Opening Night 2020 features a new Aida, conducted by Yannick Nézet-Séguin and starring Anna Netrebko, Anita Rachvelishvili and Piotr Beczala, in a new staging by Michael Mayer.

Maestro Nézet-Séguin, in his third season as Music Director, will conduct six operas, including new stagings of Aida, Don Giovanni, and Dead Man Walking.  All six operas will all be featured in The Met: Live in HD series—the most transmissions ever led by a single conductor in an HD season.

Renowned directors Barrie Kosky (The Fiery Angel), Ivo van Hove (Don Giovanni and Dead Man Walking), and Simon McBurney (Die Zauberflöte) make notable Met debuts with new productions.

For the first time in recent decades, the Met season will extend into June and will include no performances in February. There will be more weekend opera than ever before, with 22 Sunday matinee performances.

The complete repertory:

2020 -21 Season
Repertory and Casting
Casting as of February 13, 2020
*Met debut

Aida
Giuseppe Verdi
New Production
Sep 21, 24, 27mat, Oct 1, 4mat, 10mat, 13, 17, 20, 24, Nov 24, 27, Dec 3, 6mat, 12

Conductor: Yannick Nézet-Séguin/John Keenan/Pier Giorgio Morandi
Aida: Anna Netrebko/Latonia Moore/Hibla Gerzmava
Amneris: Anita Rachvelishvili/Ekaterina Semenchuk
Radamès: Piotr Beczala/Marcelo Álvarez
Amonasro: Ludovic Tézier/George Gagnidze
Ramfis: Dmitry Belosselskiy/Kwangchul Youn
The King: Krzysztof Baczyk*/Ante Jerkunica

Production: Michael Mayer
Set Designer: Christine Jones
Costume Designer: Susan Hilferty
Lighting Designer: Kevin Adams
Projection Designer: 59 Productions
Choreographer: Oleg Glushkov*

A co-production of the Metropolitan Opera and the Bolshoi Theatre of Russia

Production a gift of C. Graham Berwind, III –Director, Spring Point Partners LLC

Les Contes d’Hoffmann
Jacques Offenbach
Sep 22, 26mat, 30, Oct 3, 8, 11mat, 16

Conductor: Daniele Rustioni
Olympia: Erin Morley
Antonia/Stella: Olga Kulchynska
Giulietta: Veronica Simeoni
Nicklausse/The Muse: Tara Erraught
Antonia’s Mother: Olesya Petrova
Hoffmann: Matthew Polenzani
Four Villains: Luca Pisaroni

Production: Bartlett Sher
Set Designer: Michael Yeargan
Costume Designer: Catherine Zuber
Lighting Designer: James F. Ingalls
Choreographer: Dou Dou Huang

Production a gift of the Hermione Foundation, Laura Sloate, Trustee; and the Gramma Fisher Foundation, Marshalltown, Iowa

Additional funding from the Estate of Helen F. Kelbert, and Mr. and Mrs. William R. Miller

Roberto Devereux
Gaetano Donizetti
Sep 23, 26, 29, Oct 3mat, 7, 10

Conductor: Maurizio Benini
Elisabetta: Angela Meade
Sara: Jamie Barton
Roberto Devereux: Stephen Costello/David Portillo
Duke of Nottingham: Davide Luciano

Production: Sir David McVicar
Set Designer: Sir David McVicar
Costume Designer: Moritz Junge
Lighting Designer: Paule Constable
Choreographer: Leah Hausman

Co-production of the Metropolitan Opera and Théâtre des Champs-Élysées

Production a gift of The Sybil B. Harrington Endowment Fund

Revival a gift of the NPD Group, Inc.

Carmen
Georges Bizet
Oct 2, 6, 9, 14, 18mat, 22, 27, 31mat, Nov 7, 11, 14mat, Mar 3, 6mat, 12

Conductor: Lorenzo Viotti*/Marco Armiliato
Micaëla: Nicole Car/Olga Peretyatko/Susanna Phillips
Carmen: J’Nai Bridges/Ramona Zaharia/Clémentine Margaine/Varduhi Abrahamyan*
Don José: Yonghoon Lee/Marcelo Álvarez/Russell Thomas
Escamillo: Kyle Ketelsen/Christian Van Horn/Alexander Vinogradov

Production: Sir Richard Eyre
Set and Costume Designer: Rob Howell
Lighting Designer: Peter Mumford
Choreographer: Christopher Wheeldon

Production a gift of Mrs. Paul Desmarais Sr.

