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  Turandot - Puccini

  NOV15th (Fri) ~ NOV 21st (Thu), 2019

  Togeki : NOV 15th (Fri) ~ NOV 28th(Thu), 2019

  Estimated running time ： 3 hours 20 minutes (2 intermissions)

  Live transmission from the MET : October 12, 2019

  Conductor :

  Yannick Nézet-Séguin

  Production :

  Franco Zeffirelli

  Cast :

  Christine Goerke (Turandot), Eleonora Buratto (Liù), Yusif Eyvazov(Calàf), James Morris (Timur)

  Introduction:

  Met Music Director Yannick Nézet-Séguin conducts Franco Zeffirelli’s celebrated production of Turandot, which stars Christine Goerke in the title role of the icy Chinese princess who has renounced all men. Roberto Aronica sings Calàf, the suitor who risks his head for her hand and sings the famed aria “Nessun dorma.” Eleonora Buratto is the slave girl Liù, and James Morris is Calàf’s long-lost father, Timur.

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  Manon - Massenet

  NOV 29th (Fri) ~ DEC 5th (Thu), 2019

  Estimated running time ： 3 hours 55 minutes (2 intermissions)

  Live transmission from the MET : October 26th, 2019

  Conductor :

  Maurizio Benini

  Production :

  Laurent Pelly

  Cast :

  Lisette Oropesa (Manon), Michael Fabiano (Chevalier des Grieux), Artur Ruciński (Lescaut), Brett Polegato (de Brétigny), Kwangchul Youn (Comte des Grieux)

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  Manon’s story—from innocent country girl to celebrated courtesan to destitute prisoner—is one of the great tragic tales in literature and music. Lisette Oropesa stars as the irresistible title character, the tragic beauty who yearns for the finer things in life, in Laurent Pelly’s revealing production. Michael Fabiano is the besotted Chevalier des Grieux, whose desperate love for Manon proves their undoing. Maurizio Benini conducts Massenet’s sensual score.

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  Madama Butterfly - Puccini

  FEB 7th (Fri) ~ FEB 13th (Thu), 2019

  Estimated running time ： 3 hours 32 minutes (2 intermissions)

  Live transmission from the MET : November 9th, 2019

  Conductor :

  Pier Giorgio Morandi

  Production :

  Anthony Minghella

  Cast :

  Hui He (Cio-Cio-San), Elizabeth DeShong (Suzuki), Bruce Sledge (Pinkerton), Paulo Szot (Sharpless)

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  Hui He stars as Cio-Cio-San, the devoted geisha who gives everything for the American naval officer Pinkerton, sung by Andrea Carè. Elizabeth DeShong is her devoted companion Suzuki, and Plácido Domingo adds another role to his remarkable repertoire, 4singing Sharpless for the first time. Pier Giorgio Morandi conducts Anthony Minghella’sbeautiful, atmospheric production.

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  Akhnaten - Philip Glass

  New Production/Met Premiere

  FEB 21th (Fri) ~ FEB 27th (Thu), 2020

  Estimated running time ： 3 hours 36 minutes (2 intermissions)

  Live transmission from the MET : November 23th, 2019

  Conductor :

  Karen Kamensek

  Production :

  Phelim McDermott

  Cast :

  Dísella Lárusdóttir (Queen Tye), J’Nai Bridges (Nefertiti), Anthony Roth Costanzo (Akhnaten),

  Introduction:

  Phelim McDermott, whose productions include the hugely successful Satyagraha by Philip Glass, returns to the Met with a new staging of Glass’s Akhnaten, conducted by Karen Kamensek in her Met debut. Anthony Roth Costanzo sings the title role of the Egyptian pharaoh who attempted to inspire his people to adopt a new religion, abandoning the worship of the old gods for that of a single deity. In her Met debut, J’Nai Bridges sings the role of
  Nefertiti, Akhnaten’s bride, and Dísella Lárusdóttir is Queen Tye, the pharaoh’s mother. One of the staging’s distinctive visual features is provided by the Gandini Juggling Company,
  whose movements are perfectly choreographed with the orchestral score. This production of Akhnaten was originally created by LA Opera, Improbable, and English National Opera,where it premiered, winning the 2017 Olivier Award for Best New Opera Production

