01 Apr 2025
Back by popular demand (not really), here’s the fourth edition of the list of operas we plan to see next season at The Met. Like last year, we have tickets for seven. The whole season is listed; the ones we’ll see are in green, at the top.
| Title | Comp | Lang | Dur | Prod | Hero's Fate | Synopsis |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Arabella (1933) | Strauss | Ger | 3:50 | 2014 | Swept off her feet | Charming rom-com in shabby, end-stage Vienna. |
| Don Giovanni (1787) | Mozart | Ita | 3:16 | 2023 | Dragged to hell by demons | Dissolute Don gets what he deserves. |
| El Último Sueño de Frida y Diego (2021) | Frank | Esp | 2:25 | 2025 | Grief is joined by gratitude. | You can return from the dead, but it won't be easy. |
| Innocence (2021) | Saariaho | Eng | 1:45 | 2025 | Psychological reckoning. | A wedding is shattered by resurfacing trauma. |
| La Fille du Régiment (1840) | Donizetti | Ita | 2:15 | 2008 | Gains love, freedom, and identity | Girl defies nobility to marry the man she loves. |
| La Traviata (1853) | Verdi | Ita | 3:00 | 2018 | Acute tuberculosis | Real love can't stop a real sick party girl. |
| Tristan und Isolde | Wagner | Ger | 4:50 | 2016 | Both lovers die. | Don't let your maid mix your death potion. |
| Andrea Chénier | Giordano | Ita | 3:10 | 2015 | Guillotine time | Nobdy expects the French Revolution...to be tragic. |
| Carmen (1875) | Bizet | Fra | 3:25 | 2024 | Stabbed to death | She was born free and free she will die. |
| Eugene Onegin | Tchaikovsky | Rus | 3:05 | 2013 | Alone and in despair | Selfish hero regrets rejecting young woman's love. |
| I Puritani | Bellini | Ita | 3:20 | 2006 | Pardoned at the last minute. | Puritans vs royalists in the English civil war. |
| La Boheme (1896) | Puccini | Ita | 3:00 | 1981 | Illness and exposure | Paris is too sexy for two starving, freezing artists. |
| La Sonnambula | Bellini | Ita | 2:45 | 2009 | Reconciled and happy. | Girls shouldn't sleepwalk into the wrong bedroom. |
| Madama Butterfly | Puccini | Ita | 3:00 | 2006 | Stabs herself | Geisha should have known better |
| Porgy and Bess | Girshwin | Eng | 3:30 | 2019 | Porgy chases Bess to NYC. | Disabled black man fights for love and dignity. |
| The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay | Bates | Eng | 2:50 | 2025 | Unsummarizable mess. | Jewish cousins move to the US to fight the nazis. |
| The Magic Flute | Mozart | d-e | 2:00 | 2006 | No death, only kid's magic | Abridged children's Zauberflote for xmas. |
| Turandot | Puccini | Ita | 3:10 | 1987 | Stabs herself | Heartless, unattainable princess makes a mess |