Robert Carsen News

Verdi’s exuberant final opera, Falstaff, will return to the Met for six performances, March 12–April 1.

The Metropolitan Opera will present the company premiere of Terence Blanchard’s Champion, Ivo van Hove's Met debut with Don Giovanni, and more this spring season. See how to purchase tickets!

Mezzo-soprano Samantha Hankey will make her Met role debut singing Octavian in Strauss’s Der Rosenkavalier, replacing Isabel Leonard, who has withdrawn.

 The Berlin Staatsoper has announced that Daniele Rustioni, 39, will take over conducting duties for Daniel Barenboim at the Berlin Staatsoper in a revival of Giuseppe Verdi's Don Carlo for all performances (June 28 to July 14, 2023).

The Ridgefield Playhouse’s Classical Series continues in April with a trio of broadcasts from The Met Opera.

Recipient of the 'Conductor of the Year' award at the 2022 International Opera Awards, Rustioni leads a program of Bartok's Concerto for Orchestra, Mussorgsky's Songs and Dances of Death (orch. Shostakovich) with Bass-Baritone Ryan Speedo Green, and the 1919 version of Stravinsky's Firebird Suite. 

The Met Opera brings magic and splendor to cinemas across the country with The Met: Live in HD. 

​​​​​​​Wagner's soaring masterpiece Lohengrin returns to the Met stage after 17 years, in a new production by internationally renowned director François Girard. The production runs from February 26th-April 1st.

A new production of the classic musical for a limited run in Paris. Don't miss in

The Met HD Opera Series' DER ROSENHAVLIER comes to Greenbrier Valley Theatre in April! The event will be held on Saturday, April 15, 2023 at 12:00 PM.

In Die Zauberflöte, a prince from a far‑off land on a quest to liberate a princess meets a giant snake, a cocky bird‑seller, the Queen of the Night and a High Priest who imposes strange rites of passage.

The Metropolitan Opera has announced the launch of The Met: Live at Home, a streaming platform that allows audiences to watch the Met’s acclaimed series of live simulcasts from any device in the comfort of their homes—the latest effort by the company to reach as broad a public as possible.

This October, the Royal Opera House is delighted to announce that its new production of Giuseppe Verdi's Aida, staged by the acclaimed Canadian director Robert Carsen, will be broadcast live from Covent Garden on Wednesday 12 October 2022, reaching over 1,000 cinemas in 34 countries around the world.  

A provocative and ultimately successful reimagining of opera's most operatic of works

In Die Zauberflöte, a prince from a far‑off land on a quest to liberate a princess meets a giant snake, a cocky bird‑seller, the Queen of the Night and a High Priest who imposes strange rites of passage.

The Met: Live in HD, the Metropolitan Opera's award-winning series of live high-definition cinema broadcasts, distributed in the UK by Trafalgar Releasing, will begin its 16th season this October with a live broadcast of Cherubini's rarely performed Medea.  From October 2022 – June 2023, ten incredible performances will be broadcast live from the Met stage in New York to cinemas worldwide. 

There's no place like Paris, so welcome to my world of opera'. So says Renée Fleming, when introducing this film on the city which invented the word 'connoisseur'.

This groundbreaking cinematic event features a performance by Fleming at the historic Théâtre du Châtelet, where she is joined on stage by world-renowned tenor Piotr Beczala and featured performers Axelle Fanyo and Alexandre Duhamel as they perform opera selections with connections to Paris.

In Die Zauberflöte, a prince from a far‑off land on a quest to liberate a princess meets a giant snake, a cocky bird‑seller, the Queen of the Night and a High Priest who imposes strange rites of passage.

Renée Fleming’s Cities That Sing - Paris is directed by François-René Martin and produced by Tripp Hornick and Elmar Kruse. Executive Producers are Jason Richmond, John Turner and Bruce H. Lipnick. Additional details for Venice along with additional Renée Fleming’s Cities That Sing destinations to be announced in the coming months.