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  Wozzeck - Berg

  New Production

  FEB 28th (Fri) ~ MAR 5th (Thu), 2020

  Estimated running time ： 1ar hours 57 minutes (0 intermissions)

  Live transmission from the MET : January 11h, 2020

  Conductor :

  Yannick Nézet-Séguin

  Production :

  William Kentridge

  Cast :

  Elza van den Heever (Marie), Christopher Ventris (The Drum-Major), Gerhard Siegel (The Captain), Andrew Staples (Andres), Peter Mattei (Wozzeck), Christian Van Horn (Doctor)

  Introduction:

  Yannick Nézet-Séguin conducts William Kentridge’s new production of Alban Berg’s
  expressionistic masterpiece Wozzeck, regarded for its intense emotional power and brilliant score as one of the most significant operas of the 20th century. Composed during and in the 5 aftermath of World War I, Berg’s dark exploration of a soldier besieged by the evils of society, is staged by Kentridge in a ramshackle warren of stairs, ramps, discarded furniture, and debris. His own theatrically animated charcoal drawings, along with other projected drawings, maps, and film clips, evoke a nightmarish world of crashed planes, searchlights, ghostly gas masks, and battlefields. Peter Mattei makes his role debut as Wozzeck opposite Elza van den Heever as Marie, the mother of his child. Singing the roles of Wozzeck’s tormentors are Christopher Ventris as the Drum-Major, Gerhard Siegel as the Captain, and Christian Van Horn as the Doctor. Andrew Staples makes his Met debut as Andres. Kentridge, who previously directed Berg’s Lulu and Shostakovich’s The Nose at the Met, unveiled the new production at the 2017 Salzburg Festival, where it received critical acclaim. Kentridge’s production is a co-production of the Met, Canadian Opera Company, Opera Australia, and Salzburg Festival

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  Porgy and Bess - Gershwin

  New Production

  APR 3rd (Fri) ~ APR 9th (Thu), 2020

  Estimated running time ： 3 hours 40 minutes (1 intermissions)

  Live transmission from the MET : February 1st, 2020

  Conductor :

  David Robertson

  Production :

  James Robinson

  Cast :

  Angel Blue (Bess), Golda Schultz (Clara), Latonia Moore (Serena), Denyce Graves (Maria), Frederick Ballentine (Sportin’ Life), Eric Owens (Porgy)

  Introduction:

  The Gershwins’ Porgy and Bess returns to the Met for the first time since 1990, in a new production directed by James Robinson in his company debut. America’s “folk opera,” as the 1935 creators described it, tells the story of disabled beggar Porgy, sung by Eric Owens, and his love for the drug-addicted Bess, portrayed by Angel Blue. David Robertson conducts a stellar cast that also includes Donovan Singletary as fisherman Jake, Golda Schultz as his wife Clara, Latonia Moore as the bereaved widow Serena, Frederick Ballentine as drug dealer Sportin’ Life, Alfred Walker as the brutal stevedore Crown, and Denyce Graves as Maria, town matriarch and operator of the local cook-shop. Infused with the timeless melodies of the much-loved classics “Summertime,” “It Ain’t Necessarily So,” “Bess, You Is My Woman Now,” “I Got Plenty o’ Nuttin,” and “My Man’s Gone Now,” the new co-production with English National Opera and Dutch National Opera was hailed as a triumph at its premiere in London earlier this year.

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  Agrippina - Handel

  New Production/Met Premiere

  APR 10th(Fri) ~ APR 16th (Thu), 2020

  Estimated running time ： 3 hours 50 minutes (2 intermissions)

  Live transmission from the MET : February 29th, 2020

  Conductor :

  Harry Bicket

  Production :

  Sir David McVicar

  Cast :

  Brenda Rae (Poppea), Joyce DiDonato (Agrippina), Kate Lindsey (Nerone), Iestyn Davies (Ottone), Matthew Rose (Claudio)

  Introduction:

  In the Met’s first-ever performances of Agrippina, Handel’s satire of sex and power politics, Sir David McVicar reconceives a production he originally created for the Monnaie in Brussels in 2000, evoking a scandalous world in which the Roman Empire never fell but simply kept going right up to the present. Holding a distorted mirror to contemporary society (as Handel did when he staged this opera), the production presents the corrupt intrigues of the political classes, brought to life by Joyce DiDonato as the power-hungry empress Agrippina, Brenda Rae as the scheming, seductive Poppea, and Kate Lindsey as the feckless teenager Nerone. Iestyn Davies portrays the ambitious officer Ottone, and Matthew Rose is the emperor Claudius, on whose vacated throne Agrippina is determined to install her son. Renowned for his interpretations of the Baroque repertoire, Harry Bicket conducts.

