Here you can find a compiled info on the 2011-2012 season in France. I will steadily update this entry until the 2011-2012 programs are fully unveiled.
For those who don't know much about the operatic offer in France, apart from Paris you should keep an eye on what's going on in Lyon and in Strasbourg [Opéra national du Rhin]. A good production can happen elsewhere: Lille, Toulouse, Dijon, Marseille, Rouen, Nice, Monte Carlo, Bordeaux, Nantes, Nancy...
My apologies to the venues in Reims, Clermont-Ferrand, Massy, Metz, Montpellier, Saint-Étienne, Caen, Avignon, Toulon... I had to make some selection.
2011-2012
Octobre 2012: Macbeth [dir- Ivo van Hove, cnd- Kazushi Ono, cast: Evez Abdullah, Iano Tamar...]
December 2012: Messiah [dir- Deborah Warner, cnd- Laurence Cummings, cast: Andrew Kennedy, Catherine Wyn-Rogers...]
January - February 2012: The Cunning Little Vixen [dir- André Engel, cnd- Tomas Hanus, cast: Jeannette Fischer...]
February 2013: Der Kaiser von Altantis (opera by Viktor Ullmann) [dir- Richard Brunel, cnd- Jean-Michaël Lavoie, cast: ???]
March - April 2013: Capriccio [dir- David Marton, cnd- Bernard Kontarsky, cast: Emily Magee,...]
March - April 2013: Claude (new opera by Thierry Escaich) [dir- Olivier Py, cnd- Jérémie Rhorer]
March - April 2013: Fidelio [dir- Gary Hill, cnd- Kazushi Ono, cast: Nikolai Schukoff]
May 2013: Il Prigioniero/Erwartung [dir- La Fura dels Baus (Alex Ollé), cnd- Kazushi Ono, cast: Martin Winkler, Magdalena Maria Hofmann]
June - July 2013: Die Zauberflöte [dir- Pierrick Sorin, cnd- Stefano Montanari, local cast]
Opéra National du Rhin in Strasbourg and Mulhouse
New Productions:
Der ferne Klang [dir- Stéphane Braunschweig, cnd- Marko Letonja, cast: Will Hartmann, Stanislas de Barbeyrac, Helena Juntunen, Teresa Erbe, Geert Smits,...]
Die Zauberflöte [dir- Mariame Clément, cnd- Theodor Guschlbauer, cast: Bálint Szabó, Olga Pasichnyk, Susanne Elmark, Sébastien Droy,...]
Blanche-Neige (by Felix Lange) [dir- Waut Koeken, cnd- Vincent Monteil, cast: ,...]
The Cunning Little Vixen [dir- Robert Carsen, cnd- Friedemann Layer , cast: Scott Hendricks, Rosemary Joshua, Hannah Esther Minutillo...]
Owen Wingrave [dir- Christophe Gayral, cnd David Syrus, cast: Mélanie Moussay, Laurent Deleuil...]
Tannhäuser [dir- Keith Warner, cnd- Constantin Trinks, cast: Barbara Haveman. Scott MacAllister, Kristinn Sigmundsson, Béatrice Uria-Monzon, Jochen Kupfer...]
Les Pêcheurs de perles [dir- Vincent Boussard, cnd- Patrick Davin, cast: Annick Massis, Sébastien Guèze, ...]
and they purchased the Zurich production of
Tosca [dir- Robert Carsen, cnd- Daniele Callegari, cast: Amanda Echalaz, Andrea Caré, Franck Ferrari, ...]
Opera de Lille
New Productions:
Venus and Adonis (17th century opera by John Blow) [dir- Louise Moaty, cnd- Bertrand Cuiller, cast: Marc Mauillon, Céline Scheen...]
Médée (by Charpentier) [dir- Pierre Audi, cnd- Emmanuelle Haïm, cast: Michèle Losier, Anders Dahlin, Sophie Karthäuser, Stéphane Degout, Laurent Naouri, Katherine Watson...]
Jenufa [dir- Patrice Caurier & Moshe Leiser, cnd- Mark Shanahan, cast: Olga Guryakova, Diane Pilcher , Tom Randle, Paul O'Neill, ...]
Actéon (by Charpentier) [dir- Damien Caille-Perret, cnd- Atsushi Sakaï, cast: Samuel Boden...]
