Events

Conducted by Dan Ettinger

Cast

Sharpless: Gerald Finley
Cio-Cio-San: Ermonela Jaho
Lieutenant B.F. Pinkerton: Marcelo Puente
Goro: Carlo Bosi
Suzuki: Elizabeth DeShong
Bonze: Jeremy White
Kate Pinkerton: Stephanie Wake-Edwards
Prince Yamadori: Germán E. Alcántara

Performing with The Royal Opera Chorus and The Orchestra of the Royal Opera House

Conducted by Dan Ettinger

Cast

Sharpless: Gerald Finley
Cio-Cio-San: Ermonela Jaho
Lieutenant B.F. Pinkerton: Marcelo Puente
Goro: Carlo Bosi
Suzuki: Elizabeth DeShong
Bonze: Jeremy White
Kate Pinkerton: Stephanie Wake-Edwards
Prince Yamadori: Germán E. Alcántara

Performing with The Royal Opera Chorus and The Orchestra of the Royal Opera House

Conducted by Dan Ettinger

Cast

Sharpless: Gerald Finley
Cio-Cio-San: Ermonela Jaho
Lieutenant B.F. Pinkerton: Marcelo Puente
Goro: Carlo Bosi
Suzuki: Elizabeth DeShong
Bonze: Jeremy White
Kate Pinkerton: Stephanie Wake-Edwards
Prince Yamadori: Germán E. Alcántara

Performing with The Royal Opera Chorus and The Orchestra of the Royal Opera House

Schumann
Barber
Ives
Porter
Emanuel

Performing with: Julius Drake, piano

Supported by KÜHNE FOUNDATION

Gerald Finley
With participants of the Young Singers Project

Distribution of free tickets starting on 04 July at the SHOP KARTEN / TICKETS of the Salzburg Festival at Hofstallgasse 1 (no reservation possible)

Performing with: Julius Drake, piano

Programme:
Schubert: Schwanengesang
Brahms: Vier ernste Gesänge
Schubert: Schwanengesang

Bluebeard’s Castle
Opera in one act
Concert performance
Libretto by Béla Balász

Performing with the London Philharmonic Orchestra; Sir Simon Rattle, conductor

On each of our inner maps, our yearning needs a few points of reference in order to set out on its journeys of discovery: for Sir Simon, one these is the composer Béla Bartók, another is the city of Baden-Baden with its legendary artists from Brahms to Boulez. Rattle has long since become a part of this history himself. When he returns with his London Symphony Orchestra to present Bartók, whose Concerto for Orchestra he once chose for his debut with the Berliner Philharmoniker, we would like to give special prominence to this concert as well. Join us as we celebrate our season opening together! Bring a bit of extra time – to gather with your fellow audience members in the lobby and toast to the new season after hearing Bartók’s Concerto and his Bluebeard with its blazing expressionist music.

Lutosławski: Les Espaces du sommeil

Programme also includes Tchaikovsky: Fantasy Overture and Romeo and Juliet and Berlioz: Symphonie fantastique

Performing with the London Philharmonic Orchestra; Edward Gardner, conductor

‘Frustrated in love, a young musician of deep sensitivity and ardent imagination takes opium…’ With those words, Hector Berlioz set the scene for his Symphonie fantastique – a story of gothic horror and glittering excess, rolled into one roof-raising musical phantasmagoria and scored for the biggest orchestra the world had then seen. It’s a gripping way for the LPO’s Principal Conductor Designate Edward Gardner to raise the curtain on our new season; first, though, Tchaikovsky’s hugely popular overture sets the emotional bar high, and the great Gerald Finley enters the luminous world of Lutosławski’s Les Espaces du sommeil – music that inhabits the realm between dream and imagination.

Performing with:
Michelle DeYoung, mezzo-soprano
Esa-Pekka Salonen, SFS Music Director Designate and Conductor
San Francisco Symphony
Yefim Bronfman, piano (Bartók: Piano Concerto No. 2)

At once fiery and tender, Bartók’s music grabs a hold and doesn’t let go until the very last second. Esa Pekka-Salonen leads the SF Symphony in a transfixing program that opens with the extraordinary Yefim Bronfman performing Bartók’s exhilarating Piano Concerto No. 2. Then, experience Bartók’s heart-pounding one-act opera, Duke Bluebeard’s Castle, featuring acclaimed vocalists Michelle DeYoung and Gerald Finley. Follow the twists and turns of this spectacular piece as we follow the story of young Judith uncovering her aging husband Bluebeard’s darkest and most astonishing secrets, hidden deep within his mysterious castle.