Tristan und Isolde
Richard Wagner
Oct 17mat, 21, 25mat, 29, Nov 1mat, 6

Conductor: Hartmut Haenchen*
Isolde: Christine Goerke
Brangäne: Ekaterina Gubanova
Tristan: Stuart Skelton
Kurwenal: Greer Grimsley
King Marke: Günther Groissböck

Production: Mariusz Trelinski
Set Designer: Boris Kudlicka
Costume Designer: Marek Adamski
Lighting Designer: Marc Heinz
Projection Designer: Bartek Macias
Choreographer: Tomasz Jan Wygoda

Co-production of the Metropolitan Opera, Festival Hall Baden-Baden, Teatr Wielki-Polish National Opera, and China National Centre for the Performing Arts (NCPA) Beijing

Production a gift of the Estates of Alan and Ruth Broder

Additional funding from Marina Kellen French and the Gramma Fisher Foundation,
Marshalltown, Iowa

La Traviata
Giuseppe Verdi
Oct 24mat, 28, 31, Nov 5, 9, 13, 17, 20, Jan 13, 16, 19, 23mat, 28, Apr 23, 28, May 1, 5, 8

Conductor: Carlo Rizzi/Speranza Scappucci*/Daniele Callegari
Violetta Valéry: Ailyn Pérez/Anita Hartig/Lisette Oropesa
Alfredo Germont: Atalla Ayan/Migran Agadzhanyan*
Giorgio Germont: Christopher Maltman/Igor Golovatenko/Amartuvshin Enkhbat*

Production: Michael Mayer
Set Designer: Christine Jones
Costume Designer: Susan Hilferty
Lighting Designer: Kevin Adams
Choreographer: Lorin Latarro

Production a gift of The Paiko Foundation

Major additional funding from Mercedes T. Bass, Mr. and Mrs. Paul M. Montrone, and Rolex

Il Trovatore
Giuseppe Verdi
Oct 30, Nov 4, 7mat, 10, 14, 18, 21, May 14, 18, 22, 26, 29mat

Conductor: Michele Mariotti
Leonora: Sonya Yoncheva/Krassimira Stoyanova
Azucena: Ekaterina Semenchuk/Anita Rachvelishvili
Manrico: Roberto Aronica/Russell Thomas
di Luna: Quinn Kelsey/Ludovic Tézier
Ferrando: Kwangchul Youn/Ryan Speedo Green

Production: Sir David McVicar
Set Designer: Charles Edwards
Costume Designer: Brigitte Reiffenstuel
Lighting Designer: Jennifer Tipton
Choreographer: Leah Hausman

Co-production of the Metropolitan Opera, Lyric Opera of Chicago, and San Francisco Opera Association

Production a gift of the Annenberg Foundation

Revival a gift of Rolex

The Fiery Angel
Sergei Prokofiev
Metropolitan Opera Premiere
Nov 12, 15mat, 19, 22mat, 28mat, Dec 1, 5mat

Conductor: Michail Jurowski*
Renata: Svetlana Sozdateleva*
Hostess of the Inn: Jill Grove
The Sorceress: Elena Manistina
Agrippa von Nettesheim: Dmitry Golovnin*
Ruprecht: Evgeny Nikitin
Inquisitor: Ante Jerkunica*

Production: Barrie Kosky*
Set Designer: Rebecca Ringst*
Costume Designer: Klaus Bruns*
Lighting Designer: Joachim Klein*
Choreographer: Otto Pichler*

The sets and costumes of The Fiery Angel were produced in the workshops of the Bayerische Staatsoper

Production a gift of the National Endowment for the Arts

La Bohème
Giacomo Puccini
Nov 21mat, 25, 28, Dec 2, 5, 10, 13mat, 30, Jan 2, 5, 9mat, 21, 24mat, 29, Apr 10mat, 13, 17

