March 11 – 16, 2012 A dazzling array of vocal fireworks!
DONIZETTI L'elisir d'amore c. Donato Renzetti There is no better cast for this sparkling comedy starring Diana Damrau, Juan Diego Flórez, Mariusz Kwiecien, Alessandro Corbelli
MUSSORGSKY Khovanshchina c. Kirill Petrenko with Olga Borodina, Vladimir Galouzine, Ildar Abdrazakov, Anatoli Kotscherga Considered Mussorgsky’s greatest portrayal of Russia, this opera ends in a most moving and most unusual immolation scene
MOZART Don Giovanni n.p. c. Sir Andrew Davis with Marina Rebeka, Annette Dasch, Isabel Leonard, Matthew Polenzani, Gerald Finley, John Relyea Gerald Finley is performing the great libertine in all the major opera houses. Another Canadian, John Relyea, sings the role of Leporello – a perfect partnership!
VERDI Macbeth c. Gianandrea Noseda with Nadja Michael, Thomas Hampson, Dimitri Pittas, Günther Groissböck Early- and middle-Verdi combine in the composer’s first powerful translation of Shakespeare into opera
One space remaining! April 26 – May 3 Experience the Met's new groundbreaking $40-million Ring Cycle!
WAGNER Ring Cycle c. James Levine d. Robert Lepage with Katarina Dalayman and Deborah Voigt alternating as Brünnhilde, Gary Lehman and Stephen Gould as Siegfried, Eric Owens and Hans-Peter König as Alberich, Bryn Terfel as Wotan, Eva-Marie Westbroek and Jonas Kaufmann as the Volsung pair.
Accommodation at the exclusive Yale Club of New York.
c. = Conductor d. = Director
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