Como casi siempre, mucho donde escoger.

Como casi siempre luces y sombras.



2007-08 Season
Complete Repertoire and Casting


METROPOLITAN OPERA PREMIERE

SATYAGRAHA (Apr. 11, 14, 19 mat, 22, 25, 28, May 1)
Composer Philip Glass
Libretto Philip Glass and Constance De Jong
Co-production with English National Opera

Conductor: Dante Anzolini*
Production: Phelim McDermott*
Associate Director: Julian Crouch*
Set Designer: Julian Crouch*
Costume Designer: Kevin Pollard*
Lighting Designer: TBA

Miss Schlesen: Rachelle Durkin
M.K. Gandhi: Richard Croft
Mr. Kallenbach: Earle Patriarco
Parsi Rustomji: Alfred Walker

NEW PRODUCTIONS

LUCIA DI LAMMERMOOR (Sep. 24, 27, Oct. 1, 5, 9, 13, 17, 20, 25, Mar. 5, 8 mat, 13)
Composer Gaetano Donizetti
Libretto Salvadore Cammarano

Conductor: James Levine/TBA
Production: Mary Zimmerman*
Set Designer: Daniel Ostling*
Costume Designer: Mara Blumenfeld*
Lighting Designer: T. J. Gerckens*
Choreographer: Daniel Pelzig*

Lucia: Natalie Dessay/Annick Massis
Edgardo: Marcello Giordani /TBA/Giuseppe Filianoti
Enrico: Mariusz Kwiecien
Raimondo: John Relyea

MACBETH (Oct. 22, 26, 31, Nov. 3, Jan. 5, 9, 12 mat, 15, May 9, 13, 17)
Composer Giuseppe Verdi
Libretto Francesco Maria Piave

Conductor: James Levine
Production: Adrian Noble*
Set Designer: Mark Thompson
Costume Designer: Mark Thompson
Lighting Designer: Jean Kalman
Choreographer: Sue Lefton*

Lady Macbeth: Andrea Gruber
Macduff: Dimitri Pittas/Roberto Aronica/Joseph Calleja
Macbeth: Željko Lucic/Lado Ataneli/Carlos Alvarez
Banquo: John Relyea/René Pape

IPHIGÉNIE EN TAURIDE (Nov. 27, Dec. 1 mat, 5, 8 mat, 11, 14, 19, 22)
Composer Christoph Willibald Gluck
Libretto Nicolas-François Guillard
This production features the version of the score that Gluck
wrote for Vienna in 1781.
Co-production with Seattle Opera

Conductor: Louis Langrée*
Production: Stephen Wadsworth
Set Designer: Thomas Lynch
Costume Designer: Martin Pakledinaz
Lighting Designer: Neil Peter Jampolis
Choreographer: Daniel Pelzig

Iphigénie: Susan Graham
Oreste: Plácido Domingo
Pylade: Paul Groves
Thoas: William Shimell


HANSEL AND GRETEL (Dec. 24 mat, 29 mat, Jan. 1 mat, 4 mat, 8, 11, 23, 26, 31)
Composer Engelbert Humperdinck
Libretto Adelheid Wette
Originally created for Welsh National Opera and Lyric Opera of Chicago

Conductor: Vladimir Jurowski
Production: Richard Jones*
Set Designer: John Macfarlane*
Costume: John Macfarlane*
Lighting Designer: Jennifer Tipton
Choreographer: Linda Dobell
English Version: David Pountney

Gretel: Christine Schäfer
Hansel: Alice Coote
Gertrude: Rosalind Plowright
The Witch: Philip Langridge
Peter: Alan Held/John Hancock

PETER GRIMES (Feb. 28, March 3, 7, 11, 15 mat, 20, 24)
Composer Benjamin Britten
Libretto Montagu Slater

Conductor: Donald Runnicles
Production: John Doyle*
Set Designer: Scott Pask*
Costume Designer: Ann Hould-Ward*
Lighting Designer: Peter Mumford

