1963 – 1964
FALSTAFF (Verdi) (new production):
Anselmo Colzani/Fernando Corena/Geraint Evans (Falstaff), Gabriella Tucci
(Alice), Mario Sereni (Ford), Regina Resnik (Mistress Quickly), Judith Raskin
(Nannetta), Luigi Alva (Fenton); c. Leonard Bernstein/Martin Rich; p. Franco
Zeffirelli; d. Franco Zeffirelli; 6 March 1964 (15 performances)
1964 – 1965
FALSTAFF (Verdi): Anselmo Colzani/Geraint Evans/Ezio
Flagello/Fernando Corena, Gabriella Tucci/Raina Kabaivanska/Mary Curtis-Verna,
Mario Sereni/Frank Guarrera, Regina Resnik/Lili Chookasian, Judith
Raskin/Jeanette Scovotti, Luigi Alva/George Shirley; c. Joseph Rosenstock; 31
October 1964 (8 performances)
1965 – 1966
FALSTAFF (Verdi): Geraint Evans/Tito Gobbi/Anselmo Colzani, Mary
Costa/Pilar Lorengar/Raina Kabaivanska, Frank Guarrera/Thomas Stewart, Regina
Resnik/Lili Chookasian, Judith Raskin, George Shirley/Luigi Alva; c. Joseph
Rosenstock; 29 October 1965 (8 performances)
1966 - 1967
LA GIOCONDA (Ponchielli) (new production):
Renata Tebaldi (La Gioconda), Franco Corelli/Richard Tucker/Barry Morell
(Enzo), Biserka Cvejic/Mignon Dunn/Rosalind Elias/Nell Rankin (Laura), Cornell
MacNeil/Anselmo Colzani (Barnaba), Cesare Siepi/Bonaldo Giaiotti/Giorgio
Tozzi/Justino Díaz (Alvise), Mignon Dunn/Belén Amparan/Ruza Baldani (La Cieca);
c. Fausto Cleva; p. Margherita Wallmann, d. Beni Montresor; 22 September 1966
(22 performances)
1967 - 1968
LA GIOCONDA (Ponchielli): Renata Tebaldi/Milka Stojanovic,
Flaviano Labò/Franco Corelli/Barry Morell/Carlo Bergonzi, Biserka Cvejic/Nell
Rankin/Rosalind Elias/Fiorenza Cossotto, Sherrill Milnes/Anselmo
Colzani/Cornell MacNeil, Bonaldo Giaiotti/John Macurdy/Jerome Hines, Rosalind
Elias/Belén Amparan/Lili Chookasian/Joann Grillo/Mignon Dunn; c. Fausto Cleva;
21 September 1967 (12 performances)
FALSTAFF (Verdi): Anselmo Colzani/Ezio Flagello, Raina
Kabaivanska/Pilar Lorengar/Phyllis Curtin, Frank Guarrera, Fedora Barbieri,
Judith Raskin/Mary Ellen Pracht/Jeannette Pilou, Luigi Alva/George Shirley; c.
Bruno Anaducci; 5 October 1967 (10 performances)
1968 - 1969
ADRIANA LECOUVREUR (Cilea) (new production):
Renata Tebaldi (Adriana), Franco Corelli/Plácido Domingo (Maurizio), Irene
Dalis/Elena Cernei/Regina Resnik/Nell Rankin (Princess di Bouillon), Anselmo
Colzani (Michonnet), Morley Meredith/Lorenzo Alvary (Bouillon); c. Fausto Cleva/January
Behr; p. Nathaniel Merrill; d. Camillo Parravicini, Carlo Maria Cristini,
Ruggero Peruzzi; 16 September 1968 (19 performances)
DER ROSENKAVALIER (Richard Strauss) (new
production): Christa Ludwig/Evelyn Lear/Rosalind Elias/Marcia Baldwin (Octavian),
Leonie Rysanek/Christa Ludwig/Régine Crespin/Helen Vanni/Eileen Schauler (Marschallin),
Walter Berry/Otto Edelmann (Ochs), Reri Grist/Judith Raskin (Sophie), Rudolf
Knoll/Morley Meredith (Faninal); c. Karl Böhm/Franz Allers; p. Nathaniel
Merrill; d. Robert O’Hearn; 23 January 1969 (18 performances)
1969 - 1970
CAVALLERIA
RUSTICANA
(Mascagni) (new production): Grace Bumbry/Ina Delcampo/Marie Collier/Fiorenza
Cossotto/Martina Arroyo (Santuzza), Franco Corelli/Frano Tagliavini/Richard
Tucker/Enrico Di Giuseppe/Plácido Domingo (Turiddu), Nedda Casei/Judith
Forst/Joann Grillo (Lola), Frank Guarrera/Walter Cassel/Morley Meredith
(Alfio); c. Leonard Bernstein/Kurt Adler; p. Franco Zeffirelli; d. Franco Zeffirelli;
8 January 1970 (19 performances)
PAGLIACCI (Leoncavallo) (new production):
Lucina Amara/Teresa Stratas/Jeannette Pilou/Edda Moser/Raina Kabaivanska
(Nedda), Richard Tucker/James McCracken/Robert Nagy (Canio), Sherrill
Milnes/Cornell MacNeil/Mario Sereni (Tonio), William Walker/Dominic
Cossa/Russell Christopher (Silvio); c. Fausto Cleva/Kurt Adler; p. Franco
Zeffirelli; d. Franco Zeffirelli; 8 January 1970 (19 performances)
DER ROSENKAVALIER (Richard Strauss): Christa Ludwig/Rosalind Elias,
Leonie Rysanek/Régine Crespin/Marion Lippert/Helen Vanni, Walter Berry/Otto
Edelmann, Lucia Popp/Reri Grist/Judith Raskin, Rudolf Knoll/Morley Meredith; c.
Karl Böhm/Ignace Strasfogel; 28 January 1970 (10 performances)
1970 - 1971
CAVALLERIA RUSTICANA (Mascagni): Fiorenza Cossotto, Plácido
Domingo/Enrico Di Giuseppe/Sándor Kónya, Nedda Casei/Frederica von Stade/Joann
Grillo, Anselmo Colzani/Morley Meredith; c. Fausto Cleva; 15 September 1970 (8
performances)
PAGLIACCI (Leoncavallo): Teresa Stratas/Gilda Cruz-Romo/Lucine
Amara, James McCracken/Josef Gabriels/Richard Tucker, Mario Sereni/Sherill
Milnes/Cornell MacNeil, William Walker/Dominic Cossa; c. Fausto Cleva; 15
September 1970 (8 performances)
1971 - 1972
CAVALLERIA RUSTICANA (Mascagni): Fiorenza Cossotto/Irene
Dalis/Grace Bumbry/Elinor Rossini:/Martina Arroyo, Carlo Bergonzi/Enrico Di
Giuseppe/Barry Morell/Franco Tagliavini, Nedda Casei/Judith Forst, Anselmo
Colzani/Matteo Manuguerra; c. Christopher Keene; 24 September 1971 (14
performances)
PAGLIACCI (Leoncavallo): Teresa Stratas/Lucine Amara/Raina
Kabaivanska/Maria Bieshu/Gilda Cruz-Romo/Lilian Sukis, James McCracken/Robert
Nagy/Ludovic Spiess, Sherrill Milnes/Cornell MacNeil/Mario Sereni, Dominic
Cossa/Raymond Gibbs/Theodor Uppman; c. Christopher Keene/Kurt Adler; 24
September 1971 (14 performances)
FALSTAFF (Verdi): Geraint Evans/Tito Gobbi/Fernando Corena, Renata
Tebaldi/Lucine Amara, Kostas Paskalis/Matteo Manuguerra, Regina Resnik/Lili
Chookasian/Fedora Barbieri, Jeannette Pilou/Judith Blegen/Roberta Peters, Luigi
Alva; c. Christoph von Dohnányi/James Levine; 25 February 1972 (9 performances)
1972 - 1973
DER ROSENKAVALIER (Richard Strauss): Yvonne Minton, Leonie
Rysanek, Walter Berry, Judith Blegen/Colette Boky, Morley Meredith; c.
Christoph von Dohnányi/Ignace Strasfogel; 16 March 1973 (7 performances)
CAVALLERIA RUSTICANA (Mascagni): Régine Crespin/Elinor Ross,
Enrico Di Giuseppe/Franco Corelli, Judith Forst, Matteo Manuguerra/Anselmo
Colzani/Guillermo Sarabia; c. Carlo Felice Cillario; 9 June 1973 (3
performances)
PAGLIACCI (Leoncavallo): Teresa Stratas, Richard Tucker, Cornell
MacNeil, Dominic Cossa; c. Carlo Felice Cillario; 9 June 1973 (3 performances)
1973 - 1974
DER ROSENKAVALIER (Richard Strauss): Brigitte Fassbaender/Rosalind
Elias, Evelyn Lear/Christa Ludwig/Marion Lippert, Manfred Jungwirth/Richard
Best/Walter Berry/Otto Edelmann, Edith Mathis/Judith Blegen/Colette Boky,
William Dooley/Morley Meredith; c. Karl Böhm/Max Rudolf; 16 February 1974 (17
performances)
1974 - 1975
CAVALLERIA RUSTICANA (Mascagni): Grace Bumbry/Elinor Ross/Rita
Hunter/Joann Grillo, Franco Tagliavini/Harry Theyard/William Lewis/Franco
Corelli/Barry Morell, Joann Grillo/Mildred Miller/Marcia Baldwin/Nedda
Casei/Shirley Love, Anselmo Colzani/Morley Meredith/Frank Guarrera; c. John
Nelson; 25 October 1974 (22 performances)
PAGLIACCI (Leoncavallo): Atsuko Azuma/Anna Moffo/Lucine Amara,
Richard Tucker/James McCracken/Robert Nagy, Norman Mittelman/Sherrill
Milnes/Cornell MacNeil/Anselmo Colzani, Lenus Carlson/Thomas Palmer; c. John
Nelson; 25 October 1974 (22 performances)
FALSTAFF (Verdi): Cornell MacNeil, Evelyn Lear/Lucine Amara,
Thomas Stewart/William Walter, Fedora Barbieri/Lili Chookasian, Benita Valente,
Douglas Ahlstedt/Enrico Di Giuseppe; c. James Levine/Peter Maag; 10 March 1975
(13 performances)
1975 - 1976
LA GIOCONDA (Ponchielli): Martina Arroyo/Elinor Ross, Giorgio
Lamberti/Barry Morell/Misha Raitzin, Mignon Dunn/Nell Rankin/Bianca Berini,
Matteo Manuguerra/Richard Fredericks, Malcolm Smith/James Morris, Fedora
Barbieri/Batyah Godfrey Ben-David/Lili Chookasian/Shirley Love; c. Giuseppe
Patanè/Richard Woitach; 18 October 1975 (16 performances)
I PURITANI (Bellini) (new production):
Joan Sutherland (Elvira), Luciano Pavarotti (Arturo), Sherrill Milnes/Cornelis
Opthof (Riccardo), James Morris/Ezio Flagello (Giorgio); c. Richard Bonynge; p.
Sandro Sequi; d. Ming Cho Lee, Peter J. Hall; 25 February 1976 (10
performances)
DER ROSENKAVALIER (Richard Strauss): Tatiana Troyanos, Teresa
Zylis-Gara, Walter Berry/Otto Edelmann, Judith Blegen, William Dooley/Morley
Meredith; c. James Levine; 8 March 1976 (6 performances)
1976 - 1977
LULU (Berg) (new production): Carole
Farley/Alexandra Hunt (Lulu), Donald Gramm (Dr. Schön/Jack the Ripper), Tatiana
Troyanos (Countess Geschwitz), William Lewis (Alwa), Andrew Foldi (Schigolch);
c. James Levine; p. John Dexter; d. Jocelyn Herbert; 18 March 1977 (7
performances)
1977 - 1978
DER ROSENKAVALIER (Richard Strauss): Yvonne Minton/Tatiana
Troyanos, Gwyneth Jones, Marius Rintzler, Reri Grist/Ruth Welting, Derek
Hammond-Stroud/Morley Meredith; c. Lepold Hager; 5 December 1977 (10
performances)
CAVALLERIA RUSTICANA (Mascagni): Mignon Dunn/Grace Bumbry/Martina
Arroyo/Tatiana Troyanos/Bianca Berini/Joann Grillo, Wieslaw Ochman/Anatoly
Solovianenko/Plácido Domingo/Gianfranco Cecchele, Isola Jones, Cornell
MacNeil/Vern Shinall; c. Giuseppe Patanè/Richard Woitach/James
Levine/Michelangelo Veltri; 2 January 1978 (20 performances)
PAGLIACCI (Leoncavallo): Elena Mauti-Nunziata/Teresa Stratas/Maralin
Niska/Mariana Nicolesco, Jon Vickers/Ermanno Mauro/Giuseppe Giacomini/Plácido
Domingo/James McCracken/Robert Nagy, Cornell MacNeil/Louis Quilico/Sherrill
Milnes, Ryan Edwards/Allan Monk; c. Giuseppe Patanè/Richard Woitach/James
Levine/Michelangelo Veltri; 2 January 1978 (20 performances)
ADRIANA LECOUVREUR (Cilea): Montserrat Caballé/Renata Scotto, José
Carreras/John Alexander, Fiorenza Cossotto/Mignon Dunn, Louis Quilico/Anselmo
Colzani, Ivo Vinco/Morley Meredith; c. Jesús López-Cobos; 4 February 1978 (10
performances)
1978 - 1979
BILLY BUDD (Britten) (Première): Richard
Stilwell/Lenus Carlson (Budd), Peter Pears/Mallory Walker (Vere), James Morris
(Claggart), Peter Glossop (Redburn), David Ward (Flint), John Cheek
(Ratcliffe); c. Raymond Leppard; p. John Dexter; d. William Dudley; 19
September 1978 (8 performances)
DON CARLO (new production): Giuseppe
Giacomini/Vasile Moldoveanu (Don Carlo), Renata Scotto/Atarah Hazzan/Gilda
Cruz-Romo (Elizabeth), Sherrill Milnes/Garbis Boyagian/Ryan Edwards (Rodrigo),
Marilyn Horne/Nadine Denize (Eboli), Nicolai Ghiaurov/Paul Plishka/Jerome Hines
(Philip II), James Morris/Dimitri Kavrakos (Grand Inquisitor); c. James Levine;
p. John Dexter; d. David Reppa, Ray Diffen; 5 February 1979 (17 performances)
1979 - 1980
CAVALLERIA RUSTICANA (Mascagni): Fiorenza Cossotto/Elinor
Ross/Bianca Berini/Bruna Baglioni, Juan Lloveras, Isola Jones/Joann Grillo,
Cornell MacNeil/Mario Sereni; c. Michelangelo Veltri/Richard Woitach; 26
September 1979 (14 performances)
PAGLIACCI (Leoncavallo): Elena Mauti-Nunziata/Mariana
Nicolesco/Catherine Malfitano, Carlo Bergonzi, Cornell MacNeil/Pablo Elvira,
Ryan Edwards/Dale Duesing/Brent Ellis/Allan Monk; c. Michelangelo
Veltri/Richard Woitach; 26 September 1979 (14 performances)
DIE ENTFÜHRUNG AUS
DEM SERAIL
(Mozart) (new production): Edda Moser/Gail Robinson/Christiane Eda-Pierre
(Constanze), Nicolai Gedda/John Alexander (Belmonte), Norma Burrowes/Kathleen
Battle (Blonde), Norbert Orth/James Atherton (Pedrillo), Kurt Moll/Ara Berberian
(Osmin); c. James Levine; p. John Dexter; d. Jocelyn Herbert; 12 October 1979
(11 performances)
LA GIOCONDA (Ponchielli): Grace Bumbry/Renata Scotto, Carlo
Bergonzi/Ermanno Mauro, Bruna Baglioni/Maria Luisa Nave, Mario Sereni/Ferdinand
Radovan/Louis Quilico, Paul Plishka/Bonaldo Giaiotti, Jocelyne Taillon/Lili
Chookasian; c. Giuseppe Patanè/Eugene Kohn; 29 November 1979 (10 performances)
DER ROSENKAVALIER (Richard Strauss): Agnes Baltsa, Anna
Tomowa-Sintow/Johanna Meier, Aage Haugland, Judith Blegen/Gianni Rolandi, Ernst
Gutstein; c. Erich Leinsdorf; 13 December 1979 (8 performances)
DON CARLO (Verdi): Vasile Moldoveanu/Giuseppe Giacomini, Renata
Scotto/Gilda Cruz-Romo, Sherrill Milnes, Tatiana Troyanos/Bruna Baglioni, Paul
Plishka/Jerome Hines/Nicolai Ghaiurov, Jerome Hines/Ferruccio Furlanetto; c.
James Levine; 14 February 1980 (9 performances)
MANON LESCAUT (Puccini) (new production):
Renata Scotto (Manon), Plácido Domingo (Des Grieux), Pablo Elvira (Lescaut); c.
James Levine; p. Gian Carlo Menotti; d. Desmond Heeley; 17 March 1980 (8
performances)
BILLY BUDD (Britten): Richard Stilwell/Lenus Carlson, Richard
Cassilly/Mallory Walker, James Morris/Morley Meredith, Peter Glossop/John
Darrenkamp, David Ward, Julien Robbins; c. Raymond Leppard/Thomas Fulton; 27
March 1980 (14 performances)
1980 - 1981
LULU (Berg): Teresa Stratas/Julia Migenes, Franz Mazura, Evelyn
Lear, Kenneth Riegel, Andrew Foldi; c. James Levine/Jeffrey Tate; 12 December
1980 (6 performances)
CAVALLERIA RUSTICANA (Mascagni): Grace Bumbry/Galina Savova/Mignon
Dunn, Carlo Bini/Herman Malamood/Ermanno Mauro/Harry Theyard, Isola Jones/Joann
Grillo, Cornell MacNeil/Ryan Edwards/Mario Sereni; c. David Stivender/Giuseppe
Patanè; 17 December 1980 (17 performances)
PAGLIACCI (Leoncavallo): Patricia Craig/Julia Migenes/Catherine
Malfitano, Richard Cassilly/Herman Malamood/Ermanno Mauro, Cornell MacNeil/Pablo
Elvira/Sherrill Milnes, Brian Schexnayder/Allan Monk/Arthur Thompson/Lenus
Carlson; c. David Stivender/Giuseppe Patanè; 17 December 1980 (17 performances)
MANON LESCAUT (Puccini): Teresa Zylis-Gara/Renata Scotto, Giuliano
Ciannella/John Alexander/Ermanno Mauro, Pablo Elvira/Mario Sereni; c. James
Levine/Thomas Fulton; 16 March 1981 (16 performances)
1981 - 1982
LA BOHÈME (Puccini) (new production): Teresa Stratas/Linda Zoghby/Teresa
Zylis-Gara (Mimi), José Carreras/Ermanno Mauro/Giuliano Ciannella/Plácido
Domingo (Rodolfo), Renata Scotto/Julia Migenes/Patricia Craig (Musetta),
Richard Stilwell/Ryan Edwards/Brent Ellis (Marcello), Allan Monk/Mario Sereni
(Schaunard), James Morris/Julien Robbins (Colline); c. James Levine/Jeffrey
Tate; p. Franco Zeffirelli; d. Franco Zeffirelli, Peter J. Hall, Gil Wechsler;
14 December 1981 (20 performances)
DIE ENTFÜHRUNG AUS DEM SERAIL (Mozart): Edda Moser/Mariella Devia,
Stuart Burrows/John Alexander, Kathleen Battle/Gwendolyn Bradley, Philip
Creech/James Atherton, Martti Talvela/Ara Berberian; c. James Levine; 22 March
1982 (7 performances)
1982 - 1983
DER ROSENKAVALIER (Richard Strauss): Tatiana Troyanos/Frederica
von Stade, Kiri Te Kanawa/Evelyn Lear/Elisabeth Söderström, Kurt Moll/Aage
Haugland, Judith Blegen/Kathleen Battle, Derek Hammond-Stroud/Morley Meredith;
c. James Levine/Jeffrey Tate; 20 September 1982 (19 performances)
LA GIOCONDA (Ponchielli): Eva Marton/Galina Savova, Plácido
Domingo/Carlo Bini, Bruna Baglioni/Mignon Dunn, Cornell MacNeil/Richard J.
Clark/Matteo Manuguerra/Gwynne Cornell, Ferruccio Furlanetto/John Cheek, Bianca
Berini/Patricia Payne; c. Giuseppe Patanè/Eugene Kohn; 25 September 1982 (11
performances)
IDOMENEO (Mozart) (new production):
Luciano Pavarotti/Herman Malamood/William Lewis (Idomeneo), Ileana Cotrubas/Gail
Robinson/Benita Valente (Ilia), Frederica von Stade/Claudia Catania (Idamante),
Hildegard Behrens/Kay Griffel (Elettra), John Alexander (Arbace); c. James
Levine/Jeffrey Tate; p. Jean-Pierre Ponnelle; d. Jean-Pierre Ponnelle; 14
October 1982 (13 performances)
ADRIANA LECOUVREUR (Cilea): Renata Scotto/Nicole Lorange/Teresa
Zylis-Gara, Neil Shicoff/Enrico Di Giuseppe/Plácido Domingo, Viorica
Cortez/Bianca Berini/Gwynn Cornell, Louis Quilico/Mario Sereni/Sesto
Bruscantini, Ara Berberian/James Courtney; c. Thomas Fulton/Michelangelo
Veltri; 19 January 1983 (17 performances)
LA BOHÈME (Puccini): Teresa Zylis-Gara/Natalia Rom/Linda Zoghby,
Vasile Moldoveanu/Dano Raffanti/Plácido Domingo/Giuliano Ciannella/Jeffrey
Stamm, Carol Neblett/Patricia Craig/Myra Merritt, Brent Ellis/Richard
Stilwell/Brian Schexnayder, Allan Monk/Mario Sereni/Darren Nimnicht, Paul
Plishka/James Morris/Julien Robbins/Richard Vernon; c. James Levine/Eugene
Kohn; 24 January 1983 (24 performances)
DON CARLO (Verdi): Ermanno Mauro/Plácido Domingo, Mirella Freni,
Louis Quilico/Allan Monk, Grace Bumbry/Bianca Berini, Nicolai Ghiaurov, Jerome
Hines/Ferruccio Furlanetto; c. James Levine; 28 February 1983 (8 performances)
1983 - 1984
LA BOHÈME (Puccini): Catherine Malfitano/Mirella Freni/Ileana
Cotrubas/Rosario Andrade, Neil Shicoff/Enrico Di Giuseppe/Dano
Raffanti/Giuliano Ciannella, Barbara Daniels/Myra Merritt, Brent Ellis/Brian
Schexnayder/Pablo Elvira, Vernon Hartman/Allan Glassman, James Morris/Julien
Robbins/John Cheek; c. Eugene Kohn; 30 September 1983 (14 performances)
ERNANI (Verdi): Luciano Pavarotti/Ermanno Mauro/Vladimir Popov
(Ernani), Leona Mitchell/Adelaide Negri/Aprile Millo (Elvira), Sherrill
Milnes/Pablo Elvira/Ryan Edwards/Louis Quilico (Don Carlo), Ruggero
Raimondi/Paul Plishka/John Macurdy (Silva); c. James Levine/Thomas Fulton; p.