Performing with:
Michelle DeYoung, mezzo-soprano
Esa-Pekka Salonen, SFS Music Director Designate and Conductor
San Francisco Symphony
Yefim Bronfman, piano (Bartók: Piano Concerto No. 2)

At once fiery and tender, Bartók’s music grabs a hold and doesn’t let go until the very last second. Esa Pekka-Salonen leads the SF Symphony in a transfixing program that opens with the extraordinary Yefim Bronfman performing Bartók’s exhilarating Piano Concerto No. 2. Then, experience Bartók’s heart-pounding one-act opera, Duke Bluebeard’s Castle, featuring acclaimed vocalists Michelle DeYoung and Gerald Finley. Follow the twists and turns of this spectacular piece as we follow the story of young Judith uncovering her aging husband Bluebeard’s darkest and most astonishing secrets, hidden deep within his mysterious castle.

Performing with:
Michelle DeYoung, mezzo-soprano
Esa-Pekka Salonen, SFS Music Director Designate and Conductor
San Francisco Symphony
Yefim Bronfman, piano (Bartók: Piano Concerto No. 2)

At once fiery and tender, Bartók’s music grabs a hold and doesn’t let go until the very last second. Esa Pekka-Salonen leads the SF Symphony in a transfixing program that opens with the extraordinary Yefim Bronfman performing Bartók’s exhilarating Piano Concerto No. 2. Then, experience Bartók’s heart-pounding one-act opera, Duke Bluebeard’s Castle, featuring acclaimed vocalists Michelle DeYoung and Gerald Finley. Follow the twists and turns of this spectacular piece as we follow the story of young Judith uncovering her aging husband Bluebeard’s darkest and most astonishing secrets, hidden deep within his mysterious castle.

Performing with:
Michelle DeYoung, mezzo-soprano
Esa-Pekka Salonen, SFS Music Director Designate and Conductor
San Francisco Symphony
Yefim Bronfman, piano (Bartók: Piano Concerto No. 2)

At once fiery and tender, Bartók’s music grabs a hold and doesn’t let go until the very last second. Esa Pekka-Salonen leads the SF Symphony in a transfixing program that opens with the extraordinary Yefim Bronfman performing Bartók’s exhilarating Piano Concerto No. 2. Then, experience Bartók’s heart-pounding one-act opera, Duke Bluebeard’s Castle, featuring acclaimed vocalists Michelle DeYoung and Gerald Finley. Follow the twists and turns of this spectacular piece as we follow the story of young Judith uncovering her aging husband Bluebeard’s darkest and most astonishing secrets, hidden deep within his mysterious castle.

Performing with:
Los Angeles Philharmonic
Michael Tilson Thomas, conductor
Isabel Leonard, soprano
Nicholas Phan, tenor
Los Angeles Master Chorale
Grant Gershon, artistic director

The Los Angeles Philharmonic writes: 

It’s hard to imagine anyone having a more powerful reaction to Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet than Hector Berlioz. The composer was utterly devastated when he first witnessed a production, despite the fact that he spoke not a word of English and relied on an ineloquent, garbled French translation. “By the third act, scarcely able to breathe – it was as though an iron hand had gripped me by the heart – I knew that I was lost,” he recalled in his memoir. Inspired by how he felt, Berlioz created an innovative and risky choral symphony.

Though the work features three solo singers and a chorus, nearly two-thirds of the score is purely instrumental. Berlioz didn’t attempt to recreate the iconic narrative. Neither the words of Romeo nor Juliet are sung, ever. What he instead created is an intensely personal reaction to the play’s deeper meanings, through depictions of those characters and themes that he found most meaningful.

