Jeff Mattsey

Verdi: Otello (2015)

Tony Award winner Bartlett Sher’s bold new production probes the psychological underpinnings of Verdi’s dynamic setting of Shakespeare’s great tragedy. At the helm of this performance is riveting conductor Yannick Nézet-Séguin, who brings out all the cascading ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Gary Halvorson  •  Bartlett Sher
CAST:  Aleksandrs Antonenko  •  Sonya Yoncheva  •  Željko Lučić  •  Dimitri Pittas

Tony Award winner Bartlett Sher’s bold new production probes the psychological underpinnings of Verdi’s dynamic setting of Shakespeare’s great tragedy. At the helm of this performance is riveting conductor Yannick Nézet-Séguin, who brings out all the cascading ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Gary Halvorson  •  Bartlett Sher
CAST:  Aleksandrs Antonenko  •  Sonya Yoncheva  •  Željko Lučić  •  Dimitri Pittas

The Metropolitan Opera: The Exterminating Angel (2017)

After the acclaimed Met premiere of Thomas Adès's "The Tempest" in 2012, the composer returned with another masterpiece, this time inspired by filmmaker Luis Buñuel's seminal surrealist classic "El Ángel Exterminador", during the 2017–18 season. As the opera opens, ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Tom Cairns  •  Gary Halvorson
CAST:  Frédéric Antoun  •  Sophie Bevan  •  Kevin Burdette  •  Alice Coote

After the acclaimed Met premiere of Thomas Adès's "The Tempest" in 2012, the composer returned with another masterpiece, this time inspired by filmmaker Luis Buñuel's seminal surrealist classic "El Ángel Exterminador", during the 2017–18 season. As the opera opens, ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Tom Cairns  •  Gary Halvorson
CAST:  Frédéric Antoun  •  Sophie Bevan  •  Kevin Burdette  •  Alice Coote

The Metropolitan Opera: La Traviata (2017)

La Traviata’s sumptuous melodies and timeless depiction of doomed love have made the work a favorite of generations of operagoers. In his approach to this classic drama, director Willy Decker sets the action on a nearly bare stage, focusing the audience’s full ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Matthew Diamond
CAST:  Sonya Yoncheva  •  Michael Fabiano  •  Jane Bunnell  •  Thomas Hampson

La Traviata’s sumptuous melodies and timeless depiction of doomed love have made the work a favorite of generations of operagoers. In his approach to this classic drama, director Willy Decker sets the action on a nearly bare stage, focusing the audience’s full ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Matthew Diamond
CAST:  Sonya Yoncheva  •  Michael Fabiano  •  Jane Bunnell  •  Thomas Hampson