Ildar Abdrazakov
BASS (Ufa, Russia)
THIS SEASON Henry VIII in Anna Bolena and Dosifei in Khovanshchina at the Met, the Verdi Requiem with the Vienna Philharmonic at the Salzburg Festival, Mustafà in L’Italiana in Algeri with the Vienna State Opera, the Four Villains in Les Contes d’Hoffmann at La Scala, and the title role of Attila in Rome.
MET APPEARANCES The Four Villains, Méphistophélès in La Damnation de Faust and Faust, Attila, Masetto in Don Giovanni (debut, 2004), Alidoro in La Cenerentola, Escamillo in Carmen, Mustafà in L’Italiana in Algeri, Raimondo, and Leporello in Don Giovanni.
CAREER HIGHLIGHTS Recent performances include Moïse in Moïse et Pharon in Rome, Procida in I Vespri Siciliani in Turin, Don Basilio in Il Barbiere di Siviglia at Covent Garden, Figaro in Le Nozze di Figaro with Washington National Opera, Banquo in Macbeth at La Scala, and Walter in Luisa Miller with the Paris Opera.

Marcelo Álvarez
TENOR (Córdoba, Argentina)
THIS SEASON Cavaradossi in Tosca and Radamès in Aida at the Met; the Italian Singer in Der Rosenkavalier, Cavaradossi, and Rodolfo in Luisa Miller at La Scala; Don Alvaro in La Forza del Destino with the Paris Opera; Cavaradossi in Turin; Luisa Miller’s Rodolfo with the Deutsche Oper Berlin, and the title role of Otello at Covent Garden.
MET APPEARANCES Manrico in Il Trovatore, Alfredo in La Traviata (debut, 1998), the Duke in Rigoletto, Edgardo in Lucia di Lammermoor, Rodolfo in La Bohème, des Grieux in Manon, the Italian Singer in Der Rosenkavalier, and Don José in Carmen.
CAREER HIGHLIGHTS Recent engagements include the title role of Andrea Chénier at the Paris Opera; Radamès and Don José at Covent Garden; Maurizio in Adriana Lecouvreur in Turin; Gustavo in Un Ballo in Maschera in Madrid, Berlin, London, and Paris; and Cavaradossi at Covent Garden and in Rome, Verona, and Berlin. He has also sung Manrico, the Duke, and the title role of Les Contes d’Hoffmann at Covent Garden, and Roméo in Roméo et Juliette and the title role of Werther in Munich and Vienna.

Lado Ataneli
BARITONE (Tbilisi, Republic of Georgia)
THIS SEASON Amonasro in Aida at the Met, Giorgio Germont in La Traviata in Cologne, Scarpia in Tosca in Turin and at Paris’s Thêátre des Champs-Élysées, and the title role of Macbeth in Monte Carlo.
MET APPEARANCES The title roles of Rigoletto, Nabucco, and Macbeth, Tonio in Pagliacci, and Giorgio Germont (debut, 2003).
CAREER HIGHLIGHTS Recent performances include Tomsky in The Queen of Spades at Barcelona’s Liceu, Barnaba in La Gioconda in Madrid and at the Deutsche Oper Berlin, Michele in Il Tabarro at Covent Garden, Macbeth at the Edinburgh Festival, Scarpia with the San Francisco Opera, and Iago in Otello in Dallas. He has also sung Scarpia at the Vienna State Opera, Don Carlo in La Forza del Destino at the Deutsche Oper Berlin, Rodrigo in Don Carlo at the Los Angeles Opera, and Macbeth at the Washington National Opera and Vienna State Opera.

Marco Armiliato
CONDUCTOR (Genoa, Italy)
THIS SEASON Anna Bolena, Ernani, Aida, and Madama Butterfly at the Met, Tosca in Munich, L’Elisir d’Amore and L’Italiana in Algeri with the Vienna State Opera, Linda di Chamounix in Barcelona, Manon Lescaut in Hamburg, and Il Barbiere di Siviglia with the Paris Opera
MET APPEARANCES More than 200 performances including La Bohème (debut, 1998), Il Trovatore, Tosca, Lucia di Lammermoor, La Rondine, Adriana Lecouvreur, La Traviata, La Fille du Régiment, Il Trovatore, Rigoletto, Turandot, Cavalleria Rusticana, Pagliacci, Andrea Chénier, Sly, and Cyrano de Bergerac.
CAREER HIGHLIGHTS Since his 1995 debut at the Vienna State Opera he has returned to that company for a number of works including Tosca, Fedora, Turandot, Madama Butterfly, Rigoletto, and La Sonnambula. He also conducts regularly at the Deutsche Oper Berlin, San Francisco Opera, Barcelona’s Liceu, Rome Opera, the Hamburg State Opera, and Venice’s La Fenice, among others.

Piotr Beczala
TENOR (Czechowice-Dziedzice, Poland)
THIS SEASON Des Grieux in Manon at the Met, the Duke in Rigoletto with the Paris Opera, Gustavo in Un Ballo in Maschera, Rodolfo in La Bohème, and the Duke in Zurich, the title role of Faust in Barcelona, Alfredo in La Traviata at Covent Garden, Edgardo in Lucia di Lammermoor with the Vienna State Opera, and Rodolfo at the Salzburg Festival.
MET APPEARANCES Rodolfo, Roméo in Roméo et Juliette, the Duke (debut, 2006) and Lenski in Eugene Onegin.
CAREER HIGHLIGHTS The Prince in Rusalka, Don Ottavio in Don Giovanni, the Italian Tenor in Der Rosenkavalier, and Vaudémont in Iolanta at the Salzburg Festival, the Duke at Covent Garden and La Scala, Alfredo in La Traviata in Munich and Berlin, and Werther in Frankfurt and Munich. He has also sung Tamino in Die Zauberflöte in Vienna, Berlin, and Paris, Jeník in The Bartered Bride with the Paris Opera and in Zurich, Rodolfo in Amsterdam, Vaudémont in Vienna and Moscow, and Lenski at Paris’s Bastille Opera and for his 2004 United States debut with the San Francisco Opera.

Jiří Bělohlávek
CONDUCTOR (Prague, Czech Republic)
THIS SEASON The Makropulos Case at the Met and Martinů’s Julietta in Geneva and concerts with the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, Boston Symphony Orchestra, Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, and BBC Symphony Orchestra.
MET APPEARANCES Eugene Onegin, Rusalka, Jenůfa and Kát’a Kabanová (debut, 2004).
CAREER HIGHLIGHTS He is currently chief conductor of the BBC Symphony Orchestra, was founder and is music director laureate of the Prague Philharmonia, and becomes music director and chief conductor of the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra this September. He has led Eugene Onegin at Covent Garden, The Makropulos Case with the San Francisco Opera, The Bartered Bride with the Paris Opera, Kát’a Kabanová in Madrid, From the House of the Dead in Geneva, Martinů’s The Plays of Mary in Prague, and Tristan und Isolde, Rusalka, and Jenůfa at the Glyndebourne Festival. Earlier this year he was awarded an honorary CBE for services to British music in the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee Birthday Honors List.

