Opera Book Club

The HD Live in Schools virtual Opera Book Club resumes this year, inviting students to join online conversations with authors, experts, and Met artists who have helped bring these stories to both page and stage. This fall, students will focus on William Shakespeare’s tragedy Macbeth, the basis for Verdi’s opera, which opens the season in a new production by Louisa Proske featuring baritone Quinn Kelsey in the title role and soprano Lise Davidsen as Lady Macbeth.

The Met provides students and teachers in participating districts with free copies of featured books.

2026-27 Schedule

Our meetings will be hosted on StreamYard and livestreamed to the Met Opera Education YouTube, Instagram, and Facebook pages. Students will be able to submit video questions for special guests in advance of each session.

Macbeth by William Shakespeare

Schedule to be announced at a later date

Book Club Archive

Eugene Onegin

Interviews with scholars Simon Morrison and Sophie Pinkham

Salome

Interviews with Met prompter Donna Racik and scholar Richard Kaye

Grounded

Interviews with dramaturg Paul Cremo and librettist and playwright George Brant

X: The Life and Times of Malcolm X

Interviews with conductor Kazeem Abdullah and baritone Will Liverman

Dead Man Walking

Interviews with bass-baritone Ryan McKinny and author Sister Helen Prejean

Champion

Interviews with athlete Michael Bentt, bass-baritone Ryan Speedo Green, and librettist Michael Cristofer

The Hours

Interviews with librettist Gregory Pierce, curator Julie Carlson, and mezzo-soprano Joyce DiDonato

Fire Shut Up in My Bones

Interviews with director James Robinson, author Charles M. Blow, soprano Latonia Moore, scholar Mark Pottinger, and conductor Kazem Abdullah

Eurydice

Interviews with composer Matthew Aucoin, soprano Erin Morley, and librettist and playwright Sarah Ruhl

Hamlet

Interviews with tenor Allan Clayton, librettist Matthew Jocelyn, and scholar Dympna Callaghan