Performing with:
Los Angeles Philharmonic
Michael Tilson Thomas, conductor
Isabel Leonard, soprano
Nicholas Phan, tenor
Los Angeles Master Chorale
Grant Gershon, artistic director

The Los Angeles Philharmonic writes: 

It’s hard to imagine anyone having a more powerful reaction to Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet than Hector Berlioz. The composer was utterly devastated when he first witnessed a production, despite the fact that he spoke not a word of English and relied on an ineloquent, garbled French translation. “By the third act, scarcely able to breathe – it was as though an iron hand had gripped me by the heart – I knew that I was lost,” he recalled in his memoir. Inspired by how he felt, Berlioz created an innovative and risky choral symphony.

Though the work features three solo singers and a chorus, nearly two-thirds of the score is purely instrumental. Berlioz didn’t attempt to recreate the iconic narrative. Neither the words of Romeo nor Juliet are sung, ever. What he instead created is an intensely personal reaction to the play’s deeper meanings, through depictions of those characters and themes that he found most meaningful.

Performing with:
Los Angeles Philharmonic
Michael Tilson Thomas, conductor
Isabel Leonard, soprano
Nicholas Phan, tenor
Los Angeles Master Chorale
Grant Gershon, artistic director

The Los Angeles Philharmonic writes: 

It’s hard to imagine anyone having a more powerful reaction to Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet than Hector Berlioz. The composer was utterly devastated when he first witnessed a production, despite the fact that he spoke not a word of English and relied on an ineloquent, garbled French translation. “By the third act, scarcely able to breathe – it was as though an iron hand had gripped me by the heart – I knew that I was lost,” he recalled in his memoir. Inspired by how he felt, Berlioz created an innovative and risky choral symphony.

Though the work features three solo singers and a chorus, nearly two-thirds of the score is purely instrumental. Berlioz didn’t attempt to recreate the iconic narrative. Neither the words of Romeo nor Juliet are sung, ever. What he instead created is an intensely personal reaction to the play’s deeper meanings, through depictions of those characters and themes that he found most meaningful.

NEW PRODUCTION

Gerald Finley, Leporello

Performing with:
Conductor: Yannick Nézet-Séguin
Donna Anna: Ailyn Pérez
Donna Elvira: Isabel Leonard
Zerlina: Hera Hyesang Park
Don Ottavio: Ben Bliss
Don Giovanni: Peter Mattei
Masetto: Alfred Walker
The Commendatore: Ryan Speedo Green

Creative Team:
Ivo van Hove, production
Jan Versweyveld, set and lighting designer
An D’Huys, costume designer
Christopher Ash, projection designer
Jan Vandenhouwe, dramaturg

Tony Award–winning director of Broadway’s A View from the Bridge and West Side Story, Ivo van Hove makes a major Met debut with a new take on Mozart’s dark comedy, re-setting the familiar tale of deceit and damnation in an abstract architectural landscape. Yannick Nézet-Séguin conducts a star-studded cast led by baritone Peter Mattei as a magnetic Don Giovanni, alongside the Leporello of bass-baritone Gerald Finley, who takes over the title role later in the season. Soprano Ailyn Pérez, mezzo-soprano Isabel Leonard, and soprano Hera Hyesang Park make a superlative trio as Donna Anna, Donna Elvira, and Zerlina, and tenor Ben Bliss completes the principal cast as Don Ottavio.

A co-production of the Metropolitan Opera and Opéra National de Paris

Production a gift of Ambassador and Mrs. Nicholas F. Taubman, and the Rosalie J. Coe Weir Endowment Fund

Additional funding from The Walter and Leonore Annenberg Endowment Fund

NEW PRODUCTION

Gerald Finley, Leporello

Performing with:
Conductor: Yannick Nézet-Séguin
Donna Anna: Ailyn Pérez
Donna Elvira: Isabel Leonard
Zerlina: Hera Hyesang Park
Don Ottavio: Ben Bliss
Don Giovanni: Peter Mattei
Masetto: Alfred Walker
The Commendatore: Ryan Speedo Green

Creative Team:
Ivo van Hove, production
Jan Versweyveld, set and lighting designer
An D’Huys, costume designer
Christopher Ash, projection designer
Jan Vandenhouwe, dramaturg

Tony Award–winning director of Broadway’s A View from the Bridge and West Side Story, Ivo van Hove makes a major Met debut with a new take on Mozart’s dark comedy, re-setting the familiar tale of deceit and damnation in an abstract architectural landscape. Yannick Nézet-Séguin conducts a star-studded cast led by baritone Peter Mattei as a magnetic Don Giovanni, alongside the Leporello of bass-baritone Gerald Finley, who takes over the title role later in the season. Soprano Ailyn Pérez, mezzo-soprano Isabel Leonard, and soprano Hera Hyesang Park make a superlative trio as Donna Anna, Donna Elvira, and Zerlina, and tenor Ben Bliss completes the principal cast as Don Ottavio.

