The Metropolitan Opera 2024/2025 Season #OPERA

The Metropolitan Opera has announced its 2024-25 season. This time, in my opinion, it's a better season, even though baroque and bel canto genres, as well as important composers like Wagner and Donizetti, are missing. If I had to pick my top three performances I am most looking forward to, they would be "Salome," "Die Frau ohne Schatten," and "Pique Dame" with amazing casts and/or productions. What are your thoughts on the new season?

New Productions:

Yannick Nézet-Séguin conducts Verdi’s “Aida” in a new production by Michael Mayer. Angel Blue, Judit Kutasi, Piotr Beczała, Quinn Kelsey, Dmitry Belosselskiy, and Morris Robbinson. Alexander Soddy conducts the second cast with Christina Nilsson, Elīna Garanča, Brian Jagde, Eric Owens, Michael Chioldi, Amartüvshin Enkhbatyn, Alexander Vinogradov, and Krzysztof Bączyk.

Deborah Colker directs Osvaldo Golijov’s “Ainadamar.” Miguel Harth-Bedoya conducts the opera which is set to star Daniela Mack, Angel Blue, Gabriella Reyes, Elena Villalón, and Alfredo Tejada.

Yannick Nézet-Séguin and Steven Osgood conduct Michael Mayer’s production of Jeanine Tesori’s “Grounded.” Emily D’Angelo, Kyle Miller, Kirsten MacKinnon, and Ben Bliss star in the Met premiere.

Claus Guth directs Strauss’ “Salome” with Yannick Nezet-Seguin. Elza van den Heever sings the title role with alongside Michelle DeYoung, Gerard Siegel, Chad Shelton, Piotr Buszewski, and Peter Mattei.

John Adams’s “Antony and Cleopatra” will be directed by Elkhanah Pulitzer and conducted by John Adams. Gerald Finley, Elizabeth DeSHong, Taylor Raven, Brenton Ryan, Julia Bullock, Paul Appleby, and Alfred Walker star.

Janai Brugger, Brandon Jovanovich, Stephen Costello, Peter Mattei, William Burden, Malcolm Mackenzie, and Ryan Speedo Green star in Jake Heggie’s “Moby Dick.” Karen Kamensek conducts. Leonard Foglia directs.

Revivals:

Isabel Leonard and Aigul Akhmetshina lead Rossini’s “Il Barbiere di Siviglia” with Lawrence Brownlee, Jack Swanson, Davide Luciano, Andrei Zhilikhovsky, Nicola Alaimo, Parick Carfizzi, Peter Kálmán, and Alexander Vinogradov. Giacomo Sagripanti conducts.

Ailyn Pérez, Eleonora Buratto, Kristina Mkhitaryan, Gabriella Reyes, and Corrine Winters star in Puccini’s “La Bohème” alongside Emily Pogorelc, Adela Zaharia, Brittany Renee, Matthew Polenzani, Joseph Calleja, and Dmytro Popov.The cast also includes Boris Pinkahasovich, David Bizic, Luca Micheletti, Anthony Clark Evans, Gihoon Kim, Sean Michael Plumb, Bogdan Talos, Jongmin Park, Nicola Testé.

Benjamin Bernheim stars in Offenbach’s “Les Contes d’Hoffmann” alongside Erin Morley, Pretty Yende, Clémentine Margaine, Vasilisa Berzhanskaya, Aaron Blake, and Christian Van Horn. Marco Armiliato conducts.

Lise Davidsen stars in Beethoven’s “Fidelio” with Ying Fang, David Butt Philip, Magnus Dietrich, Tomasz Konieczny, Rene Pape, and Stephen Milling. Susanna Mälkki conducts

Yannick Nézet-Séguin conducts Strauss’ “Die Frau Ohne Schatten” with Elza van den Heever, Lise Lindstrom, Michael Volle, Russell Thomas, Ryan Speedo Green, and Nina Stemme.

Mozart’s “The Magic Flute” returns with Nimrod David Pfeffer and J. David Jackson conducting. Hera Hyesang Park, Emily Pogorelc, Kathryn Lewek, Aigul Khismatullina, David Portillo, Duke Kim, Will Liverman, Sean Michael Plumb, William Guanbo Su, Le Bu, Soloman Howard, Peixin Chen, Rodell Rosel, and Thomas Capobianco star.

Federica Lombardi, Jacquelyn Stucker, Olga Kulchynska, Rosa Feola, Marianne Crebassa, Emily D’Angelo, Elizabeth Bishop, Joshua Hopkins, Adam Plachetka, Micheal Sumuel, Luca Pisaroni, and Maurizio Muraro star in Mozart’s “Le nozze di Figaro.” Joana Mallwitz conducts.

Sonya Yoncheva sings Tchaikovsky’s “The Queen of Spades” alongside Brian Jagde, Violeta Urmana, Maria Barakova, Igor Golovatenko, and Alexey Markov. Keri-Lynn Wilson conducts.

