| Date | Opera | Composer | Leads | Conductor | Director | Language | Length | Synopsis | Hero's fate |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 23, 2026 | Così fan tutte | Mozart | Federica Lombardi, Samantha Hankey, Duke Kim | Nimrod David Pfeffer | Phelim McDermott | Italian | |||
| May 22, 2026 | El Último Sueño de Frida y Diego | Frank | Isabel Leonard, Carlos Álvarez, Gabriella Reyes | Yannick Nézet-Séguin / Steven Osgood (sources conflict — verify) | Deborah Colker | Spanish | 2:25 | You can return from the dead, but it won't be easy. |
Grief is joined by gratitude. |
| Apr 14, 2026 | Innocence | Saariaho | Joyce DiDonato, Vilma Jää, Lucy Shelton | Susanna Mälkki | Simon Stone | English | 1:45 | A wedding is shattered by resurfacing trauma. |
psychological reckoning. |
| Mar 31, 2026 | La Traviata | Verdi | Lisette Oropesa, Piotr Buszewski, Luca Salsi | Antonello Manacorda | Michael Mayer | Italian | 3:00 | Real love can't stop a real sick party girl. |
Acute tuberculosis |
| Mar 29, 2026 | Tristan und Isolde | Wagner | Lise Davidsen, Michael Spyres, Ekaterina Gubanova | Yannick Nézet-Séguin | Yuval Sharon | German | 4:50 | Don't let your maid mix your death potion. |
Both lovers die. |
| Nov 15, 2025 | Arabella | Strauss | Rachel Willis-Sørensen, Tomasz Konieczny, Louise Alder | Nicholas Carter | Otto Schenk | German | |||
| Nov 12, 2025 | La Fille du Régiment | Donizetti | Erin Morley, Lawrence Brownlee, Peter Kálmán | Giacomo Sagripanti | Laurent Pelly | French | 2:15 | Girl defies nobility to marry the man she loves. |
Gains love, freedom, and identity |
| Nov 11, 2025 | Don Giovanni | Mozart | Kyle Ketelsen, Tommaso Barea, Guanqun Yu | Daniele Rustioni | Ivo van Hove | Italian | 3:16 | Dissolute Don gets what he deserves. |
Dragged to hell by demons |
| May 2, 2025 | Salome | Strauss | Elza van den Heever, Peter Mattei, Gerhard Siegel | Yannick Nézet-Séguin | Claus Guth | German | 1:40 | Judean princess dances for a head from her creepy stepfather. |
Herod is pushed too far. |
| Mar 31, 2025 | Le Nozze di Figaro | Mozart | Michael Sumuel, Olga Kulchynska, Federica Lombardi | Joana Mallwitz | Richard Eyre | Italian | 3:30 | Lecherous count has designs on Suzanna, but gets outwitted. |
Only a little embarassment. |
| Mar 29, 2025 | Moby-Dick | Heggie | Brandon Jovanovich, Stephen Costello, Peter Mattei | Karen Kamensek | Leonard Foglia | English | 3:15 | Gray captain, blue sea, white whale, black mood. |
Ship sinks, whale and Ishmael get away. |
| Nov 2, 2024 | Ainadamar | Golijov | Angel Blue, Daniela Mack, Elena Villalón | Miguel Harth-Bedoya | Deborah Colker | Spanish | 1:20 | Poet Federico Garcia Lorca's life was a fountain of tears. |
Firing squad. |
| Oct 13, 2024 | Les Contes d'Hoffmann | Offenbach | Benjamin Bernheim, Vasilisa Berzhanskaya, Erin Morley | Marco Armiliato | Bartlett Sher | French | 3:35 | ETA Hoffman's surreal and complex stories of his love and art. |
Happy enough. |
| Sep 27, 2024 | Grounded | Tesori | Emily D'Angelo, Ben Bliss, Kyle Miller | Yannick Nézet-Séguin | Michael Mayer | English | 2:20 | Pilot gets pregnant, flies drone, loses soul. |
Prosecuted and imprisoned. |
| May 8, 2024 | El Niño | Adams | Julia Bullock, J'Nai Bridges, Davóne Tines | Marin Alsop | Lileana Blain-Cruz | English & Spanish | Oratorio about the nativity and its aftermath |
All good for now, he dies later |
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| Mar 29, 2024 | La Forza del Destino | Verdi | Lise Davidsen, Brian Jagde, Igor Golovatenko | Yannick Nézet-Séguin | Mariusz Treliński | Italian | Half-Incan hero can't stop killing the Calatravas. |
Stabbed to death |
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| Jan 23, 2024 | Carmen | Bizet | Aigul Akhmetshina, Piotr Beczała, Angel Blue | Daniele Rustioni | Carrie Cracknell | French | 3:25 | She was born free and free she will die. |
Stabbed to death |
| Jan 21, 2024 | Nabucco | Verdi | George Gagnidze, Liudmyla Monastyrska, Dmitry Belosselskiy | Daniele Callegari | Elijah Moshinsky | Italian | 2:50 | The Israelites battle the king of Babylon |
Poisons herself |
| Jan 4, 2024 | La Bohème | Puccini | Elena Stikhina, Stephen Costello, Adam Plachetka | Marco Armiliato | Franco Zeffirelli | Italian | 3:00 | Paris is too sexy for two starving, freezing artists. |
Illness and exposure |
