Marlies’Artbeat: Met’s 2018-2019 Season Glistens with Big Stars

by Marlies Wolf

What a season is planned! The lineup features virtually every current leading light on the opera horizon. It certainly should resuscitate the Met reputation which may have been tarnished by the #MeToo debacle.

The schedule includes such nuggets as a new Samson et Dalila, an American premiere of the commissioned Marnie (of Hitchcock movie fame) and a revival of the Lepage production of Wagner’s Ring Cycle. The artistic pleasure anticipated is fully represented in the Live-at-the-Met-in-HD transmissions which have proved to be so popular. Currently in over 800 movie houses in the US alone, they are transmitted to 2,200 theaters in more than 70 countries around the globe.

Here is the lineup of the 10 operas as scheduled on their Saturday Matinee dates:

Aida (Giuseppe Verdi)

October 6th, 2018. 12:55 PM ET

Samson et Dalila (Camille Saint-Saens)

October 20th, 2018. 12:55 PM ET

(New Production; First time ever in HD transmission)

La Fanciulla del West (Giacomo Puccini)

October 27th, 2018. 12:55 PM ET

(Jonas Kaufmann appearance)

Marnie (Nico Muhly)

November 10th, 2018. 12:55 PM ET

(Commissioned; based on

original novel, and Hitchcock thriller; First

time ever in HD after Met Premiere)

La Traviata (Giuseppe Verdi)

December 15th , 2018. 12:55 PM ET

(New Production)

Adriana Lecouvreur (Francesco Cilea)

January 12th, 2019. 12:55 PM ET

(New Production; First time ever in HD)

Carmen (Georges Bizet)

February 2nd, 2019. 12:55 PM ET

La Fille du Régiment (Gaetano Donizetti)

March 2nd, 2019. 12:55 PM ET

Die Walküre (Richard Wagner)

March 30th, 2019. 12:00 PM ET

(Le Page Production)

Dialogues des Carmélites (Frances Poulenc)

May 11th, 2019. 12:00 PM ET

(First time ever in HD)

Tickets go on sale July 18th, 2018 in the U.S. and Canada. (Advanced Guild Members are notified as to their earlier purchase date.)