The Metropolian Opera's 2010-2011 Season to Feature Productions from Bartlett Sher and Nicholas Hytner

Tony Award winners Bartlett Sher (South Pacific), Nicholas Hytner (Carousel) will be among the Broadway veterans lending their talents to the The Metropolitan Opera for their 2010-2011 season, which was announced February 22. Hytner's production of Verdi's famed Don Carlo will take the stage beginning November 22. Sher's new production of Rossini's Le Comte Ory will follow in the spring, debuting March 24, 2011.

Sher's Metropolitan premiere of Le Comte Ory will feature Juan Diego Florez, Diana Damrau and Joyce DiDonato. The design team will also showcase Tony Award winners Michael Yeargan (sets), Catherine Zuber (costumes) and Brian MacDevitt (lights).

Hytner's Don Carlo stars Roberto Alagna, Marina Poplavskaya, Simon Keenlyside, Anna Smirnova and Eric Halfvarson. Sets and costumes will be designed by Tony-winner Bob Crowley.

The Met's season kicks off with a gala performance of Wagner's Das Rheingold, starring Bryn Terfel and Stephanie Blythe and directed by Robert Lepage, on September 27. Additional season highlights include Peter Stein's production of Mussorgsky's Boris Godunov (opening October 11), starring Rene Pape; Willy Decker's hit production of La Traviata (December 31), featuring Marina Poplavskaya and Matthew Polenzani; the Metropolitan debut of composer John Adams' Nixon in China (opening February 2), directed by Peter Sellars and starring James Maddalena, Janis Kelly and Robert Brubaker; and season closer Die Walkure (opening April 22, 2011), composed by Wagner and directed by James Levine, featuring Deborah Voigt, Eva-Maria Westbroek and Jonas Kaufmann.