Maurizio Benini
CONDUCTOR (Faenza, Italy)
THIS SEASON Il Barbiere di Siviglia at the Met, La Traviata and La Bohème at Covent Garden, Semiramide and I Masnadieri in Naples, and Adriana Levouvreur in Barcelona.
MET APPEARANCES Le Comte Ory, La Cenerentola, Norma, L’Elisir d’Amore (debut, 1998), Rigoletto, La Traviata, Luisa Miller, Don Pasquale, and Faust.
CAREER HIGHLIGHTS He made his conducting debut at Bologna’s Teatro Comunale with Rossini’s Il Signor Bruschino, and his debut at La Scala in 1992 with La Donna del Lago (where he has since led Don Carlo, Pagliacci, Don Pasquale, Rigoletto, and La Sonnambula). He has also conducted La Scala di Seta, L’Occasione Fa il Ladro, and Le Siège de Corinthe at Pesaro’s Rossini Opera Festival; Attila, Luisa Miller, and Faust at Covent Garden; Rossini’s Zelmira at the Edinburgh Festival; and Don Carlo in Barcelona.

Vitaliy Bilyy
BARITONE (Dobrovodi, Ukraine)
THIS SEASON Shaklovity in Khovanshchina at the Met, Enrico in Lucia di Lammermoor at Padua’s Teatro Verdi, and Miller in Luisa Miller at La Scala.
MET APPEARANCE Count di Luna in Il Trovatore and Colonel Vaska Denisov in War and Peace (debut, 2007). 
CAREER HIGHLIGHTS He made his operatic debut in 2000 as Germont in La Traviata with the Odessa Opera Theatre and recent performances include Riccardo in I Puritani in Cagliari, the title role of Eugene Onegin with the Kiev Opera, Count di Luna in Padua, Zurga in Les Pêcheurs de Perles in Santiago, and a number of roles with Moscow’s Novoya Opera including Lionel in Tchaikovsky’s The Maid of Orleans, Eugene Onegin, Mizgir in Rimsky-Korsakov’s The Snow Maiden, Gryaznoy in Rimsky-Korsakov’s The Tsar’s Bride, and Alfio in Cavalleria Rusticana.

Jordan Bisch
BASS (Vancouver, Washington)
THIS SEASON The King in Aida at the Met and Raimondo in Lucia di Lammermoor for his debut with the Dallas Opera.
MET APPEARANCES Second Knight in Parsifal (debut, 2006), Duke of Verona in Roméo et Juliette, Trojan in Idomeneo, and Ceprano in Rigoletto.
CAREER HIGHLIGHTS He recently made debuts at the Florida Grand Opera as Raimondo, Seattle Opera in the world premiere of Daron Hagen’s Amelia, and at the Tanglewood Festival in the Mozart Requiem with the Boston Symphony Orchestra. A graduate of the Met’s Lindemann Young Artist Development Program, he appeared last season as Kecal in the joint Met Opera/Juilliard School production of The Bartered Bride. He has also sung Angelotti in Tosca with the San Francisco Opera, Second Armored Man in Die Zauberflöte with Los Angeles Opera, Frère Laurent in Roméo et Juliette with Portland, Maine’s PORTopera, and Paolo in Simon Boccanegra at Switzerland’s Verbier Festival.

Stephanie Blythe
MEZZO-SOPRANO (Mongaup Valley, New York)
THIS SEASON Eduige in Rodelinda, Amneris in Aida, and Fricka in Das Rheingold and Die Walküre at the Met, Azucena in concert performances of Il Trovatore for her debut with the Deutsche Oper Berlin, and concert appearances with the New York Philharmonic and Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra.
MET APPEARANCES More than 150 performances of 25 roles including Orfeo in Orfeo ed Euridice, Ježibaba in Rusalka, Ulrica in Un Ballo in Maschera, Cornelia in Giulio Cesare, Jocasta in Oedipus Rex, Mistress Quickly in Falstaff, Baba the Turk in The Rake’s Progress, and the Alto Solo in Parsifal (debut, 1995).
CAREER HIGHLIGHTS Azucena for her debut at the San Francisco Opera, Baba the Turk at Covent Garden, Orlofsky in Die Fledermaus at the Arizona Opera, Dalila in Samson et Dalila at the Pittsburgh Opera, Isabella in L’Italiana in Algeri and Carmen in Seattle, Azucena and Mistress Quickly at Covent Garden, Isabella in Philadelphia and Santa Fe, and Cornelia and Mistress Quickly at the Paris Opera. She is a graduate of the Met’s Lindemann Young Artist Development Program.

Olga Borodina
MEZZO-SOPRANO (St. Petersburg, Russia)
THIS SEASON Marfa in Khovanshchina at the Met, Marina in Boris Godunov with St. Petersburg’s Mariinsky Theatre, and a recital tour in Europe.
MET APPEARANCES Marguerite in La Damnation de Faust, the title role of Carmen, Amneris in Aida, Marina (debut, 1997), Dalila in Samson et Dalila, Paulina in The Queen of Spades, Isabella in L’Italiana in Algeri, Angelina in La Cenerentola, Laura in La Gioconda, and the Princess in Adriana Lecouvreur.
CAREER HIGHLIGHTS Dalila for her 1992 European debut at Covent Garden (where she has also sung Marfa in Khovanshchina, Angelina, and Marina), Marina with the Vienna State Opera and for her 1997 Salzburg Festival debut (returning in 1999, 2001, and 2003), the Princess and Dalila at La Scala, Carmen and Eboli for the Paris Opera, and Dalila and Isabella with the Washington National Opera and San Francisco Opera.

Alessandro Corbelli
BARITONE (Turin, Italy)
THIS SEASON Dulcamara in L’Elisir d’Amore at the Met, the title role of Don Pasquale in Santiago and at Paris’s Thêátre des Champs Élysées, the title role of Falstaff in Toulouse, and Don Magnifico in La Cenerentola with Munich’s Bavarian State Opera.
MET APPEARANCES The title role of Gianni Schicchi, Don Magnifico and Dandini (debut, 1997) in La Cenerentola, Sulpice in La Fille du Régiment, and Taddeo in L’Italiana in Algeri.
CAREER HIGHLIGHTS Don Magnifico at Covent Garden, Lyric Opera of Chicago, Théâtre des Champs-Élysées, and the Glyndebourne Festival, Don Geronio in Il Turco in Italia with Munich’s Bavarian State Opera, Falstaff at the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées, Sulpice at La Scala and Covent Garden, Gianni Schicchi at the Paris Opera and Glyndebourne Festival, Leporello in Don Giovanni at the Rome Opera, Don Alfonso in Così fan tutte and Taddeo in L’Italiana in Algeri at the Paris Opera, Dandini at La Scala, and Don Geronio and Don Pasquale at Covent Garden.

Diana Damrau
SOPRANO (Gunzburg, Germany)
THIS SEASON Rosina in Il Barbiere di Siviglia and Adina in L'Elisir d'Amore at the Met, the three heroines in Les Contes d'Hoffmann at the Munich Festival, the title role of Donizetti's Linda di Camounix in Barcelona, Philine in Thomas's Mignon in Geneva, Gilda in Rigoletto in Zurich, and the title role of Lucia di Lammermoor at the Vienna State Opera and Deutsche Oper Berlin
MET APPEARANCES Adèle in Le Comte Ory, Gilda, Marie in La Fille du Régiment, Pamina and the Queen of the Night in Die Zauberflöte, Zerbinetta in Ariadne auf Naxos (debut, 2005), Aithra in Die Ägyptische Helena, and Konstanze in Die Entführung aus dem Serail.
CAREER HIGHLIGHTS Adele in Die Fledermaus, Rosina, Manon, and Zerbinetta with the Vienna State Opera, Marie in San Francisco, Zerbinetta with Dresden’s Semperoper, Konstanze at the Salzburg Festival and in Munich and Barcelona, Sophie in Der Rosenkavalier and Gilda in Munich, the Queen of the Night in Salzburg and at Covent Garden, and Europa in Salieri’s Europa Riconosciuta for the 2004 reopening of La Scala.

