AIDA (Marco Armiliato)
October 28, November 1, 4, 8, 13, 18, 22, 27, January 8, 11(evening), 16, 21, 25(evening),
29, February 1(evening)
- Michele Crider/Hasmik
Papian/Deborah Voigt
- Irina Mishura/Dolora Zajick/Marianne
Cornetti/Larissa Diadkova
- Richard Margison/Eduardo
Villa
- Alexandru Agache/Mark
Delavan/Frederick Burchinal
- Paata Burchuladze/Matti
Salminen/Robert Lloyd/Eric Halfvarson
ANDREA CHÉNIER
(James Levine/Paul Nadler) Sept. 30, October 4, 9, 12(matinee), 16, 19(matinee),
24
- Sylvie Valayre/Aprile
Millo
- Plácido Domingo
- Juan Pons/Frederick Burchinal
ARIADNE AUF NAXOS (James
Levine) March 28, 31, April 3, 9, 12(evening)
- Deborah Voigt/Christine
Brewer (debut)
- Natalie Dessay
- Susanne Mentzer/Kristine
Jepson
- Richard Margison
- Wolfgang Brendel
LA BOHÈME (Marcello
Viotti/Julius Rudel)February 19, 22(evening), 26, March 1(evening), 4, 8(matinee), April 1,
5(evening), 10, 16, 19(evening), 22, 26(matinee), May 2
- Elena Kelessidi (debut)/Elena
Evseeva/Hei-Kyung Hong
- Ainhoa Arteta/Angela Maria
Blasi/Emily Pulley
- Ramón Vargas/Frank
Lopardo
- Vassily Gerello/Mariusz
Kwiecien
CARMEN (Yves Abel)
October 7, 10, 14, 18, 22, 25, 30, November 2(matinee), 5, 9(matinee), January 2, 6, 10,
14, 18(matinee)
- Mary Mills/Wendy Nielsen/Mary
Dunleavy/Pamela Armstrong
- Denyce Graves/Victoria
Livengood
- Gösta Winbergh/Neil
Shicoff
- Ludovic Tézier
(debut)
LA CENERENTOLA (Eduardo
Müller) Sept. 28(evening), October 3, 8, 12(evening), 17
- Sonia Ganassi
- Juan Diego Flórez
- Alessandro Corbelli
- Simone Alaimo
- John Relyea
DIALOGUES DES CARMÉLITES
(James Conlon) December 13, 17, 20, 26, 30, January 4(matinee)
- Patricia Racette/Emily
Pulley
- Christine Goerke
- Heidi Grant Murphy/Robin
Blitch Wiper
- Stephanie Blythe/Elizabeth
Bishop
- Felicity Palmer
- Matthew Polenzani/Adam
Klein
DON GIOVANNI (Sylvain
Cambreling) December 27, January 1, 4(evening), 9, 15, 18(evening), 23, 27, 31, February
4, 8(evening), 11, 15(matinee)
- Barbara Frittoli/Jane
Eaglen
- Carol Vaness/Melanie Diener
- Rebecca Evans/Nicole Heaston
(debut)/Anna Netrebko
- Michael Schade/Rainer
Trost (debut)
- Dmitri Hvorostovsky/Peter
Mattei
- Denis Sedov/Ferruccio
Furlanetto
- Oren Gradus/Denis Sedov/Patrick
Carfizzi
- Eric Halfvarson/Kurt Moll
ELEKTRA (James Levine)
Sept. 25, 28(matinee), October 2, 5(evening), December 14(evening), 18, 21(matinee)
- Deborah Polaski/Gabriele
Schnaut
- Karita Mattila/Deborah
Voigt
- Marjana Lipov�ek (debut)/Hanna
Schwarz
- Wolfgang Neumann/Siegfried
Jerusalem
- Alan Held/René
Pape
DIE ENTFÜHRUNG AUS
DEM SERAIL (James Levine) January 20, 24, 28, February 1(matinee), 6
- Alexandria Deshorties
- Jennifer Welch-Babidge
- Paul Groves
- Barry Banks
- Kurt Moll
FAUST (Bertrand de
Billy) March 3, 7, 13, 18, 21, 25, 29(matinee)
- Angela Gheorghiu/Emily
Pulley
- Katarina Karnéus/Jossie
Pérez
- Roberto Alagna/Marcus
Haddock (debut)
- Dwayne Croft/Mark Oswald
- James Morris
FIDELIO (Peter Schneider)November
16(evening), 19, 23(evening), 26, 30(matinee), December 3, 7(matinee)
- Waltraud Meier
- Hei-Kyung Hong/Korliss
Uecker
- Johan Botha
- Paul Charles Clarke
- Richard Paul Fink/Tom
Fox
- Matti Salminen/Eric Halfvarson
- Alan Held/Julien Robbins
DIE FLEDERMAUS: (Philippe
Jordan -- debut) December 19, 23, 28(evening), 31, January 3, 7, 11(matinee)
- Solveig Kringelborn/Cynthia
Lawrence
- Rosemary Joshua (debut)/Lyubov
Petrova
- Jennifer Larmore/Victoria
Livengood
- David Kuebler/Louis Otey
- Paul Charles Clarke/Francisco
Casanova
- Peter Coleman-Wright (debut)
- John Del Carlo/Thomas
Hammons
- Otto Schenk
JENUFA (New production
-- director Olivier Tambosi; set and costume designer Frank Phillip
Schlössmann. The lighting is designed by Max Keller. Conducted
by Vladimir Jurowski) January 13, 17, 22, 25(matinee), 30, February
3, 7, 13
- Karita Mattila