Ellen Orford: Patricia Racette
Peter Grimes: Neil Shicoff/Anthony Dean Griffey
Balstrode: Anthony Michaels-Moore


LA FILLE DU RÉGIMENT (Apr. 21, 26 mat, 29, May 2, 5, 8, 12, 16)
Composer Gaetano Donizetti
Libretto Jean-François Bayard and J. H. Vernoy de Saint-Georges
Co-production with the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London, and the Wiener Staatsoper, Vienna

Conductor: Marco Armiliato/TBA
Production: Laurent Pelly*
Set Designer: Chantal Thomas*
Costume Designer: Laurent Pelly*
Lighting Designer: Joël Adam*
Choreographer: Laura Scozzi*

Marie: Natalie Dessay
Marquise of
Berkenfeld: Felicity Palmer
Tonio: Juan Diego Flórez/Barry Banks
Sulpice: Alessandro Corbelli
Duchess of
Krakenthorp: Zoe Caldwell*

REPERTORY

AIDA (Sep. 29 mat, Oct. 4, 16, 20 mat, 24, 27, 30, Nov. 2, 5,
Composer Giuseppe Verdi
Libretto Antonio Ghislanzoni

Conductor: Kazushi Ono*
Production: Sonja Frisell
Set Designer: Gianni Quaranta
Costume Designer: Dada Saligeri
Lighting Designer: Gil Wechsler

Aida: Maria Guleghina/Micaela Carosi*/Angela M. Brown
Amneris: Dolora Zajick/Olga Borodina/Luciana D’Intino
Radamès: Marco Berti
Amonasro: Andrzej Dobber*/Juan Pons/Mark Delavan
Ramfis: Carlo Colombara/Vitalij Kowaljow
The King: Dimitri Kavrakos/Reinhard Hagen*

UN BALLO IN MASCHERA (Dec. 17, 21, 24, 29, Jan. 1, 5 mat, Apr. 16, 19, 23)
Composer Giuseppe Verdi
Libretto Antonio Somma

Conductor: Gianandrea Noseda
Production: Piero Faggioni
Set Designer: Piero Faggioni
Costume Designer: Piero Faggioni
Lighting Designer: Piero Faggioni

Amelia: Michèle Crider/Angela M. Brown
Oscar: Ofelia Sala*/TBA
Ulrica: Stephanie Blythe
Riccardo: Salvatore Licitra
Renato: Dmitri Hvorostovsky/TBA

IL BARBIERE DI SIVIGLIA (Jan. 12, 22, 26 mat, 30, Feb. 2, 7, 14, 21, 25, 29)

Composer Gioacchino Rossini
Libretto Cesare Sterbini

Conductor: Frédéric Chaslin
Production: Bartlett Sher
Set Designer: Michael Yeargan
Costume Designer: Catherine Zuber
Lighting Designer: Christopher Akerlind

Rosina: Elina Garanca*
Count Almaviva: Michael Schade/Jose Manuel Zapata*
Figaro: Franco Vassallo
Dr. Bartolo: Bruno Praticò/Maurizio Muraro
Don Basilio: Peter Rose/Ruggero Raimondi

LA BOHÈME (Mar 29, Apr. 1, 5 mat, 9, 12, 15, 18)
Composer Giacomo Puccini
Libretto Giuseppe Giacosa and Luigi Illica

Conductor: Nicola Luisotti
Production: Franco Zeffirelli
Set Designer: Franco Zeffirelli
Costume Designer: Peter J. Hall
Lighting Designer: Gil Wechsler

Mimì: Angela Gheorghiu
Musetta: Ainhoa Arteta
Rodolfo: Ramón Vargas
Marcello: Ludovic Tézier
Schaunard: Quinn Kelsey*/Jeff Mattsey
Colline: Oren Gradus/TBA
Benoit / Alcindoro: Paul Plishka

LA CLEMENZA DI TITO (May 3, 6, 10 mat, 15)
Composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Libretto Pietro Metastasio, revised by Caterino Mazzolà

