2015–16 Live in HD Schedule
Verdi's Il Trovatore
October 3, 2015
Soprano Anna Netrebko’s dramatic and vocal skills are on
full display in her next new role at the Met—Leonora, the Verdi heroine who
sacrifices her own life for the love of the gypsy troubadour. Tenor Yonghoon
Lee sings the ill-fated Manrico, baritone Dmitri Hvorostovsky is his rival, and
mezzo-soprano Dolora Zajick is the mysterious gypsy with the troubled past.
Marco Armiliato conducts Sir David McVicar’s Goya-inspired production.
Verdi's Otello–New Production
October 17, 2015
Verdi’s masterful Otello
matches Shakespeare’s play in tragic intensity. Director Bartlett Sher
probes the Moor’s dramatic downfall with an outstanding cast: tenor Aleksandrs
Antonenko plays the doomed Otello; new soprano star Sonya Yoncheva sings
Desdemona, Otello’s innocent wife and victim; and baritone Željko Lučić plays
the evil Iago, who masterminds Otello’s demise. Dynamic maestro Yannick
Nézet-Séguin conducts.
Wagner’s Tannhäuser
October 31, 2015
James Levine conducts Wagner’s early masterpiece in its first
return to the Met stage in more than a decade. Today’s leading Wagnerian tenor
Johan Botha takes on the daunting title role, opposite soprano Eva-Maria
Westbroek as Elisabeth, adding another Wagner heroine to her Met repertoire
after her acclaimed Sieglinde in the Ring a few seasons ago. On the heels of
his recent triumph in Parsifal, baritone Peter Mattei sings Wolfram, and
mezzo-soprano Michelle DeYoung is the love goddess, Venus.
Berg’s Lulu–New Production
November 21, 2015
Acclaimed artist and director William Kentridge (The Nose)
applies his unique theatrical vision to Berg’s notorious femme fatale who
shatters lives, including her own. Musically, the masterful score is in the
sure hands of Met Music Director James Levine. Soprano Marlis Petersen has
excited audiences around the world with her portrayal of the tour-de-force
title role, a wild journey of love, obsession, and death. Susan Graham joins a
winning cast, including Daniel Brenna and Johan Reuter.
Bizet’s Les Pêcheurs de Perles–New Production
January 16, 2016
Bizet’s gorgeous opera of lust and longing set in the Far
East returns to the Met stage for the first time in 100 years. Soprano Diana
Damrau stars as Leïla, the beautiful Hindu priestess pursued by rival pearl
divers competing for her hand. Her suitors are tenor Matthew Polenzani and
baritone Mariusz Kwiecien, who sing the lilting duet “Au fond du temple saint,”
which opera fans know and adore. Director Penny Woolcock explores the timeless
themes of pure love, betrayal, and vengeance in a production that vividly
creates an undersea world on the stage of the Met. Conductor Gianandrea Noseda
brings his romantic flair to the lush score from the composer of Carmen.
Puccini's Turandot
January 30, 2016
Nina Stemme, one of opera’s greatest dramatic sopranos,
takes on the title role of the proud princess of legendary China. Tenor Marco
Berti is Calàf, the brave prince who sings “Nessun dorma” and wins her hand.
Franco Zeffirelli’s golden production is conducted by Paolo Carignani.
Puccini’s Manon Lescaut–New Production
March 5, 2016
The Met stage ignites when soprano Kristine Opolais and
tenor Jonas Kaufmann join forces in Puccini’s obsessive love story. Opolais
sings the title role of the country girl who transforms herself into a Parisian
temptress, while Kaufmann is the dashing student who desperately woos her.
Director Richard Eyre places the action in occupied France in a film noir
setting. “Desperate passion” is the phrase Puccini himself used to describe the
opera that confirmed his position as the preeminent Italian opera composer of
his day. Met Principal Conductor Fabio Luisi leads the stirring score.
Puccini's Madama Butterfly
April 2, 2016
Anthony Minghella’s breathtaking production has thrilled
audiences ever since its premiere in 2006. One of the world’s foremost
Butterflys, soprano Kristine Opolais, takes on the title role, and Roberto
Alagna sings Pinkerton, the naval officer who breaks Butterfly’s heart. Karel
Mark Chichon conducts.
Donizetti's Roberto Devereux—Met Premiere
April 16, 2016
Soprano Sondra Radvanovsky takes on the extraordinary
challenge of singing all three of Donizetti’s Tudor queens in the course of a
single season, a rare feat made famous by Beverly Sills—and not attempted on a
New York stage since. In this climactic opera of the trilogy, directed by Sir
David McVicar, she plays Queen Elizabeth I, forced to sign the death warrant of
the nobleman she loves, Roberto Devereux. Tenor Matthew Polenzani is Devereux,
and mezzo-soprano Elīna Garanča and baritone Mariusz Kwiecien complete the
principal quartet in the bel canto masterpiece, conducted by Donizetti
specialist Maurizio Benini.
Strauss's Elektra–New Production
April 30, 2016
The genius director Patrice Chéreau (From the House of the
Dead) didn’t live to see his great Elektra production, previously presented in
Aix and Milan, make it to the stage of the Met. But his overpowering vision
lives on with soprano Nina Stemme—unmatched today in the heroic female roles of
Strauss and Wagner—who portrays Elektra’s primal quest for vengeance. Legendary
mezzo-soprano Waltraud Meier is chilling as Elektra’s fearsome mother,
Klytämnestra. Soprano Adrianne Pieczonka and bass Eric Owens are Elektra’s
troubled siblings. Chéreau’s musical collaborator, Esa-Pekka Salonen, conducts.
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