Future Seasons at the Met
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2011-2012
OPENING NIGHT: ANNA BOLENA [new production] with Anna Netrebko/Angela Meade, Elina Garanca, Kate Lindsey, Stephen Costello, Ildar Abdrazakov, c. Marco Armiliato, dir. David McVicar
SIEGFRIED, GÖTTERDÄMMERUNG [new productions] with Deborah Voigt/Katarina Dalayman, Stephanie Blythe, Ben Heppner, Gerhard Siegel, Bryn Terfel/Falk Struckmann, Eric Owens, Michael Volle* (Gunther), Waltraud Meier/Karen Cargill* (Waltraute), c. James Levine, dir Robert Lepage. Siegfried in the fall of 2011 and Götterdämmerung in January 2012. Complete cycles are scheduled for the springs of 2012 and 2013, the 200th anniversary of Wagner's birth.
DON GIOVANNI [new production] with Barbara Frittoli/Annette Dasch/Marina Rebeka*, Maija Kovalevska, Mojca Erdmann*/Isabel Leonard, Matthew Polenzani, Mariusz Kwiecien/Gerald Finley, Luca Pisaroni, Stefan Kocan (Commendatore), c. James Levine/Edward Gardner, dir. Michael Grandage
MANON [new production, co-produced with Covent Garden] with Anna Netrebko, Piotr Beczala, Paulo Szot, c. Fabio Luisi, dir. Laurent Pelly
FAUST [new production, co-produced with ENO] with Angela Gheorghiu/Marina Poplavskaya, Jonas Kaufmann/Piotr Beczala, Alexei Markov/George Petean (Valentin), c. Yannick Nezet-Seguin, dir. Des McAnuff, des. Robert Brill
ENCHANTED ISLAND [new production, original pastiche by Jeremy Sams, featuring music from Handel and Vivaldi] with Danielle de Niese (Ariel), Lisette Oropesa (Miranda), Joyce DiDonato (Sycorax), David Daniels (Prospero), Anthony Roth Costanzo* (Ferdinand), Placido Domingo (Neptune), Luca Pisaroni (Caliban), c. William Christie, dir./prod. Phelim McDermott/Julian Crouch, chor. Christopher Wheeldon
IL BARBIERE DI SIVIGLIA with Javier Camarena*/Colin Lee (Almaviva), Mikhail Petrenko (Basilio)
L'ELISIR D'AMORE with Diana Damrau, Juan Diego Florez, Mariusz Kwiecien, Alessandro Corbelli (Dulcamara)
MACBETH with Nadja Michael*, Gunther Groissbock, c. Gianandrea Noseda
THE MAKROPOULOS CASE with Karita Mattila, David Kuebler (Vitek), Johan Reuter* (Baron Prus), Tom Fox (Doctor Kolenaty)
NABUCCO with Maria Guleghina/Marianne Cornetti, Zeljko Lucic (Nabucco), Yonghoon Lee (Ismaele), Carlo Colombara (Zaccaria)
RODELINDA with Renee Fleming, Stephanie Blythe, Andreas Scholl, Kobie van Rensburg, Iestyn Davies* (Unulfo), c. Harry Bicket
BILLY BUDD with John Daszak* (Captain Vere), Nathan Gunn (Billy Budd)
KOVANSHCHINA with Olga Borodina (Marfa), Ildar Abdrazakov (Ivan), George Gagnidze (Shaklovity)
ERNANI with Angela Meade, Salvatore Licitra, c. Marco Armiliato
AIDA with Stephanie Blythe, Lado Ataneli, c. Fabio Luisi
LA TRAVIATA with Natalie Dessay
FILLE DU REGIMENT with Nino Maichadze (Marie)
MADAMA BUTTERFLY with Luca Salsi (Sharpless)
TOSCA with Roberto Alagna
HANSEL AND GRETEL with Alice Coote, Aleksandra Kurzak
SATYAGRAHA
DER RING DES NIBELUNGEN with Eva Maria Westbroek (Sieglinde), Simon O'Neill (Siegmund), Stefan Margita (Loge)
2012-2013
MARIA STUARDA [Metropolitan Opera premiere] with Joyce Di Donato as Maria, Elza van den Heever* (Elisabetta), c. Maurizio Benini, dir. David McVicar
THE TEMPEST by Thomas Adès [Metropolitan Opera premiere], Simon Keenlyside (Prospero), dir. Robert Lepage