A co-production of the Metropolitan Opera and Opéra National de Paris

Production a gift of Ambassador and Mrs. Nicholas F. Taubman, and the Rosalie J. Coe Weir Endowment Fund

Additional funding from The Walter and Leonore Annenberg Endowment Fund

NEW PRODUCTION

Gerald Finley, Leporello

Performing with:
Conductor: Yannick Nézet-Séguin
Donna Anna: Ailyn Pérez
Donna Elvira: Isabel Leonard
Zerlina: Hera Hyesang Park
Don Ottavio: Ben Bliss
Don Giovanni: Peter Mattei
Masetto: Alfred Walker
The Commendatore: Ryan Speedo Green

Creative Team:
Ivo van Hove, production
Jan Versweyveld, set and lighting designer
An D’Huys, costume designer
Christopher Ash, projection designer
Jan Vandenhouwe, dramaturg

Tony Award–winning director of Broadway’s A View from the Bridge and West Side Story, Ivo van Hove makes a major Met debut with a new take on Mozart’s dark comedy, re-setting the familiar tale of deceit and damnation in an abstract architectural landscape. Yannick Nézet-Séguin conducts a star-studded cast led by baritone Peter Mattei as a magnetic Don Giovanni, alongside the Leporello of bass-baritone Gerald Finley, who takes over the title role later in the season. Soprano Ailyn Pérez, mezzo-soprano Isabel Leonard, and soprano Hera Hyesang Park make a superlative trio as Donna Anna, Donna Elvira, and Zerlina, and tenor Ben Bliss completes the principal cast as Don Ottavio.

A co-production of the Metropolitan Opera and Opéra National de Paris

Production a gift of Ambassador and Mrs. Nicholas F. Taubman, and the Rosalie J. Coe Weir Endowment Fund

Additional funding from The Walter and Leonore Annenberg Endowment Fund

NEW PRODUCTION

Gerald Finley, Leporello

Performing with:
Conductor: Gareth Morrell
Donna Anna: Ailyn Pérez
Donna Elvira: Isabel Leonard
Zerlina: TBA
Don Ottavio: Ben Bliss
Don Giovanni: Peter Mattei
Masetto: Alfred Walker
The Commendatore: Ryan Speedo Green

Creative Team:
Ivo van Hove, production
Jan Versweyveld, set and lighting designer
An D’Huys, costume designer
Christopher Ash, projection designer
Jan Vandenhouwe, dramaturg

Tony Award–winning director of Broadway’s A View from the Bridge and West Side Story, Ivo van Hove makes a major Met debut with a new take on Mozart’s dark comedy, re-setting the familiar tale of deceit and damnation in an abstract architectural landscape. Yannick Nézet-Séguin conducts a star-studded cast led by baritone Peter Mattei as a magnetic Don Giovanni, alongside the Leporello of bass-baritone Gerald Finley, who takes over the title role later in the season. Soprano Ailyn Pérez, mezzo-soprano Isabel Leonard, and soprano Hera Hyesang Park make a superlative trio as Donna Anna, Donna Elvira, and Zerlina, and tenor Ben Bliss completes the principal cast as Don Ottavio.

A co-production of the Metropolitan Opera and Opéra National de Paris

Production a gift of Ambassador and Mrs. Nicholas F. Taubman, and the Rosalie J. Coe Weir Endowment Fund

Additional funding from The Walter and Leonore Annenberg Endowment Fund

NEW PRODUCTION

Gerald Finley, Leporello

Performing with:
Conductor: Gareth Morrell
Donna Anna: Ailyn Pérez
Donna Elvira: Isabel Leonard
Zerlina: TBA
Don Ottavio: Ben Bliss
Don Giovanni: Peter Mattei
Masetto: Alfred Walker
The Commendatore: Ryan Speedo Green

Creative Team:
Ivo van Hove, production
Jan Versweyveld, set and lighting designer
An D’Huys, costume designer
Christopher Ash, projection designer
Jan Vandenhouwe, dramaturg

