The Met: Live in HD Season Continues with Wagner’s Tristan und Isolde on Saturday, March 21
Published by on Mar 12, 2026 12:20 PM
The Met: Live in HD Season Continues with Wagner’s Tristan und Isolde on Saturday, March 21
Soprano Lise Davidsen Returns to the Met as Isolde, Opposite Tenor Michael Spyres as Tristan, Both Making Met Role Debuts; Director Yuval Sharon Makes His Met Debut
Music Director Yannick Nézet-Séguin Conducts Tristan und Isolde At the Met for the First Time
The Met: Live in HD is Available through Fathom Entertainment In More Than 700 Theatres Nationwide
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New York, NY and Denver, Colo. (March 12, 2026)— The Metropolitan Opera’s 2025–26 Live in HD season continues with Wagner’s Tristan und Isolde in select U.S. theatres from Fathom Entertainment on Saturday, March 21, at 12PM ET, in a new production by director Yuval Sharon in his company debut. Soprano Lise Davidsen makes her long-anticipated company role debut as Isolde, following a triumphant run at the Gran Teatre del Liceu in Barcelona. One of the most in-demand dramatic sopranos of her generation, Davidsen marks a major artistic milestone in her Wagnerian repertoire with this production.
Opposite Davidsen, tenor Michael Spyres stars as Tristan, also making his Met role debut. The performance is conducted by the Met’s Jeanette Lerman-Neubauer Music Director, Yannick Nézet-Séguin, who leads Tristan und Isolde at the Met for the first time.
The cast also features mezzo-soprano Ekaterina Gubanova reprising her acclaimed portrayal of Brangäne, bass-baritone Tomasz Konieczny as Kurwenal, and bass-baritone Ryan Speedo Green, who makes an important role debut as King Marke.
In his Met debut, Sharon approaches Wagner’s masterpiece as a meditation on reality, hallucination, and transformation—imagining the opera as one transcendent episode within an endless cycle of death and rebirth.
The production brings together a celebrated creative team, including set designer Es Devlin, costume designer Clint Ramos, choreographer Annie-B Parson, projection designer Jason H. Thompson, and Tilman Michael, the Met’s C. Graham Berwind, III Chorus Director. Lighting designer John Torres and video designer Ruth Hogben both make their Met debuts. The March 21 performance of Tristan und Isolde will mark the opera’s 467th performance at the Met and third Live in HD transmission to cinemas worldwide.
Fathom Entertainment will also present two encores of Tristan und Isolde in theatres on Wednesday, March 25, at 12:00PM and 6:30PM local time.
Tickets for Tristan und Isolde are available online and at participating theatre box offices (theatre locations are subject to change). For more information, visit Fathom Entertainment.
Gary Halvorson will direct the Live in HD presentation for cinemas, and Lisette Oropesa will host the transmission, sharing exclusive behind-the-scenes content and interviews during the intermissions.
The Stars of Tristan und Isolde
Yannick Nézet-Séguin, conductor; Montreal, Canada
Lise Davidsen, Isolde; Stokke, Norway
Ekaterina Gubanova, Brangäne; Moscow, Russia
Michael Spyres, Tristan; Mansfield, Missouri
Tomasz Konieczny, Kurwenal; Łódź, Poland
Ryan Speedo Green, King Marke; Suffolk, Virginia
Press Quotes
“The event of the season…an astonishing performance…Davidsen and Sharon ushered in a new era at the Met.” — The New York Times (Critic’s Pick)
“One of those great nights at the opera, the kind that will have people arguing what shone the most…some of the most miraculous minutes of opera I’ve ever heard.” — New York Magazine
More Information
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The 2025–26 Live in HD season continues with Tchaikovsky’s Eugene Onegin (live on May 2 with encores on May 6) and Gabriela Lena Frank’s El Último Sueño de Frida y Diego (live on May 30 with encores on June 3). All performances will be Saturday matinees transmitted live from the Met stage.
The Met: Live in HD series is made possible by a generous grant from its founding sponsor, the Neubauer Family Foundation. Digital support of The Met: Live in HD is provided by Bloomberg Philanthropies. The Met: Live in HD series is in partnership with Rolex.
About Fathom Entertainment
Fathom Entertainment is the leading global specialty distributor of content to movie theatres. For more than 20 years, Fathom Entertainment has pioneered theatrical distribution of events and special engagements across various genres and formats, including feature films, episodic content, documentaries, concerts, and live events. Fathom consistently ranks among the top 10 theatrical distributors in North America and distributes content to cinemas worldwide. Fathom Entertainment is owned by AMC Entertainment Inc. (NYSE: AMC), Cinemark Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: CNK), and Regal Cineworld Group (LSE: CINE.L). For more information, visit FathomEntertainment.com.
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Fathom Entertainment
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