After the long awaited 2013-2014 was announced we now have some news on the next season. 2014-15 looks to be even more exciting with 6 new productions and even more exciting revivals.
Opening night will be with a new production of Le nozze di Figaro, a production that is in a bit of flux at the moment since Anna Netrebko elected not to add Contessa Almaviva to her stage repertoire at the moment. As it stands now, the new Mozart will be conducted by James Levine in a production by Michael Grandage. The cast will be Maija Kovalevska, Marlis Petersen and Mikhail Petrenko but by the lack of stars the Met will most likely add a more marketable singer to the list.
Five further new productions dot the season:
The Death of Klinghoffer. Director: Tom Morris (ENO production]
Iolanta/Duke Bluebeard’s Castle. Conductor: Valery Gergiev. Director: Mariusz Trelinski. Cast includes Anna Netrebko and Alexei Tanovitski in theTchaikovksy, with Nadja Michael and Mikhail Petrenko in the Bartók.
The New Year’s Eve extravaganza this season will be The Merry Widow, Conductor TBA. Susan Stroman directs Renée Fleming; later in the season the show returns with Susan Graham and Rodney Gilfry.
La Donna del Lago. Conductor: Michele Mariotti. Director: John Fulljames.Joyce DiDonato, Daniela Barcellona, Juan Diego Florez.
Cavalleria Rusticana/Pagliacci. Conducto: Fabio Luisi. Director: TBA. Marcelo Alvarez, Barbara Frittoli.
The repertoire will further include revivals of:
Aida with Liudmyla Monastyrska, Dmitry Belosselskiy.
Un Ballo in Maschera with Sondra Radvanovsky, Yonghoon Lee.
Il Barbiere di Siviglia.
La Boheme with Maria Agresta.
Carmen with Elina Garanca/Anita Rachvelishvili, Roberto Alagna, Anita Hartig/Ailyn Perez.
Les Contes d’Hoffmann with Susanna Phillips, Matthew Polenzani.
Don Carlos with Barbara Frittoli, Nadia Krasteva, Jonas Kaufmann/Yonghoon Lee, Simon Keenlyside, Ferruccio Furlanetto. Chef d’orchestre for the first-ever Met performances in the original French will be Yannick Nézet-Séguin.
Don Giovanni
Ernani with Placido Domingo as Don Carlo.
Faust with Anna Netrebko, Joseph Calleja, Rene Pape. [This production was described to La Cieca as "hanging by a thread," with nobody involved feeling enthusiastic about the project.]
Hansel and Gretel
Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk with Eva-Maria Westbroek, Brandon Jovanovich,Raymond Very.
Lucia di Lammermoor with Olga Peretyatko, conducted by Maurizio Benini.
Manon with Diana Damrau, Vittorio Grigolo.
Die Meistersinger von Nurnberg with Emily Magee, Karen Cargill, Johan Botha, Matthew Polenzani, Bryn Terfel, conducted by James Levine.
The Rake’s Progress with Lisette Oropesa, Stephanie Blythe, Gerald Finley.
La Traviata with Marina Rebeka, Francesco Demuro.
Die Zauberflote.
What do you guys think of this season!
Well, I won't be happy until at least one of the following are revived: Doktor Faust, Mathis der Maler, The Love for Three Oranges or Palestrina.
ReplyDeleteWait, where's Hvorostovsky in all of this? I thought this was the season he would be debuting Iago. Or am I off by a year? :(
ReplyDeleteJust wanna see one word on that list: "Parsifal."
ReplyDeleteAnd wouldn't it be nice to see Turandot there.
ReplyDeleteThank goodness there is one Wagner work ! The 15/16 season brings Nina Stemma back to the MET for Tristan und Isolde and Elektra!! Both in new productions..
ReplyDeleteAnd like the 13/14 season there will not Roberto Devereux WHY!?!?
ReplyDeleteOH MY GOD I FEEL THE SAME WAY!!!!
DeleteYes, where is Roberto Devereux, after Anna Bolena and Maria Stuarda?
ReplyDeleteMET seems to be repeating itself with different casts of the same operas.
No Romeo et Juliette (they should cast Damrau here), no Werther (they should cast Didonato here), no Manon Lescaut (they should cast Netrebko here), no Cosi fan tutte, no Idomeneo (they should cast Kaufmann here), no Un Ballo, no Alcina (they should request Harteros)...
You are right, the Met keeps repeating casts probably to save money in.rehearsals
DeleteAudrey Luna as Olympia.
ReplyDeletePSYCHED for DiDonato & Florez in La Donna and PSYCHED again for Damrau & Grigolo in Manon!!!!! Andadd another inquiry, Where is Roberto Devereux????
ReplyDeleteTotally boring and predictable. We saw diDonato and Brownlee in Santa Fe in the Rossini so there's no reason to go to NY for anything else on their agenda. And the casts, what's the deal? Are all these Russian singers that much cheaper to hire than other countries' singers? They had better be because there is no other reason they should be hired for the great Met stage.
ReplyDeletenetrebko is not ready yet for Manon Lescaut- her voice is not big enough. Who is able to sing in Roberto Devereaux. That is so hard to cast
ReplyDeleteSondra Radvanovsky could do Devereaux
DeleteSondra Radvanovsky does Roberto Deveraux in Canada and plans to make Anna Bolena, Maria Stuarda and Roberto Deveraux in the same season at the Met.
DeleteWhere is "Lohengrin". The Met has a great Robert Wilson production, and the greatest title tenor to come along in decades, Jonas Kauffmann.
ReplyDeleteI do not think that Jonas Kaufmann would like to sing in the Met;s production of Lohengrin. I would not.
DeleteWhat, no Patricia Racette? Will she be in California singing the entirety of San Francisco's season?
ReplyDeletePatricia Racette will be singing in Buenos Aires.
DeleteMy wish list: Lakme [I absolutely LOVE "Viens, Malika."], Madame Butterfly [I practically have an out-of-body experience when I hear "Um Bel Di."], and Turandot.
ReplyDeleteForget, Peter Gelb is an ignorant who does not even know that Lakme is an opera.
DeleteWhere is my beloved Il Trittico? When will they release the HD Live performance!
ReplyDeleteLooks promising...i miss trittico and manon lescaut..i just cam back from bayreuth..if you could see the shit they put on a stage..the MET looks grand compared top the bayreuth atrocities
ReplyDeleteLa Cieca is told the "Faust" is no more, its place taken by "Macbeth" with Netrebko, Calleja, Pape and the addition of Lucic.
ReplyDeleteHampson?
ReplyDeleteWhy a new production of Cav/Pag? The Zefirelli production was the non plus ultra. and not enough Jonas Kaufmann. They should mount Fanciulla tomorrow for him, or for that matter anything he wants to sing.
ReplyDeleteWish there was something modern: Wozzeck, Lulu, Moses und Aron, Erwartung. All should be done regularly.
ReplyDeleteOne Wagner opera in two seasons is a disgrace. I hope the new Cav/Pag is not as disgraceful as the recent ones Tosca and most of all Traviata. Does Mr. Gelbs desire for new productions with "modern" directors turn the Met into a new world Regierungtheatre.
ReplyDeleteAm I the only one disappointed that Domingo refuses to retire? What's next? Domingo as Sarastro or Fiesco? Just because his top was always so-so does NOT mean that he was always really a baritone. He thought he was a baritone because his top was always so very strained; and his conducting is not great either. He had a fine career......how dare he rob any of the available fine baritones of their chance, it just sucks.
ReplyDeleteThis season seems to be a very boring one.
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