NEW YORK 〓 Metropolitan Opera has announced a performance lineup for the 2020/2021 season

2020/02/14

Metropolitan Opera (MET) has announced a performance lineup for the 2020/2021 season. Five new productions and 17 revivals. The opening performance is a new production “Aida” starring Anna Netrebko. The new production will be directed by Michael Mayer, who also worked on “La traviata”, conducted by Yannick Nézet-Séguin.

The lineup also includes Prokofiev’s “The Fiery Angel”, the premiere of the theater. Also, a new “The Magic Flute” will begin on New Year’s Eve. It is conducted by Gustavo Dudamel and directed by British actor Simon McBurney.

“Don Giovanni” and “Dead Man Walking” are directed by Ivo Van Hove. “Dead Man Walking” is a two-act opera with a prologue based on the same name nonfiction. Famous for being filmed in 1995. It was premiered in 2000 at the San Francisco Opera in the direction of Joe Mantello. At the premiere, Susan Graham, who played the main character, will play the role of mother this time, and Joyce Donard will play the main character.

Verdi “Aida”
Sep. 21 →
PRODUCTION:Michael Mayer
CONDUCTOR:Yannick Nézet-Séguin
CAST:Anna Netrebko / Anita Rachvelishvili / Piotr Beczała / Dmitry Belosselskiy / Ludovic Tezier

Prokofiev “The Fiery Angel”
Nov. 12 →
PRODUCTION:Barrie Kosky
CONDUCTOR:Mikhail Jurowsky
CAST:Svetlana Sozdateleva / Jill Grove / Elena Manistina / Dmitry Golovnin / Evgeny Nikitin / Ante Jerkunica.

Mozart “The Magic Flute”
Dec. 31 →
PRODUCTION:Simon McBurney
CONDUCTOR:Gustavo Dudamel
CAST:Christiane Karg / Kathryn Lewek / Stanislas de Barbeyrac / Thomas Oliemans / Christina Van Horn / Stephen Milling

Mozart “Don Giovanni”
March 1, 2021 →
PRODUCTION:Ivo Van Hove
CONDUCTOR:Yannick Nézet-Séguin
CAST:Peter Mattei / Gerald Finley / Ailyn Perez / Isabel Leonard / Hera Hyesang Park / Ben Bliss

Jake Heggie “Dead Man Walking”
April 8, 2021 →
PRODUCTION:Ivo Van Hove
CONDUCTOR:Yannick Nezet-Seguin
CAST:Joyce DiDonato / Susan Graham / Étienne Dupuis / Joseph De Rocher


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