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Original Release
10/08/2016
US Release
10/08/2016
Cast
| Name | Character |
|---|
| Metropolitan Opera Orchestra | Themselves - Orchestra |
| Metropolitan Opera Chorus | Chorus |
| Metropolitan Opera Ballet | Dancers |
| Eric Owens | Vodník, a Water Gnome, Rusalka's Father / Self - Host / Jaufré Rudel / Host / Voice of Neptune |
| David Crawford | Trojan Soldiers / Pâris / A Steersman / A Captain |
| Tony Stevenson | Triquet / Benvolio / An innkeeper / A Sailor's Voice |
| Matthew Polenzani | Self - Next transmission star from Idomeneo / Self - Host / Idomeneo / Host / A Italian singer |
| Peter Gelb | Self - MET General Manager (Intermission) / Self - MET General manager (Introduction) |
| Donald Palumbo | Self - Chorus Master (Intermission) / Self - Chorus Master (Curtain Call) / Self - Chorus Master (at Curtain Call) |
| Kristine Opolais | Self - Star of Rusalka (Intermisson) / Self - Rehearsal footage from Rusalka (Intermission) / Rusalka, a Water Nymph |
| # | Title | Air Date |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Wagner: Tristan und Isolde | Saturday, 08 October 2016 |
| 2 | Mozart: Don Giovanni | Saturday, 22 October 2016 |
| 3 | Kaija Saariaho: L'Amour de Loin | Saturday, 10 December 2016 |
| 4 | Verdi: Nabucco | Saturday, 07 January 2017 |
| 5 | Gounod: Roméo et Juliette | Saturday, 21 January 2017 |
| 6 | Dvorák: Rusalka | Saturday, 25 February 2017 |
| 7 | Verdi: La Traviata | Saturday, 11 March 2017 |
| 8 | Mozart: Idomeneo | Saturday, 25 March 2017 |
| 9 | Tchaikovsky: Eugene Onegin | Saturday, 22 April 2017 |
| 10 | R. Strauss: Der Rosenkavalier | Saturday, 13 May 2017 |
Directors
Gary Halvorson, Barbara Willis Sweete, Matthew Diamond
Writers
Giovanni Battista Varesco, Friedrich de La Motte, Francis Cornu, Auguste Anicet-Bourgeois, Alexandre Dumas fils, Francesco Maria Piave, Jules Barbier, Alexander Pushkin, Temistocle Solera, Konstantin Shilovsky, Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, William Shakespeare, Hugo von Hofmannsthal, Lorenzo da Ponte, Amin Maalouf, Richard Wagner, Jaroslav Kvapil, Michel Carré
Cast
| Name | Character |
|---|
| Metropolitan Opera Orchestra | Themselves - Orchestra |
| Metropolitan Opera Chorus | Chorus |
| Metropolitan Opera Ballet | Dancers |
| Eric Owens | Vodník, a Water Gnome, Rusalka's Father / Self - Host / Jaufré Rudel / Host / Voice of Neptune |
| David Crawford | Trojan Soldiers / Pâris / A Steersman / A Captain |
| Tony Stevenson | Triquet / Benvolio / An innkeeper / A Sailor's Voice |
| Matthew Polenzani | Self - Next transmission star from Idomeneo / Self - Host / Idomeneo / Host / A Italian singer |
| Peter Gelb | Self - MET General Manager (Intermission) / Self - MET General manager (Introduction) |
| Donald Palumbo | Self - Chorus Master (Intermission) / Self - Chorus Master (Curtain Call) / Self - Chorus Master (at Curtain Call) |
| Kristine Opolais | Self - Star of Rusalka (Intermisson) / Self - Rehearsal footage from Rusalka (Intermission) / Rusalka, a Water Nymph |
| James Levine | Self - Conductor |
| Tanner Schwartz | Actor / Dancer |
| David Heiss | Self - Continuo, cello |
| Deborah Voigt | Self - Host |
| Mary Zimmerman | Self - Production (Intermission and Curtain Call) / Self - Director of Rusalka (Intermission) |
| Elina Garanca | Self - / Octavian |
| James Courtney | Doctor Grenvil / A notary |
| John Stimac | Montegues Fighter / Marine Soldeir |
| Vittorio Grigolo | Roméo / Roméo (First night performance) |
| Anna Netrebko | Tatiana / Self - Next termission star from Eugene Onegine (Intermission) |
Producers
| Name | Role |
|---|
| Peter Gelb | Executive Producer |
| Elena Park | Producer |
| Mia Bongiovanni | Producer |
| Louisa Briccetti | Producer |
| Victoria Warivonchik | Producer |
| Matt Dobkin | Producer |
| Matthew Principe | Producer |
| Jeff Tang | Producer |
| Ellen Keel | Producer |
| Barry Goodman | Producer |
| Dodie Kazanjian | Producer |
