On the Edge

Series Detail - On the Edge /

4 Performances

Elektra

Friday, December 18, 2009
8:00 pm

Richard Strauss’s blazing score stars Susan Bullock as the demented princess. Deborah Voigt plays her devoted sister, Chrysothemis, and Fabio Luisi conducts.

Composer: Richard Strauss
Cast: Luisi; Bullock, Voigt, Palmer, Schmidt, Nikitin

Sung in German with Met Titles in English, German and Spanish

Hamlet

Saturday, March 20, 2010
8:00 pm

Simon Keenlyside and Natalie Dessay bring their extraordinary acting and singing skills to two of Shakespeare’s unforgettable characters. When this production, directed by Patrice Caurier and Moshe Leiser, opened in London at Covent Garden, The Independent called Keenlyside’s Hamlet, "a revelation - thrilling throughout.” Dessay plays the volatile Ophelia, whose extended mad scene is among the greatest in opera. Louis Langrée conducts.

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Composer: Ambroise Thomas
Cast: Langrée; Dessay, Larmore, Spence, Keenlyside, Morris

Sung in French with Met Titles in English, German and Spanish

Tosca

Saturday, April 17, 2010
8:30 pm

“Tosca combines Puccini’s glorious musical inspiration with the melodramatic vitality of one of the great Hitchcock films,” says Music Director James Levine who conducted the opening night performance. “From the very first bar of the piece, the opera seizes you and keeps you on the edge of your seat until the last note.” Karita Mattila, who sings the title role for the first time at the Met, says, “There are so many fascinating qualities to Tosca. At first I thought, ‘How will it feel to kill somebody on stage?’ But Tosca is like an action movie, and the drama just happens.” Luc Bondy, acclaimed for his imaginative theater and opera productions, directs. Marcelo Álvarez and George Gagnidze open as Cavaradossi and Scarpia, with Jonas Kaufmann, Marcello Giordani, and Bryn Terfel stepping in for later performances.

A co-production of the Metropolitan Opera, Teatro alla Scala, Milan, and Bayerische Staatsoper, Munich.

Composer: Giacomo Puccini
Cast: Levine; Mattila, Kaufmann, Terfel, Del Carlo

Sung in Italian with Met Titles in English, German and Spanish

Lulu

Saturday, May 15, 2010
12:30 pm

James Levine conducts Berg’s modernist masterpiece. An acclaimed interpreter of the title role, Marlis Petersen returns to the Met to play the scandalous femme fatale. Anne Sofie von Otter is Countess Geschwitz and James Morris is Dr. Schön.

Composer: Alban Berg
Cast: Levine; Petersen, von Otter, Lehman, Schade, Pittsinger, Morris

Sung in German with Met Titles in English, German and Spanish