Metropolitan Opera 2011 - 2012
NUEVAS PRODUCCIONES
Anna Bolena - Gaetano Donizetti (abre temporada)
Anna Netrebko as the young queen of the title and conducted by Marco Armiliato.
Elīna Garanča as Giovanna (Jane Seymour);
Stephen Costello as Lord Percy;
Ildar Abdrazakov as Enrico (Henry VIII);
Tamara Mumford as the queen's page, Smeton.
Don Giovanni - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
A new production of Mozart's Don Giovanni, directed by Tony Award winner Michael Grandage in his Met debut, opens October 13.
The opera has two casts of gifted Mozart singers.
James Levine, conductor Andrew Davis, conductor
Mariusz Kwiecien Don Giovanni Gerald Finley
Marina Rebeka Donna Anna Marina Rebeka
Mojca Erdmann Zerlina Isabel Leonard
Ramón Vargas Don Ottavio Matthew Polenzani
Luca Pisaroni Leporello John Relyea
Štefan Kocán Commendatore James Morris
Barbara Frittoli Donna Elvira Annette Dasch
Joshua Bloom Masetto Shenyang
Siegfried - Richard Wagner
Robert Lepage's production of Siegfried opens October 27, with Maestro Levine conducting and Gary Lehman in his first Met performances of the title role.
Deborah Voigt as Brünnhilde
Patricia Bardon as Erda
Bryn Terfel as the Wanderer
Eric Owens and Gerhard Siegel as the greedy brothers Alberich and Mime.
Faust - Charles Gounod
On November 29, a new production of Gounod's Faust opens, set by Tony Award-winning director Des McAnuff (Met debut) in the first part of the 20th century.
Jonas Kaufmann sings his first Met performances of the title role of Faust, with:
Angela Gheorghiu as the innocent Marguerite,
Russell Braun as Valentin
René Pape as Méphistophélès
Yannick Nézet-Séguin, conducts his first Met performances of the opera.
(Later casts include Marina Poplavskaya, Roberto Alagna, Joseph Calleja, and Ferruccio Furlanetto, as well as conductor Alain Altinoglu's first performances of Faust at the Met.)
The Enchanted Island
On New Year's Eve, the Met will present The Enchanted Island, a world premiere creation using Baroque music set to an all-new English-language libretto by Jeremy Sams, who collaborated with Baroque specialist William Christie, who conducts. As an operatic pasticcio or pastiche, The Enchanted Island harks back to the 18th century when adapting new words to music from various composers to create an altogether new theatrical piece became standard procedure in opera houses. The libretto is set to music by George Frideric Handel, Jean-Philippe Rameau, and Antonio Vivaldi, with smaller excerpts of pieces by André Campra, Jean-Marie Leclair, and others. The opera combines characters and plot elements from two Shakespeare plays: the four mismatched lovers from A Midsummer Night's Dream are shipwrecked on an island where The Tempest's Prospero and Sycorax are embroiled in a supernatural battle. The starry cast includes:
Danielle de Niese as Ariel
Lisette Oropesa as Miranda
Joyce DiDonato as Sycorax
David Daniels as Prospero
Anthony Roth Costanzo as Ferdinand
Luca Pisaroni as Caliban
with a special appearance by Plácido Domingo as Neptune.
Götterdämmerung - Richard Wagner
Robert Lepage's production of the final opera in the Ring cycle, Götterdämmerung, opens January 27. In the cycle's thrilling conclusion, in which deception and greed lead to a global cataclysm. Deborah Voigt and Katarina Dalayman share the role of Brünnhilde. Gary Lehman and Stephen Gould share the role of Siegfried. The cast also includes:
Waltraud Meier as Waltraute
Eric Owens as Alberich
Hans-Peter König as Hagen
Wendy Bryn Harmer as Gutrune
Iain Paterson as Gunther
Manon - Jules Massenet
Anna Netrebko opens her second new production of the season on March 26, portraying the impetuous, tragic title character in Massenet's Manon for the first time at the Met. Also making Met role debuts are
Piotr Beczala as Manon's lover the Chevalier des Grieux
Paulo Szot as her cousin Lescaut
David Pittsinger as the Comte des Grieux
Met Principal Guest Conductor Fabio Luisi conducts his first house performances of the work.
