With the Met’s announcement of the 2018-2019 season approximately a week away, La Cieca thought we should review the always oracular and generally accurate Future Met Wiki, where “opera enthusiasts share their (very) educated guesses about repertory and casting for future seasons of the Metropolitan Opera.”
The predicted season—updated yesterday, it seems, with full repertoire—looks like this:
New Productions
Saint-Saëns’ Samson et Dalila (Opening Night)
Production: Darko Tresniak
Samson: Roberto Alagna/Kristian Benedikt
Dalila: Elina Garanca
High Priest: Laurent Naouri
Cilea’s Adriana Lecouvreur
Production: David McVicar
Adriana: Anna Netrebko
Maurizio: Piotr Beczala
Princess de Bouillon: Anita Rachvelishvili
Michonnet: Ambrogio Maestri
Nico Muhly’s Marnie
Production: Michael Mayer
Margaret “Marnie” Edgar: Isabel Leonard
Mrs. Rutland: Janis Kelly
Verdi’s La Traviata
Production: Michael Mayer
Date: November and December
Conductor: Yannick Nézet-Séguin
Violetta: Diana Damrau
Alfredo: Juan Diego Florez
Germont:Quinn Kelsey
Verdi’s Aida
Aida: Anna Netrebko
Amneris: Dolora Zajick/Olesya Petrova/Anita Rachvelishvili
Ramfis: Vitalij Kowaljow / Stefan Kocan
Puccini’s La Boheme
Bizet’s Carmen
Don Jose: Roberto Alagna
Micaela: Aleksandra Kurzak
Conductor: Omar Meir Wellber/Lorenzo Viotti
Mozart’s La Clemenza di Tito
Poulenc’s Dialogues des Carmélites
Madame de Croissy: Karita Mattila
Mozart’s Don Giovanni
Zerlina: Aida Garifullina
Don Giovanni: Luca Pisaroni/Peter Mattei
Il Comandatore: Stefan Kocan
Verdi’s Falstaff
Quickly: Marie-Nicole Lemieux
Ford: Juan Jesus Rodriguez
Puccini’s La Fanciulla del West
Dick Johnson: Jonas Kaufmann/Yusif Eyvazov
Conductor: Marco Armiliato
Donizetti’s La Fille du Régiment
Tonio: Javier Camarena
Marie: Pretty Yende
Tchaikovsky’s Iolanta / Bartók’s Bluebeard’s Castle
Iolanta: Sonya Yoncheva
Robert: Alexey Markov
Ibn-Hakia: Elchin Azizov
King Rene: Vitalij Kowaljow
Bluebeard: Gerald Finley
Mozart’s The Magic Flute
Boito’s Mefistofele
Margherita (and Elena?): Angela Meade
Faust: Michael Fabiano
Mefistofele: Christian Van Horn
Verdi’s Otello
Iago: Željko Lu?i?
Bizet’s Les pêcheurs de perles
Nadir: Javier Camarena
Leila: Pretty Yende
Debussy’s Pelléas et Mélisande
Genevieve: Marie-Nicole Lemieux
Verdi’s Rigoletto
Rigoletto: Zeljko Lucic
Gilda: Rosa Feola
Maddalena: Ramona Zaharia
Duke: Matthew Polenzani
Sparafucile: Dmitri Ivashchenko/Stefan Kocan
Wagner’s Der Ring des Nibelungen
Conductor: Philippe Jordan
Brunnhilde: Christine Goerke
Siegline: Eva-Maria Westbroek
Gutrune: Edith Haller
Wotan: Michael Volle
Siegmund: Stuart Skelton
Fricka: Jamie Barton
Fasolt/Hunding: Gunther Groissbock
Alberich: Tomasz Konieczny
Gunther: Evgeny Nikitin
Siegfried: Andreas Schager / Stefan Vinke
Hagen: Eric Owens
Puccini’s Tosca
Puccini’s Il Trittico
Giorgetta / Suor Angelica / Lauretta: Kristine Opolais (?)
Giorgetta: Tatiana Melnychenko
Luigi: Marcelo Alvarez
Michele: George Gagnidze
Gianni Schicchi: Plácido Domingo
