A crowd of singers on stage in a scene from Andrea Chenier

Live from the Met 2025-26

We're thrilled to announce our new season of Live from the Met opera screenings. Always a highlight of the Cinema year, these award-winning broadcasts bring world-class opera to our screens live from the Metropolitan Opera in New York.

Priority booking for passes opens for DCA Members from Sat 31 May at 10:00, available online, in-person at DCA Box Office or by phone on 01382 213 610.

Tickets go on general sale from Fri 6 June, with both individual screenings and passes available to book from this date.

If you'd like to sign up for DCA Membership in order to secure priority booking, you can do this in advance or at DCA Box Office during the priority booking period – you'll be able to book your tickets at the same time.

Couples dance in a ballroom in opera Arabella

The season opens on Sat 18 October with La Sonnambula, Bellini's poignant tale of love and loss, with Riccardo Frizza taking the podium for one of opera’s most ravishing works,

Then Franco Zeffirelli's production of Puccini's La Bohème brings 19th century Paris to the stage, followed by the sumptuous glamour of Strauss' Arabella, and the passion and tragedy of Giordano's Andrea Chénier.

Then in 2026, electrifying new productions of Bellini's I Puritani and Wagner's epic Tristan und Isolde, and a beautiful revival of Tchaikovsky's Eugene Onegin, starring soprano Asmik Grigorian.

The season ends with a new opera, El Último Sueño de Frida y Diego, from American composer Gabriella Lena Frank; a magical-realist portrait of legendary artists Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera.

Live from the Met: El Último Sueño de Frida y Diego

Duration: 170 minutes

Sat 30 May 2026

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