Il barbiere di Siviglia [dir- Jean-François Sivadier, cnd- Antonello Allemandi, cast: Taylor Stayton, Tiziano Bracci, Eduarda Melo, Armando Noguera...]
Opéra de National de Bordeaux
New Productions:
Il Barbiere di Siviglia [dir- Joan Font, cnd- Paolo Olmi, cast: Sergey Romanovski, Stéphanie d'Oustrac, Rhomas Dolié, Nicolas Courjal, Luciano di PAsquale...]
Slutchaï (new opera by Oscal Strasnoy) [dir0 Christine Dormoy, cnd- Oscar Strasnoy, cast: Isabel Soccoja, Thomas Dolié...]
Dialogue des Carmélites [dir- Mireille Delunsch (!), cnd- Nader Abassi, cast: Sylvie Brunet, Sophie Marin-Degor, Eric Huchet, Xavoer Mas, Hélène Le Corre...]
Dido and Aeneas [dir- Bernard Lévy, cnd- Sébastien d'Hérin, cast: Isabelle Druet...]
Salomé [dir- Dominique Pitoiset, cnd- Kwamé Ryan, cast: Mireille Delunsch, Nmon Ford, Hedwig Fassbender, Roman Sadnik...]
Orphée aux Enfers [dir- Laura Scozi, cnd- Samuel Jean, cast: Francis Dudziac, Mélody Louledjian, Daphné Touchais...]
+Revival of
Die Zauberflöte [dir- Laura Scozi, cnd- Jurjen Hempel, cast: Sébastien Droy, Brenda Rae...]
Opéra de Dijon
Pelléas et Mélisande [dir- Wouter Van Looy, cnd- Marit Strindlund, cast: Diana Higbee, Florian Just, Andreas Jankowitsch...]
Ariane et Barbe-Bleue (opera by Dukas) [dir- Lilo Baur, cnd- Daniel Kawka, cast: Jeanne-Michèle Charbonnet, Delphine Haidan, Gaëlle Méchaly, Emmanuelle de Negri...]
Actéon (opera by Charpentier) [dir- Damien Caille-Perret, cnd- Emmanuelle Haïm, cast: Samuel Boden...]
Don Giovanni [dir- Jean-Yves Ruff, cnd- Gérard Korsten, cast: Lucas Meachem, Carmela Remigio, Reinhard Hagen, Ruxandra Donose...]
L'Olimpiade (opera by Myslivecek) [dir- Karl & Ursel Herrmann, cnd- Vaclav Luks, cast: Sophie Harmsen, Markus Brutscher, Simona Saturova, Henriette Bonde-Hansen...]
Opéra national de Lorraine in Nancy
Cosi Fan Tutte [dir- Jim Lucasen, cnd- Tito Muñoz, cast: Gaëlle Arquez, Lionel Lhote...]
Artaserse [dir- Silviu Purcărete, cnd- Diego Fasolis, cast: Philippe Jarousky, Max Emanuel Cencic, Turiy Mynenko...]
L'Etoile [dir- Jonathan Schiffman, cnd- Emmanuelle Bastet, cast: Anaïk Morel, Eric Huchet, Jean Teitgen...]
Macbeth [dir- Jean-Louis Martinoty, cnd- Roberto Rizzi Brignoli, cast: Giovanni Meoni, Brian Kontes, Jennifer Check, Thomas Bettinger, ...]
The Importance of Being Earnest (opera by Gerald Barry) [dir- Sam Brown, cnd- Tito Muñoz, cast: Phillip Addis, Ida Falk Winland, Chad Shelton. Susan Bickley, Alan Ewing, Andrea Hill]
Iolanta [dir- David Hermann, cnd- Jacques Mercier, cast: Mischa Schelomianski, Igor Gnidii...]
Der Zwerg [dir- Philipp Himmelmann, cnd- Christian Arming, cast: Erik Fenton, Oleg Bryjak, Eleonore Marguerre...]
Opéra de Marseille
New Productions:
Italiana in Algeri [dir- Nicola Berloffa, cnd- Nader Annassi, cast: Marie-Ange Todorovitch, Alex Esposito, Frédéric Antoun, Eduarda Melo. Marc Barrard, Cornelia Oncioiu...]
Otello [dir- Nadine Duffaut, cnd- Friedrich Pleyer, cast: Inva Mula, Doris Lamprecht, Vladimir Galouzine, Seng-Hyoun Ko, Sébastien Droy, ...]
