
Live in HD features 12 transmissions, beginning on
9 October: with Das Rheingold, the first installment of Robert Lepage’s groundbreaking
new production of Wagner’s Ring cycle featuring Dublin-born mezzo-soprano Patricia Bardon in the role of Erda.
23 October: Mussorgsky’s Boris Godunov conducted by Valery Gergiev
13 November: Anna Netrebko returns to the role of Norina, which made her a sensational Met star in Donizetti’s Don Pasquale
11 December: Nicholas Hytner makes his Met directorial debut with Verdi’s Don Carlo
8 January: New year kicks off with Puccini’s La Fanciulla del West starring Deborah Voight.
12 February: Peter Sellars makes his Met debut with John Adams’ Nixon in China
26 February: Susan Graham and Plácido Domingo return to the Met in Gluck’s
19 March: Iphigénie en Tauride. The Met’s hit production of Donizetti’s Lucia di Lammermoor makes a welcome come-back,
9 April: Juan Diego Flórez takes the title role of the Met’s premiere production of Rossini’s Le Comte Ory.
23 April: Renée Fleming sings Strauss’s dazzling Capriccio
20 April: David McVicar’s gripping production of Verdi’s Il Trovatore returns conducted by the Met’s Music Director James Levine
14 May: The season closes with Die Walküre as part of Robert Lepage’s new produciton of Wagner’s Ring cycle