2009–10 Season
creative Teams
50
Giuseppe Verdi
AIDA
coNductor daniele Gatti/Paolo carignani
ProductioN sonja Frisell
set desiGNer Gianni Quaranta
costuMe desiGNer dada saligeri
LiGHtiNG desiGNer Gil wechsler
cHoreoGrAPHer Alexei ratmansky*
stAGe director stephen Pickover
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Richard Strauss
ARIADNE AUF NAxOS
coNductor Kirill Petrenko
ProductioN elijah Moshinsky
set & costuMe desiGNer Michael Yeargan
LiGHtiNG desiGNer Gil wechsler
stAGe director Laurie Feldman
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Gioachino Rossini
ARMIDA
coNductor riccardo Frizza
ProductioN Mary Zimmerman
set & costuMe desiGNer richard Hudson
LiGHtiNG desiGNer Brian Macdevitt
cHoreoGrAPHer Graciela daniele*
Production underwritten by the sybil B. Harrington
endowment Fund
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Giuseppe Verdi
ATTILA
coNductor riccardo Muti*/Marco Armiliato
ProductioN Pierre Audi*
set & costuMe desiGNers Miuccia Prada*,
Jacques Herzog*, and Pierre de Meuron*
LiGHtiNG desiGNer Jean Kalman
AssociAte costuMe desiGNer robby duiveman
Production underwritten by elena and rudy Prokupets
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Gioachino Rossini
IL BARBIERE
DI SIVIGLIA
coNductor Maurizio Benini
ProductioN Barlett sher
set desiGNer Michael Yeargan
costuMe desiGNer catherine Zuber
LiGHtiNG desiGNer christopher Akerlind
stAGe director Kathleen smith Belcher
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Giacomo Puccini
LA BOHèME
coNductor Marco Armiliato
ProductioN Franco Zeffirelli
set desiGNer Franco Zeffirelli
costuMe desiGNer Peter J. Hall
LiGHtiNG desiGNer Gil wechsler
stAGe director J. Knighten smit
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Georges Bizet
cARMEN
coNductor Yannick Nézet-séguin*/
Alain Altinoglu*
ProductioN richard eyre*
set & costuMe desiGNer rob Howell*
LiGHtiNG desiGNer Peter Mumford
cHoreoGrAPHer christopher wheeldon
Production underwritten by Mrs. Paul desmarais, sr.
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Jacques Offenbach
LES cONTES
D’HOFFMANN
coNductor James Levine/John Keenan
ProductioN Bartlett sher
set desiGNer Michael Yeargan
costuMe desiGNer catherine Zuber
LiGHtiNG desiGNer James F. ingalls
cHoreoGrAPHer dou dou Huang
Production underwritten by the Hermione Foundation and
the Gramma Fisher Foundation, Marshalltown, iowa
Additional funding is provided by Mr. and Mrs. william r.
Miller
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Hector Berlioz
LA DAMNATION
DE FAUST
coNductor James conlon
ProductioN robert Lepage
AssociAte director Neilson Vignola
set desiGNer carl Fillion
costuMe desiGNer Karin erskine
LiGHtiNG desiGNer sonoyo Nishikawa
iNterActiVe Video desiGNer Holder Förterer
iMAGe desiGNer Boris Firquet
cHoreoGrAPHers Alain Gauthier,
Johanne Madore
in collaboration with ex Machina
this production was reconceived for the Metropolitan
opera and is based on a co-production of the saito Kinen
Festival and the opéra National de Paris
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Richard Strauss
ELEKTRA
coNductor Fabio Luisi
ProductioN otto schenk
set & costuMe desiGNer Jürgen rose
LiGHtiNG desiGNer Gil wechsler
stAGe director david Kneuss
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Gaetano Donizetti
LA FILLE DU RéGIMENT
coNductor Marco Armiliato
ProductioN Laurent Pelly
set desiGNer chantal thomas
costuMe desiGNer Laurent Pelly
LiGHtiNG desiGNer Joël Adam
cHoreoGrAPHer Laura scozzi
AssociAte director & diALoGue Agathe Mélinand
A co-production of the Metropolitan opera; the royal opera
House, covent Garden, London; and the wiener staatsoper,
Vienna
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