Conductor: Domingo Hindoyan/Nimrod David Pfeffer*/Marco Armiliato
Mimì: Nicole Car/Angela Gheorghiu/Eleonora Buratto/Angel Blue
Musetta: Gabriella Reyes/Heidi Stober
Rodolfo: Piero Pretti/Dmytro Popov/Matthew Polenzani
Marcello: Etienne Dupuis/Quinn Kelsey/Lucas Meachem/Russell Braun
Schaunard: Iurii Samoilov*/Davide Luciano/Andrey Zhilikhovsky/Andrzej Filonczyk
Colline: Jongmin Park/Christian Van Horn/Alexander Vinogradov
Benoit/Alcindoro: Donald Maxwell/Arthur Woodley

Production: Franco Zeffirelli
Set Designer: Franco Zeffirelli
Costume Designer: Peter J. Hall
Lighting Designer: Gil Wechsler

Production a gift of Mrs. Donald D. Harrington

Revival a gift of The Sybil B. Harrington Endowment Fund

Fidelio
Ludwig van Beethoven
Nov 30, Dec 4, 8, 12mat, 17, 20mat, 23

Conductor: Yannick Nézet-Séguin/Patrick Furrer
Leonore: Lise Davidsen
Marzelline: Golda Schultz/Sidney Mancasola
Florestan: Brandon Jovanovich/Carl Tanner
Jaquino: Alek Shrader
Don Pizarro: Tomasz Konieczny
Rocco: Franz-Josef Selig
Don Fernando: Christian Van Horn

Production: Jürgen Flimm
Set Designer: Robert Israel
Costume Designer: Florence von Gerkan
Lighting Designer: Duane Schuler

Production a gift of Alberto Vilar

Revival a gift of the Metropolitan Opera Club

Il Barbiere di Siviglia
Gioachino Rossini
Dec 11, 16, 19, 22, 26, 29, Jan 2mat, 6, 9, 14

Conductor: Giacomo Sagripanti*
Rosina: Pretty Yende
Berta: Alexandria Shiner*
Count Almaviva: Lawrence Brownlee
Figaro: Andrey Zhilikhovsky/Joshua Hopkins
Dr. Bartolo: Maurizio Muraro/Valeriano Lanchas
Don Basilio: Ildar Abdrazakov

Production: Bartlett Sher
Set Designer: Michael Yeargan
Costume Designer: Catherine Zuber
Lighting Designer: Christopher Akerlind

Production a gift of The Sybil B. Harrington Endowment Fund

Hansel and Gretel
Engelbert Humperdinck
Holiday Presentation
Dec 15, 19mat, 24, 26mat, 28mat, Jan 1mat, 8

Conductor: Edward Gardner
Gretel: Hera Hyesang Park/Mané Galoyan
Hansel: Elizabeth DeShong/Sasha Cooke
Gertrude: Michaela Martens
The Witch: John Daszak
Peter: Thomas Hampson

Production: Richard Jones
Set and Costume Designer: John Macfarlane
Lighting Designer: Jennifer Tipton
Choreographer: Linda Dobell
English Translation: David Pountney

The production was originally created for Welsh National Opera and Lyric Opera of Chicago

Production a gift of the Gramma Fisher Foundation, Marshalltown, Iowa; and
Karen and Kevin Kennedy

Additional funding from Dr. Coco Lazaroff, and Joan Taub Ades and Alan M. Ades

Die Zauberflöte
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
New Production
Dec 31, Jan 4, 7, 10mat, 16mat, 20, 23, 27, 30, May 23mat, 27, 30mat, Jun 3, 5

Conductor: Gustavo Dudamel/Cornelius Meister
Pamina: Christiane Karg/Lucy Crowe
Queen of the Night: Kathryn Lewek/So Young Park
Tamino: Stanislas de Barbeyrac/Kang Wang
Papageno: Thomas Oliemans*
Sprecher: Christian Van Horn/Tareq Nazmi
Sarastro: Stephen Milling/John Relyea

Production: Simon McBurney*
Set Designer: Michael Levine
Costume Designer: Nicky Gillibrand*
Lighting Designer: Jean Kalman
Projection Designer: Finn Ross
Sound Designer: Gareth Fry*
Associate Director: Josie Daxter*
Dramaturgs: Simon McBurney*, Klaus Bertisch

Original co-production of Dutch National Opera, Amsterdam; English National Opera, London; and Festival d’Aix-en-Provence

Production a gift of Rolex

Roméo et Juliette
Charles Gounod
Jan 12, 15, 18, 22, 26, 30mat, Apr 10, 15, 18mat, 22

