
Title role Verdi’s “Attila” with Riccardo Muti making his Met conducting debut Puccini’s “Tosca” with Karita Mattila singing the title role for the first time outside her native Finland and Janacek’s “From the House of the Dead” with Esa-Pekka Salonen conducting in his Met debut. Some of the high points had already emerged: Rossini’s “Armida” with Renée Fleming in the The 2009-10 season is the first entirely planned by Peter Gelb, who is in his third season as general manager. Paulo Szot, who won a Tony for the Lincoln Center Theater production of “South Pacific,” will perform in a new production of Shostakovich’s opera “The Nose,” directed and designedīy the artist William Kentridge and Rolando Villazón and Anna Netrebko have been cast in a new production of Offenbach’s “Contes d’Hoffmann,” directed by Bartlett Sher.
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