1 in 3 Met operas next season is by a living composer
OperaWhile James Levine was music director for 40 years, the Met hardly ever engaged with a living composer.
A rare exception was the premiere of John Harbison’s The Great Gatsby, which Levine conducted for his own 25th anniversary in the job, and John Corigliano’s Ghosts of Versailles.
Under Yannick Nézet-Séguin, next season will see new productions of Jake Heggie’s Dead Man Walking; Anthony Davis’s X: The Life and Times of Malcolm X; and John Adams’s El Niño.
There will also be revivals of Terence Blanchard’s (pictured) Fire Shut Up in My Bones and Kevin Puts’s The Hours.
Quite a turnaround.
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