The Metropolitan Opera has announced its 2021-22 season and season tickets are on sale. Whether the season can take place or not depends entirely on the state of the COVID-19 pandemic, but for now, it is on. Tickets at metopera.org French Canadian music director Yannick Nézet-Séguin leads the company again. 🇨🇦 The Met is working on racial and gender equity. Classical … [Read more...] about The Metropolitan Opera Premieres a New “Lucia de Lammermoor” with Nadine Sierra & Javier Camarena
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Puccini’s “La Bohème” is at the Met Opera
"La Bohème" is Giacomo Puccini's Italian opera about love and loss in the bohemian world of 1830's Paris. The story helped defined our modern concept of the bohemian artist. It premiered at the Teatro Regio in Turin, Italy in 1896, and at the Metropolitan Opera in 1900. Today, the tragic love story of Mimi and Rodolfo is the world's most popular opera. La … [Read more...] about Puccini’s “La Bohème” is at the Met Opera
Madama Butterfly
"Madama Butterfly" is Giacomo Puccini's Italian opera about a Japanese geisha's broken heart. The librettists Giuseppe Giacosa and Luigi Illica also worked with Puccini on Tosca and La Bohème. Madama Butterfly premiered at Teatro alla Scala in Milan, Italy in 1904. It premiered at the Metropolitan Opera in 1907. Madama Butterfly 2020 Madama Butterfly is at … [Read more...] about Madama Butterfly
Tosca is an Italian Opera Love Triangle, “I Lived for Art, I Lived for Love”
"Tosca" is Puccini's dramatic Italian opera about a love triangle from 1900. Tosca 2020 March 26 - April 18, 2020 ~ Tosca is at the Metropolitan Opera in Lincoln Center on selected days. Soprano Anna Netrebko returns as the explosive diva. Bertrand de Billy conducts. Tickets from $30 at metopera.org Tosca "Tosca" is Giacomo Puccini's Italian opera about … [Read more...] about Tosca is an Italian Opera Love Triangle, “I Lived for Art, I Lived for Love”
Così fan tutte
Così fan tutte, ossia La Scuola degli amanti (Women are like That, or The School for Lovers) is Mozart's two-act, Italian comic opera about the sexes. This is tricky material for what was once tolerated, in the age of #MeToo has become unacceptable. You probably have to be "Latin" about it and don't worry too much. Just enjoy, and do behave. Così fan tutte … [Read more...] about Così fan tutte
La Traviata is a Beloved Fallen Woman
La Traviata (The Fallen Woman) is Giuseppe Verdi's Italian opera about the ill-fated love between courtesan Violetta and Alfredo. The Italian libretto by Francesco Maria Piave is based on the Alexandre Dumas fils semi-autobiographical novel La Dame aux camélias (1852). The opera premiered at La Fenice in Venice, Italy in 1853. La Traviata 2019-20 Michael Myer's … [Read more...] about La Traviata is a Beloved Fallen Woman
Magic Flute
The Magic Flute is Mozart's fairy tale opera. The Metropolitan Opera's short family version in English has become a New York City holiday tradition. The Magic Flute 2019 December 15, 2019 - January 4, 2020 ~ Julie Taymor's production is filled with puppetry and unforgettable scenes. Lothar Koenigs (Aachen, Germany) conducts. David Portillo from San Antonio, Texas is the … [Read more...] about Magic Flute
Porgy and Bess
Porgy and Bess, George Gershwin's classic 1935 opera about Black life in America's old South, is at the Metropolitan Opera in Lincoln Center for fourteen performances between September 23, 2019 and February 1, 2020. From $30 Get tickets from $30 at metopera.org The opera is set in the 1920s on the streets of a poor Black fishing community in Charleston, South Carolina. Porgy … [Read more...] about Porgy and Bess
Aida
Aida opens at the Metropolitan Opera House in Lincoln Center on Wednesday, September 26, 2018 at 7:30 pm. It is performed fourteen times with two casts through March 7, 2019. From $25 This is the last season for Sonja Frisell's production. 'Aida' will return in the 2020-2021 season with a brand new production. Get tickets at … [Read more...] about Aida
Rigoletto
The Metropolitan Opera performs Verdi's Italian opera 'Rigoletto' at the Metropolitan Opera House in Lincoln Center thirteen times with two casts between February 12 and May 10, 2019. From $20 The womanizing Duke of Mantua wants to sleep with Gilda, the beautiful daughter of his court jester Rigoletto. This is Michael Mayer's production which moves the scene from Renaissance … [Read more...] about Rigoletto