Met Opera: Mascagni’s CAVELLERIA RUSTICANA & Leoncavallo’s PAGLIACCI Sat...
New Production David McVicar directs the first new Met production of the popular verismo double bill in 45 years, with Marcelo Álvarez making his company role debut in both leading tenor parts: the...
View ArticleMet Opera: Rossini’s LA DONNA DEL LAGO Sat (Mar 14, 2015) 10am
New Production Joyce DiDonato and Juan Diego Flórez star in the bel canto showcase La Donna del Lago, having its first-ever Met performances in 2014-15. DiDonato sings the title role of Elena, a young...
View ArticleMet Opera: Tchaikovsky’s IOLANTA & Bartók’s DUKE BLUEBEARD’S CASTLE Sat (Feb...
Mariusz Trelinski, artistic director of Warsaw’s Polish National Opera, makes his Met debut with a double bill of two rarely performed one-act works: Tchaikovsky’s romantic fairy tale Iolanta, about...
View ArticleMet Opera: Offenbach’s LES CONTES D’HOFFMANN Sat (Jan 31, 2015) 10am
Vittorio Grigolo stars in the title role of Offenbach’s Les Contes d’Hoffmann, opposite Abkhazian soprano Hibla Gerzmava as all four of the opera’s heroines—the mechanical doll Olympia, the consumptive...
View ArticleMet Opera: Lehar’s THE MERRY WIDOW Sat (Jan 17, 2015) 10am
New Production Broadway director and choreographer Susan Stroman, whose many credits include the Tony Award-winning musicals Crazy For You, Contact, and The Producers, makes her Met debut with a lavish...
View ArticleMet Opera: Wagner’s DIE MEISTERSINGER VON NURNBERG Sat (Dec 13) 9am
James Levine conducts Wagner’s grand human comedy Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg in its first-ever Live in HD performance. Johan Reuter stars as Hans Sachs, with Johan Botha as Walther, Annette Dasch...
View ArticleMet Opera: DEATH OF KLINGHOFFER – Cancelled by The Met
NEW PRODUCTION John Adams’s meditative opera is based on the 1985 hijacking of the cruise ship Achille Lauro and the subsequent murder of a Jewish passenger. The Met premiere, a co-production with...
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Met Opera: Bizet’s CARMEN Sat (Nov 1) 10am
Richard Eyre’s “gripping and brilliant production” of Carmen (The New York Times) is the most popular opera in the history of the Live in HD series. Anita Rachvelishvili sings the title role of the...
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