Matt, with a budget of approximately 300 300 million in the general season making it the nation’s largest performing arts organization, is taking a series of steps to ensure its survival and adapt to a changed world. It announces months before its entire 2021-22 season schedule, partly in the hope that ticket buyers for the canceled show – about 20 million tickets sold – will be persuaded to replace them for the newly announced opera. Is.
“Fire Shut Up in My Bones” will be one of three contemporary works at Matt next season – the most since 1928. (Other Matthew O’Connor’s “Eurydice” and Brett Dean’s “Hamlet.”) Matt will take part in the original five stages. -Act, a French-language version of Verdi’s “Don Carlos” for the first time in a new production by DeWitt MV Quicker, directed by the company’s music director, Yannick Nazet-Saguin.
There will also be new productions of Verdi’s “Regulato” directed by Bartlett Share and Donizetti’s “Lucia de Lamarmoor” directed by Simon Stone, which caused a sensation in 2018 with the staging of “Yerma” at Park Avenue Armory. , Nina Stammy, starring in Strauss’s “Electra” as well as Les Davidsen, who will also appear in the composer’s “Ariadne uf f Naxos” and Wagner’s “Die Meistersinger von Nernberg” “Die Meistersinger” will be conducted in London by Antonio Pappano, the music director of the Royal Opera, returning to the mat for the first time in decades. And Susanna Malki will lead Stravinsky’s “Progress of the Rack”; She is one of five female conductors scheduled to attend, the highest of the season in Met history.
Mr Galeb said the audience would be slow to return even when the Mets could reopen – possibly with attendance and half of what it was before the epidemic. So the company will add more curtain time late at 7pm, which people have called for a survey. It will shorten some operas, including Mussorski’s “Boris Godunov” without interruption in the eight-hour version; Trimming the handle’s “Rodelinda”; And Pakini’s “Madma Butterfly.” No. Removing the second intermission. It will expand its reach for families, introducing a new 90-minute English-language “Cinderella” – an adaptation of Masonet’s “Sandrillan” – as well as its popular excerpt “Magic Flute.”
And Matt will work to diversify his ings fur. When “Fire Shut Up in My Bones” was originally created for the next season, Mr. Galbe decided that with a call for racial justice in the nation and the music world, he should be honored next year: Matt’s comeback season of the early night. The company is also adding three black composers, Valerie Coleman, Jesse Montgomery and Joel Thompson, to the commissioning program with the Lincoln Center Theater.
“We’re trying to send a signal that Matt wants to meet the time in which we move forward,” Mr. Galby said. “After making all the calls for greater social justice and diversity, we think it’s appropriate to return, after being released for a year, in a way that demonstrates Matt’s social responsibility.”
