The company will open the season in September with the New York City premiere of Mason Bates’s The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, an opera based on the 2000 novel of that name by Michael Chabon, which was first heard at Indiana University last fall. The lineup also includes local premieres of Kaija Saariaho’s final opera, Innocence, from 2021, and Gabriela Lena Frank’s first opera, El Último Sueño de Frida y Diego, from 2022.
There will be new stagings of Wagner’s Tristan und Isolde, directed by Yuval Sharon, in his company debut; Bellini’s I Puritani, for the annual New Year’s Eve gala; and Bellini’s La Sonnambula, directed by the star tenor Rolando Villazón and featuring the soprano Nadine Sierra. Among the dozen revivals planned for the season are Bizet’s Carmen, Strauss’s Arabella and Giordano’s Andrea Chénier.
Yannick Nézet-Séguin, the Met’s music director, will conduct the new productions of The Amazing Adventures, El Último Sueño and Tristan.