Galas & Special Events

RICHARD STRAUSS

Salome
Gala Premiere

Tuesday, April 29, 2025

Leading opera director Claus Guth unveils the first new Met production of Strauss’s white-hot one-act tragedy in 20 years. Conducted for the first time with the company by Music Director Yannick Nézet-Séguin and starring soprano Elza van den Heever and baritone Peter Mattei, it’s an event not to be missed. Join us for cocktails and a pre-show gala dinner on the Mercedes T. Bass Grand Tier.

Salome
Gala Committee

GALA CHAIR

Daisy M. Soros

 

GALA CO-CHAIRS

C. Graham Berwind, III

Cindy and Tod Johnson

Jeanette Lerman-Neubauer and Joseph Neubauer

Matthew Christopher Pietras

Ann Ziff

 

BENEFACTOR

Matthew Rooney

 

PRINCIPAL SPONSORS

Judith-Ann Corrente

Humberto Fernandez

Jack Johnson

Barbara Walkowski

 

PRIME SPONSORS

Mr. and Mrs. Andrew S. Georges

Lena Kaplan

Lloyd E. Rigler–Lawrence E. Deutsch Foundation

Barbara Tober

 

SPONSORS

William Caldwell and Michele Toth

Alberto Cribiore

Ms. Patricia Falkenberg

William and Kera Greene

Dr. Anna Kazanchyan, M.D.

Kristin Kovner de Guzman

Dr. Pamela Marron

Marta E. Nottebohm

George Shelden and Yasuko Noguchi

Mr. and Mrs. Richard Soloway

The Vranos Family Foundation

David Warren and Helen Lee-Warren

 

COMMITTEE MEMBERS

Mr. John M. Beck

Christian Keesee Charitable Trust

Mary Gene Sondericker

Kevin and Jennifer Woodruff

 

Committee as of April 15

On Stage at the Met
Honoring Elizabeth and Jean-Marie Eveillard

Sunday, May 4, 2025

On Sunday, May 4, 2025, at 6pm, the Metropolitan Opera will honor Elizabeth and Jean-Marie Eveillard with a black-tie dinner on the magnificent stage of the Metropolitan Opera. Through their five decades of support, Elizabeth and Jean-Marie's generosity has underwritten several beloved Met productions, including Massenet's Werther, Verdi's Don Carlos, both the full and abridged family versions of Massenet's Cendrillon, and Met Stars Live in Concert with Aleksandra Kurzak and Roberto Alagna.

Join us for an evening of dinner and dancing on the stage, featuring performances by Met stars, honoring the Eveillards' vital and steadfast support of our company.

On Stage at the Met
Gala Committee

GALA CHAIR

Matthew Christopher Pietras

 

UNDERWRITERS

Elizabeth and Jean-Marie Eveillard

Susan F. Morris

Ann Ziff

 

BENEFACTORS

Bloomberg Philanthropies

Anonymous

 

PRINCIPAL SPONSORS

C. Graham Berwind, III

First Eagle Investments

The Glimmerglass Festival

Cindy and Tod Johnson

John Morton Morris

 

SPONSORS

Dr. Frayda B. Lindemann

Elizabeth A. Weikes, J.P. Morgan

Kelly M. Weikes, Citadel

 

SUPPORTERS

Mercedes T. Bass

Judith-Ann Corrente

Carolyn and Raymond Happy

Denise Littlefield Sobel

Douglas Dockery Thomas

Barbara Walkowski

 

COMMITTEE MEMBERS

Valerie Dixon

Faith Gay and Francesca Zambello

Nellie and Robert Gipson

Dr. Anna Kazanchyan, M.D.

Kenneth F. Koen

Lara Marcon / Alumnae Association of Smith College

Mrs. Katia and Mr. Christian Oberbeck

Dr. Robert M. Steiner

 

Committee in formation

MASON BATES / LIBRETTO BY GENE SCHEER

The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay
Opening Night Gala

Sunday, September 21, 2025

Join us for a special gala celebrating the Met premiere of Mason Bates’s exhilarating new opera and the opening of the 2025–26 season. Enjoy cocktails before curtain and a post-performance gala dinner with the cast and creative team, including Met Music Director Yannick Nézet-Séguin and director Bartlett Sher, who has created a dazzling production for this riveting adaption of Michael Chabon’s Pulitzer Prize–winning novel.

VINCENZO BELLINI

La Sonnambula
Gala Premiere

Monday, October 6, 2025

Following several recent Met triumphs, Nadine Sierra summits another peak of the soprano repertoire as Amina in Bellini’s poignant tale of love lost and found. Mark this important company role debut, and the premiere of Rolando Villazón’s new production, with a gala evening including cocktails and dinner on the Mercedes T. Bass Grand Tier before the performance and dessert at intermission.

VINCENZO BELLINI

I Puritani
New Year's Eve Gala

Wednesday, December 31, 2025

The Met’s annual New Year’s Eve celebration features dazzling vocal pyrotechnics and actual fireworks, beginning with the premiere of the Met’s first new production of Bellini’s I Puritani in nearly half a century. After the performance, mark the turning of the calendar with dinner, dancing, and a midnight toast on the Grand Tier, alongside the cast and creative team.

RICHARD WAGNER

Tristan und Isolde
Gala Premiere

Monday, March 9, 2026

In an unmissable event of Wagnerian proportions, generational soprano Lise Davidsen makes her role debut as Isolde after years of anticipation, starring in a new company debut production by Yuval Sharon, one of the most innovative minds working in opera today. The gala occasion includes cocktails and dinner on the Grand Tier before curtain and dessert at intermission.

PYOTR ILYICH TCHAIKOVSKY

Eugene Onegin
Gala Premiere

Monday, April 20, 2026

This gala evening marks the awaited return of captivating soprano Asmik Grigorian following her sensational 2024 Met debut in Madama Butterfly. Grigorian stars as Tatiana, one of her signature roles, opposite baritone Igor Golovatenko as Onegin, in a production for the ages of Tchaikovsky’s soaring romance. Enjoy cocktails and dinner under the chandeliers before the performance and dessert at intermission.