Tony Award–winning director of Broadway’s A View from the Bridge and West Side Story, Ivo van Hove makes a major Met debut with a new take on Mozart’s dark comedy, re-setting the familiar tale of deceit and damnation in an abstract architectural landscape. Yannick Nézet-Séguin conducts a star-studded cast led by baritone Peter Mattei as a magnetic Don Giovanni, alongside the Leporello of bass-baritone Gerald Finley, who takes over the title role later in the season. Soprano Ailyn Pérez, mezzo-soprano Isabel Leonard, and soprano Hera Hyesang Park make a superlative trio as Donna Anna, Donna Elvira, and Zerlina, and tenor Ben Bliss completes the principal cast as Don Ottavio.

A co-production of the Metropolitan Opera and Opéra National de Paris

Production a gift of Ambassador and Mrs. Nicholas F. Taubman, and the Rosalie J. Coe Weir Endowment Fund

Additional funding from The Walter and Leonore Annenberg Endowment Fund

NEW PRODUCTION

Gerald Finley, Leporello

Performing with:
Conductor: Yannick Nézet-Séguin
Donna Anna: Ailyn Pérez
Donna Elvira: Isabel Leonard
Zerlina: Hera Hyesang Park
Don Ottavio: Ben Bliss
Don Giovanni: Peter Mattei
Masetto: Alfred Walker
The Commendatore: Ryan Speedo Green

Creative Team:
Ivo van Hove, production
Jan Versweyveld, set and lighting designer
An D’Huys, costume designer
Christopher Ash, projection designer
Jan Vandenhouwe, dramaturg

Tony Award–winning director of Broadway’s A View from the Bridge and West Side Story, Ivo van Hove makes a major Met debut with a new take on Mozart’s dark comedy, re-setting the familiar tale of deceit and damnation in an abstract architectural landscape. Yannick Nézet-Séguin conducts a star-studded cast led by baritone Peter Mattei as a magnetic Don Giovanni, alongside the Leporello of bass-baritone Gerald Finley, who takes over the title role later in the season. Soprano Ailyn Pérez, mezzo-soprano Isabel Leonard, and soprano Hera Hyesang Park make a superlative trio as Donna Anna, Donna Elvira, and Zerlina, and tenor Ben Bliss completes the principal cast as Don Ottavio.

A co-production of the Metropolitan Opera and Opéra National de Paris

Production a gift of Ambassador and Mrs. Nicholas F. Taubman, and the Rosalie J. Coe Weir Endowment Fund

Additional funding from The Walter and Leonore Annenberg Endowment Fund

NEW PRODUCTION

Gerald Finley, Leporello

Performing with:
Conductor: Yannick Nézet-Séguin
Donna Anna: Ailyn Pérez
Donna Elvira: Isabel Leonard
Zerlina: Hera Hyesang Park
Don Ottavio: Ben Bliss
Don Giovanni: Peter Mattei
Masetto: Alfred Walker
The Commendatore: Ryan Speedo Green

Creative Team:
Ivo van Hove, production
Jan Versweyveld, set and lighting designer
An D’Huys, costume designer
Christopher Ash, projection designer
Jan Vandenhouwe, dramaturg

Tony Award–winning director of Broadway’s A View from the Bridge and West Side Story, Ivo van Hove makes a major Met debut with a new take on Mozart’s dark comedy, re-setting the familiar tale of deceit and damnation in an abstract architectural landscape. Yannick Nézet-Séguin conducts a star-studded cast led by baritone Peter Mattei as a magnetic Don Giovanni, alongside the Leporello of bass-baritone Gerald Finley, who takes over the title role later in the season. Soprano Ailyn Pérez, mezzo-soprano Isabel Leonard, and soprano Hera Hyesang Park make a superlative trio as Donna Anna, Donna Elvira, and Zerlina, and tenor Ben Bliss completes the principal cast as Don Ottavio.

