The
electrifying team of Vittorio Grigolo and Diana Damrau reunites for a new
production of Gounod’s opera based on the Shakespeare play. Damrau makes her
role debut as Juliette in Bartlett Sher’s new production, conducted by
Gianandrea Noseda. Elliot Madore sings Mercutio and Mikhail Petrenko sings
Frère Laurent. Sher’s staging is a La Scala production, initially presented by
the Salzburg Festival, where it premiered in 2008.
Run time: 3:30
Encore: Sunday, February 12,
2017 at 1 pm
The
electrifying team of Vittorio Grigolo and Diana Damrau reunites for a new
production of Gounod’s opera based on the Shakespeare play. Damrau makes her
role debut as Juliette in Bartlett Sher’s new production, conducted by
Gianandrea Noseda. Elliot Madore sings Mercutio and Mikhail Petrenko sings
Frère Laurent. Sher’s staging is a La Scala production, initially presented by
the Salzburg Festival, where it premiered in 2008.
Run time: 3:30
Kristine
Opolais stars in a new production of the opera that first won her international
acclaim, Dvořák’s fairy-tale opera about the tragic water nymph Rusalka. Sir
Mark Elder conducts Mary Zimmerman’s new staging, which also stars Brandon
Jovanovich as the human prince who captures Rusalka’s heart; Katarina Dalayman
as Rusalka’s rival, the Foreign Princess; Eric Owens as the Water Sprite,
Rusalka’s father; and Jamie Barton as the duplicitous witch Ježibaba.
Run Time: 4:05
Encore: Sunday, March 5,
2017 at 1 pm
Kristine
Opolais stars in a new production of the opera that first won her international
acclaim, Dvořák’s fairy-tale opera about the tragic water nymph Rusalka. Sir
Mark Elder conducts Mary Zimmerman’s new staging, which also stars Brandon
Jovanovich as the human prince who captures Rusalka’s heart; Katarina Dalayman
as Rusalka’s rival, the Foreign Princess; Eric Owens as the Water Sprite,
Rusalka’s father; and Jamie Barton as the duplicitous witch Ježibaba.
Run Time: 4:05
Sonya Yoncheva
brings her acclaimed interpretation of the doomed courtesan Violetta Valéry to
Live in HD audiences for the first time, opposite rising American tenor Michael
Fabiano as her lover, Alfredo. Thomas Hampson sings one of his most acclaimed
Met roles as Giorgio Germont, Alfredo’s disapproving father, in a revival of
Willy Decker’s staging conducted by San Francisco Opera Music Director Nicola
Luisotti.
Run Time: 2:55
Encore: Sunday, March 19,
2017 at 1 pm
Sonya Yoncheva brings her acclaimed interpretation of the doomed courtesan Violetta Valéry to Live in HD audiences for the first time, opposite rising American tenor Michael Fabiano as her lover, Alfredo. Thomas Hampson sings one of his most acclaimed Met roles as Giorgio Germont, Alfredo’s disapproving father, in a revival of Willy Decker’s staging conducted by San Francisco Opera Music Director Nicola Luisotti.
Run Time: 2:55
James Levine
conducts a rare Met revival of Mozart’s Idomeneo, set in the aftermath of the
Trojan War. Jean-Pierre Ponnelle’s classic production, which has its first Met
revival in over a decade this season, stars Matthew Polenzani in the title
role. The cast also includes Elza van den Heever as Elettra, Nadine Sierra as
Ilia, Alice Coote as Idamante, and Alan Opie as Arbace.
Run Time: 4:20
Encore: Sunday, April 9,
2017 at 1 pm
James Levine conducts a rare Met revival of Mozart’s Idomeneo, set in the aftermath of the
Trojan War. Jean-Pierre Ponnelle’s classic production, which has its first Met
revival in over a decade this season, stars Matthew Polenzani in the title
role. The cast also includes Elza van den Heever as Elettra, Nadine Sierra as
Ilia, Alice Coote as Idamante, and Alan Opie as Arbace.
Run Time: 4:20
Anna
Netrebko reprises one of her most acclaimed roles as Tatiana, the naïve heroine
of Tchaikovsky’s opera, adapted from Pushkin’s classic novel. Dmitri
Hvorostovsky stars as the title character, who rejects Tatiana’s love until
it’s too late. Robin Ticciati, Music
Director of Glyndebourne Festival Opera, conducts the revival of Deborah
Warner’s staging, which opened the Met’s 2013-14 season. Alexey Dolgov sings
the role of Onegin’s friend-turned-rival, Lenski, with Elena Maximova as
Tatiana’s sister Olga and Štefan Kocán as Prince Gremin.
Run Time: 4:00
Encore: Sunday, April 30, 2017
at 1 pm
Ana Netrebko reprises one of her most acclaimed roles as Tatiana, the naïve heroine of Tchaikovsky’s opera, adapted from Pushkin’s classic novel. Dmitri Hvorostovsky stars as the title character, who rejects Tatiana’s love until it’s too late.Robin Ticciati, Music Director of Glyndebourne Festival Opera, conducts the revival of Deborah Warner’s staging, which opened the Met’s 2013-14 season. Alexey Dolgov sings
the role of Onegin’s friend-turned-rival, Lenski, with Elena Maximova as Tatiana’s sister Olga and Štefan Kocán as Prince Gremin.
Run Time: 4:00
