2012-2013
Theater an der Wien
SUPERB program!!!
September 2012: Il ritorno d´Ulisse in patria [dir- Claus Guth, cnd- Christophe Rousset, cast: Garry Magee, Delphine Galou, Katija Dragojevic...]
October 2012: Il trittico [dir- Damiano Micheletto, cnd- Kirill Petrenko, cast: Patricia Racette, Marie-Nicole Lemieux, Roberto Frontali, Stella Grigorian, Paolo Fanale...]
November 2012: Iphigénie en Aulide [dir- Torsten Fischer, cnd- Alessandro de Marchi, cast: Myrto Papatanasiu, Bo Skovhus, Paul Groves, Michelle Breedt...]
December 2012: Mathis der Maler [dir- Keith Warner, cnd- Bertrand de Billy, cast: Kurt Streit, Franz Grundheber, Heidi Brunner, Wolfgang Koch...]
January 2013: Radamisto [dir- Vincent Boussard, cnd- René Jacobs, cast: David Daniels, Sophie Karthäuser, Patricia Bardon, Florian Bösch...]
February 2013: Le Comte d'Ory [dir- Moshe Leiser/Patrice Caurier, cnd- Jean-Christophe Spinosi, cast: Lawrence Borwnlee, Cecilia Bartoli, Pietro Spagnoli...]
March 2013: Fidelio [dir- Herbert Föttinger, cnd- Nikolaus Harnoncourt, cast: Michael Schade, Juliane Banse, Anna Prohaska...]
April 2013: Béatrice et Bénédict [dir- Kasper Holten, cnd- Leo Hussain, cast: Malena Ernman, Bernard Richter, Nikolay Borchev, Christiane Karg...]
July 2013: Attila [dir- Peter Konwitschny, cnd- Riccardo Frizza, cast: Lucrezia Garcia, Dmitry Belosselsky, Nikolai Schukoff, George Petean,...]
Wiener Staatsoper
The house of Krassimira Stoyanova, Nina Stemme, Ain Anger et al.
New Productions:
November: Alceste [dir- Christof Loy, cnd- Ivor Bolton, cast: Joseph Kaiser, Véronique Gens] (production Aix-en-Provence 2010)
December: Ariadne auf Naxos [dir- Sven-Eric Bechtolf, cnd- Franz Welser-Möst, cast: Christine Schäfer, Stephen Gould, Krassimira Stoyanova, Daniela Fally] (Salzburg Festival 2012)
January: La Cenerentola [dir- Sven-Eric Bechtolf, cnd- Jesus Lopez-Cobos, cast: Dmitry Korchak, Vito Priante, Alessandro Corbelli, Ildebrando D'Arcangelo] (Salzburg Festival 2012)
June: Tristan und Isolde [dir- David McVicar, cnd- Franz Welser-Möst, cast: Peter Seiffert, Nina Stemme]
and some potentially interesting revivals (because of the casts involved):
September: Don Carlo [dir- Daniele Abbado, cnd- Franz Welser-Möst, cast: René Pape, Roberto Alagna, Krassimira Stoyanova, Simon Keenlyside, Luciana D'Intino]
October: Fidelio [dir- Otto Schenk, cnd- Peter Schneider, cast: Gary Lehman, Ricarda Merbeth, Albert Dohmen]
November: Simon Boccanegra [dir- Peter Stein, cnd- Philippe Auguin, cast: Placido Domingo, Barbara Haveman, Ramon Vargas, Ain Anger]
Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg [dir- Otto Schenk, cnd- Simone Young, cast: James Rutherford, Johan Botha, Adrian Eröd, Norbert Ernst, Christina Carvin]
January:
The Queen of Spades [dir- Vera Nemirova, cnd- Marko Letonja, cast: Tómas Tómasson, Marina Poplavskaya, Neil Schicoff, Grace Bumbry]
March:
La Traviata [dir- Jean-Francois Sivadier, cnd- Paolo Carignani, cast: Marlis Petersen, Rolando Villazon, Fabio Capitanucci]
Wozzeck [dir- Adolf Dresen, cnd- Franz Welser-Möst, cast: Simon Keenlyside, Gary Lehman. Anne Schwanewilms...]
