(If you're interested, I'll post my impressions on those after the trip.) I will also see Barrie Kosky's Prokofiev's "The Fiery Angel" while I'm there. That's why I'm so excited for my opera trip next week to see Semiramide in Bavarian State Opera with all-star cast (Joyce diDonato, Lawrence Brownlee and Daniella Barcelona). I don't think I need to see it again with this cast. I saw that Elektra last year, and really loved it. There is one Saturday in November that I can do both Exterminating Angel AND Thais, so I aim for that. I'm pretty excited for Exterminating Angel too. I missed it when it was premiered with Jonas K. However, I HAVE to see that Parsifal! It has such an amazing cast, at least on paper. I agree with you that Met's next season is pretty uninspiring. If I lived in NY, I would see Exterminating Angel, Elektra, Parsifal, Semiramide, Cendrillon, and Romeo, largely because I've never seen the last three. (That is a surprise I would expect them all to go to Levine.) The Met Orchestra concerts aren't listed above, but MGT will conduct one of them. Yes, there is some excellent casting and there are some great singers (Mattei, Goerke, Vogt, etc.). If I had 26 operas to schedule, I would take more chances. Way to go, Met! That's about as safe and dull a season as is possible. His opera is also the only opera written after 1925. Adès's, of course, is by a living white man. With the exception of Thomas Adès's latest, The Exterminating Angel, which has its Met and US premiere, they are all by dead white men. March 22- May 10 2018: Lucia di Lammermoor January 22- February 15 2018: Il Trovatore January 16- February 17 2018: L'Elisir d'Amore January 8- February 1 2018: Cavalleria Rusticana & Pagliacci November 24- December 2 2017: Verdi's Requiemĭecember 6 2017- January 19 2018: Le Nozze di Figaroĭecember 14 2017- January 11 2018: The Merry Widowĭecember 18 2017- January 6 2018: Hansel and Gretel November 2 2017- March 16 2018: Madama Butterfly October 26- November 21 2017: The Exterminating Angel September 27- October 14 2017: Die Zauberflöte September 26- October 28 2017: Les Contes d’Hoffmann Once again, shamelessly stealing from Opera Tattler:
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