The Metropolitan Opera New York 2009-2010

The Season Kicks off with New Productions, Returning Hits, and
Some of the World's Top Stars!

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2009-2010 Season

Complete Repertoire and Casting

METROPOLITAN OPERA PREMIERE


ARMIDA

Premiere: April 12, 2010

Composer Gioachino Rossini Libretto Giovanni Schmidt Conductor Riccardo Frizza Production Mary Zimmerman Set and Costume Designer Richard Hudson Lighting Designer Brian MacDevitt Choreographer Graciela Daniele* Armida Renée Fleming Rinaldo Lawrence Brownlee Goffredo Bruce Ford Gernando José Manuel Zapata Carlo Barry Banks Ubaldo Kobie van Rensburg
(April 12, 16, 19, 22, 27, May 1 mat, 4, 7, 11, 15)

Armida is gift of The Sybil B. Harrington Endowment Fund


ATTILA

Premiere: February 23, 2010

Composer Giuseppe Verdi Libretto Temistocle Solera and Francesco Maria Piave Conductor Riccardo Muti*/Marco Armiliato Production Pierre Audi* Set and Costume Designs Herzog & de Meuron* and Miuccia Prada* Lighting Designer Jean Kalman Odabella Violeta Urmana Foresto Ramón Vargas/Russell Thomas Ezio Carlos Alvarez Attila Ildar Abdrazakov
(February 23, 27, March 3, 6 mat, 9, 12, 15, 19, 22, 27)

Attila is a gift of Elena and Rudy Prokupets

FROM THE HOUSE OF THE DEAD

Premiere: November 12, 2009

Composer Leoš Janácek Libretto Leoš Janácek
A production of the Metropolitan Opera and Wiener Festwochen, in co-production with Holland Festival, Amsterdam; Festival d'Aix-en-Provence; and Teatro alla Scala, Milan

Conductor Esa-Pekka Salonen* Production Patrice Chéreau* Associate Director Thierry Thieû Niang* Set Designer Richard Peduzzi Costume Designer Caroline de Vivaise* Lighting Designer Bertrand Couderc* Filka Morozov Stefan Margita* Skuratov Kurt Streit Shapkin Peter Hoare* Shishkov Peter Mattei Gorianchikov Willard White
(November 12, 16, 21, 24, 28, December 2, 5 mat)

From the House of the Dead is a gift of Robert L. Turner


THE NOSE

Premiere: March 5, 2010

Composer Dmitri Shostakovich Libretto Yevgeny Zamyatin, Georgy Ionin, Alexander Preys, and Dmitri Shostakovich
A co-production of the Metropolitan Opera, New York, the Festival d'Aix-en-Provence, and the Opéra National de Lyon, France
Conductor Valery Gergiev/Pavel Smelkov* Production William Kentridge* Set Designers William Kentridge* and Sabine Theunissen* Costume Designer Greta Goiris* Lighting Designer Urs Schönebaum* Associate Director Luc de Wit* Police Inspector Andrei Popov* The Nose Gordon Gietz* Kovalyov Paulo Szot*
(March 5, 11, 13 mat, 18, 23, 25)

The Nose is a gift of Frederick Iseman. Additional funding is provided by The Richard J. Massey Foundation for the Arts and Sciences.

NEW PRODUCTIONS


CARMEN

Premiere: New Year's Eve Gala, December 31, 2009

Composer Georges Bizet Libretto Henri Meilhac and Ludovic Halévy
Conductor Yannick Nézet-Séguin*/Alain Altinoglu* Production Richard Eyre* Set and Costume Designer Rob Howell* Lighting Designer Peter Mumford Choreographer Christopher Wheeldon
Micaëla Barbara Frittoli/Maija Kovalevska Carmen Angela Gheorghiu/Olga Borodina Don José Roberto Alagna/Brandon Jovanovich*/Jonas Kaufmann Escamillo Mariusz Kwiecien/Teddy Tahu Rhodes
(December 31, January 5, 8, 12, 16 mat, 21, 27, 30, February 1, 5, 9, 13, April 28, May 1)

Carmen is a gift of Mrs. Paul Desmarais, Sr.