EUGENE ONEGIN [new production] with Anna Netrebko, Mariusz Kwiecien, Matthew Polenzani (Lensky), dir. Deborah Warner
CARMEN with Vesselina Kasarova (Carmen), Ekaterina Shcherbachenko*/Maija Kovalevska (Micaela), Yonghoon Lee (Don Jose), c. Michele Mariotti*
FRANCESCA DA RIMINI with Eva-Maria Westbroek, Marcello Giordani, c. Yannick Nezet-Seguin
PARSIFAL [new production] with Jonas Kaufmann/Simon O'Neill, Katarina Dalayman, dir. Francois Girard
IL TROVATORE with Anja Harteros, Franco Vassallo (Di Luna), c. Daniele Callegari
DON CARLO with Eric Halfvarson (Grand Inquisitor), c. Lorin Maazel/Fabio Luisi
DIALOGUES DES CARMELITES with Kristine Jepson (Mere Marie), Felicity Palmer (Mme. de Croissy)
LES TROYENS with Susan Graham, Marcello Giordani, Karen Cargill (Anna)
AIDA with Violeta Urmana, Marco Berti, George Gadnidze, Stefan Kocan
RIGOLETTO [new production] with Diana Damrau/Lisette Oropesa, Piotr Beczala, Zeljko Lucic/George Gagnidze
UN BALLO IN MASCHERA [new production] with Karita Mattila, Marcello Alvarez, Dmitri Hvorostovsky, c. Fabio Luisi, dir. David Alden
OTELLO with Krassimira Stoyanova, Jose Cura
LE COMTE ORY
TURANDOT with Marco Berti, Takesha Meshe Kizart (Liu), c. Dan Ettinger
LE NOZZE DI FIGARO with Maija Kovalevska (Countess), Mojca Erdmann (Susanna), John Graham-Hall* (Basilio)
NORMA with Sondra Radvanovsky
BARBER OF SEVILLE (some in abridged family version) with c. Yves Abel
GIULIO CESARE [new production] with David Daniels, Rachid Ben Abdeslam* (Nireno)
DER RING DES NIBELUNGEN
2013-2014
I PURITANI with Natalie Dessay, Juan Diego Florez, Mariusz Kwiecien (Riccardo), c. Michele Mariotti
DIE FRAU OHNE SCHATTEN with Anne Schwanewilms* (Kaiserin), Johan Reuter (Barak), c. Valdimir Jurowski
[TITLE TBA] [commissioned work by composer Nico Muhly with libretto by Craig Lucas] with dir. Bartlett Sher, co-production with English National Opera
FALSTAFF [new production] with Lisette Oropesa (Nannetta), Stephanie Blythe (Quickly), Franco Vassallo (Ford), dir. Jack O'Brien
DIE FLEDERMAUS [new production] with new dialogue by David Hirson
FANCIULLA DEL WEST
THE NOSE
LA SONNAMBULA with Diana Damrau, Javier Camarena
PRINCE IGOR [new production] with Ildar Abdrazakov
WERTHER [new production] with dir. Richard Eyre
DIE FRAU OHNE SCHATTEN with Anne Schwanewilms* (Kaiserin), Johan Reuter (Barak), c. Valdimir Jurowski
[TITLE TBA] [commissioned work by composer Nico Muhly with libretto by Craig Lucas] with dir. Bartlett Sher, co-production with English National Opera
FALSTAFF [new production] with Lisette Oropesa (Nannetta), Stephanie Blythe (Quickly), Franco Vassallo (Ford), dir. Jack O'Brien
DIE FLEDERMAUS [new production] with new dialogue by David Hirson
FANCIULLA DEL WEST
THE NOSE
LA SONNAMBULA with Diana Damrau, Javier Camarena
PRINCE IGOR [new production] with Ildar Abdrazakov
WERTHER [new production] with dir. Richard Eyre
2014-2015
©Bradley WilberCAVALLERIA RUSTICANA/PAGLIACCI [new production] with Marcello Alvarez, c. Fabio Luisi
Commissioned work by Osvaldo Golijov, libretto by Alberto Manguel, dir. Robert Lepage
THE MERRY WIDOW [new production] with Renee Fleming, dir. Susan Stroman
*debut
Commissioned work by Osvaldo Golijov, libretto by Alberto Manguel, dir. Robert Lepage
THE MERRY WIDOW [new production] with Renee Fleming, dir. Susan Stroman
*debut
