Met Music Director Yannick Nézet-Séguin takes the podium, leading Aucoin’s evocative music and an immersive new staging by Mary Zimmerman. With a libretto by MacArthur “Genius Grant” recipient Sarah Ruhl, adapted from her acclaimed 2003 play, the opera reimagines the familiar tale from Eurydice’s point of view.

Rising American composer Matthew Aucoin now carries that tradition into the 21st century with a captivating new take on the story. The ancient Greek myth of Orpheus, who attempts to harness the power of music to rescue his beloved Eurydice from the underworld, has inspired composers since opera’s earliest days. Baritone Will Liverman, one of opera’s most exciting young artists, stars as Charles, alongside sopranos Angel Blue as Destiny/Loneliness/Greta and Latonia Moore as Billie. Brown-two of the creators of the recent production of the Gershwins’ Porgy and Bess-co-direct this new staging, live in cinemas on October 23. The first opera by a Black composer presented on the Met stage and featuring a libretto by filmmaker Kasi Lemmons, the opera tells a poignant and profound story about a young man’s journey to overcome a life of trauma and hardship. Met Music Director Yannick Nézet-Séguin conducts Grammy Award–winning jazz musician and composer Terence Blanchard’s adaptation of Charles M. Terence Blanchard / Libretto by Kasi Lemmons Stephen Wadsworth’s affecting production poignantly captures the hope and suffering of the Russian people, as well as the title ruler himself. Conductor Sebastian Weigle leads Mussorgsky’s masterwork, a pillar of the Russian repertoire, in its original 1869 version. Boris Godunovīass René Pape, the world’s reigning Boris, reprises his tremendous portrayal of the tortured tsar caught between grasping ambition and crippling paranoia, kicking off the highly anticipated 2021–22 Live in HD season. Subscription pricing for all nine transmissions range from $80-$175 and individual tickets range from $10-$22.įor Met members and OCCA members at Family/Couple level and above to purchase priority tickets, call the PAC Box Office at 54. Tickets will be available for purchase to the general public on Thursday, September 16 th at 10am.

Tickets for the 2021–22 Live in HD season are on sale now with Met members and OCCA members being offered priority access to tickets before the general public.

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