Our programs in New York during the first half of the new year (2003) will include Two Long Weekends with the most sought-after performances at Lincoln Center and on Broadway. All performances at the MET Opera are sung in the original language and benefit from the enormously popular MET Titles.

First, our Winter Weekend in January will combine the MET’s pairing of a new production of Janacek’s searing melodrama Jenufa (starring Karita Mattila and Deborah Polaski) and Mozart’s immortal masterpiece Don Giovanni (showcasing Jane Eaglen and Peter Mattei) with a romantic evening of chamber music on the Brooklyn Barge and confirmed top-price tickets for Broadway’s sought-after musical comedy The Producers. ‘The Producers’ has received more Tony Awards than any production in Broadway’s history.

Second, an exciting March Weekend will include three of the MET’s highlights of the ’02 – ’03 season. First, the grandiose new production of Hector Berlioz’ towering Les Troyens with Deborah Voigt, Ben Heppner and Dwayne Croft promises to be a fitting celebration of the Bi-Centennial of the composer’s birth in 1803. Second, a long overdue revival of Gounod’s French landmark Faust will mark the return to the MET of opera’s brightest married stars Angela Gheorghiu and Roberto Alagna.

The Metropolitan Opera	Stephen Sondheim's "A Little Night Music"

And third, Verdi’s Shakespearean tragedy Otello will be conducted by the charismatic Russian maestro Valery Gergiev with a thrilling trio of principals including Barbara Frittoli, Vladimir Galouzine and Nikolai Putilin. Our fourth performance in March will be the New York City Opera’s production of Stephen Sondheim’s comedy A Little Night Music, in the wake of widespread national recognition of the composer’s 70th birthday