AIDA : Verdi
Thursday – 03/07/2019
Domingo; Radvanovsky, Petrova, Antonenko, Kelsey, Kocán, Howard
Final performance of this production on March 4 and 7 (numbers 246 and 247). ‘Then its weathered hieroglyphics, its applause-garnering live horses, its looming walls of craggy stone-esque plaster and its gold-sprayed props will all be sealed in storage, as securely as Aida and Radamès in their tomb at the opera’s end.’ [Woolfe, NYTIMES 3-1-2019]
When “Aida” returns, it will open the 2020-21 season in a new production directed by Michael Mayer and designed by Christine Jones, the pair that updated the Met’s “Rigoletto” to 1960s Las Vegas. Yannick Nézet-Séguin will conduct a starry cast: Anna Netrebko, Anita Rachvelishvili, Piotr Beczala and Ludovic Tézier.
DAS RHEINGOLD : Wagner
Saturday – 03/09/2019
Jordan; Harmer, Barton, Cargill, Ernst, Siegel,
Grimsley, Konieczny, Groissböck, Belosselskiy
Wagner’s visionary initial installment of the Ring Cycle depicts the original sin of the theft of the sacred golden treasure, the vanity of the gods, the greed of the Nibelungen, the fratricide of the giants, and the building of Valhalla. Bass-baritone Greer Grimsley and baritone Michael Volle share the role of Wotan, the conflicted lord of the gods. Mezzo-soprano Jamie Barton sings her first Wagner role at the Met as Wotan’s embattled wife, Fricka.
In collaboration with Ex Machina
DON PASQUALE : Donizetti
Media: MOD Audio OAD: 01/20/1979
Rescigno; Bacquier, Sills, Kraus, Hagegård
FAUST : Gounod
Media: MOD Audio OAD: 02/19/1955
Monteux; Peerce, de los Angeles, Siepi, Merrill, Miller
IDOMENEO : Mozart
OAD: 01/26/2002
Levine; Domingo, Hong, Deshorties, von Otter, Oswald
KÁT’A KABANOVÁ : Janácek
OAD: 03/16/1991
Mackerras; Benacková, Rysanek, Ochman, Haugland, Straka, Quittmeyer
L’ITALIANA IN ALGERI : Rossini
Media: MOD Audio OAD: 02/28/2004
Levine; Borodina, Flórez, Furlanetto, Patriarco
LES CONTES D’HOFFMANN : Offenbach
OAD: 12/23/1989
Cambreling; Lima, Van Dam, Mills, Forst, Malfitano, Boozer
LES TROYENS : Berlioz
Media: MOD Audio OAD: 02/18/1984
Levine; Norman, Sooter, Monk, Taillon, Plishka, Ahlstedt
LES TROYENS : Berlioz
Media: MOD Audio OAD: 02/18/1984
Levine; Norman, Sooter, Monk, Taillon, Plishka, Ahlstedt
LUISA MILLER : Verdi
Media: MOD Audio OAD: 01/23/1982
Santi; Ricciarelli, Pavarotti, Nucci, Plishka, Cheek, Berini
OTELLO : Verdi
OAD: 02/04/1978
Levine; Vickers, Ricciarelli, MacNeil, Little
RIGOLETTO : Verdi
Media: MOD Audio OAD: 02/24/1990
Panni; Nucci, Anderson, Pavarotti, Furlanetto, Svendén
SAMSON ET DALILA : Saint-Saëns
OAD: 03/05/2005
de Billy; Cura, Graves, Lafont
TOSCA : Puccini
Media: OAD: 01/04/1997
Badea; Guleghina, Larin, Morris