2011-2012 at Théâtre des Champs Elysées

Next season will start a little bit later than usual because they want to enlarge the pit [to be able to host a full philharmonic orchestra for the staged performance of The Rite of Spring] and to properly celebrate 100 years of existence [Théâtre des Champs Elysées was inaugurated in 1913.]

So the season will start in November 10, but the program they prepared for 2011-2012 is SUPERB!

Below I will fast-type the content of the program (i.e. a broad selection of what I find interesting), but you should consult their website (or see here) where the more complete program will be available "soon" (that's what they said today when I asked).

November 2011

• Thu 10: Hélène Guilmette sings in Gloria by Poulenc, add Daphnis et Chloé by Orchestre National de France (ONF) conducted by Ludovic Morlot
• Fri 11: I Capuletti e I Montecchi in concert, Chorus and Orchestra of Opéra de Lyon [cnd- Evelino Pido, cast: Anna Caterina Antonacci, Olga Peretyatko, Giovanni Battista Parodi, Juan Francisco Gatell, Carlo Cigni]
• Mon 14: Missa Solemnis by Beethoven, Collegium Vocale Gent and Orchestre des Champs Elysées conducted by Philippe Herreweghe, cast: Marlis Petersen...
• Tue 15: Bluebeard's Castle in concert with Measha Bruggergosman and John Tomlinson, with Philharmonia Orchestra (my fave English orch!), conducted by Esa-Pekka Salonen
• Thu 17 and Sat 19: Oberto in concert (opera by Verdi) with Carlo Rizzi to conduct ONF and cast: Ekaterina Gubanova, Maria Guleghina, Michele Pertusi, Fabio Santori
• Fri 18: Les Grandes Voix, concert-recital with Mojca Erdmann, Nathalie Manfrino, Rolando Villazón, Joseph Calleja (?)
• Fri 25: Giulio Cesare in concert, cast: Marie-Nicole Lemieux, Karina Gauvin, Julia Lezhneva, Romina Basso, Johannes Weisser, Milena Storti, Gianluca Buratto + Il Complesso Barocco conducted by Alan Curtis
• Sat 26: piano-recital by Grigory Sokolov (music by JS.Bach)
• Mon 28: piano-recital by Bertrand Chamayou (all 3 suites of Annés de pèlerinage by Liszt)
• Tue 29 and Wed 30: Saint-Petersburg Symphony Orchestra and Yuri Temirkanov: 1st night - Dvorak's 8th + Shostakovich's concerto no.2 for cello with Natalia Gutman; 2nd night - Prokofiev's 1st +  Shostakovich's concerto no.2 for piano with Denis Matsuev

December 2011

• Fri 9: Philippe Jaroussky will sing the arias from operas by Handel, helped by Freiburger Barockorchester 
• Fri 16, Sun 18, Tue 20, Thu 22, Sun 25, Mon 26: Die Zauberflöte (NEW PRODUCTION) [dir- Laurent Pelly, cnd- Jean-Christophe Spinosi, cast: Topi Lehtipuu, Sandrine Piau, Markus Werba, Emmanuelle De Negri, Jeanette Vecchione, Ain Anger...]
• Sat 17: piano-recital by Pierre-Laurent Aimard (Liszt, Wagner, Scriabin)
• Mon 19: Celebration of Baroque with Le Concert d'Astrée and Emmanuelle Haïm, singers: Natalie Dessay, Topi Lehtipuu, Patrizia Ciofi, Sonia Prina, Camilla Tilling, Anne Sophie von Otter, Sandrine Piau, Karine Deshayes...
• Fri 23: Messiah in concert, cnd- Laurence Cummings (Chorus and Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment), cast: Elizabeth Watts, Timothy Mead, Nicholas Mulroy, Lisandro Abadie

