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The Met's 2019-2020 Season

September 23 2019- February 1 2020: Porgy and Bess
September 24- October 26 2019: Manon
September 25- October 12 2019: Macbeth
October 3 2019- April 25 2020: Turandot
October 11 2019- April 11 2020: Madama Butterfly
October 20- November 10 2019: Orfeo ed Euridice
October 25 2019- May 7 2020: La Bohème
November 8- December 7 2019: Akhnaten
November 16 2019- February 22 2020: Le Nozze di Figaro
November 29- December 21 2019: The Queen of Spades
December 13 2019- January 4 2020: Der Rosenkavalier
December 15 2019- January 4 2020: The Magic Flute
December 27 2019- January 22 2020: Wozzeck
January 10- March 19 2020: La Traviata
January 25- February 15 2020: La Damnation de Faust
February 6- March 7 2020: Agrippina
February 15- March 14 2020: Così fan tutte
March 2-27 2020: Der fliegende Holländer
March 12- April 3 2020: La Cenerentola
March 16- April 4 2020: Werther
March 26- April 18 2020: Tosca
April 10-25 2020: Simon Boccanegra
April 28- May 8 2020: Manon Lescaut
May 2-9 2020: Káťa Kabanová

The Met announced the 2019-2020 season today. The new productions are Porgy and Bess, Der fliegende Holländer, Wozzeck, Agrippina, and Akhnaten. Sunday matinee performances are being offered for the first time.

Press Release | Official Site

LA Opera's 2019-2020 Season

September 14- October 6 2019: La Bohème
October 12–20 2019: The Light in the Piazza
November 16–December 15 2019: The Magic Flute
February 1–23 2020: Matthew Aucoin's Eurydice
February 22- March 14 2020: Roberto Devereux
May 1-3 2020: Du Yun's Angel's Bone
May 2-23 2020: Pelléas et Mélisande
May 8 2020: Rodelinda (concert version)
June 6–28 2020: The Marriage of Figaro

Los Angeles Opera announced its next season last Sunday. Renée Fleming sings in the musical The Light in the Piazza while Placido Domingo takes is the Duke of Nottingham in Roberto Devereux.

Official Site

SF Opera's 2019-2020 Season

September 6– October 1 2019: Romeo et Juliette
September 7–22 2019: Billy Budd
October 11– November 1 2019: Le Nozze di Figaro
November 8–26 2019: Manon Lescaut
November 15–December 7 2019: Hansel und Gretel
June 7- July 2 2020: Ernani
June 12-27 2020: Partenope
June 20- July 3 2020: The (R)evolution of Steve Jobs

General Director Matthew Shilvock announced the 2019-2020 season for San Francisco Opera today. Tenor Bryan Hymel and soprano Nadine Sierra sing the lead roles in Gounod's Roméo et Juliette; tenor William Burden is Edward Fairfax Vere in Billy Budd; bass-baritone Michael Sumuel is Figaro; soprano Lianna Haroutounian is Manon; and tenor Russell Thomas is Ernani.

Press Release | Official Site

Seattle Opera's 2019-2020 Season

August 10-28 2019: Rigoletto
October 19- November 1 2019: Cenerentola
January 11-25 2020: Eugene Onegin
February 22- March 7 2020: Charlie Parker's Yardbird
May 2-19 2020: La bohème

Seattle Opera announced the 2019-2020 season today.

Official Site

Steve Jobs Opera in SF and Seattle

San Francisco Opera and Seattle Opera will both present Mason Bates' opera The (R)evolution of Steve Jobs. The piece has a world premiere this July at Santa Fe Opera.

The piece is part of the 2019-20 season at San Francisco Opera and the 2018-19 season at Seattle Opera.

SF Opera Press Release | Seattle Opera Press Release