However, he will immediately become involved in the company’s artistic planning, which happens many years in advance.Īs Music Director, Nézet-Séguin will be responsible for the overall musical quality of the Met. He will become Music Director in the 2020-21 season, the first season in which he is available to take over the full responsibilities of the position. In the Met’s 2017-18 season, Nézet-Séguin will assume the interim title of Music Director Designate. The position has previously been held by only two artists in the company’s storied 133-year history-James Levine, who after 40 years in the position stepped down at the end of the recently concluded season to become the company’s first Music Director Emeritus, and Rafael Kubelik, who held the title briefly in the company’s 1973-74 season. Agnes Hsu-Tang, Ph.D.( New York, NY, June 2, 2016) - The Metropolitan Opera announced that the acclaimed conductor Yannick Nézet-Séguin will be the company’s new Music Director. Coe Weir Endowment FundĪdditional funding from The Jaharis Family Foundation, The H.M.

This live cinema transmission is part of the Met’s award-winning Live in HD series, bringing opera to movie theaters across the globe.īuy tickets for Medea live in the opera house here.Ī co-production of the Metropolitan Opera, Greek National Opera, Canadian Opera Company, and Lyric Opera of Chicago Joining Radvanovsky in the Met-premiere production of Cherubini’s rarely performed masterpiece is tenor Matthew Polenzani as Medea’s Argonaut husband, Giasone soprano Janai Brugger as her rival for his love, Glauce bass Michele Pertusi as her father, Creonte, the King of Corinth and mezzo-soprano Ekaterina Gubanova as Medea’s confidante, Neris. Having triumphed at the Met in some of the repertory’s fiercest soprano roles, Sondra Radvanovsky stars as the mythic sorceress who will stop at nothing in her quest for vengeance.

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