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Great Performances at the Met Season 9 Episodes
Season 9 Episode Guide
10 Episodes 2015 - 2015
Episode 1
Le Nozze di Figaro
Fri, Jan 16, 2015 207 mins
The Season 9 premiere features "Le Nozze di Figaro," Mozart's 1786 comic masterpiece, which has been updated to take place in 1930s-era Spain. It brings to life the upstairs-downstairs romantic complexities at an 18th-century manor house.
Episode 2
Macbeth
Sun, Feb 1, 2015 207 mins
Verdi's "Macbeth" stars baritone Zeljko Lucic as Lord Macbeth and soprano Anna Netrebko as Lady Macbeth. Fabio Luisi conducts.
Episode 3
Carmen
Sun, Feb 22, 2015 237 mins
A production of Bizet's "Carmen," starring Anita Rachvelishvili in the title role, a Gypsy girl; Aleksandrs Antonenko as the soldier who loves her; and Ildar Abdrazakov as the bullfighter who comes between them.
Episode 4
Il Barbiere di Siviglia
Sun, Mar 22, 2015 177 mins
"Il Barbiere di Siviglia," Rossini's classic comic opera, stars Lawrence Brownlee as Count Almaviva, whose pursuit of the lovely Rosina (Isabel Leonard) is aided by the wily barber Figaro (Christopher Maltman). Standing in his way is her guardian (Maurizio Muraro), who wants to marry her himself.
Episode 5
Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg
Sun, Apr 12, 2015 297 mins
Soprano Annette Dasch stars as the goldsmith's daughter whose hand can be had for a song in Richard Wagner's "Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg." Tenor Johan Botha costars as the visiting knight who falls in love with her at first sight. James Levine conducts.
Episode 6
Les Contes d'Hoffman
Sun, May 10, 2015 177 mins
Jacques Offenbach's "Les Contes d'Hoffman," about a poet whose romantic hopes are repeatedly dashed.
Episode 7
The Merry Widow
Fri, Jun 19, 2015 147 mins
Tony Award winner Susan Stroman helmed and choreographed this production of Franz Lehár's "The Merry Widow," which features a fresh translation from Jeremy Sams. Renée Fleming stars as a wealthy widow who's wooed by an old flame (Nathan Gunn), but for reasons that may not have much to do with love.
Episode 8
Iolanta; Bluebeard's Castle
Sun, Jul 12, 2015 177 mins
A double bill marries Tchaikovsky's "Iolanta," about a blind princess who has a psychological awakening, with Bartok's "Bluebeard's Castle," in which a bride ponders what lies beyond seven locked doors in her new husband's castle.
Episode 9
La Donna del Lago
Sun, Aug 2, 2015 180 mins
Rossini's "La Donna del Lago," about the daughter (Joyce DiDonato) of a nobleman (Oren Gradus) who has promised her hand to a highlander chief (John Osborn), though her heart belongs to a commoner (Daniela Barcellona, in a trouser role).
Episode 10
Cavalleria Rusticana-Pagliacci
Sun, Sep 6, 2015 180 mins
Tenor Marcelo Álvarez stars in Mascagni's "Cavalleria Rusticana" and Leoncavallo's "Pagliacci." In "Cavalleria," he's a former soldier who used another woman to make his ex-fiancée, now married to another man, jealous; and in "Pagliacci," he's a clown whose wife is in love with another man.