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Conductor

Conductor (+3)

Yannick Nézet-Séguin

Stage director

Stage director (+3)

Herbert Wernicke

Set designer

Costume designer

Lighting designer

Soprano

Elza van den Heever

The Empress

Soprano (+2)

Nina Stemme

The nurse

Baritone (+4)

Michael Volle

Barak

Bass-baritone (+9)

Ryan Speedo Green

The messenger of Keikobad

Orchestra

Metropolitan Opera Orchestra

Metropolitan Opera House

Chorusmaster

Chorusmaster (+2)

Tilman Michael

Soprano (+1)

Marielle Murphy

First voice of the unborn

Soprano (+3)

Meryl Dominguez

Second voice of the unborn

Baritone (+3)

Aleksey Bogdanov

The one-eyed man

Bass (+3)

Scott Conner

The one-armed man

Tenor

Thomas J Capobianco

The hunchback

Tenor (+2)

Ryan Capozzo

The apparition of a youth

Laura Wilde

The guardian of the temple threshold

Jessica Faselt

The voice of a falcon

Mezzo-soprano (+3)

Ronnita Miller

A voice from above

Bass-baritone (+3)

Jeongcheol Cha

First town watchman

Paul Corona

Second town watchman

Baritone (+2)

Brian Major

Third town watchman

Mezzo-soprano (+4)

Erin Wagner

Third voice of the unborn

Contralto (+4)

Megan Esther Grey

Fourth voice of the unborn

Leia Lensing

Fifth voice of the unborn

Susanne Burgess

First servant

Kathryn Henry

Second servant

Mezzo-soprano (+2)

Hannah Ludwig

3. Dienerin

Lise Lindstrom

The dyer's wife

Tenor (+3)

Russell Thomas

The Emperor

Child vocalist

Hannah Jones

Sixth voice of the unborn

Issachah Savage

Rebecca Nash

Katherine DeYoung

Jazmine Saunders

Met Music Director Yannick Nézet-Séguin takes the podium to lead Strauss’s grand mythological epic, a tour de force for orchestra and soloists alike. A spectacular trio of sopranos lead the ensemble cast, with Elza van den Heever as the otherworldly Empress, Lise Lindstrom as the Dyer’s Wife, and Nina Stemme as the Nurse. Following recent triumphs in Wagner’s Ring cycle and Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, baritone Michael Volle is Barak, with tenor Russell Thomas as the Emperor and bass-baritone Ryan Speedo Green as the Spirit Messenger.

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