Théâtre des Champs Élysées 2010-2011

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Yesterday, Sat March 13, I was at the TCE to listen to the presentation speech of their Artistic Manager,  Michel Franck. 

2010-2011 @ TCE looks terrific on the paper, with basically all the World's top orchestra coming (except for Berliners) and with la crème de la crème  as far as the conductors are concerned. In that All-Star configuration I am more than happy to see seven young super-talented conductors to be given a part in limelight: David Afkham especially, and then also Andris Nelsons, Yannick Nézet-Séguin, Vasily Petrenko, Jérémie Rhorer, Tugan Sokhiev, and Kazuki Yamada. Operas, recitals, orchestral works, piano concerts... it's mind blowing!

Franck also told us that their season 2011-2012 will start only in November 2011, because of the heavy summer works to enlarge the pit and to be able to host larger orchestra. That would allow them to program also some works from the grand repertoire, such as Le Sacre du printemps, Dialogue des Carmélites...  We also learned that they're preparing a new production of Tristan und Isolde for 2012. 

As for the operatic stuff in 2010-2011 @ TCE...

I list here only the recitals and the operatic works (list is incomplete though)...

Sept 22: Joyce DiDonato & Orchestre de l'Opéra de Lyon with Kazushi Ono (Mozart, Rossini) 


Oct 9: Otello by Verdi (cv), with Mahler Chamber Orchestra & Daniel Harding+ Ben Heppner, Anja Harteros, Franco Vassallo, Alexey Dolgov, Heike Wessels, Emanuele Giannino, Paata Burchuladze, Giovanni Guagliardo
Oct 11: Lodoiska by Cherubini (cv), Le Cercle de L'Harmonie & Jérémie Rhorer +  Nathalie Manfrino, Hjördis Thébault, Sébastien Guèze Florerski, Philippe Do, Armando Noguera, Pierre-Yves Pruvot, Alain Buet

Oct 14: Jonas Kaufmann, Die Schoene Muellerin with Helmut Deutsch
Oct 20: Iain Bostridge with Europa Galante 
Oct 21: Max Emanuel Cencic - Vivaldi program


Nov 3-5-7-9: New David McVicar's production of Orlando  with Emmanuelle Haim cond. +  Sonia Prina, Lucy Crowe, Stephen Wallace, Henriete Bonde-Hansen, Nathan Berg
Nov 8 & 12: Rolando Villazon, Mexican Songs (with Bolivar Soloists)
Nov 11: Otello by Rossini (cv), Evelino Pido + Anna Caterina Antonacci, Antonino Siragusa, Dario Schmunk
Nov 29: Alcina (cv) Les Musiciens du Louvre & Marc Minkowski + Anja Harteros, Vesselina Kassarova, Veronica Cangemi, Romina Basso


Dec 1: Philippe Jaroussky & Concerto Köln (Caldara)
Dec 11: Philippe Jaroussky & Andreas Scholl (Purcell)
Dec 13: Patricia Petibon & Il Giardino Armonico  (Mozart, Haydn)
Dec 15: Vivica Genaux & Kammerorchester Basel
Dec 17: Philippe Jaroussky &friends


Jan 16: Thomas Hampson, Winterreise
Jan 22: Sarah Connolly with Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment & Vladimir Jurowski (Mahler, Liszt)
Jan 28: Stéphane Degout (Debussy, Schubert)


Feb 7: Magdalena Kozená & Private Musicke Consort (Lettres d'amour - assorted progr)
Feb 8: Les Saisons by Haydn, Ensemble orchestral de Paris & Olari Elts + Camilla Tilling, Werner Güra, Roderick Williams
Feb 12: Teseo (cv) - Les Folies Françoises & Patrick Cohën-Akenine + Max Emanuel Cencic, Mary-Ellen Nesi, Hélène Guillemette, Xavier Sabata, Ana Quintans, Damien Guillon 
Feb 21, 23: Fidelio, Orchestre National de France & Kurt Masur +  Melanie Diener, Jorma Silvasti, Matthias Goerne, Kurt Rydl, Sophie Karthäuser, Werner Güra, Bálint Szabó


