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