| Dec 14, 2023 | Florencia en el Amazonas | Catán | Ailyn Pérez, Gabriella Reyes, Mario Chang | Yannick Nézet-Séguin | Mary Zimmerman | Spanish | Boat ride down the Amazon of magical realism. |
Transformed into a butterfly |
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| Nov 24, 2023 | X: The Life and Times of Malcolm X | Davis | Will Liverman, Leah Hawkins, Raehann Bryce-Davis | Kazem Abdullah | Robert O'Hara | English | Life of the civil rights leader Malcom X |
Shot and assassinated |
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| Oct 21, 2023 | Dead Man Walking | Heggie | Joyce DiDonato, Ryan McKinny, Latonia Moore | Yannick Nézet-Séguin | Ivo van Hove | English | 2:50 | Nun fights for the soul of a condemned murderer. |
Lethal injection |
| May 5, 2023 | Don Giovanni | Mozart | Peter Mattei, Adam Plachetka, Federica Lombardi | Nathalie Stutzmann | Ivo van Hove | Italian | 3:16 | Dissolute Don gets what he deserves. |
Dragged to hell by demons |
| Apr 22, 2023 | Champion | Blanchard | Ryan Speedo Green, Eric Owens, Latonia Moore | Yannick Nézet-Séguin | James Robinson | English | Gay boxer remembers his sad but heroic life. |
Dementia or CTE |
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| Mar 19, 2023 | Falstaff | Verdi | Michael Volle, Ailyn Pérez, Christopher Maltman | Daniele Rustioni | Robert Carsen | Italian | 2:36 | Hobo woos married women; humiliation ensues. |
He only dies on the inside |
| Jan 21, 2023 | Dialogs of the Carmelites | Poulenc | Ailyn Pérez, Alice Coote, Christine Goerke | Bertrand de Billy | John Dexter | French | 3:09 | French revolution martyrs nuns. Lots of laughs. |
Guillotined with her sisters |
| Dec 7, 2022 | The Hours | Puts | Renée Fleming, Kelli O'Hara, Joyce DiDonato | Yannick Nézet-Séguin | Phelim McDermott | English | Women from different eras confront themselves. |
Suicide (drowns) |
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| Nov 5, 2022 | Peter Grimes | Britten | Allan Clayton, Nicole Car, Adam Plachetka | Nicholas Carter | John Doyle | English | 2:22 | Closeted fisherman and his apprentices. |
Sinks his own boat (drowns) |
| Oct 7, 2022 | Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk | Shostakovich | Svetlana Sozdateleva, Brandon Jovanovich, Nikolai Schukoff | Keri-Lynn Wilson | Graham Vick | Russian | 2:40 | Bored housewife causes havoc. |
Murder-suicide (drowns) |
| Dec 16, 2021 | Eurydice | Aucoin | Erin Morley, Joshua Hopkins, Jakub Józef Orliński | Yannick Nézet-Séguin | Mary Zimmerman | English | |||
| Jan 11, 2020 | Wozzeck | Berg | Peter Mattei, Elza van den Heever, Christopher Ventris | Yannick Nézet-Séguin | William Kentridge | German | |||
| Dec 13, 2019 | Der Rosenkavalier | Strauss | Camilla Nylund, Magdalena Kožená, Erin Morley | Simon Rattle | Robert Carsen | German | 4:20 | Rich lady yields her lover to a girl his own age. |
Only love and wisdom here |
| Nov 8, 2019 | Akhnaten | Glass | Anthony Roth Costanzo, J'Nai Bridges, Dísella Lárusdóttir | Karen Kamensek | Phelim McDermott | Egyptian & English | |||
| Sep 27, 2019 | Porgy and Bess | Gershwin | Eric Owens, Angel Blue, Alfred Walker | David Robertson | James Robinson | English | 3:30 | Disabled black man fights for love and dignity. |
Porgy chases Bess to NYC. |
| May 4, 2019 | Götterdämmerung | Wagner | Andreas Schager, Christine Goerke, Eric Owens | Philippe Jordan | Robert Lepage | German | |||
| May 2, 2019 | Siegfried | Wagner | Stefan Vinke, Christine Goerke, Michael Volle | Philippe Jordan | Robert Lepage | German | |||
| Apr 30, 2019 | Die Walküre | Wagner | Michael Volle, Christine Goerke, Stuart Skelton | Philippe Jordan | Robert Lepage | German | |||
| Apr 29, 2019 | Das Rheingold | Wagner | Michael Volle, Jamie Barton, Norbert Ernst | Philippe Jordan | Robert Lepage | German | |||
| Oct 19, 2018 | Marnie | Muhly | Isabel Leonard, Christopher Maltman, Iestyn Davies | Robert Spano | Michael Mayer | English | |||
| Apr 29, 2017 | Le Nozze di Figaro | Mozart | Italian | 3:30 | Lecherous count has designs on Suzanna, but gets outwitted. |
Only a little embarassment. |
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| Mar 25, 2017 | La Traviata | Verdi | Sonya Yoncheva, Michael Fabiano | Nicola Luisotti | Willy Decker | Italian | 3:00 | Real love can't stop a real sick party girl. |
Acute tuberculosis |
| Feb 2, 2017 | Madama Butterfly | Puccini | Italian | 3:00 | Geisha should have known better |
Stabs herself |