The Deutsche Bank has revealed the Metropolitan Opera's 2014-15 Opening Night Gala.
The organization posted on its website that the opening night will be held on Sept. 22, 2014 and will feature a new production of Mozart's "Le Nozze di Figaro."
The cast will include Ildar Abdrazakov, Peter Mattei, Isabel Leonard, Marina Poplavskaya, and Marlis Petersen. The opera will be conducted by James Levine.
The Deutsche Bank is acting as a sponsor for the gala and the news comes a few hours before the Met is supposed to announce the new season.
The Met posted a picture previewing the six new productions. Abdrazakov shows up in the first picture while Renee Fleming is seen in a gown in the second. The third picture shows a number of chorus members while the fourth shows Marcelo Alvarez dressed as a clown.
The last two pictures are clearly from older productions that have been shown already with other companies. The fifth picture is from last summer's Santa Fe production of Rossini's "La Donna del Lago" with Joyce DiDonato and the last picture is the famous Baden Baden-Mariinsky production of Tchaikovsky's "Iolanta" with Anna Netrebko.
The opera company recently opened its new production to Borodin's "Prince Igor" to rave reviews and recently presented Dvorak's "Rusalka" in HD. The company is now gearing up for a new production of Massenet's "Werther," which features star tenor Jonas Kaufmann and Sophie Koch.
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