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  Der Fliegende Holländer - Wagner

  New Production

  MAY 8th (Fri) ~ MAY 14h (Thu), 2020

  Togeki : MAY 8th (Fri) ~ MAY 21st (Thu), 2020

  Estimated running time ： 2 hours 44 minutes (0 intermissions)

  Live transmission from the MET : March 14th, 2020

  Conductor :

  Valery Gergiev

  Production :

  François Girard

  Cast :

  Anja Kampe (Senta), Mihoko Fujimura (Mary), Sergey Skorokhodov (Erik), David Portillo (Steuermann), Sir Bryn Terfel (Holländer), Franz-Josef Selig (Daland)

  Introduction:

  François Girard, whose mystical, blood-drenched vision for Wagner’s Parsifal became one of the Met’s most intensely visceral highlights in recent seasons, turns to another Wagnerian masterpiece, Der Fliegende Holländer, conducted by Valery Gergiev. For the first time at the Met, Sir Bryn Terfel sings the role of the mysterious Dutchman, condemned to roam the seas for eternity, with Anja Kampe as the devoted Senta, whose love can set him free. In a nod to Senta’s obsession with a portrait of the legendary title seafarer, the Met stage is transformed into a colossal oil painting. Franz-Josef Selig portrays Senta’s father Daland, Sergey 7 Skorokhodov takes on the role of the huntsman Erik, David Portillo sings the Steersman, and Mihoko Fujimura is Senta’s nurse Mary. Der Fliegende Holländer is a co-production with L’Opéra de Québec and Dutch National Opera, Amsterdam.
  

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  Tosca - Puccini

  MAY 22nd (Fri) ~ MAY 28h (Thu), 2020

  Togeki : MAY 22nd (Fri) ~ JUN 4th (Thu), 2020

  Estimated running time ： 3 hours 17 minutes (2 intermissions)

  Live transmission from the MET : April 11th, 2020

  Conductor :

  Bertrand de Billy

  Production :

  Sir David McVicar

  Cast :

  Anna Netrebko (Tosca), Brian Jagde (Cavaradossi), Michael Volle (Scarpia)

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  Sir David McVicar’s bold staging of Puccini’s operatic thriller returns to the Live in HD series after its acclaimed broadcast in 2017. This time, star soprano Anna Netrebko is the passionate title diva, opposite Brian Jagde as her lover, the idealistic painter Mario Cavaradossi. Michael Volle is the menacing Baron Scarpia, the evil chief of police. Bertrand de Billy conducts the electrifying score, which features some of Puccini’s most memorable melodies.
  

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  Maria Stuarda - Donizetti

  JUN 5th (Fri) ~ JUN 11th (Thu), 2020

  Estimated running time ： 3 hours 6 minutes (1 intermissions)

  Live transmission from the MET : May 9th, 2020

  Conductor :

  Maurizio Benini

  Production :

  Sir David McVicar

  Cast :

  Diana Damrau (Maria Stuarda), Jamie Barton (Elisabetta), Stephen Costello (Leicester), Andrzej Filończyk (Cecil), Michele Pertusi (Talbot)

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  Donizetti’s drama, focused on the political and personal rivalry between two queens, returns to the Met with Diana Damrau as the doomed Mary, Queen of Scots, and Jamie Barton as her rival, Queen Elizabeth I. Stephen Costello sings the role of Mary’s lover, Leicester; Andrzej Filończyk is the chancellor Cecil; and Michele Pertusi sings the Earl Talbot.Maurizio Benini conducts Sir David McVicar’s sweeping production.

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