The Metropolitan Opera: Fedora

The Metropolitan Opera: Fedora

165 mins | Music | Jan. 14, 2023

Umberto Giordano’s exhilarating drama returns to the Met repertory for the first time in 25 years. Packed with memorable melodies, showstopping arias, and explosive confrontations, Fedora requires a cast of thrilling voices to take flight, and the Met’s new production promises to deliver. Soprano Sonya Yoncheva, one of today’s most riveting artists, sings the title role of the 19th-century Russian princess who falls in love with her fiancé’s murderer, Count Loris, sung by star tenor Piotr Beczała. Soprano Rosa Feola is the Countess Olga, Fedora’s confidante, and baritone Artur Ruciński is the diplomat De Siriex, with much-loved Met maestro Marco Armiliato conducting. Director David McVicar delivers a detailed and dramatic staging based around an ingenious fixed set that, like a Russian nesting doll, unfolds to reveal the opera’s three distinctive settings—a palace in St. Petersburg, a fashionable Parisian salon, and a picturesque villa in the Swiss Alps.

The Metropolitan Opera: Fedora

165 mins | Music | Jan. 14, 2023

The Metropolitan Opera: Fedora
Umberto Giordano’s exhilarating drama returns to the Met repertory for the first time in 25 years. Packed with memorable melodies, showstopping arias, and explosive confrontations, Fedora requires a cast of thrilling voices to take flight, and the Met’s new production promises to deliver. Soprano Sonya Yoncheva, one of today’s most riveting artists, sings the title role of the 19th-century Russian princess who falls in love with her fiancé’s murderer, Count Loris, sung by star tenor Piotr Beczała. Soprano Rosa Feola is the Countess Olga, Fedora’s confidante, and baritone Artur Ruciński is the diplomat De Siriex, with much-loved Met maestro Marco Armiliato conducting. Director David McVicar delivers a detailed and dramatic staging based around an ingenious fixed set that, like a Russian nesting doll, unfolds to reveal the opera’s three distinctive settings—a palace in St. Petersburg, a fashionable Parisian salon, and a picturesque villa in the Swiss Alps.
Producers
Original title The Metropolitan Opera: Fedora
Directors Gary Halvorson, David McVicar
Writers Antonio Colautti, Victorien Sardou

Cast

Sonya Yoncheva

as Princess Fedora Romazoff

Rosa Feola

as Countess Olga Sukarev

Piotr Beczala

as Count Loris Ipanoff

Lucas Meachem

as Giovanni De Siriex

Patrick Cann

as Count Vladimir Andrejevich

Tony Stevenson

as Desiré

Brian Vu

as Sergio

Laura Krumm

as Gretch

Paul Corona

as Loreck

Jeongcheol Cha

as Cirillo

Ross Benoliel

as Michele

Scott Scully

as Baron Rouvel

Richard Bernstein

as Dr. Boroff

Luka Zylik

as a peasant boy

Bryan Wagorn

as Boleslao Lazinski