Met 2016-17 Season Announcement, Part 1

The Met season announcement is trickling in, and I mean that more or less literally. I have the press release for the 10-opera HD season, but not for the full season. Parterre Box is reporting the full season and I'm guessing that there's a press conference and La Cieca is attending.

Those of us in the Bay Area are already weeping and wailing, and totally aghast, at our Italian-opera-heavy upcoming season. The next Met season will just make us weep and wail a lot more, at both the variety of works being performed and at the quality of the casting. Yeah, for Peter Mattei, even I would suffer through The Barber of Seville.

Here's the HD season, after the cut.

Tristan und Isolde (Wagner)                                                                  NEW PRODUCTION

October 8, 2016 at 12:00 p.m. ET                                                    

Conductors: Sir Simon Rattle

Production: Mariusz Treliński

Set Designer: Boris Kudlička

Costume Designer: Marek Adamski

Lighting Designer: Marc Heinz

Projection Designer: Bartek Macias

Choreographer: Tomasz Wygoda

Cast: Nina Stemme (Isolde), Ekaterina Gubanova (Brangäne), Stuart Skelton (Tristan), Evgeny Nikitin (Kurwenal), René Pape (King Marke)

Don Giovanni (Mozart)                                                                                                       

October 22, 2016 at 12:55 p.m. ET

Conductor: Fabio Luisi

Production: Michael Grandage

Set and Costume Designer: Christopher Oram

Lighting Designer: Paule Constable

Choreographer: Ben Wright

Cast: Hibla Gerzmava (Donna Anna), Malin Byström (Donna Elvira), Serena Malfi (Zerlina), Rolando Villazón (Don Ottavio), Simon Keenlyside (Don Giovanni), Adam Plachetka (Leporello), Matthew Rose (Masetto), Kwangchul Youn (The Commendatore)

L’Amour de Loin (Saariaho)                                                                        MET PREMIERE

December 10, 2016 at 12:55 p.m. ET

Opening: December 1, 2016

Libretto: Amin Maalouf

Conductor: Susanna Mälkki

Production: Robert Lepage

Set Designer: Michael Curry

Costume Designer: Michael Curry

Lighting Designer: Kevin Adams

Lightscape Image Designer: Lionel Arnould

Cast: Susanna Phillips (Clémence), Tamara Mumford (The Pilgrim), Eric Owens (Jaufré Rudel)

Nabucco (Verdi)                                                                                        FIRST TIME IN HD

January 7, 2017 at 12:55 p.m. ET

Conductor: James Levine

Production: Elijah Moshinsky

Set Designer: John Napier

Costume Designer: Andreane Neofitou

Lighting Designer: Howard Harrison

Cast: Liudmyla Monastyrska (Abigaille), Jamie Barton (Fenena), Russell Thomas (Ismaele), Plácido Domingo (Nabucco), Dmitry Belosselskiy (Zaccaria)

   

Roméo et Juliette (Gounod)                                                                   NEW PRODUCTION

January 21, 2016 at 12:55 p.m. ET

Conductor: Gianandrea Noseda

Production: Bartlett Sher

Set Designer: Michael Yeargan

Costume Designer: Catherine Zuber

Lighting Designed By: Jennifer Tipton

Choreographer: Chase Brock

Cast: Diana Damrau (Juliette), Vittorio Grigolo (Roméo), Elliot Madore (Mercutio), Mikhail Petrenko (Frère Laurent)

Rusalka (Dvořák)                                                                                   NEW PRODUCTION

February 25, 2017 at 12:55 p.m. ET

Conductor: Sir Mark Elder

Production: Mary Zimmerman

Set Designer: Daniel Ostling

Costume Designer: Mara Blumenfeld

Lighting Designer: T.J. Gerckens

Choreographer: Austin McCormick

Cast: Kristine Opolais (Rusalka), Katarina Dalayman (The Foreign Princess), Jamie Barton (Ježibaba), Brandon Jovanovich (The Prince), Eric Owens (The Water Sprite)

La Traviata (Verdi)                                                                                                              

March 11, 2017 at 12:55 p.m. ET

Conductor: Nicola Luisotti

Production: Willy Decker

Set and Costume Designer: Wolfgang Gussmann

Lighting Designer: Hans Toelstede

Choreographer: Athol Farmer

Cast: Sonya Yoncheva (Violetta Valéry), Michael Fabiano (Alfredo Germont), Thomas Hampson (Giorgio Germont)

     

Idomeneo (Mozart)                                                                                   FIRST TIME IN HD

March 25, 2017 at 12:55 p.m. ET

Conductor: James Levine

Production: Jean-Pierre Ponnelle

Set and Costume Designer: Jean-Pierre Ponnelle

Lighting Designer: Gil Wechsler

Cast: Elza van den Heever (Elettra), Nadine Sierra (Ilia), Alice Coote (Idamante), Matthew Polenzani (Idomeneo), Alan Opie (Arbace)

Eugene Onegin (Tchaikovsky)                                                                                              

April 22, 2017 at 12:55 p.m. ET

Conductor: Robin Ticciati

Production: Deborah Warner
Set Designer: Tom Pye
Costume Designer: Chloe Obolensky
Lighting Designer: Jean Kalman
Video Designers: Finn Ross and Ian William Galloway
Choreographer: Kim Brandstrup

Cast: Anna Netrebko (Tatiana), Elena Maximova (Olga), Alexey Dolgov (Lenski), Dmitri Hvorostovsky (Onegin), Štefan Kocán (Gremin)

Der Rosenkavalier (R. Strauss)                                                             NEW PRODUCTION

May 13, 2017 at 12:30 p.m. ET

Conductor: James Levine

Production: Robert Carsen 

Set Designer: Paul Steinberg

Costume Designer: Brigitte Reiffenstuel

Lighting Designers: Robert Carsen, Peter Van Praet

Cast: Renée Fleming (Marschallin), Elīna Garanča (Octavian), Erin Morley (Sophie), Matthew Polenzani (A Singer), Marcus Brück (Faninal), Günther Groissböck (Baron Ochs)