Metropolitan Opera

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Eurydice

Matthew Aucoin, libretto by Sarah Ruhl

Saturday, December 4, 2021 at 1 p.m. 3 hours, 3 minutes with one intermission Live

Rising American composer Matthew Aucoin has a captivating new take on the ancient Greek myth of Orpheus, who attempts to harness the power of music to rescue his beloved Eurydice from the underworld. Sarah Ruhl’s libretto, adapted from her acclaimed 2003 play, reimagines the tale from Eurydice’s point of view. Soprano Erin Morley sings the title role, opposite baritone Joshua Hopkins as Orpheus.

CORY WEAVER / Los Angeles Opera

Boris Godunov

Modest Mussorgsky

Saturday, December 11, 2021 at 1 p.m. 2 hours, 40 minutes with no intermission

Bass René Pape, the world’s reigning Boris, reprises his tremendous portrayal of the tortured tsar caught between grasping ambition and crippling paranoia. Conductor Sebastian Weigle leads Mussorgsky’s masterwork, a pillar of the Russian repertoire, in its original 1869 version. Stephen Wadsworth’s affecting production poignantly captures the hope and suffering of the Russian people, as well as the title ruler himself.

ERIC WOOLSEY / Opera Theatre of St. Louis

Fire Shut Up in My Bones

Terence Blanchard, libretto by Kasi Lemmons

Saturday, January 8, 2022 at 1 p.m. 2 hours, 55 minutes with one intermission

Grammy Award–winning jazz musician and composer Terence Blanchard’s adaptation of Charles M. Blow’s moving memoir (libretto by Kasi Lemmons) tells a poignant and profound story about a young man’s journey to overcome trauma and hardship. James Robinson and Camille A. Brown co-direct this new staging, featuring baritone Will Liverman, one of opera’s exciting young artists, alongside sopranos Angel Blue and Latonia Moore.

Rigoletto

Giuseppe Verdi

Saturday, January 29, 2022 at 1 p.m. 3 hours, 26 minutes with two intermissions Live

Tony Award–winning director Bartlett Sher creates a bold new take on Verdi’s timeless tragedy, resetting the opera’s action in 1920s Europe, with Art Deco sets by Michael Yeargan and elegant costumes by Catherine Zuber. Baritone Quinn Kelsey brings his searing portrayal of the title role to the Met for the first time, starring alongside soprano Rosa Feola as Gilda and tenor Piotr Beczała as the Duke of Mantua.

MARTY SOHL / Met Opera

Ariadne auf Naxos

Richard Strauss

Saturday, March 12, 2022 at 1 p.m. 3 hours, 4 minutes with one intermission Live

The exhilarating soprano Lise Davidsen shines as the mythological Greek heroine of Strauss’s enchanting masterpiece. The outstanding cast also features mezzosoprano Isabel Leonard as the Composer of the opera-within-an-opera around which the plot revolves, with soprano Brenda Rae as the spirited Zerbinetta and tenor Brandon Jovanovich as Ariadne’s lover, the god Bacchus. Marek Janowski conducts.

Don Carlos

Giuseppe Verdi

Saturday, March 26, 2022 at noon 5 hours, 14 minutes with two intermissions Live

For the first time, the Met presents the original five-act French version of Verdi’s epic opera of doomed love among royalty, set against the backdrop of the Spanish Inquisition. Yannick Nézet-Séguin leads a starry cast, including tenor Matthew Polenzani in the title role, soprano Sonya Yoncheva as Élisabeth de Valois, and mezzo-soprano Elīna Garanča as Eboli in a monumental new staging by Sir David McVicar.

Cinderella

Jules Massenet, abridged English-language version by Kelley Rourke

Saturday, April 2, 2022 at 1 p.m. 1 hour, 47 minutes with no intermission

Laurent Pelly’s storybook staging of Massenet’s Cendrillon is presented with an all-new English translation in an abridged adaptation, with mezzo-soprano Isabel Leonard as its rags-to-riches princess. Maestro Emmanuel Villaume leads a delightful cast, which includes mezzo-soprano Emily D’Angelo as Cinderella’s Prince Charming, soprano Jessica Pratt as her Fairy Godmother, and mezzosoprano Stephanie Blythe and bass-baritone Laurent Naouri as her guardians.

KEN HOWARD / Met Opera

Il Barbiere di Siviglia

Gioachino Rossini

Saturday, April 23, 2022 at 1 p.m. 2 hours, 59 minutes with one intermission • Encore from 2007

Bartlett Sher’s dynamic production found fresh and surprising ways to bring Rossini’s effervescent comedy closer than ever before, thanks to a stellar cast featuring irresistible energy and bravura vocalism. Tenor Juan Diego Flórez is Count Almaviva, who fires off showstopping coloratura as he woos mezzo-soprano Joyce DiDonato’s spirited Rosina — with assistance from baritone Peter Mattei as Figaro, Seville’s beloved barber and man-about-town.

Don Giovanni

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Saturday, April 30, 2022 at 1 p.m. 3 hours, 12 minutes with one intermission • Encore from 2016

Baritone Simon Keenlyside smolders in the title role of Mozart’s version of the legend of Don Juan, creating a vivid portrait of a man who is a law unto himself. Things start to unravel when Giovanni tangles with Donna Anna (soprano Hibla Gerzmava), aided by the reappearance of Donna Elvira (soprano Malin Byström), who is determined not to let her seducer go.

MARTY SOHL / Met Opera