Just in: The Met has just 6 new shows, 4 of them recent
NewsThere will be a new Aida and a new Salome – both originally intended for the banned Anna Netrebko.
John Adams’ latest opera Antony and Cleopatra arrives from a 2022 San Francisco world premiere (pictured).
Osvaldo Golijov’s Ainadamar was staged in Detroit last year.
Jake Heggie’s Moby Dick was first seen in Dallas in 2010.
The season will open with Grounded by Jeanine Tesori and George Brant, which opened in Washington last year.
The Met is starting to look like a second-run house.
There will also be twelve revivals.
Excited? We, too.
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