Salle Pleyel 2011-2012 2012-2013

La Salle Pleyel 2012-2013

Opera Program in Paris 2011-2012 2012-2013

The program looks as if it was tailored  for a yawny 1991-1992 season, and not 20 years later, but for those who see opera as a way to dwell in the past rather than embracing the present and /or future, the Paris Opera is a home for you.

Ceiling at Opéra Garnier in Paris -- a detail in which Marc Chagall painted the outside look of  Palais Garnier

Below you can also find the program of Opéra Comique (a.k.a. La Salle Favart)
See also links to the 2012-2013 program at La Salle Pleyel,  Cité de la musique (a.k.a. Cité μ),
Théâtre des Champs Elysées



See also links to the 2011-2012 program at La Salle Pleyel, Cité de la Musique and Théâtre des Champs Elysées

2010-2011, 2011-2012 2012-2013 with too many consonants [Eastern and Central Europe] :)

Central and Eastern Europe are not only reservoir of extraordinary singers and brilliant directors. They  too produce some wonderful shows. Only this season the first ever Wozzeck was staged in Moscow, directed by Dima Tcherniakov - no less! Tcherniakov's Tristan at Mariinsky was very starry as René Pape was the King Marke for a few shows... The new production of Les Troyens by La Fura dels Baus was premiered at Mariinsky. Good shows were staged in Budapest by very talented Balasz Kovalik. Narodowa Opera in Warsaw is one of the most creative places in Europe right now...

Janacek is everywhere in Prague: maybe not in their opera program, but definitely on one of many delicious beers [Janaceks own a famous brewery in Czech]

Below you'll find a selection of theaters and their new productions in 2010-2011 (to be updated in September)

2010-2011, 2011-2012 2012-2013:: Opera in the UK

2010-2011, 2011-2012 2012-2013: Scandinavian Theaters

2012-20132011-2012: Douce France

Other French opera houses and theaters propose much better opera-program than those in Paris.
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.  

La temporada 2010-2011, 2011-2012 2012-2013 en los teatros españoles

Two pics taken in the cafeteria of Gran Teatre del Liceu in Barcelona

2010-2011, 2011-2012, 2012-2013 in Switzerland

The largest and the most significant opera-house in Switzerland is the one in Zurich, followed by the Grand Theater in Geneva. Both theaters already announced the new productions scheduled for 2010-2011. A pretty little Opera in Lausanne did the same.

If you're interested in more audacious theaters then you'd be more curious about 2010-2011 in Basel and in Freiburg. We just learned that the Theater Freiburg will unveil the details about their new season on May 6. When Basel will say something about their next season is anyone's guess...

In the following (if you dive into "Read more") you can find the links and a list of new productions in these fine Swiss Opera Houses.

Ed: the details on 2010-2011 at  Theater Basel will be made public on April 29

Opera Houses in Germany

2011-2012 2012-2013 in Austria

2012-2013

Theater an der Wien

SUPERB program!!!


September 2012: Il ritorno d´Ulisse in patria [dir- Claus Guth, cnd- Christophe Rousset, cast: Garry Magee, Delphine Galou, Katija Dragojevic...]

October 2012: Il trittico [dir- Damiano Micheletto, cnd- Kirill Petrenko, cast: Patricia Racette, Marie-Nicole Lemieux, Roberto Frontali, Stella Grigorian, Paolo Fanale...]

November 2012: Iphigénie en Aulide [dir- Torsten Fischer, cnd- Alessandro de Marchi, cast: Myrto Papatanasiu, Bo Skovhus, Paul Groves, Michelle Breedt...]

December 2012: Mathis der Maler [dir- Keith Warner, cnd- Bertrand de Billy, cast: Kurt Streit, Franz Grundheber, Heidi Brunner, Wolfgang Koch...]

January 2013: Radamisto [dir- Vincent Boussard, cnd- René Jacobs, cast: David Daniels, Sophie Karthäuser, Patricia Bardon, Florian Bösch...]

