The Met Opera has unveiled the program for its 2024-2025 season. A reduced program for the New York institution, faced with financial difficulties, and which will give pride of place to contemporary productions.
The Met Opera’s 2024-2025 season will offer 194 performances, as many as the current season but still far from the 215 presented during the 2022-2023 season. The fault is the financial difficulties encountered by the New York institution, faced with an increase in its operating costs and a drop in attendance.
2 factors which led, in particular, to the postponement of certain productions such as that of Semele, the opera of Georg Friedrich Handel and the reduction of productions broadcast simultaneously in cinemas (8 for next season). A season under constraint therefore, even if Peter Gelb, the general director of the Met believes that “ We have to be financially responsible but what we are proposing really pushes huge artistic boundaries.”
Conducted by Yannick Nézet-Séguin Groundedthe opera by Jeanine Tesori, opening the season
Among the 18 productions presented during the new season, the Met Opera will give pride of place to contemporary creations (4 out of 6). It is also the first at the Met of Grounded by composer Jeanine Tesori, conducted by Yannick Nézet-Séguin with Canadian mezzo-soprano Emily D’Angelo in the role of a drone pilot, which will open the season on September 23.
The three other new productions in the contemporary repertoire will be Ainadamar d’Osvaldo Golijov, Moby-Dick by Jake Heggie and Antony and Cleopatra de John Adams.
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Two new classic productions will also be presented next season. To start with Aida by Giuseppe Verdi, which will successively be directed by Yannick Nézet-Séguin, Alexander Soddy and John Keenan with Angel Blue then Christina Nilsson in the title role. And Salome by Richard Strauss, still under the baton of the Canadian musical director of the Met (and Derrick Inouye for 2 dates).
Among the dozen announced covers are Rigoletto et The Trouvère by Giuseppe Verdi, Tosca et Bohemian by Giacomo Puccini, Les Contes d’Hoffmann by Jacques Offenbach, as well as two versions of The Magic Flute Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.
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2024-02-22 12:21:00
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