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RICHARD STRAUSS
SALOME
Saturday, May 17 • 1:00PM - live
3 HOURS 15 MINUTES – NO INTERMISSION
LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN
FIDELIO
Saturday, April 5 • 1:00PM – encore
3 HOURS 5 MINUTES – ONE INTERMISSION
Following a string of awe-inspiring Met
performances, soprano Lise Davidsen
stars as Leonore, who risks everything
to save her husband from the clutches
of tyranny. Tenor David Butt Philip is
the political prisoner Florestan, sharing
the stage with bass-baritone Tomasz
Konieczny as the villainous Don Pizarro,
veteran bass René Pape as the jailer
Rocco, and soprano Ying Fang and
tenor Magnus Dietrich, in his company
debut, as the young Marzelline and
Jaquino. Bass Stephen Milling sings the
principled Don Fernando, and Susanna
Mälkki conducts the Met’s striking
production, which finds modern-day
parallels in Beethoven’s stirring paean
to freedom.
WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART
LE NOZZE DI FIGARO
Saturday, April 26 • 1:00PM - live
3 HOURS 55 MINUTES – ONE INTERMISSION
Conductor Joana Mallwitz makes her
Met debut leading an extraordinary cast
in Mozart’s comic masterpiece. Bassbaritone Michael Sumuel stars as the
clever valet Figaro, opposite soprano
Olga Kulchynska as his betrothed, the
wily maid Susanna. Baritone Joshua
Hopkins is the skirt-chasing Count,
with soprano Federica Lombardi as his
anguished wife and mezzo-soprano
Marianne Crebassa as the adolescent
page Cherubino.
Music Director Yannick Nézet-Séguin
conducts his first Met performances
of Strauss’s white-hot one-act tragedy,
which receives its first new production
at the company in 20 years. Claus Guth,
one of Europe’s leading opera directors,
gives the biblical story—already filtered
through the beautiful and strange
imagination of Oscar Wilde’s play—a
psychologically perceptive, Victorianera setting rich in symbolism and subtle
shades of darkness and light. Headlining
the new staging is soprano Elza van den
Heever as the abused and unhinged
antiheroine, who demands the head of
Jochanaan, sung by celebrated baritone
Peter Mattei. Tenor Gerhard Siegel is
Salome’s lecherous stepfather, King
Herod, with mezzo-soprano Michelle
DeYoung as his wife, Herodias, and
tenor Piotr Buszewski as Narraboth.
GIOACHINO ROSSINI
IL BARBIERE DI SIVIGLIA
Saturday, May 31 • 1:00PM - live
3 HOURS 35 MINUTES – ONE INTERMISSION
Rossini’s effervescent comedy retakes
the stage in Bartlett Sher’s madcap
production.
Mezzo-soprano
Aigul
Akhmetshina headlines a winning
ensemble as the feisty heroine, Rosina,
alongside high-flying tenor Jack
Swanson, in his Met debut, as her secret
beloved, Count Almaviva. Baritone
Andrey Zhilikhovsky stars as Figaro,
the titular barber of Seville, with bassbaritone Peter Kálmán as Dr. Bartolo
and bass Alexander Vinogradov as Don
Basilio rounding out the principal cast.
Giacomo Sagripanti conducts.
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