The 2020-21 Metropolitan Opera Radio Broadcast season continues with a network broadcast premiere:
Anna Netrebko in an all-Puccini gala conducted by
Yannick Nézet-Séguin, a special Met performance from New Year’s Eve, 2019.
The superstar soprano portrayed heroines from three Puccini operas. In Act One of
La Bohème she was the fragile seamstress Mimì opposite tenor
Matthew Polenzani as the poet Rodolfo.
She sang the title character in Act One of
Tosca with tenor
Evgeny Nikitin as Scarpia.
The performance concluded with Act Two of
Turandot, Netrebko’s first appearance as the formidable princess of the title, with Eyvazov as prince Calàf.