Opera At Icicle Creek

The Metropolitan Opera and Icicle Creek Center for the Arts are proud to bring you the 2026-2027 season, packed with opera's most talented stars, a wide range of repertoire, and a handful of new productions from some of the most gifted stage directors. 

Live from the Met in the Snowy Owl Theater: Mozart’s satirical comedy of fickle young love returns in Phelim McDermott’s Coney Island-inspired production that sets the uproarious story at a 1950s boardwalk amusement park. Maestro Nimrod David Pfeffer conducts.  

Live from the Met in the Snowy Owl Theater: Two of opera’s most extraordinary artists, baritone Quinn Kelsey and soprano Lise Davidsen, star as Shakespeare’s scheming couple in a powerful new production by director Louisa Proske. Met Music Director Yannick Nézet-Séguin conducts. 

Live from the Met in the Snowy Owl Theater: Saint-Saëns’s grand operatic take on the biblical tale returns with mezzo-soprano Aigul Akhmetshina and tenor Clay Hilley in the title roles. Giacomo Sagripanti conducts Darko Tresnjak’s epic production.

Live from the Met in the Snowy Owl Theater: Puccini’s exhilarating drama of the Wild West returns with a new staging by celebrated British director Richard Jones. Soprano Vida Miknevičiūtė makes an important Met debut as Minnie, alongside tenor SeokJong Baek as Dick Johnson and Christoper Maltman as Jack Rance. Maestro Keri-Lynn Wilson conducts.

Live from the Met in the Snowy Owl Theater: Kevin Puts’s Pulitzer Prize–winning opera premieres at the Met, inspired by the true events of the 1914 Christmas truce, when soldiers set aside the horrors of the First World War and crossed the trenches to mingle, exchange gifts, and sing carols with the enemy. Debuting maestro Dalia Stasevska conducts an evocative staging by James Robinson.

Live from the Met in the Snowy Owl Theater: Soprano Nadine Sierra stars as the irresistible title character of Massenet’s passionate drama, opposite tenor Matthew Polenzani as Manon’s idealistic lover, the Chevalier des Grieux, in Laurent Pelly’s breathtaking Belle Époque production. Maestro Yves Abel conducts.

Live from the Met in the Snowy Owl Theater: Tenor Brian Jagde stars in the tour-de-force title role of Verdi’s monumental Shakespearean drama, one of the pinnacles of Italian opera, alongside soprano Ailyn Pérez as Desdemona in Bartlett Sher’s production. Michele Mariotti leads the full forces of the Met Orchestra and Chorus in the exhilarating score.

Live from the Met in the Snowy Owl Theater: Wagner’s transcendent final opera returns in François Girard’s acclaimed production. Music Director Yannick Nézet-Séguin conducts a cast of Wagnerian superstars, including tenor Piotr Beczała in the title role, mezzo-soprano Elīna Garanča as Kundry, and baritone Peter Mattei as Amfortas.