![]() ![]() Why it has never been performed at the Met is hard to say, though this premiere is a star vehicle for Joyce DiDonato. The season opens with a new staging of Bellini’s Norma, at number 47.Īnd Massenet’s Cendrillon will get its Met premiere on Apin a Laurent Pelly production that originated at Santa Fe Opera in 2006. ![]() A new Phelim McDermott production of Così fan tutte arrives in March 2018 Mozart’s opera ranks number 42 on the Met’s most-produced list. Some works that one might think of as commonplace actually appear relatively rarely on the Met stage, and will return next year. 9) will return in a double bill with Cavalleria Rusticana (no. Madama Butterfly (the seventh most-produced) comes back on Nov. Instead, the balance shifts: Tosca, the fifth most-produced work in the company’s history, is returning in a new production by David McVicar, opening on New Year’s Eve. As with last year, La Bohème will return early on, on October 2, in the 1981 Franco Zeffirelli staging (which is also the most-staged production in the company’s history).īut notably absent are three of the other top four operas. This past week, the Met announced its 2017-18 season, a fresh occasion to look at the balance of familiar and obscure works, established stars and newcomers, and where the so-called “ABCs” (plus Traviata) fit into the mix. When the Metropolitan Opera announced its current season one year ago, it was notable for the fact that it brought back, in fairly short order, the four most-produced works in the Met’s history: Aida, La Bohème, Carmen and La Traviata. ![]()
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