Metropolitan Opera, Bolshoi Ballet season kicks off

The Metropolitan Opera and the Bolshoi Ballet are coming to town. The 2016-17 season offers Kona a variety of new and more familiar composers, as well as three programs that may delight the keiki.

Singers include Eric Owens and Susanna Phillips, Diana Damrau, Vittorio Gregolo, Kristine Opolaus, Brandon Jovanovich, Anna Netrebko and Dmitri Hrorostovsky, Renee Fleming and Elina Garanca.

For the opera, there are nine performances ahead: Mozart’s “The Magic Flute” (Dec. 3), Saahiarho’s “L’amour de lion” (Dec. 10), Verdi’s “Nabucco” (Jan. 7), Gounod’s “Romeo et Juliette” (Jan. 21), Dvorak’s “Russalka” (Feb. 25), Verdi’s “La Traviata” (March 11), Mozart’s “Idomeneo” (March 25), Tchaikovsky’s “Eugene Onegin” (April 22), and Strauss’s “Der Rosenkavalier” (May 13).

For ballet lovers, the Bolshoi will perform “The Bright Stream” on Sunday, “The Nutcracker” (Dec. 18), “The Sleeping Beauty” (Jan. 22), “Swan Lake” (Feb. 5), “A Contemporary Evening” (March 19), and “A Hero of Our Time” (April 9).

The keiki may be enchanted at holiday time with Mozart’s other-worldly opera, “The Magic Flute” (Dec. 3) and the Bolshoi shimmering “Nutcracker Ballet” on Dec. 18, with “The Sleeping Beauty” following on Jan. 22.

The high definition performances will be shown at the Regal Makalapua Stadium 10 at the Makalapua Shopping Center. Performances for the opera usually begin at 12:55 p.m. Saturdays. On the following Wednesday, encore performances usually begin at 6 p.m. The ballets are shown on Sundays, also usually starting at 12:55 p.m.

To purchase tickets in advance or for more information, visit www.fandango.com, the Box Office at the Regal Makalapua Stadium 10, www.fathomevents.com or call (844) 462-7342. Prices for the opera are between $22 (senior) and $24 (adult); for the ballet, between $16 and $19.