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Wagner's Das Rheingold
Saturday October 9th 2010 6.00pm
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Two unparalleled artists join forces to create a groundbreaking
new
Ring for the Met: Maestro James Levine and director Robert
Lepage.
The cycle launches with Das Rheingold, the prologue to Wagner's
epic drama.
"The Ring is not just a story or a series of operas, it's a
cosmos," says Lepage,
who brings cutting-edge technology and his own visionary
imagination to the world's
greatest theatrical journey. Bryn Terfel sings the leading role of
Wotan
for the first time with the company, heading an extraordinary
cast.
Mussorgsky's Boris Gudonov - New
Production
Sat October 23rd 2010 5.00pm
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René Pape takes on one of the greatest bass roles
directed by Stephen Wadsworth.
Valery Gergiev conducts Mussorgsky's epic spectacle that captures
the suffering and
ambition of a nation, with Aleksandrs Antonenko, Vladimir
Ognovenko, and Ekaterina
Semenchuk leading the huge cast.
Donizetti's Don Pasquale
Sat November 13th 2010 6.00pm
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Anna Netrebko revives her sensational turn in this sophisticated
bel canto comedy,
opposite Matthew Polenzani, Mariusz Kwiecien, and John Del Carlo in
the title role.
Music Director James Levine conducts. When Otto Schenk's production
premiered
in 2006, the New York Times called it "brilliant" and
"wonderful."
Verdi's Don Carlo
Sat December 11th 2010 5.30pm Book
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Director Nicholas Hytner makes his Met debut with this new
production of Verdi's
profound, beautiful, and most ambitious opera. Roberto Alagna leads
the cast,
and Ferruccio Furlanetto, Marina Poplavskaya, Anna Smirnova, and
Simon Keenlyside
also star. Yannick Nézet-Séguin, back after his triumphant debut
leading Carmen, conducts.
"I think Don Carlo is the quintessential Verdi opera," Hytner says.
"Right through this opera
there is, on the one hand, an implacable expression of impending
doom and, on the other hand,
a succession of the most gloriously open-throated arias, the most
fantastically determined music."
Puccini's La Fanciulla del West
Sat January 8th 2011 6.00pm
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Puccini's wild-west opera had its world premiere in 1910 at the
Met.
Now, on the occasion of its centennial, all-American diva Deborah
Voigt
sings the title role of the "girl of the golden west," starring
opposite
Marcello Giordani. Nicola Luisotti conducts.
Adam's Nixon in China - New Production
Sat February 12th 2011 6.00pm
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"All of my operas have dealt on deep psychological levels with our
American mythology,"
says composer John Adams, who conducts the Met premiere of his most
famous opera.
"The meeting of Nixon and Mao is a mythological moment in world
history, particularly
American history." Acclaimed director and longtime Adams
collaborator Peter Sellars
makes his Met debut with this groundbreaking 1987 work, an
exploration of the human truths
beyond the headlines surrounding President Nixon's 1972 encounter
with Communist China.
Baritone James Maddalena stars in the title role.
Gluck's Iphigénie en Tauride
Sat February 26th 2011 6.00pm
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Susan Graham and Plácido Domingo reprise their starring roles in
Gluck's nuanced
and elegant interpretation of this primal Greek myth. Tenor Paul
Groves also returns
to Stephen Wadsworth's insightful production, first seen in
2007.
Patrick Summers conducts.
Donizetti's Lucia di Lammermoor
Sat March 19th 2011 6.00pm
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Natalie Dessay triumphed as the fragile heroine of Donizetti's
masterpiece on
Opening Night of the 2007-08 season in Mary Zimmerman's hit
production.
Now she returns to the role of the innocent young woman driven to
madness, opposite
Joseph Calleja, who sings her lover Edgardo.
Rossini's Le Comte Ory - New
Production
Sat April 9th 2011 6.00pm
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Rossini's vocally dazzling comedy stars bel canto sensation Juan
Diego Flórez in the title role
of this Met premiere production. He vies with mezzo-soprano Joyce
DiDonato, in the trouser
role of Isolier, for the love of the lonely Countess Adèle, sung by
soprano Diana Damrau.
Bartlett Sher, director of the Met's hit productions of The Barber
of Seville and
The Tales of Hoffmann, describes the world of the opera as, "a
place where love is dangerous.
People get hurt. That can be very funny and very painful.
Rossini captures both-with the most beautiful love music Rossini
ever wrote."
Strauss's Capriccio
Sat April 23rd 2011 6.00pm
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On Opening Night of the 2008-09 season, Renée Fleming dazzled
audiences when she
sang the final scene of Strauss's wise and worldly meditation on
art and life.
Now she performs the entire work, in which the composer explores
the essence of opera itself.
Joseph Kaiser and Sarah Connolly also star, and Andrew Davis
conducts.
Verdi's Il Trovatore
Sat April 30th 2011 6.00pm
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David McVicar's stirring production of Verdi's intense drama
premiered in the 2008-09 season.
James Levine leads this revival, starring four extraordinary
singers-Sondra Radvanovsky,
Dolora Zajick, Marcelo Álvarez, and Dmitri Hvorostovsky-in what
might be the composer's
most melodically rich score.
Wagner's Die Walkure
Sat May 14th 2011 5.00pm
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A stellar cast comes together for this second installment of Robert
Lepage's
new production of the Ring cycle, conducted by James Levine.
Bryn Terfel is Wotan, lord of the Gods. Deborah Voigt adds the part
of Brünnhilde
to her extensive Wagnerian repertoire at the Met. Jonas Kaufmann
and Eva-Maria Westbroek
star as the twins, Siegmund and Sieglinde, and Stephanie Blythe is
Fricka.