AnTony Walker will make his Met debut conducting Gluck's Orfeo ed Euridice next season at the Met.
The cast will feature David Daniels as Orfeo, debuting soprano Kate Royal as Euridice, and Lisette Oropesa as Amor. Orfeo ed Euridice will have five performances: April 29, May 4, 7, 11, and 14, 2011.
Walker is the Music Director of the Pittsburgh Opera and the Washington Concert Opera. He has conducted a wide range of operatic works but has been particularly active in baroque and 18th-century repertory, leading such works as John Blow's Venus and Adonis, Marc-Antoine Charpentier's David et Jonathas, Handel's Alcina, Acis and Galatea, Orlando, and Semele, Haydn's L'Anima del Filosofo, Monteverdi's L'Orfeo and Il Ritorno d'Ulisse, Purcell's Dido and Aeneas and The Fairy Queen, and Rameau's Dardanus. Several of these have been commercially recorded with the Pinchgut Opera in Sydney, where he serves as co-Artistic Director. He frequently conducts opera in his native Australia as well as in the United States and Europe.
For more information, visit http://www.metoperafamily.org/metopera/.
