Synopsis

After a seventeen-year absence, the Metropolitan Opera presents this production of Wagner's opera, directed by François Girard and led musically by Yannick Nézet-Séguin. The cast features tenor Piotr Beczała as the enigmatic swan knight, with soprano Tamara Wilson as the noble duchess Elsa, wrongly accused of murder, and soprano Christine Goerke as the manipulative sorceress Ortrud. Bass-baritone Evgeny Nikitin portrays Ortrud’s ambitious husband, Telramund, while bass Günther Groissböck is King