A decade ago, the Welsh tenor Gwyn Hughes Jones got a warm welcome for his first Metropolitan Opera appearance as Manrico, the warrior-troubadour. “Mr. Hughes-Jones sang with ardent muscle,” Zachary Woolfe wrote, adding that he “acted with intense commitment to the opera’s gloriously extreme plot.” Here’s hoping he has only improved with time. The British baritone Christopher Maltman, who cut his teeth as Benjamin Britten’s angelic Billy Budd, joins Hughes Jones as Manrico’s rival in love and long-lost brother (that glorious extreme plot!). Raehann Bryce-Davis, lately much in demand as the gypsy who threw the wrong baby in the fire, is on hand to relive the trauma again. Leonora, the lady Manrico and the Count duel over, is the soprano Latonia Moore, indispensable in the operas of contemporary Black composers but also—like Leontyne Price before her—a Verdian to reckon with. —Matthew Gurewitsch