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SIMON BOCCANEGRA
Sunday August 29: 1.00pm
 Four decades into a legendary Met career, Plácido Domingo makes history by singing the baritone title role of Verdi’s Simon Boccanegra, conducted by James Levine.
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Palace Nova Eastend welcomes back the New York Metropolitan Opera, captured live in high definition,
for the forthcoming 2010/2011 season beginning October 2010.
The Met season for 2010/2011 promises to be the most spectacular yet with 12 breathtaking operas. The season will celebrate Music Director, James Levine’s 40th anniversary at the Met. As one of the world’s great Wagner interpreters, it is fitting that he will open and close the new season conducting Das Rheinhold and Die Walküre, the first two installments of Robert Lepage’s highly anticipated new production of Wagner’s Ring cycle (The Met will present the full cycle the following season.
Tickets $27/$25 at the box office and online. Please note phone bookings are not avalable for Met Operas
Season passes are available at the Box Office only:
8 operas: $176
9 operas: $198
10 operas: $220
11 operas: $242
12 operas: $264 |
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Das Rheingold
(Richard Wagner)
New Production
Sat Oct 23rd – 11.30
Sun Oct 24th – 1.00pm
Tues Oct 26th – 6.30pm
Thurs Oct 28th – 11.30am
Performance runtime: 3:15
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Conductor: James Levine
Production: Robert Lepage
Two unparalleled artists join forces to create a groundbreaking new Ring for the Met. “The Ring is not just a story or a series of operas, it’s a cosmos,” says Lepage, who brings cutting-edge technology and his own visionary imagination to the world’s greatest theatrical journey.
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Boris Godunov
(Modest Mussorgsky)
New Production
Sat Nov 6th – 11.30
Sun Nov 7th – 1.00pm
Tues Nov 9th – 6.30pm
Thurs Nov 11th – 11.30am
Performance runtime: 5:30
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Conductor: Valery Gergiev/Pavel Smelkov
Production: Peter Stein
Bass René Pape takes on one of the greatest roles in a production by monumental theatre and opera director Peter Stein, in his Met debut. Valery Gergiev conducts Mussorgsky’s soulful spectacle, which captures the suffering and ambition of a nation.
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Don Pasquale
(Gaetano Donizetti)
Sat Nov 27th – 11.30
Sun Nov 28th – 1.00pm
Tues Nov 30th – 6.30pm
Thurs Dec 2nd – 11.30am
Performance runtime: 4:00
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Conductor: James Levine/Joseph Colaneri
Production: Otto Schenk
Director Nicholas Hytner (The History Boys, The Madness of King George) makes his Met debut with this new production. A co-production of the Metropolitan Opera, Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, and the Norwegian National Opera & Ballet
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Don Carlo
(Giuseppe Verdi)
New Production
Sat Jan 8th 2011– 11.30
Sun Jan 9th 2011– 1.00pm
Tues Jan 11th 2011– 6.30pm
Thurs Jan 13th – 11.30am
Performance runtime: 5:00
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Conductor: Yannick Nézet-Séguin
Production: Nicholas Hytner
Director Nicholas Hytner (The History Boys, The Madness of King George) makes his Met debut with this new production. A co-production of the Metropolitan Opera, Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, and the Norwegian National Opera & Ballet
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La Fanciulla Del West
(Giacomo Puccini)
Sat Jan 29th 2011– 11.30am
Sun Jan 30th 2011– 1.00pm
Tues Feb 1st 2011– 6.30pm
Thurs Feb 3rd 2011– 11.30am
Performance runtime: 3:50
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Conductor: Nicola Luisotti
Production: Giancarlo del Monaco
Puccini’s wild west opera stars all-American diva Deborah Voigt and Marcello Giordani. The performances mark the 100th anniversary of the opera’s world premiere at the Met.
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Nixon in China
(John Adams)
Sat Feb 26th 2011– 11.30
Sun Feb 27th 2011– 1.00pm
Tues March 1, 2011 6.30pm
Thurs March 3, 2011 – 11.30am
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Conductor: John Adams
Production: Peter Sellars
Peter Sellars makes his Met debut with this groundbreaking work. He has directed more than 100 other productions, specialising in 20th-century operas. John Adams is one of America’s most admired and respected composers with both operatic and symphonic works.
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Iphigenie En Tauride
(Christoph Willibald Gluck)
Sat Mar 12th 2011– 11.30am
Sun March13th 2011 – 1.00pm
Tues March15th 2011– 6.30pm
Thurs March 17th – 11.30am
Performance runtime: 3:15
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Conductor: Patrick Summers
Production: Stephen Wadsworth
Susan Graham, Plácido Domingo, and Paul Groves reprise their starring roles in Gluck’s masterful interpretation of the Greek myth. A co-production of the Metropolitan Opera and Seattle Opera.
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Lucia Di Lammermoor
(Gaetano Donizetti)
Sat April 2nd 2011– 11.30am
Sun April 3rd 2011 – 1.00pm
Tues April 5th 2011– 6.30pm
Thurs April 7th – 11.30am
Performance runtime: 4:20
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Conductor: Patrick Summers
Production: Mary Zimmerman
Natalie Dessay returns to her triumphant portrayal of the fragile heroine in the Met’s hit production. Also starring Joseph Calleja.
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Le Comte Ory
(Gioachino Rossini)
New Production
Sat April 30th 2011– 11.30am
Sun May 1st 2011 – 1.00pm
Tues May 3rd 2011– 6.30pm
Thurs May 5th 2011 – 11.30am
Performance runtime: 3:25
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Conductor: Maurizio Benini
Rossini’s vocally dazzling comedy soars with bel canto sensation Juan Diego Flórez in the title role of this Met premiere production.
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Capriccio
(Richard Strauss)
Sat May 14th 2011– 11.30
Sun May 15th 2011 – 1.00pm
Tues May 16th 2011– 6.30pm
Thurs May 17th – 11.30am
Performance runtime: 3:30
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Conductor: Andrew Davis
Production: John Cox
Renée Fleming dazzled audiences when she sang Capriccio’s final scene on Opening Night of the 2008–09 season. Now she sings Strauss’s entire diva showcase.
Tickets $27 / $25 Concession
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Il Trovatore
(Giuseppe Verdi)
Sat June 4th 2011– 11.30am
Sun June 5th 2011– 1.00pm
Tues June 7th 2011 6.30pm
Thurs June 9th – 11.30am
Performance runtime: 3:30
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Conductor: James Levine / Marco Armiliato
Production David McVicar
This popular production returns with Patricia Racette, Sondra Radvanovsky, Dolora Zajick, Marcelo Álvarez, Dmitri Hvorostovsky, and éeljko Lucic. A co-production of the Metropolitan Opera, Lyric Opera of Chicago, and the San Francisco Opera Association
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Die Walkure
(Richard Wagner)
New Production
Sat June 25th 2011– 11.30
Sun June 26th 2011– 1.00pm
Tues June 28th 2011 6.30pm
Thurs June 30th – 11.30am
Performance runtime: 5:35
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Conductor James Levine
Production Robert Lepage
The Met has assembled a stellar cast for this second installment of Robert Lepage’s new production of the Ring cycle, conducted by James Levine. Levine, who has conducted every complete cycle of Wagner’s masterpiece at the Met since 1989, says, “The Ring is one of those works of art that you think you know, but every time you return to it, you find all kinds of brilliant moments that hadn’t struck you with the same force before.”
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