February 2013: Le Comte d'Ory [dir- Moshe Leiser/Patrice Caurier, cnd- Jean-Christophe Spinosi, cast: Lawrence Borwnlee, Cecilia Bartoli, Pietro Spagnoli...]

March 2013: Fidelio [dir- Herbert Föttinger, cnd- Nikolaus Harnoncourt, cast: Michael Schade, Juliane Banse, Anna Prohaska...]

April 2013: Béatrice et Bénédict [dir- Kasper Holten, cnd- Leo Hussain, cast: Malena Ernman, Bernard Richter, Nikolay Borchev, Christiane Karg...]

July 2013: Attila [dir- Peter Konwitschny, cnd- Riccardo Frizza, cast: Lucrezia Garcia, Dmitry Belosselsky, Nikolai Schukoff, George Petean,...]






Wiener Staatsoper

The house of Krassimira Stoyanova, Nina Stemme, Ain Anger et al.

New Productions:

November: Alceste [dir- Christof Loy, cnd- Ivor Bolton, cast: Joseph Kaiser, Véronique Gens] (production Aix-en-Provence 2010)

December: Ariadne auf Naxos [dir- Sven-Eric Bechtolf, cnd- Franz Welser-Möst, cast: Christine Schäfer, Stephen Gould, Krassimira Stoyanova, Daniela Fally] (Salzburg Festival 2012)

January: La Cenerentola [dir- Sven-Eric Bechtolf, cnd- Jesus Lopez-Cobos, cast: Dmitry Korchak, Vito Priante, Alessandro Corbelli, Ildebrando D'Arcangelo] (Salzburg Festival 2012)

June: Tristan und Isolde  [dir- David McVicar, cnd- Franz Welser-Möst, cast: Peter Seiffert, Nina Stemme]


and some potentially interesting revivals (because of the casts involved):

September: Don Carlo [dir- Daniele Abbado, cnd- Franz Welser-Möst, cast: René Pape, Roberto Alagna, Krassimira Stoyanova, Simon Keenlyside, Luciana D'Intino]

October:  Fidelio  [dir- Otto Schenk, cnd- Peter Schneider, cast: Gary Lehman, Ricarda Merbeth, Albert Dohmen]

November:  Simon Boccanegra  [dir- Peter Stein, cnd- Philippe Auguin, cast: Placido Domingo, Barbara Haveman, Ramon Vargas, Ain Anger]

Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg [dir- Otto Schenk, cnd- Simone Young, cast: James Rutherford, Johan Botha, Adrian Eröd, Norbert Ernst, Christina Carvin]

January:
The Queen of Spades [dir- Vera Nemirova, cnd- Marko Letonja, cast: Tómas Tómasson, Marina Poplavskaya, Neil Schicoff, Grace Bumbry]


March:
La Traviata [dir- Jean-Francois Sivadier, cnd- Paolo Carignani, cast: Marlis Petersen, Rolando Villazon, Fabio Capitanucci]

Wozzeck [dir- Adolf Dresen, cnd- Franz Welser-Möst, cast: Simon Keenlyside, Gary Lehman. Anne Schwanewilms...]

Parsifal [dir- Christine Mielitz, cnd- Franz Welser-Möst, cast: Jonas Kaufmann, Evelyn Herlitzius, Kwangchul Youn, Tomasz Konieczny]


April:
Fidelio  [dir- Otto Schenk, cnd- Adam Fischer, cast: Lance Ryan, Anja Kampe, Falk Struckmann]

Don CarloS [dir- Peter Konwitschny, cnd- Bertrand de Billy, cast: Kwangchul Youn, Yonghoon Lee, Iano Tamar, Nadia Krasteva, George Petean]

Eugene Onegin [dir- Falk Richter, cnd- Andris Nelsons, cast: Anna Netrebko, Dmitri Hvorostovsky, Dmitry Korchak, Konstantin Gorny]

Werther [dir- Andrei Serban, cnd- Bertrand de Billy, cast: Roberto Alagna, Elina Garanca, Tae-Joong Yang]


