Broadcast Date: March 21, 2026
鈥� Genre: Opera
鈥� Theatre: Metropolitan Opera House, New York
鈥� Director: Yuval Sharon
鈥� Composer: Richard Wagner
鈥� Cast: Lise Davidsen, Michael Spyres, Ekaterina Gubanova, Tomasz Konieczny, Ryan Speedo Green
鈥� The Metropolitan Opera performs Wagner's opera inspired by the medieval legend of Tristan and Iseult.
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EUGENE ONEGIN
鈥� U.S. Broadcast Date: May 2, 2026
鈥� Genre: Opera
鈥� Theatre: Metropolitan Opera House, New York
鈥� Director: Deborah Warner
鈥� Composer: Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
鈥� Cast: Asmik Grigorian, Maria Barakova, Stephanie Blythe, Stanislas de Barbeyrac, Igor Golovatenko, Alexander Tsymbalyuk
鈥� The Metropolitan Opera performs Tchaikovsky's opera based on the Alexander Pushkin novel.
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EL 脷LTIMO SUE脩O DE FRIDA Y DIEGO
鈥� U.S. Broadcast Date: May 30, 2026
鈥� Genre: Opera
鈥� Theatre: Metropolitan Opera House, New York
鈥� Director: Deborah Colker
鈥� Composer: Gabriela Lena Frank
鈥� Cast: Gabriella Reyes, Isabel Leonard, Nils Wanderer, Carlos 脕lvarez
鈥� The Metropolitan Opera performs Gabriela Lena Frank and Nilo Cruz's opera inspired by Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera.
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