Series Detail - Beyond Bohème /

4 Performances

La Damnation de Faust

Monday, October 26, 2009
8:00 pm

When it premiered last season Robert Lepage’s production amazed audiences through its use of virtual scenery, interactive video, and aerial acrobatics. Ramón Vargas, Olga Borodina, and Ildar Abdrazakov will bring Berlioz’s stunning score to life, with James Conlon conducting. In collaboration with Ex Machina.

This production was reconceived for the Metropolitan Opera and is based on a co-production of the Saito Kinen Festival and the Opéra National de Paris

Composer:  Hector Berlioz
Cast: Conlon; Borodina, Vargas, Abdrazakov

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

Ariadne auf Naxos

Thursday, February 11, 2010
8:00 pm

Strauss’s dual gifts for groundbreaking modernity and classical elegance come together in a smart and fanciful production. The great Swedish diva Nina Stemme makes a rare appearance in the title role and Sarah Connolly as the Composer. Kirill Petrenko conducts.

Composer:  Richard Strauss
Cast: Petrenko; Stemme, Kim, Connolly, Ryan, Schmeckenbecher

Sung in German 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.

Watch the director video




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

Armida

Tuesday, May 11, 2010
8:00 pm

Renée Fleming stars as Rossini’s sorceress, opposite no fewer than six tenors. Mary Zimmerman returns to direct, bringing her fine-tuned theatricality to a work she describes as “a buried treasure, a box of jewels.” The fanciful story of the sorceress who enthralls men in her island prison of sensual delights, Zimmerman says, “has an epic, enchanted quality and a tremendous visual element.”

For information about tickets that include the New Production Gala dinner, please call 212.362.6000

Composer:  Gioachino Rossini
Cast: Frizza; Fleming, Brownlee, Ford, Zapata, Banks, van Rensburg

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