Gluck
Original Air Date: 01/09/1971
Bonynge; Bumbry, Tucci, Peters
SID.18480107
Donizetti
Original Air Date: 03/11/1978
López-Cobos; Verrett, Pavarotti, Milnes, Giaiotti
SID.18480208
Gounod
Original Air Date: 01/30/1943
Beecham; Jobin, Albanese, Pinza, Thomas, Browning
SID.18480209
Verdi
Original Air Date: 03/07/1992
Santi; Nucci, Swenson, Leech, Rootering, White
SID.18480210
Mascagni / Leoncavallo
Original Air Date: 04/11/1964
Santi; Farrell, Tucker, Bardelli / Corelli, Amara, Colzani
MOD Audio SID.18480211
Zandonai
Original Air Date: 04/07/1984
Levine; Scotto, Domingo, MacNeil, Lewis
MOD AudioMOD Video SID.18480212
Wagner
Original Air Date: 01/15/1972
Schippers; Adam, Lorengar, King, Kusche, Flagello, Driscoll
MOD Audio SID.18480213
Beethoven
Original Air Date: 01/06/2001
Levine; Mattila, Heppner, Leiferkus, Pape, Hong, Polenzani
MOD Audio SID.18480315
Britten
Original Air Date: 04/14/1984
Atherton; Duesing, Cassilly, Morris, Glossop, Clark
SID.18480316
LES PÊCHEURS DE PERLES : Bizet
Original Air Date: 11/28/2018
Cast: Villaume; Yende, Camarena, Kwiecien, Testé
Media: Live Broadcast SID.18480000
Penny Woolcock’s breathtaking production, a highlight of the 2015–16 season, makes its much awaited return with an all-star cast. Soprano Pretty Yende is the beautiful priestess Leïla, with tenor Javier Camarena and baritone Mariusz Kwiecien as rivals for her forbidden love. Emmanuel Villaume conducts Bizet’s sensual score.
Co-production originally created by English National Opera
Production a gift of the Gramma Fisher Foundation, Marshalltown, Iowa
Additional funding from The Annenberg Foundation; Mr. William R. Miller, in memory of Irene D. Miller; and American Express
MEFISTOFELE : Boito
Original Air Date: 11/08/2018
Cast: Rizzi; Meade, Fabiano, Van Horn, Check
SID.18480000
Live Broadcast –Program 120118-mefistofele
First Intermission
Backstage Pass: Loren Toolajian interviews Michael Fabiano
Host Mary Jo Heath interviews General Manager Peter Gelb
Host Mary Jo Heath interviews Chorus Master Donald Palumbo
Second Intermission
Backstage Pass: Loren Toolajian interviews Christian Van Horn
Backstage Pass: Loren Toolajian interviews Jennifer Check and Angela Meade
Jeanette Lerman-Neubauer Music Director Yannick Nézet-Séguin is interviewed by Host Mary Jo Heath
The spectacular Robert Carsen production returns to the Met for the first time since 2000, with bass-baritone Christian Van Horn as the diabolical title character, tenor Michael Fabiano as Faust, and soprano Angela Meade as Margherita. Mefistofele is the celebrated and only completed opera by Arrigo Boito—who famously collaborated with Verdi on the libretti for Otello and Falstaff.
Production co-owned by the Metropolitan Opera and San Francisco
OperaProduction a gift of Mr. and Mrs. Julian H. Robertson, Jr. and Mrs. and
Mrs. Wilmer J. Thomas, Jr.
Additional funding by the Rose and Robert Edelman Foundation, Inc.
Puccini
Original Air Date: 01/31/1987
Rudel; Mitchell, Mauro, Schexnayder, Tajo
SID.18490102
Verdi
Original Air Date: 03/13/1971
Mehta; Tucker, Arroyo, Verrett, Sereni, Michalski
MOD Audio SID.18490103
Wagner
Original Air Date: 03/03/1984
Levine; Cassilly, ZylisGara, Troyanos, Monk, Macurdy
SID.18490104
Strauss
Original Air Date: 03/22/1958
Rudolf; Stevens, Steber, Edelmann, Hurley, Herbert
SID.18490105
Donizetti
Original Air Date: 12/09/1961
Varviso; Sutherland, Tucker, Guarrera, Moscona
SID.18490106
Mozart
Original Air Date: 12/14/1991
Levine; Devia, Olsen, Salminen, Kilduff, Laciura
MOD Audio SID.18490107
Strauss
Original Air Date: 03/18/2018
Nezet-Seguin; Goerke, van den heever, Schuster, Morris, Petrenlo
Live Broadcast SID.18490208
Verdi
Original Air Date: 10/17/2015
Nézet-Séguin; Yoncheva, Cano, Antonenko, Pittas, Lucic
Live in HD SID.18490209
Mozart
Original Air Date: 01/21/2006
Daniel; Dunleavy, Cutler, Gunn, Miklósa, Robinson
SID.18490210
Bizet
Original Air Date: 01/16/2010
Nezet-Seguin; Frittoli, Garanca, Alagna, Tahu Rhodes
Live in HDMOD Video SID.18490211
Dvorak
Original Air Date: 02/08/2014
Nézet-Séguin; Fleming, Beczala, Magee, Zajick, Relyea
Live in HD SID.18490212
LA TRAVIATA : Verdi
Original Air Date: 12/04/2018
Cast: Nézet-Séguin; Damrau, Flórez, Kelsey
Live Broadcast Program
Yannick Nézet-Séguin, in his debut as Met Opera Music Director, conducts Michael Mayer’s richly textured new production, featuring a dazzling 18th-century setting that changes with the seasons. Soprano Diana Damrau plays the tragic heroine, Violetta, and tenor Juan Diego Flórez returns to the Met for the first time in five seasons to sing the role of Alfredo, Violetta’s hapless lover. Baritone Quinn Kelsey is Alfredo’s father, Germont, who destroys their love. Later performances feature Anita Hartig, Stephen Costello, Artur Ruciński, and Plácido Domingo.
