The Met will perform Massenet’s 1899 opera “Cendrillon,” based on the Cinderella story, for the first time in a production being mounted for Ms. Anna Netrebko will sing the title role with the company for the first time later in the run. The new “Tosca” will be conducted by Andris Nelsons, the music director of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, and will feature Kristine Opolais - the artists are married - and two stars who have been absent from the Met in recent seasons: Jonas Kaufmann and Bryn Terfel. It’s less opera as tourism and more as heightened dramatic art.”
“While dramatic and beautiful and faithful to these locations to a certain extent, it’s not as picturesque. Gelb said in an interview, explaining Mr. “It sort of undoes, I guess, one of the blunders of my tenure,” Mr. The Bondy production will be replaced on New Year’s Eve with a new one, by David McVicar, more faithful to Puccini’s settings - but with a raked stage, to give audiences a slightly different perspective. The Post-Post-Zeffirelli Eraįew things have caused more of a stir in Peter Gelb’s reign as the Met’s general manager than his early decision to replace Franco Zeffirelli’s popular, opulent production of Puccini’s “Tosca” with a bleaker, edgier staging by Luc Bondy. He continued his training at the Manhattan School of Music, where he studied with Warren Jones.A starry new production of “Tosca” the American premiere of Thomas Adès’s “The Exterminating Angel,” based on a Buñuel film and a Mozart work set in Coney Island are among the highlights of the Metropolitan Opera’s 2017-18 season. After his undergraduate studies in piano performance at the Hochschule für Musik Stuttgart, Thomas received his Master of Music degree from the Eastman School. Thomas has also worked as Principal Coach at the Salzburger Festspiele, Associate Head of Music with the Komische Oper Berlin, Assistant Head of Music with the Hamburg State Opera, Head of Music and Casting Consultant at the Wolf Trap Opera, Assistant Conductor with Washington National Opera and for seven seasons as Assistant Conductor with the New York City Opera. There he has assisted Christian Thielemann in productions of the Ring, Tristan und Isolde, Tannhäuser, and the Flying Dutchman, as well as served as Head of Music for the Ring Cycle conducted by Marek Janowski in the 20 seasons. Thomas has been a Principal Coach with the Bayreuther Festspiele since 2008. During his time in Vienna, Thomas was also a regular pianist with the Vienna Philharmonic playing piano, celeste, harpsichord and organ in concerts at home and on tour.
He was previously Head of Music at the Vienna State Opera since 2013 and was an assistant conductor/coach with the company for the preceding three seasons. Thomas Lausmann was appointed Director of Music Administration at the Metropolitan Opera at the beginning of the 2019/20 season.
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