2016-2017

Rumor has it the Met will announce the 2016-2017 season at noon on Wednesday, February 17.

New Productions
Saariaho's L'Amour de Loin

Dates: Fall

Production: Robert Lepage

Conductor: Susanna Malkki

Jaufré Rudel: Eric Owens Pilgrim: Tamara Mumford Clemence: Susanna Phillips

(Co-production with the Festival d'opéra de Québec)

Rossini's Guillaume Tell

Dates: October 16 to November 12

Production: Pierre Audi

Conductor: Fabio Luisi Guillaume Tell: Gerald Finley

Arnold: Bryan Hymel Mathilde: Marina Rebeka Edwige: Marianna Pizzolato Walter Furst: Marco Spotti

(Co-production with De Nationale Opera)

Gounod's Roméo et Juliette

Production: Bartlett Sher

Roméo: Vittorio Grigolo

Juliette:  Diana Damrau

Dwayne Croft?

(If a production is to be cut for budget reasons this season, this one looks the most likely. Perhaps a revival of the current Roméo would subsitute?)

R. Strauss' Der Rosenkavalier

Production: Robert Carsen

Designers: Paul Steinberg & Brigitte Reiffenstuel

Conductor: James Levine

Octavian: Elina Garanca

Marschallin: Renée Fleming

Sophie: Erin Morley / Hanna Elisabeth Muller

Baron Ochs: Günther Groissböck

(This is apparently now a co-production with Royal Opera Covent Garden and Opera National de Paris. Presumably, this will be replacing the Christoph Waltz production that had been rumored to be Renee Fleming's Covent Garden farewell?)

Dvorák's Rusalka

Production: Mary Zimmerman

Rusalka: Kristine Opolais

Vodnik (Water Gnome):  Eric Owens (?)

Prince: Brandon Jovanovich Foreign Princess: Katarina Dalayman

Jezibaba: Jamie Barton

Wagner's Tristan und Isolde

Dates: Opening Night

Production: Mariusz Trelinski

Conductor: Simon Rattle / Asher Fisch

Isolde: Nina Stemme

Tristan:  Stuart Skelton / Gary Lehman

Brangane:  Ekaterina Gubanova

King Marke: René Pape

Kurwenal: Evgeny Nikitin (?)

(Co-production with Festspielhaus Baden-Baden; Teatr Wielki-Polish National Opera and National Centre for the Performing Arts, Beijing )

Repertory
Verdi's Aida

Aida: Liudmyla Monastyrska / Krassimira Stoyanova

Amneris: Ekaterina Gubanova/Violeta Urmana

Radames: Jorge De Leon

Rossini's Il Barbiere di Siviglia 

Rosina: Pretty Yende

Count Almaviva: Javier Camarena (?)/Dmitry Korchak Figaro: Peter Mattei

Puccini's La Bohème Mimi: Sonya Yoncheva / Kristine Opalais/ Ailyn Perez Rodolfo: Piotr Beczala / Dmytro Popov/ Michael Fabiano Marcello: David Bizic/ Massimo Cavalletti/ Lessio Arduini

Musetta: Brigitta Kele/ Susannah Phillips Colline: Christian Van Horn/ Ryan Speedo Green

Bizet's Carmen  (29.12.2016 – 18.02.2017)

Carmen: Sophie Koch / Clementine Margaine

Micaela:  Maria Agresta Don Jose: Marcelo Alvarez

Alfano's Cyrano de Bergerac

Roxane: Patricia Racette

Cyrano: Roberto Alagna

Conductor: Marco Armiliato

Massenet's Werther

Werther: Vittorio Grigolo/Jean-François Borras

Massenet's Thais

Thais: Sonya Yoncheva

Nicias: Jean-François Borras

Athanael: Placido Domingo?

Mozart's Don Giovanni 

Conductor: Fabio Luisi Ottavio: Matthew Polenzani

Elvira:  Marina Rebeka

Anna:  Hibla Gerzmava

Zerlina:  Serena Malfi

Tchaikovsky's Eugene Onegin

Tatiana: Anna Netrebko/Sonya Yoncheva

Lenski: Matthew Polenzani

Puccini's La Fanciulla del West  (?)

Wagner's Die Fliegende Holländer

Dutchman: Michael Volle

Senta: Amber Wagner?

Erik: Jay Hunter Morris

Mozart's Idomeneo

Conductor: James Levine

Ilia: Julia Kleiter

Idamante-Alice Coote

Idomeneo:  Matthew Polenzani

Voice of Neptune: Eric Owens

Rossini's L'Italiana in Algeri 

Lindoro:  Javier Camarena Isabella: Elizabeth De Shong Mustafa: Ferruccio Furlanetto / Rubén Amoretti

Janácek's Jenufa

Kostelnicka: Karita Mattila Old Buryja: Hanna Schwarz

Jenufa: Oksana Dyka

Steva: Joseph Kaiser

Laca: Daniel Brenna

Mozart's The Magic Flute

Holiday abridged version in English

Pamina: Layla Claire

Queen of the Night: Jessica Pratt / Kathryn Lewek Speaker: Shenyang

Puccini's Manon Lescaut  (24.10.2016 – 10.12.2016)

Manon: Anna Netrebko

Des Grieux: Marcelo Alvarez

Verdi's Nabucco (Dec-Jan)

Nabucco: Placido Domingo

Abigaille: Liudmyla Monastyrska/Tatiana Melnychenko

Fenena: Jamie Barton/Nancy Fabiola Herrera

Ismaele: Russell Thomas

Verdi's Otello (?) Otello: Roberto Alagna (?)

Iago: Dmitri Hvorostovsky

Debussy's Pelléas et Melisande (?)

Conductor: James Levine

Golaud: Gerald Finley?/Ludovic Tézier Mélisande: Sabine Devieilhe? Genevieve: Marie-Nicole Lemieux

Bellini's I Puritani

Elvira:  Diana Damrau

Arturo:  Javier Camarena

Strauss's Salome (Dec) Herodias: Nancy Fabiola Herrera

Verdi's La Traviata

Alfredo:  Michael Fabiano / Attala Ayan Violetta: Marlis Petersen

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