Pier Luigi Samaritani; d. Pier Luigi Samaritani, Peter J. Hall; 18 November
1983 (23 performances)
DIE ENTFÜHRUNG AUS DEM SERAIL (Mozart): Catherine Malfitano/Françoise
Garner/Gail Robinson, Francisco Araiza/David Rendall, Judith Blegen/Gwendolyn
Bradley, Philip Creech/Anthony Laciura, Artur Korn/Ara Berberian; c. Julius
Rudel/James Levine; 12 March 1984 (16 performances)
MANON LESCAUT (Puccini): Teresa Zylis-Gara/Carol Neblett, Vasile
Moldoveanu/John Alexander, Allan Monk/Brian Schexnayder; c. Nello Santi; 19
March 1984 (9 performances)
DON CARLO (Verdi): Giuliano Ciannella, Montserrat Caballé/Stefka
Evstatieva, Jorma Hynninen/Renato Bruson, Tatiana Troyanos/Shirley Verrett,
Paul Plishka/Jerome Hines, Jerome Hines/Joseph Rouleau; c. James Levine; 30
March 1984 (7 performances)
BILLY BUDD (Britten): Dale Duesing/Lenus Carlson, Richard
Cassilly, James Morris/Morley Meredith, Peter Glossop, Richard J. Clark/James
Courtney, Julien Robbins; c. David Atherton; 7 April 1984 (6 performances)
1984 - 1985
LA CLEMENZA DI
TITO (Mozart)
(premiere): Kenneth Riegel/John Alexander (Tito), Renata Scotto/Carol
Vaness/Elizabeth Connell (Vitellia), Ann Murray/Tatiana Troyanos (Sesto), Gail
Robinson/Hei-Kyung Hong (Servilia), Ariel Bybee/Ann Murray (Annio); c. James
Levine; p. Jean-Pierre Ponnelle, d. Jean-Pierre Ponnelle; 18 October 1984 (14
performances)
LA BOHÈME (Puccini): Eugenia Moldoveanu/Linda Zoghby/Catherine
Malfitano, Giuliano Ciannella/Luis Lima/Ermanno Mauro, Myra Merritt/Marilyn
Zschau, Pablo Elvira/Brian Schexnayder/Brent Ellis, Vernon Hartman/Mario Sereni/Ben
Holt, John Cheek/Julien Robbins; c. Plácido Domingo/Eugene Kohn; 22 October
1984 (18 performances)
MANON LESCAUT (Puccini): Mirella Freni/Adriana Maliponte/Patricia
Craig, Ermanno Mauro/Giuliano Ciannella/Vasile Moldoveanu, David Holloway/Lenus
Carlson/Pablo Elvira/Vernon Hartman; c. Nello Santi; 29 October 1984 (18
performances)
ERNANI (Verdi): Ermanno Mauro, Leona Mitchell/Aprile Millo, Pablo
Elvira/Louis Quilico, Paul Plishka/Dimitri Kavrakos; c. Thomas Fulton; 28
February 1985 (9 performances)
TOSCA (Puccini) (new production):
Hildegard Behrens/Olivia Stapp (Tosca), Plácido Domingo/Vladimir Popov
(Cavaradossi), Cornell MacNeil/Peter Glossop (Scarpia); c. Giuseppe Sinopoli;
p. Franco Zeffirelli; d. Franco Zeffirelli, Peter J. Hall; 11 March 1985 (11
performances)
LULU (Berg): Julia Migenes, Franz Mazura, Evelyn Lear, Kenneth
Riegel/William Lewis, Andrew Foldi; c. James Levine; 1 April 1985 (6
performances)
1985 - 1986
FALSTAFF (Verdi): Giuseppe Taddei/Peter Glossop/Louis Quilico,
Adriana Maliponte/Carol Neblett, Brent Ellis/Allan Monk, Fiorenza Cossotto,
Mariella Devia/Judith Blegen, Dalmacio Gonzalez/Douglas Ahlstedt; c. James
Levine; 25 September 1985 (14 performances)
TOSCA (Puccini): Montserrat Caballé/Marilyn Zschau/Grace Bumbry,
Luciano Pavarotti/Lando Bartolini, Cornell MacNeil/Peter Glossop; c. Carlo
Felice Cillario/Christian Badea; 23 September 1985 (14 performances)
DER ROSENKAVALIER (Richard Strauss): Tatiana Troyanos/Brenda
Boozer, Gwyneth Jones/Evelyn Lear, Aage Haugland/Artur Korn, Kathleen
Battle/Gail Robinson, Günther Reich/Morley Meredith; c. James Levine; 27
September 1985 (12 performances)
KHOVANSHCHINA (Mussorgsky) (new production): Aage Haugland (Ivan), Dénes
Gulyas/Vladimir Popov (Andrei), Helga Dernesch/Stefka Mineva (Marfa), Martti
Talvela/Sergei Koptchak (Dosifei), Wieslaw Ochman/William Lewis (Golitsin),
Allan Monk/Norman Mittelmann (Shaklovity), ; c. Neeme Järvi; p. August
Everding; d. Ming Cho Lee, John Conklin, Gil Wechsler; 14 October 1985 (13
performances)
CAVALLERIA RUSTICANA (Mascagni): Hildegard Behrens/Mignon
Dunn/Martina Arroyo/Nicole Lorange, Vasile Moldoveanu/Vladimir Popov/Giorgio
Lamberti/Enrico Di Giuseppe, Isola Jones/Ariel Bybee, Richard J. Clark/George
Fortune; c. Garcia Navarro; 4 November 1985 (18 performances)
PAGLIACCI (Leoncavallo): Jeannette Pilou/Mariana Nicolesco,
Ernesto Veronelli/Jon Vickers/James McCracken, Sherrill Milnes/George Fortune,
Brian Schexnayder/Vernon Hartman; c. Garcia Navarro; 4 November 1985 (18
performances)
IDOMENEO (Mozart): David Rendall/William Lewis, Linda
Zoghby/Benita Valente, Frederica von Stade, Carol Vaness/Hildegard Behrens,
John Alexander/Dennis Bailey; c. Jeffrey Tate; 17 January 1986 (10
performances)
DON CARLO (Verdi): Giuliano Ciannella/John Alexander, Aprile
Millo, Leo Nucci, Shirley Verrett/Giovanna Casolla, James Morris, Dimitri
Kavrakos/Jerome Hines; c. David Stivender; 31 March 1986 (8 performances)
1986 - 1987
DIE WALKÜRE (Wagner) (new production): Hildegard
Behrens/Jeannine Altmeyer/Johanna Meier (Brünnhilde), Peter Hofmann/Timothy
Jenkins (Siegmund), Jeannine Altmeyer/Johanna Meier (Sieglinde), Simon
Estes/Donald McIntyre (Wotan), Brigitte Fassbaender/Mignon Dunn (Fricka), Aage
Haugland/Siegfried Vogel (Hunding); c. James Levine; p. Otto Schenk; d. Günther
Schneider-Siemssen, Rolf Langenfass; 22 September 1986 (10 performances)
MANON LESCAUT (Puccini): Leona Mitchell, Ermanno Mauro, Brian
Schexnayder; c. Nello Santi/Julius Rudel; 24 September 1986 (10 performances)
TOSCA (Puccini): Eva Marton/Maria Slatinaru/Marilyn Zschau/Johanna
Meier, Plácido Domingo/Ermanno Mauro/Franco Bonisolli/Taro Ichihara/Bruno
Sebastian, Juan Pons/Louis Quilico/Sherill Milnes/George Fortune; c. Garcia
Navarro; 20 October 1986 (19 performances)
DER ROSENKAVALIER (Richard Strauss): Brigitte Fassbaender/Brenda
Boozer, Anna Tomowa-Sintow/Mechthild Gessendorf/Elisabeth Söderström, Artur
Korn/Romano Nieders, Barbara Hendricks, Gottfried Hornik/Morley Meredith; c.
Jeffrey Tate/James Levine; 30 October 1986 (11 performances)
I PURITANI (Bellini): Joan Sutherland/Françoise Garner, Salvatore
Fisichella/Rockwell Blake/Stanford Olsen*, Sherrill Milnes/Brent Ellis, Samuel
Ramey/Julien Robbins; c. Richard Bonynge; 14 November 1986 (10 performances)
DIE FLEDERMAUS (Johann Strauss) (new production):
Kiri Te Kanawa/Kay Griffel (Rosalinde), Håkan Hagegård/Vernon Hartman
(Eisenstein), Judith Blegen/Gail Dobish (Adele), David Rendall/Vinson Cole
(Alfred), Tatiana Troyanos/Brenda Boozer (Orlofsky), Michael Devlin (Falke),
Franz Mazura/Spiro Malas (Frank); c. Jeffrey Tate; p. Otto Schenk; d. Günther
Schneider-Siemssen, Peter J. Hall; 4 December 1986 (13 performances)
LA BOHÈME (Puccini): Leona Mitchell/Hei-Kyung Hong/Roberta
Alexander/Rosario Andrade/Elizabeth Knighton/Dino Di Domenico, Dénes Gulyás/Peter
Dvorsky/Dennis O'Neill/Vinson Cole/Vyacheslav M. Polozov, Barbara Daniels/Myra
Merritt/Priscilla Baskerville, Brian Schexnayder/David Arnold, Ben Holt /Vernon
Hartman, Ferruccio Furlanetto/Stephen Dupont/Julien Robbins; c. Julius
Rudel/Richard Woitach; 15 December 1986 (19 performances)
LA CLEMENZA DI TITO (Mozart): David Rendall/John Alexander, Carol
Vaness/Roberta Alexander, Tatiana Troyanos/Diana Montague, Dawn
Upshaw/Hei-Kyung Hong, Diana Montague/Ariel Bybee; c. James Levine; 22 January
1987 (8 performances)
MANON (Massenet) (new production): Catherine
Malfitano/Diana Soviero (Manon), Dénes Gulyás/Gregory Kunde/Jerry Hadley/Neil
Shicoff (Des Grieux), David Holloway/Erich Parce (Lescaut), Ferruccio
Furlanetto/Julien Robbins (Count des Grieux); c. Manuel Rosenthal; p. Jean-Pierre
Ponnelle; d. Jean-Pierre Ponnelle; 6 February 1987 (12 performances)
TURANDOT (Puccini) (new production): Eva
Marton (Turandot), Plácido Domingo (Calaf), Leona Mitchell/Aprile Millo (Liu),
Paul Plishka/John Macurdy (Timur); c. James Levine; p. Franco Zeffirelli; d.
Franco Zeffirelli, Dada Saligeri; 12 March 1987 (8 performances)
1987 - 1988
MANON (Massenet): Catherine Malfitano/Carol Vaness, Vinson
Cole/Alfredo Kraus, Gino Quilico/Erich Parce, Richard Van Allan/Louis Quilico;
c. Manuel Rosenthal; 22 September 1987 (12 performances)
DAS RHEINGOLD (Wagner) (new production): James Morris/Hans Sotin (Wotan),
Waltraud Meier/Gail Gilmore/Helga Dernesch (Fricka), Franz Mazura/Julian
Patrick (Alberich), Siegfried Jerusalem (Loge), Anne Gjevang (Erda), John
Macurdy (Fasolt), Aage Haugland (Fafner), Mari-Anne Häggander/Ellen Shade
(Freia), Timothy Jenkins/Mark W. Baker (Froh), Phillip Joll/James Courtney
(Donner), Horst Hiestermann/Paul Crook/Graham Clark (Mime); c. James Levine; p.
Otto Schenk; d. Günther Schneider-Siemssen, Rolf Langenfass; 9 October 1987 (8
performances)
TOSCA (Puccini): Eva Marton/Marilyn Zschau/Hildegard Behrens,
Giuseppe Giacomini/Vladimir Popov/Ermanno Mauro, Sherrill Milnes/Cornell
MacNeil; c. Christian Badea; 16 October 1987 (13 performances)
DIE WALKÜRE (Wagner): Hildegard Behrens/Jeannine Altmeyer/Johanna
Meier, Gary Lakes/Timothy Jenkins/Peter Hofmann, Jeannine Altmeyer/Sabine
Hass/Leonie Rysanek, Hans Sotin/Franz Mazura/Theo Adam, Gail Gilmore/Waltraud
Meier, Aage Haugland/John Macurdy; c. James Levine/Max Epstein; 24 October 1987
(9 performances)
LA BOHÈME (Puccini): Roberta Alexander, Bruno Beccaria, Barbara
Daniels, Brian Schexnayder, Vernon Hartman, John Cheek; c. Julius Rudel; 30
October 1987 (12 performances)
DIE ENTFÜHRUNG AUS DEM SERAIL (Mozart): Zdzislawa Donat, Gösta
Winbergh, Erie Mills, Heinz Zednik/Anthony Laciura, Matti Salminen; c. Marek
Janowski; 26 November 1987 (5 performances)
DIE FLEDERMAUS (Johann Strauss): Barbara Daniels/Marilyn Mims,
Claudio Nicolai/Vernon Hartman/Thomas Allen, Barbara Kilduff/Gail Dobish/Judith
Blegen, David Rendall/Allan Glassman, Tatiana Troyanos/Brenda Boozer, Michael
Devlin, Franz Mazura/Spiro Malas; c. Manuel Rosenthal; 4 December 1987 (12
performances)
TURANDOT (Puccini): Ghena Dimitrova/Marita Napier/Linda Kelm,
Vladimir Popov/Ermanno Mauro/Nicola Martinucci/Giorgio Lamberti, Aprile
Millo/Leona Mitchell/Judith Haddon/Yoko Watanabe, Paul Plishka/Franco De
Grandis/Harry Dworchak; c. Nello Santi/Julius Rudel; 14 December 1987 (19
performances)
SIEGFRIED (Wagner): Wolfgang Neumann/Toni
Krämer (Siegfried), Hildegard Behrens/Linda Kelm (Brünnhilde), Donald
McIntyre/Hans Sotin (Wanderer), Anne Gjevang/Gweneth Bean (Erda), Horst
Hiestermann/Hubert Delamboye (Mime), Franz Mazura/Ekkehard Wlaschiha
(Alberich), John Macurdy (Fafner), Gwendolyn Bradley/Dawn Upshaw (Forest Bird);
c. James Levine; 12 February 1988 (6 performances)
KHOVANSHCHINA (Mussorgsky): Aage Haugland, Dénes Gulyás/Vladimir
Popov, Stefania Toczyska/Stevka Mineva, Martti Talvela/Paul Plishka, Wieslaw
Ochman/Thomas Booth, Timothy Noble/Donald McIntyre; c. James Conlon; 22
February 1988 (9 performances)
LULU (Berg): Catherine Malfitano/Cynthia Barnett, Franz Mazura,
Tatiana Troyanos, Ronald Hamilton, Andrew Foldi; c. James Levine/Donald
Runnicles; 25 March 1988 (6 performances)
1988 - 1989
GIULIO CESARE (Handel) (premiere): Tatiana
Troyanos/Martine Dupuy (Cesare), Kathleen Battle/Barbara Kilduff (Cleopatra),
Sarah Walker/Brenda Boozer (Cornelia), Martine Dupuy/Hilda Harris (Sesto),
Jeffrey Gall (Tolomeo); c. Trevor Pinnock; 27 September 1988 (8 performances)
DAS RHEINGOLD (Wagner): Hans Sotin/James Morris, Hanna Schwarz/Christa
Ludwig/Helga Dernesch, Franz Mazura/Ekkehard Wlaschiha, Siegfried Jerusalem/Graham
Clark, Birgitta Svendén/Gweneth Bean, John Macurdy/Gwynne Howell/Jan-Hendrik
Rootering, Matti Salminen/Aage Haugland, Ellen Shade/Eva Zseller/Mari-Anne
Häggander, Mark Baker/Edward Cook/Gary Bachlund, Gregg Baker/James Courtney,
Horst Hiestermann/Hubert Delamboye/Graham Clark; c. James Levine; 28 September
1988 (9 performances)
GÖTTERDÄMMERUNG (Wagner) (new production):
Hildegard Behrens/Jeannine Altmeyer/Gwyneth Jones (Brünnhilde), Toni Krämer/Wolfgang
Neumann/William Johns (Siegfried), Anthony Raffell (Gunther), Kathryn Harries
(Gutrune), Matti Salminen/John Macurdy (Hagen), Christa Ludwig/Helga Dernesch
(Waltraute), Franz Mazura/Julian Patrick/Ekkehard Wlaschiha (Alberich); c.
James Levine; p. Otto Schenk; d. Günther Schneider-Siemssen, Rolf Langenfass;
21 October 1988 (9 performances)
CAVALLERIA RUSTICANA (Mascagni): Ghena Dimitrova/Lucine Amara,
Ermanno Mauro, Gail Dubinbaum/Ariel Bybee, Bruno Pola/Alain Findary; c.
Alessandro Siciliani; 4 November 1988 (12 performances)
PAGLIACCI (Leoncavallo): Ilona Tokody/Diana Soviero, Ermanno Mauro/Giuseppe
Giacomini, Juan Pons, Gregg Baker/Brian Schexnayder; c. Alessandro Siciliani; 4
November 1988 (12 performances)
AIDA
(Verdi) (new production): Leona Mitchell/Aprile Millo (Aida), Plácido Domingo/Lando
Bartolini/Vladimir Popov (Radamès), Fiorenza Cossotto/Stefania Toczyska
(Amneris), Sherrill Milnes/Alain Fondary (Amonasro), Paul Plishka (Ramfis); c.
James Levine/Christian Badea; p. Sonja Frisell; d. Gianni Quaranta, Dada
Saligeri, Gil Wechsler; 8 December 1988 (14 performances)
DIE FLEDERMAUS (Johann Strauss): Barbara Daniels, Håkan Hagegård,
Barbara Bonney/Erie Mills, Neil Rosenshein/Allan Glassman, Tatiana
Troyanos/Helga Dernesch, Dale Duesing/Erich Parce, Gottfried Hornik/Spiro
Malas; c. Julius Rudel; 30 December 1988 (8 performances)
DON CARLO (Verdi): Neil Shicoff/Ermanno Mauro, Margaret
Price/Aprile Millo, Bernd Weikl/Brian Schexnayder, Tatiana Troyanos/Maria Luisa
Nave, Ruggero Raimondi/Paul Plishka, Jan-Hendrik Rootering; c. James Levine; 27
January 1989 (8 performances)
IDOMENEO (Mozart): Siegfried Jerusalem, Marvis Martin/Dawn Upshaw,
Susan Quittmeyer/Frederica von Stade, Carol Vaness/Kay Griffel, William Lewis;
c. David Stivender; 6 February 1989 (8 performances)
LA BOHÈME (Puccini): Fiamma Izzo D’Amico/Kallen Esperian, Plácido
Domingo, Carol Neblett/Myra Merritt, Paolo Coni, David Hamilton, Paul
Plishka/John Cheek; c. Nello Santi; 24 February 1989 (6 performances)
DIE WALKÜRE (Wagner): Hildegard Behrens/Johanna Meier/Gwyneth
Jones, Gary Lakes/Robert Schunk, Jessye Norman/Ellen Shade/Mechthild
Gessendorf, James Morris/Hans Sotin, Christa Ludwig/Helga Dernesch, Matti
Salminen/Kurt Moll; c. James Levine; 24 March 1989 (6 performances)
BILLY BUDD (Britten): Thomas Allen, James King, Jan-Hendrik
Rootering, Anthony Raffell/Alan Held, Franz Mazura, Harry Dworchak; c. Thomas
Fulton; 3 April 1989 (5 performances)
SIEGFRIED (Wagner): William Johns/Toni Krämer, Hildegard
Behrens/Gwyneth Jones, Hans Sotin/James Morris, Gweneth Bean/Birgitta Svendén,
Horst Hiestermann/Graham Clark, Ekkehard Wlaschiha/Franz Mazura, Matti
Salminen/John Macurdy, Joyce Guyer/Dawn Upshaw; c. James Levine; 15 April 1989
(3 performances)
1989 - 1990
AIDA (Verdi): Aprile Millo/Alessandra Marc/Leona Mitchell, Plácido
Domingo/Nicola Martinucci/Giorgio Merighi/Ermanno Mauro, Dolora Zajick/Barbara
Conrad*/Stefania Toczyska, Sherill Milnes/Juan Pons/Andrew Smith, Paata
Burchuladze/Stephen Dupont/Paul Plishka; c. James Levine/Christian Badea; 25
September 1989 (16 performances)
LA BOHÈME (Puccini): Hei-Kyung Hong/Nelly Miricioiu/Kallen
Esperian/Leona Mitchell, Richard Leech/Neil Wilson/Francisco Araiza, Sona
Ghazarian/Myra Merritt/Priscilla Baskerville/Nancy Gustafson/Barbara Daniels,
Brian Scheznayder/David Malis/Pablo Elvira, Vernon Hartman/Timothy Noble, John
Cheek/Stephen Dupont/Kevin Langan; c. Donato Renzetti/Ralf Weikert; 30
September 1989 (14 performances)
RIGOLETTO (Verdi) (new production): Leo Nucci/Frederick Burchinal/Alain
Fondary (Rigoletto), June Anderson/Hei-Kyung Hong/Ruth Ann Swenson/Maria
Spacagna (Gilda), Luciano Pavarotti/Dennis O’Neill/Taro Ichihara/John Fowler
(Duke), Birgitta Svendén/Suzanna Guzman/Sondra Kelly (Maddalena), Sergei
Koptchak/Dimitri Kavrakos/Ferruccio Furlanetto (Sparafucile); c. Marcello
Panni/Paul Nadler; p. Otto Schenk; d. Zack Brown, Gil Wechsler; 3 November 1989
(18 performances)
DER FLIEGENDE
HOLLÄNDER
(Wagner) (new production): James Morris/Robert Hale (Dutchman), Mechthild
Gessendorf/Janis Martin (Senta), Gary Lakes/Mark W. Baker (Erik), Paul
Plishka/Matti Salminen/John Macurdy (Daland); c. James Levine/Donald Runnicles;
p. August Everding; d. Hans Schavernoch, Lore Haas; 11 December 1989 (11
performances)
DIE FLEDERMAUS (Richard Strauss II): Carol Vaness/Karen
Huffstodt/Barbara Daniels/Frances Ginsberg, Hermann Prey/Vernon Hartman/Thomas
Allen, Barbara Kilduff/Harolyn Blackwell, Neil Shicoff/Richard Drews/Allan
Glassman/Tonio Di Paolo, Brigitte Fassbaender/Brenda Boozer/Helga
Dernesch/Joyce Castle, Lenus Carlson/Gottfried Hornik/Thomas Hampson/David
Hamilton, Franz Mazura; c. Hermann Michael; 25 December 1989 (14 performances)
TURANDOT (Puccini): Gwyneth Jones, Vladimir Popov, Aprile Millo,
John Macurdy; c. Nello Santi; 1 January 1990 (4 performances)
LA GIOCONDA (Ponchielli): Ghena Dimitrova, Bruno Beccaria,
Stefania Toczyska, Alain Fondary, Paul Plishka/Franco De Grandis, Alexandrina
Milcheva; c. Nello Santi; 15 January 1990 (7 performances)
FAUST (Gounod) (new production): Neil
Shicoff/Allan Glassman/Francisco Araiza (Faust), Carol Vaness/Ashley
Putnam/Barbara Daniels (Marguerite), James Morris/Michael Devlin
(Méphistophélès), Brian Schexnayder/Thomas Hampson/Vernon Hartman/Gino Quilico
(Valentin), Delores Ziegler/Hilda Harris (Siebel); c. Charles Dutoit; p. Harold
Prince; d. Rolf Langenfass; 1 February 1990 (13 performances)
MANON LESCAUT (Puccini): Mirella Freni, Peter Dvorsky, Patrick
Raftery/Brian Schexnayder; c. Nello Santi; 19 February 1990 (8 performances)
DIE ENTFÜHRUNG AUS DEM SERAIL (Mozart): Mariella Devia/Marilyn Mims,
Stanford Olsen/Deon Van der Walt/Uwe Heilmann, Barbara Kilduff/Erie Mills, Lars
Magnusson/Anthony Laciura, Kurt Moll; c. James Levine; 26 February 1990 (8
performances)
SIEGFRIED (Wagner): Siegfried Jerusalem/William Johns, Hildegard
Behrens/Gudrun Volkert, James Morris, Birgitta Svendén/Anne Gjevang, Heinz
Zednik/Horst Hiestermann, Ekkehard Wlaschiha/Julian Patrick, Matti
Salminen/John Macurdy, Joyce Guyer/Dawn Upshaw; c. James Levine; 13 April 1990
(3 performances)
GÖTTERDÄMMERUNG (Wagner): Hildegard Behrens/Gudrun Volkert,
Siegfried Jerusalem, Anthony Raffell, Hanna Lisowska, Matti Salminen, Christa
Ludwig, Ekkehard Wlaschiha/Julian Patrick; c. James Levine; 21 April 1990 (3
performances)
DAS RHEINGOLD (Wagner): James Morris, Helga Dernesch/Christa
Ludwig, Ekkehard Wlaschiha/Julian Patrick, Siegfried Jerusalem, Birgitta
Svendén/Anne Gjevang, Jan-Hendrik Rootering, Matti Salminen, Mari-Anne
Häggander, Mark Baker, Alan Held, Heinz Zednik/Horst Hiestermann; c. James
Levine; 23 April 1990 (2 performances)
DIE WALKÜRE (Wagner): Hildegard Behrens/Gudrun Volkert, Gary
Lakes, Jessye Norman/Hanna Lisowska, James Morris, Ruthild Engert/Christa
Ludwig, Kurt Moll/Matti Salminen; c. James Levine; 24 April 1990 (3
performances)
1990 – 1991
LA BOHÈME (Puccini): Mirella Freni/Hei-Kyung Hong, Plácido
Domingo/Franco Farina, Barbara Daniels/Myra Merritt, Brian Schexnayder/Gordon
Hawkins, Richard Cowan/Dwayne Croft, Julien Robbins/John Cheek; c. Christian
Badea; 24 September 1990 (10 performances)
DER ROSENKAVALIER (Richard Strauss): Anne Sofie von Otter/Delores
Ziegler, Felicity Lott/Mechthild Gessendorf, Aage Haugland, Barbara
Bonney/Barbara Kilduff, Gottfried Hornik/Morley Meredith; c. Carlos
Kleiber/Jiri Kout; 25 September 1990 (13 performances)
RIGOLETTO (Verdi): Juan Pons/Bruno Pola/Frederick Burchinal, /Leo
Nucci Anderson/Sumi Jo/Hei-Kyung Hong*/Youngok Shin, Jerry Hadley/Alfredo
Kraus/Taro Ichihara/Richard Leech, Wendy White, Nicolai Ghiaurov/Sergei
Koptchak/Stephen Dupont; c. Guido Ajmone-Marson; 26 September 1990 (11
performances)
UN BALLO IN
MASCHERA
(Verdi) (new production): Aprile Millo/Andrea Gruber/Deborah Voigt (Amelia),
Luciano Pavarotti/Taro Ichihara/Franco Bonanome (Riccardo), Juan Pons/Louis
Quilico/Leo Nucci/Giorgio Lormi (Renato), Elena Obraztsova/Alexandrina Milcheva/Florence
Quivar/Sondra Kelly (Ulrica), Harolyn Blackwell/Heidi Grant Murphy/Erie
Mills/Jan Grissom (Oscar); c. James Levine/Paul Nadler/Michelangelo Veltri; p.
