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For gorgeous melody, spellbinding coloratura, and virtuoso vocal fireworks, I Puritani has few equals. On January 10, the first new Met production of Bellini’s final masterpiece in nearly 50 years—a striking staging by Charles Edwards, who makes his company directorial debut after many successes as a set designer—arrives in cinemas worldwide.

The Met has assembled a world-beating quartet of stars, conducted by Marco Armiliato, for the demanding principal roles. 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 Ruciński as Riccardo, betrothed to Elvira against her will, and bass-baritone Christian Van Horn as Elvira’s sympathetic uncle, Giorgio.

Local support for the Met: Live in HD series is provided by The Edward Hastings and Gino Barcone Trust.

Roberto Minczuk Music Director
Peter Erb horn
Allison Tutton horn
Maria Long horn
Andrew Meyers horn

Beethoven Coriolan Overture
Schumann Concertstück
Beethoven Symphony No. 4 in B-flat Major

From the fierce determination of Beethoven’s Coriolan Overture to the charming virtuosity of Schumann’s rarely heard Concertstück, this program explores musical boldness in all its forms. The evening concludes with Beethoven’s luminous Fourth Symphony, a masterwork that sings with clarity and classical grace under the baton of Roberto Minczuk.

Roberto Minczuk Music Director
Roman Rabinovich piano

Benavides Acequia (2024)
Prokofiev Piano Concerto No. 3
Rachmaninoff Symphonic Dances

Get into the swing of it with the world-famous Glenn Miller Orchestra! Known for its signature big band sound, the orchestra performs timeless classics like “In the Mood,” “Moonlight Serenade,” and “Chattanooga Choo Choo” with energy and style.

Tickets for the Glenn Miller Orchestra will be on sale for $73.50, $58.50, $47.50, and $29.50. Tickets may be purchased online at popejoypresents.com. Tickets are also available to purchase in person at the UNM Ticket Office located at the UNM Bookstore or by calling (505) 277-4569. For more information on the upcoming season, visit popejoypresents.com. Group orders of 10 or more may be placed by emailing groups@popejoypresents.com.

After years of anticipation, a truly unmissable event arrives in cinemas worldwide on March 21 as the electrifying Lise Davidsen tackles one of the ultimate roles for dramatic soprano: the Irish princess Isolde in Wagner’s transcendent meditation on love and death. Heroic tenor Michael Spyres stars opposite Davidsen as the love-drunk Tristan.

The momentous occasion also marks the advent of a new, Met-debut staging by Yuval Sharon—hailed by The New York Times as “the most visionary opera director of his generation” and the first American to direct an opera at the famed Wagner festival in Bayreuth—as well as Music Director Yannick Nézet-Séguin’s first time leading Tristan und Isolde at the Met. Mezzosoprano Ekaterina Gubanova reprises her portrayal of Brangäne, alongside bass-baritone Tomasz Konieczny, who sings Kurwenal after celebrated Met appearances in Wagner’s Der Fliegende Holländer and Ring cycle. Bass-baritone Ryan Speedo Green makes an important role debut as King Marke.

Local support for the Met: Live in HD series is provided by The Edward Hastings and Gino Barcone Trust.

Quarteto Nuevo merges western classical, eastern European folk, Latin and jazz with an organic feel that packs a wallop! Their diverse programs can be tailored to fit anywhere, from an intimate chamber music venue to a large outdoor festival. The ensemble’s razor-sharp precision is enhanced by jazzy interludes, lightly rumbling percussion motifs and mesmerizing rhythms. They effectively meld the music of ancient worlds and faraway places with a contemporary groove that enchants audiences of all ages!

The fourth concert of the Presidential Chamber Music and World Series, offered as a Free - Pay As You Wish concert to the central NM community.

On May 30, the Metropolitan Opera’s 2025–26 Live in HD season comes to a close with a live transmission of American composer Gabriela Lena Frank’s 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. Music Director Yannick Nézet-Séguin conducts the Met-premiere staging of Frank’s opera, a “confident, richly imagined score” (The New Yorker) that “bursts with color and fresh individuality” (Los Angeles Times). The vibrant new production, taking enthusiastic inspiration from Frida and Diego’s paintings, is directed and choreographed by Deborah Colker.

Local support for the Met: Live in HD series is provided by The Edward Hastings and Gino Barcone Trust.