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  Aida - Verdi

  NOV 2nd (Fri) ~ NOV 8th (Thu), 2018

  Togeki : NOV 2nd (Fri) ~ NOV 8th (Thu), 2018

  Estimated running time ： 3 hours 45 minutes (2 intermissions)

  Live transmission from the MET : October 6th, 2018

  Conductor :

  Nicola Luisotti

  Production :

  Sonja Frisell

  Cast :

  Anna Netrebko (Aida), Anita Rachvelishvili (Amneris), Aleksandrs Antonenko (Radamès), Quinn Kelsey (Amonasro), Dmitry Belosselskiy (Ramfis), Ryan Speedo Green (The King)

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  In what should be a highlight of the new season, soprano Anna Netrebko sings her first Met Aida, going toe-to-toe with mezzo-soprano Anita Rachvelishvili as Amneris. Later in the season, a second star-studded cast takes over, with Sondra Radvanovsky and Dolora Zajick as the leading ladies.Tenors Aleksandrs Antonenko and Yonghoon Lee alternate as Radamès, and Nicola Luisotti and Plácido Domingo take the podium for the Met’s monumental production.

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  Samson et Dalila - Saint-Saëns

  New Production

  NOV 16th (Fri) ~ NOV 22rd (Thu), 2018

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

  Live transmission from the MET : October 20th, 2018

  Conductor :

  Sir Mark Elder

  Production :

  Darko Tresnjak

  Cast :

  Elīna Garanča (Dalila), Roberto Alagna (Samson), Laurent Naouri (High Priest), Dmitry Belosselskiy (The Old Hebrew), Elchin Azizov (Abimélech)

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  When mezzo-soprano Elīna Garanča and tenor Roberto Alagna joined forces for a new production of Carmen at the Met, the results were electrifying. Now this star duo reunites for another sensual French opera when they open the season in the title roles of Saint-Saëns’s biblical epic Samson et Dalila. Darko Tresnjak, who won a Tony Award for Best Direction of a Musical in 2014 for A Gentleman’s Guide to Love & Murder, makes his Met debut directing a vivid, seductive staging, featuring a monumental setting for the last-act Temple of Dagon, where the hero crushes his Philistine enemies. Sir Mark Elder conducts the first new Met production of the work in 20 years.

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  La Fanciulla del West - Puccini

  DEC 7th (Fri) ~ DEC 13th (Thu), 2018

  Estimated running time ： 3 hours 30 minutes (2 intermissions)

  Live transmission from the MET : October 27th, 2018

  Conductor :

  Marco Armiliato

  Production :

  Giancarlo del Monaco

  Cast :

  Eva-Maria Westbroek (Minnie), Jonas Kaufmann (Dick Johnson), Željko Lučić (Jack Rance), Carlo Bosi (Nick), Michael Todd Simpson (Sonora), Matthew Rose (Ashby), Oren Gradus (Jake Wallace)

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  Soprano Eva-Maria Westbroek sings Puccini’s gun-slinging heroine in this romantic epic of the Wild West, with the heralded return of tenor Jonas Kaufmann in the role of the outlaw she loves. Tenor Yusif Eyvazov also sings some performances. Baritone Željko Lučić is the vigilante sheriff Jack Rance, and Marco Armiliato conducts.

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  Marnie - Muhly

  New Production/Met Premiere

  JAN 18th (Fri) ~ JAN 24th (Thu), 2019

  Estimated running time ： 2 hours 55 minutes (1 intermissions)

  Live transmission from the MET : November 10th, 2018

  Conductor :

  Robert Spano

  Production :

  Michael Mayer

  Cast :

  Isabel Leonard (Marnie), Christopher Maltman (Mark Rutland), Iestyn Davies (Terry Rutland), Janis Kelly (Mrs. Rutland), Denyce Graves (Marnie's mother)

  Introduction:

  Composer Nico Muhly unveils his second new opera for the Met with this gripping reimagining of Winston Graham’s novel, set in the 1950s, about a beautiful, mysterious young woman who assumes multiple identities. Director Michael Mayer and his creative team have devised a fast-moving, cinematic world for this exhilarating story of denial and deceit, which also inspired a film by Alfred Hitchcock. Mezzo-soprano Isabel Leonard sings the enigmatic Marnie, and baritone Christopher Maltman is the man who pursues her—with disastrous results. Robert Spano conducts.

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  La Traviata - Verdi

  New Production

  FEB 8th (Fri) ~ FEB 14th (Thu), 2019

  *Togeki : FEB 8th (Fri) ~ FEB 21th (Thu), 2019

  Estimated running time ： *Togeki : FEB 8th (Fri) ~ FEB 21th (Thu), 2019

  Live transmission from the MET : December 15h, 2018

  Conductor :

  Yannick Nézet-Séguin

  Production :

  Michael Mayer

  Cast :

  Diana Damrau (Violetta Valéry), Juan Diego Flórez (Alfredo Germont), Quinn Kelsey (Giorgio Germont)

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  Yannick Nézet-Séguin 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.

