Dipson Theatres presents our special event schedule. Your source for live broadcast ballet and opera events.

Special Event Programming

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  The Metropolitan Opera 2026/27: Cosi Fan Tutte

  
  

  The Met: Live in HD season kicks off with Mozart's satirical comedy of fickle young love, one of the composer's most sublime creations. Phelim McDermott's "colorful, inventive" (The New York Times) st...

  10/3/2026 Amherst Theatre BUY TICKETS

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  The Metropolitan Opera 2026/27: Macbeth

  
  

  Two of opera's most extraordinary artists return to The Met: Live in HD for Verdi's thrilling take on the immortal Shakespearean tale of the scheming couple determined to seize power at any cost. Foll...

  10/17/2026 Amherst Theatre BUY TICKETS

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  The Metropolitan Opera 2026/27: Samson et Dalila

  
  

  Sacred, scandalous, and irresistibly alluring, Saint-Saëns's spectacular take on the biblical hero of legendary strength and the seductive Philistine whose beauty overpowers him returns in the Met's l...

  12/5/2026 Amherst Theatre BUY TICKETS

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  The Metropolitan Opera 2026/27: La Fanciulla del West

  
  

  Puccini's exhilarating drama of the Wild West returns in a new staging by celebrated British director Richard Jones, marking the company's first new production of La Fanciulla del West in more than 30...

  1/23/2027 Amherst Theatre BUY TICKETS

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  The Metropolitan Opera 2026/27: Silent Night

  
  

  Following his smash-hit company debut with The Hours, composer Kevin Puts returns to the Met with his Pulitzer Prize--winning first opera, inspired by the true events of the 1914 Christmas truce, when...

  3/20/2027 Amherst Theatre BUY TICKETS

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  The Metropolitan Opera 2026/27: Manon

  
  

  Following her radiant performance in Gounod's Roméo et Juliette--which garnered raves for "high notes that spun like liquid gold ... Sierra touched the operatic firmament" (The New York Times)--supers...

  4/3/2027 Amherst Theatre BUY TICKETS

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  The Metropolitan Opera 2026/27: Otello

  
  

  One of today's leading dramatic tenors, Brian Jagde takes on the tour-de-force title role of what many consider the ultimate Italian opera, live to cinemas worldwide. Verdi's monumental Shakespearean...

  4/24/2027 Amherst Theatre BUY TICKETS

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  The Metropolitan Opera 2026/27: Parsifal

  
  

  A profound philosophical meditation on compassion and reconciliation, this transcendent rendering of a medieval knight's heroic quest for the Holy Grail returns to the big screen in François Girard's...

  6/5/2027 Amherst Theatre BUY TICKETS