May:
Der fliegende Holländer [dir- Christine Mielitz, cnd- Daniel Harding, cast: Stephen Gould, Anja Kampe, Juha Uusitalo]

Rheingold [dir- Sven-Eric Bechtolf, cnd- Franz Welser-Möst, cast: Tomasz Konieczny, Anna Larson, Gerhard Siegel, Janina Baechle, Norbert Ernst, Wolfgang Bankl]

Die Walküre [dir- Sven-Eric Bechtolf, cnd- Franz Welser-Möst, cast: Tomasz Konieczny, Simon O'Neill, Nina Stemme, Camilla Nylund, Janina Baechle, Ain Anger]

Siegfried [dir- Sven-Eric Bechtolf, cnd- Franz Welser-Möst, cast: Stephen Gould, Nina Stemme, Camilla Nylund, Anna Larsson, Tomasz Konieczny, Gerhard Siegel]

Götterdämmerung  [dir- Sven-Eric Bechtolf, cnd- Franz Welser-Möst, cast: Stephen Gould, Nina Stemme, John Tomlinson]

June:
Die Walküre [dir- Sven-Eric Bechtolf, cnd- Peter Schneider, cast: Johan Botha, Katarina Dalayman, Mihoko Fujimura, Juha Uusitalo, Ain Anger]

Capriccio [dir- Marco Arturo Marelli, cnd- Christoph Eschenbach, cast: Renée Fleming, Bo Skovhus, Angelika Kirschlager, Kurt Rydl, Michael Schade, Markus Eiche]





Oper Graz



Manon Lescaut [dir- Stefan Herheim (Heike Scheele), cnd- Michael Boder, cast: Gal James, Javier Franco, Gaston Rivero,...]

L'elisir d'amore [dir- Damiano Michieletto, cnd- José Esandi, cast: local]

Hänsel und Gretel [dir- Brigitte Fassbaender, cnd- Domingo Hindoyan, cast: David McShane, Sieglinde Feldhofer,...]

Falstaff [dir- Tama Matheson, cnd- Johannes Fritzsch, cast: James Rutherford, ...]

Gasparone (operette by Carl Millöcker) [dir- Olivier Tambosi, cnd- Marius Burkert, cast: ]

Aufstieg und Fall der Stadt Mahagonny [dir- Calixto Bieito (Rebecca RIngst), cnd- Johannes Fritzsch, cast: mostly local]

La Traviata [dir- Peter Konwitschny, cnd- Domingo Hindoyan, cast: local]

2011-2012

 Vienna Calling

Theater an der Wien already unveiled their 2011-2012 program. Interesting and delicately cast, the list of new productions includes:

• September: The Turn of the Screw [dir- Robert Carsen, cnd- Cornelius Meister, cast: Nikolai Schukoff, Sally Matthews, Jennifer Larmore, Ann Murray...]
• October: Serse [dir- Adrian Noble, cnd- Jean-Christophe Spinosi, cast: Malena Ernman, Bejun Mehta, Adriana Kucerova, Danielle de Niese...]
• November: Gogol, world premiere of an opera by Lera Auerbach [dir- Christine Mielitz, cnd- Vladimir Fedoseyev, cast: Bo Skovhus, Ladislav Elgr, Natalya Ushakova...]
• December: L'Orfeo [dir- Claus Guth, cnd- Ivor Bolton, cast: John Mark Ainsley, Mari Eriksmoen...]
• January: Iolanta & Francesca da Rimini by Tchaikovsky [dir- Stephen Lawless, cnd- Kirill Petrenko, cast: Olga Mykytenko, Saimir Pirgu, Dalibor Jenis, Svetlana Shilova, Rinnat Moriah...]
• February: Telemaco [dir- Torsten Fischer, cnd- René Jacobs, cast: Bejun Mehra, Reiner Trost, Alexandrina Pendatchanska]
• April: Hamlet [dir- Olivier Py, cnd- Marc Minkowski, cast: Stéphane Degout, Christine Schäfer, Frédéric Antoun, Sylvie Brunet]