Andrew Davis
CONDUCTOR (Hertfordshire, England)
THIS SEASON Don Giovanni and the National Council Grand Finals Concert at the Met, Gianni Schicchi and Zemlinsky’s Eine Florentinische Tragödie with the Canadian Opera Company, Arabella with the Santa Fe Opera, La Damnation de Faust at the Bergen Festival, and
Boris Godunov, Ariadne auf Naxos, and The Magic Flute at the Lyric Opera of Chicago
MET APPEARANCES Capriccio, Salome (debut, 1981), Ariadne auf Naxos, Il Barbiere di Siviglia, Don Giovanni, Hansel and Gretel, The Merry Widow, Der Rosenkavalier, Rusalka, and Die Walküre with the company on tour in Japan.
CAREER HIGHLIGHTS He has been music director and principal conductor of the Lyric Opera of Chicago since 2000, is conductor laureate of the Toronto Symphony and BBC Symphony Orchestra, and was music director of the Glyndebourne Festival Opera. He has conducted all of the major orchestras of the world from the Chicago Symphony Orchestra to the Berlin Philharmonic and the Royal Concertgebouw, as well as at opera houses and festivals throughout the world including La Scala and the Bayreuth Festival.

Roberto De Biasio
TENOR (Catania, Sicily)
THIS SEASON The title role of Ernani and Pinkerton in Madama Butterfly at the Met, and Edgardo in Lucia di Lammermoor with the Palm Beach Opera.
MET APPEARANCES Gabriele Adorno in Simon Boccanegra (debut, 2011).
CAREER HIGHTLIGHTS Recent performances include his debut last season as Rodolfo in Luisa Miller at Paris’s Bastille Opera, Foresto in Attila at Parma’s Teatro Regio, Alfredo in La Traviata at Venice’s La Fenice, and Pollione in a concert version of Norma at Tanglewood with the Boston Symphony Orchestra. Since making his professional debut in 2006 as Edgardo at Bergamo’s Teatro Donizetti, he has also been heard in leading roles in Tokyo, Seoul, Beijing, Zurich, Modena, and Montreal.

Ellie Dehn
SOPRANO (Anoka, Minnesota)
THIS SEASON Donna Elvira in Don Giovanni at the Met, Donna Anna in Don Giovanni with the San Francisco Opera, Antonia in Les Contes d’Hoffmann at La Scala, and Helena in A Midsummer Night’s Dream in Rome.
MET APPEARANCES Musetta in La Bohème and Mrs. Naidoo in Satyagraha (debut, 2008).
CAREER HIGHLIGHTS The Countess in Le Nozze di Figaro for debuts with the San Francisco Opera and Houston Grand Opera, Donna Anna with Munich’s Bavarian State Opera, Mimì in La Bohème in San Diego and with the Minnesota Opera, Agathe in Der Freischütz in Geneva, Madame Cortese in Il Viaggio a Reims in Bilbao, and Freia in Das Rheingold with the Los Angeles Opera. She first appeared with the Met in the 2007 Met in the Parks concert series as Marguerite in Faust and has also sung Juliette in Roméo et Juliette with the Minnesota Opera and Anne Trulove in The Rake’s Progress in Bologna. 

John Del Carlo
BASS-BARITONE (San Francisco, California)
THIS SEASON Dr. Bartolo in Il Barbiere di Siviglia and Dansker in Billy Budd at the Met and the title role of Don Pasquale with the San Diego Opera.
MET APPEARANCES Don Pasquale, the Speaker in The Magic Flute, the Prince in Adriana Lecouvreur, the Sacristan in Tosca, Dr. Bartolo in Le Nozze di Figaro, Kothner in Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg (debut, 1993), Mathieu in Andrea Chénier, Swallow in Peter Grimes, Alfieri in Bolcom’s A View from the Bridge, Quince in A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Baron Zeta in The Merry Widow, and Balducci in Benvenuto Cellini.
CAREER HIGHLIGHTS Among his many roles with the San Francisco Opera are Dulcamara in L’Elisir d’Amore, Alidoro in La Cenerentola, General Boom in Offenbach’s La Grande-Duchesse de Gérolstein, and Falstaff. He has also appeared with the Paris Opera, Lyric Opera of Chicago, Seattle Opera, Los Angeles Opera, Covent Garden, Houston Grand Opera, and at the Aix-en-Provence Festival.

Plácido Domingo
TENOR (Madrid, Spain)
THIS SEASON Neptune in The Enchanted Island at the Met and the title role of Simon Boccanegra with Los Angeles Opera. He also conducts Madama Butterfly at the Met, Roméo et Juliette with Los Angeles Opera, and Tosca with Washington National Opera.
MET APPEARANCES He has opened the Met season a record 21 times and performed 46 roles with the company since his 1968 debut as Maurizio in Adriana Lecouvreur. Since making his conducting debut in 1984 with La Bohème, he has returned to the podium for nine additional operas.
CAREER HIGHLIGHTS His repertoire includes 137 different roles and he has sung more than 3,500 performances and has appeared in more than 50 film and video productions. He recently celebrated the 40th anniversary of debuts at the Met, Vienna State Opera, La Scala, and Arena di Verona. In 1983 he founded the international vocal competition Operalia. A prolific recording artist, he is the recipient of 12 Grammy Awards over the course of his career. He is currently General Director of the Los Angeles Opera and Washington National Opera.

Gerald Finley
BARITONE (Montreal, Canada)
THIS SEASON The title role of Don Giovanni at the Met and at Covent Garden, Escamillo in Carmen with Munich’s Bavarian State Opera, and Count Almaviva in Le Nozze di Figaro with the Vienna State Opera.
MET APPEARANCES Golaud in Pelléas et Mélisande, J. Robert Oppenheimer in Doctor Atomic, Papageno in Die Zauberflöte (debut, 1998), and Marcello in La Bohème.
CAREER HIGHLIGHTS Recent performances include Hans Sachs in Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg at the Glyndebourne Festival and Golaud and Eugene Onegin at Covent Garden. He has also sung the title role of Britten’s Owen Wingrave and Count Almaviva at Covent Garden, Captain Balstrode in Peter Grimes at English National Opera, Eugene Onegin with English National Opera and at Covent Garden, the title role in the world premiere of Picker’s The Fantastic Mr. Fox for the Los Angeles Opera, and J. Robert Oppenheimer in the world premiere of Doctor Atomic at the San Francisco Opera, followed by performances in the same role with the Netherlands Opera, Lyric Opera of Chicago, and English National Opera.

Juan Diego Flórez
TENOR (Lima, Peru)
THIS SEASON Nemorino in L’Elisir d’Amore at the Met, the Duke in Rigoletto in Zurich, and recitals and concerts in Kansas City, Paris, London, Berlin, Rome, and Vienna, among others.
MET APPEARANCES The title role of Le Comte Ory, Tonio in La Fille du Régiment, Elvino in La Sonnambula, Count Almaviva (debut, 2002) in Il Barbiere di Siviglia, Ernesto in Don Pasquale, Don Ramiro in La Cenerentola, and Lindoro in L’Italiana in Algeri.
CAREER HIGHLIGHTS Since making his operatic debut in 1996 in Matilde di Shabran at Pesaro’s Rossini Opera Festival, he has amassed a repertoire of 32 operas and appears regularly at all the leading opera houses in the world, including Covent Garden, La Scala, Vienna State Opera, Florence’s Teatro Comunale, Genoa’s Teatro Carlo Felice, Naples’s Teatro San Carlo, Seville’s Teatro de la Maestranza, San Francisco Opera, Paris’s Châtelet and Bastille Opera, the Deutsche Oper Berlin, and Munich’s Bavarian State Opera.

