GREAT PERFORMANCES AT THE MET: Fedora

Premieres Sunday, May 7, 2023 at 2 p.m. on KPBS 2 / PBS App

Back at the Met for the first time in 25 years, Umberto Giordano’s drama stars soprano Sonya Yoncheva in the title role, a 19th-century Russian princess who falls in love with her fiancé’s murderer, Count Loris, sung by star tenor Piotr Beczała. Soprano Rosa Feola is the Countess Olga, Fedora’s confidant, and baritone Lucas Meachem is the diplomat De Siriex.

Marco Armiliato conducts director David McVicar’s production, which features a set that unfolds revealing the opera’s three settings: A St. Petersburg palace, a fashionable Parisian salon and a villa in the Swiss Alps. Christine Goerke hosts.

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Rosa Feola as Olga in Giordano's "Fedora."

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Rosa Feola as Olga and Lucas Meachem as De Siriex in Giordano's "Fedora."

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Rosa Feola as Olga and Lucas Meachem as De Siriex in Giordano's "Fedora."

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Jeongcheol Cha as Cirillo, Lucia Lucas as Gretch, and Sonya Yoncheva in the title role of Giordano's "Fedora."

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Sonya Yoncheva as Fedora and Piotr Beczała as Loris Ipanoff in Giordano's "Fedora."

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A scene from Giordano's "Fedora."

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