- Deborah Polaski/Rosalind
Plowright (debut)
- Kim Begley (debut)/Richard
Berkeley-Steele (debut)
- Christopher Ventris (debut)/Adam
Klein
LUCIA DI LAMMERMOOR (Patrick
Summers) November 11, 15, 21, 25, 29, December 2, 6, 10
- Ruth Ann Swenson/Annick
Massis (debut)
- Marcelo Álvarez/Jianyi
Zhang
- Anthony Michaels-Moore
- John Relyea/Julien Robbins
DIE MEISTERSINGER VON
NÜRNBERG (James Levine) April 25, 28, May 1
- Solveig Kringelborn
- Jill Grove
- Johan Botha
- Matthew Polenzani
- James Morris
- Hans-Joachim Ketelsen
- René Pape
NABUCCO (James Levine)
March 17, 22(evening), April 2, 5(matinee), 8, 11
- Andrea Gruber/Susan Neves
- Wendy White
- Francisco Casanova/Jianyi
Zhang
- Frederick Burchinal/Lado
Ataneli
- Samuel Ramey/Paata Burchuladze
OTELLO (Valery Gergiev)
March 10, 14, 19, 22(matinee), 26, 29(evening)
- Barbara Frittoli
- Vladimir Galouzine
- Nikolai Putilin
PARSIFAL (Valery Gergiev)
April 4, 7, 12(matinee), 15, 18
- Violeta Urmana/Linda Watson
(debut)
- Plácido Domingo
- Falk Struckmann
- Nikolai Putilin
- René Pape
IL PIRATA (new
production -- directed by John Copley, the set designer is John Conklin,
and the lighting is designed by Duane Schuler. The costume designer,
Robert Perdziola, makes his Metropolitan Opera debut. conducted by
Bruno Campanella.) October 21, 26(matinee), 29, November 2(evening), 6, 9(evening), 14,
February 5, 8(matinee)
- Renée Fleming
- Marcello Giordani
- Dwayne Croft/Richard Zeller
THE RAKE�S PROGRESS (James
Levine) April 14, 19(matinee), 23, 26(evening), 30, May 3(matinee)
- Dawn Upshaw/Emily Pulley
- Stephanie Blythe/Wendy
White
- Paul Groves
- Samuel Ramey
LA TRAVIATA (Bertrand
de Billy/Marcello Viotti) February 25, 28, March 5, 8(evening), 12, 15(matinee), April
17, 21, 24, 29, May 3(evening)
- Ruth Ann Swenson/Elena
Kelessidi/Cristina Gallardo-Domas
- Frank Lopardo/Marcus Haddock
- Lado Ataneli (debut)
IL TROVATORE: (Frédéric
Chaslin -- debut) November 7, 12, 16(matinee), 20, 23(matinee), 30(evening), December
4, 7(evening), 11, 14(matinee), February 12, 15(evening), 18, 21
- Veronica Villarroel/Sondra
Radvanovsky/Marina Mescheriakova
- Larissa Diadkova/Elena
Zaremba/Irina Mishura
- Franco Farina/Francisco
Casanova
- Bruno Caproni/Carlos Alvarez/Roberto
Frontali
- Willard White/Rosendo
Flores/Dimitri Kavrakos
LES TROYENS: (new
production by Francesca Zambello, with sets designed by Maria Björnson
in her Metropolitan Opera debut, and lighting designed by James F.
Ingalls. Costume designer TBA [!!!!} Levine conducts) February
10, 14, 17, 22(matinee), March 11, 15(evening), 20, 24, 27
- Deborah Voigt/Sue Patchell
- Olga Borodina, Elena Zaremba/Wendy
White
- Ben Heppner/John Horton
Murray
- Dwayne Croft/Richard Zeller
- Robert Lloyd
TURANDOT (Carlo Rizzi/Marco
Armiliato) Sept. 24, 27, October 1, 5(matinee), 11, 15, 19(evening), 23, 26(evening), 31,
February 20, 24, 27, March 1(matinee), 6
- Andrea Gruber/Audrey Stottler
(debut)/Adrienne Dugger
- Hei-Kyung Hong/Norah Amsellem/Olivia
Gorra (debut)
- Vladimir Galouzine/Richard
Margison
- Hao Jiang Tian/Robert
Lloyd
A VIEW FROM THE BRIDGE
(new production -- music by William Bolcom and libretto by
Arnold Weinstein and Arthur Miller, and based on the play by Mr. Miller,
receives its company premiere on December 5, 2002. The production,
which was commissioned and originally produced by the Lyric Opera
of Chicago, is by debuting director Frank Galati. Santo Loquasto is
the set and costume designer, Duane Schuler is the lighting designer,
and Wendall Harrington makes her Met debut with her projection designs.
Dennis Russell Davies conducts.) December 5, 9, 12, 16, 21(evening), 24,
28(matinee)
- Catherine Malfitano
- Isabel Bayrakdarian (debut)
- Gregory Turay
- Kim Josephson/Richard
Zeller
- Richard Bernstein
- John Del Carlo/Michael
Devlin
