The Metropolitan Opera Tours and Tickets

Q: What’s the best way to experience the Metropolitan Opera?

There are plenty of ways to experience the Metropolitan Opera. Looking at ratings and reviews previously given by customers, these are the best tours available right now:<ul><li><a href="https://www.viator.com/tours/New-York-City/New-York-Art-and-Architecture-Tour-Upper-West-Side/d687-482525P8" class="markdown_inline_link" target="_blank">New York Upper West Side Art and Architecture Tour</a></li><li><a href="https://www.viator.com/tours/New-York-City/NYC-Upper-West-Side-self-guided-walking-tour-scavenger-hunt/d687-278761P23" class="markdown_inline_link" target="_blank">NYC Upper West Side Self Guided Walking Tour Scavenger Hunt</a></li></ul>

Q: How much does it cost to visit the Metropolitan Opera in 2025?

That depends. If you plan to attend a performance at the Metropolitan Opera, ticket costs vary, but generally begin at about US$35 per person. The opera also offers guided tours for US$35 per attendee. New York City walking tours that stop outside the opera begin from US$25.

Q: Where is the Metropolitan Opera located?

The Metropolitan Opera is located in Manhattan’s Upper West Side, within the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts campus. To get there via public transportation, take the 1 train to 66 St - Lincoln Center station, which is located just moments away. Buses, taxis, and rideshare services also frequent the area.

Q: What is the dress code for attending an opera at the Metropolitan Opera?

There is no strict dress code at the Metropolitan Opera. However, the venue recommends that visitors dress in business-casual attire, and it can be fun to dress up for the occasion. Some events, including premieres and galas, are considered more formal and attendees may choose to wear suits and gowns.

Q: Are there dining options available at the opera house?

Yes, there are dining options at the Metropolitan Opera. The Grand Tier is a fine-dining restaurant that opens before every performance to serve brunch before matinees and dinner before evening shows. There are also three bars—the Grand Tier, Orchestra, and Family Circle Bars—where you can buy refreshments during performances.

Q: Is there a coat check at the Metropolitan Opera?

Yes, there is a coat check at the Metropolitan Opera located on the south side of the building’s Concourse level. It costs US$5 per item, including coats, umbrellas, and handbags. Note that luggage, scooters with lithium batteries, and other large and bulky items are not permitted in the opera house.

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La Traviata at The Metropolitan Opera House Ticket

A beloved mainstay of the repertory, Verdi’s great tragedy stirs the soul and breaks the heart like only opera can. A trio of captivating artists—Lisette Oropesa, Rosa Feola, and Ermonela Jaho—alternate in the touchstone soprano role of Violetta Valéry, the ill-fated Parisian courtesan fighting for love before her time runs out. Tony Award–winning director Michael Mayer conjures a dreamy setting that matches the poetry and passion of the unforgettable score. Verdi’s La Traviata survived a notoriously unsuccessful opening night to become one of the best-loved operas in the repertoire. Following the larger-scale dramas of Rigoletto and Il Trovatore, its intimate scope and subject matter inspired the composer to create some of his most profound and heartfelt music. The title role of the “fallen woman” has captured the imaginations of audiences and performers alike with its inexhaustible vocal and dramatic possibilities—and challenges.

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La Boheme at The Metropolitan Opera House Ticket

La Bohème, the passionate, timeless, and indelible story of love among young artists in Paris, can stake its claim as the world’s most popular opera. It has a marvelous ability to make a powerful first impression and to reveal unsuspected treasures after dozens of hearings. At first glance, La Bohème is the definitive depiction of the joys and sorrows of love and loss; on closer inspection, it reveals the deep emotional significance hidden in the trivial things—a bonnet, an old overcoat, a chance meeting with a neighbor—that make up our everyday lives. The libretto sets the action in Paris, circa 1830. This is not a random setting, but rather reflects the issues and concerns of a particular time when, following the upheavals of revolution and war, French artists had lost their traditional support base of aristocracy and church. The story centers on self-conscious youth at odds with mainstream society—a bohemian ambience that is clearly recognizable in any modern urban center.

