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Simon Rattle leads a revival of Strauss’ “Der Rosenkavalier” starting Dec.

Wagner’s “Die Fliegende Hollaender (The Flying Dutchman)” is an intermission-less Francois Girard staging that opens March 2 with Valery Gergiev conducting Bryn Terfel, a co-production that debuts at Canada’s L’Opera de Quebec on July 28. Nezet-Seguin plans to conduct as many as six productions in 2020-21. There will be 16 Sunday matinees next season, and the Met plans 23 in 1920-21 and 27 in 2021-22. He also conducts revivals of Massenet’s “Werther” and Puccini’s “Turandot,” which will mark the Met’s first regular Sunday performance on Oct.

27 in a William Kentridge production first seen at the 2017 Salzburg Festival in Austria. Yannick Nezet-Seguin, starting his second season as the Met’s music director, leads Berg’s “Wozzeck” opening Dec. 8 is in a Phelim McDermott staging seen at the ENO and LA Opera in 2016. The Met premiere of Philip Glass’s “Akhnaten” on Nov. 6 and stars Joyce DiDonato in a David McVicar production adapted from one he created for Brussels’ Theatre Royal de la Monnaie in 2000. Handel’s “Agrippina” has its Met premiere on Feb. “Porgy” is among five new-to-the Met stagings next season that all will have appeared elsewhere previously. A revival already is scheduled in an upcoming season. 1 will be broadcast to movie theaters around the world. “The original version just really goes on and on and on.” “It doesn’t feel excessively long,” Robinson said. The staging by James Robinson debuted at London’s English National Opera last year and was seen this year at the Dutch National Opera in Amsterdam. This production is trimmed to about 2 1/2 hours of music plus a single intermission. That staging, which appeared 54 times through 1990, was presented in three acts with 3 hours of music and two intermissions for a total of 4 hours. Then-Met music director James Levine insisted on an uncut version for the 1985 Nathaniel Merrill production. I’m hoping that they will interact as much as possible.”Įric Owens and Angel Blue head the opening-night cast, which is conducted by David Robertson and includes Denyce Graves, Latonia Moore, Golda Schultz and Ryan Speedo Green. “It’s going to be interesting but it’s going to be a lot of fun. “We will have two existing choruses at the same time in the building,” he said. The Hungarian State Opera created controversy last year when it presented an unauthorized production with a largely white cast.ĭonald Palumbo, the Met chorus master, said about 400 people had auditioned for the “Porgy” chorus since November and 68 would be chosen for rehearsals that start Aug. “We have many African-Americans and other black artists who are appearing on our stage in major roles.” “I think the Met is regarded as an institution that is colorblind when it comes to casting,” Gelb said.