Conductor: Yannick Nézet-Séguin/Emmanuel Villaume
Juliette: Nadine Sierra/Amanda Woodbury
Stéphano: Julie Boulianne/Samantha Hankey
Roméo: Stephen Costello/Ismael Jordi*/Benjamin Bernheim*
Tybalt: David Portillo
Mercutio: Joshua Hopkins/Elliot Madore
Capulet: Laurent Naouri/Brett Polegato
Frère Laurent: Ildar Abdrazakov/Christian Van Horn

Production: Bartlett Sher
Set Designer: Michael Yeargan
Costume Designer: Catherine Zuber
Lighting Designer: Jennifer Tipton
Choreographer: Chase Brock
Fight Director: B. H. Barry

A La Scala production initially presented by the Salzburg Festival

Production a gift of The Sybil B. Harrington Endowment Fund

Revival a gift of Rolex

Don Giovanni
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
New Production
Mar 1, 4, 7mat, 11, 14mat, 19, 23, 27mat, 31, Apr 3, May 10, 13, 16mat, 20

Conductor: Yannick Nézet-Séguin/Gareth Morrell/Antonello Manacorda
Donna Anna: Ailyn Pérez/Amanda Woodbury/Federica Lombardi
Donna Elvira: Isabel Leonard/Amanda Majeski
Zerlina: Hera Hyesang Park/TBA
Don Ottavio: Ben Bliss/Liparit Avetisyan*
Don Giovanni: Peter Mattei/Gerald Finley
Leporello: Gerald Finley/Alex Esposito*
Masetto: Alfred Walker
The Commendatore: Ryan Speedo Green/Raymond Aceto

Production: Ivo van Hove*
Set and Lighting Designer: Jan Versweyveld*
Costume Designer: An D’Huys*
Projection Designer: Christopher Ash*
Dramaturg: Jan Vandenhouwe*

A co-production of the Metropolitan Opera and Opéra National de Paris

Production a gift of Ambassador and Mrs. Nicholas F. Taubman, and the Rosalie J. Coe Weir Endowment Fund

Additional funding from The Walter and Leonore Annenberg Endowment Fund

Giulio Cesare
George Frideric Handel
Mar 2, 6, 10, 13mat, 18, 21mat

Conductor: Harry Bicket
Cleopatra: Kristina Mkhitaryan
Sesto: Kate Lindsey
Cornelia: Karen Cargill
Giulio Cesare: Iestyn Davies
Tolomeo: Anthony Roth Costanzo
Achilla: Duncan Rock

Production: Sir David McVicar
Set Designer: Robert Jones
Costume Designer: Brigitte Reiffenstuel
Lighting Designer: Paule Constable
Choreography: Andrew George

Production owned by Glyndebourne Festival Opera

Production a gift of the Arthur F. and Alice E. Adams Charitable Foundation, in memory of William B. Warren, former Co-Trustee and Governor of the Foundation; and the Mercedes T. Bass Charitable Corporation

Additional funding from the Annenberg Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Arts

Revival a gift of C. Graham Berwind, III

Lulu
Alban Berg
Mar 5, 9, 13, 17, 20mat

Conductor: Sebastian Weigle
Lulu: Brenda Rae
Countess Geschwitz: Susan Graham
Alwa: Matthias Klink
Painter/African Prince: Robert Watson*
Prince/Manservant/Marquis: Gerhard Siegel
Dr. Schön/Jack the Ripper: Johan Reuter
Animal Trainer/Acrobat: David Soar
Schigolch: James Morris

Production: William Kentridge
Co-Director: Luc De Wit
Projection Designer: Catherine Meyburgh
Set Designer: Sabine Theunissen
Costume Designer: Greta Goiris
Lighting Designer: Urs Schönebaum

A co-production of the Metropolitan Opera, Dutch National Opera, English National Opera, and Teatro dell’Opera di Roma

Production a gift of The Kirsh Family Foundation

Rusalka
Antonín Dvorák
Mar 16, 20, 24, 27, 30, Apr 3mat, 6

Conductor: Jakub Hruša*
Rusalka: Sonya Yoncheva
Foreign Princess: Ekaterina Gubanova
Ježibaba: Okka von der Damerau*
Prince: Piotr Beczala
Vodník: Eric Owens