Parsifal [dir- Christine Mielitz, cnd- Franz Welser-Möst, cast: Jonas Kaufmann, Evelyn Herlitzius, Kwangchul Youn, Tomasz Konieczny]
April:
Fidelio [dir- Otto Schenk, cnd- Adam Fischer, cast: Lance Ryan, Anja Kampe, Falk Struckmann]
Don CarloS [dir- Peter Konwitschny, cnd- Bertrand de Billy, cast: Kwangchul Youn, Yonghoon Lee, Iano Tamar, Nadia Krasteva, George Petean]
Eugene Onegin [dir- Falk Richter, cnd- Andris Nelsons, cast: Anna Netrebko, Dmitri Hvorostovsky, Dmitry Korchak, Konstantin Gorny]
Werther [dir- Andrei Serban, cnd- Bertrand de Billy, cast: Roberto Alagna, Elina Garanca, Tae-Joong Yang]
May:
Der fliegende Holländer [dir- Christine Mielitz, cnd- Daniel Harding, cast: Stephen Gould, Anja Kampe, Juha Uusitalo]
Rheingold [dir- Sven-Eric Bechtolf, cnd- Franz Welser-Möst, cast: Tomasz Konieczny, Anna Larson, Gerhard Siegel, Janina Baechle, Norbert Ernst, Wolfgang Bankl]
Die Walküre [dir- Sven-Eric Bechtolf, cnd- Franz Welser-Möst, cast: Tomasz Konieczny, Simon O'Neill, Nina Stemme, Camilla Nylund, Janina Baechle, Ain Anger]
Siegfried [dir- Sven-Eric Bechtolf, cnd- Franz Welser-Möst, cast: Stephen Gould, Nina Stemme, Camilla Nylund, Anna Larsson, Tomasz Konieczny, Gerhard Siegel]
Götterdämmerung [dir- Sven-Eric Bechtolf, cnd- Franz Welser-Möst, cast: Stephen Gould, Nina Stemme, John Tomlinson]
June:
Die Walküre [dir- Sven-Eric Bechtolf, cnd- Peter Schneider, cast: Johan Botha, Katarina Dalayman, Mihoko Fujimura, Juha Uusitalo, Ain Anger]
Capriccio [dir- Marco Arturo Marelli, cnd- Christoph Eschenbach, cast: Renée Fleming, Bo Skovhus, Angelika Kirschlager, Kurt Rydl, Michael Schade, Markus Eiche]
Oper Graz
Manon Lescaut [dir- Stefan Herheim (Heike Scheele), cnd- Michael Boder, cast: Gal James, Javier Franco, Gaston Rivero,...]
L'elisir d'amore [dir- Damiano Michieletto, cnd- José Esandi, cast: local]
Hänsel und Gretel [dir- Brigitte Fassbaender, cnd- Domingo Hindoyan, cast: David McShane, Sieglinde Feldhofer,...]
Falstaff [dir- Tama Matheson, cnd- Johannes Fritzsch, cast: James Rutherford, ...]
Gasparone (operette by Carl Millöcker) [dir- Olivier Tambosi, cnd- Marius Burkert, cast: ]
Aufstieg und Fall der Stadt Mahagonny [dir- Calixto Bieito (Rebecca RIngst), cnd- Johannes Fritzsch, cast: mostly local]
La Traviata [dir- Peter Konwitschny, cnd- Domingo Hindoyan, cast: local]
2011-2012
Vienna Calling
Theater an der Wien already unveiled their 2011-2012 program. Interesting and delicately cast, the list of new productions includes:
- September: The Turn of the Screw [dir- Robert Carsen, cnd- Cornelius Meister, cast: Nikolai Schukoff, Sally Matthews, Jennifer Larmore, Ann Murray...]
- October: Serse [dir- Adrian Noble, cnd- Jean-Christophe Spinosi, cast: Malena Ernman, Bejun Mehta, Adriana Kucerova, Danielle de Niese...]
- November: Gogol, world premiere of an opera by Lera Auerbach [dir- Christine Mielitz, cnd- Vladimir Fedoseyev, cast: Bo Skovhus, Ladislav Elgr, Natalya Ushakova...]
- December: L'Orfeo [dir- Claus Guth, cnd- Ivor Bolton, cast: John Mark Ainsley, Mari Eriksmoen...]
- January: Iolanta & Francesca da Rimini by Tchaikovsky [dir- Stephen Lawless, cnd- Kirill Petrenko, cast: Olga Mykytenko, Saimir Pirgu, Dalibor Jenis, Svetlana Shilova, Rinnat Moriah...]
