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    CARMEN

    Jan. 11, 14, 17, 20, 23

    Experience Bizet’s fiery masterpiece in The Metropolitan Opera’s contemporary envisioning. Mr. Blake plays the role of Le Remendado

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    THE MAGIC FLUTE

    March 13 — 26, 2026

    See Mozart’s beloved final opera in the 40th anniversary season of the Israeli Opera. Mr. Blake plays the role of Tamino. Visit the Israeli Opera for dates.

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    SALOME

    May 6 — 17, 2026

    Strauss’ one-act opera, based on the play by Oscar Wilde and directed by Itay Tiran at the Israeli Opera. Mr. Blake plays the role of Narraboth. Visit the Israeli Opera for specific performance dates.

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Previous Performances

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Juliette ou la clé des songes

Opera Nice Cote d’Azur | March 2025

“Michel, a traveling salesman, spends one day in a small coastal town in the south of France. He discovers a young woman whose memory will haunt him forever, until he decides to return to the town in search of the beautiful stranger.

Inspired by a drama by the surrealist poet Georges Neveux, Martinů's Juliette ou la Clé des Songes explores the issues of love and memory, in a world where memories can be bought from a shopkeeper.”

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Julietta 

“It seems oddly fitting, considering the elusiveness of surrealism itself, that perhaps the greatest surrealist opera was composed by someone who was not a surrealist at all. André Breton’s manifesto of 1924 had cobbled together a range of ideas—Marxism, symbolism, Freudianism, and others—into a shapeshifting doctrine that over the last century has had a profound impact on the worlds of art, literature, and theater. Three years later, the French author Georges Neveux wrote his play Juliette ou la Clé des songes (Juliette, or the Key to Dreams) under the influence of many of the ideas of the emerging movement, and a decade later Bohuslav Martinů was crafting his operatic masterpiece based on that play.”

Photo: Matt Dine

Akhnaten 

“Akhnaten is one of Philip Glass’s three large-scale operas based on a “big idea,” in this case monotheism…Akhnaten, especially, deal(s) largely with the unseen forces affecting the inner (psychological), interpersonal (political), and universal (mystical) aspects of existence, subjects that are uniquely portrayed by the composer’s entrancing musical lines.”

Photo: Ken Howard/Met Opera