Production: Mary Zimmerman
Set Designer: Daniel Ostling
Costume Designer: Mara Blumenfeld
Lighting Designer: T. J. Gerckens
Choreographer: Austin McCormick

Production a gift of the Betsy and Ed Cohen / Areté Foundation

Additional funding from Mr. William R. Miller, in memory of Irene D. Miller; and the
National Endowment for the Arts

Revival a gift of Rolex

Nabucco
Giuseppe Verdi
Mar 26, 29, Apr 1, 5, 30, May 4, 8mat, 12, 15mat

Conductor: Marco Armiliato
Abigaille: Oksana Dyka/Anna Netrebko
Fenena: Varduhi Abrahamyan
Ismaele: Najmiddin Mavlyanov/Rafael Davila
Nabucco: George Gagnidze
Zaccaria: Morris Robinson/Dmitry Belosselskiy

Production: Elijah Moshinsky
Set Designer: John Napier
Costume Designer: Andreane Neofitou
Lighting Designer: Howard Harrison

Production a gift of Bill Rollnick and Nancy Ellison Rollnick

Major funding from Mr. and Mrs. Ezra K. Zilkha, Mercedes and Sid Bass, and
Mr. and Mrs. Paul M. Montrone

Additional funding from Gilbert S. Kahn and John J. Noffo Kahn, The Eleanor Naylor Dana Charitable Trust, and the National Endowment for the Arts

Revival a gift of C. Graham Berwind, III

Dead Man Walking
Jake Heggie
Metropolitan Opera Premiere
Apr 8, 11mat, 14, 17mat, 21, 24, 29, May 2mat

Conductor: Yannick Nézet-Séguin/Kensho Watanabe*
Sister Rose: Latonia Moore
Sister Helen Prejean: Joyce DiDonato
Mrs Patrick De Rocher: Susan Graham
Joseph De Rocher: Etienne Dupuis

Production: Ivo van Hove
Set and Lighting Designer: Jan Versweyveld
Costume Designer: An D’Huys
Projection Designer: Christopher Ash

Music by Jake Heggie, Libretto by Terrence McNally, Based on the Book by Sister Helen Prejean

Production a gift of Ann and Gordon Getty, and Diane B. Wilsey

Additional funding from Franci Neely, and The H.M. Agnes Hsu-Tang, PhD. and
Oscar Tang Endowment Fund

Die Frau ohne Schatten
Richard Strauss
Apr 16, 20, 24mat, 27, May 1mat, 6

Conductor: Yannick Nézet-Séguin/Patrick Furrer
The Empress: Elza van den Heever
The Dyer’s Wife: Nina Stemme
The Nurse: Evelyn Herlitzius
The Emperor: Klaus Florian Vogt
Barak: Michael Volle
Messenger: Ryan Speedo Green

Production: Herbert Wernicke
Set, Costume and Lighting Designer: Herbert Wernicke

Production a gift of a Managing Director and his wife

Revival a gift of Robert L. Turner

Il Pirata
Vincenzo Bellini
May 7, 11, 15, 19, 22mat, 28, Jun 1, 4

Conductor: Maurizio Benini
Imogene: Diana Damrau/Angela Meade
Gualtiero: Javier Camarena
Ernesto: Christopher Maltman
Goffredo: Nicolas Testé

Production: John Copley
Set Designer: John Conklin
Costume Designer: Robert Perdziola
Lighting Designer: Duane Schuler

Production a gift in part from Karen and Kevin Kennedy, Bill Rollnick and Nancy Ellison Rollnick and Mr. and Mrs. Ezra K. Zilkha

Additional funding provided by Gilbert S. Kahn and John J. Noffo Kahn and The Eleanor Naylor Dana Charitable Trust

Billy Budd
Benjamin Britten
May 21, 25, 29, Jun 2, 5mat

Conductor: Simone Young
Captain Vere: Matthew Polenzani
Billy Budd: Joshua Hopkins
Claggart: Matthew Rose
Mr. Redburn: Michael Todd Simpson
Lt. Ratcliffe: Brandon Cedel
Mr. Flint: David Soar
Dansker: James Morris

Production: John Dexter
Set and Costume Designer: William Dudley
Lighting Designer: Gil Wechsler