A co-production of the Metropolitan Opera and Opéra National de Paris

Production a gift of Ambassador and Mrs. Nicholas F. Taubman, and the Rosalie J. Coe Weir Endowment Fund

Additional funding from The Walter and Leonore Annenberg Endowment Fund

NEW PRODUCTION

Gerald Finley, Leporello

Performing with:
Conductor: Yannick Nézet-Séguin
Donna Anna: Ailyn Pérez
Donna Elvira: Isabel Leonard
Zerlina: Hera Hyesang Park
Don Ottavio: Ben Bliss
Don Giovanni: Peter Mattei
Masetto: Alfred Walker
The Commendatore: Ryan Speedo Green

Creative Team:
Ivo van Hove, production
Jan Versweyveld, set and lighting designer
An D’Huys, costume designer
Christopher Ash, projection designer
Jan Vandenhouwe, dramaturg

Tony Award–winning director of Broadway’s A View from the Bridge and West Side Story, Ivo van Hove makes a major Met debut with a new take on Mozart’s dark comedy, re-setting the familiar tale of deceit and damnation in an abstract architectural landscape. Yannick Nézet-Séguin conducts a star-studded cast led by baritone Peter Mattei as a magnetic Don Giovanni, alongside the Leporello of bass-baritone Gerald Finley, who takes over the title role later in the season. Soprano Ailyn Pérez, mezzo-soprano Isabel Leonard, and soprano Hera Hyesang Park make a superlative trio as Donna Anna, Donna Elvira, and Zerlina, and tenor Ben Bliss completes the principal cast as Don Ottavio.

A co-production of the Metropolitan Opera and Opéra National de Paris

Production a gift of Ambassador and Mrs. Nicholas F. Taubman, and the Rosalie J. Coe Weir Endowment Fund

Additional funding from The Walter and Leonore Annenberg Endowment Fund

NEW PRODUCTION

Gerald Finley, Leporello

Performing with:
Conductor: Yannick Nézet-Séguin
Donna Anna: Amanda Woodbury
Donna Elvira: Isabel Leonard
Zerlina: Hera Hyesang Park
Don Ottavio: Ben Bliss
Don Giovanni: Peter Mattei
Masetto: Alfred Walker
The Commendatore: Ryan Speedo Green

Creative Team:
Ivo van Hove, production
Jan Versweyveld, set and lighting designer
An D’Huys, costume designer
Christopher Ash, projection designer
Jan Vandenhouwe, dramaturg

Tony Award–winning director of Broadway’s A View from the Bridge and West Side Story, Ivo van Hove makes a major Met debut with a new take on Mozart’s dark comedy, re-setting the familiar tale of deceit and damnation in an abstract architectural landscape. Yannick Nézet-Séguin conducts a star-studded cast led by baritone Peter Mattei as a magnetic Don Giovanni, alongside the Leporello of bass-baritone Gerald Finley, who takes over the title role later in the season. Soprano Ailyn Pérez, mezzo-soprano Isabel Leonard, and soprano Hera Hyesang Park make a superlative trio as Donna Anna, Donna Elvira, and Zerlina, and tenor Ben Bliss completes the principal cast as Don Ottavio.

A co-production of the Metropolitan Opera and Opéra National de Paris

Production a gift of Ambassador and Mrs. Nicholas F. Taubman, and the Rosalie J. Coe Weir Endowment Fund

Additional funding from The Walter and Leonore Annenberg Endowment Fund

NEW PRODUCTION

Gerald Finley, Leporello

Performing with:
Conductor: Yannick Nézet-Séguin
Donna Anna: Ailyn Pérez
Donna Elvira: Isabel Leonard
Zerlina: Hera Hyesang Park
Don Ottavio: Ben Bliss
Don Giovanni: Peter Mattei
Masetto: Alfred Walker
The Commendatore: Ryan Speedo Green

Creative Team:
Ivo van Hove, production
Jan Versweyveld, set and lighting designer
An D’Huys, costume designer
Christopher Ash, projection designer
Jan Vandenhouwe, dramaturg

Tony Award–winning director of Broadway’s A View from the Bridge and West Side Story, Ivo van Hove makes a major Met debut with a new take on Mozart’s dark comedy, re-setting the familiar tale of deceit and damnation in an abstract architectural landscape. Yannick Nézet-Séguin conducts a star-studded cast led by baritone Peter Mattei as a magnetic Don Giovanni, alongside the Leporello of bass-baritone Gerald Finley, who takes over the title role later in the season. Soprano Ailyn Pérez, mezzo-soprano Isabel Leonard, and soprano Hera Hyesang Park make a superlative trio as Donna Anna, Donna Elvira, and Zerlina, and tenor Ben Bliss completes the principal cast as Don Ottavio.

