Live: Saturday, October 31, 2015 (11:00 am)
Encore: Wednesday, November 4, 2015 (6 pm)

James Levine conducts Wagner’s early masterpiece in its first return to the Met stage in more than a decade. Today’s leading Wagnerian tenor, Johan Botha, takes on the daunting title role of the young knight caught between true love and passion. Eva-Maria Westbroek is Elisabeth, adding another Wagner heroine to her Met repertoire after her acclaimed Sieglinde in the Ring a few seasons ago. On the heels of his recent triumph in Parsifal, Peter Mattei sings Wolfram, and Michelle DeYoung is the love goddess, Venus.

With a Prelude Talk by Maestro Ernest Richardson at 10 am on the day of the live broadcast (Saturday, October 31).