As the exclusive Sonoma County venue for The Met Live in HD we are thrilled to continue to bring this award-winning series of thrilling world-class opera to both opera lovers and opera novices alike. The Met Opera season traditionally runs from October of each year through May of the subsequent year. Each summer we participate in the Met Opera’s series of encore presentations at discounted prices.
Met Opera Live in HD 25-26 Season
BELLINI
La Sonnambula
Saturday, October 18 10:00am
Wednesday, October 22 1 & 6:30pm
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165 mins
Opera
Following triumphant Met turns in Roméo et Juliette, La Traviata, and Lucia di Lammermoor, Nadine Sierra summits another peak of the soprano repertoire as Amina, who sleepwalks her way into audiences’ hearts in Bellini’s poignant tale of love lost and found. In his new production, Rolando Villazón—the tenor who has embarked on a brilliant second career as a director—retains the opera’s original setting in the Swiss Alps but uses its somnambulant plot to explore the emotional and psychological valleys of the mind…MORE INFO
Sat, Oct 18
Wed, Oct 22
10:00
1:00, 6:30
Met Opera Live in HD 25-26 Season
PUCCINI
La Bohème
Saturday, November 8 10:00am
Wednesday, November 12 1 & 6:30pm
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185 mins
Opera
With its enchanting setting and spellbinding score, the world’s most popular opera is as timeless as it is heartbreaking. Franco Zeffirelli’s picture-perfect production brings 19th-century Paris to the Met stage as Puccini’s young friends and lovers navigate the joy and struggle of bohemian life. Soprano Juliana Grigoryan is the feeble seamstress Mimì, opposite tenor Freddie De Tommaso as the ardent poet Rodolfo. Keri-Lynn Wilson conducts the November 8 performance, which will be transmitted live from the Met stage to cinemas worldwide…MORE INFO
Sat, Nov 8
Wed, Nov 12
10:00
1:00, 6:30
Met Opera Live in HD 25-26 Season
STRAUSS
Arabella
Saturday, November 22 10:00am
Wednesday, December 3 1 & 6:30pm
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230 mins
Opera
On November 22, Strauss’s elegant romance brings the glamour and enchantment of 19th-century Vienna to cinemas worldwide in a sumptuous production by legendary director Otto Schenk that “is as beautiful as one could hope” (The New York Times). Soprano Rachel Willis-Sørensen stars as the title heroine, a young noblewoman in search of love on her own terms. Radiant soprano Louise Alder is her sister, Zdenka, and bass-baritone Tomasz Konieczny is the dashing count who sweeps Arabella off her feet…MORE INFO
Sat, Nov 22
Wed, Dec 3
10:00
1:00, 6:30
Met Opera Live in HD 25-26 Season
MOZART
The Magic Flute
Saturday, December 6 11:00am
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100 mins
Opera
The Met’s first-ever Live in HD transmission—the abridged, English-language version of Mozart’s The Magic Flute—returns to cinemas this holiday season. Tony Award–winner Julie Taymor conjures a spellbinding staging, replete with a kaleidoscope of color and parades of puppetry in this delightful production from 2006, featuring a stellar cast of Met stars including tenor Matthew Polenzani, baritone Nathan Gunn, and bass René Pape…MORE INFO
Sat, Dec 6
11:00
Met Opera Live in HD 25-26 Season
GIORDANO
Andrea Chénier
Saturday, December 13 10:00am
Wednesday, December 17 1 & 6:30pm
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190 mins
Opera
Giordano’s passionate tragedy stars tenor Piotr Beczała as the virtuous poet who falls victim to the intrigue and violence of the French Revolution. Following their celebrated recent partnership in Giordano’s Fedora, Beczała reunites with soprano Sonya Yoncheva as Chénier’s aristocratic lover, Maddalena di Coigny, with baritone Igor Golovatenko as Carlo Gérard, the agent of the Reign of Terror who seals their fates. Daniele Rustioni takes the podium to lead Nicolas Joël’s gripping staging…MORE INFO
