THE METROPOLITAN OPERA’S 2026–27 SEASON

 

메트오페라 2026-27 시즌에 캐스팅된 한인 성악가들. 왼쪽부터 테너 백석종, 테너 듀크 김, 베이스 박종민, 바리톤 유한성, 베이스 심인성.

 

메트로폴리탄 오페라의 2026-27 시즌에 한인 남성 성악가들이 대거 캐스팅됐다. 

테너 백석종(SeokJong Baek)은 푸치니 작곡 '서부의 아가씨(La Fanciulla del West, 12/31-1/30)'의 딕 존슨과 푸치니의 '토스카(Tosca)'의 카바라도씨, 베르디의 '아이다(Aida)'에서 라다메스 역으로 무대에 오른다.  

 

테너 듀크 김(Duke Kim)은 모차르트 작곡 '여자는 다 그래(Così fan tutte, 9/23-10/23)의 페란도, 베이스 박종민(Jongmin Park)은 바그너 작곡 '파르시팔(Parsifal)'의 구르네만츠 역, 바리톤 유한성(Hansung Yoo)은 푸치니의 '라보엠(La Bohème)의 마르첼로, 베이스 심인성(In Sung Sim)은 모차르트의 '마술피리(The Magic Flute)에 사라스트로 역으로 캐스팅됐다.

 

그리고, 토니상 2회 수상 의상 디자이너 린다 조(Linda Cho)가 참여한 '삼손과 데릴라(Samson et Dalila, 11/27-12/23)도 새 시즌 공연된다. 

 

 

A scene from James Robinson's production of Kevin Puts's "Silent Night." Photo: Karen Almond / Houston Grand Opera

 

오프닝 나잇(9/22)은 야닉 네제-세갱 음악감독이 지휘하는 베르디의 '맥베스'로 퀸 켈시(맥베스 역), 리세 다비드센(레이디 맥베스)이 출연한다. 

 

메트는 이번 시즌 로이스 바브렉 작곡 '링컨 인더 바르도(Lincoln in the Bardo)'를 세계 초연한다. 조지 손더스의 2017년 부커상 수상 소설을 원작으로 미씨 마쫄리가 작곡한 '링컨 인 더 바르도'는 아들 윌리의 죽음을 슬퍼하는 에이브러햄 링컨 대통령의 이야기를 담았다. 이외에도 야나첵 작곡 '제누파(Jenufa)', 푸치니 작곡 '서부의 아가씨', 케빈 풋츠 작곡 '고요한 밤(Silent Night)' 등 신작이 공연된다.

 

 

A scene from Mozart's "Così fan tutte." Photo: Richard Termine / Met Opera

 

레퍼토리로는 체루비니의 '메데아', 도니제티의 '마리아 스투아르다', 마스네의 '마농', 모차르트의 '코지 판 투테'와 '마술 피리', 푸치니의 '라보엠', '토스카', 생상스의 '삼손과 달리라', 슈트라우스의 '장미의 기사/ 로젠카발리에', 베르디의 '아이다'와 '오텔로', 바그너의 '파르지팔'이 무대에 올려진다. 이로써 2026-27 시즌엔 신작 5편, 리바이벌 12편으로 총 193회 공연된다. 

 

올해 링컨센터 60주년을 기념한 다이아몬드 주빌리(Diamond Jubilee: 60 Years at Lincoln Center, 5/25) 공연엔 로베르토 알라냐, 백석종, 리즈 데이비슨, 조이스 디도나토, 르네 플레밍, 매튜 폴렌자니, 손드라 라드바노프스키, 소냐 욘체바 등이 출연한다. 

 

 

THE METROPOLITAN OPERA’S 2026–27 SEASON

 

Five New Productions, Including Two Met Premieres; 12 Revivals; 193 Performances FIVE NEW PRODUCTIONS

 

Opening Night Premiere of Verdi’s Macbeth, Featuring Lise Davidsen as Lady Macbeth and Quinn Kelsey as Macbeth, Directed by Louisa Proske in Her Met Debut Conducted by Music Director Yannick Nézet-Séguin

 

World Premiere of Missy Mazzoli and Royce Vavrek’s Lincoln in the Bardo, with Peter Mattei, Christine Goerke, and Anthony Roth Costanzo Conducted by Nézet-Séguin

 

Janáček’s Jenůfa, Starring Asmik Grigorian, Directed by Claus Guth Tomáš Hanus Conducts in His Met Debut New Year’s Eve Premiere of Puccini’s La Fanciulla del West, with Sondra Radvanovsky, SeokJong Baek, and Christopher Maltman

 

Met Premiere of Kevin Puts and Mark Campbell’s Silent Night, with Elza van den Heever and Ben Bliss Dalia Stasevska Makes Her Met Conducting Debut

