The Metropolitan Opera
January will be a month of classics at the Met. Aida, La Boheme, Tosca and Rigoletto will fill the operatic calendar of the venue.
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AIDA
Soprano Angel Blue makes her long-awaited Met role debut as the Ethiopian princess torn between love and country, one of opera’s defining roles. Music Director Yannick Nézet-Séguin takes the podium for the New Year’s Eve premiere of Michael Mayer’s spectacular new staging, which brings audiences inside the towering pyramids and gilded tombs of ancient Egypt with intricate projections and dazzling animations. Mezzo-soprano Judit Kutasi, following her 2024 debut in Verdi’s La Forza del Destino, is Aida’s Egyptian rival Amneris, sharing the role with Elīna Garanča, who returns to the Met for the first time since 2020. Leading tenors Piotr Beczała, SeokJong Baek, and Brian Jagde alternate as the soldier Radamès, who completes the greatest love triangle in the repertory. The all-star cast also features baritones Quinn Kelsey, Amartuvshin Enkhbat, and Roman Burdenko as Amonasro and basses Dmitry Belosselskiy, Alexander Vinogradov, and Morris Robinson as Ramfis. Christina Nilsson makes her Met debut in the title role in March, and Alexander Soddy shares conducting duties.
LA BOHEME
Four brilliant casts take the stage as Puccini’s lovesick young bohemians in Franco Zeffirelli’s picturesque production. Sopranos Ailyn Pérez, Eleonora Buratto, Kristina Mkhitaryan, and Corinne Winters alternate as the delicate seamstress Mimì, and tenors Dmytro Popov, Matthew Polenzani, and Joseph Calleja share the role of the enamored poet Rodolfo. Maestros Kensho Watanabe, Yannick Nézet-Séguin, Alexander Soddy, and Riccardo Frizza take the podium for performances throughout the season.
RIGOLETTO
Verdi’s heartbreaking masterpiece returns, with reigning Verdi baritone Quinn Kelsey reprising his devastating portrayal of the hunchbacked court jester. Radiant soprano Nadine Sierra is his naïve daughter, Gilda, and tenor Stephen Costello is the rakish Duke of Mantua, with Maestro Pier Giorgio Morandi on the podium to conduct Bartlett Sher’s Weimar-inspired production. A second run of performances features the Met debut of rising tenor Pene Pati, alongside soprano Erin Morley and baritone Luca Salsi, conducted by Daniele Callegari.
TOSCA
Three thrilling leading ladies trade off as the volatile diva Floria Tosca. First, soprano Aleksandra Kurzak reprises her riveting portrayal of the title role, starring alongside tenor SeokJong Baek as her revolutionary lover, Cavaradossi, and baritone George Gagnidze as the sadistic chief of police Scarpia. Later in the season, the extraordinary Lise Davidsen sings Tosca for her first time at the Met, alongside tenor Freddie De Tommaso in his eagerly anticipated company debut and powerhouse baritone Quinn Kelsey. And in the winter, soprano Sondra Radvanovsky and tenor Brian Jagde reunite following their acclaimed 2021 performances of the lead pair, joining forces with legendary bass-baritone Bryn Terfel, who returns to the Met after more than a decade. Maestro Xian Zhang and Music Director Yannick Nézet-Séguin trade off on the podium.
Carnegie Hall
The highlights of Carnegie Hall include Les Arts Florissants on January 28th, The Chicago Symphony Orchestra on January 21s and The Met Orchestra on January 30th.