Piero Faggioni; d. Piero Faggioni; 25 October 1990 (17 performances)
DIE FLEDERMAUS (Johann Strauss II): Pamela Coburn, Siegfried
Jerusalem, Tracy Dahl/Barbara Kilduff, Neil Rosenshein/Walter MacNeil, Helga
Dernesch, Wolfgang Brendel, Walter Berry/Franz Mazura; c. Julius Rudel; 21
January 1991 (6 performances)
PARSIFAL (Wagner) (new production):
Plácido Domingo/Gary Lakes (Parsifal), Jessye Norman (Kundry), Ekkehard
Wlaschiha (Amfortas), Robert Lloyd (Gurnemanz), Franz Mazura/Aage Haugland
(Klingsor); c. James Levine; p. Otto Schenk; d. Günther Schneider-Siemssen; 14
March 1991 (7 performances)
I PURITANI (Bellini): Edita Gruberova/Marina Bolgan/Martile
Rowland*, Stanford Olsen/Chris Merritt, Paolo Gavanelli/Haijing Fu, Paul
Plishka; c. Richard Bonynge/Robert Duerr; 21 March 1991 (8 performances)
TOSCA (Puccini): Maria Guleghina/Giovanna Casolla, Bruno
Beccaria/Nunzio Todisco, James Morris; c. Plácido Domingo; 30 March 1991 (7
performances)
LA CLEMENZA DI TITO (Mozart): Donald Kaasch, Roberta Alexander,
Tatiana Troyanos, Hei-Kyung Hong, Jane Bunnell; c. James Levine; 8 April 1991
(4 performances)
1991 - 1992
UN BALLO IN MASCHERA (Verdi): Leona Mitchell/Deborah Voigt/Aprile
Millo, Peter Dvorsky/Taro Ichihara/Plácido Domingo, Sherrill Milnes/Juan
Pons/Giorgio Lormi, Stefania Toczyska/Florence Quivar, Sumi Jo/Heidi Grant Murphy/Harolyn
Blackwell; c. Thomas Fulton/James Levine; 25 September 1991 (16 performances)
IDOMENEO (Mozart): Anthony Rolfe Johnson/Ben Heppner, Hei-Kyung
Hong/Dawn Upshaw, Anne Sofie von Otter/Susanne Mentzer, Cheryl Studer/Carol
Vaness, Peter Kazaras; c. James Levine; 28 September 1991 (8 performances)
LA FANCIULLA DEL WEST (Puccini) (new production): Barbara Daniels/Mary Jane Johnson
(Minnie), Plácido Domingo/Vladimir Popov (Dick Johnson), Sherrill Milnes/George
Fortune (Rance); c. Leonard Slatkin; p. Giancarlo Del Monaco; d. Michael Scott;
10 October 1991 (12 performances)
L’ELISIR D’AMORE (Donizetti) (new production): Kathleen Battle/Maria Spacagna
(Adina), Luciano Pavarotti/Alfredo Kraus/Stanford Olsen (Nemorino), Juan
Pons/Mark Oswald (Belcore), John Fiorito/Enzo Dara/Paul Plishka/Renato Capecchi
(Dulcamara); c. Marcello Panni/James Levine/Robert Duerr; p. John Copley; d.
Beni Montresor, Gil Wechsler; 24 October 1991 (16 performances)
AIDA (Verdi): Aprile Millo/Leona Mitchell/Priscilla Baskerville, Lando
Bartolini/Vladimir Popov, Dolora Zajick/Stefania Toczyska, Timothy Noble/James
Morris/George Fortune, Barseg Tumanyan/Stephen Dupont/Matti Salminen/Paul
Plishka; c. Rico Saccani; 31 October 1991 (15 performances)
DIE ENTFÜHRUNG AUS DEM SERAIL (Mozart): Mariella Devia/Marilyn
Mims, Stanford Olsen/Uwe Heilmann/Richard Croft, Barbara Kilduff, Anthony
Laciura, Matti Salminen; c. James Levine/Richard Woitach; 29 November 1991 (7
performances)
LA BOHÈME (Puccini): Veronica Villarroel/Mirella Freni/Maria Spacagna/Michèle
Boucher, Bruno Beccaria/Franco Farina/Luciano Pavarotti/John Fowler, Elizabeth
Holleque/Priscilla Baskerville/Barbara Daniels/Martile Rowland, Kim
Josephson/Gordon Hawkins/Thomas Hampson, Dwayne Croft/Vernon Hartman, Paul
Plishka/Jeffrey Wells; c. Michelangelo Veltri/James Levine/Christian Badea; 26
December 1991 (11 performances)
DER FLIEGENDE HOLLÄNDER (Wagner): James Morris, Hildegard
Behrens/Janis Martin, Gary Lakes/Jon Frederic West, Matti Salminen/Paul
Plishka; c. James Conlon; 9 January 1992 (8 performances)
TURANDOT (Puccini): Gwyneth Jones/Ghena Dimitrova, Vladimir Popov,
Teresa Stratas/Maria Spacagna, Nicola Ghiuselev/Jeffrey Weills/Dimitri Kavrakos;
c. Nello Santi; 23 January 1992 (7 performances)
RIGOLETTO (Verdi): Matteo Manuguerra/Leo Nucci/Giorgio Lormi/Louis
Quilico, Ruth Ann Swenson/Marilyn Mims, Richard Leech/Taro Ichihara, Wendy
White/Sondra Kelly, Jan-Hendrik Rootering/Sergei Koptchak; c. Nello Santi; 17
February 1992 (12 performances)
DON CARLO (Verdi): Michael Sylvester/Bruno Beccaria, Aprile
Millo/Andrea Gruber/Eva Zseller, Leo Nucci/Vladimir Chernov/Brian Montgomery,
Dolora Zajick/Nina Terentieva, Samuel Ramey/Jan-Hendrik Rootering, Sergei
Koptchak; c. James Levine/Samuel Cristler; 27 February 1992 (7 performances)
PARSIFAL (Wagner): Siegfried Jerusalem/Gary Lakes, Waltraud
Meier/Deborah Polaski, Bernd Weikl/Ekkehard Wlaschiha, Kurt Moll/Jan-Hendrik
Rootering, Franz Mazura; c. James Levine; 12 March 1992 (8 performances)
ELEKTRA (Richard Strauss) (new
production): Hildegard Behrens/Penelope Daner (Elektra), Deborah Voigt/Ruth
Falcon (Chrysothemis), Leonie Rysanek/Mignon Dunn (Klytämnestra), Bernd
Weikl/Jan-Hendrik Rootering (Orest), James King (Aegisth); c. James Levine; p.
Otto Schenk; d. Jürgen Rose; 26 March 1992 (7 performances)
BILLY BUDD (Britten): Thomas Hampson, Graham Clark, James Morris,
Alan Held, James Courtney, Julien Robbins; c. Charles Mackerras; 4 April 1992
(5 performances)
1992 - 1993
UN BALLO IN MASCHERA (Verdi): Aprile Millo/Rebecca Copley/Sharon
Sweet, Richard Leech/Vahan Khanzadian/Taro Ichihara/Plácido Domingo, Leo Nucci/Louis
Quilico/Juan Pons/Vladimir Chernov, Florence Quivar/Ludmila Schemtchuk/Stefania
Toczyska, Harolyn Blackwell/Heidi Grant Murphy; c. John Fiore/James Levine; 22
September 1992 (15 performances)
FALSTAFF (Verdi): Paul Plishka, Mirella Freni/Nancy Gustafson,
Bruno Pola, Marilyn Horne, Barbara Bonney/Heidi Grant Murphy, Frank Lopardo/Stanford
Olsen; c. James Levine; 25 September 1992 (9 performances)
TOSCA (Puccini): Ghena Dimitrova/Carol Neblett/Anna Tomowa-Sintow,
Luciano Pavarotti/Emil Ivanov/Lando Bartolini, Alain Fondary/Sherrill Milnes/James
Morris; c. Christian Badea; 19 October 1992 (13 performances)
L’ELISIR D’AMORE (Donizetti): Ruth Ann Swenson/Kathleen
Battle/Youngok Shin/Maria Spacagna, Stanford Olsen/Francisco Araiza/Luciano
Pavarotti/Marcello Giordani, Gino Quilico/Roberto Frontali/Mark Oswald/Kim
Josephson, François Loup/Enzo Dara/Paul Plishka/John Fiorito; c. Edoardo
Müller; 2 November 1992 (20 performances)
LUCIA DI
LAMMERMOOR
(Donizetti) (new production): June Anderson/Martile Rowland/Sumi Jo (Lucia),
Richard Leech/Ramón Vargas/Alfredo Kraus (Edgardo), Juan Pons/Haijing Fu
(Enrico), Paul Plishka/Jeffrey Wells (Raimondo); c. Marcello Panni/Michelangelo
Veltri; p. Francesca Zambello; d. John Conklin, Martin Pakledinaz; 19 November
1992 (18 performances)
LA BOHÈME (Puccini): Gabriela Benacková/Veronica Villarroel/Leona
Mitchell/Maria Spacagna, Luis Lima/Richard Leech/Franco Farina, Nancy
Gustafson/Diana Soviero, Dwayne Croft/Christopher Robertson, Mark Oswald/Vernon
Hartman, John Cheek/Julien Robbins/Jan-Hendrik Rootering; c. John Fiore; 23
November 1992 (15 performances)
DIE WALKÜRE (Wagner): Gwyneth Jones, Gary Lakes, Jessye
Norman/Mechthild Gessendorf/Sabine Hass, James Morris/Robert Hale, Hanna
Schwarz/Christa Ludwig/Ute Priew, Aage Haugland/Matti Salminen/John Macurdy; c.
James Levine; 12 December 1992 (10 performances)
DIE MEISTERSINGER
VON NÜRNBERG
(Wagner) (new production): Donald McIntyre (Sachs), Karita Mattila/Gwynne Geyer
(Eva), Francisco Araiza/Ben Heppner (Walther), Wendy White/Birgitta Svendén
(Magdalene), Lars Magnusson/Anthony Laciura (David), Hermann Prey/Gottfried
Hornik (Beckmesser), Jan-Hendrik Rootering (Pogner); c. James Levine; p. Otto
Schenk; d. Günther Schneider-Siemssen; 14 January 1993 (8 performances)
DER ROSENKAVALIER (Richard Strauss): Susanne Mentzer/Ning Liang,
Mechthild Gessendorf/Anna Tomowa-Sintow, Jan-Hendrik Rootering/Eric Halfvarson,
Helen Donath/Joyce Guyer/Heidi Grant Murphy, Gottfried Hornik/Eike Wilm
Schulte; c. Christian Thielemann; 1 February 1993 (8 performances)
CAVALLERIA RUSTICANA (Mascagni): Waltraud Meier/Stefka Evstatieva,
Bruno Beccaria/Kristián Jóhannsson, Wendy White/Wendy Hoffman, Timothy
Noble/Frederick Burchinal; c. Nello Santi; 12 February 1993 (12 performances)
PAGLIACCI (Leoncavallo): Barbara Daniels/Diana Soviero, Ermanno
Mauro/Vladimir Atlantov/Plácido Domingo, Juan Pons/Louis Quilico, Mark
Oswald/Kim Josephson; c. Nello Santi; 12 February 1993 (12 performances)
LA FANCIULLA DEL WEST (Puccini): Ghena Dimitrova/Carol Neblett,
Nicola Martinucci, Alain Fondary/Sherrill Milnes; c. Christian Badea; 22
February 1993 (8 performances)
ARIADNE AUF NAXOS (Richard Strauss) (new production): Jessye Norman/Deborah Voigt
(Ariadne), Thomas Moser/Jon Fredric West (Bacchus), Ruth Ann Swenson/Tracy Dahl
(Zerbinetta), Susanne Mentzer (Composer), Thomas Stewart (Music Master); c. Ion
Marin; p. Elijah Moshinsky; d. Michael Yeargan, Gil Wechsler; 11 March 1993 (7
performances)
GÖTTERDÄMMERUNG (Wagner): Gwyneth Jones, William Johns/Wolfgang
Schmidt, Alan Held, Marie Plette, Matti Salminen, Tatiana Troyanos, Ekkehard
Wlaschiha/Tom Fox; c. James Levine; 17 April 1993 (3 performances)
DAS RHEINGOLD (Wagner): James Morris/Robert Hale, Hanna Schwarz,
Ekkehard Wlaschiha, Philip Langridge/Graham Clark, Anne Gjevang/Hitomi
Katagiri, Matthias Hölle, Sergei Koptchak/Matti Salminen, Hei-Kyung Hong, John
Horton Murray, Alan Held/James Courtney, Helmut Pampuch/Graham Clark/Heinz
Zednik; c. James Levine; 24 March 1993 (4 performances)
SIEGFRIED (Wagner): William Johns/Wolfgang Schmidt, Gwyneth Jones,
James Morris/Robert Hale, Anne Gjevang/Hitomi Katagiri, Heinz Zednik/Graham
Clark, Ekkehard Wlaschiha/Tom Fox, Matti Salminen, Heidi Grant Murphy/Dawn
Upshaw; c. James Levine; 10 April 1993 (3 performances)
1993 - 1994
TOSCA (Puccini): Maria Guleghina/Janis Martin/Eva Zseller/Diana
Soviero, Plácido Domingo/Emil Ivanov/Luciano Pavarotti/Sergei Larin/Lando
Bartolini/Antonio Barasorda, Sherrill Milnes/Yuri Mazurok/James Morris/Justino
Diaz/Louis Quilico; c. Julius Rudel/Christian Badea/Thomas Fulton; 2 October
1993 (16 performances)
STIFFELIO (Verdi) (Premiere): Plácido
Domingo/Giorgio Lamberti (Stiffelio), Sharon Sweet/Maria Spacagna (Lina), Vladimir
Chernov/Giorgio Lormi (Stankar), Paul Plishka (Jorg); c. James Levine; p.
Giancarlo Del Monaco; d. Michael Scott; 21 October 1993 (11 performances)
LA BOHÈME (Puccini): Veronica Villarroel/Hei-Kyung Hong/Angela
Gheorghiu/Lucia Mazzaria, Richard Leech/Vincenzo La Scola/John Fowler/Fernando
de la Mora, Carol Neblett/Gwynne Geyer/Diana Soviero/Victoria Litherland,
Timothy Noble/Christopher Robertson/Dwayne Croft, Mark Oswald/Manuel Lanza,
Yanni Yannissis/Hao Jiang Tian/Julien Robbins/Kevin Short; c. Carlo Rizzi; 29
October 1993 (21 performances)
RUSALKA (Dvorak) (premiere): Gabriela
Benacková/Gwynne Geyer (Rusalka), Neil Rosenshein/Ben Heppner (Prince), Janis
Martin/Lauren Flanigan (Foreign Princess), Dolora Zajick/Stefania Toczyska
(Jezibaba), Sergei Koptchak/Paul Plishka (Vodnik); c. John Fiore; p. Otto
Schenk; d. Günther Schneider-Siemssen, Sylvia Strahammer; 11 November 1993 (9
performances)
ELEKTRA (Richard Strauss): Hildegard Behrens/Penelope
Daner/Gwyneth Jones, Deborah Voigt, Brigitte Fassbaender/Mignon Dunn/Leonie
Rysanek, Robert Hale/Donald McIntyre/Jan-Hendrik Rootering, James King; c.
James Levine; 6 January 1994 (10 performances)
LUCIA DI LAMMERMOOR (Donizetti): Mariella Devia/Eva Mallas/Youngok
Shin, Jerry Hadley/Taro Ichihara/John Fowler/Ramón Vargas, Juan Pons/Kim
Josephson/Roberto Frontali/Haijing Fu, Dimitri Kavrakos/Paul Plishka/Jeffrey
Wells; c. Nello Santi/Edoardo Müller; 10 January 1994 (15 performances)
AIDA (Verdi): Sharon Sweet/Andrea Gruber, Michael Sylvester/Fabio
Armiliato/Lando Bartolini/Daniel Muñoz*, Stefania Toczyska/Barbara Dever/Dolora
Zajick/Ghena Dimitrova, Timothy Noble/Juan Pons/Leo Nucci, Paul Plishka; c.
John Fiore/Samuel Cristler; 17 January 1994 (13 performances)
ADRIANA LECOUVREUR (Cilea): Mirella Freni, Luis Lima, Stefania
Toczyska, Sherrill Milnes/Louis Quilico, James Courtney; c. Roberto Abbado; 3
March 1994 (7 performances)
OTELLO (Verdi) (new production): Plácido Domingo/Vladimir
Atlantov, Carol Vaness/Renée Fleming/Ljubov Kazarnovskaya, Sergei Leiferkus/Timothy
Noble; c. Valery Gergiev/Adam Fischer; p. Elijah Moshinsky; d. Michael Yeargan,
Peter J. Hall; 21 March 2004 (9 performances)
DER FLIEGENDE HOLLÄNDER (Wagner): James Morris, Hildegard
Behrens/Deborah Voigt, Klaus König/Ben Heppner, Jan-Hendrik Rootering; c.
Hermann Michael/James Levine; 30 March 1994 (5 performances)
ARIADNE AUF NAXOS (Richard Strauss): Deborah Voigt, Wolfgang
Schmidt, Tracy Dahl, Teresa Stratas, Hermann Prey; c. James Levine; 16 April
1994 (3 performances)
1994 - 1995
LA BOHÈME (Puccini): Angela Gheorghiu/Ainhoa Arteta/Mary
Mills/Nuccia Focile, Richard Leech/Luis Lima, Diana Soviero/Lauren
Flanigan/Patricia Racette, Timothy Noble/Kim Josephson/Roberto Frontali, David
Malis/Richard Byrne/Mark Oswald, Stefano Palatchi/Kevin Short/Herbert Perry; c.
Michelangelo Veltri/John Fiore; 27 September 1994 (11 performances)
RIGOLETTO (Verdi): Juan Pons/Paolo Gavanelli/Theodore Lambrinos,
Youngok Shin/Sumi Jo/Maureen O’Flynn/Mary Dunleavy, Ramón Vargas/Alfredo
Kraus/Vincenzo La Scola/Eduardo Valdes, Wendy White/Birgitta Svendén/Susanna
Poretsky, Sergei Koptchak/Eric Halfvarson/Robert Lloyd/Paul Plishka/Alexander
Anisimov; c. Christian Badea/Michelangelo Veltri; 28 September 1994 (22
performances)
IDOMENEO (Mozart): Plácido Domingo, Dawn Upshaw/Hei-Kyung Hong,
Susanne Mentzer/Anne Sofie von Otter, Luciana Serra/Carol Vaness, Ryland
Davies; c. James Levine; 1 October 1994 (8 performances)
TOSCA (Puccini): Carol Vaness/Ghena Dimitrova/Elizabeth Holleque,
Luciano Pavarotti, Sherrill Milnes/Justino Diaz/Juan Pons; c. James
Levine/Daniel Oren; 5 October 1994 (12 performances)
CAVALLERIA RUSTICANA (Mascagni): Maria Guleghina, Kristián
Jóhannsson/Fabio Armiliato, Victoria Livengood/Wendy White, Timothy Noble/Bruno
Pola; c. Christian Badea; 24 October 1994 (13 performances)
PAGLIACCI (Leoncavallo): Diana Soviero/Ljubov
Kazarnovskaya/Daniela Dessi/Gwynne Geyer, Vladimir Atlantov/Nicola
Martinucci/Antonio Barasorda, Leo Nucci/Sherrill Milnes/Louis Quilico, Manuel
Lanza/Mark Oswald/Dwayne Croft; c. Christian Badea; 24 October 1994 (13
performances)
DIE FLEDERMAUS (Johann Strauss II): Pamela Coburn/Gwynne Geyer,
Hermann Prey, Tracy Dahl/Harolyn Blackwell, Neil Rosenshein/Stanford Olsen/Jon
Garrison, Jochen Kowalski/Hanna Schwarz, Wolfgang Brendel, Gottfried
Hornik/John Del Carlo; c. Hermann Michael; 22 December 1994 (10 performances)
L’ELISIR D’AMORE (Donizetti): Ruth Ann Swenson/Youngok Shin, Jerry
Hadley/Stanford Olsen, Lucio Gallo/Mark Oswald/Bruno Pola, Paul Plishka/József
Gregor; c. Edoardo Müller; 2 January 1995 (9 performances)
SIMON BOCCANEGRA (Verdi) (new production): Vladimir Chernov/Frederick Burchinal
(Boccanegra), Kiri Te Kanawa/Aprile Millo/Andrea Gruber (Amelia), Plácido
Domingo/Fabio Armiliato/Vahan Khanzadian/Giorgio Lamberti (Gabriele), Robert
Lloyd/Roberto Scandiuzzi/Paul Plishka (Fiesco), Bruno Pola (Paolo); c. James
Levine; p. Giancarlo Del Monaco; d. Michael Scott, Wayne Chouinard; 19 January 1995
(12 performances)
TURANDOT (Puccini): Gwyneth Jones/Ghena Dimitrova, Lando Bartolini/Vladimir
Popov, Teresa Stratas/Maria Spacagna, Paul Plishka/Hao Jiang Tian; c. Nello
Santi; 27 January 1995 (10 performances)
DER ROSENKAVALIER (Richard Strauss): Susan Graham/Anne Sofie von
Otter, Mechthild Gessendorf, Franz Hawlata/Eric Halfvarson, Heidi Grant
Murphy/Joyce Guyer*, Gottfried Hornik; c. James Levine; 24 February 1995 (5
performances)
PELLÉAS ET MÉLISANDE (Debussy) (new production): Dwayne Croft (Pelléas), Frederica von
Stade (Mélisande), Victor Braun (Golaud), Robert Lloyd/Nicolai Ghiaurov
(Arkel), Marilyn Horne (Geneviève); c. James Levine; p. Jonathan Miller; d.
John Conklin, Clare Mitchell, Duane Schuler; 23 March 1995 (6 performances)
PARSIFAL (Wagner): Plácido Domingo, Gwyneth Jones, Wolfgang
Brendel/James Courtney*, Robert Lloyd, Donald McIntyre; c. James Levine; 14
April 1995 (3 performances)
1995 - 1996
OTELLO (Verdi): Plácido Domingo, Renée Fleming/Aprile Millo, James
Morris; c. James Levine; 2 October 1995 (7 performances)
AIDA (Verdi): Nina Rautio/Andrea Gruber/Sharon Sweet/Ellen Shade,
Kristián Jóhannsson/Michael Sylvester/Antonio Barasorda, Dolora Zajick/Barbara
Dever/Stefania Toczyska, Timothy Noble/Theodore Lambrinos/Sherill Milnes/Juan
Pons/Frederick Burchinal, Carlo Colombara/Robert Lloyd/Paul Plishka/Stefano
Palatchi; c. Christian Badea; 3 October 1995 (20 performances)
PIKOVAYA DAMA (The Queen of Spades) (Tchaikovsky) (new production):
Karita Mattila/Maria Guleghina (Lisa), Ben Heppner/Gegam Grigorian (Cherman),
Leonie Rysanek (Countess), Dmitri Hvorostovsky (Yeletsky), Nikolai Putilin
(Tomsky); c. Valery Gergiev; p. Elijah Moshinsky; d. Mark Thompson, Paul Pyant;
26 October 1995 (9 performances)
UN BALLO IN MASCHERA (Verdi): Sharon Sweet/Stevka
Evstatieva/Deborah Voigt, Francisco Araiza, Paolo Gavanelli/Leo Nucci, Dolora
Zajick/Barbara Dever, Elizabeth Norberg-Schulz/Heidi Grant Murphy; c. Mark
Elder; 10 November 1995 (9 performances)
DIE MEISTERSINGER VON NÜRNBERG (Wagner): Bernd Weikl, Karita
Mattila, Ben Heppner/John Horton Murray, Birgitta Svendén, Lars Magnusson,
Hermann Prey, Jan-Hendrik Rootering; c. James Levine; 4 December 1995 (5
performances)
LA BOHÈME (Puccini): Hei-Kyung Hong/Barbara Frittoli/Mary
Mills/Angela Gheorghiu/ Cristina Gallardo-Domâs, Marcello Giordani/Vladimir
Grishko/Roberto Alagna, Diana Soviero/Patricia Racette/Karita Mattila, Dwayne
Croft/Haijing Fu/William Shimell, Eduardo Del Campo/David Malis, Stefano
Palatchi/Julien Robbins; c. Carlo Rizzi/Simone Young; 11 December 1995 (16
performances)
DIE FLEDERMAUS (Johann Strauss II): June Anderson/Cynthia Lawrence,
Wolfgang Brendel/Thomas Allen, Janet Williams, Neil Rosenshein/Jon Garrison,
Jochen Kowalski/Joyce Castle, Russell Braun/David Malis, John Del Carlo/François
Loup; c. Hermann Michael; 20 December 1995 (7 performances)
VĚC MAKROPULOS (Janáček) (new production):
Jessye Norman/Mary Jane Johnson (Emilia Marty), Marie Plette (Kristina), Graham
Clark (Albert Gregor), Ronald Naldi (Vitek), William Burden (Janek), Anthony
Laciura (Hauk-Sendorf), Håkan Hagegård (Prus), Donald McIntyre (Kolenaty); c.
David Robertson; p. Elijah Moshinsky; d. Anthony Ward, Dona Granata, Howard
Harrison; 11 January 1996 (6 performances) (The first night was cancelled
following the death on stage of Richard Versalle moments after the beginning)
TURANDOT (Puccini): Ghena Dimitrova/Ruth Falcon, Michael Sylvester/Vladimir
Popov/Lando Bartolini/Giuliano Ciannella, Veronica Villarroel/Angela
Gheorghiu/Norah Ansellem, Dimitri Kavrakos/Hao Jiang Tian/Paul Plishka; c.
