At the risk of contradicting Mae West (and, believe me, La Cieca sets aside a couple of hours a day to averting any such lèse-majesté!), too much of a good thing can be not so much wonderful as impossible.

The current iteration of that altogether necessary resource the Met Future Wiki currently lists a repertoire of 32(!) programs intended for the Met’s 2017-2018 season, which clearly is absurd. Your doyenne invites you to peruse the list after the jump and make such recommendations as may be necessary to bring the season down to a more manageable 27 titles. 

1. Norma*
2. Tosca*
3. The Exterminating Angel*
4. Cosi fan tutte*
5. La Forza del Destino*
6. Cendrillon*
7. St Francois d’Assise*
8. La Boheme
9. Cavalleria Rusticana / Pagliacci
10. Les Contes d’Hoffmann
11. Dialogues of the Carmelites
12. Elektra
13. L’elisir d’amore
14. Falstaff
15. Le Nozze di Figaro
16. Hansel and Gretel
17. I Lombardi
18. Lucia di Lammermoor
19. Luisa Miller
20. Madama Butterfly
21. Les Mamelles de Tiresias / L’Enfant et les Sortileges
22. The Merry Widow
23. Otello
24. Parsifal
25. Pelleas et Melisande
26. Romeo et Juliette
27. Der Rosenkavalier
28. Semiramide
29. Thais
30. Il Trovatore
31. Turandot
32. Die Zauberflote

* = New Production