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2010-11 Met Opera - Live in HD! Seven New Productions, Including Two Met Premieres, Headline the Met’s 2010-11 Season, Celebrating the 40th Anniversary of James Levine’s Company Debut. WHAT'S IN STORE FOR THE 2010/11 SEASON • New production of Wagner’s Der Ring des Nibelungen by Robert Lepage, conducted by Levine, begins with Das Rheingold and Die Walküre. • John Adams’s Nixon in China, directed by Peter Sellars, and Rossini’s Le Comte Ory, directed by Bartlett Sher, have their Met premieres. • Two prominent directors make their Met debuts staging new productions: Nicholas Hytner with Don Carlo, and Willy Decker with La Traviata. • New production of Boris Godunov directed by Stephen Wadsworth. The Metropolitan Opera’s Peabody and Emmy Award-winning series The Met: Live in HD continues for its fifth season with 12 live transmissions. Experience the Met live from the stage of the Metropolitan Opera House at the Walter Reade Theater ~ specially equipped with high definition screens and surround sound! A special presentation by the Film Society of Lincoln Center in collaboration with the Metropolitan Opera. The Met: Live in HD series is made possible by a generous grant from the Neubauer Family Foundation. Please note: Programs and casting subject to change. Running times are approximate. DAS RHEINGOLD (New Production) - Wagner Monday, October 11, 2010 at 7pm Please note this is a rebroadcast. Expected Running time: 3 hours 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. James Levine; Wendy Bryn Harmer, Stephanie Blythe, Patricia Bardon, Richard Croft, Gerhard Siegel, Bryn Terfel, Eric Owens, Franz-Josef Selig, Hans-Peter König Robert Lepage (Production); Carl Fillion (Set Designer); François St-Aubin (Costume Designer); Étienne Boucher (Lighting Designer); Holger Förterer (Interactive Projection Artist); Boris Firquet (Video Image Artist) BORIS GODUNOV (New Production) - Mussorgsky Saturday, October 23, 2010 at 12pm Noon Expected Running time: 5 hours René Pape takes on one of the greatest bass roles in a production by Stephen Wadsworth. Valery Gergiev conducts Mussorgsky’s epic spectacle that captures the suffering and ambition of a nation. “There are two protagonists in Boris—the title character and the people he rules,” Wadsworth says. “Through Boris we see the private mind of a flawed leader, and through the chorus we see the volatility of a people skeptical about their leaders. Boris seems to me a good person who made a terrible mistake and ultimately cannot live with it. He yearns for his lost innocence.” Aleksandrs Antonenko, Vladimir Ognovenko, and Ekaterina Semenchuk lead the huge cast. Valery Gergiev; Ekaterina Semenchuk, Aleksandrs Antonenko, Oleg Balashov, Evgeny Nikitin, René Pape, Mikhail Petrenko, Vladimir Ognovenko Peter Stein (Production); Ferdinand Wögerbauer (Set Designer); Moidele Bickel (Costume Designer); Duane Schuler (Lighting Designer); Apostolia Tsolaki (Choreographer) DON PASQUALE - Donizetti Saturday, November 13, 2010 at 1pm Expected Running time: 3 hours, 30 minutes 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.” James Levine; Anna Netrebko, Matthew Polenzani, Mariusz Kwiecien, John Del Carlo DON CARLO (New Production) - Verdi Saturday, December 11, 2010 at 12:30pm Expected Running time: 4 hours, 30 minutes 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.” Yannick Nézet-Séguin; Marina Poplavskaya, Anna Smirnova, Roberto Alagna, Simon Keenlyside, Ferruccio Furlanetto, Eric Halfvarson Nicholas Hytner (Production); Bob Crowley (Set & Costume Designer); Mark Henderson (Lighting Designer) LA FANCIULLA DEL WEST - Puccini Saturday, January 8, 2011 at 1pm Expected Running time: 3 hours, 30 minutes 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. Nicola Luisotti; Deborah Voigt, Marcello Giordani, Juha Uusitalo Nixon in China - Adams Saturday, February 12, 2011 at 1pm Expected Running time: 4 hours “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. John Adams; Kathleen Kim, Janis Kelly, Robert Brubaker, Russell Braun, James Maddalena, Richard Paul Fink IPHIGÉNIE EN TAURIDE (New Production) - Gluck Sunday, February 27, 2011 at 1pm Expected Running time: 2 hours, 30 minutes Please note this is a rebroadcast. 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. Patrick Summers; Susan Graham, Plácido Domingo, Paul Groves, Gordon Hawkins LUCIA DI LAMMERMOOR - Donizetti Saturday, March 19, 2011 at 1pm Expected Running time: 4 hours 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. Patrick Summers; Natalie Dessay, Joseph Calleja, Ludovic Tézier, Kwangchul Youn LE COMTE ORY (New Production) - Rossini Saturday, April 9, 2011 at 1pm Expected Running time: 3 hours 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.” Maurizio Benini; Diana Damrau, Joyce DiDonato, Susanne Resmark, Juan Diego Flórez, Stéphane Degout, Michele Pertusi Bartlett Sher (Production); Michael Yeargan (Set Designer); Catherine Zuber (Costume Designer); Brian MacDevitt (Lighting Designer) CAPRICCIO - R. Strauss Saturday, April 23, 2011 at 1pm Expected Running time: 3 hours 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. Andrew Davis; Renée Fleming, Sarah Connolly, Joseph Kaiser, Russell Braun, Morten Frank Larsen, Peter Rose IL TROVATORE - Verdi Saturday, April 30, 2011 at 1pm Expected Running time: 3 hours 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. James Levine; Sondra Radvanovsky, Dolora Zajick, Marcelo Álvarez, Dmitri Hvorostovsky, Stefan Kocán DIE WALKÜRE (New Production) - Wagner Saturday, May 14, 2011 at 12pm Noon Expected Running time: 5 hours, 15 minutes 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. James Levine; Deborah Voigt, Eva-Maria Westbroek, Stephanie Blythe, Jonas Kaufmann, Bryn Terfel, Hans-Peter König Robert Lepage (Production); Carl Fillion (Set Designer); François St-Aubin (Costume Designer); Étienne Boucher (Lighting Designer); Holger Förterer (Interactive Projection Artist); Boris Firquet (Video Image Artist) Back to Top