Carlo Rizzi Returns to the Metropolitan Opera to Conduct Season Opener NORMA

This September, Italian conductor Carlo Rizzi steps onto the Metropolitan Opera's podium once again to open the 2017-18 season with Bellini's Norma, in a new production directed by Sir David McVicar. He returns to conduct the Bel Canto masterpiece in New York having inaugurated the previous production, which opened in 2001 and was staged until 2013. A performance will be relayed live into cinemas throughout the world on Saturday 7 October 2017 as part of The Met: Live in HD broadcast series. Soprano Sondra Radvanovsky shares the title role with Marina Rebeka, whilst tenor Joseph Calleja sings Pollione and mezzo-soprano Joyce DiDonato takes on the role of Adalgisa. At the Met, Rizzi will also conduct a revival of Franco Zeffirelli's beloved production of Turandot, with Oksana Dyka in the title role and Marcelo Alvarez as Calaf.

Ranking among today's leading conductors, Carlo Rizzi is Conductor Laureate of Welsh National Opera, as well as International Chair of Conducting at Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama. Forthcoming engagements also include La forza del destino (new production) and Tosca at Welsh National Opera (February-April 2018), Madama Butterfly at Deutsche Oper Berlin (February-March 2017), Cavalleria rusticana/Pagliacci at Teatro dell'Opera di Roma (new production, April 2018), and Les contes d'Hoffmann at Dutch National Opera (new production, June-July 2018).

Carlo Rizzi also conducts the Hallé, tenor Michael Spyres and soprano Joyce El-Khoury in two discs of Bel Canto rarities on label Opera Rara, due for international release in September 2017.

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