Tom Fox
BARITONE (San Francisco, California)
THIS SEASON Dr. Kolenatý in The Makropulos Case at the Met and the title role in Giorgio Battistelli’s Richard III in Geneva.
MET APPEARANCES The Speaker in The Magic Flute, Alberich in Siegfried (debut, 1993) and Götterdämmerung and Jaroslav Prus in The Makropulos Case.
CAREER HIGHLIGHTS Recent performances include Klingsor in Parsifal with the English National Opera, Hans Sachs in Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg in Mannheim and in concert with the Philadelphia Orchestra, Telramund in Lohengrin at La Scala and in Lyon, Lescaut in Henze’s Boulevard Solitude at Barcelona’s Liceu, Scarpia in Tosca and Biterolf in Tannhäuser in Baden-Baden, Iago in Otello in Bochum, and Don Pizarro in Fidelio with the Vancouver Opera and Palm Beach Opera. He has also been heard at the San Francisco Opera, Lyric Opera of Chicago, Washington National Opera, Los Angeles Opera, Deutsche Oper Berlin, Vienna State Opera, Paris Opera, and the festivals of Salzburg and Savonlinna.

Ferruccio Furlanetto
BASS (Sacile, Italy)
THIS SEASON Méphistophélès in Faust, de Silva in Ernani, and Don Basilio in Il Barbiere di Siviglia at the Met, Fiesco in Simon Boccanegra with the Vienna State Opera, de Silva in Bologna, and the title roles of Attila with the San Francisco Opera and Boris Godunov with the Vienna State Opera, Lyric Opera of Chicago, and in Palermo.
MET APPEARANCES, Philip II in Don Carlo, Fiesco, Mustafà in L’Italiana in Algeri, Leporello and Don Giovanni in Don Giovanni, the Grand Inquisitor in Don Carlo (debut, 1980), Figaro in Le Nozze di Figaro, Colline in La Bohème, Procida in I Vespri Siciliani, Alvise in La Gioconda, Count des Grieux in Manon, Sparafucile in Rigoletto, and Cardinal Brogni in La Juive.
CAREER HIGHLIGHTS Recent performances include Padre Guardiano in La Forza del Destino, Fiesco in Simon Boccanegra, Philip II, and Mustafa in Vienna; Boito’s Mefistofele in Palermo; Philip II at Covent Garden, La Scala, and Paris’s Bastille Opera; the title role of Massenet’s Don Quichotte in St Petersburg; and Boris Godunov in St. Petersburg, Rome, Florence, and Milan.

George Gagnidze
BARITONE (Tiflis, Republic of Georgia)
THIS SEASON Scarpia in Tosca, Shaklovity in Khovanshchina, and the title role of Macbeth at the Met, Scarpia at La Scala, and the title role of Nabucco at the Vienna State Opera.
MET APPEARANCES Scarpia and the title role of Rigoletto (debut, 2009).
CAREER HIGHLIGHTS Recent performances include Macbeth at the Deutsche Oper Berlin, Rigoletto at the Los Angeles Opera and Parma’s Verdi Festival, Miller in Luisa Miller in Valencia, and Germont in La Traviata at La Scala. He has also been heard at the Weimar Opera House (where he has been an ensemble member since the 2005-06 season) as Jochanaan in Salome, Rodrigo in Don Carlo, Miller, Nabucco, and in the title role of Guillaume Tell. He made his operatic debut in 1996 at the Tbilisi Opera House as Renato in Un Ballo in Maschera.

Vladimir Galouzine
TENOR (Roubtsovsk, Russia)
THIS SEASON Vasily Golitsin in Khovanshchina at the Met, Canio in Pagliacci with the Paris Opera and St. Petersburg’s Mariinsky Theatre, Hermann in The Queen of Spades with the Paris Opera, and Calàf in Turandot with the Mariinsky Theatre
MET APPEARANCES Alexei in The Gambler, Sergei in Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk (debut, 1994), Pinkerton in Madama Butterfly, Dimitri in Boris Godunov, Hermann, Canio, Otello, and Calàf.
CAREER HIGHLIGHTS He has sung Hermann at Covent Garden, Lyric Opera of Chicago, Vienna State Opera, and in Amsterdam and Paris; Canio in Chicago and Houston; Calàf at Paris’s Bastille Opera, Madrid’s Teatro Real, and the Orange Festival; Otello in Brussels, Budapest, and with the Vienna State Opera; Des Grieux in Manon Lescaut in Chicago; Cavaradossi in Tosca at the Vienna State Opera and Covent Garden; Alexei at La Scala; and Pinkerton in Stuttgart and Cologne

Stephen Gould
Tenor (Roanoke, Virginia)
THIS SEASON Siegfried in Siegfried and Götterdämmerung at the Met, Munich’s Bavarian State Opera, and Vienna State Opera, and the title role of Tannhäuser with the Vienna State Opera.
MET APPEARANCES Erik in Der Fliegende Holländer (debut, 2010).
CAREER HIGHLIGHTS He has sung Tannhäuser in Paris, Erik with Munich’s Bavarian State Opera, Siegfried in Ring cycles and Tannhäuser at the Bayreuth Festival, Bacchus in Ariadne auf Naxos and Parsifal in Graz, Florestan in Fidelio in Rome, and Parsifal at the Vienna State Opera. Concert engagements include Beethoven’s Missa Solemnis with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra; Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 with the Atlantic Symphony Orchestra in Berlin and Munich; Schoenberg’s Gurrelieder in Montreal, Berlin, Brussels, Amsterdam, and Helsinki; and Mahler’s Symphony No. 8 at the Bergen Festival, Carnegie Hall, and in Paris, Vienna, and Budapest.

Wendy Bryn Harmer
SOPRANO (Roseville, California)
THIS SEASON Freia in Das Rheingold, Ortlinde in Die Walküre, Gutrune in Götterdämmerung, and Emma in Khovanshchina at the Met and a concert with the Boston Conservatory.
MET APPEARANCES The First Lady in The Magic Flute, Chloë in The Queen of Spades, the Third Norn in Götterdämmerung, First Bridesmaid in Le Nozze di Figaro (debut, 2005), a Flower Maiden in Parsifal, Bařena in Jenůfa, a Servant in Die Ägyptische Helena, and Dunyasha in War and Peace.
CAREER HIGHLIGHTS Recent performances include Glauce in Cherubini’s Medea for her debut at the Glimmerglass Opera, Wanda in Offenbach’s La Grande-Duchesse de Gérolstein and Vitellia in La Clemenza di Tito with Opera Boston, Adalgisa in Norma at the Palm Beach Opera, Mimì in La Bohème at the Utah Opera Festival, and Gerhilde in Die Walküre for her debut with the San Francisco Opera. She is a graduate of the Met’s Lindemann Young Artist Development Program.

