Nuovi allestimenti in Europa - Ottobre 2010

Out of many new European opera productions to be premiered in October, I believe the most promising 5 should be:

• Oct 15: DKT Copenhagen - Lulu [dir Stefan Herheim, cond Michael Boder] Cast: Sine Bundgaard, Randi Stene, Peter Lodahl, Johan Reuter, Sten Byriel, Johnny van Hal
• Oct 23: BSO Munich - Rusalka [dir Martin Kusej, cond Tomas Hanus] Cast: Klaus Florian Vogt, Kristine Opolais, Nadia Krasteva, Günther Groissböck...
• Oct 31: Oper Frankfurt - Die Walküre [dir Vera Nemirova, cond Sebastian Weigle] Cast: Eva-Maria Westbroek, Susan Bullock, Terje Stensvold...
• Oct 17: Staatsoper Wien - Cardillac [dir Sven-Eric Bechtolf, cond Franz Welser-Möst] Cast: Juha Uusitalo, Juliane Banse, Herbert Lippert
• Oct 17: Hamburgische Staatsoper - Die Götterdämmerung [dir Claus Guth, cond Simone Young] Cast: Christian Franz,Deborah Polaski, John Tomlinson, Petra Lang etc
   

New Herheim project with Heike Scheele designing the sets will be premiered in Copenhagen, but you can also catch the same show in Oslo in February 2011. It will be interesting to see what will Martin Kusej do to Rusalka in Munich, although the focus will most probably be on Vera Nemirova who received great review for her Rheingold in Frankfurt, and is now to unveil her take on  Die Walküre. Claus Guth is finishing his Ring Cycle in Hamburg which should be interesting. I take the risk and predict that Cardilac in Vienna might be a great surprise of October.

Not to forget the superb Don Giovanni [dir Tcherniakov] and Die Passagierin [dir David Pountney] that will be premiered in Moscow and in Warsaw respectively, both unveiled in July at the Festivals in Aix and Bregenz resp, or Die Fledermaus in Stuttgart, Passion in Paris, Roméo in Amsterdam, Boris in Turin, Orlando in Lille... and many other highly promising shows listed below [in chro.order]...

• Oct 2: Semperoper Dresden - Daphne [dir Torsten Fischer, cond Omer Wellber] cast: Camilla Nylund, Georg Zeppenfeld, Robert Dean Smith, Christa Mayer...
• Oct 2: Opera North - The Turn of the Screw [dir Alessandro Talevi, cond Richard Farnes]
• Oct 2: Nationaltheater Mannheim - Les contes de Hoffmann [dir Christof Nel, cond Alois Seidlmeier]
• Oct 3: Oper Frankfurt - Les contes de Hoffmann [dir Dale Duesing, cond Roland Böer] Cast: Alfred Kim, Elza van den Heever et al]
• Oct 3: Deutsche Staatsoper Berlin - World premiere of Metanoia by Jens Joneleit [dir Christoph Schlingensief, cond Daniel Barenboim] with Annette Dasch, Anna Prohaska, Alfred Reiter, Sebastian Holeck and Graham Clark
• Oct 5: Teatro Regio di Torino - Boris Godunov [dir Andrei Konchalovsky, cond Gianandrea Noseda] Cast: Ian Storey, Orlin Anastasov...
• Oct 6: Théatre des Champs Élysés - Passion [dir Sasha Waltz, cond Franck Ollu] Cast: Barbara Hannigan, Georg Nigl
• Oct 7: English National Opera - Radamisto [dir David Alden, cond Laurence Cummings] Cast: Christine Rice, Lawrence Zazzo, Ailish Tynan, Ryan McKinny
• Oct 7: De Nederlandse Opera - Roméo & Juliette [dir Olivier Py, cond - Marc Minkowski] Cast: Lyubov Petrova.Ismael Jordi, Doris Lamprecht, Coora Burggraaf, Sébastien Droy, Nicolas Testé... (this production will then travel to DKT Copenhagen)
• Oct 8: Opera Narodowa - Die Passagierin [dir David Pountney, cond Gabriel Chmura] Cast: Elena Kelessidi, Artur Rucinski, Svetlana Doneva, Roberto Sacca... 
• Oct 9: Theater an der Wien - Ariadne auf Naxos [dir Harry Kupfer, cond Bertrand de Billy] Cast: Anne Schwanewilms, Mari Eriksmoen, Heidi Brunner, Nikolay Borchev and Johan Botha
• Oct 9: Opernhaus Zürich  - Gesualdo by Marc-André Dalbavie, world creation [dir Moshe Leiser & Patrice Caurier, cond Marc-André Dalbavie] Cast: Rod Gilfry, Benjamin Bernheim, Liliana Nikiteanu...
• Oct 9: Opera Lille - Orlando [dir David McVicar, cond Emmanuelle Haïm] Cast: Sonia Prina, Henriette Bonde-Hansen, Stephen Wallace, Lucy Crowe, Nathan Berg
• Oct 10: Aalto Theater Essen - Die Götterdämmerung [dir Barrie Kosky, cond Stefan Soltesz]
• Oct 12: Teatro Comunale di Bologna - La Traviata [dir Alfonso Antoniozzi, cond Michele Mariotti] Cast: Mariella Devia et al.
• Oct 13: Opéra National de Lyon - The Nightingale [dir Robert Lepage, cond Kazushi Ono] Cast: Olga Peretyatko, Marijana Mijanovic, Elena Semenova, Edgaras Montvidas, Nabil Suliman, Ilya Bannik
• Oct 15: Opéra de Tours - Fidelio [ dir Marion Wassermann, cond Jean-Yves Ossonce] Cast: Mireille Dlunsch, Jean-Francis Monvoisin, Peter Sidhom...
• Oct 17: Deutsche Staatsoper Berlin - Rheingold [dir Guy Cassiers, cond Daniel Barenboim] Cast: Hanno Müller-Brachmann, Anna Samuil, Marco Jentzsch, Anna Larson, Johannes Martin Kränzle,Wolfgang Ablinger-Sperrhacke, Marina Prudenskaya...
• Oct 21: Deutsche Oper Berlin - Don Giovanni [dir Roland Schwab, cond Claudio Abbado] Cast: Ildebrando D'Arcangelo, Marina Rebeka, Ante Jerkunica, Ruxandra Donose, Alex Esposito, Krzysztof Szumanski
• Oct 22: DOR Duseldorf - Dialogues des Carmélites [dir Guy Joosten, cond Axel Kober]
• Oct 23: ONR Strasbourg - Simon Boccanegra [dir Keith Warner, cond Rani Calderon] Cast: Sergey Murzaev, Andrew Richards, Nuccia Focile 
• Oct 23: Vlaamse Opera - Die Entführung aus dem Serail [ dir Eike Gramss, cond Umberto Benedetti Michelangeli] Cast: Iride Martinez, Maxim Mironov and others
• Oct 27: Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow - Don Giovanni [dir Dmitri Tcherniakov, cond Theodor Currentzis]
• Oct 30: Staatsoper Stuttgart - Die Fledermaus [dir Philipp Stölzl, cond Manfred Honeck]