One
of the most highly praised operas of recent years, which had its premiere at
the Salzburg Festival in 2000, Kaija Saariaho’s yearning medieval romance
L’Amour de Loin (“Love From Afar”), has its Met premiere this season. The
production is by Robert Lepage, co-produced with L’Opéra de Québec, where it
premiered to acclaim last summer, in collaboration with Ex Machina. Debuting
Finnish conductor Susanna Mälkki leads the performance, which stars Susanna
Phillips as Clémence, Eric Owens as Jaufré, and Tamara Mumford as the Pilgrim
who carries messages of love between them

Run Time: 3:00

Met Music
Director James Levine conducts Verdi’s early drama of Ancient Babylon, Nabucco,
with Plácido Domingo adding a new role to his repertory as the title character.
Liudmyla Monastyrska sings the tour-de-force role of Abigaille, Nabucco’s
willful daughter, with Jamie Barton as Fenena, Russell Thomas as Ismaele, and
Dmitri Belosselskiy as the prophet Zaccaria, the role of his 2011 Met debut.

Run Time: 3:05

Encore: Sunday, January 29,
2017 at 1 pm

Met Music
Director James Levine conducts Verdi’s early drama of Ancient Babylon, Nabucco,
with Plácido Domingo adding a new role to his repertory as the title character.
Liudmyla Monastyrska sings the tour-de-force role of Abigaille, Nabucco’s
willful daughter, with Jamie Barton as Fenena, Russell Thomas as Ismaele, and
Dmitri Belosselskiy as the prophet Zaccaria, the role of his 2011 Met debut.  

Run Time: 3:05

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