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The Met’s 2010-2011 Season

September 27 2010- April 2 2011: Das Rheingold
September 28- October 19 2010: Les Contes d'Hoffmann
September 29 2010- May 12 2011: Rigoletto
October 11 2010- March 17 2011: Boris Godunov
October 16 2010- February 25 2011: La Bohème
October 26 2010- April 30 2011: Il Trovatore
October 29 2010- February 19 2011: Don Pasquale
November 4 2010- January 13 2011: Carmen
November 9- December 2 2010: Così fan tutte
November 22- December 18 2010: Don Carlo
December 6 2010- January 8 2011: La Fanciulla del West
December 17 2010- January 1 2011: Pelléas et Mélisande
December 21 2010- January 6 2011: Die Zauberflöte
December 31 2010- January 29 2011: La Traviata
January 10- April 16 2011: Tosca
January 24- February 5 2011: Simon Boccanegra
February 2-19 2011: Nixon in China
February 21- March 5 2011: Iphigénie en Tauride
February 24- March 19 2011: Lucia di Lammermoor
February 26- March 5 2011: Armida
March 3-26 2011: Roméo et Juliette
March 11-26 2011: The Queen of Spades
March 24 -April 21 2011: Le Comte Ory
April 1-23 2011: Capriccio
April 6-16 2011: Wozzeck
April 22- May 14 2011: Die Walküre
May 4-14 2011: Orfeo ed Euridice
May 7-13 2011: Ariadne auf Naxos

The press release went out in February 22nd. The 2010-11 season of The Met: Live in HD will feature Das Rheingold (October 9, 2010) Boris Godunov (October 23, 2010), Don Pasquale (November 13, 2010), Don Carlo (December 11, 2010), La Fanciulla del West (January 8, 2011), Iphigénie en Tauride (February 26, 2011), Lucia di Lammermoor (March 19, 2011), Le Comte Ory (April 9, 2011), Capriccio (April 23, 2011), Il Trovatore (April 30, 2011), and Die Walküre (May 14, 2011).

Met Schedule on Parterre | Met Futures | Official Site

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8 responses to “The Met’s 2010-2011 Season”

  1. KC Avatar
    KC

    Have they announced the performers for the roles? I’m most interested to see who will be singing Rigoletto and the cast of La Fanciulla.

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  2. The Opera Tattler Avatar
    The Opera Tattler

    They haven’t announced the casts yet. The Met Futures Page says: Christine Schaefer/Nino Machaidze/Diana Damrau, Ramon Vargas/Joseph Calleja/Vittorio Grigolo, Carlos Alvarez, Stefan Kocan (Sparafucile), c. Paolo Arrivabeni/Fabio Luisi for Rigoletto and Deborah Voigt, Marcello Giordani, Juha Uusitalo, Dwayne Croft, c. Nicola Luisotti for Fanciulla.
    http://balconybox.blogspot.com/2008/06/met-futures-page.html

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  3. y2k Avatar
    y2k

    Seriously, do they have to stage half a dozen of Verdi operas every season? And do they ever put the Traviata & Boheme sets in storage? I guess the answers are Yes and No.
    I’m really looking forward to Le Comte Ory! And yes, I may get sucked into seeing Rigoletto with Diana Damrau.
    I know the Met likes to restage new productions the following year, according to some interviews I’ve seen (musicians, chorus still fresh from the year before). So, I find it interesting that the Met isn’t re-staging the poorly-directed La Sonnambula in the upcoming seasons (based on the link you posted).

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  4. The Opera Tattler Avatar
    The Opera Tattler

    I am quite curious about Le Comte Ory. Good point about La Sonnambula, that’s very interesting indeed.

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  5. Doug Avatar
    Doug

    The Met sure produces a lot of opera! 🙂 I’m thrilled that so many interesting directors are slated to direct, including Robert Lepage, Peter Stein, and Nicholas Hytner. The premier of Sellars’ production of Nixon in China is long overdue — I sure hope it makes the HD series, but that would surprise me. I’m happy to see that William Christie and Simon Rattle will be making what appear to be conducting debuts. OT: Thanks for the post.

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  6. Doug Avatar
    Doug

    More casting details are linked to from here: http://www.metoperafamily.org/metopera/season/index.aspx?type=next
    I’m so grateful that the Robert Lepage Ring operas and Wadsworth’s Iphigenie are part of the HD series!

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  7. Sarah Avatar
    Sarah

    Is the Wadsworth production the one they did at the Met last season? I saw the one in San Francisco which was Robert Carsen, I believe – now THAT one was very minimal and stunning. Susan Graham was here in the Twin Cities in December for a recital and afterwards, when she was signing my CD, I told her she HAD to be filmed in the role. So she said, “well, I’m doing it at the Met” . . . very enthusiastically. I suppose she already knew it would be in HD (wouldn’t they have to agree or approve or something?) but she was very coy about it. I’m already checking to see if I need that Saturday off from work . . .

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  8. mj Avatar
    mj

    Hi Opera Tattler,
    Just got back from a trip to New York. Saw the premiere of the new production of Attila @ the Met. I found myself thinking during the performance, gosh, I wish the Opera Tattler was here so I could read what the OT would write about this on her blog. Ridiculous costumes, uncomfortable looking singers, no drama whatsoever and an incredibly beautiful performance from the Met Orchestra under Riccardo Muti… and then there was (finally!) some big drama during the curtain calls. Huge booing for the production team, huge ovation for Muti. Then Muti walked off the stage in the middle of the curtain calls– an apparent “&@*! you” to the audience.

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