Dmitri Hvorostovsky
BARITONE (Krasnoyarsk, Russia)
THIS SEASON Recent performances include his debut last season as Rodolfo in Luisa Miller at Paris’s Bastille Opera, Foresto in Attila at Parma’s Teatro Regio, Alfredo in La Traviata at Venice’s La Fenice, and Pollione in a concert version of Norma at Tanglewood with the Boston Symphony Orchestra. Since making his professional debut in 2006 as Edgardo at Bergamo’s Teatro Donizetti, he has also been heard in leading roles in Tokyo, Seoul, Beijing, Zurich, Modena, and Montreal.
MET APPEARANCES Simon Boccanegra, Count di Luna in Il Trovatore, Anckarström in Un Ballo in Maschera, Yeletsky in The Queen of Spades (debut, 1995), Valentin, Belcore in L’Elisir d’Amore, Prince Andrei in War and Peace, Don Giovanni, and Eugene Onegin.
CAREER HIGHLIGHTS He appears regularly at major opera houses throughout the world, including Covent Garden, Munich’s Bavarian State Opera, La Scala, Vienna State Opera, Buenos Aires’s Teatro Colón, Lyric Opera of Chicago, and the Mariinsky Theatre. Among his most notable roles are Eugene Onegin, Don Giovanni, Rodrigo in Don Carlo, Germont, Rigoletto, Anckarström, and Francesco in I Masnadieri. He has also been heard in concert with the New York Philharmonic, San Francisco Symphony Orchestra, and Rotterdam Philharmonic, among many others.

Hans-Peter Konig
BASS (Dusseldorf, Germany)
THIS SEASON Fafner in Das Rheingold and Siegfried, Hunding in Die Walküre, and Hagen in Götterdämmerung at the Met, Osmin in Die Entführung aus dem Serail in Duisburg, Hunding in Düsseldorf, and Hagen in Munich.
MET APPEARANCES Fafner, Hunding, Sarastro in Die Zauberflöte (debut, 2010), and Daland in Der Fliegende Holländer.
CAREER HIGHLIGHTS A member of Düsseldorf’s Deutsche Oper am Rhein, he was awarded the title of Kammersänger there for his outstanding contributions to music. His wide-ranging repertoire encompasses leading bass roles of Wagner, Verdi, Mozart, Tchaikovsky, and Strauss, among others, that he has sung with many of the world’s leading opera companies. He has appeared at a guest artist at opera houses and festivals including Covent Garden, the Bayreuth Festival, Baden-Baden Festival, La Scala, Deutsche Oper Berlin, Barcelona’s Liceu, Florence’s Maggio Musicale, and Munich’s Bavarian State Opera, as well as in Dresden, Tokyo, Hamburg, and São Paulo.

Mariusz Kwiecien
BARITONE (Kraków, Poland)
THIS SEASON Belcore in L’Elisir d’Amore and Don Giovanni at the Met; Rodrigo in Don Carlo at Munich’s Bavarian State Opera; Don Giovanni in Warsaw, Tokyo, and in concert with the Los Angeles Philharmonic; the title role of Szymanowski’s King Roger with the Santa Fe Opera; and Count Almaviva in Le Nozze di Figaro in Kraków.
MET APPEARANCES Dr. Malatesta in Don Pasquale, Enrico in Lucia di Lammermoor, Guglielmo in Così fan tutte, Escamillo in Carmen, Kuligin in Kát’a Kabanová (debut, 1999), Silvio in Pagliacci, Haly in L’Italiana in Algeri, and Count Almaviva.
CAREER HIGHLIGHTS Don Giovanni at the Vienna State Opera, Covent Garden, Bavarian State Opera, San Francisco Opera, Seattle Opera, and Santa Fe Opera; Eugene Onegin with the Bavarian State Opera, Bolshoi Opera, Lyric Opera of Chicago, and in Warsaw; Count Almaviva at Covent Garden, the Bavarian State Opera, Glyndebourne Opera, and in Chicago and Madrid; and King Roger with the Paris Opera and in Madrid.

Colin Lee
TENOR (Cape Town, South Africa)
THIS SEASON Count Almaviva in Il Barbiere di Siviglia at the Met, Tonio in La Fille du Régiment at Covent Garden and in Hamburg, Alfredo in La Traviata with Cape Town Opera, King James in La Donna del Lago in Moscow, and Rodrigo in La Donna del Lago at Covent Garden.
MET APPEARANCES Arturo in Lucia di Lammermoor (debut 2009).
CAREER HIGHLIGHTS Recent opera performances include Narciso in Il Turco in Italia, Count Almaviva and Tonio at Covent Garden, the title role of Rameau’s Platée for the Netherlands Opera, and Léopold in La Juive, Count Almaviva, and Rodrigo in La Donna del Lago with the Paris Opera. He has also sung Marzio in Mitridate, Re di Ponto at Covent Garden and the Salzburg Festival, and Count Almaviva with Welsh National Opera. Additional performances include Count Almaviva at the Vienna State Opera, Narciso and Count Almaviva at the Deutsche Staatsoper Berlin, and Argirio in Tancredi at the Theater an der Wien.

Fabio Luisi
CONDUCTOR (Genoa, Italy)
THIS SEASON Don Giovanni, Siegfried, Manon, and La Traviata at the Met, a concert with the MET Orchestra at Carnegie Hall, Manon for his debut at La Scala, and concert engagements with the Cleveland Orchestra, Filarmonica della Scala, Vienna Symphony, and Oslo Philharmonic.
MET APPEARANCES Le Nozze di Figaro, Elektra, Hansel and Gretel, Tosca, Lulu, Simon Boccanegra, Die Ägyptische Helena, Turandot, Ariadne auf Naxos, Rigoletto, Das Rheingold, and Don Carlo (debut, 2005).
CAREER HIGHLIGHTS He is Principal Conductor of the Met and a frequent guest of the Vienna State Opera, Munich’s Bavarian State Opera, and Berlin’s Deutsche Oper and Staatsoper. He made his Salzburg Festival debut in 2003 leading Strauss’s Die Liebe der Danae (returning the following season for Die Ägyptische Helena) and his American debut with the Lyric Opera of Chicago leading Rigoletto. He also appears regularly with the Orchestre de Paris, Bavarian Radio Symphony, Munich Philharmonic, and Rome’s Santa Cecilia Orchestra. He was music director of the Dresden Staatskapelle and Semperoper from 2007 to 2010 and is chief conductor of the Vienna Symphony and music director of Japan’s Pacific Music Festival.

Karita Mattila
SOPRANO (Somero, Finland)
THIS SEASON Emilia Marty in The Makropulos Case at the Met and with the Finnish National Opera, Leonore in Fidelio with the Houston Grand Opera, and a recital at Carnegie Hall.
MET APPEARANCES Tosca, Manon Lescaut, Jenůfa, Salome, Kát’a Kabanová, Tatiana in Eugene Onegin, Lisa in The Queen of Spades, Donna Elvira in Don Giovanni (debut, 1990), Elsa in Lohengrin, Eva in Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, Musetta in La Bohème, Amelia in Simon Boccanegra, and Leonore in Fidelio.
CAREER HIGHLIGHTS She has sung at all the world’s major opera houses. Notable recent engagements include Emilia Marty and Manon Lescaut with the San Francisco Opera, Kát’a Kabanová at the Lyric Opera of Chicago, and the title role in the world premiere of Saariaho’s Émilie at the Lyon Opera, followed by performances with the Amsterdam Opera. She has also sung Jenůfa in Los Angeles; the world premiere of Saariaho’s Mirage with the Orchestre de Paris; Leonore at Covent Garden; Tosca with the Finnish National Opera; Elisabeth in Don Carlos in Paris, London, and at the Edinburgh Festival; Chrysothemis in Elektra with the Salzburg Easter Festival; and Lisa, Elsa, and Salome with Paris’s Bastille Opera.

