But perhaps some fortuitous casting will revive a previously moribund production (as happened to multiple operas last season). This year has a few exceptionally interesting operas among the new productions while most of the revivals are on the routine side. I’m closer to Boston and should be there periodically as well. (Ask me about my spring semester opera history class!) I’m still only a bus ride away from New York but it’s become a somewhat longer bus ride. Programming note: As I mentioned earlier, I’m now based in western Massachusetts, where I’m a postdoc at Smith College. But we still have a week before things start and it doesn’t look like much has sold out yet (though the Saturday matinees are, as always, the hottest tickets) so I believe this is still timely. Hello, Met-goers! The Met put its tickets on sale in June this year, several months before their recent custom, and I missed writing my usual preview because I have spent the intervening months trying to figure out how to use the Met’s new website otherwise occupied. “So glad I got this newsprint instead of the Olivier Py Lulu.“

The met opera schedule 2015