MET OPERA FULL 2022/2023 SEASON

Sonya Yoncheva, Sondra Radvanovsky & Renée Fleming Headline Metropolitan Opera’s 2022-23 Season. The Metropolitan Opera has announced its 2022-23 season featuring seven new productions.
Here is a breakdown of the season.

New Productions
Sir. David McVicar directs a new production of Cherubini’s “Medea” with Sondra Radvanovsky in the title role. The cast will be rounded out by Janai Brugger, Ekaterina Gubanova, Matthew Polenzani, and Michele Pertusi. Carlo Rizzi conducts.

Kevin Puts’ “The Hours” makes its Met premiere in a production by Phelim McDermott. Yannick Nézet-Séguin conducts the production with Joyce DiDonato, Renée Fleming, Kelli O’Hara, Kyle Ketelsen, Sean Panikkar, Brandon Cedel, and William Burden.

Giordano’s “Fedora” will be conducted by Marco Armiliato with Sonya Yoncheva, Rosa Feola, Piotr Beczala, and Artur Rucinski. Sir David McVicar directs.

Yannick Nézet-Séguin conducts François Girard’s new production of “Lohengrin” with Piotr Beczała, Christine Goerke, Tamara Wilson, Elena Stikhina, Evgeny Nikitin, Brian Mulligan, and Günther Groissböck. Patrick Furrer also conducts two performance.

Terence Blanchard’s “Champion” makes its Met debut in a production by James Robinson. Yannick Nézet-Séguin conducts with Eric Owens, Ryan Speedo Green, Latonia Moore, Stephanie Blythe, and Meredith Arwady.

Ivo van Hove directs a new production of Mozart’s “Don Giovanni” with Natalie Stutzmann conducting. The cast will be led by Peter Mattei, Federica Lombardi, Ana María Martínez, Ying Fang, Ben Bliss, Adam Plachetka, Alfred Walker, Alexander Tsymbalyuk, and Dmitry Belosselskiy.

Mozart’s “Die Zauberflöte” gets a new production with Simon McBurney directing. Lawrence Brownlee, Erin Morley, Kathryn Lewek, Nathalie Stutzmann...

Revivals
Verdi’s “Aida” returns for 15 performances with Latonia Moore and Michelle Bradley alternating the title role. The cast also includes Quinn Kelsey, Olesya Petrova, Anita Rachvelishvili, Brian Jagde, Marcelo Alvarez, George Gagnidze, Luca Salsi ...

Yannick Nézet-Séguin and James Gaffigan conduct Puccini’s “La Bohème” which will be performed with two casts. The first cast will be led by Eleonora Buratto, Kristina Mkhitaryan, Stephen Costell0, Davide Luciano, Alexey Lavrov, Christian Van Horn, and Donald Maxwell.

Ailyn Pérez, Eva-Maria Westbroek, Sabine Devielhe, Jamie Barton, Alice Coote, Piotr Buszewski, and Laurent Naouri lead Poulenc’s “Dialogues des Carmélites” with Bertrand de Billy conducting.


Verdi’s “Don Carlo” returns to the Met in its Italian version. Russell Thomas takes on the title role alongside Eleonora Buratto as Elisabetta di Valois. The cast also includes Anita Rachvelishvili, Peter Mattei, Günther Groissböck, and John Relyea. Angela Meade also sings in later performances.

Donizetti’s “L’Elisir d’Amore” returns for two runs. Golda Schultz leads the first cast which includes Javier Camarena, Davide Luciano and Ambrogio Maestri. Aleksandra Kurzak and Xabier Anduaga lead the second cast which also stars Alex Esposito and Joshua Hopkins. Micheal Sumuel and Amanda Woodbury also perform with Michele Gamba conducting.

Michael Volle sings the title role of Verdi’s “Falstaff” with Bogdan Volkov, Hera Hyesang Park, Ailyn Pérez, Marie-Nicole Lemieux, ...

Jaap Van Zweden conducts Wagner’s “Der Fliegende Holländer” with Tomasz Konieczny in the title role, Elza van den Heever, Eric Cutler, Richard Trey Smagur, and Dmitry Belosselskiy.

Michael Spyres stars in Mozart’s “Idomeneo” with Ying Fang, Albina Shagimuratova, Kate Lindsey, Paolo Fanale...

Eva-Maria Westbroek, Brandon Jovanovich, Nikolai Schukoff, and John Relyea lead Shostakovich’s “Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk” with Keri-Lynn Wilson conducting.

Mozart’s “The Magic Flute” will return for the holiday season in Julie Taylor’s production and will be conducted by Ducan Ward. It will star Joélle Harvey, Sydney Mancasola, Aleksandra Olczyk, Ben Bliss, David Portillo, Joshua Hopkins, Chris Kenney...

Sonya Yoncheva leads Bellini’s “Norma” with Ekaterina Gubanova, Micheal Spyres, and Christian Van Horn.

Allan Clayton sings the title role of Britten’s “Peter Grimes” with Nicole Car, Laura Wilde, and Adam Plachetka.

Quinn Kelsey, Micheal Chioldi, and Luca Salsi lead Verdi’s “Rigoletto” with Rosa Feola, Lisette Oropesa, Benjamin Bernheim, Stephen Costello, Aigul Akhmetshina, and Andrea Mastroni.

Lise Davidsen, Isabel Leonard, Erin Morley, Katharine Goeldner, René Barbera, Kang Wang, Markus Brück, Günther Groissböck, and Thomas Ebenstein lead Strauss’ “Der Rosenkavalier”

Aleksandra Kurzak, ... lead Puccini’s “Tosca” with Micheal Fabiano, Roberto Alagna, Yusif Eyvazov, John Lundgren, James Morris, and Željko Lucic.

Nadine Sierra, Stephen Costello, and Luca Salsi lead the first cast of “La Traviata.” The second cast will star Ermonela Jaho, Ismael Jordi, and Amartuvshin Enkhbat while Angel Blue stars alongside Dmytro Popov and Arthur Rucinski.