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Season 2012-2013
September, October THE RING (Wagner) with Antonio Pappano
November-December L'ELISIR D'AMORE (Donizetti) with Roberto Alagna
December ROBERT LE DIABLE (Meyerbeer) with Daniel Oren cond, Laurent Pelly dir., Diana Damrau, Bryan Hymel
January-February EUGENE ONEGIN (Tchaikovsky) with Krassimira Stoyanova
May LA DONNA DEL LAGO (Rossini), Colin Lee, Joyce DiDonato
MANON (Massenet) with Natalie Dessay
I VESPRI SICILIANI (Verdi) with Stephan Herheim dir., Erwin Schrott, Poplavskaya, Volle
NABUcCO (Verdi) with Pappano, Nucci, Monastyrska
DIALOGUES DES CARMELITES (Poulenc) with Rattle, Kozena, Emma Bell.
GLORIANA ( Britten) with Richard Jones dir, Paul Daniels cond.
DON CARLO (Verdi) with Kwiecien, Harteros, Pape
Season 2013-2014
December-January CARMEN (Bizet) with Roberto Alagna
PARSIFAL (Wagner) with Simon Oneill , Gerald FinleyMANON LESCAUT (Puccini) with Tony Pappano, Jonas Kaufmann, Anja Harteros
May- June TOSCA (Puccini) with Roberto Alagna
Zauberflote (Mozart) Siurina?
Anna Bolena (Donizetti)
Season 2014-2015
ANDREA CHENIER (Giordano) with Antonio Pappano cond, David McVicar dir, Jonas Kaufmann, E. M. Westbroek
FRAU OHNE SCHATTEN (Strauss) with Semyon Bychkov cond.
GUILLAUME TELL (Rossini) with Antonio Pappano cond., John Osborn
KROL ROGER (Szymanowski) K Holten, Pappano, Kwiecien
NORMA (Bellini) Netrebko
I DUE FOSCARI (Verdi), Plácido Domingo (coproduction with Los Angeles, Valencia and Theater an der Wien).
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Delius' A Village Romeo and Juliet is planned but I don't know the season. I think Anya Harteros is singing Suor Angelica in Il Trittico, and Westbroek Didon in Les Troyens.
ReplyDeleteThis will be a very valuable resource as I have always thought we needed an equivalent to MET futures. Others have tried.
Lots of Roberto il Bello and JK.
Roberto's name appears so many times. Great! And I'm happy that Les Troyans is next Summer. So all the great operas could fit into my poor 21 days of holiday each year :)
ReplyDeleteAnd I found a post on FB saying "The Metropolitan Opera annoounces its 2011/12 season this coming week".
2 More:-
ReplyDeleteLa Donna Del Lago with di Donato in recent Paris Garnier production - 2014?
Guillaume Tell- Pappano with John Osborne.
With all the French grand operas (Robert le Diable etc.) perhaps they will co-produce Le Cid with Alagna planned for the Bastille in 2014. And this time Don Carlo en francais, please.
Where is the money coming from for all these grand pieces.
@ VJ - Thanks! EM Westbroek no longer has Didon on her schedule.. doesnt of course mean she is not doing it, i'm still hopeful, we could have her in with ? :-)
ReplyDeleteAnd you are right about Anja, had forgotten that!
And yeah, i'm glad Robert is back to Europe more often! Considering the Francesa he is doing now in Paris is the first thing in i think maybe 7 years? Too long! So, yes, def glad he is back :-)
@VJ - more , yes the Donna del Lago should come at some point as it is coproduction, i also don't know when.... Let's put them in 13/14 and we shall see ;-)
ReplyDeleteI would love le Cid! But not too worried about having it at ROH... don't know if our audience has as much taste for French opera as we do ;-) We can always trip to the Paris matinee for that one, i for sure will!
And sorry but the Carlo will likely be just a revival, it's too soon for another production...
About the Guillaume Tell, probably in concert, no? Although i personally would love to see it staged once...
@Irina - there is always something good in the season here ;-)))) This year i had more fun in the standard repertoire ones than i thought i would! And DO NOT talk to me about holidays... uffff :-S No idea what i will do next year...
ReplyDeleteAnd yes, the Met season is officially due out next week, for the ROH we need to wait some more.
Great performances¡¡¡ I look forward to see Roberto Alagna in Toca,Boheme,Carmen and Elisir.
ReplyDeleteI do hope that Don Carlo, I love that opera¡¡¡
And Manon Lescaut with Harteros and Kaufmann, good news¡¡¡
:-)
2014: Die Frau ohne Schatten cond. Bychkov ( his inaugural season ?)
ReplyDelete@VJ - FohneS?? woooowww.. that would be just great!!!! on it goes :-)))And many thanks!!!
ReplyDelete@Santi - nice stuff to look forward to, isn't it? ;-) I love Carlo too and wouldn't mind a revival. 12/13 should be agreat year anyway, it is Wagner+Verdi+Britten year! :-)
These look great H. I think Nylund is doing the Rusalka.
ReplyDeleteThe Robert Le Diable is just about at the top of yet unseen operas. Vespri is also kinda underrated.
A little apprehensive about Guilaume Tell. Saw it in Zurich a couple of months ago and was kinda disappointed. The individual performances were variable (one was quite good) but the musica itself wasn't as good as I had hoped (La Donna Del Lago, by contrast, which I also saw recently - mostly for the casting - was surprisingly good with the music itself.
Glad to see you posting again. The Werther was a typically compelling/Heraclian effort. Hope you'll be going to more live stuff going forward.
