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

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

National Theatre Live

THE PLAYBOY OF THE WESTERN WORLD

Thursday, June 4 12:30 & 6:30pm

Nicola Coughlan (Bridgerton) joins Éanna Hardwicke (The Sixth Commandment) and Siobhán McSweeney (Derry Girls) in John Millington Synge’s riveting play of youth and self-discovery. Pegeen Flaherty’s life is turned upside down when a young man walks into her pub claiming that he’s killed his father. Instead of being shunned, the killer becomes a local hero and begins to win hearts, that is until a second man unexpectedly arrives on the scene…MORE INFO

Met Opera Summer Encores 2026

Lehár

The Merry Widow

Wednesday, July 22   12:30 & 6:30pm

Renée Fleming lights up the Met stage as Hanna Glawari, the fabulously wealthy widow of the title in Lehár’s beloved operetta, set in Paris and seen in a glittering production directed and choreographed by Broadway’s Susan Stroman. Nathan Gunn is Danilo, Hanna’s former flame, who is supposed to woo and marry her in order to keep her fortune in their home country of Pontevedro…MORE INFO

Met Opera Summer Encores 2026

VERDI

AIDA

Wednesday, August 5   12:30 & 6:30pm

Hailed by the Financial Times as “an ingenious Aida,” Tony Award–winner Michael Mayer’s breathtaking production brings ancient Egypt to life with towering scenery and dazzling animated projections. Soprano Angel Blue reprises her celebrated portrayal of the title role, trading off with Anna Pirozzi and Leah Hawkins. ….MORE INFO

National Theatre Live

LES LIAISONS DANGEREUSES

Thursday, August 6 12:30 & 6:30pm

BAFTA Award-winner Lesley Manville (Phantom Thread) joins Aidan Turner (Rivals) in a striking new staging of Christopher Hampton’s celebrated adaptation of the classic novel, where among the glittering salons of the super-rich, one misstep can mean ruin. Marquise de Merteuil is a master in the art of survival. Alongside the magnetic Vicomte de Valmont, they turn seduction into strategy and weaponise desire.  But when their alliance collapses into rivalry, the battle between them threatens to destroy everyone in their path…MORE INFO

National Theatre Live

THE AUDIENCE

Thursday, September 17 12:30 & 6:30pm

Returning to cinemas for the first time in over a decade, Helen Mirren plays Queen Elizabeth II in the Olivier and Tony Award® -winning hit production, directed by Stephen Daldry. For 60 years, Queen Elizabeth II met with each of her 12 prime ministers in a private weekly meeting. This meeting is known as The Audience. From Winston Churchill to Margaret Thatcher and David Cameron, the Queen advised her prime ministers on matters both public and personal…MORE INFO