La Clemenza di Tito [dir- David McVicar, cnd- Mark Chanahan, cast: Kate Aldrich, Alexey Kudrya, Carmen Giannattasio...]
Cléopâtre (by J. Massenet) [dir- Charles Roubaud, cnd- Lawrence Foster, cast: Béatrice Uria-Monzon, Luca Lombardo, Jean-François Lapointe, Kimmy McLaren...]
Revivals:
Carmen [dir- Nicolas Joël (sic!), cnd- Nader Annassi, cast: Giuseppina Punti, Anne Catherine Gillet, Luca Lombardo, Jean-François Lapointe...]
Elektra [dir- Charles Roubaud, cnd- Pinchas Steinberg, cast: Jeann Michèle Charbonnet, Ricarda Merbeth, Nicolas Cavallier, Marie-Ange Todorovitch...]
Duello Amoroso (Haendel) [dir- Jean-Louis Grinda, cnd- ??, cast: Nathalie Stutzmann, Lisa Larsson]
La Fanciulla del West [dir- Giancarlo del Monaco, cnd- Pinchas Steinberg, cast: Meagan Miller, Albert Gazale, Zoran Todorovich, ...]
L'Homme de la Mancha (Leigh) [dir- Jean-Louis Grinda, cnd- Didier Benetti, cast: Nicola Beller Carbone, Nicolas Cavallier, ...]
La Traviata (Verdi) [dir- Jean-Louis Grinda, cnd- Marco Armiliato, cast: Inva Mula/Norah Ansellem, Jean- François Bottas/Sergey Semishkur...]
Amica (Mascagni) [dir- Jean-Louis Grinda, cnd- Gian Luigi Gelmetti, cast: Amarilli Nizza, Lucio Gallo, Enrique Ferrer...]
Stiffelio [dir- Guy Montavon, cnd- Maurizio Benini, cast: José Cura, Ermonela Jaho, Nicola Alaimo, Bruno Ribeiro, Diana Axentii...]
Opéra Théâtre -- Metz Métropole
New Productions
Die Zauberflöte [dir- Daniel Mesguich, cnd- Jacques Mercier, cast: Philippe Kahn, Sabastoen Droy...]
L’elisir s’amore [dir- Joël Lauwers, cnd- Benjamin Pionnier, cast: Florian Laconi,...]
Iolanta [dir- David Hermann, cnd- Jacques Mercier, cast: Cigdem Sayorslan, Igor Gnidy, Yuri Kissin...]
La Traviata [dir- Paul-Émile Fourny, cnd- Jari Hämäläinen, cast: Nathalie Manfrino, Khachatur Badalyan, Olivier Grand...]
2011-2012
New productions:
- The Nose (by Shostakovich) [dir- William Kentridge, cnd- Kazushi Ono, cast: Alexander Kravets, Albert Shagidullin, Vladimir Ognovenko...]
- Pucini & Schoenberg: Il Tabarro / Von Heute Auf Morgen [dir- David Pountney/John Fulljames, cnd- Lothar Koenigs, cast: Natascha Petrinsky, Benjamin Bernheim...]
- Puccini & Hindemith: Suor Angelica / Sancta Susanna [dir- David Pountney/John Fulljames, cnd- Lothar Koenigs, cast: Natascha Petrinsky, Csilla Boross, Agnes Selma Weiland, Werner Van Mechelen...]
- Pucini & Zemlinsky: Gianni Schicchi / Une tragédie florentine [dir- David Pountney/John Fulljames, cnd- Lothar Koenigs, cast: Natascha Petrinsky, Benjamin Bernheim, Thomas Piffka, Detlef Roth, Werner Van Mechelen...]
- Parsifal [dir- François Girard, cnd- Kazushi Ono, cast: Nicolai Schukoff, Elena Zhidkova, Georg Zeppenfeld, Gerd Grochowski, Alejandro Marco-Buhrmester...]
- Terre et Cendres, new opera by Jérôme Combier based on a novel by Atiq Rahimi [dir- Yoshi Oida, cnd- Philippe Forget, cast: tbs]
- Mesdames de la Halle [dir- Jean Lacornerie, cnd- Jean-Paul Fouchécourt , cast: tbs]
- Ravel & Zemlinsky: L'Enfant et les sortilèges / Der Zwerg [dir- Grzegorz Jarzyna , cnd- Martyn Brabbins, cast: Karen Vourc'h, Simon Neal...]
