2012-2013
De Nederlandse Opera in Amsterdam
September 2012: Der Schatzgräber (by Franz Schreker) - new production [dir-
Ivo van Hove, cnd- Marc Albrecht, cast: Manuela Uhl, Gordon Gietz...]
October 2012: Written on Skin - new production/opera bt George Benjamin [dir- Katie Mitchell, cnd- George Benjamin/Franck Ollu , cnd- Ingela Bohlin, Bejun Mehta, Christopher Purves, Allan Clayton...]
October 2012: Little Ring [dir- Lotte de Beer, cnd- Hans Leenders, local cast]
November 2012: Das Rheingold [dir- Pierre Audi, cnd- Hartmut Haenchen, cast: Thomas J. Mayer, Marcel Reijans, Stefan Margita, Wolfgang Ablinger-Sperrhacke, Stephen Milling, Doris Soffel, Marina Prudenskaya, Werner Van Mechelen...]
December 2012: Die Zauberflöte - new production [dir- Simon McBurney, cnd- Marc Albrecht, cast: Judith van Wanroij, Brindley Sherratt Iride Martinez, Maximilian Schmitt, Thomas Oliemans, Christina Landshamer ...]
January 2013: Einstein on the Beach - opera by Philip Glass [dir- Robert Wilson, cnd- Michael Reisman, cast: NAntoine Silverman, Helga Davis, Kate Moran...]
January-February 2013: Guillaume Tell - new production [dir- Pierre Audi, cnd- Paolo Carignani, cast: Nicola Alaimo, John Osborn, Marrina Rebeka, ...]
March 2013: L’amour des trois oranges [dir- Laurent Pelly, cnd- Tomás Netopil, cast: Nahuel di Pierro, Serghei Khomov, Elizabeth Cragg ...]
April 2013: Die Walküre [dir- Pierre Audi, cnd- Hartmut Heanchen, cast: Christopher Ventris, Günther Groissböck, Thomas J. Mayer, Catherin Naglestad, Catherine Foster, Doris Soffel, Marion Ammann...]
May 2013: La Traviata [dir- Willy Decker, cnd- Giuliano Carella, cast: Marina Poplavskaya, Ismael Jordi, Dimitris Tiliakos,...]
June 2013: Sunken Garden - new opera by a very young Michel van der Aa [dir- Michel van der Aa, cnd- André de Risserz, cast]
June 2013: Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg - new production [dir- David Alden, cnd- Marc Albrecht, cast: Thomas Johannes Mayer, Adrian Eröd, Alastair Miles, Roberto Sacca, Ana Maria Martinez, Fabio Trümpy,...]
July 2013: Death in Venice [dir- Deborah Warner, cnd- Edward Gardner, cast: John Graham-Hall, Andrew Shore, Tim Mead]
Traditionally the earliest announcement of the following operatic season comes from Amsterdam's DNO, one of the finest opera stages in Europe. Seeing the wave of horror that will overwhelm the Paris Opera, the program at DNO and La Monnaie look like "safe heaven"
September 2011: Iphigénie en Aulide & Iphigénie en Tauride [dir-Pierre Audi, cnd- Marc Minkowski] with Salome Haller, Nicolas Testé, Anne Sofie von Otter, Véronique Gens, Frédéric Antoun, Laurent Alvaro & Mireille Delunsch, Jean-François Lapointe, Yann Beuron...
This production was presented in December 2009 at La Monnaie in Brussels which I unfortunately could not see because of too much snow (!)
December 2011: Orest -- an opera bt Manfred Trojahn created in 1949 [dir-Kattie Mitchell, cnd-Marc Albrecht, cast: Dietrich Henschel, Rosemary Joshua,...]
January 2012: The Nightingale and other fables [dir-Robert Lepage, cnd-Xian Zhang, cast: Elena Semenova, Nabil Suliman, Ewa Wolak...]
DNO is one of 3 coproducers of the show premiered at the festival in Aix en Provence in 2010
February/March 2012: The Legend of the Invisible City of Kitezh and the Maiden Fevroniya [dir-Dmitri Tcherniakov, cnd-Marc Albrecht, cast: Robert Holl, Kristine Opolais, Maxim Axenov, Dalibor Jenis, Gennadi Bezubenkov, Vladimir Ognovenko, Elena Semenova...]
March 2012: Deidamia [dir-David Alden, cnd-Ivor Bolton, cast: Sally Matthews, Veronica Cangemi. Olga Pasichnyk, Silvia Tro Santafé...]
April 2012: Il Turco in Italia [dir-David Hermann, cnd-Carlo Rizzi, cast: Olga Peretyatko, Alex Esposito, Lawrence Brownlee, Renato Girolami]
June 2012: Waiting for Miss Monroe - opera by Robin de Raaff created in 1968 [dir-Lotte de Beer, cnd-Steven Sloane, cast: Laura Aikin, Dale Duesing...]
June 2012: Parsifal [dir-Pierre Audi, cnd-Iván Fischer, cast: Christopher Ventris, Petra Lang, Alejandro Marco-Buhrmester, Falk Struckmann, Kurt Rydl]
Note also a revival of Don Carlo (very good production by Willy Decker!) with Andrew Richards in the title role.
September 2010
Les vêpres siciliennes Loy/Carignani
Emily Magee, Burhard Fritz, Alexander Marco-Buhrmester, Balint Szabo,...
October 2010
Roméo et Juliette Py/Minkowski
Lyubov Petrova, Ismael Jordi, Cora Burggraaf, Doris Lamprecht, Nicolas Testé
November 2010
Die Soldaten (Zimmermann) Decker/Haenchen
long cast
December 2010
Fidelio Carsen/Albrecht
Michael Koenig (Chris Ventris), Nadja Michael, Alan Held
January/February 2011
The cunning little vixen Jones/Renes
Rosemary Joshua and Dale Duesing
March 2011
Billy Budd Jones/Bolton (purchased from Frankfurt opera)
long cast
April 2011
Platée Lowery/Jacobs
Colin Lee, Marcos Fink
May 2011
Der Rosenkavalier Fassbaender-Decker/RATTLE
Anne Schwanewilms, Sally Matthews, Magdalena Kožená and Kurt Rydl
June 2011
Dionysos Audi/Metzmacher
Anna Prohaska and Georg Nigl
June/July 2011
Eugene Onegin Herheim/Jansons
Andrey Dunaev, Krassimira Stoyanova, Misha Petrenko, Bo Skovhus
Check out the DNO website for more details.
I think the Billy Budd must be the same production Richard Jones did in Frankfurt a couple of years ago set in a 1950s English Public School.
ReplyDeleteFrom the pics on the website it looks like you're right ;)
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I note that there is no good DVD of Billy Budd.
I'll never understand the way they select the operas or production to be released on DVD. Instead of yet another (slightly different) La Boheme or La Traviata why not try with something different?! In that regard, ROH/Opus Arte is being unfriendly to Britten too.
You're right, what a line-up! The list of directors makes me palpiptate, Py's Romeo & Juliette in particular. AND Rattle doing Rosenkavalier... I'll join you in Amsterdam!!
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ReplyDeleteI'm still admiring their 2010-2011 season.
This year they have a wonderful program too.