The Metropolitan Opera unveiled its 2022-2023 season on Wednesday. After Eurydiceby Matthew Aucoin, and Fire Shut Up in My Bonesby Terence Blanchard, this season, Yannick Nézet-Séguin will continue his work of renewing the artistic palette of the institution by creating The Hoursby Kevin Puts, based on the short story by Michael Cunningham, and incorporating Championby Terence Blanchard, in the repertoire.
It’s with Medea, by Cherubini, an opera never performed at the Met, that will open the season on September 27, 2022. Carlo Rizzi will conduct this production starring Sondra Radvanovsky. The creation of Kevin Puts directed by Yannick Nézet-Séguin will associate Renée Fleming and Joyce DiDonato.
The Met’s music director will also conduct Champion as well as Lohengrinin the new staging by François Girard co-produced with the Bolshoi Theater and premiered on Thursday evening in Moscow.
Ten times in HD at the cinema
The Met will host the Don Giovanni by Ivo van Hove seen in Paris and will present a new magic flute, entrusted to Simon McBurney, with “projections, sound effects and acrobatics”. The latest new production is Fedoraby Giordano, directed by David McVicar.
Logically, we find in these novelties — Medea, The Hours, Fedora, Lohengrin, Champion, Don Giovanni and The Magic Flute — the substrate for Met broadcasts in cinemas.
The other three operas will be La Traviatawith Nadine Sierra and Stephen Costello, and don carloby Verdi, in November 2022, then The Rose Knightby Strauss, in April 2023. This last show will be directed by Simone Young and will associate Lise Davidsen, Erin Morley and Isabel Leonard in a staging by Canadian Robert Carsen.
The Met will also resume, after May 30, The ghost ship by François Girard, interrupted in March 2020 by COVID-19. It will be entrusted to Jaap van Zweeden, who is making his Met debut, as well as, in particular, Manfred Honeck with IdomeneeNathalie Stutzmann with Don Giovanni and The fluteand Speranza Scappucci with Rigoletto.
Inclusion, respect, tolerance
While the Met, like other institutions, places great emphasis on inclusion, respect and tolerance, we were very curious to see what its attitude would be towards artists such as Azeri Yusif Eyvazov, who has, on several occasions, distinguished himself by controversial publications during the conflict between his country and Armenia. Anna Netrebko’s husband will be in the cast of Tosca.