Nello Santi; 12 January 1996 (16 performances)
FALSTAFF (Verdi): Paul Plishka/Bruno Pola, Barbara Daniels, Gino
Quilico/Haijing Fu, Marilyn Horne/Stephanie Blythe, Barbara Bonney/Heidi Grant
Murphy, Paul Groves/Stanford Olsen; c. James Levine; 22 January 1996 (6
performances)
COSÌ FAN TUTTE (Mozart) (new production):
Carol Vaness (Fiordiligi), Jerry Hadley/Paul Groves (Ferrando), Susanne Mentzer
(Dorabella), Dwayne Croft (Guglielmo), Cecilia Bartoli (Despina), Thomas Allen
(Don Alfonso); c, James Levine; p. Lesley Koenig; d, Michael Yeargan, Duane
Schuler; 8 February 1996 (10 performances)
LA FORZA DEL
DESTINO (Verdi)
(new production): Sharon Sweet/Deborah Voigt (Leonora), Plácido Domingo/Sergei
Larin (Don Alvaro), Vladimir Chernov (Don Carlo), Roberto Scandiuzzi/Paul
Plishka (Padre Guardiano), Gloria Scalchi/Victoria Livengood (Preziosilla),
Bruno Pola/David Evitts (Melitone); c. James Levine/Franz Vote; p. Giancarlo
del Monaco; d. Michael Scott; 29 February 1996 (10 perfomances)
ANDRÉA CHENIER (Giordano) (new production):
Luciano Pavarotti/Vahan Khanzadian/Ben Heppner (Chenier), Aprile Millo/Stefka
Evstatieva (Maddalena), Juan Pons (Gérard); c. James Levine; p. Nicolas Joël;
d. Hubert Monloup; 6 April 1996 (7 performances)
DIE WALKÜRE (Wagner): Gabriele Schnaut, Plácido Domingo, Deborah
Voigt, Robert Hale, Hanna Schwarz, John Macurdy; c. James Levine; 15 April 1996
(3 performances)
IDOMENEO (Mozart): Plácido Domingo, Renée Fleming, Susanne
Mentzer, Carol Vaness, Mark Oswald; c. James Levine; 17 May 1996 (1
performance)
1996 - 1997
ANDRÉA CHENIER (Giordano): Luciano Pavarotti, Maria Guleghina,
Juan Pons/Sergei Leiferkus; c. James Levine; 30 September 1996 (6 performances)
RIGOLETTO (Verdi): Frederick Burchinal/Juan Pons, Ruth Ann
Swenson/Mary Dunleavy, Frank Lopardo/Roberto Alagna/Jonathan Welch, Victoria Livengood/Robynne
Redmon/Wendy White, Nicolai Ghiaurov/Sergei Koptchak/Alastair Miles; c. Carlo
Rizzi; 14 October 1996 (14 performances)
CARMEN (Bizet) (new production):
Waltraud Meier/Denyce Graves/Wendy White (Carmen), Plácido Domingo/John Horton
Murray/Luis Lima/Neil Rosenshein/Vinson Cole (Don José), Angela Gheorghiu/Hei-Kyung
Hong/Ainhoa Arteta (Micaela), Sergei Leiferkus/Gino Quilico/Greer
Grimsley/Jeffrey Wells (Escamillo); c. James Levine/Plácido Domingo/Yves Abel;
p. Franco Zeffirelli; d. Franco Zeffirelli, Anna Anni; 31 October 1996 (23
performances)
L’ELISIR D’AMORE (Donizetti): Barbara Bonney/Joyce Guyer*/Andrea
Rost, Roberto Alagna/Stanford Olsen/Richard Leech, Simon Keenlyside/Gino
Quilico, Paul Plishka/Leo Nucci; c. Carlo Rizzi; 6 November 1996 (9
performances)
COSÌ FAN TUTTE (Mozart): Renée Fleming/Wendy Nielsen/Carol Vaness,
Paul Groves/Richard Croft/Jerry Hadley, Susanne Mentzer/Jane Bunnell/Susan
Graham, Dwayne Croft/Nathan Gunn, Marie McLaughlin/Cecilia Bartoli/Clare
Gormley, William Shimell/Thomas Allen; c. James Levine/Martin Isepp; 16
November 1996 (13 performances)
TOSCA (Puccini): Carol Vaness/Maria Guleghina, Vincenzo La
Scola/Sergei Larin/Luciano Pavarotti/Fabio Armiliato, Jean-Philippe
Lafont/James Morris; c. Christian Badea/James Levine; 13 December 1996 (13
performances)
LA BOHÈME (Puccini): Patricia Racette/Maria Spacagna/Veronica
Villarroel, Marcello Giordani/Vladimir Grishko/Richard Leech, Gwynne
Geyer/Emily Pulley, Anthony Michaels-Moore/Haijing Fu, Paul Whelan/Christopher
Schaldenbrand, Hao Jiang Tian/Julien Robbins; c. Nello Santi; 28 December 1996
(11 performances)
CAVALLERIA RUSTICANA (Mascagni): Dolora Zajick/Ghena Dimitrova/Maria
Guleghina/Stefka Evstatieva/Eva Urbanová, Fabio Armiliato/Kristián Jóhannsson/Vahan
Khanzadian, Wendy White/Victoria Livengood/Kristine Jepson, Bruno Pola/Vassili
Gerello/Frederick Burchinal; c. Simone Young/James Levine/Christian Badea; 6
January 1997 (19 performances)
PAGLIACCI (Leoncavallo): Diana Soviero/Elizabeth Holleque/Daniela
Dessi, Johan Botha/Vladimir Bogachov/Plácido Domingo/Antonio Barasorda, Paolo
Gavanelli/Leo Nucci/Juan Pons/Bruno Pola, Anthony Michaels-Moore/Mark Oswald/Dwayne
Croft/Kim Josephson; c. Simone Young/James Levine/Christian Badea; 6 January
1997 (19 performances)
I PURITANI (Bellini): Ruth Ann Swensen/Youngok Shin, Stuart
Neill/Stanford Olsen, Thomas Hampson, Alastair Miles; c. Edoardo Müller; 13
January 1997 (6 performances)
UN BALLO IN MASCHERA (Verdi): Deborah Voigt/Aprile Millo/Stefka
Evstatieva, Luciano Pavarotti/Kristián Jóhannsson, Juan Pons, Florence Quivar/Barbara
Dever/Stefania Toczyska, Youngok Shin/Korliss Uecker; c. James Levine/Franz
Vote; 30 January 1997 (10 performances)
WOZZECK (Berg) (new production): Falk
Struckmann (Wozzeck), Maria Ewing (Marie), Graham Clark (Captain), Mark W.
Baker (Drum Major), Michael Devlin (Doctor), Donald Kaasch (Andres); c. James
Levine; p. Mark Lamos; d. Robert Israel, James F. Ingalls; 10 February 1997 (5
performances)
AIDA (Verdi): Sharon Sweet/Lisa Gasteen/Carolyn James, Michael
Sylvester/Richard Margison, Stefania Toczyska/Barbara Dever/Dolores Zajick,
Sherrill Milnes/Juan Pons/Frederick Burchinal, Eric Halfvarson/Carlo Colombara;
c. Adam Fischer; 17 February 1997 (11 performances)
BILLY BUDD (Britten): Dwayne Croft, Philip Langridge/Peter
Kazaras, James Morris, Victor Braun, James Courtney, Julien Robbins; c. Steuart
Bedford; 26 February 1997 (6 performances)
YEVGÉNY ONÉGIN (Eugene Onegin) (new production): Vladimir Chernov (Onegin), Galina
Gorchakova/Marina Shaguch (Tatiana), Neil Shicoff/Clifton Forbis/Franco Farina
(Lensky), Marianna Tarassova (Olga), Vladimir Ognovenko/Paul Plishka (Gremin);
c. Antonio Pappano; p. Robert Carsen; Michael Levine; 13 March 1997 (9
performances)
FAUST (Gounod): Richard Leech/Jianyi Zhang, Renée Fleming/Veronica
Villarroel/Gwynne Geyer, Samuel Ramey/Robert Lloyd, Dmitri Hvorostovsky/Dwayne
Croft, Jane Bunnell/Kristine Jepson; c. Julius Rudel; 21 March 1997 (10
performances)
DAS RHEINGOLD (Wagner): James Morris, Hanna Schwarz/Michelle
DeYoung, Ekkehard Wlaschiha, Graham Clark/Siegfried Jerusalem, Birgitta
Svendén, René Pape/Franz Hawlata, Stephen West/Matti Salminen, Hei-Kyung Hong,
Mark Baker, Alan Held, Dennis Petersen/Graham Clark; c. James Levine; 26 March
1997 (4 performances)
DIE WALKÜRE (Wagner): Hildegard Behrens/Janis Martin/Gabriele
Schnaut, Plácido Domingo/Gary Lakes, Deborah Voigt, James Morris, Hanna
Schwarz, John Macurdy/Matti Salminen; c. James Levine; 7 April 1997 (5
performances)
SIEGFRIED (Wagner): Wolfgang Schmidt/Siegfried Jerusalem,
Hildegard Behrens/Gabriele SchnautPenelope Daner, James Morris, Birgitta
Svendén, Graham Clark, Ekkehard Wlaschiha, Matti Salminen/John Macurdy, Heidi
Grant Murphy; c. James Levine; 19 April 1997 (3 performances)
GÖTTERDÄMMERUNG (Wagner): Hildegard Behrens/Gabriele Schnaut,
Wolfgang Schmidt/Siegfried Jerusalem, Alan Held, Marie Plette, Matti
Salminen/Eric Halfvarson, Hanna Schwarz, Ekkehard Wlaschiha; c. James Levine;
26 April 1997 (3 performances)
RUSALKA (Dvorak): Renée Fleming, Chris Merritt, Frances Ginzer,
Dolora Zajick, Sergei Koptchak; c. John Fiore; 3 May 1997 (3 performances)
1997 - 1998
CARMEN (Bizet): Denyce Graves, Plácido Domingo/Luis Lima/John
Horton Murray/Thomas Moser, Norah Amsellem/Wendy Nielsen, Gino Quilico/Greer
Grimsley; c. Jams Levine/Yves Abel; 22 September 1997 (10 performances)
MANON (Massenet): Renée Fleming, Marcello Giordani, Roberto de
Candia/Mark Oswald, Paul Plishka/Eric Halfvarson; c. Julius Rudel; 23 September
1997 (8 performances)
ARIADNE AUF NAXOS (Richard Strauss): Deborah Voigt, Thomas Moser,
Natalie Dessay, Susanne Mentzer, Wolfgang Brendel; c. James Levine; 24
September 1997 (7 performances)
TURANDOT (Puccini): Jane Eaglen/Eva Marton/Sharon Sweet, Luciano
Pavarotti/Kristián Jóhannsson/Richard Margison, Hei-Kyung Hong/Ruth Ann Swenson,
Roberto Scandiuzzi/Sergei Koptchak/Hao Jiang Tian; c. James Levine/Nello Santi;
29 September 1997 (14 performances)
LA CENERENTOLA (Rossini) (premiere): Cecilia
Bartoli/Jennifer Larmore (Angelina),
Ramón Vargas (Prince Ramiro), Alessandro Corbelli (Dandini), Simone Alaimo (Don
Magnifico), Joyce Guyer/Korliss Uecker (Clorinda), Wendy White/Patricia Risley
(Tisbe), Michele Pertusi (Alidoro); c. James Levine; p. Cesare Lievi; d.
Maurizio Balò; 16 October 1997 (12 performances)
LA CLEMENZA DI TITO (Mozart): Anthony Rolfe Johnson, Carol
Vaness/Brenda Harris*, Anne Sofie von Otter, Heidi Grant Murphy, Angelika
Kirchschlager; c. James Levine; 26 November 1997 (4 performances)
DON CARLO (Verdi): Fabio Armiliato/Luis Lima, Marina
Mescheriakova, Thomas Hampson, Dolora Zajick/Barbara Dever, James Morris/Francesco
Ellero D’Artegna, Vladimir Ognovenko; c. Myung-Whun Chung; 8 December 1987 (7
performances)
CAPRICCIO (Richard Strauss) (Première): Kiri Te Kanawa (Countess), Kathryn
Harries (Clairon), David Kuebler (Flamand), Kim Josephson/Wolfgang Brendel
(Count), Simon Keenlyside (Olivier), Jan-Hendrik Rootering (La Roche), Susan
Patterson (Italian Soprano), Bonaventura Bottone (Italian Tenor); c. Andrew
Davis; p. John Cox; d. Mauro Pagano, Martin Battersby, Duane Schuler; 9 January
1998 (6 performances)
L’ELISIR D’AMORE (Donizetti): Ruth Ann Swenson/Youngok Shin,
Luciano Pavarotti/Ramón Vargas/Frank Lopardo, Earle Patriarco/Roberto de
Candia, Paul Plishka; c. Maurizio Benini; 19 January 1998 (11 performances)
SAMSON ET DALILA (Saint-Saëns) (new production):
Plácido Domingo/Mark Baker (Samson), Denyce Graves (Dalila), Sergei
Leiferkus/Frederick Burchinal (High Priest); c. Leonard Slatkin; p. Elijah
Moshinsky; d. Richard Hudson; 13 February 1998 (9 performances)
LOHENGRIN (Wagner) (new production): Ben
Heppner/Johan Botha (Lohengrin), Deborah Voigt (Elsa), Deborah Polaski/ Eva Urbanová (Ortrud),
Hans-Joachim Ketelsen/Richard Paul Fink (Telramund), Eric Halfvarson (King
Heinrich), Eike Wilm Schulte (Herald); c. James Levine; p. Robert Wilson; d.
Robert Wilson; 9 March 1998 (7 performances)
STIFFELIO (Verdi): Plácido Domingo, Sharon Sweet, Haijing
Fu/Veronica Villarroel, Paul Plishka/Jeffrey Wells; c. James Levine; 23 March
1998 (6 performances)
DIE MEISTERSINGER VON NÜRNBERG (Wagner): James Johnson, Eva
Johansson, Ben Heppner, Wendy White, Gert Henning-Jensen/Clemens Bieber,
Hans-Joachim Ketelsen, Hans Sotin; c. James Levine; 6 April 1998 (4
performances)
VĚC MAKROPULOS (Janáček): Catherine Malfitano, Marie Plette,
Graham Clark/Robert Brubaker, Ronald Naldi, Gregory Turay/Matthew Polenzani,
Anthony Laciura, Tom Fox, Stephen West; c. Charles Mackerras; 11 April 1998 (4
performances)
1998 - 1999
SAMSON ET DALILA (Saint-Saëns): Plácido Domingo/Mark W. Baker,
Olga Borodina/Denyce Graves, Sergei Leiferkus/Frederick Burchinal; c. James
Levine; 28 September 1998 (8 performances)
AIDA (Verdi): Maria Guleghina/Sharon Sweet/Hasmik Papian, Vladimir
Bogachov/Michael Sylvester/Giorgio Merighi/Fabio Armiliato/Dennis O’Neill, Nina
Terentieva/Olga Borodina/Dolora Zajick, Gregg Baker/Paolo Gavanelli/Juan
Pons/Frederick Burchinal/Alexandru Agache, Robert Lloyd/Paul Plishka/Paata
Burchuladze; c. Plácido Domingo/Paul Nadler/Nello Santi/James Levine; 29
September 1998 (21 performances)
LOHENGRIN (Wagner): Ben Heppner, Karita Mattila, Deborah Polaski/Eva
Urbanová, Falk Struckmann/Richard Paul Fink, René Pape, Eike Wilm Schulte/Kim
Josephson; c. James Levine; 30 September 1998 (7 performances)
TOSCA (Puccini): Eva Urbanová/Aprile Millo/Maria Guleghina/Carol
Vaness, Richard Leech/Paul Lyon/Luciano Pavarotti, Alain Fondary/Juan
Pons/James Morris; c. Nello Santi; 2 October 1998 (14 performances)
CARMEN (Bizet): Béatrice Uria-Monzon/Wendy White, Franco
Farina/Gösta Winbergh, Hei-Kyung Hong/Sondra Radvanovsky, Gino Quilico/Gregg
Baker; c. David Robertson; 12 October 1998 (11 performances)
LE NOZZE DI FIGARO (Mozart) (new production): Bryn
Terfel/Richard Bernstein (Figaro), Cecilia Bartoli/Barbara Bonney/Joyce Guyer
(Susanna), Dwayne Croft (Count), Renée Fleming/Felicity Lott/Wendy Nielsen
(Countess), Susanne Mentzer/Kristine Jepson (Cherubino); c. James Levine/Julius
Rudel; p. Jonathan Miller; d. Peter J. Davison, James Acheson; 29 October 1998
(12 performances)
LA BOHÈME (Puccini): Hei-Kyung Hong/Francesca Pedaci/Cristina
Gallardo-Domâs/Maria Spacagna/Mary Mills, Frank Lopardo/Vladimir
Grishko/Richard Leech/Luis Lima/Marcello Giordani/Alfredo Portilla, Gwynne
Geyer/Emily Pulley/Ainhoa Arteta, Gino Quilico/Roberto de Candia/Anthony
Michaels-Moore/Kim Josephson/Earle Patriarco/Motti Kaston, Nathan
Gunn/Christopher Schaldenbrand/Kamel Boutros, Denis Sedov/David
Pittsinger/Julien Robbins/Hao Jiang Tian; c. Marco Armiliato/Julius Rudel; 9
November 1998 (25 performances)
LA TRAVIATA (Verdi) (new production):
Patricia Racette/Ainhoa Arteta, Marcelo Alvarez/Roberto Aronica/Marcello
Giordani, Haijing Fu/Vladimir Chernov; c. James Levine/Carlo Rizzi/Scott Bergeson;
p. Franco Zeffirelli; d. Franco Zeffirelli, Raimonda Gaetani; 23 November 1998
(13 performances)
LUCIA DI
LAMMERMOOR
(Donizetti) (new production): Ruth Ann Swenson/Elizabeth Futral/Youngok
Shin/Annick Massis (Lucia), Ramón Vargas/Stuart Neill/Jonathan Welch (Edgardo),
Roberto Frontali/Anthony Michaels-Moore/Haijing Fu/Kim Josephson (Enrico),
Alastair Miles/Paul Plishka/Hao Jiang Tian (Raimondo); c. Carlo Rizzi/Gareth
Morrell; p. Nicolas Joël; d. Ezio Frigerio, Franca Squarciapino; 7 December
1998 (17 performances)
DIE FLEDERMAUS (Johann Strauss II): Carol Vaness/Pamela Coburn, Bo
Skovhus/Neil Rosenshein, Elizabeth Norberg-Schulz/Elizabeth Carter, Michael
Schade/Paul Charles Clarke, Jochen Kowalski/Victoria Livengood, Earle
Patriarco/William Stone, John Del Carlo/James Courtney; c. Patrick Summers; 24
December 1998 (7 performances)
SIMON BOCCANEGRA (Verdi): Alexandru Agache, Karita Mattila/Marina
Mescheriakova, Plácido Domingo/Michael Sylvester, Roberto Scandiuzzi/Paul
Plishka, Haijing Fu; c. James Levine; 25 January 1999 (6 performances)
ELEKTRA (Richard Strauss): Gabriele Schnaut, Deborah Voigt, Hanna
Schwarz, Monte Pederson, Kenneth Riegel/Allan Glassman; c. James Levine/Franz
Vote; 19 February 1999 (4 performances)
KHOVANSHCHINA (Mussorgsky): Vladimir Ognovenko/Paata Burchuladze,
Clifton Forbis/Vladimir Grishko, Dolora Zajick/Larissa Diadkova, Roberto
Scandiuzzi/, Vladimir Bogachov/Robert Brubaker, Nikolai Putilin/Richard Paul
Fink; c. Valery Gergiev; 1 March 1999 (6 performances)
RIGOLETTO (Verdi): Franz Grundheber, Andrea Rost/Kim
Josephson/Youngok Shin, Ramón Vargas/Frank Lopardo, Graciela Araya/Wendy White,
Eric Halfvarson/Robert Lloyd; c. Maurizio Benini; 8 March 1999 (8 performances)
PIKOVAYA DAMA (The Queen of Spades) (Tchaikovsky): Galina
Gorchakova, Plácido Domingo/Yuri Marusin, Elisabeth Söderström/Irina
Bogatcheva, Dmitri Hvorostovsky, Vassily Gerello/Nikolai Putilin; c. Valery
Gergiev; 18 March 1999 (8 performances)
GIULIO CESARE (Handel): Jennifer Larmore, Sylvia McNair, Stephanie
Blythe, David Daniels, Brian Asawa; c. John Nelson; 10 April 1999 (5
performances)
WOZZECK (Berg): Franz Grundheber, Hildegard Behrens, Kenneth
Riegel, Mark W. Baker, Franz Hawlata, David Kuebler; c. James Levine; 17 April
1999 (3 performances)
1999 - 2000
CAVALLERIA RUSTICANA (Mascagni): Dolora Zajick/Eva Urbanová, José
Cura/Dennis O’Neill/Fabio Armiliato, Wendy White/Victoria Livengood, Nikolai
Putilin/Paolo Gavanelli/Kim Josephson; c. Carlo Rizzi/Steven Crawford; 27
September 1999 (11 performances)
PAGLIACCI (Leoncavallo): Veronica Villarroel/Emily Pulley, Plácido
Domingo/Dennis O’Neill/Vladimir Bogachov, Juan Pons/Frederick Burchinal, Dwayne
Croft/Mark Oswald; c. Carlo Rizzi; 27 September 1999 (11 performances)
LUCIA DI LAMMERMOOR (Donizetti): Andrea Rost/Ruth Ann Swenson,
Frank Lopardo/Ramón Vargas, Roberto Frontali/John Avey/Leo Nucci, Paul
Plishka/Hao Jiang Tian/Michele Pertusi; c. Charles Mackerras/Edoardo Müller; 29
September 1999 (10 performances)
OTELLO (Verdi): Plácido Domingo/Vladimir Bogachov, Barbara
Frittoli/Gabriela Benacková/Elena Evseeva, James Morris/Sergei Leiferkus; c.
James Levine/Mark Elder; 2 October 1999 (8 performances)
AIDA (Verdi): Deborah Voigt/Norma Fantini/Sharon Sweet, Fabio
Armiliato/Richard Margison/Michael Sylvester, Olga Borodina/Dolora Zajick,
Nikolai Putilin/Juan Pons/Simon Estes, Peter Rose/Paul Plishka/René Pape; c.
Carlo Rizzi/Paul Nadler; 8 October 1999 (12 performances)
TOSCA (Puccini): Elizabeth Holleque/Eva Marton/Carol Vaness,
Luciano Pavarotti/Kristián Jóhannsson/Richard Leech, Juan Pons/James Morris; c.