Conductor: Harry Bicket
Production: Jean-Pierre Ponnelle
Set Designer: Jean-Pierre Ponnelle
Costume Designer: Jean-Pierre Ponnelle
Lighting Designer: Gil Wechsler

Servilia: Heidi Grant Murphy
Vitellia: Tamar Iveri
Sesto: Susan Graham
Annio: Anke Vondung
Tito: Ramón Vargas
Publio: Oren Gradus

LES CONTES D’HOFFMANN (Feb. 4, 8, 13, 16, 19, 23 mat, 27, Mar. 1)
Composer Jacques Offenbach
Libretto Jules Barbier and Michel Carré

Conductor: Emmanuel Villaume
Original Production: Otto Schenk
Production: Lesley Koenig
Set Designer: Günther Schneider-Siemssen
Costume Designer: Gaby Frey
Lighting Designer: Wayne Chouinard
Fight Director: B.H. Barry

Olympia: Aleksandra Kurzak
Antonia / Stella: Krassimira Stoyanova
Giulietta: Nancy Fabiola Herrera
Niklausse / The Muse: Sophie Koch*/TBA
Hoffmann: Marcelo Álvarez
Four Villains: Alan Held

DIE ENTFÜHRUNG AUS DEM SERAIL (Apr. 26, 30, May 3 mat, 7)
Composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Libretto Christoph Friedrich Bretzner, adapted by Johann Gottlieb Stephanie, Jr.

Conductor: David Robertson
Production: John Dexter
Set Designer: Jocelyn Herbert
Costume Designer: Jocelyn Herbert
Lighting Designer: Gil Wechsler

Konstanze: Diana Damrau
Blonde: Aleksandra Kurzak
Belmonte: Matthew Polenzani
Pedrillo: Steve Davislim*
Osmin: Kristinn Sigmundsson
Pasha Selim: Matthias von Stegmann

ERNANI (Mar. 17, 21, 26, 29 mat, Apr. 2, 5, 10)
Composer Giuseppe Verdi
Libretto Francesco Maria Piave

Conductor Roberto Abbado
Production Pier Luigi Samaritani
Set Designer Pier Luigi Samaritani
Costume Designer Peter J. Hall
Lighting Designer Gil Wechsler

Elvira Sondra Radvanovsky
Ernani Marcello Giordani
Don Carlo Thomas Hampson
de Silva Ferruccio Furlanetto

THE FIRST EMPEROR (May 10, 14, 17 mat)
Composer Tan Dun
Libretto Ha Jin and Tan Dun

Conductor: Tan Dun
Production: Zhang Yimou
Set Designer: Fan Yue
Costume Designer: Emi Wada
Lighting Designer: Duane Schuler
Co-Director: Wang Chaoge
Choreographer: Dou Dou Huang

Princess Yueyang: Sarah Coburn
Shaman: Ning Liang
Mother of Yueyang: Susanne Mentzer
Emperor Qin: Plácido Domingo
Gao Jianli: Paul Groves
General Wang: Hao Jiang Tian

THE GAMBLER (Mar. 27, 31, Apr. 4, 8, 12 mat)
Composer Sergei Prokofiev
Libretto Sergei Prokofiev

Conductor: Valery Gergiev
Production: Temur Chkheidze
Set Designer: George Tsypin
Costume Designer: Georgi Alexi-Meskhishvili
Lighting Designer: James F. Ingalls

Polina: Olga Guryakova
Madame Blanche: Olga Savova
Grammy: Larissa Diadkova
Alexei: Vladimir Galouzine
The Marquis: Nikolai Gassiev
Mr. Astley: John Hancock
The General: Sergei Aleksashkin

MADAMA BUTTERFLY (Oct. 8, 12, 15, 19, 23, 27 mat)
Composer Giacomo Puccini
Libretto Giuseppe Giacosa and Luigi Illica

Conductor: Mark Elder
Production: Anthony Minghella
Associate Director: Carolyn Choa
Choreographer: Carolyn Choa
Set Designer: Michael Levine
Costume Designer: Han Feng
Lighting Designer: Peter Mumford
Puppetry: Blind Summit Theatre