- Carmen [dir- Olivier Py, cnd- Stefano Montanari, cast: Josè Maria Lo Monaco, Yonghoon Lee, Giorgio Caoduro...]
New productions:
- La Nuit de Gutenberg (a new opera by Philippe Manoury) [dir- Yoshi Oida, cnd- Daniel Klajner, cast: Nicolas Cavalier, Eve-Maud Hubeaux, Mélanie Boisvert]
- Die Fledermaus [dir- Waut Koeken, cnd- Roland Boër, cast: Isabelle Druet, Thomas Oliemans...]
- Les Huguenots [dir- Olivier Py, cnd- Daniele Callegari, cast: Laura Aikin, Mireille Delunsch, Gregory Kunde, Karine Deshayes, Marc Barrard...]
- Farnace [dir- Lucinda Childs, cnd- Diego Fasolis, cast: Max Emanuel Cencic, Ruxandra Donose, Vivica Genaux, Emiliano Gonzalez Toro, Mary Ellen Nesi]
- Der Rosenkavalier [dir- Mariame Clément, cnd- Marko Letonja, cast: Melanie Diener, Daniela Fally, Michaela Selinger, Stefan Pop, Wolfgang Bankl]
They will also present two Carsen's productions: La Bohème and Kat'a Kabanova both purchased from the Flanders/Vlaamse Opera, but to be premiered in Strasbourg
New productions:
- Macbeth [dir- Jean-Louis Martinoty, cnd- Kwamé Ryan, cast: Tassis Christoyannis, Lisa Huben...]
- Alcina [dir- David Alden, cnd- Harry Bicket, cast: Elza van den Heever, Isabel Leonard, Sonia Prina...]
- Le Nozze di Figaro [dir- Laurent Laffargue, cnd- Mikhail Tatarnikov, cast: Henriette Bonde-Hansen, David Bizic, Jennifer Holloway...]
New productions:
- Polieukt (by Zygmunt Krauze) [dir- Jorge Lavelli, cnd- Ruben Silva]
- Il Trovatore [dir- Gilbert Deflo, cnd- Daniel Oren, cast: Luciana D'Intino, Carmen Giannattasio, Marco Berti, Roberto Frontali...]
- La clemenza di Tito [dir- David McVicar, cnd- David Syrus, cast: Tamar Iveri, Woo-Kyung Kim, Anne-Catherine Gillet, Maite Beaumont, Andreas Bauer]
- Les Indes Galantes [dir- Laura Scozzi, cnd- Christophe Rousset, cast: Cyril Auvity, Hélène Guilmette, Kenneth Tarver, Nathan Berg, Julia Novikova, Judith van Wanroij,...]
- Tannhäuser [dir- Christian Rizzo, cnd- Hartmut Haenchen, cast: Christoph Fischesser, Peter Seiffert/Torsten Kerl, Lucas Meachem, Petra Maria Schnitzer , Jeanne-Michèle Charbonnet...]
New productions:
- The Rake's Progress [dir- Carlos Wagner, cnd- Tito Muñoz, cast:Sébastien Droy, Andrew Foster-Williams, Ingela Bohlin, Janja Vuletic]
- Die Fledermaus [dir- Philipp Himmelmann, cnd- Patrick Davin, cast: Max Emanuel Cencic, Ylva Kihlberg, Klaus Kuttler...]
- L'italiana in Algeri [dir- David Hermann, cnd- Paolo Olmi, cast: Marie-Nicole Lemieux. Donato di Stefano...]
- René l'énervé (a new opera by Reinhardt Wagner) [dir- Jean-Michel Ribes, cnd- ?? ]
New productions:
- Agrippina [dir- Jean-Yves Ruf, cnd- Emmanuelle Haïm, cast: Alexandra Coku, Sonya Yoncheva, Renata Pokupic, Alastair Miles, Rim Mead...]
- La Traviata [dir- Jean-François Sivadier, cnd- Roberto Rizzi Brignoli, cast: Irina Lungu, Dimitris Tiliakos, Fabrizio Mercurio, Laurent Alvaro...]
- Così fan Tutte [dir- Marcial Di Fonzo Bo, cnd- Christophe Rousset]
- L’Incoronazione di Poppea [dir- Jean-François Sivadier, cnd- Emmanuelle Haïm, cast: Sonya Yoncheva, Max Emanuel Cencic, Ann Hallenberg, Tim Mead, Amel Brahim-Djelloul, Emiliano Gonzalez Toro, Mathias Vidal...]
