WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — The Clark Art Institute airs the 2025–26 season of the Metropolitan Opera's acclaimed The Met: Live in HD series. This award-winning series of live, high-definition cinema simulcasts features the full live performance along with backstage interviews and commentary.

 

Unless otherwise noted, the Clark broadcasts the operas on select Saturdays at 1 pm in its Manton Research Center auditorium.

 

Tickets $25 ($22 members, $18 college students, $5 children 17 and under). Advance registration encouraged; capacity is limited. To purchase tickets, visit clarkart.edu/events or call the box office at 413 458 0524. No refunds.

 

October 18, 2025

La Sonnambula

Nadine Sierra summits another peak of the soprano repertoire as Amina, who sleepwalks her way into audiences' hearts in Bellini's poignant tale of love lost and found. Tenor Rolando Villazón retains the opera's original setting in the Swiss Alps but uses its somnambulant plot to explore the emotional and psychological valleys of the mind. Tenor Xabier Anduaga co-stars as Amina's fiancé Elvino, alongside soprano Sydney Mancasola as her rival, Lisa.

 

November 8, 2025

La Bohème

Franco Zeffirelli's picture-perfect production brings nineteenth-century Paris to the Met stage as Puccini's young friends and lovers navigate the joy and struggle of bohemian life. Sopranos Juliana Grigoryan, Angel Blue, and Aleksandra Kurzak trade off as the feeble seamstress Mimì, opposite tenors Freddie De Tommaso, Stephen Costello, Adam Smith, and Long Long as the ardent poet Rodolfo.

 

December 13, 2025

Andrea Chénier

Giordano's passionate tragedy stars tenor Piotr Becza?a as the virtuous poet who falls victim to the intrigue and violence of the French Revolution. Following their celebrated recent partnership in Giordano's Fedora, Becza?a reunites with soprano Sonya Yoncheva as Chénier's aristocratic lover, Maddalena di Coigny, with baritone Igor Golovatenko as Carlo Gérard, the agent of the Reign of Terror who seals their fates.

 

December 27, 2025

The Magic Flute (Encore)

A treasured holiday tradition, Mozart's heartwarming fairy tale takes the stage in the Met's abridged, English-language production by Julie Taymor—the Tony Award-winning director of Broadway's The Lion King. Featuring some of opera's most popular melodies and brought to life with colorful sets and costumes and dazzling puppetry, it's perfect for audiences of all ages.

 

Please note: The Clark is showing a prerecorded broadcast of this production.

 

January 11, 2026

I Puritani (Prerecorded)

The curtain goes up on the first new Met production of Bellini's final masterpiece in nearly fifty years. Soprano Lisette Oropesa and tenor Lawrence Brownlee are Elvira and Arturo, brought together by love and torn apart by the political rifts of the English Civil War, with baritone Artur Ruci?ski as Riccardo, betrothed to Elvira against her will, and bass-baritone Christian Van Horn as Elvira's sympathetic uncle, Giorgio.

 

Please note: The Clark is showing a prerecorded broadcast of this production.

 

February 28, 2026

Arabella (Prerecorded)

This production by director Otto Schenk “is as beautiful as one could hope” (The New York Times). Soprano Rachel Willis-Sørensen makes her role debut as the title heroine, a young noblewoman in search of love on her own terms. Radiant soprano Louise Alder makes her Met debut as her sister, Zdenka, and bass-baritone Tomasz Konieczny is the dashing count.

 

Please note: The Clark is showing a prerecorded broadcast of this production.

 

March 21, 2026

Tristan Und Isolde

12 pm (Note: early start time!)

After years of anticipation, the electrifying soprano Lise Davidsen tackles the Irish princess Isolde. Heroic tenor Michael Spyres stars opposite Davidsen as the love-drunk Tristan. Mezzo-soprano Ekaterina Gubanova reprises her signature portrayal of Brangäne, alongside bass-baritone Tomasz Konieczny. Bass-baritone Ryan Speedo Green makes an important role debut as King Marke.

 

May 2, 2026

Eugene Onegin

Soprano Asmik Grigorian returns to the Met as Tatiana, the lovestruck young heroine in this ardent operatic adaptation of Pushkin. Baritone Igor Golovatenko reprises his portrayal of the urbane Onegin, who realizes his affection for her all too late. The Met's evocative production, directed by Tony Award-winner Deborah Warner, “offers a beautifully detailed reading of … Tchaikovsky's lyrical romance” (The Telegraph).

 

May 30, 2026

El Último Sueño de Frida y Diego

American composer Gabriela Lena Frank makes her Met debut with her first opera, a portrait of Mexico's painterly power couple Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera, with libretto by Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Nilo Cruz. Fashioned as a reversal of the Orpheus and Eurydice myth, the story depicts Frida, sung by leading mezzo-soprano Isabel Leonard, leaving the underworld on the Day of the Dead and reuniting with Diego, portrayed by baritone Carlos Álvarez.

 

ABOUT THE CLARK

The Clark Art Institute, located in the Berkshires of western Massachusetts, is one of a small number of institutions globally that is both an art museum and a center for research, critical discussion, and higher education in the visual arts. Opened in 1955, the Clark houses exceptional European and American paintings and sculpture, extensive collections of master prints and drawings, English silver, and early photography. Acting as convener through its Research and Academic Program, the Clark gathers an international community of scholars to participate in a lively program of conferences, colloquia, and workshops on topics of vital importance to the visual arts. The Clark library, consisting of nearly 300,000 volumes, is one of the nation's premier art history libraries. The Clark also houses and co-sponsors the Williams College Graduate Program in the History of Art.