Note that they will be working during summer: July 2012 Les contes de Hoffmann with Marlis Petersen singing 4 roles, and in August 2012 they will give La donna del lago (production by Christof Loy premiered last year in Geneva) with Malena Ernmann, Gregory Kunde and other (Leo Hussain to conduct)


The list of new production to be presented in 2011-2012 at  Staatsoper Wien  includes:

• October: La Traviata [dir- Jean-Francois Sivadier, cnd- Bertrand de Billy, cast: Natalie Dessay, Charles Castronovo, Fabio Capitanucci]
• November: Kat'a Kabanova [dir- André Engel, cnd- Franz Welser-Möst, cast: Emily Magee, Klaus Florian Vogt, Deborah Polaski]
• December: From the House of the Dead (Z mrtvého domu) [dir- Peter Konwitschny, cnd- Franz Welser-Möst, cast: Misha Didyk, Christopher Maltman...]
• January: Otello [dir- Christine Mielitz, cnd- Dan Ettinger, cast: Peter Seiffert, Krassimira Stoyanova, Carlos Alvarez]
• January: Aufstieg und Fall der Stadt Mahagonny [dir- Jérôme Deschamps, cnd- Ingo Metzmacher, cast: Elisabeth Kulmann, Angelika Kirchschlager, Christopher Ventris, Tomasz Koniecny]
• March: Die Frau ohne Schatten [dir- Robert Carsen, cnd- Franz Welser-Möst, cast: Adrianne Pieczonka, Robert Dean Smith, Birgit Remmert, Evelyn Herlitzius] (ed: revival of the R. Carsen's production premiered in the late 90's)

Plácido Domingo in Stein's Boccanegra, Minkowski will be back for one more run of Alcina but this time w/o Anja Harteros. Patrick Lange will conduct Don Giovanni and Madama Butterfly.
They too will rerun their Ring twice (November & April), this time conducted by Christian Thielemann [Rheingold: Juha Uusitalo, Anna Larsson, Anna Larsson, Janina Baechle; Walküre: Christopher Ventris, Juha Uusitalo, Waltraud Meier, Katarina Dalayman; Siegfried: Stephen Gould, Juha Uusitalo, Wolfgang Schmidt, Katarina Dalayman; Götterdämmerung: Stephen Gould, Eric Halfvarson, Katarina Dalayman]. They will also give both Don Carlo [René Pape, Ramon Vargas, Luciana D'Intino, Krassimira Stoyanova, Simon Keenlyside] and Don Carlos [Kwangchul Youn, Adrianne Pieczonka, Ludovic Tézier, Béatrice Uria-Monzon]. Great cast for Tannhäuser...


Oper Graz

New productions:

• Otello [dir- Stephen Lawless, cnd- Johannes Fritzsch, cast: Frank van Aken, James Rutherford, Gal James...]
• The Queen of Spades [dir- Peter Konwitschny, cnd- Tecwyn Evans, cast: Asmik Grigorian, Avgust Amonov...]
• Elektra [dir- Johannes Erath, cnd- Johannes Fritzsch, cast:...]
• Maria Stuarda [dir- Stefano Poda, cnd- Gaetano d'Espinosa]

NB: In June 2012 they will rerun the celebrated production of Carmen directed by Stefan Herheim.

2010-2011, 2011-2012 2012-2013 in Belgium

Can you find a better intendant of an opera house in Europe [or anywhere else] than Peter de Caluwe? Of course not! With a much smaller budget, compared to the top European opera houses, year after year, he and his team manage to compose a well balanced and highly interesting program. .

Opéra National de Paris - Heads up

The 2011-2012 season at the Opéra National de Paris (ONP) will be officially announced on Sunday, March 13. Even though the ONP management tried to keep it a secret, little by little the details leaked out and by now we know the entire repertory, although many blanks in casting are still to be filled in.

High in Amsterdam - De Nederlandse Opera

New Operatic Season at DNO in Amsterdam:

New/"New" at the Met