One new production sure be a big draw is Donizetti’s “Roberto Devereux” on April 16, 2016. This includes new stagings of Verdi’s “Otello” with tenor Aleksandrs Antonenko on, Berg’s “Lulu” starring soprano Marlis Petersen in one of her signature roles, Bizet’s “Les Pêcheurs de Perles”, Puccini’s “Manon Lescaut” and Strauss’s “Elektra”. As in previous years, The Met will include all six of its new productions among the ten that will be broadcast via satellite to cinemas. Once again, The Met will produce the award winning series “ The Met: Live in HD“, beaming it out to 2,000 movie theatres in 70 countries around the world.

While opera aficionados like myself yearn to visit Lincoln Center in person to catch one of the 25 productions The Met will be staging next season, having ten of these operas brought to us via our local cinemas is just as good, if not at times better, and certainly less expensive.

Such was the case today when The Met revealed the list of productions being planned for their 2015-16 season. The annual announcement of The Metropolitan Opera’s upcoming season is always certain to spur a bit of highbrow cultural reportage among media outlets that go for that sort of thing.

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