A co-production of the Metropolitan Opera, New York; the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London; Teatro alla Scala, Milan; and Théâtre du Capitole de Toulouse.
Ring Cycles
The Met will present three complete cycles of the new production of Der Ring des Nibelungen in April and May 2012. The cycles will be the 108th, 109th and 110th presented at the Met since the first cycle in the Western Hemisphere premiered at the house in 1889. James Levine will conduct all three, as he has the last 21 complete cycles at the Met. Lepage's production is the first new Met Ring since 1988, and only the third to premiere at the house in the last 50 years.
Cycle 1 will open April 7 (Das Rheingold) and continue on April 13 (Die Walküre), April 21 (Siegfried), and April 24 (Götterdämmerung).
Cycle 2 will play April 26 , 28, 30 and May 3.
Cycle 3 will take place on May 5, 7, 9 and 12.
REPERTORIO
Philip Glass's Satyagraha will have its first Met revival in Phelim McDermott and Julian Crouch's innovative production, conducted by Dante Anzolini, who led the opera's Met premiere. Richard Croft will reprise his lead performance as Gandhi, with Rachelle Durkin, Kim Josephson, and Alfred Walker in principal roles.
Janáček's The Makropulos Case will return to the Met for the first time since 2001, with Karita Mattila in the starring role of the supernaturally youthful diva Emilia Marty and Janáček specialist Jiří Bělohlávek conducting. Kurt Streit and Johan Reuter (in his Met debut) are two of Emilia's admirers and Tom Fox is the skeptical lawyer Kolenatý.
Another 20th-century opera, Britten's Billy Budd, has its first Met revival since 1997, with Nathan Gunn singing the title role for the first time at the Met. John Daszak makes his Met debut as Captain Vere and James Morris sings the villain John Claggart in Britten's adaptation of the classic Melville novella, conducted by David Robertson.
Handel's Rodelinda will return to the repertory, with Renée Fleming again singing the title role of the Queen of Lombardy, and Kobie van Rensburg and Stephanie Blythe as Grimoaldo and Eduige. Harry Bicket, who led the opera's first performances at the Met, returns to conduct. Countertenors Andreas Scholl (as the usurped king Bertarido) and Iestyn Davies (in his Met debut as Unulfo, Bertarido's friend) and bass-baritone Shenyang (as the evil Garibaldo) complete the cast of Stephen Wadsworth's acclaimed production.
Russian opera is represented this season by Mussorgsky's dramatic historical epic Khovanshchina, not heard at the Met since 1999. Anatoli Kotscherga and Misha Didyk make their Met debuts in the roles of Ivan and Andrei Khovansky, surrounded by an outstanding cast of Russian and Georgian artists that includes Olga Borodina as Marfa, Vladimir Galouzine as Vasily Golitsin, George Gagnidze as Shaklovity, Ildar Abdrazakov as Dosifei, and conductor Kirill Petrenko.
Puccini lovers will hear revivals of the composer's three most popular works. Madama Butterfly, in Anthony Minghella's stunning production, will star Liping Zhang and Patricia Racette in the heartbreaking title role, with Robert Dean Smith and Marcello Giordani as the callous Lieutenant Pinkerton. Maria Zifchak returns to the role of Suzuki and Luca Salsi and Laurent Naouri (in his Met debut) sing Sharpless. Plácido Domingo, Marco Armiliato, and Yves Abel will each conduct performances of Butterfly in the coming season. Carolyn Choa, the production's original choreographer and associate director, returns to stage the revival.
Patricia Racette will also sing the title role of Tosca, a part that earned her tremendous acclaim when she first sang it at the Met in 2010. Two tenors will alternate as her lover Cavaradossi: Roberto Alagna, who made an unexpected Met role debut in the part in the current season and Aleksandrs Antonenko, singing the role for the first time at the Met. Scarpia will be sung by George Gagnidze and James Morris. Young Finnish conductor Mikko Franck makes his Met debut.
