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**METROPOLITAN OPERA RADIO BROADCAST ALERT**

Mozart’s Le Nozze di Figaro Features

Adam Plachetka, Hanna-Elisabeth Müller,

Amanda Woodbury, Etienne Dupuis, and Marianne Crebassa

Radio Broadcast: Saturday, February 22 at 1:00 p.m. ET

The 2019-20 Metropolitan Opera Radio Broadcast season continues with Mozart’s brilliant comedy Le Nozze di Figaro (The Marriage of Figaro). The ensemble cast features Adam Plachetka in the title role of the clever valet, opposite Hanna-Elisabeth Müller as his feisty fiancée, the maid Susanna. Amanda Woodbury is the steadfast Countess Almaviva, Etienne Dupuis is her philandering husband, the Count, and Marianne Crebassa makes her network broadcast debut as the amorous pageboy Cherubino. Cornelius Meister conducts. Le Nozze di Figaro will be heard over Toll Brothers-Metropolitan Opera International Radio Network at 1:00 p.m. ET on Saturday, February 22.

Czech bass-baritone Adam Plachetka has previously sung the role of Figaro at the Met in 2017, as well as at Vienna State Opera, the Salzburg Festival, the Glyndebourne Festival, and Lyric Opera of Chicago. Earlier this season, he appeared at the Met as Count Almaviva in Le Nozze di Figaro. Plachetka’s other company credits also include Belcore in Donizetti’s L’Elisir d’Amore, Leporello in Mozart’s Don Giovanni, and Guglielmo in Mozart’s Così fan tutte. He reprises Figaro later this season at Vienna State Opera, where he can also be seen as Don Fernando in Beethoven’s Fidelio, Gesler in Rossini’s Guillaume Tell, and Malatesta in Donizetti’s Don Pasquale.

German soprano Hanna-Elisabeth Müller has sung Susanna previously at Bavarian State Opera. She made her Met debut in the 2016-17 season as Marzelline in Fidelio, followed by performances as Pamina in Mozart’s The Magic Flute. Müller was a member the Bavarian State Opera ensemble for five years, and has recently returned to the company in roles such as Marzelline, Zdenka in Strauss’s Arabella, and Donna Anna in Don Giovanni, a role she also revisited this season at Vienna State Opera. In coming months, she sings Marzelline at the Baden-Baden Festival and makes her role debut as Eva in Wagner’s Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg at Bavarian State Opera.

American soprano Amanda Woodbury, a 2014 winner of the Met’s National Council Auditions, made her Met debut the following year as Tebaldo in Verdi’s Don Carlo, followed by performances as Leïla in Bizet’s Les Pêcheurs de Perles, Juliette in Gounod’s Roméo et Juliette, and Woglinde in Wagner’s Ring cycle. Other roles include Micaëla in Bizet’s Carmen, Musetta in Puccini’s La Bohème, and Papagena in Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte, all at LA Opera; the title role in Donizetti’s Pia de’ Tolomei with the Spoleto Festival USA; and Violetta in Verdi’s La Traviata for her recent debut at the Glimmerglass Festival.

Canadian baritone Etienne Dupuis has previously sung the Count at Calgary Opera. He debuted at the Met last season as Marcello in La Bohème, and has also recently appeared at Paris Opera as Rodrigo in Verdi’s Don Carlo and the title character in Don Giovanni, and at Opéra de Montréal and Opera Australia in the title role of Tchaikovsky’s Eugene Onegin. In coming months, Dupuis sings Athanaël in Massenet’s Thaïs and Carlo in Verdi’s La Forza del Destino at Deutsche Oper Berlin, and Albert in Massenet’s Werther at the Met. He returns to the Met in the 2020-21 season to reprise Marcello and star as Joseph in the company premiere of Jake Heggie’s Dead Man Walking.

French mezzo-soprano Marianne Crebassa makes her Met debut this season as Cherubino, a role she has also sung at La Scala, Dutch National Opera, and Berlin State Opera. Recent performances include Mélisande in Debussy’s Pelléas et Mélisande at Berlin State Opera, Rosina in Rossini’s Il Barbiere di Siviglia in Berlin and at Lyric Opera of Chicago, the title role of Rossini’s La Cenerentola at La Scala and Paris Opera, and the title role of Handel’s Ariodante in concert in Grenoble and Bordeaux. Later this season, Crebassa sings the title role of Gluck’s Orphée at the Salzburg Festival and Dorabella in Così fan tutte at Vienna State Opera and in Berlin, where she also reprises Cherubino.

Cornelius Meister made his Met debut last year leading Don Giovanni. In 2018, he became music director of the Stuttgart State Opera and Orchestra, and he has served as principal guest conductor of the Yomiuri Nippon Symphony Orchestra since 2017. He has led performances at numerous major companies, including Vienna State Opera, the Glyndebourne Festival, Bavarian State Opera, La Scala, Deutsche Oper Berlin, Hamburg State Opera, San Francisco Opera, and Royal Opera, Covent Garden. This season he conducts Hans Abrahamsen’s The Snow Queen at Bavarian State Opera, and Strauss’s Arabella in Vienna, in addition to making numerous appearances at Stuttgart Opera leading Wagner’s Lohengrin and Tristan und Isolde, Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte, Strauss’s Elektra, Mascagni’s Cavalleria Rusticana, and Salvatore Sciarrino’s Luci Mie Traditrici.

The single intermission will include artist interviews, and an interview with Met General Manager Peter Gelb about the 2020-21 season.

PHOTOS AND VIDEOS

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THE STARS OF LE NOZZE DI FIGARO

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