Bringing the world's foremost opera house into Puerto Rican classrooms.
What your school gainsThe Olga Iglesias Project (OIP) is the Metropolitan Opera's HD Live in Schools partner in Puerto Rico. Through this alliance, the artistry of one of the world's foremost opera houses reaches students across the island, woven directly into the educational recitals and children's opera we bring to your school.
It is the heart of what makes an OIP visit more than a single afternoon of music: a doorway to a living art form, opened for a generation of Puerto Rican students.
A message from the Metropolitan Opera on bringing its education programs to Puerto Rico.
Request an educational recital or our children's opera, and your students step into the Met's world.
Students experience The Met: Live in HD, the same celebrated productions broadcast to cinemas around the world, screened right here in Puerto Rico.
In Puerto Rico these screenings are presented through Caribbean Cinemas, so dates and showtimes follow the cinema's schedule.
Teachers and students gain access to Met Opera on Demand, the company's streaming library of acclaimed performances, to explore in class and at home.
The Met's Educator Guides, Illustrated Synopses, and cross-curricular activities help teachers fold opera into language arts, social studies, music, and the visual arts, with coloring sheets and puzzles for the youngest students too.
Invitations to the Met's National Educator Conference and local workshops connect Puerto Rican educators to a nationwide community of opera teaching.
The 2026–27 HD Live in Schools curriculum: six productions spanning four centuries, three languages, and every age group.
New ProductionPaola Kudacki / Met OperaOctober 17, 2026 · Encore Oct 21
Giuseppe Verdi
Verdi's thrilling take on Shakespeare, with the world's reigning dramatic soprano as the power-mad Lady Macbeth. A benchmark of operatic vocalism.
Ken Howard / Met OperaDecember 5, 2026 · Encore Dec 9
Camille Saint-Saëns
Saint-Saëns's spectacular grand opera retells the biblical hero of legendary strength and the woman whose beauty undoes him, in a larger-than-life staging.
Holiday PresentationKen Howard / Met OperaDecember 12, 2026
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Mozart's beloved fairy tale in Julie Taymor's dazzling staging, told for audiences of every age. A perfect first opera.
New ProductionKen Howard / Santa Fe OperaJanuary 23, 2027 · Encore Jan 27
Giacomo Puccini
Puccini's exhilarating drama of the Wild West, with a tough tavern owner, a dashing bandit, and a new staging more than 30 years in the making.
Met PremiereKaren Almond / Houston Grand OperaMarch 20, 2027 · Encore Mar 24
Kevin Puts
Kevin Puts's Pulitzer Prize-winning opera, inspired by the true 1914 Christmas truce when soldiers crossed the trenches to sing together.
Marty Sohl / Met OperaApril 3, 2027 · Encore Apr 7
Jules Massenet
Massenet's passionate drama of an irresistible heroine, in a breathtaking Belle Époque staging led by superstar soprano Nadine Sierra.
The dates shown are the Met's national broadcast dates; local Puerto Rico showtimes through Caribbean Cinemas may differ.
Sustaining Puerto Rico's road to the Met stage
The Metropolitan Opera's Eric and Dominique Laffont Competition, formerly the National Council Auditions, is the Met's national search for opera's great young voices. Each season, close to 1,500 singers compete across dozens of districts and regions for a place in the semifinals, sung on the Met stage in New York.
Since 2021, the Olga Iglesias Project has contributed to the competition's Puerto Rico District in San Juan every year, keeping that direct road between the island's singers and the Met stage open.
The road works: in 2023, soprano Lucila Zavala, an artist in residence of the Project, took first place in the district and sang in the national semifinals on the Met stage itself.
The Metropolitan Opera offers a deep library of education programs and free resources for students, teachers, and families.
These benefits come with every OIP educational recital and children's opera. Request a visit and open the door for your students.
Production photographs © The Metropolitan Opera, courtesy of the Met. The Met: Live in HD and HD Live in Schools are programs of the Metropolitan Opera.