01 Apr 2025
Back by (popular?) demand, it’s my 2025-26 Met season opera database, this year with some help from ChatGPT. I hope it’s easier to read than earlier versions, which used an embarrassing screenshot of a table, embedded as a png. Quelle horreur.
There is no link to a Google Sheet this year, because I’ve moved this silly project from Sheets to an actual SQLite database, and it’s the output for next year’s season from that you see below. If you’re enough of a geek (or opera geek) that you would like to see the db itself, it’s in my GitHub.
Oh, in case it’s not obvious, the ones in green are the ones we’re planning to see. If you wonder when each is happening, consult the Met’s 2025-26 Season Calendar.
| Opera | Composer | Production | Language | Duration | Synopsis | Hero's Fate |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Arabella (1933) | Strauss | 2025 | German | 3:50 | Charming rom-com in shabby, end-stage Vienna. | Swept off her feet |
| Don Giovanni (1787) | Mozart | 2025 | Italian | 3:16 | Dissolute Don gets what he deserves. | Dragged to hell by demons |
| El Último Sueño de Frida y Diego (2025) | Frank | 2025 | Spanish | 2:25 | You can return from the dead, but it won't be easy. | Grief is joined by gratitude. |
| Innocence (2021) | Saariaho | 2025 | English | 1:45 | A wedding is shattered by resurfacing trauma. | Psychological reckoning. |
| La Fille du Régiment (1840) | Donizetti | 2025 | Italian | 2:15 | Girl defies nobility to marry the man she loves. | Gains love, freedom, and identity |
| La Traviata (1853) | Verdi | 2025 | Italian | 3:00 | Real love can't stop a real sick party girl. | Acute tuberculosis |
| Tristan und Isolde (1865) | Wagner | 2025 | German | 4:50 | Don't let your maid mix your death potion. | Both lovers die. |
| Andrea Chénier (1896) | Giordano | 2025 | Italian | 3:10 | Nobdy expects the French Revolution...to be tragic. | Guillotine time |
| Carmen (1875) | Bizet | 2025 | French | 3:25 | She was born free and free she will die. | Stabbed to death |
| Eugene Onegin (1879) | Tchaikovsky | 2025 | Russian | 3:05 | Selfish hero regrets rejecting young woman's love. | Alone and in despair |
| I Puritani (1835) | Bellini | 2025 | Italian | 3:20 | Puritans vs royalists in the English civil war. | Pardoned at the last minute. |
| La Boheme (1896) | Puccini | 2025 | Italian | 3:00 | Paris is too sexy for two starving, freezing artists. | Illness and exposure |
| La Sonnambula (1831) | Bellini | 2025 | Italian | 2:45 | Girls shouldn't sleepwalk into the wrong bedroom. | Reconciled and happy. |
| Madama Butterfly (1904) | Puccini | 2025 | Italian | 3:00 | Geisha should have known better | Stabs herself |
| Porgy and Bess (1935) | Girshwin | 2025 | English | 3:30 | Disabled black man fights for love and dignity. | Porgy chases Bess to NYC. |
| The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay (2025) | Bates | 2025 | English | 2:50 | Jewish cousins move to the US to fight the nazis. | Unsummarizable mess. |
| The Magic Flute (1791) | Mozart | 2025 | German/English | 2:00 | Abridged children's Zauberflote for xmas. | No death, only kid's magic |
| Turandot (1926) | Puccini | 2025 | Italian | 3:10 | Heartless, unattainable princess makes a mess | Stabs herself |