Catherine Allen * Mary & Paul Anderson * Bonnie & Lou Cohen
Diana & Roy Conovitz * Elizabeth Farrar & Craig Echols
Lael & David Fruen * Judith Hall & Warner Paige * Genny Plamondon
Bunny Freidus & John Steel * Donna & Tom Stone * Jane & Robert Toll
Sheila Wald * JoAnn & John Weisel * Vlasta Zlebek
ANNA BOLENA
Live: Saturday, October 15 at 11am
Encore: Monday, October 24 at 6pm
Running Time: 4 hours and 20 minutes
Anna Netrebko opens the Met season with her portrayal of the ill-fated queen driven insane by her unfaithful king. She sings one of opera's greatest mad scenes in this Met premiere production by David McVicar. Ekaterina Gubanova is her rival, Jane Seymour, Ildar Abdrazakov sings Henry VIII, and Marco Armiliato conducts.
DON GIOVANNI
Live: Saturday, October 29 at 11am
Encore: Monday, November 7 at 6pm
Running Time: 2 hours and 30 minutes
Four decades into a legendary Met career, tenor Plácido Domingo makes history singing the title role in Verdi’s gripping political thriller, which is written for a baritone. Adrianne Pieczonka, Marcello Giordani, and James Morris are his co-stars in this moving story of a father and his lost daughter. James Levine conducts.
This performance was originally transmitted live on February 6, 2010.
SIEGFRIED
Live: Saturday, November 5 at 10am
Encore: Sunday, November 13 at 2pm
Running Time: 5 hours and 56 minutes
In part three of the Ring, Wagner’s cosmic vision focuses on his hero’s early conquests, while Robert Lepage’s revolutionary stage machine transforms itself from bewitched forest to mountaintop love nest. Gary Lehman sings the title role and Deborah Voigt’s Brünnhilde is his prize. Bryn Terfel is the Wanderer. James Levine conducts.
SATYAGRAHA
Live: Saturday, November 19 at 11am
Encore: Monday, November 28 at 6pm
Running Time: 4 hours and 13 minutes
The Met’s visually extravagant production is back for an encore engagement. Richard Croft (right) once again is Gandhi in Philip Glass’s unforgettable opera, which the Washington Post calls “a profound and beautiful work of theater.”
RODELINDA
Live: Saturday, December 3 at 10:30am
Encore: Monday, December 12 at 6pm
Running Time: 4 hours and 15 minutes
Sensational in the 2004 Met premiere of Stephen Wadsworth’s much-heralded production, Renée Fleming reprises the title role. She’s joined by Stephanie Blythe and countertenor Andreas Scholl, and Baroque specialist Harry Bicket conducts.
FAUST
Live: Saturday, December 10 at 11am
Encore: Monday, December 19 at 6pm
Running Time: 4 hours and 25 minutes
With Jonas Kaufmann in the title role, René Pape as the devil, and Marina Poplavskaya as Marguerite, Gounod’s classic retelling of the Faust legend couldn’t be better served. Tony Award-winning director Des McAnuff updates the story to the first half of the 20th century with a production that won praise in London last season. Yannick Nézet-Séguin conducts on the heels of his Don Carlo success.
THE ENCHANTED ISLAND
Live: Saturday, January 21 at 11am
Encore: Monday, January 30 at 6pm
Running Time: 3 hours and 40 minutes
In one extraordinary new work, lovers of Baroque opera have it all: the world’s best singers, glorious music of the Baroque masters, and a story drawn from Shakespeare. In The Enchanted Island, the lovers from Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream are shipwrecked on his other-worldly island of The Tempest. Inspired by the musical pastiches and masques of the 18th century, the work showcases arias and ensembles by Handel, Vivaldi, Rameau, and others, and a new libretto by Jeremy Sams. Eminent conductor William Christie leads an all-star cast with David Daniels (Prospero) and Joyce DiDonato (Sycorax) as the formidable foes, Plácido Domingo as Neptune, Danielle de Niese as Ariel, and Luca Pisaroni as Caliban. Lisette Oropesa and Anthony Roth Costanzo play Miranda and Ferdinand. The dazzling production is directed and designed by Phelim McDermott and Julian Crouch (Satyagraha and the Met’s 125 anniversary gala).
GÖTTERDÄMMERUNG
Live: Saturday, February 11 at 10am
Encore: Monday, February 27 at 6pm
Running Time: 6 hours and 24 minutes
With its cataclysmic climax, the Met’s new Ring cycle, directed by Robert Lepage, comes to its resolution. Deborah Voigt stars as Brünnhilde and Gary Lehman is Siegfried—the star-crossed lovers doomed by fate. James Levine conducts.
ERNANI
Live: Saturday, February 25 at 11am
Encore: Monday, March 5 at 6pm
Running Time: 3 hours and 54 minutes
Angela Meade takes center stage in Verdi’s thrilling early gem. Salvatore Licitra is her mismatched lover, and all-star Verdians Dmitri Hvorostovsky and Ferruccio Furlanetto round out the cast.
MANON
Encore: Monday, April 30 at 6pm
Running Time: 4 hours and 8 minutes
Anna Netrebko’s dazzling portrayal of the tragic heroine in Laurent Pelly’s new production travels to the Met from the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden. Piotr Beczala and Paulo Szot also star, with the Met’s Principal Guest Conductor Fabio Luisi on the podium.
LA TRAVIATA
Encore: Monday, May 14 at 6pm
Running Time: 3 hours and 12 minutes
Natalie Dessay will put on the red dress in Willy Decker’s stunning production, in her first Violetta at the Met. Matthew Polenzani sings Alfredo, Dmitri Hvorostovsky is Germont, and Principal Guest Conductor Fabio Luisi is on the podium.
