The 2025-26 season sees GRAMMY® Award-winning bass Richard Bernstein celebrate his 30th season with the Metropolitan Opera, the company he has called his artistic home since 1995. This milestone season features two role debuts and a historic 600th performance, and, when he takes the stage for his 33rd Met performance as Zuniga in Carmen, he will hold the record for the longest performance span of the role in Met history (30 years). To start the 2025-26 season, Mr. Bernstein debuts the role of Schmidt in Andrea Chénier; he concludes it by debuting Dr. Grenvil in La traviata – with May 28, 2026 marking his 600th performance with the Met. Other highlights of the season include singing Zuniga in Carmen and Zaretski in Eugene Onegin. He also covers Walton in I Puritani and the Steersman in Tristan und Isolde.