Soprano Aleksandra Kurzak is billed to perform as Tosca in Puccini’s opera, and as Adina in Donizetti’s Elisir d’amore, under plans unveiled by the company for the 2022/2023 season.
Meanwhile, tenor Piotr Beczała will sing the part of Lohengrin in Wagner’s opera and Loris Ipanoff in Giordano’s Fedora.
This last production will also feature baritone Artur Ruciński as De Siriex. Ruciński is also scheduled to appear as Germont in Verdi’s La Traviata.
Soprano Aleksandra Olczyk is on the cast of The Magic Flute as the Queen of the Night. Bass Krzysztof Bączyk, who made his Metropolitan Opera debut in 2020, returns as Colline in La Boheme and The King in Aida, and baritone Tomasz Konieczny is to appear as Hollander in Wagner’s The Flying Dutchman.
Tenor Piotr Buszewski, 30, is to make his Met debut as Chevalier de la Force in Poulenc’s Dialogues of the Carmelites.
Meanwhile, it has been announced that Mariusz Treliński, artistic director of the National Opera in Warsaw, will direct Giuseppe Verdi’s The Force of Destiny at the Metropolitan Opera in 2024.
It will be the third co-production of the two companies. “This testifies to the strong position of Poland’s National Opera in the world opera circuit,” Treliński said, as quoted by Poland's PAP news agency.
Previous co-productions between the National Opera in Warsaw and the Metropolitan Opera in New York include Wagner’s Tristan and Isolde and a double-bill of Tchaikovsky’s Iolanta and Bartok’s The Bluebeard’s Castle, both directed by Treliński.
(mk/gs)