The Metropolitan Opera has announced a generous, dazzling, and highly varied season. Surrounded by a host of internationally renowned artists, Yannick will conduct the Met Orchestra in some thirty opera performances. Under his direction, four operas from the traditional classical repertoire will be performed: Verdi's Macbeth; Wagner's Parsifal; Richard Strauss's Der Rosenkavalier; and Puccini's Tosca. In addition, a new opera will premiere, Lincoln in the Bardo, with music by Missy Mazzoli and a libretto by Royce Vavrek. The story, set in the mid-19th century, is based on a multi-award-winning novel, and its two main characters are Abraham Lincoln and his deceased son.