MET OPERA GALA 2017

The season opens September 25 with a new staging of Bellini’s bel canto masterpiece Norma, directed by Sir David McVicar and starring Sondra Radvanovsky in the title role

Met Opera Gala will start September 25,6pm Conducted by Carlo Rizzi, directed by Sir David McVicar, and starring Sondra Radvanovsky, one of the world’s leading interpreters of the role, opposite Joyce DiDonato as Adalgisa and Joseph Calleja as Pollione. – The Met Opera 2017-18 Season featuring five new productions, two of which are Met Opera premieres, 19 revivals and a special series of performances of the Verdi Requiem.

Met Opera 2017 Gala:
Conductors: Carlo Rizzi / Joseph Colaneri
Production: Sir David McVicar
Set Designer: Robert Jones
Costume Designer: Moritz Junge
Lighting Designer: Paule Constable
Movement Director: Leah Hausman
Live in HD: October 7, 2017

“Ponselle, Milanov, Sutherland, Callas … after last night, Radvanovsky can add her name to the list,” declared the Huffington Post when Sondra Radvanovsky made her Met role debut as Norma in 2013. The 2017–18 season opens with a new production of Bellini’s masterpiece, starring Radvanovsky as the Druid priestess and Joyce DiDonato as her archrival, Adalgisa—a casting coup for bel canto fans. Tenor Joseph Calleja is Pollione, Norma’s unfaithful lover, and Carlo Rizzi conducts. Sir David McVicar’s evocative production sets the action deep in a Druid forest where nature and ancient ritual rule.

Production a gift of Veronica Atkins
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Met Opera Gala 2017: New Production “Norma”

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