- L'Opéra de la lune (by Brice Pauset) [dir- Damien Caille-Perret, cnd- Brice Pauset]
New productions:
- The Rake's Progress [dir- Davis Lescot, cnd- Arie Van Beek, cast: Alek Shrader, Christiane Karg, Christopher Purves, Alan Ewing...]
- Agrippina [dir- Jean-Yves Ruf, cnd- Emmanuelle Haïm, cast: Sonya Yoncheva, Inga Kalna. Renata Pokupic, Alastair Miles...]
- L’incoronazione di poppea [dir- Jean-François Sivadier, cnd- Emmanuelle Haïm, cast: Sonya Yoncheva, Max Emmanuel Cencic, Ann Hallenberg, Emiliano Gonzalez Toro, Matthias Vidal...]
- Austerlitz (an opera by Jérôme Combier) [dir- Jérôme Combier & Pierre Nouvel, cnd- Jérôme Combier, cast: tbs]
New productions:
- Roméo et Juliette [dir- Arnaud Bernard, cnd- Luciano Acocella, cast: Patrizia Ciofi, Teodor Ilincai, Nicolas Testé, Eduardo Melo, Jean-Philippe Lafont...]
- La Chartreuse de Parme [dir- Renée Auphan, cnd- Lawrence Foster, cast: Nathalie Manfrino, Sebastien Guèze, Nicolas Cavallier, Jean-Philippe Lafont...]
New productions:
- Orphée et Euridice [dir- Emmanuelle Bastet, cnd- Andreas Spering, cast: Hélène Guilmette, Sophie Junker]
- L'enfant et la nuit (by Franck Villard) [dir- Olivier Balazuc, cnd- Franck Villard]
New productions:
- Rusalka [dir- Jim Lucassen, cnd- Lawrence Foster, cast: Ekaterina Shcherbachenko, Ludovit Ludha, Hedwig Fassbender...]
- La Belle Hélène [dir- Shirley et Dino, cnd- Hervé Niquet, cast: Stéphanie d'Oustrac, Florian Lanconi, Mathias Vidal...]
- Einstein on the Beach (by Philip Glass) [dir- ??, cnd-??]
- Le Nozze di Figaro [dir- Jean-Paul Scarpitta, cnd- Victor Aviat, cast: Adam Plachetka, Hélène Guilmette, Virginie Pochon...]
New productions:
- Lady and Bird (by Red Waters) [dir- Arthur Nauzyciel, cnd- Paul-Emmanuel Thomas]
- Egisto [dir- Benjamin Lazar, cnd- Vincent Dumestre, cast: Anders Dahlin, Cyril Auvity, Isabelle Drouet... ]
2010-2011
New productions:
- Love and Other Demons an opera by Peter Eötvös (currently on stage in Cologne!) conducted by the composer and directed by Silviu Purcarete
- Simon Boccanegra [dir Keith Warner] with Sergey Murzaev, Andrew Richards, Nuccia Focile
- Ali Baba [dir Charlotte Nessi ?] an opera by Luigi Cherubini
- Don Pasquale [dir Ariane Matiakh?]
- The Makropulos Affair [dir Robert Carsen] with Cheryl Barker, Charles Workman and Angélique Noldus
- Die Entführung aus dem Serail [dir Waut Koeken] with Laura Aikin, Reinhard Dorn et al
- Hamlet [dir Vincent Boussard] with Stéphane Degout, Hendrickje Van Kerckhove, and Nicolas Cavallier
New productions:
- Porgy and Bess [dir/cor José Montalvo / Dominique Hervieu] with Derrick Lawrence and Janice Chandler-Eteme among others
- Le Rossignol et autres fables [dir Robert Lepage] the show will be premiered this summer in Aix-en-Provence and then will come to Lyon and later on to Amsterdam. Our fave Kazushi Ono will conduct and among the superb soloist I note Olga Peretyatko, Elena Semenova and Marijana Mijanovic
- Le Bœuf sur le toit / Les Mamelles de Tirésias [dir Macha Makeieff] this production will be premiered in Lyon and then will travel to Opéra Comique in Paris. Cast: Hélène Guilmette, Ivan Ludlow and Christoph Gay among others
- Werther [dir Rolando Villazon] with Arturo Chacon-Cruz(?), Karina Deshayes, Alain Vernhes, Anne-Catherine Gillet. Johannes Willig will conduct
- Luisa Miller [dir Christopher Alden] with Ermonela Jaho, and Kazushi Ono will conduct
- Tristan und Isolde [dir Jossi Wieler] and Kirill Petrenko conducting. The soloists: Ann Petersen and Gary Lehman + Jochen Schmeckenbecher & Stella Grigorian
New productions:
- Andrea Chenier [dir Claire Servais?] with Sylvie Valayre, Zoran Todorovich
- La Belle Hélène [dir Jérôme Savary] with Mireille Delunsch, Francis Dudziak
- Cav/Pag [dir Jean-Claude Auvray] with Luca Lombardo, Sergey Murzaev, Vladimir Galouzine, and Giuliano Carella will conduct
- Wozzeck [dir Guy Joosten] Lawrence Foster will conduct and Wozzeck sung by Jochen Schmeckenbecher should be interesting...
