Met Live Opera 2025-2026 Season
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19th anniversary season of THE MET: Live in HD!
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The 2025-2026 Met Live Opera season in Sedona is
generously sponsored by Chris Fladlien.
The Sedona International Film Festival is proud to present the Met Live Opera: Live in HD series for the 2025-26 season. Once again, the festival will host the productions via satellite at its Mary D. Fisher Theatre, 2030 W. State Route 89A in West Sedona.
Each opera will be shown LIVE and then repeated the following Wednesday as an encore.
Met stars serve as hosts for the HD series, conducting live interviews with cast, crew, and production teams, and introducing the popular behind-the-scenes features.
The 2025-26 Met Live Operas in the season are:
Bellini’s
La Sonnambula
NEW PRODUCTION
Music by Vincenzo Bellini | Libretto by Felice Romani
Live: Saturday, Oct. 18 at 10:00 a.m.
Encore: Wednesday, Oct. 22 at 3:00 p.m.
There will be a pre-opera talk led by John Steinbrunner one hour before the LIVE performance on Saturday.
Conductor: Riccardo Frizza
CAST: Nadine Sierra (Amina), Sydney Mancasola (Lisa), Xabier Anduaga (Elvino), Alexander Vinogradov (Rodolfo)
Following triumphant Live in HD performances in Gounod’s “Roméo et Juliette”, Verdi’s “La Traviata” and Donizetti’s “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. Tenor Xabier Anduaga co-stars as Amina’s fiancé, Elvino, alongside soprano Sydney Mancasola as her rival, Lisa, and bass Alexander Vinogradov as Count Rodolfo. Riccardo Frizza takes the podium for one of opera’s most ravishing works.
Puccini’s
La Bohème
REVIVAL
Music by Giacomo Puccini | Libretto by Luigi Illica and Giuseppe Giacosa
Live: Saturday, Nov. 8 at 11:00 a.m.
Encore: Wednesday, Nov. 12 at 3:00 p.m.
There will be a pre-opera talk led by John Steinbrunner one hour before the LIVE performance on Saturday.
Conductor: Keri-Lynn Wilson
CAST: Juliana Grigoryan (Mimì), Heidi Stober (Musetta), Freddie De Tommaso (Rodolfo), Lucas Meachem (Marcello), Sean Michael Plumb (Schaunard), Jongmin Park (Colline), Donald Maxwell (Benoit/Alcindoro)
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.
Strauss’s
Arabella
REVIVAL
Music by Richard Strauss | Libretto by Hugo von Hofmannsthal
Live: Saturday, Nov. 22 at 11:00 a.m.
Encore: Wednesday, Nov. 26 at 2:00 p.m.
There will be a pre-opera talk led by John Steinbrunner one hour before the LIVE performance on Saturday.
Conductor: Nicholas Carter
CAST: Rachel Willis-Sørensen (Arabella), Louise Alder (Zdenka), Pavol Breslik (Matteo), Tomasz Konieczny (Mandryka), Brindley Sherratt (Waldner)
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.
Giordano’s
Andrea Chénier
REVIVAL
Music by Umberto Giordano | Libretto by Luigi Illica
Live: Saturday, Dec. 13 at 11:00 a.m.
Encore: Wednesday, Dec. 17 at 3:00 p.m.
There will be a pre-opera talk led by John Steinbrunner one hour before the LIVE performance on Saturday.
Conductor: Daniele Rustioni
CAST: Sonya Yoncheva (Maddalena di Coigny), Piotr Beczała (Andrea Chénier), Igor Golovatenko (Carlo Gérard)
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” in the 2022–23 Live in HD season, 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. Met Principal Guest Conductor Daniele Rustioni takes the podium to lead Nicolas Joël’s gripping staging.
Bellini’s
I Puritani
NEW PRODUCTION
Music by Vincenzo Bellini | Libretto by Carlo Pepoli
Live: Saturday, January 10 at 11:00 a.m.
Encore: Wednesday, January 14 at 3:00 p.m.