Daniel Oren; 14 October 1999 (14 performances)
LE
NOZZE DI FIGARO (Mozart): Ferruccio Furlanetto/Herbert Perry/Ildebrando
D'Arcangelo/Richard Bernstein, Rebecca Evans/Joyce Guyer/Barbara Bonney, Dwayne
Croft/John Fanning/Bo Skovhus, Hei-Kyung Hong/Amanda Roocroft, Susan
Graham/Ruxandra Donose/Susanne Mentzer; c. Edo de Waart; 21 October 1999 (12
performances)
TRISTAN UND ISOLDE (Wagner) (new production): Ben Heppner
(Tristan), Jane Eaglen/Sue Patchell (Isolde), Richard Paul Fink/Hans-Joachim
Ketelsen (Kurwenal), Katarina Dalayman/Wendy White (Brangäne), René Pape/Paul
Plishka (Marke); c. James Levine; p. Dieter Dorn; d. Jürgen Rose; 22 November
1999 (8 performances)
L’ELISIR D’AMORE (Donizetti): Angela Gheorghiu/Youngok Shin,
Roberto Alagna/Frank Lopardo, Dmitri Hvorostovsky, Paul Plishka; c. Evelino
Pidò; 30 November 1999 (6 performances)
RIGOLETTO (Verdi): Paolo Gavanelli/Leo Nucci/Kim Josephson/Carlo
Guelfi/Frederick Burchinal, Sumi Jo/Youngok Shin/Jennifer Welch-Babidge,
Marcelo Alvarez/Frank Lopardo/Roberto Aronica/Jonathan Welch, Victoria
Livengood/Wendy White, Franz Hawlata/Robert Lloyd/Dimitri Kavrakos/Hao Jiang
Tian; c. Vladimir Jurowski/Nello Santi; 3 January 2000 (18 performances)
LA TRAVIATA (Verdi): Cristina Gallardo-Domâs/Patricia Racette,
Roberto Aronica/Stuart Neill, Vladimir Chernov/Thomas Hampson/Anthony
Michaels-Moore; c. Roberto Abbado; 13 January 2000 (12 performances)
DER ROSENKAVALIER (Richard Strauss): Susan Graham, Renée Fleming,
Franz Hawlata, Heidi Grant Murphy, Hans-Joachim Ketelsen; c. James Levine; 20
January 2000 (6 performances)
DIE WALKÜRE (Wagner): Deborah Polaski/Jane Eaglen, Poul
Elming/Plácido Domingo, Deborah Voigt, James Morris, Hanna Schwarz/Felicity
Palmer, Phillip Ens/Eric Halfvarson/Kristinn Sigmundsson; c. James Levine; 3
February 2000 (6 performances)
LA CENERENTOLA (Rossini): Jennifer Larmore/Theodora Hanslowe, Raúl
Giménez/Gregory Kunde, Alessandro Corbelli, Simone Alaimo, Joyce Guyer,
Patricia Risley, John Relyea/Julien Robbins; c. Bruno Campanella; 24 February
2000 (6 performances)
DAS RHEINGOLD (Wagner): James Morris, Hanna Schwarz/Felicity
Palmer, Ekkehard Wlaschiha/Richard Paul Fink, Philip Langridge, Birgitta
Svendén, Eric Halfvarson/Jan-Hendrik Rootering, Sergei Koptchak, Hei-Kyung
Hong/Sondra Radvanovsky, Mark Baker, Alan Held, Graham Clark/Dennis Petersen;
c. James Levine; 22 March 2000 (4 performances)
LA BOHÈME (Puccini): Leontina Vaduva/Nuccia Focile, Luis
Lima/Franco Farina/Alfredo Portilla, Ainhoa Arteta/Emily Pulley/Nancy Gustafson,
Simon Keenlyside/Kim Josephson/Rodney Gilfry, Mel Ulrich/Mark Oswald, Egils
Silins/Julien Robbins/Hao Jiang Tian; c. Marco Armiliato/Plácido Domingo/Nello
Santi; 24 March 2000 (12 performances)
PELLÉAS ET MÉLISANDE (Debussy): Dwayne Croft, Dawn Upshaw, Willard
White/Frederick Burchinal, Robert Lloyd, Nadine Denize; c. James Levine; 3
April 2000 (5 performances)
SIEGFRIED (Wagner): Stig Andersen/Wolfgang Neumann, Jane Eaglen,
James Morris, Birgitta Svendén, Graham Clark, Ekkehard Wlaschiha/Richard Paul
Fink, Eric Halfvarson/Richard Vernon, Heidi Grant Murphy/Joyce Guyer; c. James
Levine; 15 April 2000 (3 performances)
GÖTTERDÄMMERUNG (Wagner): Jane Eaglen, Stig Andersen/Wolfgang
Neumann, Alan Held, Sondra Radvanovsky, Eric Halfvarson/John Macurdy, Felicity
Palmer, Ekkehard Wlaschiha/Richard Paul Fink; c. James Levine; 22 April 2000 (3
performances)
GIULIO CESARE (Handel): Jennifer Larmore, Hei-Kyung Hong/Sandra
Moon, Stephanie Blythe, David Daniels, Brian Asawa; c. John Nelson; 28 April
2000 (3 performances)
2000 - 2001
SAMSON ET DALILA (Saint-Saëns): Plácido Domingo, Denyce
Graves/Irina Mishura/Olga Borodina, Sergei Leiferkus/Gregg Baker; c. Mark
Elder/James Levine; 26 September 2000 (16 performances)
PELLÉAS ET MÉLISANDE (Debussy): Dwayne Croft, Susanne Mentzer,
José Van Dam, Robert Lloyd, Nadine Denize; c. James Levine; 27 September 2000
(4 performances)
TURANDOT (Puccini): Alessandra Marc/Adrienne Dugger/Jane Eaglen,
Richard Margison/Michael Sylvester/Dennis O’Neill, Cristina
Gallardo-Domàs/Indra Thomas/Angela Gheorghiu/Hei-Kyung Hong, Paul
Plishka/Robert Lloyd; c. Marco Armiliato; 30 September 2000 (15 performances)
FIDELIO (Beethoven) (new production):
Karita Mattila/Renate Behle (Leonore), Ben Heppner/Roland Wagenführer
(Florestan), Falk Struckmann/Sergei Leiferkus (Don Pizarro), René Pape (Rocco),
Jennifer Welch-Babidge/Hei-Kyung Hong (Marzelline), Matthew Polenzani/Mark
Schowalter (Jaquino); c. James Levine/Gareth Morrell; p. Jürgen Flimm; d.
Robert Israel, Florence von Gerkan; 13 October 2000 (12 performances)
CARMEN (Bizet): Olga Borodina/Irina Mishura, Roberto Alagna/Neil
Shicoff/Richard Leech, Norah Amsellem/Janice Watson, René Pape/Franck Ferrari;
c. Bertrand de Billy; 23 October 2000 (12 performances)
LA BOHÈME (Puccini): Cristina Gallardo-Domâs/Elena Evseeva/Nuccia
Focile/Miriam Gauci, Marcello Giordani/Frank Lopardo, Sondra Radvanovsky/Noëmi
Nadelmann/Ainhoa Arteta, Jean-Luc Chaignaud/Gerald Finley, Mark
Oswald/Troy Cook/Earle Patriarco, Richard Bernstein/Erwin Schrott; c. Marco
Armiliato/Joseph Colaneri/Steven Crawford; 28 October 2000 (16 performances)
DER ROSENKAVALIER (Richard Strauss): Kristine Jepson, Cheryl
Studer, Eric Halfvarson, Elizabeth Norberg-Schulz, Alan Opie; c. Jiri Kout; 16
November 2000 (12 performances)
DER FLIEGENDE HOLLÄNDER (Wagner): James Morris, Nina Stemme/Sue
Patchell, Roland Wagenführer, Jan-Hendrik Rootering/Peter Rose; c. Valery
Gergiev; 24 November 2000 (8 performances)
LA TRAVIATA (Verdi): Ruth Ann Swenson/Patricia Racette/Zvetelina
Vassileva/Ainhoa Arteta/Sondra Radvanovsky, Marcelo Alvarez/Roberto
Aronica/Luis Lima/Stuart Neill/Jonathan Welch, Dwayne Croft/Dmitri
Hvorostovsky/Kim Josephson; c. Jun Märkl/Maurizio Barbacini; 16 December 2000
(20 performances)
AIDA (Verdi): Deborah Voigt, Luciano Pavarotti/Gegam Grigorian,
Olga Borodina/Barbara Dever, Mark Delavan, Gennady Bezzubenkov; c. James
Levine/Paul Nadler; 15 January 2001 (6 performances)
UN BALLO IN MASCHERA (Verdi): Michèle Crider/Elena Zelenskaya/Ana
Maria Sanchez, Franco Farina/Francisco Casanova, Alexandru Agache/Juan Pons,
Elena Zaremba/Barbara Dever, Youngok Shin/Korliss Uecker; c. Plácido Domingo/Franz
Vote; 22 January 2001 (10 performances)
MANON (Massenet): Ruth Ann Swenson, Giuseppe Sabbatini, Roberto de
Candia, Paul Plishka/Hao Jiang Tian; c. Julius Rudel; 10 February 2001 (7
performances)
COSÌ FAN TUTTE (Mozart): Melanie Diener/Wendy Nielsen, Paul
Groves/Gregory Turay, Susan Graham/Theodora Hanslowe, Rodney Gilfry/Christopher
Schaldenbrand, Dawn Upshaw/Marie McLaughlin/Clare Gormley, Michele
Pertusi/Julien Robbins; c. Patrick Summers; 17 February 2001 (8 performances)
NABUCCO (Verdi) (new production): Juan Pons/Frederick Burchinal
(Nabucco), Maria Guleghina/Andrea Gruber (Abigaille), Francisco Casanova/Gwyn
Hughes Jones (Ismaele), Wendy White/Marianna Tarassova (Fenena), Samuel
Ramey/Dimitri Kavrakos* (Zaccaria); c. James Levine; p. Elijah Moshinsky; d.
John Napier, Andreane Neofitou, Howard Harrison; 8 March 2001 (9 performances)
IGROK (The
Gambler) (Prokofiev) (premiere): Vladimir Galouzine (Alexey), Olga
Guryakova (Paulina), Sergei Alexashkin (General), Nikolai Gassiev (Marquis),
Elena Obraztsova (Babulenka), Olga Savova (Blanche); c. Valery Gergiev; p.
Temur Chkheidze; d. George Tsypin, Georgi Alexi-Meskhishvili; 19 March 2001 (6
performances)
PARSIFAL (Wagner): Plácido Domingo, Violeta Urmana, Hans-Joachim
Ketelsen, John Tomlinson, Ekkehard Wlaschiha/Richard Paul Fink; c. James
Levine; 29 March 2001 (5 performances)
LULU (Berg): Christine Schäfer/Cyndia Sieden, James Courtney/Stephen
West, Hanna Schwarz, David Kuebler, Franz Mazura; c. James Levine; 9 April 2001
(5 performances)
ARIADNE AUF NAXOS (Richard Strauss): Deborah Voigt, Richard
Margison, Lyubov Petrova, Susanne Mentzer, Wolfgang Brendel; c. James Levine;
14 April 2001 (3 performances)
VĚC MAKROPULOS (Janáček): Catherine Malfitano, Jennifer
Welch-Babidge, Robert Brubaker, Ronald Naldi, Matthew Polenzani, Anthony
Laciura, Tom Fox, Peter Mikulás; c. Charles Mackerras; 23 April 2001 (3
performances)
RIGOLETTO (Verdi): Juan Pons, Ruth Ann Swenson, Ramón Vargas,
Irina Mishura/Wendy White, Robert Lloyd; c. James Levine; 20 May 2001 (5
performances)
TOSCA (Puccini): Georgina Lukács/Aprile Millo, Francisco
Casanova/Hugh Smith, James Morris/Frederick Burchinal; c. Julius Rudel; 19 June
2001 (6 performances)
2001 – 2002
YEVGÉNY ONÉGIN (Eugene Onegin): Thomas Hampson, Solveig
Kringelborn/Elena Evseeva, Marcello Giordani/Neil Shicoff, Katarina Karnéus/Svetlana
Serdar, Robert Lloyd/Paul Plishka; c. Vladimir Jurowski; 25 September 2001 (9
performances)
WOZZECK (Berg): Falk Struckmann, Katarina Dalayman, Graham Clark,
Wolfgang Neumann, Michael Devlin, John Horton Murray; c. James Levine; 26
September 2001 (4 performances)
IDOMENEO (Mozart): Plácido Domingo, Dawn Upshaw/Hei-Kyung Hong,
Susan Graham/Anne Sofie von Otter, Carol Vaness/Alexandra Deshorties, Mark
Oswald; c. James Levine/Scott Bergeson; 29 September 2001 (11 performances)
LA BOHÈME (Puccini): Hei-Kyung Hong/Patricia Racette/Pamela
Armstrong/Cristina Gallardo-Domâs/Mary Mills, Marcello Giordani/Frank
Lopardo/Ramón Vargas/Alfredo Portilla, Inva Mula/Emily Pulley/Alexandra von der
Weth/Ainhoa Arteta/Mary Dunleavy/January Grissom, Bruno Caproni/Anthony
Michaels-Moore/Mark Oswald/Christopher Schaldenbrand, Earle Patriarco/Mark
Oswald/Franco Pomponi/Kamel Boutros, John Relyea/Julien Robbins/Erwin
Schrott/Jeffrey Wells; c. Carlo Rizzi/Marco Armiliato/Julius Rudel; 1 October
2001 (23 performances)
NORMA (Bellini) (new production):
Jane Eaglen (Norma), Richard Margison/Antonio Barasorda (Pollione), Dolora
Zajick/Daniela Barcellona (Adalgisa), Hao Jiang Tian/Robert Lloyd/Rosendo
Flores (Oroveso); c. Carlo Rizzi; p. John Copley; d. John Conklin; 11 October
2001 (7 performances)
LUISA MILLER (Verdi) (new production):
Marina Mescheriakova/Sondra Radvanovsky/Barbara Frittoli (Luisa), Neil
Shicoff/Martin Thompson (Rodolfo), Nikolai Putilin/Roberto Frontali (Miller),
Hao Jiang Tian (Count Walter), Phillip Ens/Paul Plishka (Wurm), Denyce
Graves/Wendy White (Federica); c. James Levine/Joseph Colaneri; p. Elijah
Moshinsky; d. Santo Loquasto; 26 October 2001 (11 performances)
LA TRAVIATA (Verdi): June Anderson/Krassimira Stoyanova, Vinson
Cole/Alfredo Portilla/Frank Lopardo, Juan Pons/Anthony Michaels-Moore/John
Avey; c. Maurizio Benini; 5 November 2001 (13 performances)
DIE MEISTERSINGER VON NÜRNBERG (Wagner): James Morris, Solveig
Kringelborn/Karita Mattila, Johan Botha/Ben Heppner, Jill Grove, Mathias
Zachariassen/Matthew Polenzani, Eike Wilm Schulte/Thomas Allen, René Pape; c.
James Levine; 17 November 2001 (7 performances)
DON CARLO (Verdi): Richard Margison/Eduardo Villa, Galina
Gorchakova/Veronica Villarroel, Dmitri Hvorostovsky/Vasily Gerello, Irina
Mishura/Dolora Zajick, Samuel Ramey/Paata Burchuladze, Paata
Burchuladze/Vladimir Ognovenko; c. Valery Gergiev/Paul Nadler; 29 December 2001
(8 performances)
TOSCA (Puccini): Catherine Malfitano/Sylvie Valayre/Cynthia
Lawrence/Georgina Lukács/Maria Guleghina, Franco Farina/Francisco
Casanova/Richard Leech/Salvatore Licitra, James Morris/Carlo Guelfi; c. Daniel
Oren/Julius Rudel/James Levine; 4 January 2002 (16 performances)
LE NOZZE DI FIGARO (Mozart): Ferruccio Furlanetto, Korliss
Uecker/Rebecca Evans, Peter Mattei/Michele Pertusi, Soile Isokoski/Melanie
Diener, Kristine Jepson/Angelika Kirchschlager; c. Donald Runnicles; 24 January
2002 (10 performances)
VOYNA I MIR (War and Peace) (Prokofiev) (premiere): Dmitri Hvorostovsky
(Andrei), Anna Netrebko (Natasha), Ekaterina Semenchuk (Sonya), Elena
Obraztsova/Larisa Shevchenko (Madame Akhrosimova); c. Valery Gergiev/Gianandrea
Noseda; p. Andrei Konchalovsky; d. George Tsypin, Tatiana Noginova; 14 February
2002 (10 performances)
RIGOLETTO (Verdi): Juan Pons/Carlo Guelfi/Leo Nucci, Ruth Ann
Swenson/Maureen O’Flynn, Marcelo Álvarez/Ramón Vargas/Frank Lopardo, Denyce
Graves/Mzia Nioradze/Irina Mishura, Robert Lloyd/Sergei Koptchak/Eric
Halfvarson; c. Marco Guidarini/Plácido Domingo; 22 February 2002 (17
performances)
FALSTAFF (Verdi): Bryn Terfel/Juan Pons, Marina Mescheriakova,
Dwayne Croft, Stephanie Blythe/Wendy White, Camilla Tilling/Lyubov Petrova,
Gregory Turay/Gwyn Hughes Jones; c. James Levine; 21 March 2002 (9
performances)
LULU (Berg): Christine Schäfer, James Courtney, Hanna Schwarz,
David Kuebler, Franz Mazura; c. James Levine; 12 April 2002 (3 performances)
2002 - 2003
TURANDOT (Puccini): Andrea Gruber/Audrey Stottler/Adrienne Dugger
Eva Urbanová, Vladimir
Galouzine/Richard Margison/Carl Tanner/Franco Farina/Oleg Kulko, Hei-Kyung
Hong/Norah Amsellem/Olivia Gorra/Jennifer Check, Hao Jiang Tian/Robert
Lloyd/Oren Gradus/Andrew Gangestad; c. Carlo Rizzi/Marco Armiliato/Joseph
Colaneri; 24 September 2002 (19 performances)
ELEKTRA (Richard Strauss): Deborah Polaski/Gabriele Schnaut,
Karita Mattila/Deborah Voigt, Marjana Lipovsek/Hanna Schwarz, Alan Held/René
Pape, Wolfgang Neumann/Siegfried Jerusalem; c. James Levine; 25 September 2002
(7 performances)
LA CENERENTOLA (Rossini): Sonia Ganassi, Juan Diego Flórez,
Alessandro Corbelli, Simone Alaimo, Joyce Guyer, Patricia Risley, John Relyea;
c. Edoardo Müller; 28 September 2002 (5 performances)
ANDRÉA CHENIER (Giordano): Plácido Domingo/Antonio Barasorda*,
Sylvie Valayre/Aprile Millo, Juan Pons/Frederick Burchinal; c. James
Levine/Paul Nadler; 30 September 2002 (7 performances)
CARMEN (Bizet): Denyce Graves/Victoria Livengood, Allan
Glassman/Clifton Forbis/Richard Leech/Neil Shicoff, Mary Mills/Wendy
Nielsen/Mary Dunleavy/Pamela Armstrong, Ludovic Tézier; c. Yves Abel; 7 October
2002 (15 performances)
AIDA (Verdi): Michèle Crider/Hasmik Papian/Deborah Voigt, Richard
Margison/Eduardo Villa, Irina Mishura/Dolora Zajick/Marianne Cornetti/Larissa
Diadkova/Barbara Dever, Alexandru Agache/Yalun Zhang/Mark Delavan/Frederick
Burchinal, Paata Burchuladze/Matti Salminen/Robert Lloyd/Eric Halfvarson; c.
Marco Armiliato; 28 October 2002 (15 performances)
LUCIA DI LAMMERMOOR (Donizetti): Ruth Ann Swenson/Annick
Massis/Olga Makarina/Elizabeth Futral/Maureen O’Flynn, Marcelo Álvarez/Jianyi
Zhang/Francisco Casanova/Aquiles Machado, Anthony Michaels-Moore/Bruno
Caproni/William Stone/Richard Zeller, John Relyea/Julien Robbins/Dimitri
Kavrakos; c. Patrick Summers/Edoardo Müller; 11 November 2002 (14 performances)
FIDELIO (Beethoven): Waltraud Meier, Johan Botha, Richard Paul
Fink/Tom Fox, Matti Salminen/Eric Halfvarson, Hei-Kyung Hong/Korliss Uecker,
Paul Charles Clarke; c. Peter Schneider; 16 November 2002 (7 performances)
DIE FLEDERMAUS (Johann Strauss): Solveig Kringelborn/Cynthia
Lawrence, Louis Otey/David Kuebler, Rosemary Joshua/Lyubov Petrova, Paul Charles
Clarke/Francisco Casanova, Jennifer Larmore/Victoria Livengood, Peter
Coleman-Wright, John Del Carlo; c. Philippe Jordan; 19 December 2002 (7
performances)
JENŮFA (Janáček): Karita Mattila
(Jenufa), Kim Begley/Richard Berkeley-Steele (Laca), Deborah Polaski/Rosalind
Plowright (Kostelnicka), Christopher Ventris/Adam Klein (Steva); c. Vladimir
Janowski; p. Olivier Tambosi; d. Frank Philipp Schlössmann; 13 January 2003 (8
performances)
DIE ENTFÜHRUNG AUS DEM SERAIL (Mozart): Alexandra Deshorties, Paul
Groves, Jennifer Welch-Babidge/Lyubov Petrova, Barry Banks/Tony Stevenson, Kurt
Moll; c. James Levine; 20 January 2003 (5 performances)
LA BOHÈME (Puccini): Elena Kelessidi/Elena Evseeva/Hei-Kyung Hong,
Ramón Vargas/Frank Lopardo/Jianyi Zhang, Ainhoa Arteta/Angela Maria Blasi/Emily
Pulley, Vassily Gerello/Mariusz Kwiecien, Earle Patriarco/Franco Pomponi,
Richard Bernstein/Julien Robbins; c. Marcello Viotti/Julius Rudel; 19 February
2003 (14 performances)
LA TRAVIATA (Verdi): Ruth Ann Swenson/Maureen O'Flynn/Elizabeth
Blancke-Biggs/Andrea Rost, Frank Lopardo/Marcus Haddock, Lado Ataneli; c.
Bertrand de Billy/Marcello Viotti; 25 February 2003 (11 performances)
FAUST (Gounod): Robert Alagna/Marcus Haddock, Angela
Gheorghiu/Emily Pulley, James Morris, Dwayne Croft*/Mark Oswald/Earle
Patriarco, Katarina Karnéus/Jossie Pérez; c. Bertrand de Billy; 3 March 2003 (7
performances)
OTELLO (Verdi): Vladimir Galuzin, Kallen Esperian/Barbara
Frittoli, Nikolai Putilin; c. Valery Gergiev; 10 March 2003 (6 performances)
NABUCCO (Verdi): Frederick Burchinal/Lado Ataneli, Andrea
Gruber/Susan Neves, Francisco Casanova/Jianyi Zhang, Wendy White/Elizabeth
Bishop, Samuel Ramey/Paata Burchuladze; c. James Levine; 17 March 2003 (6
performances)
ARIADNE AUF NAXOS (Richard Strauss): Deborah Voigt/Christine
Brewer, Richard Margison, Natalie Dessay, Susanne Mentzer/Kristine Jepson,
Wolfgang Brendel; c. James Levine; 28 March 2003 (5 performances)
PARSIFAL (Wagner): Plácido Domingo, Violeta Urmana/Linda Watson,
Falk Struckmann, René Pape, Nikolai Putilin; c. Valery Gergiev; 4 April 2003 (5
performances)
DIE MEISTERSINGER VON NÜRNBERG (Wagner): James Morris, Solveig
Kringelborn, Johan Botha, Jill Grove, Matthew Polenzani, Hans-Joachim Ketelsen,
René Pape; 25 April 2003 (3 performances)
2003 - 2004
LA TRAVIATA (Verdi): Renée Fleming/Ruth Ann Swenson, Ramón
Vargas/Rolando Villazón, Dmitri Hvorostovsky/Bruno Caproni/Dwayne Croft; c.
Valery Gergiev/Paul Nadler; 29 September 2003 (16 performances)
TRISTAN UND ISOLDE (Wagner): Ben Heppner, Jane Eaglen, Richard
Paul Fink/Greer Grimsley, Wendy White/Katarina Dalayman, René Pape; c. James
Levine; p. Dieter Dorn; d. Jürgen Rose; 30 September 2003 (5 performances)
LE NOZZE DI FIGARO (Mozart): John Relyea/Ferruccio Furlanetto,
Dorothea Röschmann/Korliss Uecker, Dwayne Croft, Anja Harteros/Alexandra
Deshorties/Hei-Kyung Hong, Katarina Karnéus/Jossie Pérez/Magdalena Kozená/Katharine
Goeldner; c. James Levine/Scott Bergeson; 1 October 2003 (13 performances)
LA BOHÈME (Puccini): Hei-Kyung Hong/Elena Evseeva/Cristina
Gallardo-Domâs, Roberto Aronica/Aquiles Machado/Vincenzo La Scola, Zvetelina
Vassileva/Emily Pulley, Richard Zeller/Marius Kwiecien, Sebastian Catana/John
Hancock/Christopher Schaldenbrand, Tigran Martirossian/Oren Gradus/Julien Robbins;
c. Daniel Oren; 18 October 2003 (14 performances)
RIGOLETTO (Verdi): Juan Pons/Frederick Burchinal/Franz Grundheber,
Andrea Rost/Olga Makarina/Ruth Ann Swenson, Frank Lopardo/Raúl Hernández/Ramón
Vargas, Marina Domashenko/Mzia Nioradze/Irina Mishura, Rosendo Flores/Julian
Konstantinov/Stephen Milling; c. Marco Armiliato; 5 January 2004 (16
performances)
TOSCA (Puccini): Sylvie Valayre/Maria Guleghina/Cynthia
Lawrence/Carol Vaness, Franco Farina/Francisco Casanova/Luciano Pavarotti,
Samuel Ramey; c. John Fiore/James Levine; 26 January 2004 (12 performances)
PIKOVAYA DAMA (The Queen of Spades) (Tchaikovsky): Katarina
Dalayman/Adrianne Pieczonka, Plácido Domingo, Felicity Palmer, Vladimir
Chernov/Dmitri Hvorostovsky, Nikolai Putilin/Frederick Burchinal; c. Vladimir
Jurowski; 7 February 2004 (8 performances)
DON GIOVANNI (Mozart) (new production):
Thomas Hampson/Peter Mattei (Don Giovanni), Anja Harteros/Alexandra Deshorties
(Donna Anna), Gregory Turay/Matthew Polenzani (Don Ottavio), Christine Goerke/Solveig
Kringelborn (Donna Elvira), René Pape/Michele Pertusi/Burak Bilgili
(Leporello), Hei-Kyung Hong/Nicole Heaston/Camilla Tilling (Zerlina), Ildar
Abdrazakov/Patrick Carfizzi/Richard Bernstein (Masetto); c. James Levine/Gareth
Morrell/Andrew Davis; p. Marthe Keller; d. Michael Yeargan, Christine
Rabot-Pinson; 1 March 2004 (15 performances)
SALOME (Richard Strauss): Karita
Mattila/Sue Patchell (Salome), Albert Dohmen/Bryn Terfel (Jochanaan), Larissa
Diadkova/Victoria Livengood (Herodias), Allan Glassman/Siegfried Jerusalem
(Herod), Matthew Polenzani (Narraboth); c. Valery Gergiev; p. Jürgen Flimm; d.
