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4 Performances

Der Rosenkavalier

Tuesday, October 13, 2009
7:30 pm

Renée Fleming and Susan Graham reign supreme in Richard Strauss’s masterpiece. Kristinn Sigmundsson is Baron Ochs.

Composer:  Richard Strauss
Cast: de Waart; Fleming, Graham, Persson, Vargas, Ketelsen, Sigmundsson

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

From the House of the Dead

Thursday, November 12, 2009
8:00 pm

With this new production, voted Europe’s best opera staging for 2007, one of opera’s great visionaries makes his Met debut. Patrice Chéreau, renowned for his legendary centennial Ring cycle at Bayreuth, directs Janácek’s drama of human resilience inside a Russian prison. “The penal camp is a different society, parallel to ours, but there are many similarities between the two,” Chéreau declares. “Power, relationships, humiliation, passion—all those things exist in both worlds.” Conductor Esa-Pekka Salonen also makes his Met debut, and Peter Mattei leads the ensemble cast.

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A production of the Metropolitan Opera and the Wiener Festwochen, in co-production with Holland Festival, Amsterdam; the Festival d’Aix-en-Provence; and Teatro alla Scala, Milan.
Contains brief nudity and mature content.

Composer:  Leos Janácek
Cast: Salonen; Margita, Streit, Hoare, Mattei, White

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

The Nose

Thursday, March 11, 2010
8:00 pm

Artist William Kentridge defies genres with Shostakovich’s adaptation of Gogol’s story. “The opera is about the terrors of hierarchy,” Kentridge says. “There’s a mixture of anarchy and the absurd that interests me. I love in this opera the sense that anything is possible.” The new production is conducted by definitive Shostakovich interpreter Valery Gergiev. Acclaimed baritone Paulo Szot, who won a Tony Award® for South Pacific, makes his Met debut as the man who wakes up to discover that his nose has disappeared.

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A co-production of the Metropolitan Opera, the Festival d’Aix-en-Provence, and the Opéra National de Lyon, France.

Composer:  Dmitri Shostakovich
Cast: Gergiev; Popov, Gietz, Szot

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

Lulu

Wednesday, May 12, 2010
8:00 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