The Met’s 2024–25 Season

Subscriptions are on sale now for the Met’s new season, which features 14 timeless classics and four compelling Met premieres. It all begins on September 23 with the Opening Night company premiere of Jeanine Tesori’s Grounded.

[rajvo]

I’m very excited, and it’s good to see the Met introducing contemporary works or contemporary adaptations of the classics. This new Die Zauberflöte is simply the best opera they had in years

[peteradaniel]

Looks like they’ve cut back on the revivals. Only 18 productions this season with Aida, La Boheme and Rigoletto being the workhorse productions with each getting 15-18 performances. Multiple casts.

[sueb]

Elina Garanča as Amneris! I’ll fly across the pond for that!

[andrewpooladian]

I strongly support Peter gelb he is the best

[packer]

Has The Met completely abandoned Baroque Operas? And why so little French repertoire? Do we really need this much Puccini?

[rugby-Philadelphia]

I still believe want to see more of what they know, and love - AND in "reasonable" production. SOOOO much dumb crap going on all over the opera world --- not just odd choices/settings/historical "adjustments" --- but things like the RIDICULOUS Boheme done With tge order of Acts reversed. Detroit, Boston, Philadelphia, etc all jumped on this asinine bandwagon. "It's revolutionary " "You leave atge theatre right after the lovers meet" Etc, etc, etc
It's So Dumb.
And --- it's the Emperor's New
No one seems to have the guts to say ITS STUPID....and, it truly is.
The director is not "revolutionary", it's Ludicrous.
Sorry for the diatribe -- my point is - a GOOD MIX of "normal-ish" and new operas seems to make much more sense.
Tosca in Weimar Germany, complete with "Colonel Klink" Monacle for Scarpia may be a bit silly -- but, it works.
Traviata, at the Met --- about a Stupid
And the director and set designer got paid for that???
Lolol
Wake up Guys

[BellaFirenze]

Timeless classics, on occasion violated by idiotic directors and designers. So much for timeless classics. Get Rigoletto out of Las Vegas.

[raarnoldra]

Another season without Lisette Oropesa.

[marieantoinette]

Every year worse productions with even worse singers. Let's just see who sings:

Piotr Beczała, Elīna Garanča, Angel Blue, Isabel Leonard, Ailyn Pérez, Pretty Yend, Elza van den Heever, Nina Stemme, Rosa Feola, Federica Lombardi, Sondra Radvanovsky, Bryn Terfel, Lise Davidsen, Rachel Willis-Sørensen, Angela Meade, Benjamin Bernheim, Nadine Sierra...


These are some of the worst singers on the planet right now! Because of them, The Met, Berlin, Paris, Vienna, Bayreuth festival etc. have problems with empty complete halls for years, years, years, years!
These are the lowest category of singers of all possible categories. Completely unacceptable for such large and once prominent institutions!

[simonkawasaki]

Besides the contemporary works… boring, boring, boring!!!!

[barrymorentz]

Year after year Boheme, Tosca, Magic Flute, the same old stuff peppered by unlistenable modern stuff that will never make it. Listen to excerpts of John Adams’ Antony and Cleopatra…makes Samuel Barber’s ill-fated version sound like a towering masterpiece. I have been going to the Met for 57 years and for many years it was an entry into a magical world of beautiful sets and gorgeous music. No more, for the most part. Instead, we get stupidity like setting Lucia in the Rust Belt or Faust in an atomic bomb factory or the lobotomizing Akhenaten or the nerve-pinching Exterminating Angel. Occasionally a contemporary work like The Ghosts of Versailles has many redeeming features with a chance of establishing itself, but does the Met pay attention? NO!!