Cio-Cio-San: Patricia Racette
Suzuki: Maria Zifchak
Pinkerton: Roberto Alagna
Sharpless: Luca Salsi

MANON LESCAUT (Jan. 29, Feb. 1, 5, 9, 12, 16 mat, 20, 23)
Composer Giacomo Puccini
Libretto Marco Praga, Domenico Oliva, Giulio Ricordi,
Luigi Illica and Giuseppe Giacosa

Conductor: James Levine/TBA
Set Designer: Desmond Heeley
Costume Designer: Desmond Heeley
Lighting Designer: Gil Wechsler

Manon Lescaut: Karita Mattila
Des Grieux: Marcello Giordani
Lescaut: Dwayne Croft
Geronte: Dale Travis

NORMA (Nov. 12, 16, 19, 23, 26, 30, Dec. 4, 7)
Composer Vincenzo Bellini
Libretto Felice Romani

Conductor: Maurizio Benini
Production: John Copley
Set Designer: John Conklin
Costume Designer: John Conklin
Lighting Designer: Duane Schuler

Norma: Maria Guleghina
Adalgisa: Dolora Zajick
Pollione: Franco Farina
Oroveso: Vitalij Kowaljow/Hao Jiang Tian

LE NOZZE DI FIGARO (Oct. 2, 6 mat, 10, 13 mat, 18,
Nov. 10 mat, 14, 17 mat, 21, 24, 28, Dec. 1)

Composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Libretto Lorenzo da Ponte

Conductor: Philippe Jordan
Production: Jonathan Miller
Set Designer: Peter Davison
Costume Designer: James Acheson
Lighting Designer: Mark McCullough
Choreographer: Terry John Bates

Countess Almaviva: Dorothea Röschmann/Anja Harteros
Susanna: Isabel Bayrakdarian
Cherubino: Anke Vondung*/Kate Lindsey
Count Almaviva: Michele Pertusi/Simon Keenlyside
Figaro: Erwin Schrott/Bryn Terfel

OTELLO (Feb. 11, 15, 18, 22, 26, Mar. 1 mat, 4,
Composer Giuseppe Verdi
Libretto Arrigo Boito

Conductor: Semyon Bychkov
Production: Elijah Moshinsky
Set Designer: Michael Yeargan
Costume Designer: Peter J. Hall
Lighting Designer: Duane Schuler
Choreographer: Eleanor Fazan
Fight Director: B. H. Barry

Desdemona: Renée Fleming
Otello: Johan Botha
Iago: Carlo Guelfi

ROMÉO ET JULIETTE (Sep. 25, 29, Oct. 3, 6, 11, Dec. 8, 12, 15 mat, 20, 27, 31)
Composer Charles-François Gounod
Libretto Jules Barbier and Michel Carré

Conductor: Plácido Domingo/TBA
Production: Guy Joosten
Set Designer: Johannes Leiacker
Costume Designer: Jorge Jara
Lighting Designer: David Cunningham
Choreographer: Sean Curran
Fight Director: Dale Anthony Girard

Juliette: Anna Netrebko
Stéphano: Isabel Leonard*/Kate Lindsey
Roméo: Rolando Villazón
Mercutio: Nathan Gunn/Jeff Mattsey
Frère Laurent: Kristinn Sigmundsson/Robert Lloyd

LA TRAVIATA (Nov. 3 mat, 7, 10, 15, Mar. 6, 12, 15, 19, 22)
Composer Giuseppe Verdi
Libretto Francesco Maria Piave

Conductor: Marco Armiliato
Production: Franco Zeffirelli
Set Designer: Franco Zeffirelli
Costume Designer: Raimonda Gaetani
Lighting Designer: Duane Schuler
Choreographer: Maria Benitez

Violetta: Renée Fleming/Ruth Ann Swenson
Alfredo: Matthew Polenzani/Jonas Kaufmann
Germont: Dwayne Croft