HAMLET

Premiere: March 16, 2010
Composer Ambroise Thomas Libretto Michel Carré and Jules Barbier
Production owned by the Grand Theatre of Geneva

Conductor Louis Langrée Production Patrice Caurier* and Moshe Leiser* Set Designer Christian Fenouillat* Costume Designer Agostino Cavalca* Lighting Designer Christopher Forey* Ophélie Natalie Dessay/Marlis Petersen* Gertrude Jennifer Larmore Laërte Toby Spence* Hamlet Simon Keenlyside Claudius James Morris
(March 16, 20, 24, 27 mat, 30, April 2, 5, 9)

Hamlet is a gift of Mr. and Mrs. Wilmer J. Thomas, Jr.


LES CONTES D'HOFFMANN
Premiere: December 3, 2009

Composer Jacques Offenbach Libretto Jules Barbier and Michel Carré Conductor James Levine/John Keenan Production Bartlett Sher Set Designer Michael Yeargan Costume Designer Catherine Zuber Lighting Designer James F. Ingalls Choreographer Dou Dou Huang Olympia Kathleen Kim Antonia/Stella Anna Netrebko Giulietta Ekaterina Gubanova Nicklausse/The Muse Elina Garanca/Kate Lindsey Hoffmann Joseph Calleja Four Villains Alan Held
(December 3, 7, 11, 16, 19 mat, 23, 26, 30, Jauary. 2)

Les Contes d'Hoffmann is a gift of the Hermione Foundation


TOSCA

Premiere: Opening Night Gala, September 21, 2009
Composer Giacomo Puccini Libretto Luigi Illica and Giuseppe Giacosa Conductor James Levine/TBA/Philippe Auguin Production Luc Bondy* Set Designer Richard Peduzzi* Costume Designer Milena Canonero Lighting Designer Max Keller Tosca Karita Mattila/TBA Cavaradossi Marcelo Álvarez/Jonas Kaufmann/Marcello Giordani Scarpia Juha Uusitalo/George Gagnidze/Bryn Terfel Sacristan Paul Plishka/John Del Carlo
(September 21, 24, 28, October 3 mat, 6, 10 mat, 14, 17, April 14, 17, 20, 24 mat, 29, May 5, 8, 13)

Tosca is a gift of The Annenberg Foundation


REPERTORY

AIDA
Composer Giuseppe Verdi Libretto Antonio Ghislanzoni Conductor Daniele Gatti/Paolo Carignani Production Sonja Frisell Set Designer Gianni Quaranta Costume Designer Dada Saligeri Lighting Designer Gil Wechsler Choreographer Alexei Ratmansky* Aida Violeta Urmana/Hasmik Papian Amneris Dolora Zajick Radamès Johan Botha/Richard Margison/Salvatore Licitra Amonasro Carlo Guelfi Ramfis Roberto Scandiuzzi/Orlin Anastassov/Carlo Colombara The King Stefan Kocán*/Keith Miller
(October 2, 7, 12, 17 mat, 21, 24 mat, 29, November 2, 6, March 26, 31, April 3 mat)


ARIADNE AUF NAXOS

Composer Richard Strauss Libretto Hugo von Hofmannsthal Conductor Kirill Petrenko Production Elijah Moshinsky Sets and Costume Designer Michael Yeargan Lighting Designer Gil Wechsler Ariadne Nina Stemme Zerbinetta Kathleen Kim Composer Sarah Connolly Bacchus Lance Ryan* Music Master Jochen Schmeckenbecher*
(February 4, 8, 11, 15, 20 mat)


IL BARBIERE DI SIVIGLIA
Composer Gioachino Rossini Libretto Cesare Sterbini Conductor Maurizio Benini Production Bartlett Sher Set Designer Michael Yeargan Costume Designer Catherine Zuber Lighting Designer Christopher Akerlind Rosina Joyce DiDonato/Diana Damrau Count Almaviva Barry Banks/Lawrence Brownlee Figaro Rodion Pogossov/Franco Vassallo Dr. Bartolo John Del Carlo/Maurizio Muraro Don Basilio Orlin Anastassov/Roberto Scandiuzzi/Samuel Ramey
(October 3, 8, 10, 15, 24, 27, 31 mat, November 4, 7, February 26, March 1, 4)


