About the Show

A co-production of Verdi's classic by the Metropolitan Opera and Teatr Wielki–Polish National Opera.

Yannick Nézet-Séguin conducts Verdi’s grand tale of doomed love, fatal vendetta, and family conflict, with soaring soprano Lise Davidsen as the noble Leonora, one of opera's most tortured—and thrilling—heroines.

Director Mariusz Treliński presents the company’s first new Forza in almost 30 years, setting the story in a modern world and making extensive use of the Met’s turntable to represent the unstoppable advance of destiny that drives the opera’s chain of calamitous events.

The distinguished cast also features tenor Brian Jagde as Leonora’s forbidden beloved Don Alvaro, baritone Igor Golovatenko as her vindictive brother Don Carlo, mezzo-soprano Ekaterina Semenchuk as the fortune teller Preziosilla, bass-baritone Patrick Carfizzi as Fra Melitone, and bass Soloman Howard as both Leonora’s father and Padre Guardiano. For the last three performances, soprano Elena Stikhina steps in as Leonora.

Critic Reviews (6)

"Weary and noble, with filament-thin floated high notes and a warlike curse at the end"
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"At the Met, great voices and overwrought Choices in La Forza del Destino"
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"stage pictures are often striking, the directing doesn’t necessarily clarify the story"
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"We have all that marvelous singing, which makes a trip to the Met all worthwhile."
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"The overture languished with inconsistent tempi that were often slow."
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"excellent cast and Davidsen’s Leonora...make this La forza the experience of lifetime."
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Cast and creative team

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