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  Adriana Lecouvreur - Cilea

  New Production

  FEB 22nd (Fri) ~ Feb 28st (Thu), 2019

  *Togeki : FEB 22rd (Fri) ~ MAY 7th (Thu), 2019

  Estimated running time ： 3 hours 33 minutes (2 intermissions)

  Live transmission from the MET : January 12th, 2019

  Conductor :

  Gianandrea Noseda

  Production :

  David McVicar

  Cast :

  Anna Netrebko (Adriana Lecouvreur), Anita Rachvelishvili (Principessa de Bouillon), Piotr Beczala (Maurizio), Ambrogio Maestri (Michonnet), Maurizio Muraro (Prince de Bouillon), Carlo Bosi (The Abbé)

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  Soprano Anna Netrebko joins the ranks of Renata Tebaldi, Montserrat Caballé, and Renata Scotto, taking on—for the first time at the Met—the title role of the real-life French actress who dazzled 18th-century audiences with her on-and offstage passion. The soprano is joined by tenor Piotr Beczała as Adriana’s lover, Maurizio. The principal cast also features mezzo-soprano Anita Rachvelishvili and baritone Ambrogio Maestri. Gianandrea Noseda conducts. Sir David McVicar’s staging, which sets the action in a working replica of a Baroque theater, premiered at the Royal Opera House in London, where the Guardian praised the “elegant production, sumptuously designed … The spectacle guarantees a good night out.”

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  Carmen - Bizet

  MAY 8th (Fri) ~ MAY 14th (Thu), 2019

  Estimated running time ： 3 hours 21 minutes (1 intermissions)

  Live transmission from the MET : February 2nd, 2019

  Conductor :

  Louis Langrée

  Production :

  Richard Eyre

  Cast :

  Clémentine Margaine (Carmen), Roberto Alagna (Don José), Aleksandra Kurzak (Micaëla), Alexander Vinogradov (Escamillo)

  Introduction:

  Mezzo-soprano Clémentine Margaine reprises her remarkable portrayal of opera’s ultimate seductress, a triumph in her 2017 debut performances, with impassioned tenors Yonghoon Lee and Roberto Alagna as her lover, Don José. Omer Meir Wellber and Louis Langrée share conducting duties for Sir Richard Eyre’s powerful production, a Met favorite since its 2009 premiere.

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  La Fille du Regiment - Donizetti

  APR 12th (Fri) ~ APR 18th (Thu), 2019

  Estimated running time ： 2 hours 40 minutes (1 intermissions)

  Live transmission from the MET : March 2nd, 2019

  Conductor :

  Enrique Mazzola

  Production :

  Laurent Pelly

  Cast :

  Pretty Yende (Marie), Javier Camarena (Tonio), Maurizio Muraro (Sulpice), Stephanie Blythe (Marquise of Berkenfield)

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  Tenor Javier Camarena and soprano Pretty Yende team up for a feast of bel canto vocal fireworks—including the show-stopping tenor aria “Ah! Mes amis,” with its nine high Cs. Alessandro Corbelli and Maurizio Muraro trade off as the comic Sergeant Sulpice, with mezzo-soprano Stephanie Blythe as the outlandish Marquise of Berkenfield. Enrique Mazzola conducts.

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  Die Walküre - Wagner

  MAY 10th (Fri) ~ MAY 16th (Thu), 2019

  Estimated running time ： 5 hours 10 minutes (2 intermissions)

  Live transmission from the MET : March 30th, 2019

  Conductor :

  Philippe Jordan

  Production :

  Robert Lepage

  Cast :

  Christine Goerke (Brünnhilde), Eva-Maria Westbroek (Sieglinde), Stuart Skelton (Siegmund), Greer Grimsley (Wotan), Günther Groissböck (Hunding), Jamie Barton (Fricka),

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  In what is expected to be a Wagnerian event for the ages, soprano Christine Goerke plays Brünnhilde, Wotan’s willful warrior daughter, who loses her immortality in opera’s most famous act of filial defiance. Tenor Stuart Skelton and soprano Eva-Maria Westbroek play the incestuous twins Siegmund and Sieglinde. Greer Grimsley sings Wotan. Philippe Jordan conducts.

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  Dialogues des Carmelites - Poulenc

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

  Estimated running time ： 3 hours 15 minutes (1 intermissions)

  Live transmission from the MET : May 11th, 2019

  Conductor :

  Yannick Nézet-Séguin

  Production :

  John Dexter

  Cast :

  Isabel Leonard (Blanche de la Force), Karita Mattila (First Prioress), Adrianne Pieczonka (Mme Lidoine), Erin Morley (Constance), Karen Cargill (Mère Marie), David Portillo (Chevalier de la Force), Dwayne Croft (Marquis de la Force)

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  Yannick Nézet-Séguin leads the classic John Dexter production of Poulenc’s devastating story of faith and martyrdom. Mezzo-soprano Isabel Leonard sings the touching role of Blanche and soprano Karita Mattila, a legend in her own time, returns to the Met as the Prioress.

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