On May 19, the Met also debuts a new production of Die Zauberflöte, with Michael Levine, arguably Canada’s busiest designer on the international scene, on hand to create the sets. Starting December 16, Baritone Joshua Hopkins returns as Papageno in the Met’s popular, truncated Holiday version of Mozart’s The Magic Flute, and then gets another opportunity to strut his comic skills as Belcore in Donizetti’s L’elisir d’amore from January 10 to April 29. The production runs from September 27 to October 28, and will be seen in Toronto at some point since Canadian Opera Company is a co-producer along with Greek National Opera and Lyric Opera of Chicago.įrom February 26 to April 1, director François Girard confirms his reputation as a leading Wagnerian with a new production of Lohengrin, and also returns for a revival of his staging of Der fliegende Holländer, a co-production with Opéra de Québec and the Abu Dhabi Festival that runs May 30 to June 10.īass John Relyea dies from poisoned mushrooms as Boris Izmailov in the production of Shostakovich’s Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk running Sept 29 to Oct 21, but then exerts his authority as the Grand Inquisitor in Verdi’s Don Carlo from Nov 3 to Dec 3.ĭirector Robert Carsen enjoys a revival of his Verdi Falstaff, a co-production of the Canadian Opera Company, from March 12 to April 1, and of Strauss’s Der Rosenkavalier in later March Contralto Marie-Nicole Lemieux brings a signature role to the Met as Mistress Quickley in the Falstaff.
Canadian artists and creatives appear steadily throughout the Metropolitan Opera’s recently announced September-June 2022/23 season, starting on its opening night when soprano Sondra Radvanovsky takes on the title role in a new production of Cherubini’s Medea.
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