Metropolitan Opera Schedule 2010

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January 2 – HANSEL AND GRETEL (Humperdinck/English translation: David Pountney)  

Fabio Luisi; Miah Persson (Gretel), Angelika Kirchschlager (Hansel), Rosalind Plowright (Gertrude), Philip Langridge (The Witch), Dwayne Croft (Peter)

January 9 – DER ROSENKAVALIER (Strauss)

Edo de Waart; Renée Fleming (Marschallin), Susan Graham (Octavian), Christine Schäfer (Sophie), Eric Cutler (A Singer), Thomas Allen, (Faninal), Kristinn Sigmundsson (Baron Ochs)

January 16 – CARMEN (Bizet) – New Production

Yannick Nézet-Séguin; Barbara Frittoli (Micaëla), Elīna Garanča (Carmen), Roberto Alagna (Don José), Mariusz Kwiecien (Escamillo)

January 23 – VANESSA (Barber) – Archive Broadcast from February 1, 1958

Dimitri Mitropoulos; Eleanor Steber (Vanessa), Nicolai Gedda (Anatol), Rosalind Elias (Erika), Regina Resnik (Baroness), Giorgio Tozzi (Doctor), George Cehanovsky (Nicholas), Robert Nagy (Footman)

January 30 – STIFFELIO (Verdi)

Plácido Domingo; Sondara Radvanovsky (Lina), José Cura (Stiffelio), Andrzej Dobber (Stankar), Phillip Ens (Jorg)

February 6 – SIMON BOCCANEGRA (Verdi)

James Levine; Adrianne Pieczonka (Amelia Grimaldi), Marcello Giordani (Gabriele Adorno), Plácido Domingo (Simon Boccanegra), James Morris (Jacopo Fiesco)

February 13 – LA FILLE DU RÉGIMENT (Donizetti)  

Marco Armiliato; Diana Damrau (Marie), Ann Murray (Marquise of Berkenfield), Kiri Te Kanawa (Duchess of Krakenthorp), Juan Diego Flórez (Tonio), Maurizio Muraro (Sulpice)

February 20 – ARIADNE AUF NAXOS (Strauss)  

Kirill Petrenko; Nina Stemme (Ariadne), Kathleen Kim (Zerbinetta), Sarah Connolly (Composer), Lance Ryan (Bacchus), Jochen Schmeckenbecher (Music Master)

February 27 – LA BOHÈME (Puccini)  

Marco Armiliato; Anna Netrebko (Mimì), Nicole Cabell (Musetta), Piotr Beczala (Rodolfo), Gerald Finley (Marcello), Massimo Cavalletti (Schaunard), Oren Gradus (Colline), Paul Plishka (Benoit/Alcindoro)

March  6 –  ATTILA (Verdi)

Riccardo Muti: Violeta Urmana (Odabella), Rámon Vargas (Foresto), Carlos Alvarez (Ezio), Idar   Abrazakov (Attila)

March 13 – THE NOSE (Shostakovich) – New Production

Valery Gergiev; Andrei Popov (Police Inspector), Gordon Gietz (The Nose), Paulo Szot (Kovalyov)

March 20– FROM THE HOUSE OF THE DEAD (Janáček) – New Production, Performance from November 12, 2009

Esa-Pekka Salonen; Stefan Margita (Filka Morozov/Luka Kuzmich), Kurt Streit (Skuratov), Peter Hoare (Shapkin), Peter Mattei (Shishkov), Willard White (Alexander Petrovitch Gorianchikov)

March 27 – HAMLET (Thomas) – New Production

Louis Langrée; Natalie Dessay (Ophéli), Jennifer Larmore (Gertrude), Toby Spence (Laërte), Simon Keenlyside (Hamlet), James Morris (Claudius)

April 3 – AIDA (Verdi) 

Paolo Carignani; Hui He (Aida), Dolora Zajick (Amneris), Salvatore Licitra (Radamès), Carlo Guelfi (Amonasro Amonasro), Carlo Colombara (Ramfis), Stefan Kocán (The King)

April 10 – DIE ZAUBERFLÖTE (Mozart) 

Adam Fischer; Julia Kleiter (Pamina), Albina Shagimuratova (Queen of the Night), Matthew Polenzani (Tamino), Nathan Gunn (Papageno), David Pittsinger (Sprecher), Hans-Peter König (Sarastro)

April 17 – LA TRAVIATA (Verdi) 

Leonard Slatkin; Angela Gheorghiu (Violetta Valéry), James Valenti (Alfredo Germont), Thomas Hampson (Giorgio Germont)

April 24 – TOSCA (Puccini) – New Production

James Levine; Karita Mattila (Tosca), Jonas Kaufmann (Cavaradossi), Bryn Terfel (Scarpia), John Del Carlo (Sacristan)

May 1 – ARMIDA (Rossini) – New Production

Riccardo Frizza; Renée Fleming, Lawrence Brownlee, Bruce Ford, José Manuel Zapata,

Barry Banks, Kobie van Rensburg

May 8 – LULU (Berg)

James Levine; Marlis Petersen (Lulu), Anne Sofie von Otter (Countess Geschwitz), Gary Lehman (Alwa), Michael Schade (Painter/Negro), David Pittsinger (Animal Trainer/Acrobat), James Morris (Dr. Schön/Jack the Ripper)