Stephen Fry - Live!
13th September 2010
Live from the Royal Festival Hall, this special event marks the publication of Stephen Fry’s new volume of autobiography The Fry Chronicles.
Das Rheingold - Wagner
9th - 13th October 2010
Robert Lepage’s new production of the Ring cycle opens with the prologue to Wagner’s epic drama with Bryn Terfel singing the leading role of Wotan for the first time with the company, heading an extraordinary cast.
Boris Godunov - Mussorgsky
23rd - 29th October 2010
Valery Gergiev conducts Mussorgsky’s soulful spectacle, which captures the suffering and ambition of a nation.
Don Pasquale - Donizetti
13th - 20th November 2010
James Levine, Anna Netrebko, Matthew Polenzani, Mariusz Kwiecien, John Del Carbo. Anna Netrebko returns to the role that made her a Met star
Don Carlo - Verdi
11th December 2010
Director Nicholas Hytner makes his MET debut with this new production of Verdi's profound, beautiful and most ambitious opera
La Fanciulla Del West
8th January 2011
Puccini’s wild-west opera had its world premiere in 1910 at the Met. Now, on the occasion of its centennial, all-American diva Deborah Voigt sings the title role of the “girl of the golden west,” starring opposite Marcello Giordani. Nicola Luisotti conducts
Iphigenie en Tauride - Gluck
26th February 2011
Susan Graham and Plácido Domingo reprise their starring roles in Gluck’s nuanced and elegant interpretation of this primal Greek myth. Tenor Paul Groves also returns to Stephen Wadsworth’s insightful production, first seen in 2007. Patrick Summers conducts
Lucia Di Lammermoor - Donizetti
19th March 2011
Natalie Dessay triumphed as the fragile heroine of Donizetti’s masterpiece on Opening Night of the 2007–08 season in Mary Zimmerman’s hit production. Now she returns to the role of the innocent young woman driven to madness, opposite Joseph Calleja, who sings her lover Edgardo
Le Comte Ory - Rossini
9th April 2011
Rossini’s vocally dazzling comedy stars bel canto sensation Juan Diego Flórez in the title role of this Met premiere production. He vies with mezzo-soprano Joyce DiDonato, in the trouser role of Isolier, for the love of the lonely Countess Adèle, sung by soprano Diana Damrau
Capriccio - Strauss
23rd April 2011
On Opening Night of the 2008–09 season, Renée Fleming dazzled audiences when she sang the final scene of Strauss’s wise and worldly meditation on art and life. Now she performs the entire work, in which the composer explores the essence of opera itself. Matthew Polenzani and Sarah Connolly also star, and Andrew Davis conducts.
Il Trovatore - Verdi
30th April 2011
David McVicar’s stirring production of Verdi’s intense drama premiered in the 2008–09 season. James Levine leads this revival, starring four extraordinary singers—Sondra Radvanovsky, Dolora Zajick, Marcelo Álvarez, and Dmitri Hvorostovsky—in what might be the composer’s most melodically rich score.
Die Walkure - Wagner
14th May 2011
A stellar cast comes together for this second installment of Robert Lepage’s new production of the Ring cycle, conducted by James Levine. Bryn Terfel is Wotan, lord of the Gods. Deborah Voigt adds the part of Brünnhilde to her extensive Wagnerian repertoire at the Met. Jonas Kaufmann and Eva-Maria Westbroek star as the twins, Siegmund and Sieglinde, and Stephanie Blythe is Fricka.
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