Great Performances at the Met Season 11

Synopsis

Great Performances at The Met returns to PBS for its eleventh season in 2017, delighting audiences with 10 productions featuring the world’s leading stars of opera. PBS is excited to highlight two of these operas – Romeo et Juliette and La Traviata – with primetime broadcasts. The season opened with The Met’s new production of Wagner’s Tristan und Isolde.

Main Cast

Episodes

Episode 1

29 January 2017 - Tristan und Isolde

Sir Simon Rattle Conducts Tristan und Isolde on the season premiere of Great Performances. Nina Stemme and Stuart Skelton Star in New Staging by Mariusz Treliński.

Episode 2

19 February 2017 - Don Giovanni

Baritone Simon Keenlyside stars as Don Giovanni, bringing his acclaimed interpretation of the role to Great Performances at the Met for the first time. Met Principal Conductor Fabio Luisi conducts Tony Award-winner Michael Grandage’s staging of Mozart’s masterpiece.

Episode 3

02 April 2017 - L’Amour de Loin

Kaija Saariaho’s Acclaimed Contemporary Opera L’Amour de Loin Comes to Great Performances at the Met Sunday.

Episode 4

14 April 2017 - Romeo et Juliette

Diana Damrau and Vittorio Grigolo “sizzle” as the star-crossed lovers in Gounod’s Roméo et Juliette on Great Performances at the Met. Damrau and Vittorio were hailed by The New York Times for singing “with white-hot sensuality and impassioned lyricism” as the tragic lovers in Shakespeare’s classic story.

Episode 5

07 May 2017 - Nabucco

The legendary Plácido Domingo brings another new baritone role to the Met as the title king in Nabucco, under the baton of his longtime collaborator James Levine on Great Performances at the Met. Liudmyla Monastyrska is Abigaille, the warrior woman determined to rule empires, and Jamie Barton is the heroic Fenena. Russell Thomas is Ismaele, nephew to the King of Jerusalem and Dmitry Belosselskiy is the stentorian voice of the oppressed Hebrew people.

Episode 6

18 June 2017 - Rusalka

Kristine Opolais stars in her first Met performances of her breakthrough role, the title character in Antonin Dvořák's Rusalka, in a critically acclaimed new staging, directed by Mary Zimmerman and conducted by Mark Elder.

Episode 7

16 July 2017 - Idomeneo

Music Director Emeritus James Levine conducts an extraordinary ensemble in Idomeneo, Mozart’s early masterpiece of love and vengeance following the Trojan War.

Episode 8

13 August 2017 - Eugene Onegin

Anna Netrebko stars as Tatiana, the naïve heroine of Tchaikovsky’s opera, with Peter Mattei as the title character who rejects her. Alexey Dolgov is Onegin’s friend-turned-rival, Lenski, with Elena Maximova as Tatiana’s sister, Olga, and Štefan Kocán as Prince Gremin. Robin Ticciati conducts.

Episode 9

25 August 2017 - La Traviata

Sonya Yoncheva reprises her widely praised interpretation of the heroine Violetta Valéry in Verdi’s La Traviata. Michael Fabiano is her lover, Alfredo, Thomas Hampson, in one of his most acclaimed Met roles, returns as Alfredo’s protective father, Giorgio Germont. San Francisco Opera Music Director Nicola Luisotti conducts.

Episode 10

03 September 2017 - Der Rosenkavalier

The Met’s first new production since 1969 of Strauss’s rich, romantic masterpiece stars Renée Fleming in one of her signature roles as the Marschallin, opposite Elīna Garanča as Octavian, the impulsive young title character.

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