A co-production of the Metropolitan Opera and Opéra National de Paris

Production a gift of Ambassador and Mrs. Nicholas F. Taubman, and the Rosalie J. Coe Weir Endowment Fund

Additional funding from The Walter and Leonore Annenberg Endowment Fund

Performing with:
Erin Morley, soprano
Orchestre and Choeur Métropolitain
Yannick Nézet-Séguin, conductor

PREPARED BY FRANÇOIS A. OUIMET & PIERRE TOURVILLE

In Brahms’s A German Requiem, the human voice takes centre stage. Yannick Nézet-Séguin will lead the OM and the Chœur Métropolitain in this piece, which the composer himself called his “human requiem.” By confronting the inevitable with serenity and wonder, Brahms celebrates life on earth and beyond.

In contrast with Latin requiems, which are replete with God’s wrath and repentance, Brahms’s work is a calming ode to the human spirit. The innovative and dramatic work’s German libretto is one of a kind, evoking feelings of hopefulness and sung by a choir and soloists in the style of an oratorio. But first on the program is Brahms’s melancholic and fiery Tragic Overture.

NEW PRODUCTION

Gerald Finley, Don Giovanni

Performing with:
Conductor: Antonello Manacorda
Donna Anna: Federica Lombardi
Donna Elvira: Amanda majeski
Zerlina: TBA
Don Ottavio: Liparit Avetisyan
Leporello: Alex Esposito
Masetto: Alfred Walker
The Commendatore: Raymond Aceto

Creative Team:
Ivo van Hove, production
Jan Versweyveld, set and lighting designer
An D’Huys, costume designer
Christopher Ash, projection designer
Jan Vandenhouwe, dramaturg

Tony Award–winning director of Broadway’s A View from the Bridge and West Side Story, Ivo van Hove makes a major Met debut with a new take on Mozart’s dark comedy, re-setting the familiar tale of deceit and damnation in an abstract architectural landscape. Yannick Nézet-Séguin conducts a star-studded cast led by baritone Peter Mattei as a magnetic Don Giovanni, alongside the Leporello of bass-baritone Gerald Finley, who takes over the title role later in the season. Soprano Ailyn Pérez, mezzo-soprano Isabel Leonard, and soprano Hera Hyesang Park make a superlative trio as Donna Anna, Donna Elvira, and Zerlina, and tenor Ben Bliss completes the principal cast as Don Ottavio.

A co-production of the Metropolitan Opera and Opéra National de Paris

Production a gift of Ambassador and Mrs. Nicholas F. Taubman, and the Rosalie J. Coe Weir Endowment Fund

Additional funding from The Walter and Leonore Annenberg Endowment Fund

NEW PRODUCTION

Gerald Finley, Don Giovanni

Performing with:
Conductor: Antonello Manacorda
Donna Anna: Federica Lombardi
Donna Elvira: Amanda majeski
Zerlina: TBA
Don Ottavio: Liparit Avetisyan
Leporello: Alex Esposito
Masetto: Alfred Walker
The Commendatore: Raymond Aceto

Creative Team:
Ivo van Hove, production
Jan Versweyveld, set and lighting designer
An D’Huys, costume designer
Christopher Ash, projection designer
Jan Vandenhouwe, dramaturg

Tony Award–winning director of Broadway’s A View from the Bridge and West Side Story, Ivo van Hove makes a major Met debut with a new take on Mozart’s dark comedy, re-setting the familiar tale of deceit and damnation in an abstract architectural landscape. Yannick Nézet-Séguin conducts a star-studded cast led by baritone Peter Mattei as a magnetic Don Giovanni, alongside the Leporello of bass-baritone Gerald Finley, who takes over the title role later in the season. Soprano Ailyn Pérez, mezzo-soprano Isabel Leonard, and soprano Hera Hyesang Park make a superlative trio as Donna Anna, Donna Elvira, and Zerlina, and tenor Ben Bliss completes the principal cast as Don Ottavio.