LA BOHÈME

Composer Giacomo Puccini Libretto Giuseppe Giacosa and Luigi Illica Conductor Marco Armiliato Production Franco Zeffirelli Set Designer Franco Zeffirelli Costume Designer Peter J. Hall Lighting Designer Gil Wechsler Mimì Anna Netrebko Musetta Nicole Cabell/Ruth Ann Swenson Rodolfo Piotr Beczala Marcello Gerald Finley/George Petean* Schaunard Massimo Cavalletti*/Patrick Carfizzi Colline Oren Gradus/Shenyang Benoit/Alcindoro Paul Plishka
(February 20, 24, 27 mat, March 2, 6, 10, 13, 17, 20 mat)

SIMON BOCCANEGRA

Composer Giuseppe Verdi Libretto Francesco Maria Piave and Arrigo Boito Conductor James Levine/J. David Jackson Production Giancarlo del Monaco Set and Costume Designer Michael Scott Amelia Adrianne Pieczonka Gabriele Adorno Marcello Giordani Simon Boccanegra Plácido Domingo Jacopo Fiesco James Morris
(January 18, 22, 25, 29, February 2, 6 mat)


LA DAMNATION DE FAUST
Composer Hector Berlioz Libretto Almire Gandonnière and Hector Berlioz Conductor James Conlon/TBA Production Robert Lepage Associate Director Neilson Vignola Set Designer Carl Fillion Costume Designer Karin Erskine Lighting Designer Sonoyo Nishikawa Interactive Video Designer Holger Foerterer Image Designer Boris Firquet Choreographers Johanne Madore and Alain S. Gauthier Marguerite Olga Borodina Faust Ramón Vargas Méphistophélès Ildar Abdrazakov
(October 23, 26, 30, November 5, 9, 14 mat, 17 )


ELEKTRA

Composer Richard Strauss Libretto Hugo von Hofmannsthal Conductor Fabio Luisi Production Otto Schenk Set and Costume Designer Jürgen Rose Lighting Designer Gil Wechsler Elektra Susan Bullock* Chrysothemis Deborah Voigt Klytaemnestra Felicity Palmer Aegisth Wolfgang Schmidt Orestes TBA
(December 10, 15, 18, 22, 26 mat, 29)


LE NOZZE DI FIGARO

Composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Libretto Lorenzo da Ponte Conductor Dan Ettinger*/Fabio Luisi Production Jonathan Miller Set Designer Peter Davison Costume Designer James Acheson Lighting Designer Mark McCullough Choreographer Terry John Bates Countess Almaviva Emma Bell*/Annette Dasch*/Angela Meade Susanna Danielle de Niese/Lisette Oropesa Cherubino Isabel Leonard Count Almaviva Bo Skovhus/Ludovic Tézier Figaro John Relyea/Luca Pisaroni
(September 22, 26, October 1, 5, 9, November 23, 27, 30, December 4, 8, 12)


LA FILLE DU RÉGIMENT

Composer Gaetano Donizetti Libretto Jean-François Bayard and J. H. Vernoy de Saint-Georges Conductor Marco Armiliato Production Laurent Pelly Set Designer Chantal Thomas Costume Designer Laurent Pelly Lighting Designer Joël Adam Choreographer Laura Scozzi Marie Diana Damrau Marquise of Berkenfeld Felicity Palmer Duchess of Krakenthorp Kiri Te Kanawa Tonio Juan Diego Flórez Sulpice Maurizio Muraro
(February 6, 10, 13 mat, 16, 19, 22)


HANSEL AND GRETEL

Composer Engelbert Humperdinck Libretto Adelheid Wette Conductor Andrew Davis Production Richard Jones Set and Costume Designer John Macfarlane Lighting Designed by Jennifer Tipton Choreographer Linda Dobell English Version David Pountney Gretel Miah Persson Hansel Angelika Kirchschlager Gertrude Rosalind Plowright The Witch Philip Langridge Peter Dwayne Croft
(December 14, 17, 19, 21 mat, 24, 28 mat, 30 mat, January 2 mat)


DIE FLIEGENDE HOLLÄNDER

Composer Richard Wagner Libretto Richard Wagner Conductor Kazushi Ono Production August Everding Set designer Hans Schavernoch Costume Designer Lore Haas Lighting Designer Gil Wechsler Stage Director Stephen Pickover Senta Deborah Voigt Erik Stephen Gould*/Philip Webb Holländer Juha Uusitalo Daland Hans-Peter König
(April 23, 26, 30, May 3, 6, 10, 14)


