Met Live Opera 2025-2026 Season
Tickets are now on sale for the
19th anniversary season of THE MET: Live in HD!
Individual operas may be purchased be clicking on the links below.
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 coming up in the season are:
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.
The 2025-2026 Met Live Opera season in Sedona
is generously sponsored by Chris Fladlien.
