Season 1 (2006)

8.33 avg 6 episodes 8.2 → 8.7 171 min avg

Season 1 episodes — IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	Mozart's The Magic Flute	8.2	78
2	Bellini's I Puritani	8.4	48
3	The First Emperor	7.3	32
4	Tchaikovsky's Eugene Onegin	8.9	75
5	Rossini's Il barbiere di Siviglia	8.5	60
6	Puccini's Il trittico	8.7	18

Season 2 (2007)

7.60 avg 8 episodes 8.2 → 8.7 175 min avg

Season 2 episodes — IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	Gounod: Roméo et Juliette	8.2	24
2	Humperdinck's Hansel and Gretel	6.2	22
3	Verdi: Macbeth	7.9	12
4	Puccini: Manon Lescaut	7.8	19
5	Britten: Peter Grimes	8.0	22
6	Wagner: Tristan und Isolde	7.2	15
7	Puccini: La Bohème	6.8	43
8	Donizetti: La Fille du Régiment	8.7	43

Season 3 (2008)

8.15 avg 12 episodes 8.2 → 8.9 151 min avg

Season 3 episodes — IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	Opening Night Gala Starring Renée Fleming	8.2	9
2	Richard Strauss: Salome	6.4	25
3	Doctor Atomic	7.4	31
4	Berlioz: La damnation de Faust	8.3	25
5	Massenet: Thaïs	9.0	34
6	Puccini: La rondine	8.7	35
7	Gluck: Orfeo ed Euridice	7.8	25
8	Donizetti: Lucia di Lammermoor	8.2	51
9	Puccini: Madama Butterfly	8.5	34
10	Bellini: La sonnambula	8.3	26
11	Rossini: La Cenerentola	8.1	28
12	The Audition	8.9	48

Season 4 (2009)

7.82 avg 9 episodes 6.9 → 7.8 176 min avg

Season 4 episodes — IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	Puccini: Tosca	6.9	25
2	Verdi: Aida	7.8	17
3	Puccini: Turandot	7.2	33
4	Offenbach: Les contes d'Hoffmann	8.4	22
5	R. Strauss: Der Rosenkavalier	8.0	23
6	Bizet: Carmen	8.7	90
7	Verdi: Simon Boccanegra	7.8	14
8	Thomas: Hamlet	7.8	27
9	Rossini: Armida	7.8	21

Season 5 (2010)

8.27 avg 12 episodes 8.7 → 8.7 183 min avg

Rollercoaster

Season 5 episodes — IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	Wagner: Das Rheingold	8.7	75
2	Mussorgsky: Boris Godunov	7.9	32
3	Donizetti: Don Pasquale	8.4	46
4	Verdi: Don Carlo	8.8	30
5	Puccini: La Fanciulla del West	8.1	28
6	John Adams: Nixon in China	8.1	45
7	Gluck: Iphigénie en Tauride	7.9	17
8	Donizetti: Lucia di Lammermoor	8.5	30
9	Rossini: Le Comte Ory	8.6	38
10	R. Strauss: Capriccio	7.3	26
11	Verdi: Il Trovatore	8.2	34
12	Wagner: Die Walküre	8.7	74

Season 6 (2011)

7.99 avg 11 episodes 8.7 → 7.0 229 min avg

Season 6 episodes — IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	Donizetti: Anna Bolena	8.7	39
2	Mozart: Don Giovanni	8.3	28
3	Wagner: Siegfried	8.6	63
4	Philip Glass: Satyagraha	7.7	53
5	Handel: Rodelinda	7.6	25
6	Gounod: Faust	7.4	47
7	The Enchanted Island, a Baroque pastiche	8.6	29
8	Wagner: Götterdämmerung	8.6	60
9	Verdi: Ernani	7.5	19
10	Massenet: Manon	7.9	25
11	Verdi: La Traviata	7.0	24

Season 7 (2012)

