The Metropolitan Opera has announced its 2024-25 season. This time, in my opinion, it's a better season, even though baroque and bel canto genres, as well as important composers like Wagner and Donizetti, are missing. If I had to pick my top three performances I am most looking forward to, they would be "Salome," "Die Frau ohne Schatten," and "Pique Dame" with amazing casts and/or productions. What are your thoughts on the new season?

New Productions:

Yannick Nézet-Séguin conducts Verdi’s “Aida” in a new production by Michael Mayer. Angel Blue, Judit Kutasi, Piotr Beczała, Quinn Kelsey, Dmitry Belosselskiy, and Morris Robbinson. Alexander Soddy conducts the second cast with Christina Nilsson, Elīna Garanča, Brian Jagde, Eric Owens, Michael Chioldi, Amartüvshin Enkhbatyn, Alexander Vinogradov, and Krzysztof Bączyk.


Deborah Colker directs Osvaldo Golijov’s “Ainadamar.” Miguel Harth-Bedoya conducts the opera which is set to star Daniela Mack, Angel Blue, Gabriella Reyes, Elena Villalón, and Alfredo Tejada.


Yannick Nézet-Séguin and Steven Osgood conduct Michael Mayer’s production of Jeanine Tesori’s “Grounded.” Emily D’Angelo, Kyle Miller, Kirsten MacKinnon, and Ben Bliss star in the Met premiere.


Claus Guth directs Strauss’ “Salome” with Yannick Nezet-Seguin. Elza van den Heever sings the title role with alongside Michelle DeYoung, Gerard Siegel, Chad Shelton, Piotr Buszewski, and Peter Mattei.


John Adams’s “Antony and Cleopatra” will be directed by Elkhanah Pulitzer and conducted by John Adams. Gerald Finley, Elizabeth DeSHong, Taylor Raven, Brenton Ryan, Julia Bullock, Paul Appleby, and Alfred Walker star.


Janai Brugger, Brandon Jovanovich, Stephen Costello, Peter Mattei, William Burden, Malcolm Mackenzie, and Ryan Speedo Green star in Jake Heggie’s “Moby Dick.” Karen Kamensek conducts. Leonard Foglia directs.


Revivals:

Isabel Leonard and Aigul Akhmetshina lead Rossini’s “Il Barbiere di Siviglia” with Lawrence Brownlee, Jack Swanson, Davide Luciano, Andrei Zhilikhovsky, Nicola Alaimo, Parick Carfizzi, Peter Kálmán, and Alexander Vinogradov. Giacomo Sagripanti conducts.


Ailyn Pérez, Eleonora Buratto, Kristina Mkhitaryan, Gabriella Reyes, and Corrine Winters star in Puccini’s “La Bohème” alongside Emily Pogorelc, Adela Zaharia, Brittany Renee, Matthew Polenzani, Joseph Calleja, and Dmytro Popov.The cast also includes Boris Pinkahasovich, David Bizic, Luca Micheletti, Anthony Clark Evans, Gihoon Kim, Sean Michael Plumb, Bogdan Talos, Jongmin Park, Nicola Testé.


Benjamin Bernheim stars in Offenbach’s “Les Contes d’Hoffmann” alongside Erin Morley, Pretty Yende, Clémentine Margaine, Vasilisa Berzhanskaya, Aaron Blake, and Christian Van Horn. Marco Armiliato conducts.


Lise Davidsen stars in Beethoven’s “Fidelio” with Ying Fang, David Butt Philip, Magnus Dietrich, Tomasz Konieczny, Rene Pape, and Stephen Milling. Susanna Mälkki conducts


Yannick Nézet-Séguin conducts Strauss’ “Die Frau Ohne Schatten” with Elza van den Heever, Lise Lindstrom, Michael Volle, Russell Thomas, Ryan Speedo Green, and Nina Stemme.


Mozart’s “The Magic Flute” returns with Nimrod David Pfeffer and J. David Jackson conducting. Hera Hyesang Park, Emily Pogorelc, Kathryn Lewek, Aigul Khismatullina, David Portillo, Duke Kim, Will Liverman, Sean Michael Plumb, William Guanbo Su, Le Bu, Soloman Howard, Peixin Chen, Rodell Rosel, and Thomas Capobianco star.


Federica Lombardi, Jacquelyn Stucker, Olga Kulchynska, Rosa Feola, Marianne Crebassa, Emily D’Angelo, Elizabeth Bishop, Joshua Hopkins, Adam Plachetka, Micheal Sumuel, Luca Pisaroni, and Maurizio Muraro star in Mozart’s “Le nozze di Figaro.” Joana Mallwitz conducts.


Sonya Yoncheva sings Tchaikovsky’s “The Queen of Spades” alongside Brian Jagde, Violeta Urmana, Maria Barakova, Igor Golovatenko, and Alexey Markov. Keri-Lynn Wilson conducts.


Quinn Kelsey, Luca Salsi, and Michael Chioldi star in Verdi’s“Rigoletto” with Nadine Sierra, Erin Morley, J’nai Bridges, Rihab Chaieb, Stephen Costello...


Alexandra Kurzak, Lise Davidsen, and Sondra Radvanovsky star in Puccini’s “Tosca” with Seok Jong Baek, Freddie De Tommaso, Brian Jagde, George Gagnidze, Quinn Kelsey, and Bryn Terfel. Xian Zhang and Marco Armiliato conduct.


Michael Fabiano sings the title role of Verdi’s “Il Trovatore”alongside Rachel Willis-Sørensen, Angela Meade, Jamie Barton, Olesya Petrova, Igor Golavatenko, and Ryan Speedo Green. Daniele Callegari conducts.


Evan Rogister conducts Mozart’s “Die Zauberflöte” with Golda Schultz, Kathryn Lewek, Ben Bliss, Thomas Ebenstein, Thomas Oliemans, Shenyang and Stephen Milling.

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Best wishes from Munich,
Alexander Julius Leventov

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