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Lincoln in the Bardo

Missy Mazzoli

Missy Mazzoli's opera adapts George Saunders's novel, in which a grieving Abraham Lincoln visits his dead son amid a chorus of restless spirits in a graveyard limbo.

Sung in English

Metropolitan Opera

October 19, 2026 — 20:00
October 24, 2026 — 13:00
October 26, 2026 — 19:30
October 29, 2026 — 19:30
October 31, 2026 — 20:00
November 3, 2026 — 19:30
November 7, 2026 — 13:00
November 11, 2026 — 19:30
November 14, 2026 — 20:00