Santo Loquasto; 15 March 2004 (8 performances)
DAS RHEINGOLD (Wagner): James Morris, Yvonne Naef, Richard Paul
Fink, Philip Langridge, Elena Zaremba/Jill Grove, Evgeny Nikitin, Sergei
Koptchak, Jennifer Welch-Babidge, Mark Baker, Alan Held, Gerhard Siegel/David
Cangelosi; c. James Levine; 20 March 2004 (4 performances)
DIE WALKÜRE (Wagner): Jane Eaglen/Gabriel Schnaut, Plácido
Domingo, Deborah Voigt/Lisa Gasteen, James Morris, Yvonne Naef, Sergei
Koptchak/Matti Salminen; c. James Levine; 29 March 2004 (5 performances)
SIEGFRIED (Wagner): Jon Frederic West, Jane Eaglen/Gabriele
Schnaut, James Morris, Elena Zaremba/Jill Grove, Gerhard Siegel, Richard Paul
Fink, Matti Salminen, Joyce Guyer; c. James Levine; 17 April 2004 (3
performances)
GÖTTERDÄMMERUNG (Wagner): Jane Eaglen/Gabriele Schnaut, Jon
Frederic West, Alan Held, Margaret Jane Wray, Matti Salminen, Yvonne Naef,
Richard Paul Fink; c. James Levine; 24 April 2004 (3 performances)
RUSALKA (Dvorak): René Fleming, Oleg Kulko, Eva Urbanová, Dolora
Zajick, Willard White; c. Andrew Davis; 30 April 2004 (3 performances)
NABUCCO (Verdi): Leo Nucci/Mark Delavan, Andrea Gruber/Maria
Guleghina/Susan Neves/Rebecca Copley, Gwyn Hughes Jones/Jianyi Zhang/Ronald
Naldi, Marina Domashenko/Elizabeth Bishop/Robynne Redmon, Samuel Ramey/Raymond
Aceto/Vitalij Kowaljow; c. Carlo Rizzi/Joseph Colaneri; 5 April 2004 (10
performances (incl. 4 Parks performances))
2004 - 2005
OTELLO (Verdi): Ben Heppner, Barbara Frittoli, Carlo
Guelfi/Frederick Burchinal; c. James Levine; 20 September 2004 (9 performances)
CARMEN (Bizet): Olga Borodina/Marina Domashenko/Irina Mishura,
Neil Shicoff/Richard Leech/Fabio Armiliato/Eduardo Villa, Hei-Kyung Hong/Maureen
O’Flynn, Ildar Abdrazakov/Louis Otey; c. James Levine/Plácido Domingo/Paul
Nadler; 21 September 2004 (15 performances)
DIE WALKÜRE (Wagner): Olga Sergeeva, Plácido Domingo, Margaret
Jane Wray/Adrianne Pieczonka/Katarina Dalayman, Mikhail Kit/Vladimir Vaneev,
Yvonne Naef/Larissa Diadkova, Stephen Milling; c. Valery Gergiev; 25 September
2004 (8 performances)
DIE ZAUBERFLÖTE (Mozart) (new production):
Dorothea Röschmann/Lisa Milne/Nicole Heaston (Pamina), Matthew
Polenzani/Gregory Turay (Tamino), Lyubica Vargicová/Erika Miklósa (Queen of the
Night), Kwangchul Youn/Kurt Moll (Sarastro), Rodion Pogossov/Matthias Goerne
(Papageno), Anna Christy/Yvonne Gonzales (Papagena), Volker Vogel (Monostatos);
c. James Levine/Julius Rudel; p. Julie Taymor; d. George Tsypin, Julie Taymor,
Donald Holder; 8 October 2004 (10 performances)
AIDA (Verdi): Fiorenza Cedolins/Angela Brown/Norma Fantini, Franco
Farina/Eduardo Villa, Dolora Zajick/Mzia Nioradze/Irina Mishura/Marianne
Cornetti, Juan Pons/Anooshah Golesorkhi/Ambrogio Maestri/Mark Rucker, Vitaly
Kowaljow/Kwangchul Youn; c. Marcello Viotti/Gareth Morrell; 16 October 2004 (14
performances)
LA BOHÈME (Puccini): Ruth Ann Swenson/Elena Evseeva, Marcelo
Álvarez/Frank Lopardo/José Luis Duval/Roberto Aronica, Ainhoa Arteta/Anna
Netrebko/Victoria Litherland, Peter Mattei/Dwayne Croft, Patrick Carfizzi/Earle
Patriarco, Evgeny Nikitin/Andrew Gangestad/Owen Gradus; c. Daniel Oren; 22
October 2004 (14 performances)
CAVALLERIA RUSTICANA (Mascagni): Eva Urbanová/Violeta Urmana,
Fabio Armiliato/Oleg Kulko/Eduardo Villa, Jossie Pérez/Sandra Piques Eddy,
Frederick Burchinal/Anooshah Golesorkhi; c. Dennis Russell Davies; 30 October
2004 (7 performances)
PAGLIACCI (Leoncavallo): Daniela Dessi/Victoria Litherland/Patricia
Racette, Vladimir Galouzine/John MacMaster, Juan Pons, Mariusz Kwiecien/Hung
Yun; c. Dennis Russell Davies; 30 October 2004 (7 performances)
RODELINDA (Handel) (Première): Renée Fleming (Rodelinda), Kobie van
Rensburg (Grimoaldo), John Relyea/Oren Gradus (Garibaldo), Stephanie Blythe
(Eduige), David Daniels/David Walker (Bertarido), Bejun Mehta/Theodora Hanslowe
(Unulfo); c. Harry Bicket; p. Stephen Wadsworth; d. Thomas Lynch, Martin
Pakledinaz, Peter Kaczorowski; 2 December 2004 (9 performances)
TURANDOT (Puccini): Andrea Gruber/Rebecca Copley/Audrey Stottler,
Johan Botha/Franco Farina, Krassimira Stoyanova/Janice Watson, Hao Jiang Tian/Vitalij
Kowaljow; c. Bertrand de Billy/Marco Armiliato; 3 January 2005 (14
performances)
PELLÉAS ET MÉLISANDE (Debussy): William Burden, Anne Sofie von
Otter, José Van Dam, Roberto Scandiuzzi, Felicity Palmer; c. James Levine; 29
January 2005 (4 performances)
LE NOZZE DI FIGARO (Mozart): John Relyea, Andrea Rost, Mariusz
Kwiecien, Janice Watson, Jossie Pérez; c. James Levine; 3 February 2005 (4
performances)
NABUCCO (Verdi): Nikolai Putilin, Maria Guleghina, Gwyn Hughes
Jones/Ronald Naldi, Wendy White, Paata Burchuladze; c. James Levine/Joseph
Colaneri; 14 February 2005 (6 performances)
SAMSON ET DALILA (Saint-Saëns): José Cura/Clifton Forbis/Mark
Baker, Denyce Graves/Malgorzata Walewska/Irina Mishura, Jean-Philippe
Lafont/Frederick Burchinal/Kim Josephson; c. Bertrand de Billy/Julius Rudel; 21
February 2005 (11 performances)
DON CARLO (Verdi): Richard Margison/Eduardo Villa, Sondra
Radvanovsky, Dwayne Croft, Luciana D’Intino/Violeta Urmana, Ferruccio
Furlanetto, Paata Burchuladze/Samuel Ramey; c. Fabio Luisi; 3 March 2005 (8
performances)
DER ROSENKAVALIER (Richard Strauss): Susan Graham/Kristine Jepson,
Angela Denoke, Peter Rose, Laura Aikin/Lyubov Petrova, Håkan Hagegård/John
Fanning; c. Donald Runnicles; 11 March 2005 (7 performances)
TOSCA (Puccini): Maria Guleghina/Sylvie Valayre/Aprile
Millo/Cynthia Lawrence, Salvatore Licitra/Marcello Giordani/Francisco
Casanova/Oleg Kulko, Mark Delavan/Frederick Burchinal/James Morris; c. James
Conlon/Derrick Inouye; 21 March 2005 (16 performances)
DON GIOVANNI (Mozart): Gerald Finley, Tamar Iveri, Richard Croft,
Adina Nitescu, Samuel Ramey, Isabel Bayrakdarian, Jonathan Lemalu; c. Philippe
Jordan; 28 March 2005 (6 performances)
UN BALLO IN MASCHERA (Verdi): Deborah Voigt/Aprile Millo, Marcello
Giordani, Carlos Alvarez/Yalun Zhang, Marianne Cornetti/Larissa Diadkova,
Lyubov Petrova/Youngok Shin; c. James Conlon; 4 April 2005 (9 performances)
FAUST (Gounod) (new production): Roberto
Alagna (Faust), Soile Isokoski/Veronica Villarroel (Marguerite), René Pape
(Méphistophélès), Dmitri Hvorostovsky/Hung Yun (Valentin), Kristine
Jepson/Jossie Pérez (Siebel); c. James Levine/Steven Crawford; p. Andrei
Serban; d. Santo Loquasto; 21 April 2005 (9 performances)
LA CLEMENZA DI TITO (Mozart): Frank Lopardo, Melanie Diener, Anne
Sofie von Otter, Heidi Grant Murphy, Sarah Connolly; c. James Levine; 29 April
2005 (5 performances)
CYRANO DE BERGERAC (Alfano) (premiere): Plácido
Domingo (Cyrano), Sondra Radvanovsky (Roxane), Raymond Very (Christian),
Anthony Michaels-Moore (De Guiche), Roberto de Candia (Ragueneau); c. Marco
Armiliato; p. Francesca Zambello; d. Peter J. Davison, Anita Yavich; 13 May
2005 (3 performances)
2005
- 2006
MANON (Massenet): Renée Fleming, Marcelo Álvarez/Massimo Giordano,
Jean-Luc Chaignaud/Hung Yun, Julien Robbins/Hao Jiang Tian; c. Jesús
López-Cobos; 20 September 2005 (8 performances)
LA BOHÈME (Puccini): Hei-Kyung Hong/Ruth Ann Swenson/Elena
Evseeva, Roberto Aronica/Fernando de la Mora*/Frank Lopardo, Alexandra
Deshorties/Emily Pulley, Vladimir Chernov/Vassily Gerello, Sebastian
Catana/Earle Patriarco, Richard Bernstein/Rosendo Flores/Oren Gradus; c.
Philippe Auguin; 22 September 2005 (13 performances)
FALSTAFF (Verdi): Bryn Terfel/Louis Otey, Patricia Racette,
Roberto Frontali, Stephanie Blythe, Heidi Grant Murphy, Matthew
Polenzani/Gregory Turay; c. James Levine; 23 September 2005 (8 performances)
ARIADNE AUF NAXOS (Richard Strauss): Violeta Urmana, Jon Villars,
Diana Damrau, Susan Graham, Thomas Allen; c. Kirill Petrenko; 24 September 2005
(5 performances)
CARMEN (Bizet): Nancy Fabiola Herrera/Milena Kiric/Denyce Graves,
Marco Berti/Eduardo Villa/Marcello Giordani, Ruth Ann Swenson/Ana Maria
Martinez, Jean-Luc Chaignaud/Erwin Schrott; c. Philippe Jordan; 6 October 2005
(12 performances)
LA CENERENTOLA (Rossini): Olga Borodina, Barry Banks/Kenneth
Tarver, Simone Alberghini, Simone Alaimo, Rachelle Durkin, Patricia Risley,
Ildar Abdrazakov; c. Antonello Allemandi; 8 October 2005 (6 performances)
AIDA (Verdi): Michèle Crider/Hasmik Papian/Andrea Gruber,
Salvatore Licitra/Franco Farina/Johan Botha, Dolora Zajick/Malgorzata
Walewska*/Yvonne Naef/Olga Borodina, Lado Ataneli/Mark Rucker/Mark Delavan/Juan
Pons, Paata Burchuladze/Kwangchul Youn; c. James Conlon; 14 October 2005 (13
performances)
COSÌ FAN TUTTE (Mozart): Barbara Frittoli/Alexandra Deshorties,
Matthew Polenzani/Paul Groves, Magdalena Kozená/Maria Zifchak, Mariusz
Kwiecien/Jeff Mattsey, Nuccia Focile, Thomas Allen/Julien Robbins; c. James
Levine; 21 October 2005 (7 performances)
LUCIA DI LAMMERMOOR (Donizetti): Elizabeth Futral/Youngok Shin,
Giuseppe Filianoti/Ramón Vargas, Charles Taylor, John Relyea/Hao Jiang Tian; c.
Edoardo Müller; 27 October 2005 (9 performances)
LE NOZZE DI FIGARO (Mozart): Luca Pisaroni/John Relyea, Lisa
Milne/Andrea Rost, Peter Mattei/John Hancock, Hei-Kyung Hong/Soile Isokoski,
Joyce DiDonato/Sandra Piques Eddy/Alice Coote; c. Mark Wigglesworth; 2 November
2005 (11 performances)
ROMÉO ET JULIETTE (Gounod) (new production): Ramón Vargas/Fernando de la Mora
(Roméo), Maureen O’Flynn/Natalie Dessay (Juliette), Kristinn Sigmundsson (Frère
Laurent), Joyce DiDonato/Theodora Hanslowe/Katherine Goeldner (Stéphano),
Stéphane Degout (Mercutio); c. Bertrand de Billy; p. Guy Joosten; d. Johannes
Leiacker, Jorge Jara, David Cunningham; 14 November 2005 (11 performances)
AN AMERICAN
TRAGEDY (Tobias
Picker) (premiere): Nathan Gunn (Clyde), Patricia Racette (Roberta), Susan
Graham/Kirstin Chavez (Sondra), Dolora Zajick (Elvira), Jennifer Larmore
(Elizabeth), Kim Begley (Samuel); c. James Conlon; p. Francesco Zambello; d.
Adrianne Lobel, Dunya Ramicova; 2 December 2005 (8 performances)
RIGOLETTO (Verdi): Carlo Guelfi/Frederick Burchinal/Paolo
Gavanelli/Mark Delavan/Mark Rucker, Anna Netrebko/Youngok Shin/Norah Amsellem/Olga
Makarina, Rolando Villazón/Raúl Melo/Roberto Aronica/José Luis Duval/Bruce
Sledge, Nancy Fabiola Herrera/Wendy White, Eric Halfvarson/Vitalij
Kowaljow/Robert Lloyd/Raymond Aceto/John Cheek; c. Asher Fisch/Plácido Domingo/Joseph
Colaneri; 10 December 2005 (14 performances)
DIE FLEDERMAUS (Johann Strauss): Sondra Radvanovsky/Cynthia
Lawrence, Bo Skovhus, Marlis Petersen/Harolyn Blackwell, Janez Lotric/Garrett
Sorenson, Marina Domashenko/Katharine Goeldner, Earle Patriarco/John Hancock,
John Del Carlo; c. Jacques Lacombe; 19 December 2005 (7 performances)
WOZZECK (Berg): Alan Held, Katarina Dalayman, Graham Clark,
Clifton Forbis, Walter Fink, John Horton Murray/Eric Cutler; c. James Levine;
27 December 2005 (4 performances)
L’ELISIR D’AMORE (Donizetti): Ruth Ann Swenson/Olivia Gorra*,
Ramón Vargas/Giuseppe Filianoti, Peter Coleman-Wright, Andrew Shore/Alessandro
Corbelli; c. Maurizio Barbacini; 2 January 2006 (5 performances)
DIE ZAUBERFLÖTE (Mozart): Mary Dunleavy, Eric Cutler, Erika
Miklósa, Morris Robinson, Nathan Gunn, Anna Christy, Greg Fedderly; c. Paul
Daniel; 21 January 2006 (5 performances)
CYRANO DE BERGERAC (Alfano): Antonio Barasorda/Plácido Domingo,
Sondra Radvanovsky/Cynthia Lawrence, Raymond Very/Fernando de la Mora, Anthony
Michaels-Moore/Kim Josephson, Roberto de Candia; c. Marco Armiliato; 26 January
2006 (6 performances)
LA TRAVIATA (Verdi): Angela Gheorghiu/Mary Dunleavy/Hei-Kyung
Hong/Maureen O’Flynn, Jonas Kaufmann/José Luis Duval/Wookyung Kim/Garrett
Sorenson, Anthony Michaels-Moore/Dwayne Croft/Dmitri Hvorostovsky/Charles
Taylor/Donnie Ray Albert; c. Marco Armiliato/Patrick Summers/Derrick Inouye; 4
February 2006 (14 performances)
SAMSON ET DALILA (Saint-Saëns): Clifton Forbis/Jon Frederic West,
Marina Domashenko/Olga Borodina, Jean-Philippe Lafont; c. Emmanuel Villaume; 10
February 2006 (6 performances)
LA FORZA DEL DESTINO (Verdi): Deborah Voigt/Elena Zelenskaya,
Salvatore Licitra, Mark Delavan/Mark Rucker, Samuel Ramey/Vitalij Kowaljow,
Ildikó Komlósi/Mary Phillips, Juan Pons; c. Gianandrea Noseda; 20 February 2006
(9 performances)
MAZEPPA (Tchaikovsky) (premiere):
Nikolai Putilin/Victor Chernomortsev (Mazeppa), Olga Guryakova/Elena Evseeva
(Maria), Oleg Balashov/Oleg Kulko* (Andrei), Paata Burchuladze/Mikhail Kit
(Kochubei), Larissa Diadkova/Olga Savova (Lyubov); c. Valery Gergiev; p. Yuri
Alexandrov; d. George Tsypin, Tatiana Noginova; 6 March 2006 (8 performances)
LUISA MILLER (Verdi): Veronica Villarroel/Karen Slack, Neil
Shicoff/Eduardo Villa, Carlos Álvarez, James Morris/Vitalij Kowaljow, Phillip
Ens/Stephen West, Irina Mishura/Wendy White; c. Maurizio Benini; 13 March 2006
(6 performances)
FIDELIO (Beethoven): Karita Mattila/Erika Sunnegardh, Richard
Margison/Ben Heppner, Alan Held, Kristinn Sigmundsson, Jennifer
Welch-Babidge/Amy Burton, Gregory Turay/John Nuzzo; c. Paul Nadler; 20 March
2006 (7 performances)
DON PASQUALE (Donizetti) (new production): Simone Alaimo/John Del Carlo (Don
Pasquale), Anna Netrebko/Lyubov Petrova (Norina), Juan Diego Flórez/Barry
Banks, Mariusz Kwiecien; c. Maurizio Benini/Derrick Inouye; p. Otto Schenk; d.
Rolf Langenfass, Duane Schuler; 31 March 2006 (9 performances)
LOHENGRIN (Wagner): Ben Heppner/Klaus Florian Vogt, Karita
Mattila, Luana DeVol/Margaret Jane Wray, Richard Paul Fink/Greer Grimsley,
Andrew Greenan/René Pape, Eike Wilm Schulte/Charles Taylor; c. Philippe Auguin;
17 April 2006 (6 performances)
TOSCA (Puccini): Deborah Voigt/Aprile Millo, Franco Farina/Eduardo
Villa, James Morris/Greer Grimsley; c. Carlo Rizzi; 22 April 2006 (7
performances)
RODELINDA (Handel): Renée Fleming, Kobie van Rensburg, John
Relyea/Oren Gradus, Stephanie Blythe, Andreas Scholl, Christophe
Dumaux/Theodora Hanslowe; c. Patrick Summers; 2 May 2006 (5 performances)
PARSIFAL (Wagner): Ben Heppner, Waltraud Meier, Thomas Hampson,
René Pape, Nikolai Putilin; c. Peter Schneider; 12 May 2006 (3 performances)
DON GIOVANNI (Mozart): Erwin Schrott, Anna Netrebko, Matthew
Polenzani, Melanie Diener, René Pape, Magdalena Kozená, Jonathan Lemalu; c.
Andrew Davis; 11 June 2006 (4 performances)
DIE WALKÜRE (Wagner): Deborah Polaski, Plácido Domingo, Deborah
Voigt, James Morris, Yvonne Naef, René Pape; c. Christoph Eschenbach/Andrew
Davis; 12 June 2006 (4 performances)
2006
- 2007
MADAMA BUTTERFLY (Puccini) (new production): Cristina Gallardo-Domâs/Cynthia
Lawrence* (Butterfly), Marcello Giordani (Pinkerton), Maria Zifchak (Suzuki),
Dwayne Croft (Sharpless); c. James Levine/Asher Fisch; p. Anthony Minghella; d.
Michael Levine, Han Feng, Peter Mumford; 25 September 2006 (13 performances)
LA GIOCONDA (Ponchielli): Violeta Urmana/Aprile Millo, Aquiles
Machado/Marcello Giordani/Eduardo Villa, Olga Borodina/Olga Savova, Zeljko
Lucic/Frederick Burchinal, Paata Burchuladze, Irina Mishura/.Wendy White; c.
Bertrand de Billy; 26 September 2006 (8 performances)
IDOMENEO (Mozart): Ben Heppner/Kobie van Rensburg, Dorothea
Röschmann/Nicole Heaston, Kristine Jepson/Magdalena Kozena, Olga
Makarina/Alexander Deshorties, Jeffrey Francis; c. James Levine; 28 September
2006 (8 performances)
FAUST (Gounod): Ramón Vargas/Fernando de la Mora/David Pomeroy,
Ruth Ann Swenson/Darina Takova/Katie van Kooten/Ellie Dehn, Ildar
Abdrazakov/James Morris, Tommi Hakala/Hung Yun/Sebastian Catana, Karine
Deshayes/Kate Lindsey; c. Bertrand de Billy/Maurizio Benini; 3 October 2006 (11
performances)
DIE ZAUBERFLÖTE (Mozart): Isabel Bayrakdarian/Ying Huang/Lyubov
Petrova/Nicole Heaston/Lisa Milne, Jonas Kaufmann/Christoph Strehl/Matthew
Polenzani/Gregory Turay/Michael Schade, Erika Miklósa/Cornelia Götz/Mari
Moriya/Amanda Pabyan, Stephen Milling/René Pape/Morris Robinson/Vitalij
Kowaljow, Nathan Gunn/Rodion Pogossov/Aaron St. Clair Nicholson, Monica
Yunus/Jennifer Aylmer, Volker Vogel/Greg Fedderly/William Ferguson/Joel
Sorensen; c. Scott Bergeson/James Levine/Jens Georg Bachmann/Derrick Inouye; 7
October 2006 (22 performances, 6 abridged)
CAVALLERIA RUSTICANA (Mascagni): Maria Guleghina/Dolora Zajick,
Franco Farina/Salvatore Licitra/Eduardo Villa/Salvatore Licitra, Tamara
Mumford/Sandra Piques Eddy, Ambrogio Maestri/Mark Delavan; c. Marco Armiliato;
20 October 2006 (10 performances)
PAGLIACCI (Leoncavallo): Patricia Racette/Krassimira Stoyanova,
Salvatore Licitra, Lado Ataneli/Mark Rucker, Dwayne Croft/Russell Braun; c.
Marco Armiliato; 20 October 2006 (10 performances)
RIGOLETTO (Verdi): Juan Pons/Carlos Alvarez, Ekaterina Siurina/Olga
Makarina, Joseph Calleja/Marcello Giordani/Piotr Beczala, Nancy Fabiola
Herrera/Kate Aldrich, Paata Burchuladze/Robert Lloyd; c. Friedrich Haider; 25
October 2006 (10 performances)
TOSCA (Puccini): Maria Guleghina/Andrea Gruber/Aprile Millo, José
Cura/Vincenzo La Scola/Walter Fraccaro, James Morris; c. Nicola Luisotti; 28
October 2006 (11 performances)
IL BARBIERE DI SIVIGLIA (Rossini) (new production): Peter Mattei/Russell Braun (Figaro),
Diana Damrau/Joyce DiDonato (Rosina), Juan Diego Flórez/Lawrence Brownlee
(Almaviva), John Del Carlo (Bartolo), Samuel Ramey/John Relyea (Basilio); c.
Maurizio Benini; p. Bartlett Sher; d. Michael Yeargan, Catherine Zuber,
Christopher Akerlind; 10 November 2006 (14 performances)
LA BOHÈME (Puccini): Angela Marambio/Anna Netrebko/Maija
Kovalevska/Cristina Gallardo-Domâs/Elena Evseeva/Hei-Kyung Hong, Rolando
Villazón/Marcello Giordani/José Luis Duval/Roberto Aronica, Patricia
Racette/Cynthia Lawrence/Anna Samuil/Ainhoa Arteta/Elizabeth Caballero/Mary
Dunleavy, Peter Coleman-Wright/Dwayne Croft/John Hancock, Aaron St. Clair
Nicholson/Patrick Carfizzi/Sebastian Catana/Jeff Mattsey, John Relyea/Andrew
Gangestad/Richard Bernstein; c. Plácido Domingo/Steven Crawford/Carlo
Rizzi/Gareth Morrell; 18 November 2006 (15 performances)
DON CARLO (Verdi): Johan Botha, Patricia Racette, Dmitri
Hvorostovsky, Olga Borodina, René Pape, Samuel Ramey; c. James Levine; 30
November 2006 (7 performances)
THE FIRST EMPEROR (Tan Dun) (world premiere):
Plácido Domingo (Emperor Qin), Elizabeth Futral/Sarah Coburn (Princess
Yueyang), Paul Groves/Marc Heller (Gao Jianli), Haijing Fu (Chief Minister),
Hao Jiang Tian (Wang), Susanne Mentzer (Mother); c. Tan Dun; p. Zhang Yimou; d.
