In addition to these new productions, the Met will offer an abridged, English-language holiday presentation of Cinderella, an adaptation of Laurent Pelly’s witty 2018 production of Massenet’s Cendrillon, with a new translation by Kelley Rourke. Lucia di Lammermoor will see the highly anticipated Met debut of director Simon Stone, and Neil Armfield also debuts, bringing to the Met his acclaimed Glyndebourne Festival production of Dean’s Hamlet. Three other new productions come from returning directors, as well: Mary Zimmerman will direct the Met premiere of Eurydice, Bartlett Sher will direct the new Rigoletto, and Sir David McVicar is back for Don Carlos. Brown becomes the first Black director in Met history to create a mainstage production she is also the production’s choreographer. Brown, building on their collaboration with The Gershwins’ Porgy and Bess in the 2019–20 season. The Met premiere of the original five-act, French-language version of Verdi’s Don Carlos will also have Nézet-Séguin on the podium leading an all-star cast: Sonya Yoncheva, Elīna Garanča, Matthew Polenzani, Etienne Dupuis, Günther Groissböck, and John Relyea.įire Shut Up in My Bones will be co-directed by James Robinson and Camille A. The season also features new productions of Verdi’s Rigoletto, starring Rosa Feola, Piotr Beczała, and Quinn Kelsey, and Donizetti’s Lucia di Lammermoor, with Nadine Sierra in the title role, opposite Javier Camarena. The other new works are Matthew Aucoin’s Eurydice, set to a libretto by Sarah Ruhl, also conducted by Yannick Nézet-Séguin and starring Erin Morley in the title role, and Brett Dean’s Hamlet, with a libretto by Matthew Jocelyn and with Allan Clayton as the tortured Dane. NEW PRODUCTION GIUSEPPE VERDIDEC 31 – JUN 11 Rigolettoīlanchard’s opera is one of three contemporary works to have premieres in 2021–22, the greatest number of new operas to premiere in a single Met season since 1928–29. IGOR STRAVINSKYMAY 30 – JUN 11 The Rake’s Progress MAY 1 National Council Auditions Grand Finals Concert OCT 26 – NOV 14 Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg NEW PRODUCTION BRETT DEAN / LIBRETTO BY MATTHEW JOCELYNĭEC 10 – JAN 5 The Magic Flute-Holiday Presentation NEW PRODUCTION TERENCE BLANCHARD / LIBRETTO BY KASI LEMMONS NEW PRODUCTION MATTHEW AUCOIN / LIBRETTO BY SARAH RUHL OCT 10 Anna Netrebko with Yannick Nézet-Séguin and the Met OrchestraĭEC 17 – JAN 3 Cinderella-Holiday Presentation
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