January 2012

• Tue 10: Farnace by Vivaldi in concert, with Diego Fasolis conducting I Barocchisti, and cast: Max Emanuel Cencic, Ruxandra Donose, Daniel Behle, Blandine Staskiewicz, Alissa Kolosova, Emiliano Gonzalez-Toro, Mary-Ellen Nesi
• Wed 11: piano-recital by Brigitte Engerer (5 Nocturnos by Chopin...) 
• Wed 18: piano-recital by Zhu Xiao-Mei (music by Mozart and Schubert)
• Sat 21: Die Jahrzeiten by Haydn in concert, Paul McCreesh to conduct The Gabrieli Consort, and cast: Allan Clayton, Christopher Purves and Christiane Karg
• Sun 22: Rotterdams Philharmonisch Orkest and their boss Yannick Nézet-Séguin will perform Ravel's Daphis et Chloé, followed by Shéhérazade (Ravel) sung by Anna Caterina Antonacci and Wiener Singakademie
• Mon 23: Evening of Sonatas with Martha Argerich, Evgeny Kissin, and Alexandre Kniazev
• Tue 24: Tosca in concert, with the Orchestra of Teatro Regio Torino conducted by Gianandrea Noseda, cast: Svetla Vassileva, Riccardo Massi, Lado Ataneli, Carlo Bossi, Matteo Peirone
• Thu 26: ONF with Daniele Gatti will perform Schubert's Symph. no.8, an excerpt from Lulu by Berg, and a few Lieder for soprano by Schubert sung by Chen Reiss
• Fri 27: Philharmonia Orchestra will be back with Esa-Pekka Salonen to continue marveling us with Bartok and Debussy + Bartok's violin concerto no.2 with Christian Tetzlaff
• Sat 28: piano-recital by Evgeny Kissin (program tbs)

February 2012

• Mon 13, Wed 15, Fri 17, Sun 19, Tue 21, Thu 23: Don Pasquale (NEW PRODUCTION) [dir-Denis Podalydes/Christian Lacroix/, cnd- Enrique Mazzola & ONF, cast: Désirée Rancatore, Lorenzo Regazzo & Alessandro Corbelli, Gabriele Viviano, Francesco Demuro]
• Sat 18: piano-recital by Mitsuko Uchida (Schubert's sonatas)
• Mon 20: Les Grandes Voix: Jonas Kaufmann & Helmut Deutsch (p) - Lieder by Strauss and Schubert
• Fri 24: Giustino, opera by Vivaldi in concert, Stefano Molardi to conduct I Virtuosi delle Muse, cast: Varduhi Abrahamyan, Sabina Puertolas, Marina De Liso, Raffaella Milanesi, Vincent Lesage, José Maria Lo Monaco
• Sat 25: La clemenza di Tito in concert, with Louis Langrée conducting Die Deutsche Kammerphil. Bremen, cast: Elina Garanca, Michael Schade, Malin Hartelius, Malin Christensson, Christina Deletska, Brindley Sherat
• Sun 26: Roméo et Juliette by Berlioz in concert, with Sonia Ganassi, John Mark Ainsley and Orlin Anastassov; Mark Elder to conduct Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment and BBC Symph. chorus

March 2012

• Tue 6 and Fri 9: Parsifal in concert, Daniele Gatti will conduct ONF, cast (Bayreuthian): Christopher Ventris, Mihoko Fujimura, Kwangchul Youn, Lucio Gallo, Detlef Roth, Andreas Hörl,... 
• Wed 7: Chorus and Orchestra from the Theater Mariinsky with Valery Gergiev: Oedipus Rex and Le Nozze by Stravinsky in concert, cast: Ekaterina Semenchuk, Mikhail Petrenko, Alexander Timchenko, Olga Savova, Mlada Khudolei (Gérard Depardieu reciting)
• Thu 8: Chorus and Orchestra from the Theater Mariinsky with Valery Gergiev (Petrushka), Capriccio for piano and orch (Boris Berezovsky will join in)
• Sun 11: Tristan und Isolde, full opera in concert with Andris Nelsons conducting the Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, cast: Lioba Braun, Torsten Kerl, Christianne Stotijn, Brett Polegato, Matthew Best, Ben Johnson, Benedict Nelson
• Mon 12: Birmingham Symphony Orchestra conducted by Andris Nelsons will perform the Symphony #2 by Sibelius + Lieder by Mahler and Strauss with Jonas Kaufmann [resist this temptation! ;)]
• Tue 20: piano-recital by Alexandre Tharaud (Debussy, Liszt, Chopin)
• Sat 24: Gloria/Magnificat by Vivaldi, Rionaldo Alessandrini to cnd Concerto Italiano, cast: Roberta Ivernizzi, Raffaela Milanesi, Romina Basso
• Mon 26: piano-recital by Leif Ove Andsnes (2 Nocturnos and 4 Balads by Chopin + Estampes & Images by Debussy)
• Wed 28: ONF and Daniele Gatti will perform music by Fauré, Ravel, Debussy and Saint-Saëns
• Thu 29: Rolando Villazón - recital (tbc)