- February: Telemaco [dir- Torsten Fischer, cnd- René Jacobs, cast: Bejun Mehra, Reiner Trost, Alexandrina Pendatchanska]
- April: Hamlet [dir- Olivier Py, cnd- Marc Minkowski, cast: Stéphane Degout, Christine Schäfer, Frédéric Antoun, Sylvie Brunet]
Note that they will be working during summer: July 2012 Les contes de Hoffmann with Marlis Petersen singing 4 roles, and in August 2012 they will give La donna del lago (production by Christof Loy premiered last year in Geneva) with Malena Ernmann, Gregory Kunde and other (Leo Hussain to conduct)
The list of new production to be presented in 2011-2012 at Staatsoper Wien includes:
- October: La Traviata [dir- Jean-Francois Sivadier, cnd- Bertrand de Billy, cast: Natalie Dessay, Charles Castronovo, Fabio Capitanucci]
- November: Kat'a Kabanova [dir- André Engel, cnd- Franz Welser-Möst, cast: Emily Magee, Klaus Florian Vogt, Deborah Polaski]
- December: From the House of the Dead (Z mrtvého domu) [dir- Peter Konwitschny, cnd- Franz Welser-Möst, cast: Misha Didyk, Christopher Maltman...]
January: Otello [dir- Christine Mielitz, cnd- Dan Ettinger, cast: Peter Seiffert, Krassimira Stoyanova, Carlos Alvarez]- January: Aufstieg und Fall der Stadt Mahagonny [dir- Jérôme Deschamps, cnd- Ingo Metzmacher, cast: Elisabeth Kulmann, Angelika Kirchschlager, Christopher Ventris, Tomasz Koniecny]
- March: Die Frau ohne Schatten [dir- Robert Carsen, cnd- Franz Welser-Möst, cast: Adrianne Pieczonka, Robert Dean Smith, Birgit Remmert, Evelyn Herlitzius] (ed: revival of the R. Carsen's production premiered in the late 90's)
Plácido Domingo in Stein's Boccanegra, Minkowski will be back for one more run of Alcina but this time w/o Anja Harteros. Patrick Lange will conduct Don Giovanni and Madama Butterfly.
They too will rerun their Ring twice (November & April), this time conducted by Christian Thielemann [Rheingold: Juha Uusitalo, Anna Larsson, Anna Larsson, Janina Baechle; Walküre: Christopher Ventris, Juha Uusitalo, Waltraud Meier, Katarina Dalayman; Siegfried: Stephen Gould, Juha Uusitalo, Wolfgang Schmidt, Katarina Dalayman; Götterdämmerung: Stephen Gould, Eric Halfvarson, Katarina Dalayman]. They will also give both Don Carlo [René Pape, Ramon Vargas, Luciana D'Intino, Krassimira Stoyanova, Simon Keenlyside] and Don Carlos [Kwangchul Youn, Adrianne Pieczonka, Ludovic Tézier, Béatrice Uria-Monzon]. Great cast for Tannhäuser...
Oper Graz
New productions:
- Otello [dir- Stephen Lawless, cnd- Johannes Fritzsch, cast: Frank van Aken, James Rutherford, Gal James...]
- The Queen of Spades [dir- Peter Konwitschny, cnd- Tecwyn Evans, cast: Asmik Grigorian, Avgust Amonov...]
- Elektra [dir- Johannes Erath, cnd- Johannes Fritzsch, cast:...]
- Maria Stuarda [dir- Stefano Poda, cnd- Gaetano d'Espinosa]
Complete snoozeville. One really interesting proposition, 3 or 4 other decent ones and beyond that virtually nothing. We don't know to what extent FWM influenced the programming during his tenure in Zurich but here he is getting of to a spectacularly uninspired start. (That said, I'd obviously end up going to a dozen and a half or so shows if I lived in town but will regret the absence of opportunity to do so much less than usual).
ReplyDeleteI believe the Carsen production of Die Frau ohne Schatten in Vienna is actually a revival of his 1999 production there--the most inspired Frau production I've ever seen--much more of a Regie production than is typical of Carsen--and absolutely revelatory.
ReplyDeleteAh thanks Trevor. Carsen can be fantastic!
ReplyDeleteIs there any document setting the total season of the Vienna State Opera with all casts - rather than having to click on EACH and EVERY performance to see the singers?
ReplyDeleteRicky
No Ricky, I didn't find any but spent almost 1 hour clicking through the entire season.
ReplyDeleteUh, Mielitz' Otello. Wasn't that a Staatsoper new production five years ago? I saw it there in 2007. Is she doing another one, or is this a misprint?
ReplyDeleteThanks Dave. I actually went through their entire season and my guess was that the productions without photos from previous runs were actually new. It seems my guess was wrong twice, which is not all that bad :) Cheers
ReplyDeleteOC--isn't the HOffmann directed by William Friedkin? If so, that will be a Hoffmann worthy of ETA himself. And I hear it will make use of the Kaye/Keck edition of the score.
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