“The last time the Metropolitan Opera’s orchestra went on tour was in 2002. Since then, its appearances outside Lincoln Center have been relegated to annual postseason engagements at Carnegie Hall,” writes Joshua Barone in Monday’s (2/24) New York Times. “But that will change under the leadership of the Met’s new music director, Yannick Nézet-Séguin, whose influence on repertoire and performances will take shape in earnest beginning next season…. The tour, conducted by Nézet-Séguin, will take place soon after the ensemble’s three Carnegie appearances in June 2021, replicating two programs from that series in five concerts at the Barbican Center in London (June 29); the Philharmonie in Paris (June 30 and July 1); and the Festpielhaus in Baden-Baden, Germany (July 3 and 4)…. All three tour stops will feature an all-Berlioz program of ‘Symphonie Fantastique’ and selections from the opera ‘Les Troyens,’ with the mezzo-soprano Joyce DiDonato…. In Paris and Baden-Baden, the orchestra will also offer a program of Strauss’s tone poem ‘Don Juan’ and Act I from Wagner’s ‘Die Walküre,’ sung by Christine Goerke (Sieglinde), Brandon Jovanovich (Siegmund) and Günther Groissböck (Hunding). It will also include ‘Sinfonia (for Orbiting Spheres),’ a brief work by Missy Mazzoli.”
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