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Giuseppe Verdi LA FORZA DEL DESTINO

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The Met’s first new staging of Verdi’s masterpiece in nearly 30 years stars soprano Lise Davidsen in her role debut as the opera’s heroine, Leonora.

  • Lise Davidsen as Leonora in Verdi's LA FORZA DEL DESTINO | Copyright: © Paola Kudacki / Met Opera

    Lise Davidsen as Leonora in Verdi's LA FORZA DEL DESTINO © Paola Kudacki / Met Opera

For the first time in nearly 30 years, the Met unveiled a new production of Verdi’s turbulent tragedy La forza del destino during the 2023–24 season, with director Mariusz Trelinski updating the action to a contemporary world on the precipice of global war. In this production, soprano Lise Davidsen headlines an all-star cast as the opera’s heroine, Leonora, sharing the stage with tenor Brian Jagde as her forbidden lover, Don Alvaro, and baritone Igor Golovatenko as her bloodthirsty brother, Don Carlo di Vargas. Music Director Yannick Nézet-Séguin is on the podium to lead a charged performance, which also features mezzo-soprano Judit Kutasi as Preziosilla, bass-baritone Patrick Carfizzi as Fra Melitone, and bass Soloman Howard doing double duty as Padre Guardiano and the Marquis of Calatrava.

"Davidsen’s performance can only be described as towering." - Financial Times

"A soprano who emits enough power to replace a small nuclear reactor… A sure sense of how to draw and hold the audience’s attention so that when she’s singing, nothing else really matters." - New York Magazine

Production year 2024
Production Company The Metropolitan Opera
Composer Giuseppe Verdi
Orchestra / Band The Metropolitan Opera
Conductor Yannick Nézet-Séguin
Stage Director Mariusz Trelinski
Soloists Lise Davidsen, Judit Kutasi, Brian Jagde, Igor Golovatenko

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