METROPOLITAN OPERA HOUSE
64th Street and Broadway, New York, NY 10023
Other Venues at Lincoln Center:
La Damnation de Faust
Showing: 9th, 14th, 17th November
When it premiered last season Robert Lepages production amazed audiences through its use of virtual scenery, interactive video, and aerial acrobatics. Ramn Vargas, Olga Borodina, and Ildar Abdrazakov will bring Berliozs stunning score to life, with James Conlon conducting. In collaboration with Ex Machina.
Turandot
Showing: 10th, 14th, 18th, 21st November
Following Anthony Minghellas Olivier Award-winning Madam Butterfly and Jonathan Miller's 1930s-style La bohme, ENO continues to renew its core Puccini repertoire with a new production of the composers operatic swansong.
From The House of the Dead
Showing: 12th, 16th, 21st, 24th, 28th November
With this new production, voted Europes best opera staging for 2007, one of operas great visionaries makes his Met debut. Patrice Chreau, renowned for his legendary centennial Ring cycle at Bayreuth, directs Janceks drama of human resilience inside a Russian prison. Conductor Esa-Pekka Salonen also makes his Met debut, and Peter Mattei leads the ensemble cast.
Il Trittico
Showing: 20th, 25th, 28th November
This evening of one-acts is like a lavish three-course dinner, prepared by a master and promising something for everyone's taste. Not since 1952 have San Francisco audiences had the rare opportunity to enjoy this unique work the way its creator intendedin its entirety and with an ideal cast.
Le Nozze Di Figaro
Showing: 23rd, 27th, 30th November
Mozarts timeless masterpiece stars Danielle de Niese and John Relyea as the servant couple who outmaneuver their bosses (and everyone else in their world) over the course of one crazy day.
"Scarlett Johansson makes her Broadway debut Dec 28"