Puccini's enduring classic La Bohème, in Franco Zeffirelli's spectacular staging, will return next season with Hibla Gerzmava and Hei-Kyung Hong as Mimì and Dimitri Pittas as Rodolfo. Susanna Phillips reprises her winning portrayal of Musetta and Alexey Markov, Patrick Carfizzi, and Matthew Rose (in his Met debut) comprise Rodolfo's circle of bohemian friends. Louis Langrée conducts his first Met performances of the opera.
Bartlett Sher's rollicking production of Rossini's Il Barbiere di Siviglia returns to the Met for an extended run, with two casts of stars conducted by Maurizio Benini. An October revival will star Peter Mattei as Figaro and Isabel Leonard in her Met role debut as Rosina, with Javier Camarena making his Met debut as Count Almaviva, Maurizio Muraro as Dr. Bartolo, and Paata Burchuladze and Samuel Ramey singing Don Basilio. A spring run will feature Diana Damrau as Rosina, with Rodion Pogossov as Figaro, Colin Lee as Almaviva, John Del Carlo as Dr. Bartolo, and Ferruccio Furlanetto as Don Basilio.
Two Donizetti comedies will join Barbiere on the lighter side of the season. L'Elisir d'Amore has a glittering cast of bel canto stars: Diana Damrau as the beautiful Adina, Juan Diego Flórez as the bumbling Nemorino, Mariusz Kwiecien as the cocky Belcore, and Alessandro Corbelli as the elixir-dispensing Dulcamara. Donato Renzetti conducts.
Laurent Pelly's production of La Fille du Régiment returns for a third engagement, with Nino Machaidze making her house role debut in the title role and Lawrence Brownlee returning to the high C-laden role of Tonio. Kiri Te Kanawa will again grace the Met stage in the speaking role of the Duchess of Krakenthorp, while Ann Murray and Maurizio Muraro sing the comic roles of the Marquise of Berkenfield and Sulpice. Yves Abel conducts the opera for the first time at the Met.
Verdi operas are heavily represented in the season, with five revivals of the composer's works.
Natalie Dessay sings her first Met performances of Violetta in Willy Decker's innovative 2010 production of La Traviata, conducted by Met Principal Guest Conductor Fabio Luisi, with Matthew Polenzani reprising his portrayal of Alfredo and Dmitri Hvorostovsky as Giorgio Germont.
Thomas Hampson makes a house role debut as the title character in Macbeth, opposite the Lady Macbeth of debuting soprano Nadja Michael. Verdi specialist Gianandrea Noseda conducts.
Sonja Frisell's grand production of Aida will feature Stephanie Blythe in her first Met performances of Amneris, opposite Violeta Urmana in the title role and Marcelo Álvarez as Radamès.
Ernani will star Salvatore Licitra in the title role and Angela Meade--in her first full run of Met performances--as Elvira, with Dmitri Hvorostovsky as Carlo and Ferruccio Furlanetto as de Silva. Marco Armiliato will conduct both revivals.
The biblical epic Nabucco returns for 12 performances, with Maria Guleghina and Marianne Cornetti singing the role of Abigaille, and Željko Lučić in the title role. Tenor Yonghoon Lee, whose Met debut in the title role of Don Carlo was much admired this season, sings Ismaele and Paolo Carignani conducts.
Y estas serán las retransmisiones en cine en HD:
DONIZETTI Anna Bolena (October 15)
MOZART Don Giovanni (October 29)
WAGNER Siegfried (November 5)
GLASS Satyagraha (November 19)
HANDEL Rodelinda (December 3)
GOUNOD Faust (December 10)
HANDEL/VIVALDI/RAMEAU etc. The Enchanted Island (January 21)
WAGNER Götterdämmerung (February 11)
VERDI Ernani (February 25)
MASSENET Manon (April 7)
VERDI La Traviata (April 14)
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