Verkehrshaus der Schweiz: MET Opera

Top-class Opera live from New York

Enjoy the most famous operas by Puccini, Verdi and Strauss live from the Metropolitan Opera New York in the Filmtheater. Thanks to satellite transmission, you can experience the works in outstanding picture and sound quality and without any time delay.

18.10.2025

La Sonnambula

Premiere: Teatro Carcano, Milan, 1831. This operatic gem by one of the great masters of melody is a benchmark of extraordinary vocal artistry. The title role of the sleepwalking girl was written for the greatest diva of the time, Giuditta Pasta (for…

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08.11.2025

La Bohème

With its enchanting scenery and captivating score, the world’s most beloved opera is as timeless as it is heartbreaking. Franco Zeffirelli’s beautiful production brings 19th-century Paris to the Met stage, where Puccini’s young friends and lovers…

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22.11.2025

Arabella

On November 22, Strauss's elegant romance brings the glamour and magic of 19th-century Vienna to cinemas around the world – in a magnificent production by legendary director Otto Schenk, described as “as beautiful as one could wish for” (The New York…

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13.12.2025

Andrea Chénier

In Giordano's passionate tragedy, tenor Piotr Beczała plays the virtuous poet who falls victim to the intrigues and violence of the French Revolution.

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10.01.2026

I Puritani

I Puritani is an opera that is hard to beat in terms of melody, coloratura, and virtuoso vocal fireworks. On January 10, the first new Met production of Bellini's last masterpiece in almost 50 years will hit theaters—an impressive staging by Charles…

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21.03.2026

Tristan and Isolde

After years of anticipation, a truly unmissable event will hit cinemas worldwide on March 21, when the electrifying Lise Davidsen takes on one of the ultimate roles for a dramatic soprano: the Irish princess Isolde in Wagner's transcendent meditation…

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02.05.2026

Eugene Onegin

Following her acclaimed debut in Puccini's Madama Butterfly in 2024, soprano Asmik Grigorian returns to the Met as Tatiana, the young heroine in love in this passionate opera adaptation of Pushkin, which will be broadcast live from the stage of the…

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30.05.2026

Frida and Diego's Last Dream

On May 30, the Metropolitan Opera's 2025-26 Live in HD season concludes with a live broadcast of American composer Gabriela Lena Frank's first opera, a magical realist portrait of Mexican painter couple Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera, with a libretto…

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Opera subscription 2025/26

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