2015-2016

New Productions
Verdi's Otello

Dates: Opening Night

Conductor: Yannick Nezet-Seguin

Production: Bart Sher

Designer: Catherine Zuber (costumes)

Otello: Aleksandrs Antonenko

Desdemona: Hibla Gerzmava / Sonya Yoncheva / Angela Meade (?)

Iago: Zeljko Lucic / Dmitri Hvorostovsky

Berg's Lulu

Dates: Nov / December 2015

Production: William Kentridge

Conductor: James Levine

Lulu: Marlis Petersen

Geschwitz:  Susan Graham

Alwa:  Daniel Brenna

Dr. Schon / Jack the Ripper:  Johan Reuter

Animal Trainer / Athlete:  Martin Winkler

(Co-production with the Dutch National Opera, English National Opera, & Canadian Opera Company)

Puccini's Manon Lescaut

Production: Sir Richard Eyre

Manon: Kristine Opolais

Des Grieux: Jonas Kaufmann

(Co-production with the Festspielhaus Baden-Baden)

Bizet's Les Pêcheurs de Perles [The Pearl Fishers]

Production: Penny Woolcock

Leila: Diana Damrau

Nadir: Vittorio Grigolo / Matthew Polenzani (?)

(Co-production with the English National Opera)

Donizetti's Roberto Devereux

Production: David McVicar (?)

Elisabetta: Sondra Radvanovsky

Roberto Devereux: Matthew Polenzani

Strauss's Elektra

Production: Patrice Chéreau

Conductor: Esa-Pekka Salonen (?)

Dates: April 14 to May 7

Elektra: Nina Stemme

Klytemnestra: Waltraud Meier

Chrysothemis: Adrianne Pieczonka

Orest: Eric Owens

(Co-production with the Aix-en-Provence Festival, Teatro alla Scala, Finnish National Opera, Gran Teatre del Liceu, & Berlin Staatsoper)

Repertory
Donizetti's Anna Bolena

Anna Bolena: Sondra Radvanovsky

Giovanni Seymour: Jamie Barton

Rossini's The Barber of Seville

Holiday abridged version in English

Puccini's La Bohème

Rodolfo: Piotr Beczala

Mimi:  Maria Agresta

Musetta:  Marina Rebeka / Ana Maria Martinez?

Marcello:  Levente Molnar / Quinn Kelsey

Mascagni's Cavalleria Rusticana & Leoncavallo's Pagliacci

Nedda:  Barbara Frittoli

Canio:  Roberto Alagna

Santuzza:  Lyudmila Monastyrska

Rossini's La Donna del Lago

Malcolm: Daniela Barcellona

Donizetti's Don Pasquale

Ernesto: Javier Camarena

Norina:  Angela Gheorghiu/Eleonora Buratto

Don Pasquale:  Ambrogio Maestri

Donizetti's L'Elisir d’Amore 

Adina:  Aleksandra Kurzak

Nemorino:  Vittorio Grigolo / Roberto Alagna

Mozart's Die Entführung aus dem Serail

Conductor: James Levine

J. Strauss's Die Fledermaus

Rosalinde: Susanna Phillips

Adele:  Lucy Crowe

Count Orlofsky: Susan Graham

Puccini's Madama Butterfly

Sharpless:  Artur Rucinski

Conductor:  Karel Mark Chichon

Donizetti's Maria Stuarda

Maria Stuarda: Sondra Radvanovsky

Elisabetta: Elza van den Heever

Mozart's Le Nozze di Figaro

Conte d'Almaviva: Luca Pisaroni

Verdi's Rigoletto

Duke of Mantua: Stephen Costello/Piotr Beczala/Joseph Calleja

Gilda: Olga Peretyatko

Verdi's Simon Boccanegra 

Simon: Plácido Domingo

Amelia Grimaldi: Angela Gheorghiu (3)/Barbara Frittoli (6)

Gabriele:  Joseph Calleja

Wagner's Tannhauser

Tannhauser: Johan Botha

Elisabeth:  Eva Maria Westbroek

Puccini's Tosca

Tosca: Maria Guleghina/Angela Gheorghiu

Scarpia: Željko Lučić

Verdi's Il Trovatore

Leonora: Anna Netrebko/Angela Meade

c. Marco Armiliato

Puccini's Turandot

Turandot: Lise Lindstrom / Christine Goerke/Jennifer Wilson

Calàf: Marcelo Alvarez

Liu: Hibla Gerzmava/Leah Crocetto