If you haven't already checked, here's the new season of Met simulcasts.
Oct. 11 -- Verdi's
Macbeth, with Anna Netrebko and eljko Lucic. This is the Adrian Noble production from five or six years ago that I liked so much, with its chorus of slatternly witches that I still think about now and then plus the best sleepwalking scene I've ever seen.
Oct. 18 -- Mozart's
Le Nozze di Figaro, with Ildar Abdrazakov
Nov. 1 -- Bizet's
Carmen, with Anita Rachvelishvili
Nov. 22 -- Rossini's
Il Barbiere di Siviglia, with Isabel Leonard and Christopher Maltman
Dec. 13 -- Wagner's
Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg , with Johan Reuter and a whole lot of other people
Jan. 17 -- Lehár's
The Merry Widow, with Renée Fleming
Jan. 31 -- Offenbach's
Les Contes d'Hoffmann, with Vittorio Grigolo
Feb. 14 -- Double Bill: Tchaikovsky's
Iolanta with Anna Netrebko, and Bartok's
Bluebeard's Castle with Nadja Michael and Mikhail Petrenko
Mar. 14 -- Rossini's
La Donna del Lago, with Joyce DiDonato and Juan Diego Flórez (Met premiere)
Apr. 25 -- Double Bill: Mascagni's
Cavalleria Rusticana with Marcelo Alvarez and Eva Maria Westbroek and Leoncavallo's
Pagliacci with Alvarez again and Patricia Racette
Cav and
Pag for dessert, how nice.

From what I can gather,
Cav will have a traditional production, but
Pag will be set at a 1948 truck stop in the same village, and the players are a roaming vaudeville troupe. Vaudeville? There was no more vaudeville in 1948; it was long dead.
The other double bill strikes me as rather strange -- Tchaikovsky and Bartok? What a clash of musical styles. Can't wait to see it.