8.03 avg 12 episodes 8.9 → 8.4 198 min avg

Rollercoaster

Season 7 episodes — IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	Donizetti: L'elisir d'amore	8.9	30
2	Verdi: Otello	7.7	23
3	Thomas Adès: The Tempest	7.7	25
4	Mozart: La clemenza di Tito	8.3	25
5	Verdi: Un Ballo in Maschera	8.2	23
6	Verdi: Aida	7.6	19
7	Berlioz: Les Troyens	7.8	16
8	Donizetti: Maria Stuarda	8.9	30
9	Verdi: Rigoletto	7.4	36
10	Wagner: Parsifal	7.8	38
11	Zandonai: Francesca da Rimini	7.7	17
12	Handel: Giulio Cesare	8.4	19

Season 8 (2013)

7.94 avg 10 episodes 8.6 → 8.6 147 min avg

Season 8 episodes — IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	Tchaikovsky: Eugene Onegin	8.6	42
2	Shostakovich: The Nose	7.0	24
3	Puccini: Tosca	7.9	20
4	Verdi: Falstaff	8.1	28
5	Dvorák: Rusalka	8.2	41
6	Borodin: Prince Igor	7.6	26
7	Massenet: Werther	7.9	29
8	Puccini: La bohème	7.7	20
9	Mozart: Così fan tutte	7.8	22
10	Rossini: La Cenerentola	8.6	31

Season 9 (2014)

7.97 avg 10 episodes 8.2 → 7.8 214 min avg

Season 9 episodes — IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	Verdi: Macbeth	8.2	37
2	Mozart: Le nozze di Figaro	8.2	34
3	Bizet: Carmen	8.1	16
4	Rossini: Il Barbiere di Siviglia	8.0	17
5	Wagner: Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg	8.3	21
6	Lehár: The Merry Widow	7.9	44
7	Offenbach: Les contes d'Hoffmann	7.2	22
8	Tchaikovsky: Iolanta/Bartók: Bluebeard's Castle	8.2	25
9	Rossini: La donna del lago	7.8	26
10	Mascagni: Cavalleria Rusticana/Leoncavallo: Pagliacci	7.8	30

Season 10 (2015)

7.91 avg 10 episodes 8.6 → 8.4 176 min avg

Season 10 episodes — IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	Verdi: Il Trovatore	8.6	43
2	Verdi: Otello	7.6	18
3	Wagner: Tannhäuser	7.7	24
4	Berg: Lulu	7.8	18
5	Bizet: The Pearl Fishers	8.1	41
6	Puccini: Turandot	7.0	33
7	Puccini: Manon Lescaut	7.2	14
8	Puccini: Madama Butterfly	8.1	27
9	Donizetti: Roberto Devereux	8.6	27
10	R. Strauss: Elektra	8.4	26

Season 11 (2016)

7.88 avg 10 episodes 7.7 → 7.9 201 min avg

Season 11 episodes — IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	Wagner: Tristan und Isolde	7.7	33
2	Mozart: Don Giovanni	7.7	18
3	Kaija Saariaho: L'Amour de Loin	7.4	19
4	Verdi: Nabucco	7.8	27
5	Gounod: Roméo et Juliette	8.1	26
6	Dvorák: Rusalka	8.1	20
7	Verdi: La Traviata	7.5	19
8	Mozart: Idomeneo	8.5	20
9	Tchaikovsky: Eugene Onegin	8.1	29
10	R. Strauss: Der Rosenkavalier	7.9	30

Season 12 (2017)

7.87 avg 10 episodes 7.9 → 7.5 169 min avg

Rollercoaster

Season 12 episodes — IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	Bellini: Norma	7.9	30
2	Mozart: Die Zauberflöte	8.2	18
3	Thomas Adès: The Exterminating Angel	6.9	38
4	Puccini: Tosca	8.5	41
5	Donizetti: L'Elisir d'Amore	7.9	34
6	Puccini: La Bohème	8.2	25
7	Rossini: Semiramide	8.1	23
8	Mozart: Così fan tutte	7.4	34
9	Verdi: Luisa Miller	8.1	30
10	Massenet: Cendrillon	7.5	30

Season 13 (2018)

8.11 avg 10 episodes 7.7 → 8.3 195 min avg

Season 13 episodes — IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	Verdi: Aida	7.7	32
2	Saint-Saëns: Samson et Dalila	7.2	21
3	Puccini: La Fanciulla del West	8.2	25
4	Nico Muhly: Marnie	7.5	32
5	Verdi: La Traviata	8.2	41
6	Cilea: Adriana Lecouvreur	8.9	34
7	Bizet: Carmen	8.2	24
8	Donizetti: La Fille du Régiment	8.1	23
9	Wagner: Die Walküre	8.8	24
10	Poulenc: Dialogues des Carmélites	8.3	25