Angela Meade
SOPRANO (Centralia, Washington)
THIS SEASON The title role of Anna Bolena and Elvira in Ernani at the Met, Lucrezia in a concert performance of Verdi’s I Due Foscari for her debut with the Deutsche Oper Berlin, and her Canadian debut with Montreal’s Orchestre Métropolitain.
MET APPEARANCES Elvira (debut, 2008) and the Countess in Le Nozze di Figaro.
CAREER HIGHLIGHTS Recent performances include the title role of Norma in concert at the Tanglewood Festival, Mahler’s Symphony No. 2 with the Seattle Symphony, her European operatic debut at the Wexford Festival in Mercadante’s Virginia; debuts with the Pittsburgh Symphony, Houston Symphony, and Palm Beach Symphony in the Verdi Requiem; and Donna Anna in a concert version of Don Giovanni with the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra. She has also sung Elisabetta in Roberto Devereux at the Dallas Opera, Anna Bolena and the title role of Lucia di Lammermoor at Philadelphia’s Academy of Vocal Arts, and the title role of Semiramide at the Caramoor Festival. She was a winner of the 2007 Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions and appeared in the documentary film, The Audition, about that competition.

Jay Hunter Morris
TENOR (Paris, Texas)
THIS SEASON The title role of Siegfried and Siegfried in Götterdämmerung at the Met, Captain Ahab in Jake Heggie’s Moby Dick at the Adelaide Festival, and Tristan in Tristan und Isolde with the Welsh National Opera.
MET APPEARANCES Števa in Jenůfa (debut, 2007).
CAREER HIGHLIGHTS Recent performances include Siegfried with the San Francisco Opera, Samson in Samson et Dalila with the Nashville Opera, Canio in Pagliacci with Florida Grand Opera, Cavaradossi in Tosca with Alabama Opera, Števa in Monte Carlo, Florestan in Fidelio with Portland Opera, and Erik in Der Fliegende Holländer with Atlanta Opera, Seattle Opera, Arizona Opera, and Opera Australia. He has also sung the Drum Major in Wozzeck at the San Diego Opera, Pinkerton in Madama Butterfly at Opera Australia, and Walter in Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg at the San Francisco Opera and Frankfurt Opera. He has created many roles in world premieres including Captain James Nolan in Adams’s Doctor Atomic, Father Grenville in Heggie’s Dead Man Walking, and Mitch in Previn’s A Streetcar Named Desire with San Francisco Opera; Unferth in Elliott Goldenthal’s Grendel with the Los Angeles Opera; and Marky in Howard Shore’s The Fly at Paris’s Théâtre du Châtelet.

Waltraud Meier
MEZZO-SOPRANO (Würzburg, Germany)
THIS SEASON Waltraute in Götterdämmerung at the Met, Kundry in Parsifal and Marie in Wozzeck with Munich’s Bavarian State Opera, and Isolde in Tristan und Isolde with the Berlin State Opera.
MET APPEARANCES Marie in Wozzeck, Isolde in Tristan und Isolde, Santuzza in Cavalleria Rusticana, Carmen, Leonore in Fidelio, Kundry, Fricka in Das Rheingold (debut, 1987) and Die Walküre, Sieglinde in Die Walküre, and Venus in Tannhäuser.
CAREER HIGHLIGHTS She sang Kundry every season at the Bayreuth Festival from 1983 through 1993 before moving into dramatic soprano repertoire as well. Notable engagements include Isolde at La Scala, Paris’s Bastille Opera and at the Salzburg Festival, Sieglinde in the “Millennium” Ring at the 2000 Bayreuth Festival, Kundry at Paris’s Châtelet and the Vienna State Opera, Carmen in Dresden, Dido in Les Troyens at the Munich Opera Festival, and Leonore at the Lyric Opera of Chicago and Bavarian State Opera

James Morris
BASS (Baltimore, Maryland)
THIS SEASON Scarpia in Tosca, Ramfis in Aida, the Commendatore in Don Giovanni, and Claggart in Billy Budd at the Met and the Four Villains in Les Contes d’Hoffmann at the Lyric Opera of Chicago.
MET APPEARANCES He has been heard in nearly 900 performances and 60 roles since his 1971 debut, including Wotan in Wagner’s Ring cycle, Jacopo Fiesco in Simon Boccanegra, Claudius in Hamlet, Dr. Schön/Jack the Ripper in Lulu, Hans Sachs in Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, Iago in Otello, Amonasro in Aida, Méphistophélès in Faust, and the title role of Don Giovanni.
CAREER HIGHLIGHTS He has appeared in all the world’s leading opera houses and with the major orchestras of Europe and the United States. One of the leading interpreters of Wagner’s Wotan, he has sung the role in cycles at the Vienna State Opera, Bavarian State Opera, Deutsche Oper Berlin, Lyric Opera of Chicago, and San Francisco Opera, among others.

Anna Netrebko
SOPRANO (Krasnodar, Russia)
THIS SEASON The title roles of Anna Bolena and Manon at the Met, Violetta in La Traviata at Covent Garden, Giulietta in I Capuleti e i Montecchi with Munich’s Bavarian State Opera, recitals in Paris and at Carnegie Hall, a concert at Vienna’s Musikverein with Daniel Barenboim, and a concert tour of Germany with bass Erwin Schrott.
MET APPEARANCES Norina in Don Pasquale, Antonia in Les Contes d"Hoffmann, Juliette in Romeo et Juliette, Lucia di Lammermoor, Natasha in War and Peace (debut, 2002), Zerlina in Don Giovanni, Mimi and Musetta in La Boheme, Gilda in Rigoletto, and Elvira in I Puritani.
CAREER HIGHLIGHTS Violetta at the Salzburg Festival, Vienna State Opera, and Bavarian State Opera; Susanna in Le Nozze di Figaro at the Salzburg Festival; Ilia in Idomeneo and Gilda with Washington National Opera; Manon at Covent Garden; Lucia and Juliette with Los Angeles Opera; Anna Bolena, Mimì, Manon, and Micaëla in Carmen with the Vienna State Opera; and numerous roles with St. Petersburg’s Mariinsky Theatre.

Eric Owens
Bass-Baritone (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania)
THIS SEASON Alberich in Das Rheingold, Siegfried, and Götterdämmerung at the Met, the Storyteller in John Adams’s A Flowering Tree with the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra and three appearances at Carnegie Hall: Jochanaan in concert performances of Salome with the Cleveland Orchestra, Beethoven’s Missa Solemnis with the Boston Symphony, and in recital at Zankel Hall.
MET APPEARANCES General Leslie Groves in Doctor Atomic (debut, 2008) and Sarastro in The Magic Flute.
CAREER HIGHLIGHTS General Leslie Groves with the San Francisco Opera (world premiere) and Lyric Opera of Chicago, Oroveso in Norma at Covent Garden and in Philadelphia, and Fiesco in Simon Boccanegra, Don Basilio in Il Barbiere di Siviglia, and Porgy in Porgy and Bess with Washington National Opera. He has also sung Ramfis in Aida in Houston, the Speaker in Die Zauberflöte with Paris’s Bastille Opera, Rodolfo in La Sonnambula in Bordeaux, Ferrando in Il Trovatore and Colline in La Bohème in Los Angeles, the title role of Handel’s Hercules with the Lyric Opera of Chicago, and Ramfis in San Francisco.

Iain Paterson
BASS-BARITONE (Glasgow, Scotland)
THIS SEASON Gunther in Götterdämmerung at the Met and Munich’s Bavarian State Opera, Figaro in Le Nozze di Figaro with English National Opera, and Fasolt in Das Rheingold with the Detusche Staatsoper Berlin.  He also appears in concert with the Cleveland Orchestra and Royal Liverpool Philharmonic.
MET APPEARANCES Gunther (debut, 2009).
CAREER HIGHLIGHTS Jochanann in Salome and Fasolt for the Salzburg Easter Festival, Gunther with the Paris Opera, Amfortas in Parsifal, Méphistophélès in Faust and Mozart’s Figaro with English National Opera, the title role of Don Giovanni with English National Opera and Chicago Opera Theater, and Mr. Redburn in Billy Budd at the Glyndebourne Festival. He has also appeared in concert with the Los Angeles Philharmonic, Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, London Symphony Orchestra, BBC Symphony Orchestra, BBC Philharmonic Orchestra, Hallé Orchestra, and Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra.

