The Metropolitan Opera announced their plans for the 2025/26 season with a record number of Askonas Holt artists appearing across three new productions and 12 revivals.

The season opens with the Met premiere of their new commission The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, conducted by Music Director Yannick Nézet-Séguin and starring Miles Mykannen in the title role and recent signing Sun-Ly Pierce as Rosa Saks.

Yannick also conducts the Met premiere of Gabriela Lena Frank’s El Último Sueño de Frida y Diego, featuring Nils Wanderer who makes both a house and a role debut as Leonardo.

Audiences will have further opportunities to catch Yannick on the podium in Don Giovanni, which features a large cohort of Askonas Holt singers, including Ben Bliss as Don Ottavio, Andrea Carroll as Zerlina, Brandon Cedel as Masetto and Soloman Howard as the Commendatore. He also leads performances of a new production of Tristan und Isolde.

New signing Fabien Gabel makes his Metropolitan Opera debut conducting performances of Carmen, featuring Kristina Mkhitaryan singing Micaëla. Also making her Met debut is conductor Erina Yashima who leads The Magic Flute with Joélle Harvey as Pamina and Matthew Rose as Sarastro.

Making role debuts are Joyce DiDonato, Rachel Willis-Sørensen and Alice Coote. Joyce sings the role of the Waitress in Saariaho’s Innocence alongside Miles Mykannen as the Bridegroom. Rachel sings her first performances in the title role in R. Strauss’ Arabella alongside Karen Cargill as Adelaide, and Alice makes a role debut as the Marquise of Berkenfieldin La Fille du Régiment.

Angel Blue returns to her signature role of Mimi in La bohème, leading a cast that includes Mané Galoyan as Musetta, Stephen Costello as Rodolfo, Iurii Samoilov and Sean Michael Plumb sharing the role of Schaunard, and Jongmin Park and Alexandros Stavrakakis both appearing in the role of Colline. Audiences will also have the chance to see Angel as Liù in Turandot.

Ailyn Pérez makes a return as Cio-Cio San in Madama Butterfly which she sang for her house debut at the Gran Teatre del Liceu earlier this season, and Asmik Grigorian sings Tatiana in Eugene Onegin following her critically acclaimed Met debut last season as Madama Butterfly. She shares the stage with Alexander Tsymbalyuk who sings Prince Gremin. 

Nadine Sierra and Xabier Anduaga are reunited as Amina and Elvino in a new production of La Sonnambula following performances together in the roles in Madrid and Barcelona. They are joined by Alexander Vinogradov as Rodolfo. Rosa Feola and Piotr Buszewski join forces as Violetta and Alfredo in La Traviata.