A co-production of the Metropolitan Opera and Opéra National de Paris

Production a gift of Ambassador and Mrs. Nicholas F. Taubman, and the Rosalie J. Coe Weir Endowment Fund

Additional funding from The Walter and Leonore Annenberg Endowment Fund

NEW PRODUCTION

Gerald Finley, Don Giovanni

Performing with:
Conductor: Antonello Manacorda
Donna Anna: Federica Lombardi
Donna Elvira: Amanda majeski
Zerlina: TBA
Don Ottavio: Liparit Avetisyan
Leporello: Alex Esposito
Masetto: Alfred Walker
The Commendatore: Raymond Aceto

Creative Team:
Ivo van Hove, production
Jan Versweyveld, set and lighting designer
An D’Huys, costume designer
Christopher Ash, projection designer
Jan Vandenhouwe, dramaturg

Tony Award–winning director of Broadway’s A View from the Bridge and West Side Story, Ivo van Hove makes a major Met debut with a new take on Mozart’s dark comedy, re-setting the familiar tale of deceit and damnation in an abstract architectural landscape. Yannick Nézet-Séguin conducts a star-studded cast led by baritone Peter Mattei as a magnetic Don Giovanni, alongside the Leporello of bass-baritone Gerald Finley, who takes over the title role later in the season. Soprano Ailyn Pérez, mezzo-soprano Isabel Leonard, and soprano Hera Hyesang Park make a superlative trio as Donna Anna, Donna Elvira, and Zerlina, and tenor Ben Bliss completes the principal cast as Don Ottavio.

A co-production of the Metropolitan Opera and Opéra National de Paris

Production a gift of Ambassador and Mrs. Nicholas F. Taubman, and the Rosalie J. Coe Weir Endowment Fund

Additional funding from The Walter and Leonore Annenberg Endowment Fund

NEW PRODUCTION

Gerald Finley, Don Giovanni

Performing with:
Conductor: Antonello Manacorda
Donna Anna: Federica Lombardi
Donna Elvira: Amanda majeski
Zerlina: TBA
Don Ottavio: Liparit Avetisyan
Leporello: Alex Esposito
Masetto: Alfred Walker
The Commendatore: Raymond Aceto

Creative Team:
Ivo van Hove, production
Jan Versweyveld, set and lighting designer
An D’Huys, costume designer
Christopher Ash, projection designer
Jan Vandenhouwe, dramaturg

Tony Award–winning director of Broadway’s A View from the Bridge and West Side Story, Ivo van Hove makes a major Met debut with a new take on Mozart’s dark comedy, re-setting the familiar tale of deceit and damnation in an abstract architectural landscape. Yannick Nézet-Séguin conducts a star-studded cast led by baritone Peter Mattei as a magnetic Don Giovanni, alongside the Leporello of bass-baritone Gerald Finley, who takes over the title role later in the season. Soprano Ailyn Pérez, mezzo-soprano Isabel Leonard, and soprano Hera Hyesang Park make a superlative trio as Donna Anna, Donna Elvira, and Zerlina, and tenor Ben Bliss completes the principal cast as Don Ottavio.

A co-production of the Metropolitan Opera and Opéra National de Paris

Production a gift of Ambassador and Mrs. Nicholas F. Taubman, and the Rosalie J. Coe Weir Endowment Fund

Additional funding from The Walter and Leonore Annenberg Endowment Fund

Giuseppe Verdi, composer

Libretto by Arrigo Boito based on the play of the same title „Othello“ by William Shakespeare
In Italian with German and English surtitles

Cast

Otello – Arsen Soghomonyan

Jago – Gerald Finley

Cassio – Oleksiy Palchykov

Roderigo – Thomas Atkins

Lodovico – Bálint Szabó

Montano – Milan Siljanov

Ein Herold – Andrew Hamilton

Desdemona – Anja Harteros

Emilia – Katarina Bradić

Giuseppe Verdi, composer

Libretto by Arrigo Boito based on the play of the same title „Othello“ by William Shakespeare
In Italian with German and English surtitles

Cast

Otello – Arsen Soghomonyan

Jago – Gerald Finley

Cassio – Oleksiy Palchykov

Roderigo – Thomas Atkins

Lodovico – Bálint Szabó

Montano – Milan Siljanov

Ein Herold – Andrew Hamilton

Desdemona – Anja Harteros

Emilia – Katarina Bradić