However, the Met also announced that its 2021–22 season will include Terence Blanchard’s Fire Shut Up in My Bones, Matthew Aucoin’s Eurydice, Brett Dean’s Hamlet and Philip Glass’s Akhnaten.

Unfortunately, we cant offer you a refund nor can we change or cancel your booking for this. Some of the formerly-scheduled 2020-2021 productions that audiences will now never get to experience include Billy Budd, La Bohème, Carmen, Don Giovanni and Nabucco. No extra fees are applied to this booking. Up until today, the Met was planning on resuming performanced on December 31, 2020.

On Wednesday, however, even more bad news was revealed: the Metropolitan Opera announced that it would be cancelling the entirety of its 2020-21 season, deepening the crisis that has already been snowing it under. In addition to cancelling performances due to the coronavirus, the institution has a significant amount of bonded debt, and is relying upon a letter of credit backed by the enormous Chagall murals kept in the lobby of Lincoln Center in order to affirm the Met Opera’s reliability.

It’s been an incredibly rough year for many different storied cultural institutions all over the world, but the Metropolitan Opera has undeniably suffered much more acutely than anyone could have anticipated. The Metropolitan Opera House at Lincoln Center.

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