Quinn Kelsey, Luca Salsi, and Michael Chioldi star in Verdi’s“Rigoletto” with Nadine Sierra, Erin Morley, J’nai Bridges, Rihab Chaieb, Stephen Costello...

Alexandra Kurzak, Lise Davidsen, and Sondra Radvanovsky star in Puccini’s “Tosca” with Seok Jong Baek, Freddie De Tommaso, Brian Jagde, George Gagnidze, Quinn Kelsey, and Bryn Terfel. Xian Zhang and Marco Armiliato conduct.

Michael Fabiano sings the title role of Verdi’s “Il Trovatore”alongside Rachel Willis-Sørensen, Angela Meade, Jamie Barton, Olesya Petrova, Igor Golavatenko, and Ryan Speedo Green. Daniele Callegari conducts.

Evan Rogister conducts Mozart’s “Die Zauberflöte” with Golda Schultz, Kathryn Lewek, Ben Bliss, Thomas Ebenstein, Thomas Oliemans, Shenyang and Stephen Milling.

Best wishes from Munich,
Alexander Julius Leventov

[markbeck]

Looking forward to seeing some of these. I'm glad they are doing some new Operas, and I always wanted to see Antony and Cleopatra. Thank you.

[Sam_Lee_]

I'm extremely happy they are doing this production of Queen of Spades!

[renatafriedenberg]

Thank you, very much for the posting.

[robsmith]

Nadine Sierra’s is one of this generation’s finest young sopranos and seems to light up the stage whenever she is singing. Sierra’s coloratura is effortless and her voice has a lovely fluidity. Opera Magazine Readers’ 2023 Award was presented to American soprano Nadine Sierra, in the only award of the evening voted for by the public.

[dgmelvin]

Most interesting and varied season in years. I look forward to it all!

[tootooamy]

I just saw The Tales of Hoffman at Palm Beach Opera and it was fabulous! I understand that the Met does these same version so it should be wonderful!

[teresamogollon]

De entrada, hay voces que hacen añorar a las bonísimas de las generaciones anteriores.

[tuireka]

When it comes to The Metropolitan Opera always missing Dmitri Hvorostovsky !

[dougcargill]

Pique Dame is the highlight of the season.

[Altonahh]

For a long time, the MET was home to the best opera singers in the world. Now you look at the cast lists and realise that, as in Europe, the situation is getting dicey because there are hardly any really good voices left in the Verdi field. The situation is even worse with Wagner. I don't know where opera is heading, but the tendency is for singers to have to look good and sing loudly. Whether they are good is of secondary importance, the audience applauds more and more for effects and affected singing. The quality suffers as a result, as you can hear from the excerpts here. Mezzos without depth, sopranos without spinto quality and tenors in the wrong fach.

[EBubu]

Nice season, but quite disappointed with the choice of works that will be broadcast in Live HD. No Frau ohne Schatten ? No Anthony and Cleopatra ? no Queen of Spades ?

[AllenJones-wp]

Glad to hear that Nadine Sierra will be singing Gilda at the Met this season!!!

[kathleenhensley]

The music and singers sound wonderful ... but the sets and costumes, for the most part? Opera isn't just glorious music and performers.. its costumes, atmosphere... great, appropriate sets. I don't buy an opera to see people dressed up in modern clothes when they are supposed to (for example) Renaissance Italy or ancient timeless Egypt. I buy an opera to be transported for a few hours into a beautiful alternate world, Opera is escapism of the best kind, or should be. (PS. I don't have the money nor opportunity to go to opera, so I buy the best DVDS I can find.)

[jacktaggart]

I'm especially looking forward to 'Die Frau Ohne Schatten', 'Picota Dama', 'Salome' and the superb Yoncheva and Garanca among others. I hope Yannick is on point with 'Frau'

[JWP]

Lots to look forward to, but I saw Anthony & Cleopatra here in San Francisco, and it rhymed with Sphinx.

[ComteAnckarstrom]

Pity the MET is no longer a reference for the rest of the opera world. One day the leading scene, today mediocrity.... Fabiano singing a Manrico...my God is everything a disaster

[TheKayaklover]

We do NOT need a lot of extremely mediocre productions. Jus do 8 to 10 HIGH QUALITY ones and keep the audience happy. QUALITY over QUANTITY This comment from someone to have been proud of the Metropolitan Opera for so many years. I have not attended in the last three years !!! In addition, STOP deceiving the audience by mixing old productions with new ones on the trailer !!!

[pedrotaborga]

Good program and worth attending. Not enough Sondra for me, will go to Europe and elsewhere to enjoy her art.

[jlb]

Did I miss anything or are there no bel canto operas this time?

[aspirin]

I love this lineup. Ainadamar looks interesting. The revivals are great - Rigoletto with Nadine Sierra and Quinn Kelsey will be a real treat.