MET Opera HD Season 2022/2023 (Cinema)

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THE METROPOLITAN OPERA'S 2022-23 SEASON will feature seven new productions, including the world premiere staging of Kevin Puts’s operatic adaptation of The Hours, the company premieres of Cherubini’s Medea and Terence Blanchard’s Champion, and new stagings of Fedora, Lohengrin, Don Giovanni and Die Zauberflöte and more.

The Met plans to open its 2022-23 season on September 27, with David McVicar’s new staging of Medea, which will feature Sondra Radvanovsky in the title role along with Matthew Polenzani’s Giasone; Carlo Rizzi will conduct the performances, which will also feature soprano Janai Brugger as Glauce, bass Michele Pertusi as Creonte and mezzo-soprano Ekaterina Gubanova as Neris. The Met will also present Medea via a Live in HD transmission — on October 22.

Michael Mayer’s production of La Traviata will be presented. The casts will include Nadine Sierra singing the role of Violetta; Stephen Costello, as Alfredo; and Luca Salsi. A Live in HD simulcast is scheduled for November 5, 2022.

(David McVicar’s staging of Don Carlos, created this season for the Met’s first presentations of the original five-act French version of the opera, will return next season as the mise-en-scène for performances of the Italian version of Verdi’s opera, which will play under Carlo Rizzi’s baton. Russell Thomas will sing the title role, soprano Anna Netrebko (now replaced by Buratto) will appear as Elisabeth de Valois, mezzo-soprano Anita Rachvelishvili sings Princess Eboli, baritone Peter Mattei will be Rodrigo, bass-baritone John Relyea will sing the Grand Inquisitor, and bass Günther Groissböck takes on the role of King Philip II. A Live in HD simulcast was scheduled for November 19, 2022. )

In November, the company will present the world-premiere staging of Kevin Puts’s The Hours, based on the 1998 Pulitzer-prize winning novel by Michael Cunningham that was adapted into the 2002 Oscar-winning film. Met Music Director Yannick Nézet-Séguin will conduct the performances, which will feature soprano Renée Fleming as Clarissa Vaughan, Kelli O’Hara as Laura Brown and mezzo Joyce DiDonato as Virginia Woolf. The company will present a Live HD simulcast on December 10.


David McVicar’s new staging of Fedora arrives at the Met on New Year’s Eve for what will be the company’s first performances of Umberto Giordano’s opera in twenty-five years. Conducted by Marco Armiliato, the performances will star soprano Sonya Yonchva in the title role and Piotr Beczała as Count Loris; Rosa Feola will sing Olga and baritone Artur Ruciński is De Siriex. A Live in HD simulcast of Fedora will be presented on January 14, 2023.

Piotr Beczała will also sing the title role of the company’s new production of Lohengrin, which premieres on February 26, 2023, and will mark the company’s first performance of the opera in seventeen years. François Girard’s staging, a co-production with the Bolshoi Theatre, will be conducted by Nézet-Séguin, and will feature Tamara Wilson in the role of Elsa, Christine Goerke as Ortrud, bass-baritone Evgeny Nikitin as Telramund and bass Günther Groissböck as King Heinrich. The Live in HD presentation of Lohengrin will take place on March 18, 2023.

Champion, the first opera by composer Terence Blanchard takes the Met stage on April 10, 2023, under Nézet-Séguin’s baton. James Robinson will stage the work’s company premiere, which will feature bass-baritone Ryan Speedo Green as Young Emile Griffith, bass-baritone Eric Owens portraying the haunted older boxer, Latonia Moore as Emelda Griffith and Stephanie Blythe. The Live in HD presentation of Champion will be simulcast on April 29, 2023.

Lise Davidsen will make her Met role debut as the Marschallin in the March and April performances of Der Rosenkavalier. Simone Young will conduct Isabel Leonard in her Met role debut as Octavian and Erin Morley sings Sophie in Robert Carsen’s production. Bass Günther Groissböck.

In May 2023, Nathalie Stutzmann will make her company debut leading two new productions of canonical Mozart works — Don Giovanni and Die Zaberflöte. Ivo van Hove’s Giovanni staging — a co-production with Opéra National de Paris — takes the stage on May 5, 2023, with Peter Mattei in the title role; Adam Plachetka will sing Leporello, Federica Lombardi sings Donna Anna, Ana María Martínez will play Elvira, Ying Fang sings the role of Zerlina and Ben Bliss will sing the role of Don Ottavio. The Giovanni staging also receives a Live HD simulcast on May 20, 2023.
Simon McBurney’s Die Zauberflöte staging, meanwhile, premieres on May 19, in what will be the director’s company debut. Performances will feature Erin Morley’s Pamina, Kathryn Lewek’s Queen of the Night, Lawrence Brownlee’s Tamino, Thomas Oliemans as Papageno, and Stephen Milling as Sarastro. McBurney’s production will get a Live in HD transmission on June 3, 2023.

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Alexander J. Leventov