Sat, Dec 13
Wed, Dec 17
10:00
1:00, 6:30
Met Opera Live in HD 25-26 Season
BELLINI
I Puritani
Saturday, January 10 10:00am
Wednesday, January 14 1 & 6:30pm
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200 mins
Opera
For gorgeous melody, spellbinding coloratura, and virtuoso vocal fireworks, I Puritani has few equals. On January 10, the first new Met production of Bellini’s final masterpiece in nearly 50 years—a striking staging by Charles Edwards, who makes his company directorial debut after many successes as a set designer—arrives in cinemas worldwide. The Met has assembled a world-beating quartet of stars, conducted by Marco Armiliato, for the demanding principal roles…MORE INFO
Sat, Jan 10
Wed, Jan 14
10:00
1:00, 6:30
Met Opera Live in HD 25-26 Season
MASSENET
CINDERELLA
Saturday, February 14 10:00am
Wednesday, February 18 1pm
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145 mins
Opera
Continuing a treasured holiday tradition, the Met presents a new installment in its series of abridged opera adaptations for family audiences. Laurent Pelly’s storybook staging of Massenet’s Cendrillon, a hit of the 2017–18 season, is presented with an all-new English translation in an abridged 90 minutes, with mezzo-soprano Isabel Leonard as its rags-to-riches princess…MORE INFO
Sat, Feb 14
Wed, Feb 18
10:00
1:00
Met Opera Live in HD 25-26 Season
WAGNER
Tristan und Isolde
Saturday, March 21 9:00am
Wednesday, March 25 1 & 6:30pm
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290 mins
Opera
After years of anticipation, a truly unmissable event arrives as the electrifying Lise Davidsen tackles one of the ultimate roles for dramatic soprano: the Irish princess Isolde in Wagner’s transcendent meditation on love and death. Heroic tenor Michael Spyres stars opposite Davidsen as the love-drunk Tristan. The momentous occasion also marks the advent of a new, Met-debut staging by Yuval Sharon—hailed by The New York Times as “the most visionary opera director of his generation”…MORE INFO
Sat, Mar 21
Wed, Mar 25
9:00
1:00, 6:30
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TCHAIKOVSKY
EUGENE ONEGIN
Saturday, May 2 10:00am
Wednesday, May 13 1 & 6:30pm
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225 mins
Opera
Following her acclaimed 2024 company debut in Puccini’s Madama Butterfly, soprano Asmik Grigorian returns to the Met as Tatiana, the lovestruck young heroine in this ardent operatic adaptation of Pushkin, which will be transmitted live from the Metropolitan Opera stage to cinemas worldwide on May 2. Baritone Igor Golovatenko reprises his portrayal of the urbane Onegin, who realizes his affection for her all too late. The Met’s evocative production, directed by Tony Award–winner Deborah Warner, “offers a beautifully detailed reading of … Tchaikovsky’s lyrical romance” (The Telegraph)…MORE INFO
Sat, May 2
Wed, May 13
10:00
1:00, 6:30
Met Opera Live in HD 25-26 Season
GABRIELA LENA FRANK / LIBRETTO BY NILO CRUZ
EL ÚLTIMO SUEÑO DE FRIDA Y DIEGO
Saturday, May 30 10:00am
Wednesday, June 3 1 & 6:30pm
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145 mins
Opera
American composer Gabriela Lena Frank makes her Met debut with her first opera, a magical-realist portrait of Mexico’s painterly power couple Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera, with libretto by Pulitzer Prize–winning playwright Nilo Cruz. Fashioned as a reversal of the Orpheus and Euridice myth, the story depicts Frida, sung by leading mezzo-soprano Isabel Leonard, leaving the underworld on the Day of the Dead and reuniting with Diego, portrayed by baritone Carlos Álvarez. The famously feuding pair briefly relive their tumultuous love, embracing both the passion and the pain before bidding the land of the living a final farewell…MORE INFO
Sat, May 30
Wed, June 3
10:00
1:00, 6:30