Production a gift of Eva-Marie and Ray Berry / The Paiko Foundation
Major additional funding from Mercedes T. Bass, Mr. and Mrs. Paul M. Montrone, and Rolex
Wagner
Original Air Date: 04/29/2017
Nézet-Séguin; Volle, Wagner, Glueckert, Selig
SID.18490315
Meyerbeer
Original Air Date: 01/29/1977
Lewis; McCracken, Scotto, Horne, Hines
SID.18490316
Gounod
Original Air Date: 12/10/2011
Nézet-Séguin; Kaufmann, Poplavskaya, Pape, Braun, Losier
Live in HDMOD Video SID.18490317
IL TRITTICO : Puccini
de Billy; Wagner, Blythe, Álvarez, Gagnidze, Muraro, Opolais, McKay, Blythe, Mkhitaryan, Blythe, Ayan, Domingo, Muraro
Live Saturday Matinee Broadcast – Program 120818-Trittico
First Intermission
Backstage Pass: Loren Toolajian interviews Amber Wagner
TOLL BROTHERS – METROPOLITAN OPERA QUIZ
Guest Artist: Morris Robinson
Host: Gerald Martin Moore
Panelists: Suzanne Martinucci, Rob Marx, and Jonathan Tolins
Feature: Puccini/Il Trittico Musical Language w/host Mary Jo Heath
Second Intermission
Backstage Pass: Loren Toolajian interviews Kristine Opolais about Suor Angellica; Host Mary Jo Heath interviews Stephanie Blythe Suor Angellica and Gianni Schicchi; Host Mary Jo Heath interviews Diana Damrau about La Traviata; Feature: Domingo – 50th Anniversary at the Met; Backstage Pass: Loren Toolajian interviews Plácido Domingo
Jack O’Brien’s epic production of Puccini’s triple bill features first-class casting: tenor Marcelo Álvarez and soprano Amber Wagner are the illicit lovers of Il Tabarro, with baritone George Gagnidze as the spurned husband; soprano Kristine Opolais sings the shattering title role of Suor Angelica, alongside mezzo-soprano Stephanie Blythe as the Principessa; and the ageless Plácido Domingo takes an unusual comedic turn in the baritone title role of Gianni Schicchi. The performances mark the centennial of the work’s world premiere at the Met. Bertrand de Billy conducts.
Production a gift of Karen and Kevin Kennedy
Additional funding from the Gramma Fisher Foundation, Marshalltown, Iowa, The Annenberg Foundation, Hermione Foundation, Mr. and Mrs. William R. Miller, and M. Beverly and Robert G. Bartner
Strauss
Original Air Date: 03/18/2018
Nezet-Seguin; Goerke, van den heever, Schuster, Morris, Petrenlo
Live Broadcast SID.18490748
KÁT’A KABANOVÁ :Janácek
Original Air Date: 12/25/2004
Belohlávek; Mattila, Forst, Silvasti, Ognovenko, Very, Kozená
SID.18500102
“An excellent cast, but I just don’t warm as much to this work as to Jenufa. For these infrequent works, it is important they make their way to MOoD.”
NABUCCO Verdi
Original Air Date: 02/26/2005
Levine; Putilin, Guleghina, Buchuladze, Hughes Jones
SID.18500 103
NYTIMES ” Most of all, the production turns its singers loose. Verdi has written them big-bore, high-explosive parts, and conducted from the pit by James Levine, Monday’s cast went out and took its chances.
Maria Guleghina’s Abigaille is the big moment among many big moments, and she threw her powerful soprano ardently, sometimes recklessly into the opera. Her first extended sequence (Part II, Scene 1) was impressively done. If there were bumps in Part I’s opening, they may be due to Verdi’s habit of writing first acts with dangerously sudden soprano parts. Like Violetta in “La Traviata,” Abigaille has no settling-in period; the part pounces on her from nowhere.
There was not much vocal subtlety asked for on Monday, and not much given. Nikolai Putilin in the title role was all straightforwardness and muscle. Paata Burchuladze’s Zaccaria managed more vocal shine in an equally punishing part. Gwyn Hughes Jones as Ismaele offered a step up in refinement, but he, too, seemed to be enjoying the communal loudness. Wendy White’s Fenena, singing on the scaffold near the final curtain, offered the evening’s moment of tender, cultured musicianship.
“Nabucco” is also a chorus opera, and the Met singers were strong and touching. “Va, pensiero” made its usual impact. Others in the cast were Julien Robbins, Claudia Waite and Eduardo Valdes.