Rodion Pogossov
BARITONE (Moscow, Russia)
THIS SEASON Figaro in Il Barbiere di Siviglia at the Met and Rodrigo in Don Carlos at the Hamburg State Opera.
MET APPEARANCES Papageno in Die Zauberflöte, Marullo in Rigoletto, Fiorello in Il Barbiere di Siviglia, and the Herald in Otello for his debut in the Verdi gala that opened the 2001-02 season.
CAREER HIGHLIGHTS Recent performances include Figaro at the Hamburg State Opera, Valentin in Faust in Bilbao, and Lord Ruthven in Heinrich Marschner’s Der Vampyr in Bologna. He has also sung Figaro with the Canadian Opera Company, the title role of Eugene Onegin with the Welsh National Opera, Papageno in Bilbao and Toulouse, Guglielmo in Così fan tutte at the Ravinia and Glyndebourne Festivals, Yeletsky in The Queen of Spades with the Frankfurt Opera, and Stravinsky’s Renard at Carnegie Hall with the MET Chamber Ensemble. He is a graduate of the Met’s Lindemann Young Artist Development Program.

Matthew Polenzani
TENOR (Evanston, Illinois)
THIS SEASON Don Ottavio in Don Giovanni and Alfredo in La Traviata at the Met, Don Ottavio at Covent Garden, des Grieux in Manon at La Scala, and Hoffmann in Les Contes d’Hoffmann with Lyric Opera of Chicago.
MET APPEARANCES More than 250 performances of 29 roles including Ernesto in Don Pasquale, Tamino in Die Zauberflöte, Roméo, Belmonte in Die Entführung aus dem Serail, Count Almaviva in Il Barbiere di Siviglia, Iopas in Les Troyens, Chevalier de la Force in Dialogues des Carmélites, Lindoro in L’Italiana in Algeri, and Boyar Khrushchov in Boris Godunov (debut, 1997).
CAREER HIGHLIGHTS Ferrando in Così fan tutte at Covent Garden and with the Paris Opera, Nemorino in L’Elisir d’Amore in Munich, Idomeneo in Turin, Tamino with the Vienna State Opera and Los Angeles Opera, Belmonte and Roméo in Chicago, the Duke in Rigoletto in Philadelphia, Edgardo in Lucia di Lammermoor in Vienna and at Paris’s Bastille Opera, Nemorino and Don Ottavio in Vienna and Salzburg, and Achille in Iphigénie en Aulide in Florence. Recipient of the Met’s 2008 Beverly Sills Award, established by Agnes Varis and Karl Leichtman.

Patricia Racette
SOPRANO (Manchester, New Hampshire)
THIS SEASON Cio-Cio-San in Madama Butterfly and Tosca at the Met, Cio-Cio-San for her debut with the Seattle Opera, and Tosca at Washington National Opera
MET APPEARANCES Leonora in Il Trovatore, Musetta (debut, 1995) and Mimì in La Bohème, Ellen Orford in Peter Grimes, Roberta in the world premiere of Picker’s An American Tragedy, Antonia in Les Contes d’Hoffmann, Blanche de la Force in Dialogues des Carmélites, Violetta in La Traviata, Alice Ford in Falstaff, Nedda in Pagliacci, Elisabeth in Don Carlo, and all three leading soprano roles in Il Trittico.
CAREER HIGHLIGHTS World premieres include Leslie Crosbie in Paul Moravec’s The Letter and the title role in Picker’s Emmeline at the Santa Fe Opera and Love Simpson in Floyd’s Cold Sassy Tree with Houston Grand Opera. She has also sung Madga in La Rondine with Los Angeles Opera, Liù in Turandot and Madame Lidoine in Dialogues des Carmélites with Lyric Opera of Chicago, and the title roles of Iphigénie en Tauride and Jenůfa with Washington National Opera.

Marina Rebeka
SOPRANO (Riga, Latvia)
THIS SEASON  Donna Anna in Don Giovanni for her debut at the Met, Violetta in La Traviata at the Deutsche Oper Berlin, and Lucia in Lucia di Lammermoor with the Latvian National Opera
CAREER HIGHLIGHTS Anaï for her 2009 debut at the Salzburg Festival conducted by Riccardo Muti, followed by debuts in 2010 at Covent Garden as Violetta and the Deutsche Oper Berlin as Donna Anna. She has also sung Britten’s War Requiem with the Royal Scottish National Orchestra, Micaëla in Carmen in Baden-Baden and Valencia, the Countess di Folleville and Madama Cortese in Il Viaggio a Reims and Anna in Maometto II at Pesaro’s Rossini Opera Festival, the Countess di Folleville for her debut at La Scala, and Adina in L’Elisir d’Amore with the Latvian National Opera. In recent seasons she has appeared as Violetta at the Vienna Volksoper, Agilea in Handel’s Teseo with Berlin’s Komische Oper, and Elettra in Idomeneo at the Opéra National de Lorraine in Nancy.

John Relyea
BASS-BARITONE (Toronto, Canada)
THIS SEASON Leporello in Don Giovanni at the Met, the title role of Attila with the Seattle Opera and Washington Concert Opera, and the Four Villains in Les Contes d’Hoffmann with Munich’s Bavarian State Opera.
MET APPEARANCES Escamillo in Carmen, Figaro in Le Nozze di Figaro, Alidoro in La Cenerentola (debut, 2000), Raimondo in Lucia di Lammermoor, Banquo in Macbeth, Garibaldo in Rodelinda, Giorgio Walton in I Puritani, the Night Watchman in Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, Don Basilio in Il Barbiere di Siviglia, Masetto in Don Giovanni, and Méphistophélès in La Damnation de Faust.
CAREER HIGHLIGHTS Méphistophélès with the Lyric Opera of Chicago, the title role in Bluebeard’s Castle with the Seattle Opera, the Four Villains in Les Contes d’Hoffmann and Escamillo at the Vienna State Opera, Figaro in Munich, Nick Shadow in The Rake’s Progress and Banquo at Covent Garden, Escamillo at Paris’s Bastille Opera, and Cadmus/Somnus in Semele, Colline, and Raimondo at Covent Garden and the San Francisco Opera. Recipient of the Met’s 2008 Beverly Sills Award, established by Agnes Varis and Karl Leichtman.

Donato Renzetti
CONDUCTOR (Abruzzi, Italy)
THIS SEASON L’Elisir d’Amore at the Met, Simon Boccanegra in Bilbao, Pagliacci with St. Petersburg’s Mariinsky Theatre, and La Bohème in Trieste.
MET APPEARANCES La Bohème (debut, 1989).
CAREER HIGHLIGHTS He is Music Director of the Macerata Opera and Principal Conductor of the Orchestra Stabile di Bergamo, and conducts regularly at major opera houses in Italy including Florence’s Teatro Comunale, Palermo’s Teatro Massimo, Naples’s Teatro San Carlo, Venice’s La Fenice, and the Rome Opera. He was Principal Conductor of the Arena di Verona until 1995 and conducted Aida in both Verona and in Luxor, Egypt. He has also been a guest conductor at festivals in Glyndebourne, Spoleto, Pesaro, and Parma, and with orchestras including the London Philharmonic, English Chamber Orchestra, Orchestra of the Teatro alla Scala, Rome’s Santa Cecilia Orchestra, Orchestre National de Lyon, and Dallas Symphony.

