... The Met's first new production on Opening Night in 20 years - director Anthony Minghella's acclaimed interpretation of Madama Butterfly... James Levine ... Cristina Gallardo-Domâs, Marcello Giordani and Dwayne Croft...

... six new production: Bartlett Sher (The Light in the Piazza) and Jack O'Brien (Hairspray) will stage new productions of Rossini's Il Barbiere di Siviglia and Puccini's Il Trittico; film director Zhang Yimou (Hero, House of Flying Daggers) will direct the world premiere of Tan Dun's The First Emperor, a historical pageant of ancient China; choreographer Mark Morris will direct Orfeo ed Euridice; David Fielding will direct Strauss' mythological love story, Die Ägyptische Helena.

The Met ... roster includes:

Ildar Abdrazakov (Faust), Carlos Alvarez (Rigoletto), Olga Borodina (Don Carlo and Gioconda), Johan Botha (Meistersinger), Dwayne Croft (Butterfly), José Cura (Tosca), Diana Damrau (Barbiere and Helena), David Daniels (Cesare), Plácido Domingo (First Emperor), Renée Fleming (Onegin), Juan Diego Flórez (Barbiere), Ferruccio Furlanetto (Boccanegra), Cristina Gallardo- Domâs (Butterfly), Angela Gheorghiu (Boccanegra), Marcello Giordani (Butterfly and Bohème), Andrea Gruber (Tosca and Turandot), Maria Guleghina (Cavalleria), Nathan Gunn (Zauberflöte), Thomas Hampson (Boccanegra), Ben Heppner (Chénier and Idomeneo), Hei-Kyung Hong (Traviata and Turandot), Dmitri Hvorostovsky (Don Carlo and Onegin), Jonas Kaufmann (Traviata and Zauberflöte), Salvatore Licitra (Pagliacci and Tabarro), Lorraine Hunt Lieberson (Orfeo), Peter Mattei (Barbiere), Karita Mattila (Jenufa), James Morris (Meistersinger), Anna Netrebko (Puritani and Bohème), René Pape (Don Carlo), Patricia Racette (Pagliacci and Don Carlo), Dorothea Röschmann (Idomeneo), Ruth Ann Swenson (Faust and Cesare), Violeta Urmana (Chénier and Gioconda), Ramón Vargas (Faust and Onegin), Rolando Villazón (Bohème), Deborah Voigt (Helena), and Dolora Zajick (Cavalleria).

... winter holiday family entertainment at The Met, with Julie Taymor's abridged English-language production of The Magic Flute...... in the spring, ... Anna Netrebko and Rolando Villazón ... fully-staged gala of Bohème (Act I), Manon (Saint Sulpice scene), and L'Elisir (Act II) para 40th Anniversary celebration.