![]() Petersburg, a fashionable Parisian salon, and a picturesque villa in the Swiss Alps. Director David McVicar delivers a detailed and dramatic staging based around an ingenious fixed set that, like a Russian nesting doll, unfolds to reveal the opera’s three distinctive settings-a palace in St. Fathom Events and the Metropolitan Opera Bring 10 Live Transmissions from the World-Class Met Opera Stage to Audiences Across the U.S. Soprano Rosa Feola is the Countess Olga, Fedora’s confidante, and baritone Artur Ruciński is the diplomat De Siriex, with much-loved Met maestro Marco Armiliato conducting. Soprano Sonya Yoncheva, one of today’s most riveting artists, sings the title role of the 19th-century Russian princess who falls in love with her fiancé’s murderer, Count Loris, sung by star tenor Piotr Beczała. Packed with memorable melodies, showstopping arias, and explosive confrontations, Fedora requires a cast of thrilling voices to take flight, and the Met’s new production promises to deliver. Umberto Giordano’s exhilarating drama returns to the Met repertory for the first time in 25 years.
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