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The great Renée Fleming stars as the beguiling femme fatale who captivates all Paris in Lehár’s enchanting operetta, seen in a new staging by Broadway virtuoso director and choreographer Susan Stroman (The Producers, Oklahoma!, Contact). Stroman and her design team of Julian Crouch (Satyagraha, The Enchanted Island) and costume designer William Ivey Long (Cinderella, Grey Gardens, Hairspray) have created an art-nouveau setting that climaxes with singing and dancing grisettes at the legendary Maxim’s. Nathan Gunn co-stars as Danilo and Kelli O’Hara is Valencienne. Andrew Davis conducts.

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Encore: Sun. February 8, 2015, 1:00 p.m.

Approx. Runtime: 2 hours 57 minutes

Vittorio Grigolo playing the tortured
poet and unwitting adventurer of the title. The roles of the three
heroines are shared by an impressive lineup of singing actresses,
including Hibla Gerzmava, Erin Morley, and
Christine Rice. Thomas Hampson sings the Four
Villains, and James Levine and Yves Abel conduct Offenbach’s sparkling
score.

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Encore: Sun. February 22, 2015, 1:00 p.m.

New Production

On the heels of her triumphant Met performances in Eugene Onegin, soprano Anna Netrebko takes on another Tchaikovsky heroine in the first opera of this intriguing double bill, consisting of an enchanting fairy tale (Iolanta) followed by an erotic psychological thriller (Duke Bluebeard’s Castle). Netrebko stars as the beautiful blind girl who experiences love for the first time in Iolanta, while Nadja Michael is the unwitting victim of the diabolical Bluebeard, played by Mikhail Petrenko. Both operas are directed by Mariusz Trelinski, who was inspired by classic noir films of the 1940s. Iolanta also stars Piotr Beczala, and Valery Gergiev conducts both operas.

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Encore: Sun. March 1, 2015, 1:00 p.m.

New Production

Bel canto superstars Joyce DiDonato and Juan Diego Flórez join forces for this Rossini showcase of vocal virtuosity, set in the medieval Scottish highlands and based on a beloved novel by Sir Walter Scott. DiDonato is the “lady of the lake” of the title, and Flórez is the king who relentlessly pursues her, their vocal fireworks embellishing the romantic plot in this Met premiere production conducted by Michele Mariotti.

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Encore: Sun. March 29, 2015, 1:00 p.m.

New Production

Opera’s most enduring tragic double bill returns in an evocative new production from Sir David McVicar, who sets the action across two time periods but in the same Sicilian village. Marcelo Álvarez rises to the challenge of playing the dual tenor roles of Turiddu in Cavalleria Rusticana and Canio in Pagliacci. Rae Smith (War Horse) has designed the moodily atmospheric 1900 village square setting of Cavalleria, which transforms to a 1948 truck stop for the doomed vaudeville troupe of Pagliacci. Eva-Maria Westbroek (Cav) and Patricia Racette (Pag) sing the unlucky heroines, and Met Principal Conductor Fabio Luisi is on the podium.

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Encore: Sun. May 17, 2015, 1:00 p.m.

Approx. Runtime: 3 hours 30 minutes

Star
soprano Anna Netrebko delivers her searing portrayal of
Lady Macbeth, the mad and murderous mate of Željko Lučić’s doomed Macbeth, for
the first time at the Met. Adrian Noble’s chilling production of Verdi’s
masterful adaptation of Shakespeare’s tragedy also stars Joseph Calleja as the
noble Macduff and René Pape as Banquo. Fabio Luisi conducts. 

Met
Music Director James Levine conducts a spirited new production of Mozart’s
masterpiece, directed by Richard Eyre, who sets the action of this classic
domestic comedy in a 19th-century manor house in Seville, but during the gilded
age of the late 1920s. Dashing bass-baritone Ildar Abdrazakov leads the cast in
the title role of the clever servant, opposite Marlis Petersen as his bride,
Susanna, Peter Mattei as the philandering Count they work for, Amanda Majeski as the long-suffering Countess, and Isabel Leonard as the
libidinous pageboy Cherubino.

Richard
Eyre’s mesmerizing production of Bizet’s steamy melodrama returns with
mezzo-soprano Anita Rachvelishvili singing her signature role of the ill-fated
gypsy temptress. Aleksandrs Antonenko plays her desperate lover, the soldier
Don José, and Ildar Abdrazakov is the swaggering bullfighter, Escamillo, who
comes between them. Pablo Heras-Casado conducts the irresistible score, which
features one beloved and instantly recognizable melody after another. 

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James Levine returns to one of his signature Wagner works conducting this epic comedy — back at the Met for the first time in eight years — about a group of Renaissance “master singers” whose song contest unites a city.

Johan Reuter, Johan Botha, and Annette Dasch lead the superb international cast in this charming and magisterial celebration of the power of music and art.

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The great Renée Fleming stars as the beguiling femme fatale who captivates all Paris in Lehár’s enchanting operetta, seen in a new staging by Broadway virtuoso director and choreographer Susan Stroman (The Producers, Oklahoma!, Contact). Stroman and her design team of Julian Crouch (Satyagraha, The Enchanted Island) and costume designer William Ivey Long (Cinderella, Grey Gardens, Hairspray) have created an art-nouveau setting that climaxes with singing and dancing grisettes at the legendary Maxim’s. Nathan Gunn co-stars as Danilo and Kelli O’Hara is Valencienne. Andrew Davis conducts.

Broadcast in HD