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I Puritani, is the first Live Metropolitan Opera HD Broadcast of 2026. Vincenzo Bellini’s bel canto, beautiful singing, opera opened at the Met New Year’s Eve with a new production, the first in nearly 50 years. The story is set during the English Civil War between the Puritans and the Royalists.
Umberto Giordano’s most popular opera, Andrea Chenier premiered in March 1896 with great success. This verismo opera with a lush and stirring score relates the story of Andrea Chenier, an idealistic poet caught up in the French Revolution.
Arabella, the story of romance in 1860 Vienna is the final collaboration of Strauss and his librettist, Hugo von Hofmannsthal who died after finishing Act I. It premiered July 1, 1933 in Dresden to great success. The opera portrays the noble Arabella’s search for true love amid family struggles.
La Boheme, Puccini’s much loved opera of Bohemian life in the Latin Quarter of Paris in the mid-nineteenth Century premiered in 1896 and continues to be the world’s most popular opera.
Vincenzo Bellini’s bel canto opera La Sonnambula, (The Sleepwalker) will be the Metropolitan Opera’s first live in HD Broadcast of the Season on October 18, 2025 at 1PM. It was first performed in 1835 with great success. This new production stars Nadine Sierra as the sleepwalking heroine, Amina.