Johan Reuter
BASS-BARITONE (Copenhagen, Denmark)
THIS SEASON Jaroslav Prus in The Makropulos Case for his debut at the Met, Wotan in Das Rheingold with Munich’s Bavarian State Opera, and Barak in Die Frau ohne Schatten in Copenhagen.
CAREER HIGHLIGHTS He has been a soloist with Copenhagen’s Royal Danish Theatre since 1996, where his recent roles include Mandryka in Arabella, Tomsky in The Queen of Spades, Escamillo in Carmen, and the title roles of Macbeth and Simon Boccanegra. He has also sung Guglielmo in Così fan tutte, Kothner in Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, and Leporello in Don Giovanni in Hamburg, Figaro in Le Nozze di Figaro with the Deutsche Oper Berlin, Shishkov in From the House of the Dead at Paris’s Bastille Opera and in Madrid, Apollo/High Priest in Gluck’s Alceste for his debut at the Salzburg Festival, Macbeth in Lisbon, Figaro at the Vienna Festival, the title role of Der Fliegende Holländer and Wotan at the Deutsche Oper Berlin, and Theseus in the world premiere of Harrison Birtwistle’s The Minotaur at Covent Garden.

Kurt Streit
TENOR (Albuquerque, New Mexico)
THIS SEASON Albert Gregor in The Makropulos Case at the Met, Hoffmann in Les Contes d’Hoffmann at Vienna’s Theater an der Wien, Eisenstein in Die Fledermaus at the Vienna State Opera, and Loge in Das Rheingold in Frankfurt.
MET APPEARANCES Tamino in Die Zauberflöte (debut, 1993), Count Almaviva in The Ghosts of Versailles, Lysander in A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Cassio in Otello, and Skuratov in From the House of the Dead.
CAREER HIGHLIGHTS A renowned Mozart specialist, he has sung Tamino over 150 times in 23 productions around the world and the title role of Idomeneo in seven productions in opera houses including those of Naples, Vienna, Madrid, London, Hamburg, and San Francisco. He has also sung Alwa in Lulu at the Paris Opera, Aschenbach in Death in Venice at Vienna’s Theater an der Wien, the title role of Pfitzner’s Palestrina in Frankfurt, Boris in Kat’a Kabanová at Covent Garden, Emilio in Partenope in Chicago and Vienna, and Ulisse in Il Ritorno d’Ulisse in Patria and Nero in Il Incoronazione di Poppea in Berlin and Los Angeles.

Paulo Szot
BARITONE (Sao Paulo, Brazil)
THIS SEASON Lescaut in Manon at the Met, Count Almaviva in Le Nozze di Figaro for his debut at the Aix-en-Provence Festival, Escamillo in Carmen for his debut at the San Francisco Opera, and his UK debut in South Pacific at London’s Barbican Centre.
MET APPEARANCES Kovalyov in The Nose (debut, 2010) and Escamillo.
CAREER HIGHLIGHTS He sang Emile de Becque in the Broadway revival of South Pacific (for which he won the 2008 Tony Award as Best Actor in a Musical) and has also appeared as Guglielmo in Così fan tutte at the Paris Opera; Eugene Onegin, Donato in Menotti’s Maria Golovin, and Camille in The Merry Widow in Marseille; des Grieux in Massenet’s Le Portrait de Manon at Barcelona’s Liceo; Escamillo in Toronto, Santiago, and São Paulo; Marcello in La Bohème in Bordeaux; Count Almaviva at the Flemish Opera; Donato at Italy’s Spoleto Festival; Don Giovanni in Dallas and Bordeaux; and Escamillo, Belcore in L’Elisir d’Amore, and the Count with the New York City Opera.

Violeta Urmana
SOPRANO (Kazlu Rudos, Lithuania)
THIS SEASON The title role of Aida at the Met, Leonora in La Forza del Destino at the Vienna State Opera and Paris Opera, and Santuzza in Cavalleria Rusticana at the Paris Opera.
MET APPEARANCES Odabella in Attila, Maddalena in Andrea Chénier, Kundry in Parsifal (debut, 2001), Eboli in Don Carlo, Santuzza, and the title roles of Tosca, Ariadne auf Naxos, and La Gioconda.
CAREER HIGHLIGHTS She started her operatic career as a mezzo-soprano, and after making her debut as Sieglinde in Die Walküre at the Bayreuth Festival made her soprano debut in 2002 at La Scala in the title role of Iphigénie en Aulide. Since that time she has sung Maddalena in Andrea Chénier in Vienna, Isolde in Rome, Gioconda and Leonora at Covent Garden, and Tosca in Florence and Los Angeles. She has also sung the title role of Norma in Dresden, Elisabeth in Don Carlo in Turin, Tosca in Florence and Los Angeles, Aida at La Scala, and the title role of Catalani’s La Wally at the Vienna Konzerthaus.

Deborah Voigt
SOPRANO (Chicago, Illinois)
THIS SEASON Brünnhilde in Die Walküre, Siegfried, and Götterdämmerung at the Met, a Broadway concert at Washington National Opera, and concerts with the New York Philharmonic, Montreal Symphony, Minnesota Orchestra, and Melbourne Symphony Orchestra.
MET APPEARANCES Title roles of La Gioconda, Die Ägyptische Helena, Ariadne auf Naxos, Tosca, and Aida, Minnie in La Fanciulla del West, Chrysothemis in Elektra, Senta in Der Fliegende Holländer, Isolde in Tristan und Isolde, Amelia in Un Ballo in Maschera (debut, 1991), Cassandra in Les Troyens, Elsa in Lohengrin, Leonora in Il Trovatore and La Forza del Destino, Elisabeth in Tannhäuser, and the Empress in Die Frau ohne Schatten.
CAREER HIGHLIGHTS Minnie with the San Francisco Opera and Lyric Opera of Chicago, the title role of Annie Get Your Gun at the Glimmerglass Festival, Salome at Lyric Opera of Chicago, her first Isolde in Vienna followed by a 23-minute standing ovation, President Clinton’s visit to her Met performances as Aida, and a breakthrough Ariadne in Boston.

Maria Zifchak
MEZZO-SOPRANO (Smithtown, New York)
THIS SEASON Suzuki in Madama Butterfly, Kasturbai in Satyagraha, and Annina in La Traviata at the Met, Suzuki with Arizona Opera, and Mrs. Grose in Britten’s The Turn of the Screw with Colorado’s Central City Opera.
MET APPEARANCES More than 250 performances of roles including Dorabella in Così fan tutte, Meg Page in Falstaff, Enrichetta in I Puritani, Bersi in Andrea Chénier, Magdalene in Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, the Nursing Sister in Suor Angelica, Kate Pinkerton in Madama Butterfly (debut, 2000), and Hermia in A Midsummer Night’s Dream.
CAREER HIGHLIGHTS Bianca in The Rape of Lucretia with Central City Opera, Effie Belle Tate in Floyd’s Cold Sassy Tree with Atlanta Opera, Adalgisa in Norma in Bogotá, Dorabella with the Seattle Opera, the Composer in Ariadne auf Naxos with Opera North, Angelina in La Cenerentola with Utah Festival Opera, and Geneviève in Pelléas et Mélisande and the Witch in Hansel and Gretel with Opera Theatre of St. Louis. She was a winner of the Met’s 1998 National Council Auditions.