There will be a pre-opera talk led by John Steinbrunner one hour before the LIVE performance on Saturday.
Conductor: Marco Armiliato
CAST: Lisette Oropesa (Elvira Walton), Lawrence Brownlee (Lord Arturo Talbot), Artur Ruciński (Riccardo Forth), Christian Van Horn (Giorgio Walton)
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. Soprano Lisette Oropesa and tenor Lawrence Brownlee are Elvira and Arturo, brought together by love and torn apart by the political rifts of the English Civil War, with baritone Artur Ruciński as Riccardo, betrothed to Elvira against her will, and bass-baritone Christian Van Horn as Elvira’s sympathetic uncle, Giorgio.
Wagner’s
Tristan und Isolde
NEW PRODUCTION
Music by Richard Wagner | Libretto by the composer
Live: Saturday, March 21 at 9:00 a.m.
Encore: Wednesday, March 25 at 1:00 p.m.
There will be a pre-opera talk led by John Steinbrunner one hour before the LIVE performance on Saturday.
Conductor: Yannick Nézet-Séguin
CAST: Lise Davidsen (Isolde), Ekaterina Gubanova (Brangäne), Michael Spyres (Tristan), Tomasz Konieczny (Kurwenal), Ryan Speedo Green (King Marke)
After years of anticipation, a truly unmissable event arrives in cinemas worldwide on March 21 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” and the first American to direct an opera at the famed Wagner festival in Bayreuth — as well as Music Director Yannick Nézet-Séguin’s first time leading “Tristan und Isolde” at the Met. Mezzo-soprano Ekaterina Gubanova reprises her portrayal of Brangäne, alongside bass-baritone Tomasz Konieczny, who sings Kurwenal after celebrated Met appearances in Wagner’s Der Fliegende Holländer and Ring cycle. Bass-baritone Ryan Speedo Green makes an important role debut as King Marke.
Tchaikovsky’s
Eugene Onegin
REVIVAL
Music by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky | Libretto by the composer and Konstantin Stepanovich Shilovsky
Live: Saturday, May 2 at 10:00 a.m.
Encore: Wednesday, May 6 at 2:00 p.m.
There will be a pre-opera talk led by John Steinbrunner one hour before the LIVE performance on Saturday.
Conductor: Timur Zangiev
CAST: Asmik Grigorian (Tatiana), Maria Barakova (Olga), Stephanie Blythe (Filippyevna), Stanislas de Barbeyrac (Lenski), Igor Golovatenko (Onegin), Alexander Tsymbalyuk (Prince Gremin)
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.. 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).
Frank’s
El Último Sueño de Frida y Diego
METROPOLITAN OPERA PREMIERE
Music by Gabriela Lena Frank | Libretto by Nilo Cruz
Live: Saturday, May 30 at 10:00 a.m.
Encore: Wednesday, June 3 at 3:00 p.m.
There will be a pre-opera talk led by John Steinbrunner one hour before the LIVE performance on Saturday.
Conductor: Yannick Nézet-Séguin
CAST: Gabriella Reyes (Catrina), Isabel Leonard (Frida), Nils Wanderer (Leonardo), Carlos Álvarez (Diego)
The Metropolitan Opera’s 2025–26 Live in HD season comes to a close with a live transmission of American composer Gabriela Lena Frank’s 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. Music Director Yannick Nézet-Séguin conducts the Met-premiere staging of Frank’s opera, a “confident, richly imagined score” (The New Yorker) that “bursts with color and fresh individuality” (Los Angeles Times). The vibrant new production, taking enthusiastic inspiration from Frida and Diego’s paintings, is directed and choreographed by Deborah Colker.
Tickets are $25 general admission, $22 for Film Festival members, and $15 for full-time students. For more information, please call the Sedona International Film Festival at 928-282-1177 or visit the office at 2030 W. State Route 89A, Suite B2 in West Sedona.
CLICK HERE TO ORDER A SEASON TICKET PACKAGE.
The 2025-2026 Met Live Opera season in Sedona
is generously sponsored by Chris Fladlien.
