Dead Man Walking – Jake Heggie
American composer Jake Heggie’s masterpiece, the most widely performed new opera of the last 20 years, has its highly anticipated Met premiere, in a haunting new production by Ivo van Hove. Based on Sister Helen Prejean’s memoir about her fight for the soul of a condemned murderer, Dead Man Walking matches the high drama of its subject with Heggie’s beautiful and poignant music and a brilliant libretto by Terrence McNally. Met Music Director Yannick Nézet-Séguin takes the podium for this landmark premiere, with mezzo-soprano Joyce DiDonato starring as Sister Helen. The outstanding cast also features bass-baritone Ryan McKinny as the death-row inmate Joseph De Rocher, soprano Latonia Moore as Sister Rose, and legendary mezzo-soprano Susan Graham—who sang Helen Prejean in the opera’s 2000 premiere—as De Rocher’s mother.
https://www.metopera.org/season/2023-24-season/dead-man-walking/
Sept. 26th 6:30 pm
Sept. 30th 1 pm
Oct. 3rd 7:30 pm
Oct. 6th 8 pm
Oct. 8th 3 pm
Oct. 12th 7:30 pm
Oct. 15th 3 pm
Oct. 18th 7 pm
Oct. 21st 1 pm
X: The Life and Times of Malcolm X – Anthony Davis
Anthony Davis’s groundbreaking and influential opera, which premiered in 1986, arrives at the Met at long last. Theater luminary and Tony-nominated director of Slave Play Robert O’Hara oversees a potent new staging that imagines Malcolm as an Everyman whose story transcends time and space. An exceptional cast of breakout artists and young Met stars enliven the operatic retelling of the civil rights leader’s life. Baritone Will Liverman, who triumphed in the Met premiere of Fire Shut Up in My Bones, sings Malcolm X, alongside soprano Leah Hawkins as his mother, Louise; mezzo-soprano Raehann Bryce-Davis as his sister Ella; bass-baritone Michael Sumuel as his brother Reginald; and tenor Victor Ryan Robertson as Nation of Islam leader Elijah Muhammad. Kazem Abdullah conducts the newly revised score, which provides a layered, jazz-inflected setting for the esteemed writer Thulani Davis’s libretto.
https://www.metopera.org/season/2023-24-season/x-the-life-and-times-of-malcolm-x/
Nov 3rd 7 pm
Nov. 7th 7:30 pm
Nov. 11th 8 pm
Nov. 14th 7:30 pm
Nov. 18th 1 pm
Nov. 24th 8 pm
Nov. 28th 7:30 pm
Dec. 2nd 8 pm
Carmen – Georges Bizet
The Met begins the New Year with a vital new production of one of opera’s most enduringly powerful works. Acclaimed English director Carrie Cracknell makes her Met debut, reinvigorating the classic story with a staging that moves the action to the modern day and finds at the heart of the drama issues that could not be more relevant today: gendered violence, abusive labor structures, and the desire to break through societal boundaries. Dazzling young mezzo-soprano Aigul Akhmetshina leads a powerhouse quartet of stars in the complex and volatile title role, alongside tenor Piotr Beczała as Carmen’s troubled lover Don José, soprano Angel Blue as the loyal Micaëla, and bass-baritone Kyle Ketelsen as the swaggering Escamillo. Daniele Rustioni conducts Bizet’s heart-pounding score. Later in the season, another cast of world-class singers takes over, with mezzo-soprano Clémentine Margaine reprising her captivating portrayal of the title role, tenor Michael Fabiano as Don José, soprano Ailyn Pérez as Micaëla, bass-baritone Ryan Speedo Green as Escamillo, and Diego Matheuz making his company debut on the podium.
https://www.metopera.org/season/2023-24-season/carmen/
Dec. 31st 6:30 pm
Jan. 3rd 7:30 pm
Jan. 5th 7:30 pm
Jan. 9th 7 pm
Jan. 12th 7 pm
Jan. 16th 7:30 pm
Jan. 19th 7:30 pm
Jan. 23rd 7:30 pm
Jan. 27th 1 pm
