6 out of many new productions in Europe this December will be particularly interesting to follow.
- Sun 5: Les Troyens [dir- David Pountney, cnd- Donald Runnicles] at Deutsche Oper in Berlin, with Ian Storey, Petra Lang, Béatrice Uria-Monzon... and with the World's best chorus
- Tue 7: Die Walküre [dir- Guy Cassiers, cnd- Daniel Barenboim] at La Scala di Milano, with Simon O’Neill, John Tomlinson, Vitalij Kowaljow, Waltraud Meier, Nina Stemme, Ekaterina Gubanova
- Fri 10: The Queen of Spades [dir- David Hermann, cnd- Gabriel Feltz] at Theater Basel with Maxim Aksenov, Nikolay Borchev, Hanna Schwarz, Svetlana Ignatovich, Eung Kwang Lee
- Fri 10: The Rake's Progress [dir- Krzysztof Warlikowski, cnd- Ingo Metzmacher] at Staatsoper in Berlin with Florian Hoffmann, Anna Prohaska, Gidon Saks...
- Sat 11: Tannhäuser [dir-Tim Albery, cnd- Semyon Bychkov] at ROH in London, with Eva-Maria Westbroek, Michaela Schuster, Johan Botha, Christian Gerhaher
- Tue 21: Fidelio [dir- Calixto Bieito, cnd- Daniele Gatti] at Bayrische Staatsoper in Munich, with Jonas Kaufmann, Anja Kampe,Franz-Josef Selig...
Prima in Milan, in London, in Munich, and in Basle should be good, but I believe Berlin will be the center of the World as far as opera is concerned: the best chorus in the World will sing
Les Troyens, and Warlikowski will present his new gem at DSO. With the new production of
Die Meistersinger still running at the Komische -- Berlin is the city to be in this December.
More complete list of new productions in Europe to be premiered this December includes,
- Thu 2: Moïse et Pharaon [dir- Pier' Alli, cnd- Riccardo Muti] at Opera di Roma with Ildar Abdrazakov, Eric Cutler, Marina Rebeka, Sonia Ganassi, Barbara Di Castri...
- Thu 2: Into the Little Hill [dir- John Fulljames, cnd- Franck Ollu] creation of a new opera by Geirge Benjamin at GTL Barcelona
- Fri 3: Beatrice du Tenda [dir- Henning Brockhaus, cnd- Antonio Pirolli] at Teatro Massimo Bellini in Catania with Dimitra Theodossiou et al.
- Fri 3: Eugene Onegin [dir- Andrejz Zagars, cnd- Mikhail Tatarnikov] at Latvian National Opera with Egils Silins and Kristine Opolais
- Fri 3: Madama Butterfly [dir-Lars Kaalund, cnd-Giordano Bellincampi] at Danish Royal Opera in Copenhagen with Misha Didyk et al
- Sat 4: Hänsel und Gretel [dir- Birgit Eckenweber,cnd- Ulf Schirmer] at Oper Leipzig
- Sat 4: Hercules [dir- Dietrich Hilsdorf, cnd- Jos van Veldhoven] at Theater in Essen
- Sun 5: Dido and Aeneas/Herzog Blaubarts Burg [dir- Barrie Kosky, cnd- Constantinos Carydid] at Oper Frankfurt
- Sat 5: Mazeppa [dir-Ewa Teilmans, cnd- Marcus Bosch] at Theater Aachen
- Sun 5: I masnadieri [dir- Guy Joosten, cnd- Adam Fischer] at Opernhaus in Zurich with Carlo Colombara, Tom Hampson, Isabel Rey...
- Thu 9: Il Postino [dir- Ron Daniels, cnd- Jesus López-Cobos] at Theater an der Wien with Placido Domingo. Cristina Gallardo-Domas...
- Fri 10: La cenerentola [dir- Daniele Abbado, cnd- Evelino Pido] at Opéra de Nice with John Osborn, Pietro Spagnoli, Ruxandra Donose
- Fri 10: Le nozze di Figaro [dir- Keith Warner, cnd- Roland Böer] at Theater Weiki in Warsaw
- Fri 10: Il killer di parole [dir- Francesco Micheli, cnd- Andrea Molino] creation of a new opera based on idea by Daniel Pennac and Claudio Ambrosini at La Fenice
- Sat 11: Don Giovanni [dir- Jean-Louis Martinoty, cnd-Franz Welser-Möst] at Staatsoper in Vienna with Ildebrando d'Arcangelo, Sally Matthews, Saimir Pirgu, Alex Esposito, Roxana Constantinescu
- Sat 11: Die Zauberflöte [dir- René Zisterer, cnd- Modestas Pitrenas] at Theater Köln
- Sun 12: Semiramide [dir- Nigel Lowery, cnd- Alberto Zedda] ar Vlaamse Opera in Antwerp, with Myrtò Papatanasiu, Ann Hallenberg, Josef Wagner
- Sun 12: Ascanio in Alba [dir- Magdolna Parditka/Alexandra Szemerédy, cnd- Adam Fischer] at Hungarian State Opera in Budapest
- Sun 12: L'homme de la Mancha [dir- Jean-Louis Grinda, cnd- Didier Benetti] at Théâtre du Capitole in Toulouse with Marie-Ange Todorovitch, Nicolas Cavalier...
- Tue 14: Die lustige Witwe [dir- Christof Loy, cnd- Rainer Mühlbach] at Grand Théâtre de Genève, with José Van Dam, Jennifer Larmore, Annette Dasch, Johannes Martin Kränzle, Bernard Richter...
- Sat 18: Das Portrait (opera by Mieczyslaw Weinberg) [dir- John Fulljames, cnd- Uwe Sandner] at Pfalztheater in Kaiserslautern
No comments:
Post a Comment