- Don Giovanni [dir Frédéric Bélier-Garcia] with Nicolas Courjal, Jean-François Lapointe, Burku Uyar
- Le Cid [dir Charles Roubaud] with Roberto Alagna, Béatrice Uria Monzon, Alain Vernhes
Add to that 4 nights of the concert version of Samson et Dalila conducted by Emmanuel Villaume and sung by Torsten Kerl, Olga Borodina, Vojtek Smilek and Nicolas Testé, plus a concert by Juan Diego Florez,
New productions:
- Phi-Phi an operette by Henri Christiné, directed by Johanny Bert
- The Diary of One Who Disappeared (a vocal/choral work by Janacek) will be directed and conducted by Christophe Crapez
- La voix humaine [dir Vincent Vittoz] with Stéphanie d'Oustrac
- Ali Baba, opera by Luigi Cherubini [dir Charlotte Nessi] with John Pumphrey et al
- Dido and Aeneas [dir Bernard Levy] with Isabelle Druet
New productions:
- Il Barbiere di Siviglia [dir Frédéric Bélier-Garcia] which was supposed to be with Jennifer Rivera singing Rosina but eventually officially it will not happen :(
- Falstaff [dir Patrice Caurier & Moshe Leiser] with John Hancock, Véronique Gens, Amanda Forsythe, Luciano Botelho
- L'elisir d'amore [dir Richard Brunel] with Tatiana Lisnic and Edgar Ernesto Ramirez
New productions:
- La Bohème [dir Dominique Pitoiset(?)]
- Aufstieg und Fall der Stadt Mahagonny [dir Laurent Pelly ] with Marjana Lipovsek, Chris Merritt, Valentina Farkas, Nikolai Schukoff and others
- Betrothal in a Monastery [dir Martin Duncan] conducted by Tufan Sokhiev, and with a very good cast including Garry Magee, Larissa Diadkova, Anastasia Kaligina etc
- Medea [dir Sasha Walz] opera/ballet by Pascal Dusapin from La Monnaie in Brussels to arrive to Toulouse
- L’Aire du dire an opera by a 40 years old composer Pierre Jodlowski
- Oberon [dir Daniele Abbado] conducted by Rani Calderon and with Ricarda Merbeth, Klaus Florian Vogt et al.
- Belshazzar [dir Christof Nel] with René Jacobs conducting and the cast including Kenneth Tarver, Rosemary Joshua and Bejun Mehta (this production was premiered 2 years ago in Aix)
New productions:
- Russalka [dir Jim Lucassen] with Inna Los, Ludovit Ludha, Blandine Staskiewicz
- Die lustige Witwe [dir Stefan Grögler]with Maya Boog, Kevin Greenlaw, Peter Edelmann
- Carmen [dir Carlos Wagner] conducted by Claude Schnitzlerand with Isabelle Druet, David Bizic, Chad Shelton
- The Portrait (opera by Mieczyslaw Weinberg!!!) [dir Anelia Kadevia] - this is actualy a revival but since it's a highly interesting work after a short story by Gogol...
