New productions in Europe - March 2010

Together with the Parisian Rheingold opening tomorrow, there are three other new productions that I expect to be particularly interesting this month:

1. Stefan Herheim's  Tannhauser at Den Norske Opera in Oslo,  
2. Parsifal in Stuttgart directed by our second fav director Calixto Bieito,
3. Dimitry Tcherniakov is back to BSO in Munich, this time with Dialogues des Carmélites.

To the above four, I'd also add a potentially good Tannhauser at La Scala di Milano directed by Carlos Padrissa (for La Fura dels Baus), Daphne in Frankfurt with a good combination Claus Guth & Sebastian Weigle,  and Iphigenie en Tauride in Vienna with Torsten Fischer directing. A more extensive selection of the new European operatic productions in March includes...
in chronological order of their premieres 

• March 1 Opéra de Lyon, Kaija Saariaho: Emilie, Girard/Ono (cast: Karita Mattila)
• March 5 De Nederlandse Opera, Bluebeard’s Castle & Il prigioniero, Stein/A.Fischer (cast: Elena Zhidkova...)
• March 6 Den Norske Opera, Tannhauser, Herheim/Badea (cast: Gary Lehman/Scott MacAllister,...)
• March 12 Opera in Cologne, Bluebeard’s Castle & La Voix Humaine, Mottl/Caetani (cast: Takesha Meshé, Nicola Beller Carbone,...)
• March 12 Strasbourg Opera, Platée, Clément/Rousset (cast: Salomé Haller, Judith van Wanroij, Christophe Gay,...)
• March 13 Zurich Opera, Les contes d'Hoffmann, Langhoff/Zinman (cast: Vittorio Grigolo, Elena Mosuc, Laurent Naouri,...)
• March 14 Teatro La Fenice, Dido and Aeneas, Teshigawara/Cremonesi (cast: Ann Hallenberg,...)
• March 14 Theater an der Wien, Iphigenie en Tauride, Fischer/Bicket (cast: Véronique Gens, Andrew Schroeder,  Stéphane Degout,...)
• March 15 ENO in London, Katya Kabanova, Alden/Wigglesworth (cast: Patricia Racette, Anna Gravelius,...)
• March 15 Theater Basel, Wuestenbuch, Furrer/Marthaler (world premiere)
• March 16 La Monnaie, Idomeneo, Van Hove/Rhorer (cast: Gregory Kunde, Malena Ernman, Alexandrina Pendatchanska, Ingela Bohlin, Kenneth Tarver)
• March 16 Roma Opera, Mefistofele, Crivelli/Palumbo (cast: Stuart Neill, Orlin Anastassov,...)
• March 17 La Scala di Milano, Tannhauser, Padrissa/Mehta (cast: Robert Dean Smith, Roman Trekel, Anja Harteros...)
• March 25 Valencia (Artes), Cavalleria rusticana & La vida breve (de Falla), Del Monaco[SIC!]/Maazel (cast: Aleksandrs Antonenko, Cristina Gallardo-Domâs,...)
• March 25 Theater Basel, Le Nozze di Figaro,  Goerden/Venzago
• March 26 Capitole in Toulouse, Iolanta, Osinski/Sokhiev (cast: Garry Magee, Gelena Gaskarova,...)
• March 28 Frankfurt Oper, Daphne, Guth/Weigle (cast: Lance Ryan, Matthew Best, Maria Bengtsson, Daniel Behle,...)
• March 28 BSO in Munich, Dialogues des Carmélites, Tcherniakov/Nagano (cast: Alain Vernhes. Felicity Palmer, Soile Isokoski, Hélène Guilmette,...)
• March 28 Stuttgart Opera, Parsifal, Bieito/Honeck (cast: Stephen Milling, Andrew Richards, Christiane Iven,...)