With this new production, voted Europe's best opera staging for 2007, one of opera's great visionaries makes his Met debut.
Patrice Chéreau, renowned for his legendary centennial Ring cycle at Bayreuth, directs Janácek's drama of human resilience inside a Russian prison.
The up-and-coming American troupe Cedar Lake Contemporary Ballet will present a new staging of “L'Annonciation”, choreographed by Angelin Preljocaj.