Porgy and Bess. Courtesy Metropolitan Opera. Photo: Ken Howard
Performing ArtsUpper West Side

Metropolitan Opera 2019–20 Season

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The Metropolitan Opera opens its 2019–2020 season with a new production of Gershwin’s Porgy and Bess. Other new stagings during the season include Wagner’s Der Fliegende Holländer, Berg’s Wozzeck, Handel’s Agrippina and Philip Glass’s Akhnaten. Opera-goers should also keep an eye out for Macbeth, Turandot, Madama Butterfly, La Bohème and The Magic Flute.

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The Metropolitan Opera

Metropolitan Opera House at Lincoln Center Manhattan, NY, 10023

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Opera
Dance
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Accessibility
Large Print
Open and/or Closed Captioned
Wheelchair Accessible
Type
Music

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