Richard Bernstein

Umberto Giordano’s exhilarating drama returns to the Met repertory for the first time in 25 years. Packed with memorable melodies, showstopping arias, and explosive confrontations, Fedora requires a cast of thrilling voices to take flight, and the Met’s new production promises to deliver. Soprano Sonya Yoncheva, one of today’s most riveting artists, sings the title role of the 19th-century Russian princess who falls in love with her fiancé’s murderer, Count Loris, sung by star tenor Piotr Beczała. Soprano Rosa Feola is the Countess Olga, Fedora’s confidante, and baritone Artur Ruciński is the diplomat De Siriex, with much-loved Met maestro Marco Armiliato conducting. Director David McVicar delivers a detailed and dramatic staging based around an ingenious fixed set that, like a Russian nesting doll, unfolds to reveal the opera’s three distinctive settings—a palace in St. Petersburg, a fashionable Parisian salon, and a picturesque villa in the Swiss Alps.

스페인의 세빌리아 거리의 위병근무를 서고 있는 하사관 돈 호세는 담배 공장에서 동료와 싸워 감옥으로 가게된 집시여인 카르멘을 호송하는 임무를 맡게 된다. 그러나 카르멘의 유혹에 넘어간 호세는 고의로 그녀를 도망치게 하고 결국 그가 대신 감옥에 들어가게 되는데...

더 폴카(The Polka)라는 간판이 붙어 있는 살롱(saloon)에서 작은 금광을 하나 소유한 애시비(Ashby)가 무법자 래머레즈(Ramerrez)를 저쪽 골짜기에서 보았다고 얘기한다. 광부들과 술주정꾼들은 그 말에 별로 신경을 쓰지 않는다. 주점의 한쪽 벽에는 래머레즈의 현상 포스터가 붙어 있다. 이때 처음 보는 수상한 사람이 주점으로 들어오게 되는데...

화가인 카바라도시는 쫓기고 있는 옛 친구 안젤로티를 숨겨주다 곤경에 빠진다. 그의 애인인 토스카는 카바라도시를 살리기 위해 자신에게 몸을 바치라는 경감 스카르피아의 협박을 받다 그를 찔러 죽이고 만다. 결국 그녀가 스카르피아를 죽인 사실이 발각되고 토스카는 애인을 따라 성벽아래로 몸을 던진다.

스타 소프라노 안나 네트렙코가 타오르는 듯 강렬한 맥베스 부인을 보여준다. 중간에 잠시 실성한 모습까지 보이는 살인자 맥베스 역의 바리톤 젤리코 루치치는 메트에서 처음으로 이 배역을 연기한다. 셰익스피어의 비극을 토대로 베르디가 작곡한 이 걸작 오페라는 에이드리언 노블의 관객을 오싹하게 만드는 연출로 더욱 흥미로워졌다. 맥더프 장군 역에 테너 조셉 칼레야, 뱅코우 장군 역에 베이스 르네 파페. 지휘는 파비오 루이지가 맡았다.

The imperious Onegin rejects naive Tatiana's proposal of love and also incites a duel with his best friend turned rival Lenski (Piotr Beczala). This sets the scene for a dramatic story of love, loyalty and betrayal. Acclaimed theatre director Deborah Warner presents this lavish new interpretation of the timeless tale. Set in the 19th century and moving episodically from farmhouse to ballroom, the production culminates in an unforgettable finale set during a snowstorm.

Berlioz’s epic masterpiece retells the magnificent saga of the aftermath of the Trojan War and the exploits of Aeneas. Rising tenor Bryan Hymel, in his Met debut, stars as the hero charged by the gods with the founding of the city of Rome. Susan Graham is Dido, Queen of Carthage, who becomes Aeneas’s lover, and Deborah Voigt sings Cassandra, the Trojan princess whose warnings about the impending destruction of Troy go unheeded. Francesca Zambello’s atmospheric production, featuring choreography by Doug Varone, is led by Met Principal Conductor Fabio Luisi.

Following the success of his first foray into opera, Einstein on the Beach, revolutionary American composer and musician Philip Glass soon turned to another great figure of the 20th century for inspiration. Set to lines from the Hindu Bhagavad Gita, Satyagraha depicts scenes from the life of Gandhi as he developed his philosophy of non-violent resistance in South Africa between 1896 and 1913. The opera became the second installment of Glass’s Portrait Trilogy, focused on innovators from across history. Satyagraha arrived at the Met during the 2007–08 season, when director Phelim McDermott made his debut with a production that employed everyday materials like newspaper and corrugated tin to create towering puppets and striking tableaus. In 2011, his staging returned, this time recorded live in HD. In this performance, tenor Richard Croft gives a moving performance as Gandhi, leading a remarkable ensemble cast conducted by Dante Anzolini.

After over a century out of the Met’s repertoire, audiences were thrilled to discover just what a sensational evening in the theater Thomas’s Hamlet can be. Simon Keenlyside’s riveting performance as the tortured Prince of Denmark in Patrice Caurier and Moshe Leiser’s starkly brooding production had critics raving that Keenlyside’s superb singing, coupled with his deftly delineated three-dimensional Hamlet, was one of the greatest examples of operatic drama of our time. The cast includes Marlis Petersen as the long suffering Ophélie, who brilliantly shows why her mad scene is so justly famous, along with Jennifer Larmore and James Morris as Gertrude and Claudius.

One of today’s most compelling singing actresses, Karita Mattila takes on the irresistible role of Manon Lescaut, the headstrong young woman torn between a life of luxury and the call of her true love: the Chevalier des Grieux, played by Marcello Giordani. The young Puccini lavished some of his most sensual music on this early hit, conducted here by the Met’s beloved James Levine.

The pain of unrequited love is portrayed unforgettably by two of today’s greatest stars. Renée Fleming is musically and dramatically radiant as the shy Tatiana, who falls in love with the worldly Onegin, played with devastating charisma by Dmitri Hvorostovsky. Their mesmerizing vocalism and chemistry explode in one of opera’s most heartbreaking final scenes. With Valery Gergiev on the podium conducting Tchaikovsky’s passionate score, this performance is one for the ages.

Documentary about American artist and former Warhol superstar, Brigid Berlin.