April 2012

• Thu 12, Sat 14, Mon 16, Wed 18, Fri 20: La Didone, opera by Francesco Cavalli (NEW PRODUCTION) [dir-Clément Hervieu-Léger, cnd- William Christie (Les Arts Florissants), cast: Anna Bonitatibus, Claire Debono, Mathias Vidal, Kresimir Spicer,  Tehila Goldstein, Katherine Watson...]
• Tue 17: piano-recital by Denis Matsuev (Schumann's Kinderszenen, Mephisto Waltz by Liszt and 1 sonata by Grieg)
• Mon 23: Wiener Philharmoniker cnd- Christian Thielemann - Symphony no.1 and no.4 by Schumann
• Tue 24: Die Walküre, full opera in concert with the chorus and Orchestra of the Bayerische Staatsoper Munich, cnd- Kent Nagano, and a knockout cast: Anja Kampe, Nina Stemme, Lance Ryan, Juha Uusitalo, Michaela Schuster, Ain Anger

May 2012

• Thu 3: ONF cnd by Ken-Ichiro Kobayashi will perform Tchaikovsky's 5th, and then accompany Nikolay Demidenko in piano concerto no.2 by Rachmaninoff
• Fri 4: Maria João Pires and Deutsche Kammerphil. Bremen  cnd Trevor Pinnock - Symphony no.5 by Schubert and the piano concerto n.3 by Beethoven
• Sat 5: Les Grandes Voix - Juan Diego Florez to sing arias from the operas by Mozart, Rossini, Verdi and Adam, helped by the Chamber Orchestra of Wurtemberg de Heilbronn (?)
• Mon 7: piano-recital by Nikolai Lugansky (Sonata no.2 by Rachmaninoff + pieces by Chopin,  Brahms, Medtner)
• Tue 22, Thu 24, Sat 26, Tue 29, Thu 31: Così fan tutte [dir- Eric Génovèse, cnd- Jérémie Rhorer (Le Cercle de l'Harmonie),  cast: Camilla Tilling, Anna Gravelius, Claire Debono, Bernard Richter, Pietro Spagnoli ]
• Fri 25: Les Grandes Voix - Diana Damrau and Nicolas Testé, Arias and duets from the Mozart's operas, Les Talens Lyriques with Christophe Rousset cnd

June 2012

• Sat 2: Mozart Fest with Le Cercle de l'Harmonie and Jérémie Rhorer and singers: Markus Werba, Sylvia Schwartz, Caitlin Hulcup, Jeremy Ovenden (Coronation Mass)
• Sun 3: Rotterdams Philharmonisch Orkest, cnd Yannick Nézet-Séguin - Symphony no.2 by Brahms, 5 pieces by Webern + piano conc. no.1 by Brahms with Nicholas Angelich (p)
• Mon 4: Simon Rattle wil conduct the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment (Fauré - Pelléas et Mélisande, Debussy - La Mer) with Pierre-Laurent Aimard joining for the Concerto pour la main gauche by Ravel
• Wed 6: Olympiade by Vivaldi, Pergolesi... in concert, with Venice Baroque Orchestra conducted by Andrea Marcon, cast: Romina Basso, Anna Bonitatibus, Karina Gauvin, Carlo Allemano, Nicholas Spanos, Ruth Rosique
• Thu 7: ONF conducted by Colin Davis, Symph.#7 by Dvorak + Concerto for piano no.5 by Beethoven with Emanuel Ax (p)
• Sat 9: Symphonie Orch.des Bayerischen Rundfunks, cnd- Esa-Pekka Salonen (Zarathustra by Strauss) + Concerto no.2 by Brahms with Yefim Bronfman
• Mon 11: Vladimir Jurowski to conduct London Philharmonic Orchestra (Bruckner's 1st) + Concerto no.4 for cello by Dvorak with Truls Mørk
• Wed 13, Fri 15: Marie-Nicole Lemieux and Philippe Jaroussky, arias from operas by Strozzi, Ferrari, Monteverdi Cavalli... 
• Tue 19: Simon Rattle will be back but this time to conduct Wiener Philharmoniker: Symph. no.3 by Brahms, and by Schumann + 6 pieces by Webern
• Tue 22: L'Orfeo by Monteverdi in concert, cnd-Thomas Hengelbrock (Balthasar-Neumann orch), cast: Nikolay Borchev, Anna Bonitatibus, Anna Stephany, Miljenko Turk, Tiziano Bracci, Johannette Zomer, Katja Stuber
• Mon 25: our dear Philharmonia Orchestra will be back with some more Bartók, again with Esa-Pekka Salonen. For the piano concerto n.3 Nikolai Lugansky will join in
• Tue 26: Les Grandes Voix - Joyce DiDonato with David Zobel (p) will be back, with hopefully  one more memorable recital (songs from Venice by Vivaldi, Rossini, Fauré..)

You're welcome ;)