Fan Yue, Emi Wada; 21 December 2006 (9 performances)
I PURITANI (Bellini): Anna Netrebko/Elizabeth Futral, Gregory
Kunde/Eric Cutler, Franco Vassallo, John Relyea/Oren Gradus; c. Patrick
Summers; 27 December 2006 (8 performances)
LA TRAVIATA (Verdi): Hei-Kyung Hong/Mary Dunleavy/Krassimira
Stoyanova/Angela Gheorghiu, Wookyung Kim/José Luis Duval/Jonas Kaufmann, Dwayne
Croft/Charles Taylor; c. Carlo Rizzi/Marco Armiliato; 10 January 2007 (17
performances)
JENŮFA (Janáček): Karita Mattila, Jorma Silvasti/Kim Begley, Anja
Silja/Judith Forst, Raymond Very/Jorma Silvasti/Jay Hunter Morris; c. Jiří
Bělohlávek; 29 January 2007 (6 performances)
YEVGÉNY ONÉGIN (Eugene Onegin): Dmitri Hvorostovsky, Renée
Fleming, Ramón Vargas, Elena Zaremba, Sergei Aleksashkin; c. Valery
Gergiev/Paul Nadler; 9 February 2007 (7 performances)
SIMON BOCCANEGRA (Verdi): Thomas Hampson/Mark Delavan, Angela
Gheorghiu/Angela Marambio, Marcello Giordani/Marcus Haddock, Ferruccio
Furlanetto, Vassily Gerello; c. Fabio Luisi; 19 February 2007 (6 performances)
DIE MEISTERSINGER VON NÜRNBERG (Wagner): James Morris, Hei-Kyung
Hong, Johan Botha, Maria Zifchak, Matthew Polenzani, Hans-Joachim Ketelsen,
Evgeny Nikitin; c. James Levine/John Keenan; 1 March 2007 (4 performances)
DIE ÄGYPTISCHE
HELENA (Richard
Strauss) (new production): Deborah Voigt (Helena), Torsten Kerl/Michael
Hendrick (Menelas), Diana Damrau (Aithra), Jill Grove (Omniscient Mussel),
Wolfgang Brendel (Altair); c. Fabio Luisi; p. David Fielding; d. David
Fielding; 15 March 2007 (7 performances)
ANDRÉA CHENIER (Giordano): Ben Heppner, Violeta Urmana/Aprile
Millo, Mark Delavan/Juan Pons; c. Marco Armiliato; 22 March 2007 (8
performances)
TURANDOT (Puccini): Andrea Gruber/Erika Sunnegardh, Richard
Margison, Hei-Kyung Hong/Liping Zhang, Oren Gradus/Hao Jiang Tian; c. Fabio
Luisi/Marco Armiliato; 30 March 2007 (11 performances)
GIULIO CESARE (Handel): David Daniels/Lawrence Zazzo, Ruth Ann
Swenson/Danielle de Niese, Patricia Bardon/Jill Grove, Alice Coote, Lawrence
Zazzo/Gerald Thompson; c. Harry Bicket; 6 April 2007 (7 performances)
IL TABARRO (Puccini) (new production):
Maria Guleghina (Giorgetta), Salvatore Licitra (Luigi), Juan Pons/Frederick
Burchinal (Michele), Stephanie Blythe (Frugola); c. James Levine/Joseph
Colaneri; p. Jack O’Brien; d. Douglas Schmidt, Jess Goldstein; 28 April 2007 (9
performances)
SUOR ANGELICA (Puccini) (new production):
Barbara Frittoli (Angelica), Stephanie Blythe (Princess); c. James
Levine/Joseph Colaneri; p. Jack O’Brien; d. Douglas Schmidt, Jess Goldstein; 28
April 2007 (9 performances)
GIANNI SCHICCHI (Puccini) (new production):
Alessandro Corbelli (Schicchi), Olga Mykytenko (Lauretta), Massimo Giordano/John
Nuzzo (Rinuccio); c. James Levine/Joseph Colaneri; p. Jack O’Brien; d. Douglas
Schmidt, Jess Goldstein; 28 April 2007 (9 performances)
ORFEO ED EURIDICE (Gluck) (new production): David Daniels (Orfeo),
Maija Kovalevska (Euridice), Heidi Grant Murphy (Amore); c. James Levine; p.
Mark Morris; d. Allen Moyer, Isaac Mizrahi, James F. Ingalls; 2 May 2007 (4
performances)
2007
- 2008
LUCIA DI LAMMERMOOR (Donizetti) (new production): Natalie Dessay/Annick Massis
(Lucia), Marcello Giordani/Stephen Costello/Giuseppe Filianoti (Edgardo),
Mariusz Kwiecien/Stephen Gaertner* (Enrico), John Relyea (Raimondo); c. James
Levine/Jens Georg Bachmann/Joseph Colaneri; p. Mary Zimmerman; d. Daniel
Ostling, Mara Blumenfeld, T.J. Gerckens; 24 September 2007 (12 performances)
ROMÉO ET JULIETTE (Gounod): Roberto Alagna/Joseph Kaiser/Marcello
Giordani/Matthew Polenzani, Anna Netrebko, Kristinn Sigmundsson/Robert Lloyd,
Isabel Leonard/Kate Lindsey, Stéphane Degout/Jeff Mattsey/Nathan Gunn; c.
Plácido Domingo/Paul Nadler; 25 September 2007 (11 performances)
AIDA (Verdi): Angela Brown/Micaela Carosi, Marco Berti/Roberto
Alagna/Stephen O’Mara/Franco Farina, Dolora Zajick/Olga Borodina/Luciana
D’Intino, Andrzej Dobber/Juan Pons/Mark Delavan, Carlo Colombara/Vitaly
Kowaljow; c. Kazushi Ono; 29 September 2007 (10 performances)
LE NOZZE DI FIGARO (Mozart): Erwin Schrott/Bryn Terfel, Lisette
Oropesa/Ekaterina Siurina, Michele Pertusi/Simon Keenlyside, Hei-Kyung
Hong/Wendy Nielsen/Anja Harteros, Anke Vondung/Kate Lindsey; c. Philippe
Jordan; 2 October 2007 (12 performances)
MADAMA BUTTERFLY (Puccini): Patricia Racette/Maria Gavrilova,
Roberto Alagna/Marcello Giordani, Maria Zifchak, Luca Salsi; c. Mark Elder; 8
October 2007 (6 performances)
MACBETH (Verdi) (new production): Zeljko Lucic/Lado Ataneli/Carlos
Alvarez (Macbeth), Maria Guleghina/Cynthia Lawrence/Hasmik Papian (Lady
Macbeth), John Relyea/René Pape (Banquo), Dimitri Pittas/Joseph Calleja
(Macduff); c. James Levine; p. Adrian Noble, d. Mark Thompson, Jean Kalman; 22
October 2007 (11 performances)
DIE ZAUBERFLÖTE (Mozart): Diana Damrau/Genia Kühmeier, Eric
Cutler/Joseph Kaiser, Anna-Kristiina Kaappola/Diana Damrau, Reinhard Hagen,
Stéphane Degout, Monica Yunus, Dietmar Kerschbaum; c. Kirill Petrenko; 29
October 2007 (8 performances)
LA TRAVIATA (Verdi): Renée Fleming/Ruth Ann Swenson/Ermonlea Jaho,
Matthew Polenzani/Jonas Kaufmann, Dwayne Croft; c. Marco Armiliato; 3 November
2007 (9 performances)
NORMA (Bellini): Hasmik Papian/Maria Guleghina/Marina
Mescheriakova, Franco Farina, Dolora Zajick, Vitalij Kowaljow/Hao Jiang Tian;
c. Maurizio Benini; 12 November 2007 (8 performances)
IPHIGÉNIE EN
TAURIDE (Gluck)
(new production): Susan Graham (Iphigénie), Plácido Domingo (Oreste), Paul
Groves (Pylade), William Shimell (Thoas), Michele Losier (Diane); c. Louis
Langrée; p. Stephen Wadsworth; d. Thomas Lynch, Martin Pakledinaz, Neil Peter
Jampolis; 27 November 2007 (8 performances)
VOYNA I MIR (War and Peace)
(Prokofiev): Alexey Markov/Vasili Ladyuk, Marina Poplavskaya/Irina Mataeva,
Ekaterina Semenchuk, Larisa Shevchenko/Victoria Livengood; c. Valery Gergiev/Gianandrea
Noseda; 10 December 2007 (8 performances)
UN BALLO IN MASCHERA (Verdi): Michèle Crider/Angela Brown,
Salvatore Licitra, Dmitri Hvorostovsky/Marco Di Felice, Stephanie Blythe,
Ofelia Sala/Kathleen Kim; c. Gianandrea Noseda; 17 December 2007 (9
performances)
HÄNSEL UND GRETEL (Humperdinck) (new production): Alice Coote (Hänsel), Christine
Schäfer (Gretel), Rosalind Plowright (Gertrud), Alan Held/John Hancock (Peter),
Philip Langridge/Adam Klein (Witch), Sasha Cooke (Sandman), Lisette Oropesa
(Dew Fairy); c. Vladimir Jurowski/ J. David Jackson; p. Richard Jones; d. John
Macfarlane, Jennifer Tipton; 24 December 2007 (9 performances)
DIE WALKÜRE (Wagner): Lisa Gasteen, Clifton Forbis/Simon O’Neill,
Adrianne Pieczonka/Deborah Voigt, James Morris, Stephanie Blythe/Michelle
DeYoung, Mikhail Petrenko; c. Lorin Maazel/Donald Runnicles; 7 January 2008 (6
performances)
IL BARBIERE DI SIVIGLIA (Rossini): Franco Vassallo, Elina Garanca,
José Manuel Zapata, Bruno Praticó/Paul Plishka/Maurizio Muraro, Peter Rose/Dean
Peterson/Ruggero Raimondi; c Frédéric Chaslin; 12 January 2008 (10
performances)
MANON LESCAUT (Puccini): Karita Mattila/Maria Gavrilova, Marcello
Giordani, Dwayne Croft; c. James Levine/Donald Runnicles; 29 January 2008 (8
performances)
CARMEN (Bizet): Olga Borodina/Nancy Fabiola Herrera, Marcelo
Álvarez, Maija Kovalevska/Krassimira Stoyanova, Lucio Gallo; c. Emmanuel
Villaume; 4 February 2008 (8 performances)
OTELLO (Verdi): Johan Botha, Renée Fleming, Carlo Guelfi; c.
Semyon Bychkov; 11 February 2008 (8 performances)
PETER GRIMES (Britten) (new production):
Anthony Dean Griffey (Grimes), Patricia Racette (Ellen), Anthony Michaels-Moore
(Balstrode), Felicity Palmer (Mrs. Sedley), Jill Grove (Auntie); c. Donald Runnicles;
p. John Doyle; d. Scott Pask, Ann Hould-Ward; 28 February 2008 (7 performances)
TRISTAN UND ISOLDE (Wagner): John MacMaster/Gary Lehman/Robert
Dean Smith/Ben Heppner, Deborah Voigt/Janice Baird, Eike Wilm Schulte/Richard
Paul Fink, Michelle DeYoung, Matti Salminen; c. James Levine; 10 March 2008 (6
performances)
ERNANI (Verdi): Marcello Giordani/Eduardo Villa, Sondra
Radvanovsky/Angela Meade, Thomas Hampson, Ferruccio Furlanetto; c. Roberto
Abbado; 17 March 2008 (7 performances)
IGROK (The Gambler)
(Prokofiev): Vladimir Galuzin, Olga Guryakova, Sergei Aleksashkin/Vladimir
Ognovenko, Nikolai Gassiev, Larissa Diadkova, Olga Savova; c. Valery Gergiev;
27 March 2008 (5 performances)
LA BOHÈME (Puccini): Angela Gheorghiu/Elena Evseeva, Ramón Vargas,
Ainhoa Arteta, Ludovic Tézier, Quinn Kelsey/Jeff Mattsey, Oren Gradus; c.
Nicola Luisotti; 29 March 2008 (7 performances)
SATYAGRAHA (Glass) (Première): Richard Croft/Alan Oke (Gandhi), Bradley
Garvin (Prince Arjuna), Richard Bernstein (Lord Krishna), Rachelle Durkin (Miss
Schlesen), Ellie Dehn (Mrs. Naidoo), Maria Zifchak (Kasturbai), Earle Patriarco
(Kellenbach); c. Dante Anzolini; p. Phelim McDermott; d. Julian Crouch, Kevin
Pollard, Paule Constable; 11 April 2008 (7 performances)
LA FILLE DU RÉGIMENT (Donizetti) (new production): Natalie Dessay (Marie), Juan Diego
Floréz/Barry Banks (Tonio), Felicity Palmer (Marquise), Alessandro Corbelli
(Sulpice), Donald Maxwell (Hortentius); c. Marco Armiliato/Joseph Colaneri; p.
Laurent Pelly; d. Chantal Thomas, Laurent Pelly, Joël Adam; 21 April 2008 (8
performances)
DIE ENTFÜHRUNG AUS DEM SERAIL (Mozart): Diana Damrau, Matthew Polenzani,
Aleksandra Kurzak, Steve Davislim, Kristinn Sigmundsson; c. David Robertson; 26
April 2008 (4 performances)
LA CLEMENZA DI TITO (Mozart): Ramón Vargas, Tamar Iveri, Susan
Graham, Heidi Grant Murphy, Anke Vondung; c. Harry Bicket; 3 May 2008 (4
performances)
THE FIRST EMPEROR (Tan Dun): Plácido Domingo, Sarah Coburn, Paul
Groves, Haijing Fu, Hao Jiang Tian, Susanne Mentzer; c. Tan Dun; 10 May 2008 (3
performances)
2008
- 2009
SALOME (Richard Strauss): Karita Mattila, Juha Uusitalo, Ildikó
Komlosi, Kim Begley, Joseph Kaiser; c. Patrick Summers; 23 September 2008 (7
performances)
LA GIOCONDA (Ponchielli): Deborah Voigt, Aquiles Machado, Olga
Borodina, Carlo Guelfi/Jason Stearns, Orlin Anastassov, Ewa Podles; c. Daniele
Callegari; 24 September 2008 (5 performances)
DON GIOVANNI (Mozart): Erwin Schrott/Peter Mattei, Krassimira
Stoyanova/Tamar Iveri/Erin Wall, Matthew Polenzani/Mark Thomsen/Pavol Breslik,
Susan Graham/Dorothea Röschmann/Barbara Frittoli, Ildebrando D’Arcangelo/Ildar
Abdrazakov/Samuel Ramey, Isabel Leonard/Monica Yunus/Isabel Bayrakdarian,
Joshua Bloom/Shen Yang; c. Louis Langrée/Lothar Koenigs; 27 September 2008 (14
performances)
LUCIA DI LAMMERMOOR (Donizetti): Diana Damrau/Anna Netrebko, Piotr
Beczala/Rolando Villazón/Giuseppe Filianoti, Vladimir Stoyanov/Mariusz
Kwiecien, Ildar Abdrazakov; c. Marco Armiliato; 3 October 2008 (11
performances)
DOCTOR ATOMIC (Adams) (premiere): Richard
Paul Fink (Teller), Gerald Finley (Oppenheimer), Thomas Glenn (Wilson), Sasha
Cooke (Kitty), Eric Owens (Groves), Earle Patriarco (Hubbard); c. Alan Gilbert;
p. Penny Woolcock; d. Julian Crouch, Catherine Zuber; 13 October 2008 (9 performances)
LA TRAVIATA (Verdi): Anja Harteros, Massimo Giordano, Andrzej
Dobber/Zeljko Lucic; c. Paolo Carignani; 20 October 2008 (9 performances)
MADAMA BUTTERFLY (Puccini): Patricia Racette/Maria
Gavrilova/Cristina Gallardo-Domâs, Roberto Aronica/Raúl Melo/Marcello Giordani,
Maria Zifchak, Dwayne Croft; c. Patrick Summers; 24 October 2008 (12
performances)
LA DAMNATION DE
FAUST (Berlioz)
(new production): Marcello Giordani (Faust), Susan Graham (Marguerite), John
Relyea (Méphistophélès); c. James Levine/Derrick Inouye; p. Robert Lepage; d.
Carl Fillion, Karin Erskine; 7 November 2008 (8 performances)
PIKOVAYA DAMA (The Queen of Spades) (Tchaikovsky): Maria
Guleghina, Ben Heppner, Felicity Palmer, Vladimir Stoyanov, Mark Delavan; c.
Seiji Ozawa; 21 November 2008 (7 performances)
TRISTAN UND ISOLDE (Wagner): Peter Seiffert/Gary Lehman, Katarina
Dalayman/Waltraud Meier/Susan Foster*/Linda Watson, Gerd Grochowski, Michelle
DeYoung, René Pape/Kwangchul Youn; c. Daniel Barenboim; 28 November 2008 (6
performances)
THÄIS (Massenet) (new production):
Renée Fleming (Thais), Thomas Hampson (Athanaël), Michael Schade (Nicias),
Alain Vernhes (Palémon); c. Jesús López-Cobos; p. John Cox; d. Christian
Lacroix, Duane Schuler; 8 December 2008 (10 performances)
LA BOHÈME (Puccini): Maija Kovalevska, Ramón Vargas/Massimo
Giordano, Susanna Phillips, Mariusz Kwiecien, Tommi Hakala, Oren Gradus; c.
Frédéric Chaslin; 15 December 2008 (8 performances)
DIE ZAUBERFLÖTE (Mozart): Nicole Cabell, Dimitri Pittas/Russell
Thomas, Cyndia Sieden, Eric Owens, Rodion Pogossov, Kathleen Kim, Alan Oke; c.
Asher Fisch; 22 December 2008 (5 abridged performances)
LA RONDINE (Puccini) (new production):
Angela Gheorghiu/Maureen O’Flynn/Katie Van Kooten (Magda), Roberto
Alagna/Giuseppe Filianoti (Ruggero), Lisette Oropesa (Lisette), Marius Brenciu
(Prunier), Samuel Ramey/James Courtney (Rambaldo); c. Marco Armiliato; p.
Nicolas Joël; d. Ezio Frigerio, Franca Squarciapino; 31 December 2008 (10
performances)
ORFEO ED EURIDICE (Gluck): Stephanie Blythe/Kirstin Chávez,
Danielle de Niese, Heidi Grant Murphy/Ying Huang; c. James Levine/Kazem
Abdullah; 9 January 2009 (7 performances)
RIGOLETTO (Verdi):Roberto Frontali/George Gagnidze/Zeljko Lucic,
Aleksandra Kurzak/Diana Damrau, Giuseppe Filianoti/Piotr Beczala/Joseph
Calleja, Viktoria Vizin/Tamara Mumford, Mikhail Petrenko/Raymond Aceto; c.
Riccardo Frizza; 24 January 2009 (11 performances)
YEVGÉNY ONÉGIN (Eugene Onegin): Thomas Hampson, Karita Mattila,
Piotr Beczala, Ekaterina Semenchuk, Sergei Aleksashkin/James Morris; c. Jirí
Belohlávek; 30 January 2009 (7 performances)
ADRIANA LECOUVREUR (Cilea): Maria Guleghina, Plácido
Domingo/Marcello Giordani, Olga Borodina, Roberto Frontali, John Del Carlo; c.
Marco Armiliato; 6 February 2009 (7 performances)
IL TROVATORE (Verdi) (new production):
Marcelo Álvarez/Philip Webb/Marco Berti (Manrico), Sondra Radvanovsky/Hasmik
Papian (Leonora), Dmitri Hvorostovsky/Zeljko Lucic (Luna), Dolora Zajick/Mzia
Nioradze/Luciana D’Intino (Azucena), Kwangchul Youn/Burak Bilgili (Ferrando);
c. Gianandrea Noseda/Riccardo Frizza; p. David McVicar; d. Charles Edwards,
Brigitte Reiffenstuel, Jennifer Tipton; 16 February 2009 (15 performances)
LA SONNAMBULA (Bellini) (new production): Natalie
Dessay (Amina), Juan Diego Flórez/Barry Banks (Elvino), Michele Pertusi
(Rodolfo), Jennifer Black (Lisa); c. Evelino Pidò; p. Mary Zimmerman; d. Daniel
Ostling, Mara Blumenfeld; 2 March 2009 (9 performances)
RUSALKA (Dvorak): Renée Fleming, Alesandrs Antonenko, Christine
Goerke, Stephanie Blythe, Kirstinn Sigmundsson; c. Jiri Belohlavek; 9 March
2009 (5 performances)
CAVALLERIA RUSTICANA (Mascagni): Waltraud Meier/Margaret Jane
Wray/Ildikó Komlósi, Roberto Alagna/José Cura, Ginger Costa-Jackson, Alberto
Mastromarino; c. Pietro Rizzo; 19 March 2009 (7 performances)
PAGLIACCI (Leoncavallo): Nuccia Focile, Roberto Alagna/José Cura,
Alberto Mastromarino, Christopher Maltman/Vasili Ladyuk; c. Pietro Rizzo; 19
March 2009 (7 performances)
DAS RHEINGOLD (Wagner): James Morris/Albert Dohmen, Yvonne Naef,
Richard Paul Fink, Kim Begley, Jill Grove/Wendy White, Franz-Josef Selig/René
Pape, John Tomlinson, Wendy Bryn Harmer, Garrett Sorenson, Charles Taylor,
Gerhard Siegel/Dennis Petersen; c. James Levine/John Keenan; 25 March 2009 (5
performances)
L’ELISIR D’AMORE (Donizetti): Angela Gheorghiu/Nicole Cabell,
Massimo Giordano/Barry Banks/Dimitri Pittas/Joseph Calleja, Franco Vassallo,
Simone Alaimo; c. Maurizio Benini; 31 March 2009 (7 performances)
DIE WALKÜRE (Wagner): Iréne Theorin/Katarina Dalayman/Linda
Watson, Johan Botha/Gary Lehman/Plácido Domingo, Waltraud Meier/Adrianne
Pieczonka, James Morris/Albert Dohmen, Yvonne Naef, John Tomlinson/René Pape;
c. James Levine; 6 April 2009 (4 performances)
SIEGFRIED (Wagner): Christian Franz/Jon Frederic West, Iréne
Theorin/Linda Watson, James Morris/Albert Dohmen, Wendy White, Robert Brubaker,
Richard Paul Fink/Tom Fox, John Tomlinson, Lisette Oropesa; c. James Levine; 18
April 2009 (3 performances)
GÖTTERDÄMMERUNG (Wagner): Katarina Dalayman/Linda Watson,
Christian Franz/Jon Frederic West, Iain Paterson, Margaret Jane Wray, John
Tomlinson, Yvonne Naef, Richard Paul Fink/Tom Fox; c. James Levine; 25 April
2009 (3 performances)
LA CENERENTOLA (Rossini): Elina Garanca, Lawrence Brownlee, Simone
Alberghini, Alessandro Corbelli, Rachelle Durkin, Patricia Risley, John Relyea;
c. Maurizio Benini; 1 May 2009 (3 performances)
2009
- 2010
TOSCA (Puccini) (new production): Karita
Mattila/Maria Gavrilova/Patricia Racette/Daniela Dessi/Elizabeth Blancke-Biggs
(Tosca) Marcelo Álvarez/Jonas Kaufmann/Marcello Giordani (Cavaradossi), George
Gagnidze/Carlo Guelfi/Bryn Terfel (Scarpia); c. James Levine/Joseph
Colaneri/Fabio Luisi/Philippe Auguin; p. Luc Bondy; d. Richard Peduzzi, Milena
Canonero; 21 September 2009 (16 performances)
LE
NOZZE DI FIGARO (Mozart): John Relyea/Luca Pisaroni, Danielle de Niese/Lisette
Oropesa, Bo Skovhus/Ludovic Tézier, Emma Bell/Annette Dasch/Angela Meade,
Isabel Leonard; c. Dan Ettinger/Fabio Luisi; 22 September 2009 (12
performances)
DIE ZAUBERFLÖTE (Mozart): Susanna Phillips/Julia Kleiter, Matthias
Klink/Matthew Polenzani, Erika Miklósa/Albina Shagimuratova, Georg
Zeppenfeld/Hans-Peter König, Christopher Maltman/Nathan Gunn/Rodion Pogossov,
Kathleen Kim/Monica Yunus, Greg Fedderly; c. Bernard Labadie/Adam Fischer/Paul
Nadler; 23 September 2009 (8 performances)
AIDA (Verdi): Violeta Urmana/Hui He, Johan Botha/Richard
Margison/Salvatore Licitra, Dolora Zajick/Olga Borodina/Margaret Jane Wray*,
Carlo Guelfi, Roberto Scandiuzzi/Orlin Anastassov/Carlo Colombara; c. Daniele
Gatti/Paolo Carignani/Marco Armiliato; 2 October 2009
IL BARBIERE DI SIVIGLIA (Rossini): Rodion Pogossov/Franco
Vassallo, Joyce DiDonato/Diana Damrau, Barry Banks/Lawrence Brownlee, John Del
Carlo/Maurizio Muraro, Orlin Anastassov/Christophoros Stamboglis/Roberto
Scandiuzzi/Samuel Ramey; c. Maurizio Benini; 3 October 2009 (12 performances)
DER ROSENKAVALIER (Richard Strauss): Susan Graham, Renée Fleming,
Kristinn Sigmundsson, Miah Persson/Christine Schäfer, Hans-Joachum Ketelsen/Thomas
Allen; c. Edo de Waart; 13 October 2009 (8 performances)
LA DAMNATION DE FAUST (Berlioz): Ramón Vargas, Olga Borodina,
Ildar Abdrazakov; c. James Conlon; 23 October 2009 (7 performances)
TURANDOT (Puccini): Lisa Lindstrom/Maria Guleghina, Marcello
Giordani/Frank Porretta/Salvatore Licitra/Philip Webb, Marina Poplovskaya/Maja
Kovalevska/Grazia Doronzio, Samuel Ramey/Hao Jiang Tian; c. Andris
Nelsons/Julien Salemkour; 28 October 2009 (16 performances)
Z MRTVÉHO DOMU (From the House of the Dead) (new production)(Janáček):
Stefan Margita (Filka Morozov), Kurt Streit (Skuratov), Peter Hoare (Shapkin),
Peter Mattei (Shishkov), Willard White (Gorianchikov), Eric Stoklossa (Alyeya);
c. Esa-Pekka Salonen; p. Patrice Chéreau; d. Richard Peduzzi, Caroline de
Vivaise; 12 November 2009 (7 performances)
IL TABARRO (Puccini): Patricia Racette, Aleksandrs Antonenko,
Zeljko Lucic; c. Stefano Ranzani; 20 November 2009 (7 performances)
SUOR ANGELICA (Puccini): Patricia Racette, Stephanie Blythe; c.