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LES ARTS FLORISSANTS
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Enjoy a new perspective on the hugely popular period ensemble Les Arts Florissants in Zankel Hall Center Stage, which invites audiences to sit on all sides of the performers. Led by William Christie on the occasion of his 80th birthday, this special …
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Performers
Les Arts Florissants
William Christie, Artistic Director and Conductor
Ana Vieira Leite, Soprano
Rebecca Leggett, Mezzo-Soprano
Juliette Mey, Mezzo-Soprano
Richard Pittsinger, Tenor
Bastien Rimondi, Tenor
Matthieu Walendzik, Baritone
Program
CHARPENTIER Selections from Médée
LULLY Selections from Atys
RAMEAU Selections from Pigmalion
RAMEAU Selections from Les fêtes d’Hébé
RAMEAU Act II, Scene 5: “Formons les plus brillants concerts … Aux langueurs d’Apollon” from Platée
RAMEAU Act III, Scene 7: “Qu’ai-je appris … Puissant maître des flots … Que ce rivage retentisse” from Hippolyte et Aricie
RAMEAU Selections from Les Indes galantes
CHICAGO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
Revered conductor Riccardo Muti leads the Chicago Symphony Orchestra (CSO) in music by two of the great Italian opera composers, plus Tchaikovsky’s formidable Fourth Symphony.
Program
BELLINI Overture to Norma
VERDI “Le quattro stagioni” from I vespri siciliani
TCHAIKOVSKY Symphony No. 4
THE MET ORCHESTRA
Violinist extraordinaire and 2024–2025 Perspectives artist Maxim Vengerov continues his season-long focus on great concertos in this all-Brahms program with The Met Orchestra, conducted by Myung-Whun Chung.
Performers
The Met Orchestra
Myung-Whun Chung, Conductor
Maxim Vengerov, Violin
Program
ALL-BRAHMS PROGRAM
Violin Concerto
Symphony No. 4
The New York Philharmonic
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Yuja Wang Leads Rhapsody in Blue and More
Artist-in-Residence Yuja Wang plays the dual role of soloist and orchestra leader in this unique program. The winds of the NY Phil join in works by Janáček and Stravinsky, followed by the original jazz band version of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue, which the composer described as a “musical kaleidoscope of America.”
Program to include
Stravinsky
Concerto for Piano and Wind Instruments
Janáček
Capriccio for Piano Left Hand and Winds
Gershwin
Rhapsody in Blue (original jazz band version)
Artists
Yuja WangPiano / Leader
A Tribute to Boulez
The NY Phil marks the centennial of Pierre Boulez, a former Music Director and innovative programmer, by remounting one of the programs he curated and conducted. David Robertson conducts the concert, originally performed in 1974, that explores connections among works by composers ranging from J.S. Bach and Schubert to Boulez himself.
Program
J.S. Bach
Brandenburg Concerto No. 3
Schubert
Symphony No. 2
Webern
Symphony, Op. 21
Boulez
Pli selon pli: Improvisations sur Mallarmé, I and II
Stravinsky
L’Histoire du soldat Suite
Artists
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Jana McIntyre
Beatrice Rana Plays Mendelssohn
Beatrice Rana performs Felix Mendelssohn’s youthful, exuberant Piano Concerto No. 1. The program opens with Weber’s Ruler of the Spirits Overture, which begins with driving rhythms that give way to more lyrical passages. Robert Schumann’s Rhenish Symphony vibrantly depicts the Rhineland’s landscapes, dances, and grand Cathedral at Cologne. Marek Janowski leads the Orchestra in his NY Phil debut.
Program
Weber
Ruler of the Spirits Overture
Fe. Mendelssohn
Piano Concerto No. 1
R. Schumann
Symphony No. 3, Rhenish
Artists
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Beatrice Rana
Stutzmann conducts Wagner’s Ring Without Words
On the heels of her tremendous success at the Bayreuth Festival, Nathalie Stutzmann — one of today’s leading Wagner interpreters — conducts this wordless distillation of The Ring Cycle. Lorin Maazel (who later served as Music Director of the NY Phil) produced this 75-minute version of orchestral music from Wagner’s great epic — all in the original order and without adding a single note of his own.
Program
Wagner / Arr. Maazel
The Ring Without Words
Artists
Nathalie Stutzmann