TRISTAN UND ISOLDE (Mar. 10, 14, 18, 22 mat, 25, 28)
Composer Richard Wagner
Libretto Richard Wagner

Conductor: James Levine
Production: Dieter Dorn
Set Designer: Jürgen Rose
Costume Designer: Jürgen Rose
Lighting Designer: Max Keller
Dramaturg: Hans-Joachim Ruckhäberle

Isolde: Deborah Voigt
Brangäne: Michelle DeYoung/Margaret Jane Wray
Tristan: Ben Heppner
Kurwenal: Eike Wilm Schulte/TBA
King Marke: Matti Salminen

DIE WALKÜRE (Jan. 7, 14, 28, Feb. 2 mat, 6, 9 mat)
Composer Richard Wagner
Libretto Richard Wagner

Conductor: Lorin Maazel/TBA
Production: Otto Schenk
Set Designer: Günther Schneider-Siemssen
Projection Designer: Günther Schneider-Siemssen
Costume Designer: Rolf Langenfass
Lighting Designer: Gil Wechsler

Brünnhilde: Lisa Gasteen
Sieglinde: Adrianne Pieczonka/Deborah Voigt
Fricka: Stephanie Blythe/Michelle DeYoung
Siegmund: Clifton Forbis/Simon O’Neill
Wotan: James Morris
Hunding: Mikhail Petrenko

WAR AND PEACE (Dec. 10, 13, 15, 18, 22 mat, 26, 28, Jan. 3)
Composer Sergei Prokofiev
Libretto Sergei Prokofiev and Mira Mendelson

Conductor: Valery Gergiev/Gianandrea Noseda
Production: Andrei Konchalovsky
Set Designer: George Tsypin
Costume Designer: Tatiana Noginova
Lighting Designer: James F. Ingalls
Projection Designer: Elaine McCarthy
Associate Set Designer: Eugene Monakhov
Choreographer: Sergei Gritsai

Natasha Rostova: Irina Mataeva*/Marina Poplovskaya*
Sonya: Ekaterina Semenchuk
Madame Akhrosimova: Larisa Shevchenko
Pierre Bezukhov: Kim Begley/Alexei Steblianko
Andrey Bolkonsky: Vassily Ladyuk*/TBA
Napoleon Bonaparte: Vassily Gerello
Marshal Kutuzov: Samuel Ramey/Mikhail Kit

DIE ZAUBERFLÖTE (Oct. 29, Nov. 1, 6, 9, 13, 17, 20, 24 mat)
Composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Libretto Emanuel Schikaneder

Conductor: Kirill Petrenko
Production: Julie Taymor
Set Designer: George Tsypin
Costume Designer: Julie Taymor
Lighting Designer: Donald Holder
Puppet Designers: Julie Taymor and Michael Curry
Choreographer: Mark Dendy

Pamina Diana Damrau/Genia Kühmeier*
Queen of the Night Anna-Kristiina Kaappola* / Diana Damrau
Tamino Eric Cutler/Joseph Kaiser*
Papageno Stéphane Degout
Speaker Eike Wilm Schulte
Sarastro Reinhard Hagen

Debuts espagnuolos:

Ofelia Sala y J.M. Zapata.
Además de los habituales P.Domingo.J.Pons ,C.Alvarez y A.Arteta.

Que lo disfruten.

Mucho ojito a Zdejko Lucic que cantó en A Coruña un ESPLÉNDIDO Germont en La Traviata hace un par de años. Se come con patatas a Álvarez y Atanelli. Mucho ojito.

este ya canto en paris un magnifico conde de luna junto a alagna en 2001 si no recuerdo mal.
sin duda uno de los baritonos a seguir junto con kwicien,tezier y caproni.

me alegro enormemente de que la blythe este en metropolitan para esta temporada, sin duda magnifico sabor de boca me dejo su reciente azucena del ROH.

un saludo.

Se parece bastante a la de Oviedo. 3 de los 5 de Oviedo se darán también en el Met.

Me alegro mucho de los debuts de Sala y Zapata.