It is a new Met production of Mozart’s classic, directed by Ivo van Hove, with Yannick Nézet-Séguin conducting.
A member of the Baltic Opera company in Gdańsk since 2005, Palka’s wide-ranging repertoire includes main parts in operas by Verdi, Puccini, Mozart, Tchaikovsky, Mussorgsky and Moniuszko.
In the coming months, Palka is to appear at the Wiener Staatsoper, the Royal Opera House in London and the Staatsoper Stuttgart.
Palka is one of seven Polish singers performing at the Metropolitan Opera this season. The season’s opening production of The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Mason Bates featured baritone Andrzej Filończyk.
Bass-baritone Tomasz Konieczny is to appear as Kurwenal in Wagner’s Tristan und Isolde and as Mandryka in Richard Strauss’ Arabella.
Tenor Piotr Beczała, who has been a regular quest at the Met since 2006, is billed as the poet Andrea Chénier in Giordano’s Andrea Chénier, while soprano Aleksandra Kurzak is to make another Met appearance as Mimi in Puccini’s La Bohème.
Tenor Piotr Buszewski is cast as Alfredo Germont in Verdi’s La Traviata, and baritone Artur Ruciński as Riccardo Forth in Bellini’s I Puritani.
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