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Check out the the entire 2025/26 Met Opera broadcast schedule. Your host is Debra Lew Harder.

Coming up:

Dec. 13 at 1 p.m.
The Metropolitan Opera
Giordana: Andrea Chénier
Piotr Beczała (Andrea Chénier), Sonya Yoncheva (Maddalena di Coigny), Igor Golovatenko (Carlo Gérard). Daniele Rustioni conducts.

Dec. 20 at 12 p.m.
The Metropolitan Opera
Mozart: The Magic Flute

Paul Appleby (Tamino), Joélle Harvey (Pamina), Michael Sumuel (Papageno), Rainelle Krause (Queen of the Night), Alexander Köpeczi (Sarastro), Thomas Capobianco (Monostatos), Harold Wilson (Speaker). Steven White conducts.

Dec. 27 at 1 p.m.
The Metropolitan Opera
Handel at the Met

A celebration of Handel at the holidays, with excerpts from Met performances, in honor of the 300th anniversary of Rodelinda.

Jan. 3 at 1 p.m.
The Metropolitan Opera
Mason Bates: The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay – Libretto by Gene Scheer – New Production/Met Premiere – Performance from Fall 2025

Andrzej Filończyk (Joe Kavalier), Miles Mykkanen (Sam Clay), Sun-Ly Pierce (Rosa Saks), Lauren Snouffer (Sarah Kavalier), Edward Nelson (Tracy Bacon), Patrick Carfizzi (Sheldon Anapol), Craig Colclough (Gerhard). Yannick Nézet-Séguin conducts.

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