Season 14 (2019)

7.78 avg 8 episodes 7.5 → 7.8 171 min avg

Season 14 episodes — IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	Puccini: Turandot	7.5	30
2	Massenet: Manon	7.0	14
3	Puccini: Madama Butterfly	7.0	21
4	Philip Glass: Akhnaten	8.7	98
5	Berg: Wozzeck	7.2	25
6	The Gershwins' Porgy and Bess	8.1	38
7	Handel: Agrippina	8.9	31
8	Wagner: Der Fliegende Holländer	7.8	15

Season 15 (2021)

7.21 avg 10 episodes 6.2 → 6.2 165 min avg

Season 15 episodes — IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	Mussorgsky: Boris Godunov	6.2	11
2	Terence Blanchard: Fire Shut Up in My Bones	8.6	22
3	Matthew Aucoin: Eurydice, Libretto by Sarah Ruhl	7.0	16
4	Massenet: Cinderella	6.5	22
5	Verdi: Rigoletto	7.6	15
6	R. Strauss: Ariadne auf Naxos	7.5	13
7	Verdi: Don Carlos	8.1	12
8	Puccini: Turandot	8.3	17
9	Donizetti: Lucia di Lammermoor	6.1	13
10	Brett Dean: Hamlet	6.2	13

Season 16 (2022)

7.65 avg 10 episodes 8.2 → 6.7 171 min avg

Season 16 episodes — IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	Cherubini: Medea	8.2	19
2	Verdi: La Traviata	8.3	13
3	Kevin Puts: The Hours, Libretto by Greg Pierce	8.2	32
4	Giordano: Fedora	7.8	10
5	Wagner: Lohengin	8.2	10
6	Verdi: Falstaff	6.9	10
7	R. Strauss: Der Rosenkavalier	8.3	11
8	Terence Blanchard / Libretto by Michael Cristofer: Champion	7.1	8
9	Mozart: Don Giovanni	6.8	15
10	Mozart: Die Zauberflöte	6.7	15

Season 17 (2023)

7.20 avg 9 episodes 6.8 → 8.9 192 min avg

Season 17 episodes — IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	The Metropolitan Opera: Dead Man Walking	6.8	17
2	The Metropolitan Opera: X - The Life and Times of Malcolm X	6.1	24
3	Daniel Catán: Florencia en el Amazonas	6.5	16
4	Verdi: Nabucco	6.5	14
5	Bizet: Carmen	7.6	16
6	Verdi: La Forza del Destino	7.0	11
7	Gounod: Roméo et Juliette	8.6	9
8	Puccini: La Rondine	6.8	8
9	Puccini: Madama Butterfly	8.9	12

Season 18 (2024)

7.89 avg 8 episodes 8.6 → 8.1 150 min avg

Season 18 episodes — IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	Jacques Offenbach: Les Contes d'Hoffmann	8.6	7
2	Jeanine Tesori: Grounded	7.5	8
3	Giacomo Puccini: Tosca	7.4	10
4	Giuseppe Verdi: Aida	7.2	20
5	Ludwig Van Beethoven: Fidelio	7.6	11
6	Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Le Nozze di Figaro	8.3	8
7	Richard Strauss: Salome	8.4	19
8	Gioachino Rossini: Il Barbiere di Siviglia	8.1	14

Season 19 (2025)

7.71 avg 9 episodes 7.1 → 8.1 250 min avg

Season 19 episodes — IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	Vincenzo Bellini: La Sonnambula	7.1	9
2	Giacomo Puccini: La Boheme	8.6	6
3	Richard Strauss: Arabella	8.3	13
4	Umberto Giordano: Andrea Chenier	7.0	5
5	Vincenzo Bellini: I Puritani	6.6	9
6	Mason Bates: The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay	8.0	10
7	Richard Wagner: Tristan und Isolde	7.3	12
8	Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky: Eugene Onegin	8.4	8
9	Gabriela Lena Frank: El Último Sueño de Frida y Diego	8.1	9

The Metropolitan Opera HD Live (2006)

Cast

Seasons