Graf von Luna Pavel Yankovsky
Leonora Ekaterina Sannikova
Azucena Elizabeth DeShong
Manrico Rodrigo Porras Garulo
Ferrando Michael Nagl
Inez Olivia Johnson
Staatsorchester Stuttgart, Staatsopernchor Stuttgart, Kinderchor der Staatsoper Stuttgart
PROGRAMM
Giuseppe Verdi Messa da Requiem (1868–1874)
Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia
Wiener Singakademie
Masabane Cecilia Rangwanasha, Sopran
Elizabeth DeShong, Mezzosopran
Saimir Pirgu, Tenor
Tareq Nazmi, Bass
Daniel Harding, Dirigent
The most recent opera by preeminent American composer John Adams—a glorious adaptation of Shakespeare’s immortal drama—has its Met premiere. Following her debut in the company premiere of Adams’s El Niño in 2024, soprano Julia Bullock stars as the irresistible Cleopatra, one of theater’s most complex and captivating characters, opposite bass-baritone Gerald Finley as the conflicted Antony. Adams himself takes the podium to conduct his lyrical and richly orchestrated score, leading a new staging by groundbreaking director Elkhanah Pulitzer that transports the story of troubled romance and political strife from ancient Rome to the Golden Age of Hollywood in the 1930s. Tenor Paul Appleby is Caesar, who goes to war with Antony, and mezzo-soprano Elizabeth DeShong is Caesar’s sister and Antony’s forsaken wife Octavia.
Ludwig van Beethoven Missa Solemnis in D major Op. 123
Conductor TUGAN SOKHIEV
Soprano ROSA FEOLA
Mezzo-soprano ELIZABETH DESHONG
Tenor SEBASTIAN KOHLHEPP
Bass HANNO MÜLLER-BRACHMANN