Stefano Ranzani; 20 November 2009 (7 performances)
GIANNI SCHICCHI (Puccini): Alessandro Corbelli, Patricia Racette,
Saimir Pirgu; c. Stefano Ranzani; 20 November 2009 (7 performances)
LES CONTES D’HOFFMANN (Offenbach) (new production): Joseph Calleja/David Pomeroy
(Hoffmann), Kathleen Kim/Rachele Gilmore (Olympia), Anna Netrebko (Antonia),
Ekaterina Gubanova/Laura Vlasak Nolen (Giulietta), Anna Netrebko (Stella), Alan
Held (Lindorf/Coppélius/Dappertutto/Miracle), Kate Lindsey (Nicklausse/Muse),
Alan Oke/Joel Sorensen (Andrès/Cochenille/Pitichinaccio/ Frantz); c. James
Levine/James Keenan; p. Bartlett Sher; d. Micheal Yeargan, Catherine Zuber,
James F. Ingalls; 3 December 2009 (9 performances)
ELEKTRA (Richard Strauss): Susan Bullock, Deborah Voigt, Felicity
Palmer, Evgeny Nikitin, Wolfgang Schmidt; c. Fabio Luisi; p. Otto Schenk; d.
Jürgen Rose; 10 December 2009 (6 performances)
HÄNSEL UND GRETEL (Humperdinck): Angelika Kirchschlager, Miah
Persson, Rosalind Plowright, Dwayne Croft, Philip Langridge, Jennifer Johnson
Cano, Erin Morley; c. Fabio Luisi; 14 December 2009 (8 performances)
CARMEN (Bizet) (new production): Elina Garanca/Viktoria Vizin/Olga
Borodina/Kate Aldrich (Carmen), Roberto Alagna /Brandon Jovanovich/Jonas
Kaufmann (Don José), Barbara Frittoli/Maija Kovalevska/Jennifer Black
(Micaela), Mariusz Kwiecien/Teddy Tahu Rhodes /Dwayne Croft(Escamillo); c.
Yannick Nézet-Séguin/Alain Altinoglu; p. Richard Eyre; d. Rob Howell, Irene
Bohan, Peter Mumford; 31 December 2009 (14 performances)
STIFFELIO (Verdi): José Cura, Sondra Radvanovsky/Julianna Di
Giacomo, Andrzej Dobber; c. Plácido Domingo; 11 January 2010 (6 performances)
SIMON BOCCANEGRA (Verdi): Plácido Domingo, Adrianne Pieczonka,
Marcello Giordani, James Morris, Patrick Carfizzi/Stephen Gaertner; c. James
Levine/J. David Jackson; 18 January 2010 (6 performances)
ARIADNE AUF NAXOS (Richard Strauss): Nina Stemme, Michael
Hendrick/Lance Ryan, Kathleen Kim, Sarah Connolly, Jochen Schmeckenbecher; c.
Kirill Petrenko; 4 February 2010 (5 performances)
LA FILLE DU RÉGIMENT (Donizetti): Diana Damrau/Leah Partridge,
Juan Diego Flórez/Lawrence Brownlee, Meredith Arwady, Maurizio Muraro, Donald
Maxwell; c. Marco Armiliato; 6 February 2010 (6 performances)
LA BOHÈME (Puccini): Anna Netrebko/Angela Gheorghiu, Piotr
Beczala, Nicole Cabell/Ruth Ann Swenson, Gerald Finley/George Petean, Massimo
Cavalletti/Patrick Carfizzi, Shenyang/Oren Gradus; c. Marco Armiliato; 20
February 2010 (9 performances)
ATTILA (Verdi) (Premiere): Ildar
Abdrazakov (Attila), Violeta Urmana (Odabella), Ramón Vargas/Russell Thomas
(Foresto), Giovanni Meoni/Franco Vassallo (Ezio), Samuel Ramey (Leone); c.
Riccardo Muti/Marco Armiliato; p. Pierre Audi; d. Miuccia Prada, Herzog &
de Meuron; 23 February 2010 (10 performances)
THE NOSE (Nos) (Premiere): Paulo Szot (Kovalyov), Andrey Popov (Police Inspector),
Gordon Gietz (The Nose; c. Valery Gergiev/Pavel Smelkov; p. William Kentridge;
d. William Kentridge, Sabine Theunissen, Greta Goiris; 5 March 2010 (6
performances)
HAMLET (Thomas) (new production):
Simon Keenlyside (Hamlet), Marlis Petersen/Jane Archibald (Ophélie), James
Morris (Claudius), Jennifer Larmore (Gertrude), Toby Spence (Laerte), Maxim
Mikhailov (Polonius); c. Louis Langrée; p. Patrice Caurier, Moshe Leiser; d.
Christian Fenouillat, Agostino Cavalca; 16 March 2010 (8 performances)
LA TRAVIATA (Verdi): Angela Gheorghiu/Hei-Kyung Hong, James
Valenti, Thomas Hampson; c. Leonard Slatkin/Marco Armiliato/Steven White/Yves
Abel; 29 March 2010 (8 performances)
ARMIDA (Rossini) (new production): Renée Fleming (Armida), Lawrence
Brownlee (Rinaldo), John Osborn (Goffredo), José Manuel Zapata/Barry Banks
(Gernando), Kobie van Rensburg (Ubaldo), Barry Banks (Carlo), Yeghishe
Manucharyan (Eustazio); c. Riccardo Frizza; 12 April 2010 (10 performances)
DER FLIEGENDE HOLLÄNDER (Wagner): Juha Uusitalo, Deborah
Voigt/Lori Phillips, Stephen Gould/Philip Webb, Hans-Peter König; c. Kazushi
Ono; 23 April 2010 (7 performances)
LULU (Berg): Marlis Petersen, James Morris, Anne Sofie von Otter,
Gary Lehman, Gwynne Howell; c. Fabio Luisi; 8 May 2010 (3 performances)
2010 - 2011
DAS RHEINGOLD (Wagner) (new production): Bryn Terfel (Wotan), Stephanie Blythe
(Fricka), Eric Owens/Richard Paul Fink (Alberich), Richard Croft/Arnold Bezuyen
(Loge), Patricia Bardon (Erda), Franz-Josef Selig (Fasolt), Hans-Peter König
(Fafner), Wendy Bryn Harmer (Freia), Adam Diegel (Froh), Dwayne Croft (Donner),
Gerhard Siegel (Mime); c. James Levine/Fabio Luisi; p. Robert Lepage; d.
Neilson Vignola, Carl Fillion, François St-Aubin; 27 September 2010 (6
performances)
LES CONTES D’HOFFMANN (Offenbach): Giuseppe Filianoti, Anna
Christy/Elen Mosuc, Hibla Gerzmava, Enkelejda Shkosa, Hibla Gerzmava, Ildar
Abdrazakov, Kate Lindsey, Joel Sorensen; c. Patrick Fournillier; 28 September
2010 (7 performances)
RIGOLETTO (Verdi): Lado Ataneli/George Gagnidze/Giovanni
Meoni/Zeljko Lucic, Christine Schäfer/Olga Makarina/Nino Machaidze/Diana
Damrau, Francesco Meli/Joseph Calleja/Piotr Beczala/Giuseppe Filianoti, Nino
Surguladze/Kirstin Chávez/Nancy Fabiola Herrera, Andrea Silvestrelli/Stefan
Kocán/Vitaly Efanov; c. Paolo Arrivabeni/Fabio Luisi; 29 September 2010 (15
performances)
BORIS GODUNOV (Mussorgsky) (new production): René Pape/Evgeny Nikitin* (Boris),
Oleg Balashov (Shuisky), Mikhail Petrenko (Pimen), Aleksandrs Antonenko
(Grigory), Ekaterina Semenchuk (Marina), Evgeny Nikitin (Rangoni), Vladimir
Ognovenko (Varlaam), Andrei Popov (Simpleton); c. Valery Gergiev/Pavel Smelkov;
p. Stephen Wadsworth; d. Ferdinand Wögerbauer, Moidele Bickel, Duane Schuler;
11 October 2010 (9 performances)
LA BOHÈME (Puccini): Maija Kovalevska/Krassimira Stoyanova/Barbara
Frittoli, Vittorio Grigolo/Joseph Calleja/Piotr Beczala/Marcelo Álvarez,
Takesha Meshé Kizart/Ellie Dehn/Susanna Phillips, Fabio Capitanucci/Peter Mattei/Marius
Kwiecien, Edward Parks/Dimitris Tiliakos/Trevor Scheunemann, Shenyang/Günther
Groissböck/John Relyea; c. Roberto Rizzi Brignoli/Marco Armiliato/Fabio Luisi;
16 October 2010 (22 performances)
IL TROVATORE (Verdi): Marcelo Álvarez/Alfred Kim/Arnold Rawls*,
Patricia Racette/Julianna Di Giacomo/Sondra Radvanovsky, Zeljko Lucic/Vitaliy
Bilyy/Dmitri Hvorostovsky, Marianne Cornetti/Dolora Zajick, Alexander
Tsymbalyuk/Stefan Kocán; c. Marco Armiliato; 26 October 2010 (11 performances)
DON PASQUALE (Donizetti): John Del Carlo, Anna Netrebko/Rachelle
Durkin, Matthew Polenzani/Barry Banks, Mariusz Kwiecien/Peter Barrett; c. James
Levine/Joseph Colaneri; 29 October 2010; 29 October 2010 (11 performances)
CARMEN (Bizet): Elina Garanca/Viktoria Vizin/Anita Rachvelishvili,
Brandon Jovanovich/Roberto Alagna, Nicole Cabell/Hei-Kyung Hong, John
Relyea/Dwayne Croft/Paulo Szot; c. Edward Gardner; 4 November 2010 (13
performances)
COSÌ FAN TUTTE (Mozart): Miah Persson, Pavol Breslik/Bruce Sledge,
Isabel Leonard, Nathan Gunn, Danielle de Niese, William Shimell; c. William
Christie; 9 November 2010 (7 performances)
DON CARLO (Verdi) (new production): Roberto Alagna/Yonghoon Lee (Don
Carlo), Marina Poplavskaya (Elizabeth), Simon Keenlyside/Dmitri Hvorostovsky
(Posa), Anna Smirnova/Ekaterina Gubanova (Eboli), Ferruccio Furlanetto/Giorgio
Giuseppini/René Pape (Philip II), Eric Halfvarson/Stefan Kocán (Grand
Inquisitor); c. Yannick Nézet-Séguin/Fabio Luisi; p. Nicholas Hytner; d. Bob
Crowley, Mark Henderson; 22 November 2010 (14 performances)
LA FANCIULLA DEL WEST (Puccini): Deborah Voigt/Elisabete Matos,
Marcello Giordani/Carl Tanner, Lucio Gallo; c. Nicola Luisotti; 6 December 2010
(9 performances)
PELLÉAS ET MÉLISANDE (Debussy): Stéphane Degout, Magdalena Kozená,
Gerald Finley, Willard White, Felicity Palmer; c. Simon Rattle; 17 December
2010 (5 performances)
DIE ZAUBERFLÖTE (Mozart): Susanna Phillips, Russell Thomas/Bruce
Sledge, Erika Miklósa/Audrey Luna, Morris Robinson, Nathan Gunn/John Moore,
Ashley Emerson, Alan Oke/Joel Sorensen; c. Erik Nielsen; 21 December 2010 (8
abridged performances)
LA TRAVIATA (Verdi) (new production): Marina Poplavskaya (Violetta), Matthew
Polenzani (Alfredo), Andrzej Dobber (Germont); c. Gianandrea Noseda; p. Willy
Decker; d. Wolfgang Gussmann, Susana Mendoza, Hans Toelstede; 31 December 2010
(9 performances)
TOSCA (Puccini): Sondra Radvanovsky/Violeta Urmana, Roberto
Alagna/Salvatore Licitra, Falk Struckmann/James Morris/Bryn Terfel; c. Marco
Armiliato; 10 January 2011 (12 performances)
SIMON BOCCANEGRA (Verdi): Dmitri Hvorostovsky, Barbara Frittoli,
Roberto De Biasio/Ramón Vargas, Ferruccio Furlanetto, Nicola Alaimo; c. James
Levine/John Keenan; 20 January 2011 (5 performances)
NIXON IN CHINA (Adams) (new production): James Maddalena (Nixon), Janis Kelly
(Pat Nixon), Richard Paul Fink (Kissinger), Russell Braun (Chou En-Lai), Robert
Brubaker (Mao Tse-Tung), Kathleen Kim (Chiang Ch’ing); c. John Adams; 2
February 2011 (6 performances)
IPHIGÉNIE EN TAURIDE (Gluck): Susan Graham/Elizabeth Bishop,
Plácido Domingo, Paul Groves, Gordon Hawkins, Julie Boulianne; c. Patrick
Summers; 12 February 2011 (6 performances)
ARMIDA (Rossini): Renée Fleming, Lawrence Brownlee, John Osborn,
Antonino Siragusa, Kobie van Rensburg, Barry Banks, Yeghishe Manucharyan; c.
Riccardo Frizza; 18 February 2011 (5 performances)
LUCIA DI LAMMERMOOR (Donizetti): Natalie Dessay/Diana Damrau,
Joseph Calleja/Rolando Villazón/Alexey Dolgov/Piotr Beczala, Ludovic
Tézier/Stephen Gaertner/Zeljko Lucic, Kwangchul Youn/Ildar Abdrazakov; c.
Patrick Summers/Gianandrea Noseda; 24 February 2011 (11 performances)
ROMÉO ET JULIETTE (Gounod): Piotr Beczala, Hei-Kyung Hong, James
Morris, Julie Boulianne, Lucas Meacham; c. Plácido Domingo/Paul Nadler; 3 March
2011 (7 performances)
PIKOVAYA DAMA (The Queen of Spades) (Tchaikovsky): Karita Mattila,
Vladimir Galouzine, Dolora Zajick, Peter Mattei, Alexey Markov; c. Andris
Nelsons; 11 March 2011 (5 performances)
LE COMTE ORY (Rossini) (Première): Juan Diego Flórez (Ory), Diana Damrau (Adèle),
Joyce DiDonato (Isolier), Stéphane Degout (Raimbaud), Michele Pertusi (Tutor);
c. Maurizio Benini; p. Bartlett Sher; d. Michael Yeargan, Catherine Zuber,
Brian MacDevitt; 24 March 2011 (8 performances)
CAPRICCIO (Richard Strauss): Renée Fleming, Sarah Connolly, Joseph
Kaiser, Morten Frank Larsen, Russell Braun, Peter Rose; c. Andrew Davis; 28
March 2011 (7 performances)
WOZZECK (Berg): Alan Held, Waltraud Meier, Gerhard Siegel, Stuart
Skelton, Walter Fink, Russell Thomas; c. James Levine; 6 April 2011 (4
performances)
DIE WALKÜRE (Wagner) (new production): Deborah Voigt (Brünnhilde), Jonas
Kaufmann (Siegmund), Eva-Maria Westbroek/Margaret Jane Wray* (Sieglinde), Bryn
Terfel (Wotan), Stephanie Blythe (Fricka), Hans-Peter König (Hunding); c. James
Levine/Derrick Inouye; p. Robert Lepage; d. Carl Fillion, François St-Aubin; 22
April 2011 (7 performances)
ORFEO ED EURIDICE (Gluck): David Daniels, Kate Royal, Lisette
Oropesa; c. Antony Walker; 29 April 2011 (5 performances)
ARIADNE AUF NAXOS (Richard Strauss): Violeta Urmana, Robert Dean
Smith, Kathleen Kim, Joyce DiDonato, Thomas Allen; c. Fabio Luisi; 7 May 2011
(3 performances)
2011 - 2012
ANNA BOLENA (Donizetti) (Première): Anna Netrebko/Angela Meade (Anna),
Ekaterina Gubanova/Katharine Goeldner (Giovanna), Ildar Abdrazakov (Enrico),
Stephen Costello (Riccardo); c. Marco Armiliato; p. David McVicar; d. Robert
Jones, Jenny Tiramani, Paule Constable; 26 September 2011 (12 performances)
NABUCCO (Verdi): Zeljko Lucic, Maria Guleghina/Marianne Cornetti/Elisabete
Matos, Yonghoon Lee/Adam Diegel, Renée Tatum/Elizabeth Bishop, Carlo
Colombara/Dmitry Belosselskiy; c. Paolo Carignani; 27 September 2011 (12
performances)
IL BARBIERE DI SIVIGLIA (Rossini): Peter Mattei/Rodion Pogossov,
Isabel Leonard/Diana Damrau, Javier Camarena/Alexey Kudrya/Colin Lee, Maurizio
Muraro/John Del Carlo, Paata Burchuladze/Samuel Ramey/Ferruccio Furlanetto; c.
Maurizio Benini/Marco Armiliato; 1 October 2011 (14 performances)
DON GIOVANNI (Mozart) (new production): Peter Mattei/Mariusz Kwiecien/Gerald
Finley (Don Giovanni), Marina Rebeka (Donna Anna), Ramón Vargas/Bruce
Sledge/Matthew Polenzani (Don Ottavio), Barbara Frittoli/Ellie Dehn (Donna
Elvira), Luca Pisaroni/Kyle Ketelsen/Bryn Terfel (Leporello), Mojca
Erdmann/Isabel Leonard (Zerlina), Joshua Bloom/Shenyang (Masetto), Stefan
Kocán/James Morris (Commendatore); c. Fabio Luisi/Louis Langrée/Andrew Davis;
p. Michael Grandage; d. Christopher Oram, Paule Constable; 13 October 2011 (17
performances)
SIEGFRIED (Wagner) (new production): Jay Hunter Morris/Stephen Gould
(Siegfried), Deborah Voigt/Katarina Dalayman (Brünnhilde), Bryn Terfel
(Wanderer), Patricia Bardon (Erda), Gerhard Siegel/Robert Brubaker (Mime), Eric
Owens/Richard Paul Fink (Alberich), Hans-Peter König (Fafner), Mojca
Erdmann/Erin Morley (Woodbird); c. Fabio Luisi/Derrick Inouye; 27 October 2011;
(6 performances)
SATYAGRAHA (Glass): Richard Croft, Bradley Garvin, Richard
Bernstein, Rachelle Durkin, Molly Fillmore, Maria Zifchak, Kim Josephson; c.
Dante Anzolini; 4 November 2011 (7 performances)
RODELINDA (Handel): Renée Fleming, Joseph Kaiser, Shenyang,
Stephanie Blythe, Andreas Scholl, Iestyn Davies/Anthony Roth Costanzo; c. Harry
Bicket; 14 November 2011 (8 performances)
LA BOHÈME (Puccini): Hei-Kyung Hong/Hibla Gerzmava, Dimitri
Pittas, Susanna Phillips, Alexey Markov, Patrick Carfizzi, Matthew Rose; c.
Louis Langrée; 18 November 2011 (6 performances)
FAUST (Gounod) (new production): Jonas Kaufmann/Roberto Alagna/Joseph
Calleja/David Pomeroy* (Faust), Marina Poplavskaya/Malin Byström (Marguerite),
René Pape/Ferruccio Furlanetto (Méphistophéles), Russell Braun/Brian
Mulligan/George Petean (Valentin), Michèle Losier/Kate Lindsey (Siebel); c.
Yannick Nézet-Séguin/Pierre Vallet/Alain Altinoglu; p. Des McAnuff; d. Robert
Brill, Paul Tazewell, Peter Mumford; 21 November 2011 (14 performances)
MADAMA BUTTERFLY (Puccini): Lipzing Zhang/Patricia Racette, Robert
Dean Smith/Adam Diegel/Roberto De Biasio, Maria Zifchak, Luca Salsi/Laurent
Naouri/Vladimir Chmelo; c. Plácido Domingo/Yves Abel/Marco Armiliato; 5
December 2011 (12 performances)
LA FILLE DU RÉGIMENT (Donizetti): Nino Machaidze, Lawrence
Brownlee, Ann Murray, Maurizio Muraro, James Courtney; c. Yves Abel; 12
December 2011 (7 performances)
HÄNSEL UND GRETEL (Humperdinck): Kate Lindsey/Alice Coote,
Aleksandra Kurzak/Heidi Stober, Michaela Martens, Dwayne Croft, Robert
Brubaker, Jennifer Johnson Cano, Ashley Emerson; c. Robin Ticciati; 16 December
2011 (8 performances)
THE ENCHANTED ISLAND (Handel and others) (world première): David Daniels/Anthony Roth
Costanzo (Prospero), Danielle de Niese (Ariel), Joyce DiDonato (Sycorax), Luca
Pisaroni (Caliban), Lisetta Oropesa (Miranda), Plácido Domingo (Neptune); c.
William Christie; p. Phelim McDermott; d. Julian Crouch, Kevin Pollard, Brian
MacDevitt; 31 December 2011 (10 performances)
TOSCA (Puccini): Patricia Racette, Roberto Alagna/Robert Dean
Smith/Marcelo Álvarez, George Gagnidze/James Morris; c. Mikko Franck; 10
January 2012 (6 performances)
GÖTTERDÄMMERUNG (Wagner) (new production): Deborah Voigt/Katarina Dalayman
(Brünnhilde), Jay Hunter Morris/Stephen Gould (Siegfried), Iain Paterson
(Gunther), Wendy Bryn Harmer (Gutrune), Hans-Peter König (Hagen), Waltraud
Meier/Karen Cargill (Waltraute), Eric Owens/Richard Paul Fink (Alberich); c.
Fabio Luisi/John Keenan; p. Robert Lepage; d. Carl Fillion, François St-Aubin,
Etienne Boucher; 27 January 2012 (8 performances)
ERNANI (Verdi): Roberto De Biasio/Marcello Giordani, Angela Meade,
Dmitri Hvorostovsky, Ferruccio Furlanetto; c. Marco Armiliato; 2 February 2012
(6 performances)
AIDA (Verdi): Violeta Urmana/Sondra Radvanovsky/Latonia Moore,
Marcelo Álvarez/Riccardo Massi/Marcello Giordani, Stephanie Blythe, Lado
Ataneli, James Morris; c. Marco Armiliato; 9 February 2012 (7 performances)
KHOVANSHCHINA (Mussorgsky): Anatoly Kotscherga, Misha Didyk, Olga
Borodina, Ildar Abdrazakov, Vladimir Galouzine, George Gagnidze/Vitaliy Bilyy;
c. Kirill Petrenko; 27 February 2012 (6 performances)
L’ELISIR D’AMORE (Donizetti): Diana Damrau, Juan Diego Flórez,
Mariusz Kwiecien, Alessandro Corbelli; c. Donato Renzetti; 5 March 2012 (8
performances)
MACBETH (Verdi): Thomas Hampson/George Gagnidze, Nadja Michael,
Günther Groissböck, Dimitri Pittas; c. Gianandrea Noseda; 15 March 2012 (7
performances)
MANON (Massenet) (new production):
Anna Netrebko (Manon), Piotr Beczala (Des Grieux), Paulo Szot/Michael Todd
Simpson (Lescaut), David Pittsinger (Count des Grieux); c. Fabio Luisi; p.
Laurent Pelly; d. Chantal Thomas, Laurent Pelly, Joel Adam; 26 March 2012 (9
performances)
DAS RHEINGOLD (Wagner): Bryn Terfel, Stephanie Blythe, Eric Owens,
Stefan Margita, Patricia Bardon, Franz-Josef Selig, Hans-Peter König, Wendy
Bryn Harmer, Adam Diegel, Dwayne Croft, Gerhard Siegel; c. Fabio Luisi; 4 April
2012 (4 performances)
LA TRAVIATA (Verdi): Hei-Kyung Hong/Natalie Dessay, Matthew
Polenzani, Dmitri Hvorostovsky; c. Fabio Luisi/Steven White; 6 April 2012 (8
performances)
DIE WALKÜRE (Wagner): Deborah Voigt/Katarina Dalayman, Stuart
Skelton/Frank van Aken, Eva-Maria Westbroek, Bryn Terfel, Stephanie Blythe,
Hans-Peter König; c. Fabio Luisi; 13 April 2012 (3 performances)
VĚC MAKROPULOS (Janáček): Karita Mattila, Emalie Savoy, Richard
Leech, Alan Oke, Matthew Plenk, Bernard Fitch, Johan Reuter/Christopher Feigum,
Tom Fox; c. Jiri Belohlávek; 27 April 2012 (5 performances)
BILLY BUDD (Britten): Nathan Gunn, John Daszak, James Morris,
Dwayne Croft, Kyle Ketelsen, Ryan McKinny; c. David Robertson; 4 May 2012 (3
performances)
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