 

Nézet-Séguin Also Conducts Puccini’s Tosca, Strauss’s Der Rosenkavalier, Wagner’s Parsifal, and Mahler’s Symphony No. 8 as Part of Carnegie Hall’s Mahler Symphony Cycle

 

Principal Guest Conductor Daniele Rustioni Returns to Conduct Verdi’s Otello and Puccini’s La Bohème and Tosca

 

DIAMOND JUBILEE GALA

Celebrating 60 Years at Lincoln Center, Featuring Stars of the Met in Fully Staged Scenes

 

REPERTORY PRODUCTIONS

Cherubini’s Medea, Donizetti’s Maria Stuarda, Massenet’s Manon, Mozart’s Così fan tutte and The Magic Flute, Puccini’s La Bohème and Tosca, Saint-Saëns’s Samson et Dalila, Strauss’s Der Rosenkavalier, Verdi’s Aida and Otello, and Wagner’s Parsifal

 

 

A scene from Act II of Wagner's "Parsifal." Photo: Ken Howard / Met Opera

 

New York, NY (February 19, 2026)—The Metropolitan Opera announced its 2026–27 season, featuring five new and 12 repertory productions, a special 60th-anniversary gala, and performances of Mahler’s Eighth Symphony conducted by Yannick Nézet-Séguin, the Met’s Jeanette Lerman-Neubauer Music Director. This season also marks the 20th anniversary at the helm for Peter Gelb, the Met’s Maria Manetti Shrem General Manager, and the 20th anniversary of the groundbreaking The Met: Live in HD transmissions—the Peabody Award–winning series that Gelb initiated—to cinemas worldwide.

 

“Ever since I was a part-time teenage usher, I dreamed of a long-term association with the Met,” said Gelb. “Although this will be my 20th-anniversary season, the redemptive role for opera in a troubled world is now more vital than ever. I’m proud that this season’s lineup meets our goals for programming operas, both new and old, that speak to the times in which we live.”

 

“Next season, I’m honored to conduct five productions at the Met, from my second world premiere to some of opera’s greatest classics, alongside a project especially meaningful to me: Mahler’s Symphony No. 8, performed with all of the Met’s forces, orchestra and chorus. It forms part of a complete Mahler Cycle I’m conducting at Carnegie Hall in collaboration with the Philadelphia Orchestra and the Vienna Philharmonic. Together, all of these works offer our audiences a chance to step away from the everyday, to be carried by music that speaks in different ways, and to be fully present in the moment. It’s a privilege to share these experiences with everyone who comes through our doors,” said Nézet-Séguin.

 

 

A set model by Adam Rigg for Lileana Blain-Cruz's world premiere production of Missy Mazzoli's "Lincoln in the Bardo" for the Metropolitan Opera

 

MET PREMIERES

The highly anticipated world premiere of Missy Mazzoli’s Lincoln in the Bardo, with a libretto by Royce Vavrick based on George Saunders’s Booker Prize–winning novel, is set in the “bardo,” the transitional place between the end of life and the beginning of the next. The opera features baritone Peter Mattei as Lincoln, soprano Christine Goerke as the Reverend, countertenor Anthony Roth Costanzo as Miss Elise Traynor, tenor Jonah Hoskins as Bevins, and bass-baritone Ryan McKinney as Vollman. Lileana Blain-Cruz directs, and Nézet-Séguin conducts.

 

The Pulitzer Prize–winning opera Silent Night by Kevin Puts, with a libretto by Mark Campbell, is inspired by the true events of the 1914 Christmas truce, when soldiers of the First World War spontaneously crossed the trenches to mingle, exchange gifts, and sing carols with the enemy. Dalia Stasevska makes her Met conducting debut, leading a production that features soprano Elza van den Heever as Anna Sørensen and tenor Ben Bliss as Nikolaus Sprink.

 

Baritones Mattia Oliveri and Justin Austin and bass-baritone Ryan McKinney portray the opposing lieutenants—Audebert, Horstmayer, and Gordon—whose tentative alliance bridge the warring sides during the Christmas truce. James Robinson directs the new production, which includes sets designed by Mimi Lien.

 

NEW PRODUCTIONS

The 2026–27 season begins with a new production of Verdi’s Macbeth by Louisa Proske in her Met debut. Proske’s staging presents a powerful interpretation of Shakespeare’s chilling drama of unchecked power and its consequences. The world’s leading dramatic soprano, Lise Davidsen portrays Lady Macbeth, opposite baritone Quinn Kelsey as Macbeth, with tenor Freddie De Tommaso as Macduff and bass-baritone Ryan Speedo Green as Banquo. Nézet-Séguin conducts.

