Sundays at 2 beginning June 21 - Aug. 2, 2026 on KPBS TV and streaming in our live channel on KPBS+
Program Schedule:
Sunday, June 21 at 2 p.m. GREAT PERFORMANCES AT THE MET "La Boheme" - See the classic Puccini opera starring Sonya Yoncheva as Mimì and Michael Fabiano as Rodolfo. In 1830s Paris, the budding romances of two couples are tested by jealousy, poverty and illness. Marco Armiliato conducts.
June 28 at 2 p.m. GREAT PERFORMANCES AT THE MET "La Sonnambula" - Nadine Sierra stars as Amina in Bellini’s tale of love lost and found. This new production by Rolando Villazón—the tenor who has embarked on a second career as a director—retains the opera’s original setting in the Swiss Alps but uses its plot to explore the emotional and psychological valleys of the mind.
July 5 at 2 p.m. GREAT PERFORMANCES AT THE MET "Arabella" - Strauss’ romance brings the glamour of 19th-century Vienna to the Met stage in a production by legendary Otto Schenk. Soprano Rachel Willis-Sørensen makes her role debut as Arabella, a young noblewoman in search of love on her own terms. Soprano Louise Alder makes her Met debut as her sister, Zdenka, and bass-baritone Tomasz Konieczny is the count who sweeps Arabella off her feet.
July 12 at 2 p.m. GREAT PERFORMANCES AT THE MET "Andrea Chenier" - Giordano’s tragedy stars tenor Piotr Beczała as the virtuous poet who falls victim to the intrigue and violence of the French Revolution. Soprano Sonya Yoncheva stars as Chénier’s aristocratic lover, Maddalena di Coigny, with baritone Igor Golovatenko as Carlo Gérard. Daniele Rustioni takes the podium to lead Nicolas Joël’s staging.
July 19 at 2 p.m. GREAT PERFORMANCES AT THE MET "Falstaff" - Verdi’s Shakespearean comedy features an ensemble cast in Robert Carsen’s staging, with baritone Michael Volle performing in his first Verdi role at the Met as the knight Falstaff, tormented by a trio of clever women who deliver his comeuppance.
July 26 at 2 p.m. GREAT PERFORMANCES AT THE MET "Champion" - Six-time Grammy Award–winning composer Terence Blanchard returns to the Met with an opera based on the true story of boxer Emile Griffith, who rose from obscurity to become a world champion despite being a closeted bisexual.
August 2 at 2 p.m. GREAT PERFORMANCES AT THE MET: I Puritani (preview coming soon) - Charles Edwards makes his company directorial debut after many successes as a set designer, while soprano Lisette Oropesa and tenor Lawrence Brownlee star as Elvira and Arturo, brought together by love and torn apart by the political rifts of the English Civil War. Marco Armiliato conducts with baritone Artur Ruciński.
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