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Strauss’s Salome

Elza van den Heever stars as the unhinged heroine in Claus Guth’s psychologically perceptive new production of Strauss’s white-hot drama, opposite Peter Mattei as Jochanaan. Derrick Inouye conducts.

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Elza van den Heever stars as the unhinged heroine in Claus Guth’s psychologically perceptive new production of Strauss’s white-hot drama, opposite Peter Mattei as Jochanaan. Derrick Inouye conducts.

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Mozart’s Le Nozze di Figaro

Mozart’s comic masterpiece stars Luca Pisaroni as the clever valet Figaro, opposite Rosa Feola as Susanna, Adam Plachetka and Jacquelyn Stucker as the Count and Countess, and Emily D’Angelo as Cherubino. Joana Mallwitz conducts.

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Mozart’s comic masterpiece stars Luca Pisaroni as the clever valet Figaro, opposite Rosa Feola as Susanna, Adam Plachetka and Jacquelyn Stucker as the Count and Countess, and Emily D’Angelo as Cherubino. Joana Mallwitz conducts.

Today 1:00 pm Salome

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Today 8:00 pm Le Nozze di Figaro

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Tomorrow 2:00 pm Essentially Ellington High School Jazz Band Competition & Festival: Final Concert

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Monday 7:30 pm Antony and Cleopatra

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MET PREMIERE | OPENS MAY 12

John Adams’s Antony and Cleopatra

Gerald Finley and Julia Bullock headline John Adams’s new adaptation of Shakespeare’s immortal drama. Adams himself takes the podium to conduct a new production by Elkhanah Pulitzer that updates the drama from antiquity to the Golden Age of Hollywood.

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LIVE IN HD | MAY 17

Strauss’s Salome

Claus Guth’s striking new production of Strauss’s one-act tragedy stars soprano Elza van den Heever as the abused and unhinged heroine, who demands the head of the imprisoned prophet Jochanaan, sung by baritone Peter Mattei. Met Music Director Yannick Nézet-Séguin conducts a cast that also includes tenor Gerhard Siegel as Salome’s lecherous stepfather, King Herod, and mezzo-soprano Michelle DeYoung as his wife, Herodias, with tenor Piotr Buszewski as Narraboth.

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Gone Girl

Leading German opera director Claus Guth makes his Met debut with a revealing new staging of Strauss’s Salome that shines a light into the darkest shadows of the human mind and reimagines the title character as a survivor fighting to escape a stolen childhood.

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