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La Boheme at The Metropolitan Opera House Ticket

3 hours 5 minutes

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NYC Upper West Side Self Guided Walking Tour Scavenger Hunt

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Eugene Onegin at The Metropolitan Opera House Ticket

Following her acclaimed 2024 company debut in Puccini’s Madama Butterfly, 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. Tchaikovsky’s many moods—tender, grand, melancholy—are all given free rein in Eugene Onegin. The opera is based on Pushkin’s iconic verse novel, which reimagines the Byronic romantic anti-hero as the definitive bored Russian aristocrat caught between convention and ennui; Tchaikovsky, similarly, took Western European operatic forms and transformed them into an authentic and undeniably Russian work. At the core of the opera is the young girl Tatiana, who grows from a sentimental adolescent into a complete woman in one of the operatic stage’s most convincing character developments.

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Eugene Onegin at The Metropolitan Opera House Ticket

3 hours 45 minutes

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El Ultimo Sueno de Frida y Diego -Metropolitan Opera House Ticket

American composer Gabriela Lena Frank makes her Met debut with her first opera, a magical-realist 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 Euridice 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. The famously feuding pair briefly relive their tumultuous love, embracing both the passion and the pain before bidding the land of the living a final farewell. The vibrant new production, taking enthusiastic inspiration from Frida and Diego’s paintings, is directed and choreographed by Deborah Colker, following her remarkable 2024 debut staging of Ainadamar.

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Innocence at The Metropolitan Opera House Ticket

Depicting the wide web of trauma left in the wake of a school shooting, the late, great Finnish composer Kaija Saariaho’s final opera is a raw and unflinching cri de coeur in response to the senseless violence of our modern age. Captivating with its eerie, darkly beautiful sound-world and diverse vocal styles, ranging from traditional opera to expressionistic speak-singing to Scandinavian folk music, Innocence, with libretto by prominent Finnish author Sofi Oksanen and Aleksi Barrière, was greeted upon its 2021 premiere by awestruck reviews. For its Met premiere—in Simon Stone’s powerfully direct original production—the cast is anchored by mezzo- soprano Joyce DiDonato and Finnish ethno-pop singer Vilma Jää as a grieving mother and the daughter she lost in the shooting, as well as soprano Jacquelyn Stucker and tenor Miles Mykkanen as a young couple whose wedding, a decade after the tragedy, uncovers buried secrets and reopens old wounds.

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Innocence at The Metropolitan Opera House Ticket

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Upper West Side NYC Architecture Walking Tour

Manhattan’s Upper West Side is one of the most architecturally important areas of New York City, but you may be left wondering what you’re looking at when you walk around by yourself. Learn more about the city and its prominent buildings during a guided small-group architecture walking tour. Listen to your guide through personal headsets so you don’t miss anything in the busy city noise.

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Turandot at The Metropolitan Opera House Ticket

Franco Zeffirelli’s glittering take on Puccini’s final masterpiece returns to the stage with three extraordinary casts bringing the rousing score to life. Sopranos Angela Meade, Anna Pirozzi, and Liudmyla Monastyrska star in the title role of the vengeful princess, whose frozen heart is thawed by the courageous prince Calàf, portrayed by tenors Michael Fabiano, Brian Jagde, and Roberto Alagna. Puccini’s final opera is an epic fairy tale set in a China of legend, loosely based on a play by 18th-century Italian dramatist Carlo Gozzi. Featuring a most unusual score with an astounding and innovative use of chorus and orchestra, it is still recognizably Puccini, bursting with instantly appealing melody. The unenviable task of completing the opera’s final scene upon Puccini’s sudden death was left to the composer Franco Alfano. Conductor Arturo Toscanini oversaw Alfano’s contribution and led the world premiere.

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Turandot at The Metropolitan Opera House Ticket

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Know before you go

Signs handing outside the Metropolitan Opera in NYC.

The Met is a must-see for opera, performing arts, and architecture enthusiasts.
Grand Tier restaurant is open nightly from 5:30pm. Bars, located on every level, are open during intermissions.
The Met does not have a dress code, but performances are a fun excuse to get dressed up.
Every seat comes with a small screen that provides subtitles in multiple languages.
The building and performance hall are accessible to wheelchair users.

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