LULU Composer Alban Berg Libretto Alban Berg Conductor James Levine Production John Dexter Set and Costume Designer Jocelyn Herbert Lighting Designer Gil Wechsler Lulu Marlis Petersen Countess Geschwitz Anne Sofie von Otter Alwa Gary Lehman Painter Michael Schade Animal Trainer/ Acrobat David Pittsinger Dr. Schön/Jack the Ripper James Morris
(May 8 mat, 12, 15 mat)


DER ROSENKAVALIER
Composer Richard Strauss Libretto Hugo von Hofmannsthal Conductor James Levine/Jens Georg Bachmann Production Nathaniel Merrill Set and Costume Designer Robert O'Hearn Lighting Designer Gil Wechsler Marschallin Renée Fleming Octavian Susan Graham Sophie Miah Persson*/Christine Schäfer A Singer Ramón Vargas/Barry Banks/Eric Cutler Faninal Hans-Joachim Ketelsen/Thomas Allen Baron Ochs Kristinn Sigmundsson
(October 13, 16, 19, 22, January 1, 6, 9 mat, 15)


STIFFELIO Composer Giuseppe Verdi Libretto Francesco Maria Piave Conductor Plácido Domingo Production Giancarlo del Monaco Set and Costume Designer Michael Scott Lighting Designer Gil Wechsler Lina Angela Marambio Stiffelio José Cura Stankar Andrzej Dobber Jorg Phillip Ens (January 11, 14, 19, 23, 26, 30 mat)


LA TRAVIATA

Composer Giuseppe Verdi Libretto Francesco Maria Piave Conductor Leonard Slatkin Production Franco Zeffirelli Set Designer Franco Zeffirelli Costume Designer Raimonda Gaetani Lighting Designer Duane Schuler Choreographer Maria Benitez Violetta Angela Gheorghiu/TBA Alfredo James Valenti* Germont Thomas Hampson
(March 29, April 3, 7, 10, 13, 17 mat, 21, 24)


IL TRITTICO

Composer Giacomo Puccini Conductor Stefano Ranzani* Production Jack O'Brien Set Designer Douglas W. Schmidt Costume Designer Jess Goldstein Lighting Designers Jules Fisher and Peggy Eisenhauer


IL TABARRO
Libretto Giuseppe Adami Giorgetta Patricia Racette Frugola Stephanie Blythe Luigi Aleksandrs Antonenko/Salvatore Licitra Michele Željko Lucic SUOR ANGELICA Libretto Gioacchino Forzano Suor Angelica Patricia Racette Sister Genovieffa Heidi Grant Murphy Principessa Stephanie Blythe GIANNI SCHICCHI Libretto Gioacchino Forzano Lauretta Patricia Racette Rinuccio Saimir Pirgu* Gianni Schicchi Alessandro Corbelli Zita Stephanie Blythe
(November 20, 25, 28 mat, December 1, 5, 9, 12 mat)


TURANDOT
Composer Giacomo Puccini Libretto Giuseppe Adami and Renato Simoni Conductor Andris Nelsons*/Julien Salemkour* Production Franco Zeffirelli Set Designer Franco Zeffirelli Costume Designers Anna Anni and Dada Saligeri Lighting Designer Gil Wechsler Choreographer and Supervisor of Stylized Movement Chiang Ching Turandot Maria Guleghina/Lise Lindstrom* Liù Marina Poplavskaya/Maija Kovalevska/TBA Calàf Marcello Giordani/Frank Porretta*/Salvatore Licitra/Philip Webb Timur Samuel Ramey/Hao Jiang Tian
(October 28, 31, November 3, 7 mat, 10, 14, 18, 21 mat, January 4, 7, 9, 13, 16, 20, 23 mat, 28)


DIE ZAUBERFLÖTE

Composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Libretto Emanuel Schikaneder Conductor Bernard Labadie*/Adam Fischer/Paul Nadler Production Julie Taymor Set Designer George Tsypin Costume Designer Julie Taymor Lighting Designer Donald Holder Puppet Designers Julie Taymor and Michael Curry Choreographer Mark Dendy Pamina Susanna Phillips/Julia Kleiter* Queen of the Night Erika Miklósa/Albina Shagimuratova* Tamino Matthias Klink*/Matthew Polenzani Papageno Christopher Maltman/Nathan Gunn/Rodion Pogossov Speaker David Pittsinger Sarastro Georg Zeppenfeld*/Hans-Peter König*
(September 23, 26 mat, 30, April 1, 6, 8, 10 mat, 15)

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