Rigoletto

The members will still be taking action short of a strike to coincide with the opening night of their performance of Rigoletto on Saturday, alongside the WNO orchestra musicians who voted for the action in July.

He then leads the company on tour to Japan, from June 22 to July 2, with productions of Verdi’s “Rigoletto” and Puccini’s “Turandot.”

Mary Birnbaum directs “Rigoletto” in a production from 2006 starring Igor Golovatenko, Javier Camarena and Gilda Mané Galoyan.

Among the dozen revivals planned for the season are Verdi’s “Rigoletto” and “Il Trovatore,” Puccini’s “Tosca” and “La Bohème,” and Offenbach’s “Les Contes d’Hoffmann,” as well as two versions of Mozart’s “The Magic Flute”: the full-length, original in German, directed by Simon McBurney, and a one-act, English adaptation that has become a holiday staple at the Met.

Tomer Zvulun’s staging of Verdi’s “Rigoletto,” which premiered at the 2019 Houston Grand Opera, opens May 31, 2025, with Quinn Kelsey, Rosa Feola in her company debut and René Barbera.