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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) [1]
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) [2]
Gounod's Roméo et Juliette
Production: Bartlett Sher [3]
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?) [4]
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 ) [5]
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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