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Original Release
10/11/2014
US Release
10/11/2014
Cast
| Name | Character |
|---|
| Metropolitan Opera Orchestra | Themselves - Orchestra |
| Metropolitan Opera Chorus | Chorus |
| Metropolitan Opera Ballet | Dancers / Ballet |
| Joyce DiDonato | Self - Host / Elena, daughter of Duglas D'Angus |
| Renée Fleming | Self - Host / Hanna Glawari |
| Donald Palumbo | Self - Chorus Master (Intermission) / Chorus master (Curtain call) |
| Deborah Voigt | Self - Host / Self - Interviewer to Mr. Levine |
| James Levine | Self - Conductor / Self - Condutor of Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg (2001) |
| David Crawford | Hermann, a student / Schlémil / Hermann Ortel, soap-maker / Apparitions: A Warrior |
| John Stimac | Chez Maxime Bartender / Marine Soldier / Royal Hunter |
| # | Title | Air Date |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Verdi: Macbeth | Saturday, 11 October 2014 |
| 2 | Mozart: Le nozze di Figaro | Saturday, 18 October 2014 |
| 3 | Bizet: Carmen | Saturday, 01 November 2014 |
| 4 | Rossini: Il Barbiere di Siviglia | Saturday, 22 November 2014 |
| 5 | Wagner: Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg | Saturday, 13 December 2014 |
| 6 | Lehár: The Merry Widow | Saturday, 17 January 2015 |
| 7 | Offenbach: Les contes d'Hoffmann | Saturday, 31 January 2015 |
| 8 | Tchaikovsky: Iolanta/Bartók: Bluebeard's Castle | Saturday, 14 February 2015 |
| 9 | Rossini: La donna del lago | Saturday, 14 March 2015 |
| 10 | Mascagni: Cavalleria Rusticana/Leoncavallo: Pagliacci | Saturday, 25 April 2015 |
Directors
Gary Halvorson, Matthew Diamond, Barbara Willis Sweete
Writers
Beaumarchais, Henri Meilhac, Henrik Hertz, Jeremy Sams, Lorenzo da Ponte, Walter Scott, Richard Wagner, Modest Tchaikovsky, Andrea Leone Tottola, Andrea Maffei, Ruggero Leoncavallo, Francesco Maria Piave, Cesare Sterbini, Jules Barbier, Ludovic Halévy, Prosper Mérimée, Charles Perrault, William Shakespeare, Béla Balázs, Leo Stein, Viktor Léon, Giovanni Verga, Michel Carré, Giovanni Targioni-Tozzetti, Guido Menasci, E.T.A. Hoffmann
Cast
| Name | Character |
|---|
| Metropolitan Opera Orchestra | Themselves - Orchestra |
| Metropolitan Opera Chorus | Chorus |
| Metropolitan Opera Ballet | Dancers / Ballet |
| Joyce DiDonato | Self - Host / Elena, daughter of Duglas D'Angus |
| Renée Fleming | Self - Host / Hanna Glawari |
| Donald Palumbo | Self - Chorus Master (Intermission) / Chorus master (Curtain call) |
| Deborah Voigt | Self - Host / Self - Interviewer to Mr. Levine |
| James Levine | Self - Conductor / Self - Condutor of Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg (2001) |
| David Crawford | Hermann, a student / Schlémil / Hermann Ortel, soap-maker / Apparitions: A Warrior |
| John Stimac | Chez Maxime Bartender / Marine Soldier / Royal Hunter |
| Anita Rachvelishvili | Carmen, a gypsy / Self - Next transmission star from Carmen (Intermission) / Self - Host |
| Anna Netrebko | Next termission star from Iolanta (Intermission) / Lady Macbeth / Iolanta - Iolanta |
| Amir Levy | Head Servant / Gypsy / Apparitions: Macbeth's Noble Guest |
| Isabel Leonard | Self - Next transmission star from Il Barbiere di Siviglia (Intermission) / Rosina / Cherubino |
| Ildar Abdrazakov | Self - Next transmission star from Le Nozze di Figaro (Intermission) / Figaro / Escamillo, a toreador |
| Michele Mariotti | Self - Conductor |
| Marlis Petersen | Susanna / Self - Next transmission star from Le Nozze di Figaro (Intermission) |
| John Moore | Konrad Nachtigall, tinsmith / Moralès, an officer |
| Leah Hofmann | Self - Froufrou from The Merry Widow / Grisettes: Froufrou |
| Emily Pynenburg | Self - Joujou from The Merry Widow / Grisettes: Joujou |
Producers
| Name | Role |
|---|
| Peter Gelb | Executive Producer |
| Victoria Warivonchik | Producer |
| Louisa Briccetti | Producer |
| Mia Bongiovanni | Producer |
| Elena Park | Producer |
| Matt Dobkin | Producer |
| Matthew Principe | Producer |
| Ellen Keel | Producer |
| Jeff Tang | Producer |
| Barry Goodman | Producer |
| Aaron A. Dalton | Producer |
| Mary Jo Heath | Producer |
