2008-09 at the Met
The 125th season at the Met will open on Sept.22, 2008 with a gala performance from Renée Fleming (extracts from Massenet's Manon, La Traviata and Strauss' Capriccio) and will feature 6 new productions (including the Met premiere of John Adams' Doctor Atomic).
Amongst the new productions, Berlioz's La damnation de Faust is an interesting attempt to make this opera available to everyone. The choice of Robert Lepage as director, though, is less than ideal, as is the choice of Marcello Giordani as Faust.
Massenet's Thaïs should be a great opportunity for Renée Fleming to shine.
Another new production will be Puccini's La Rondine, by future Paris Opera director Nicolas Joël, with Duane Schuler as lightning designer (a very recurrent artist here in Lyon). Angela Gheorghiu and Roberto Alagna are supposed to share the stage. I hope Peter Gelb has already thought of alternative names for when they cancel (say, three days before the premiere).
David McVicar's new production of Il Trovatore should have New Yorkers all excited, although the cast seems a little weak (except for Dmitri Hvorostovsky of course).
Finally, last but not least, a new production of Bellini's La Sonnambula will feature the well-known couple Natalie Dessay/Evelino Pidó (who performed this piece in Lyon in Nov.2006, my reviews in French here...
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 JoongAng Daily | Leonard Slatkin out as conductor of "La Traviata" at Metropolitian Opera Washington Post (blog) Saturday's second performance of "La Traviata" at the Metropolitan Opera went off without a hitch -- after conductor Leonard Slatkin was given the boot. 'La Traviata,' Take 2: Same Cast, Different Conductor New conductor rescues the Met's 'Traviata' How Leonard Slatkin blogged an opera disaster |
Verdi Chops Are Tested by 'Traviata' New York Times Still, his shaky, awkward conducting of “La Traviata” last Monday when the run opened suggested that beyond not knowing the score well enough, |
Steven White To Conduct Met's LA TRAVIATA 4/7, 4/10 Talk Opera World Steven White, in his Met debut, will conduct the performance of La Traviata on April 7. As previously announced, White will also lead La Traviata on April |
 Washington Post (blog) | Terrence McNally's plays, marriage take DC stage San Jose Mercury News His 1980s play, "The Lisbon Traviata," takes audiences from the hilarious highs of friends bonded over opera and then plunges them to the agony of a Love, etc.: Playwright Terrence McNally weds partner in DC |
 Washington Post | Theater review: 'The Lisbon Traviata' at the Kennedy Center Washington Post It merely takes a mention by Stephen of his new recording of Callas's Lisbon performance in "La Traviata" to whip Mendy into a frenzied need to hear it The Lisbon Traviata |
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