 

Claus Guth returns, after his triumphant debut with Strauss’s Salome during the 2024–25 season, to direct Janáček’s Jenůfa, featuring soprano Asmik Grigorian in the title role. Guth’s psychologically probing production also features soprano Nina Stemme as the Kostelnička.

 

Tenor Allan Clayton returns to the Met as Laca, and tenor Sean Panikkar is Števa. Tomáš Hanus makes his company debut on the podium. The Met’s annual New Year’s Eve gala premiere will feature the company’s first new production of Puccini’s La Fanciulla del West in more than 30 years. Soprano Sondra Radvanovsky makes her role debut as Minnie, opposite tenor SeokJong Baek as Dick Johnson. 

 

Baritone Christopher Maltman is Jack Rance, and Keri-Lynn Wilson conducts the production by celebrated director Richard Jones.

 

DIAMOND JUBILEE: 60 YEARS AT LINCOLN CENTER

The Met marks its 60th anniversary at its home at Lincoln Center with a special gala celebration on May 25. The performance, conducted by Yannick Nézet-Séguin and directed by Julian Crouch with immersive video and projections by 59 Studios, includes fully staged arias and scenes from more than 30 operas, including Die Walküre, Der Rosenkavalier, La Forza del Destino, Akhnaten, Pagliacci, Roméo et Juliette, and The Queen of Spades, among others, and will feature some of the most important Met stars. Artists on the program include Aigul Akhmetshina, Roberto Alagna, Xabier Anduaga, SeokJong Baek, Piotr Beczała, J’Nai Bridges, Lawrence Brownlee, Anthony Roth Costanzo, Lise Davidsen, Freddie De Tommaso, Joyce DiDonato, Ying Fang, Rosa Feola, Gerald Finley, Renée Fleming, Igor Golovatenko, Ryan Speedo Green, Asmik Grigorian, Leah Hawkins, Brian Jagde, Isabel Leonard, Will Liverman, Peter Mattei, Latonia Moore, Erin Morley, Ailyn Pérez, Matthew Polenzani, Sondra Radvanovsky, Nadine Sierra, Elza van den Heever, Christian Van Horn, and Sonya Yoncheva, and the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and Chorus. Additional artists will be confirmed at a later date.

 

 

A scene from Cherubini's "Medea." Photo: Marty Sohl / Met Opera

 

REPERTORY PRODUCTIONS AND HIGHLIGHTS

The Met will mount 12 revivals during the 2026–27 season, including the perennial productions of Puccini’s La Bohème and the family-friendly, English-language version of Mozart’s The Magic Flute, as well as Cherubini’s Medea, Donizetti’s Maria Stuarda, Massenet’s Manon, Mozart’s Così fan tutte, Puccini’s Tosca, Saint-Saëns’s Samson et Dalila, Strauss’s Der Rosenkavalier, Verdi’s Aida and Otello, and Wagner’s Parsifal.

 

• Principal Guest Conductor Daniele Rustioni returns to conduct La Bohème, Tosca, and Otello.

• Mezzo-soprano Aigul Akhmetshina returns in Samson et Dalila, opposite tenor Clay Hilley in his Met debut as Samson.

• Soprano Angel Blue returns as Desdemona in Otello and the title role in Michael Mayer’s acclaimed 2024–25 production of Aida.

• Soprano Lisette Oropesa returns in the title role of Maria Stuarda, after her critically praised performances in the Met’s new production of Bellini’s I Puritani in the 2025–26 season.

• Soprano Nadine Sierra returns, following her triumph in La Sonnambula in the 2025–26 season, to sing the title role of Manon, opposite tenor Matthew Polenzani.

• Sopranos Rachel Willis-Sørensen and Ying Fang, mezzo-soprano Emily D’Angelo, and bass Günther Groissböck return to the Met stage in Der Rosenkavalier.

• Tenor Piotr Beczała makes his role debut in the title role of Parsifal, opposite mezzosoprano Elīna Garanča in her Met role debut as Kundry. Baritone Peter Mattei is Amfortas, bass Jongmin Park is Gurnemanz, and bass-baritone Ryan Speedo Green makes his role debut as Klingsor.

• A number of audience favorites return in La Bohème, including sopranos Rosa Feola, Juliana Grigoryan, Ermonela Jaho, Federica Lombardi, Kathryn Lewek, and Kristina Mkhitaryan and tenors Atalla Ayan, Stephen Costello, Adam Smith, and Pene Pati.

• Soprano Sonya Yoncheva sings the title role of Cherubini’s Medea in the first revival of David McVicar’s 2022 production.