- Orlando Furioso [dir Pierre Audi] and conducted by Jean-Christophe Spinosi (co-produced with Théâtre des Champs-Elysées), Cast: Marie-Nicole Lemieux, Jennifer Larmore, Max Emanuel Cencic, Veronica Cangemi, Christianne Stotijn, Tuva Semmingsen
New productions:
- Dialogues des Carmelites [dir Robert Carsen] the production purchased from La Scala will be conducted by Michel Plasson and the cast is excellent: June Anderson, Sylvie Brunet, Hélène Guilmette, Sophie Koch, Paul Agnew, Frédéric Antoun, Jean-Philippe Lafont
- La Cenerentola [dir Daniele Abbado] conducted by Evelino Pido and with a cast involving John Osborn, Petro Spagnoli and Ruxandra Donose
- Orlando furioso [dir Pierre Audi] will be conducted by Jean-Christophe Spinosi, with Marie-Nicole Lemieux, Jennifer Larmore, Veronica Cangemi, Philippe Jaroussky/Max Emanuel Cencic
New productions:
- Eugene Onegin [dir Claire Servais] Dmitri Kurowski to conduct; cast: Ekaterina Sherbachenko, Teodor Ilincai, Alexei Markov, Paata Burchuladze
- Salome (co-produced with the Liège Opera) [dir Marguerite Borie] Cond Asher Fisch, Cast: Nicola Beller-Carbone, Werner van Mechelen, Hedwig Fassbender
- Un Ballo in Maschera [dir Jean-Claude Auvray] cond: Daniele Callegari; Cast: Violeta Urmana, Fabio Armiliato, Ludovic Tézier, Balint Szabo
- Rigoletto [dir Jean-Louis Grinda] Cond: Giuliano carella; Cast: George Petean, Nathalie Manfrino, Stefano Secco
- Die Marquise Von O (new opera composed by René Koering) [dir Daniel Benoin] Cond: Lawrence Foster, Cast: Barbara Haveman, Hedwig Fassbender
In addition to the above, they plan 3 top recitals: 1st by Cecilia Bartoli, 2nd by Juan Diego Florez, 3rd by Albert Dohmen.
It's not only the mustard Dijon is known for. They also have a very nice concert hall -- aslo used for several operas a year. New productions:
- Orlando [dir David McVicar] Emmanuelle Haim will conduct and the cast includes Lucy Crowe, Sonia Prina, Henriette Bonde-Hansen, Nathan Berg and Stephen Wallace
- Turandot (opera by Busoni and NOT the shouting by Puccini!!!) [dir Cisco Aznar] with Sabine Hogrefe et al
- Didon et Enée -- a.k.a. Dido and Aeneas [dir Lilo Baur]
New productions:
- Carmen [dir Laurent Laffargue] with Janja Vuletic and Gilles Ragon
- L’Ecole des femmes [dir Eric Génovès] an opera composed by Rolf Liebermann, with Paul Gay, et al
- L'Italiana in Algeri [dir Joan Font] Paolo Olmi will conduct
- Ariadne auf Naxos [dir Roy Rallo] with Elza van den Heever, Heidi Melton, Brenda Rae...
- La Belle Hélène [dir Frédéric Maragnani] with Claude Schnitzler conducting and Maria-Riccarda Wesseling in the title role
Note also Atys, the celebrated production from the 80's which will resurrect in Paris and then will go to Bordeau. hey will also have a good cast for Il Trovatore - in April 2011.
New productions:
- Orlando [dir David McVicar] conducted by Emmanuelle Haïm, with Sonia Prina, Lucy Crowe, Nathan Berg, Henriete Bonde-Hansen and Nathan Berg (co-produced with TCE-Paris)
- Adventures, New Adventures [dir Charlotte Nessi] Denis Comtet to conduct this rarely performed opera by G. Ligeti; Cast: Katalin Karolyi, Jody Pou, Paul-Alexandre Dubois
- L'Elisir d'Amore [dir Richard Brunel] with Olga Peretyatko, Bulent Bezduz (coproduced with Rouen, and other smaller opera houses in France)
- The Matamorphosis [dir Stanislas Nordey] world premiere of an opera by Michael Levinas
- Macbeth [dir Richard Jones] with Dmirty Tiliakos, Susan Maclean, David Lomeli, Simitry Ivaschenko (Glyndebourne production 2007)
New productions:
- Pelleas et Melisande [dir Alain Garichot] and conducted by a super-duper-talented Jean Deroyer
- Cadmus et Hermione [dir Benjamin Lazar] woyj Isabelle Druet, Arnaud Marzorati et al
- L'Elisir d'Amore [dir Richard Brunel] with Claire Debono
- L’homme qui s’efface a new opera by Bascal Charpentier
- Jenufa [dir Friedrich Meyer-Oertel] with Barbara Haveman, Hedwig Fassbender and others
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