Mar 12-14-16-18-20-22: Orlando Furioso by Vivaldi, new production directed by Pierre Audi and Jean-Christophe Spinosi will conduct Ensemble Matheus & Marie-Nicole Lemieux, Jennifer Larmore, Verónica Cangemi, Philippe Jaroussky, Christian Senn, Christianne Stotijn, Romina Basso
Mar 30: Grand Motets by Rameau/Mondonville, Le Concert d'Astrée & Emmanuelle Haïm + Jaël Azzaretti, James Gilchrist, Marc Mauillon, Alain Buet


Apr 6: Le Nozze di Figaro (cv), Marco Vinco, Anna Christy, Mariusz Kwiecien, Elaine Alvarez,Michaela Selinger, John del Carlo, Judith Christin, Joelle Harvey, Greg Fedderly -- Ongaku-Juku Ensemble & Seiji Ozawa
Apr 13: Karita Mattila & Rotterdams Philharmonisch Orkest (Sibelius, Bartok)
Apr 14: Parsifal (cv), Nikolai Schukoff, Angela Denoke, Kwangchul Youn, John Wegner, Michael Volle, Steven Humes -- Orchestra and Chorus of the Staatsoper from Munich + Kent Nagano
Apr 15-17: Pelléas et Mélisande (cv), Natalie Dessay, Simon Keenlyside, Marie-Nicole Lemieux, Laurent Naouri, Alain Vernhes -- Orchestre de Paris + Louis Langrée
Apr 26: La Scala di Seta by Rossini, directed by Christian Schiaretti and conducted by Jean-Claude Malgoire +  Leonardo de Lisi, Ruth Rosique, Hjördis Thébault, Juan Antonio Sanabria, Ugo Guagliardo, Pierre-Yves Pruvot
Apr 27: Anne Sofie von Otter recital "De Monteverdi à Haendel"
Apr 28: Fernace by Vivaldi (cv), Sonia Prina, Marina Del Liso, Maria Grazia Schiavo, Anders J. Dahlin, Lucia Cirillo, Sabina Puértolas, Emiliano Gonzalez Toro -- I Virtuosi della Muse & Stefano Molardi   


May 3: Il Trovatore (vc), Ludovic Tézier, Elza van den Heever, Elena Manistina, Giuseppe Gipali, Wenwei Zhang, Eve Christophe -- Orchestre National de Bordeaux & Emmanuel Joel-Hornak
May 9: Ann Hallenberg with Les Talens Lyriques & Christophe Rousset (Homage to Farinelli)
May 15: Trevor Pinnock and Friends with Carolyn Sampson,  soprano  (Purcell, Bach, Handel)
May 19-21: I due foscari by Verdi (cv) Anthony Michaels-Moore, Ramon Vargas, Manon Feubel, Marco Spotti, Ramtin Ghazavi -- Orchestre National de France & Daniele Callegari
May 23: Ariodante (cv), Joyce DiDonato, Marie-Nicole Lemieux, Karina Gauvin, Sabina Puertolas, Nicholas Phan, Matthew Brook, Anicio Zorzi Il Complesso Barocco & Alan Curtis
May 25: excerpts from Les Vêpres siciliennes by Verdi (cv), Sondra Radvanovsky, Gregory Kunde, Franco Vassallo, Michele Pertusi -- Orchestre et Choeur du Teatro Regio di Torino & Gianandrea Noseda


Jun 15-17-19-21-22: new production of Idomeneo by Stéphane Braunschweig -- Sophie Karthäuser, Richard Croft, Kate Lindsey, Measha Brueggergosman, Paolo Fanale, Yves Saelens, Nahuel Di Pierro + Le Cercle de l'Harmonie & Jérémie Rhorer
Jun 20: Die Entführung aus dem Serail (cv), Désirée Rancatore, Xavier Mas, Kurt Rydl, François Piolino, Anna Palamina + Das Neue Orchester & Christoph Spering
Jun 27: Maria Grazia Schiavo & Rainer Tros - recital (Mozart)
Jun 28: La Finta giardiniera (cv), Andrew Kennedy, Lisa Milne, Klara Ek, James Gilchrist, Katija Dragojevic, Elizabeth Watts, Andrew Foster-Williams -- Academy of Ancient Music & Richard Egarr