• Sopranos Saioa Hernández and Natalya Romaniw make their company debuts as Tosca in David McVicar’s production. Baritone Gabriele Viviani makes his Met debut as Scarpia.

 

 

A scene from Mozart's "The Magic Flute." Photo: Marty Sohl / Met Opera

 

THE MET: LIVE IN HD 2026–27 SEASON

The 20th season of the Met’s Live in HD series will feature eight live Met performances transmitted to movie theaters and other venues across the globe, beginning with Mozart’s Così fan tutte (October 3, 2026) and continuing with Verdi’s Macbeth (October 17, 2026), SaintSaëns’s Samson et Dalila (December 5, 2026), Puccini’s La Fanciulla del West (January 23, 2027), Kevin Puts’s Silent Night (March 20, 2027), Massenet’s Manon (April 3, 2027), Verdi’s Otello (April 24, 2027), and Wagner’s Parsifal (June 5, 2027). 

 

The Met will present a special addition to the 2026–27 Live in HD lineup, Twenty Years of the Met in Cinemas: An Anniversary Celebration, hosted by soprano Renée Fleming. The show will feature highlights from the company’s collection of more than 185 onscreen performances, including unforgettable moments from opera’s greatest stars, such as Lise Davidsen, Joyce DiDonato, Elīna Garanča, Dmitri Hvorostovsky, Jonas Kaufmann, Peter Mattei, Sondra Radvanovsky, and Nadine Sierra, among others.

 

The Met: Live in HD series is made possible by a generous grant from its founding sponsor, the Neubauer Family Foundation. Digital support of The Met: Live in HD is provided by Bloomberg Philanthropies. The Met: Live in HD series is in partnership with Rolex.

 

Within months of their initial live transmissions, the Live in HD programs are shown on PBS in the United States. The PBS series Great Performances at the Met is produced in association with PBS and the WNET Group: [See: The Met: Live in HD 2026–27 Season Schedule]

 

SPECIAL EVENTS

THE MET ORCHESTRA AND THE MET ORCHESTRA CHAMBER ENSEMBLE

The Met Orchestra will perform two concerts at Carnegie Hall in the new season, beginning on February 4, 2027, with a program featuring works by Janáček and Bruckner, led by Simon Rattle. The Met Orchestra will perform Mahler’s Symphony No. 6 at Carnegie Hall on June 18, 2027, and Mahler’s Symphony No. 8 on stage at the Met on June 10–12, 2027. These concerts are part of Carnegie Hall’s Mahler Symphony Cycle, which features Nézet-Séguin conducting a full Mahler cycle with the Met Orchestra, Philadelphia Orchestra, and Vienna Philharmonic.

 

The Met Orchestra Chamber Ensemble also performs six concerts at Carnegie Hall, November 2026 through June 2027. The programs feature works by Alyabyev, Brahms, Debussy, Janáček, Messiaen, Mozart, Andrew Norman, Popov, Poulenc, Prokofiev, Rachmaninoff, Schoenberg, Schubert, Caroline Shaw, and Vaughan Williams. Nézet-Séguin to conduct and perform at the piano for select concerts. Additional artists to be announced. Dates and additional program details can be found at carnegiehall.org.

 

ASMIK GRIGORIAN IN RECITAL

Soprano Asmik Grigorian appears in recital at the Metropolitan Opera House with pianists Lukas and Petras Geniušas on November 18, 2026, during the run of Jenůfa, in which she stars in the title role. Grigorian joins a select group of extraordinary artists who have given solo recitals on the Met stage, including Kathleen Battle, Lise Davidsen, and Sonya Yoncheva in recent years. Grigorian will sing arias by Dvořák, Puccini, Strauss, and Verdi, with selections from Rusalka, Madama Butterfly, Manon Lescaut, Turandot, Salome, Don Carlos, Macbeth, and Otello.

 

TICKET INFORMATION

Individual ticket prices for the 2026–27 season start at $25. Subscription packages are now on sale, and Subscribers save 15% over the cost of single tickets and receive priority seating and unlimited complimentary exchanges. Subscribers may choose from curated Series Subscriptions or build their own Flex Subscription according to their schedule and tastes. Single tickets will go on sale to the general public at the end of June.

The Toll Rush Ticket program returns in the 2026–27 season, making more than 30,000 $25 tickets available to the general public. The Met Opera app is available for download on mobile devices, offering users a way to purchase single tickets and enter the rush lottery to purchase Toll Rush Tickets via an automated drawing. Lotteries open two weeks prior to a performance, and winners are notified the day before the performance. Toll Rush Tickets can also be purchased on a first-come, first-served basis by visiting metopera.org at 12PM for weekday performances, 2PM for Saturday evening performances, and four hours before curtain for matinee performances.

 

 

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