July 23, 2024

The Metropolitan Opera’s 2024–2025 season features many MSM alumni – learn about the performers and the productions here, in alphabetical order.

SeokJong Baek (BM ’16, MM ’18), tenor,
in Tosca

Performing Sep 25, 28; Oct 3, 6, 11

Tenor SeokJong Baek (BM ’16, MM ’18) performs the role of Cavaradossi, the revolutionary lover of the volatile diva Floria Tosca, in Giacomo Puccini’s Tosca.

“With a packed 2024 season at the Met, London’s Royal Opera House, and more, Baek’s breakthrough career as a leading tenor is off to a jaw-droppingly good start,” writes The Observer of London.

J’Nai Bridges (BM ’09), mezzo-soprano,
in Rigoletto

Performing Sep 30; Oct 4, 8, 12, 17, 20, 23, 26; Nov 1, 4, 8

Mezzo-soprano J’Nai Bridges (MM ’09) performs this lead role of Maddalena, the sister of Sparafucile in Verdi’s heartbreaking masterpiece, Rigoletto

“Critically acclaimed and Grammy-winning mezzo-soprano J’Nai Bridges has graced the world’s top opera stages and venues,” writes producers of PBS documentary program American Masters. Her eagerly anticipated return to the Met comes early in the season, so the wait is almost over!

Le Bu (BM ’22), bass-baritone,
in The Magic Flute–Holiday Presentation

Performing Dec 13, 15, 18, 21, 26, 28, 29; Jan 3

Bass-baritone Le Bu (BM ’22) performs the role of Speaker in this Met holiday presentation of Mozart’s The Magic Flute. Le Bu was a 2022 Grand Finals Winner of the Met’s Laffont Competition. During the 2023–24 Met season, he sang the High Priest of Baal in Nabucco, Biterolf in Tannhäuser, and the Mandarin in Turandot.

Soloman Howard (MM ’10), bass,
in The Magic Flute–Holiday Presentation and Rigoletto

Performing in The Magic Flute—Holiday Presentation: Dec 12, 14, 17, 20, 24, 27, 28; Jan 2, 4

Performing in Rigoletto: Jan 6, 8, 11, 16, 19, 24

Soloman Howard (MM ’10) will be singing Sarastro in The Magic Flute–Holiday Presentation and Sparafucile in Rigoletto. From Washington, D.C., Soloman made his MET debut as the King in Aida in 2014 and during the 2023–24 MET season was featured as the Marquis of Calatrava and Padre Guardino in La forza del destino and Timur in Turandot. 

Brandon Jovanovich (’98), tenor,
in Moby-Dick

Performing all dates March 3 through 29

Considered one of the world’s leading dramatic tenors, Brandon Jovanovich (’98) stars as the monomaniacal Captain Ahab, implacable in his pursuit of the white whale in composer Jake Heggie’s 2010 adaptation of Herman Melville’s epic literary work Moby-Dick.

Heggie’s 2000 opera Dead Man Walking had its Met debut in the 2023–24 Met season with MSM alumna Susan Graham (MM ’87, HonDMA ’08), mezzo-soprano, starring as Mrs. Patrick De Rocher; MSM alumnus Justin Austin (BM ’14, MM ’17), baritone, was also featured in the production.

Isabel Leonard (PC ’98, HonDMA ’21), mezzo-soprano,
in The Barber of Seville

Performing April 15, 19, 21, 25, 30; May 3, 8

Three-time Grammy Award-winner Isabel Leonard (PC ’98, HonDMA ’21) has established herself as one of the most in-demand performers on the world’s leading stages. At the Met in 2024–25, she will sing the role of the feisty Rosina in Gioachino Rossini’s effervescent comedy The Barber of Seville.

Timothy Murray (MM ’16), baritone,
in Grounded

Performing Sept 23, 27; Oct 2, 5, 9, 12, 16, 19

Heralded for his “firm, flexible baritone” (New York Times) and “swaggering, rakish” stage presence (Opera News), baritone Timothy Murray (MM ’16) is a 2022 George London Foundation award winner and was a Grand Finalist in the 2021 Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions. He will appear in the Met 2024–25 season in Grounded.

William Guanbo Su (BM ’17), bass,
in The Magic Flute–Holiday Presentation

Performing Dec 12, 14, 17, 20, 24, 27, 28; Jan 2, 4

Heralded by the New York Times for “musical taste, honest execution of Handelian ornaments and bel canto filigree, and a solid voice,” William Guanbo Su (BM ’17) is a 2019 Metropolitan Opera Laffont Competition Grand Finals winner. He will appear in the Met 2024–25 season as  Speaker in The Magic Flute–Holiday Presentation.

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