@marcillac - Hiiii :-) thanks for CN! turns out you are right and i was right about the dates :-) Will be interesting that one :-)
ReplyDeleteI only know Tell with Gregory Kunde and he is wunderful in it.. I'd like to hear it live once, my guess with this one is that il will be rather concert version, which is fine with me as long as i get to hear it.. ie the ROH doesn't plan performances only during the week like it happened with Pecheurs :-S
Thanks a mil for the Werther, makes me smile... i almost felt like saying this blog is about Werther and not much else ;-)) I just love the opera, well to death ;-)))
Truth is i am going to a lot of stuff live, but the job is beyong crazy and with trying to break away and get some music i am beyond frustration now about not having time to write things up :-( Check out my list of last year gems...More than half are sort of stuck in my mind. I can't believe i haven't gotten round to Lohengrin and i have seen and listened to so many wonderful ones! The Meistersinger was an amazing experience! And i've not missed much of the ROH season.. seen Cosi (meeh compared to last one), Rigoletto with Hvoro ( soo much better than i thought it would be), saw 7 Adrianas, saw Tannhauser (wonderfulllllllll!!!), managed to catch last Barbiere, saw the Anna Nicole insight which prompted me to hunt down a 2nd ticket, ie for the premiere and i got lucky! :-) I've seen the Fidelio and the Carmen in Munich and even managed to catch a LPO with Nezet Seguin, Franck and Faure at the RFH. And looking forward to next week and going again ( Belioz Fantastique!!) The other thing for next week i'm not going to tell, to afarid to jinx it ;-)
So whenever i'm back home i pack as much as i can in. I haven't given up on writing, it's just a problem of time :-(
I've never heard Gregory Kunde in Tell, I'd love to as I heard him live though in Anna Bolena with Edita Gruberova last 20th january in Barcelona, and it was tremendous success for Gregory Kunde, a fantastic Percy¡¡¡ and Edita Gruberova was really wonderful as Anna Bolena.Memorable Performance¡¡¡
ReplyDeleteLes Troyens! Two responses to that - 1) love love love it 2) I think they might have broken some sort of sex appeal quota with that cast. (Sorry, I'm superficial, apparently.)
ReplyDeleteLots of exciting stuff for sure... thanks for sharing, Hariclea! 12/13 looks especially exciting with that Herheim Vespri Siciliani. That might be my favorite but Gloriana, Don Carlo, Guillaume Tell also exciting. Can't think when the last time I heard of Robert le Diable being programmed was. (Pappano as Ring conductor? Love the guy, just having trouble imagining that one.)
And in response to Irina - the Met's press release conference is on Wednesday the 16th! Um, not that I'm counting down or anything.
@ Santi, check out utube, loads of Kunde with Tell :-) And he really is a fascinating artist and i am sooo envious of tha Ana Bolena! Gruberova is one of a kind.. i hope they will make another one like her soon! we need it :-)
ReplyDelete@ Lucy -
ReplyDelete1. Love it toooooo, can't wait to hear it live!!!
2. Confession time ;-) I thanked all Gods for the fact that McVicar will direct this and i am hoping he will rest true to himself and to what he recently said that he rarely sees reason to update an opera, i want this in its original time with original costumes! And i loove greek hero myths! So i feel you on this one, me too ;-))))
12/13 excites me too.. and there is also the fact that thw season that 11/12 will continue seemlessly into 12/13 apparently, no summer break and some mistery projects there, no words on those yet, but i hope it is true and they manage to pull off something special :-)
And loads of operas i haven't heard live, alwasy exciting for me and a reason to look forward to the coming seasons.
I am verryyyy curious about the Met one myself too, not that i have any chance of going,but we get the HDs the radio boradcast etc :-)))
Hurrah for the Manon Lescaut in 2013-14! That's one battle with the BSO box-office I can cross off the list.
ReplyDelete@Ryan... Gee, thanks! why don't we invite anyone else over as well, should make our booking here a walk in the park! ;-)))
ReplyDeleteBut i am with you on the .. um.. love for the BSO box office.
What i wish for is that all these other theaters like Wien or the BSO have the ROH booking system! Right now i fell discriminated when i battle there and in addition, because it is like that half of the world comes over to London because tickets are easier to get... so it becomes even harder for us at home as well! Not fair if you think about it.
@Ryan.. forgot, you have heard have you not that the one at the BSO is supposed to be with Anna Netrebko, yes? So it is not the same thing, it depends which soprano you prefer :-)
ReplyDeleteRigjht now what worries me is i don't know much on 12/13... and i don't want a repeat of the current calendar year, to little around here .. sigh
The new Anna Bolena with Netrebko announced for the Met 11/12 season is a co-prod. with the ROH.
ReplyDelete@VJ- greatt, because it is not just AB! If you go through the info it is all the trilogy iof queens from Donizetti! All by McVicar :-) And i can;t believe it! Finally belcanto at the ROH in the near future maybe???? Maybe there is even hope for me and Lucia ;-))))
ReplyDeleteA Tudor Ring! B.Sills did something similar years ago at the NYCO.It makes sense, artistically and economically, as they can have unified sets and costumes throughout the 3 Donizetti operas.
ReplyDeleteEven more than Lucia I wish for a production of Puritani, my favourire bel canto opera.
We won't mention Norma as it is impossible to cast at nowadays.
@VJ.. Puritani, my close seond ahh.. went to Munich for this a couple of years ago, my first time Gruberova live ;-)))) Still good. Ah those duets, ensambles of all kinds and the music, divine! Don't care about staging, costumes or anthing, just the glory of music. But we do kinda have a problem with the glory of voices for belcanto these days, especially female.
ReplyDeleteAnd yesm, sadly, we shall not speak of Normal but reach back to that cd:-) What's your favourite? :-) I still have to say Maria...
Perhaps the ROH could fill the gaps with some of the operas from the "fantasy opera seasons" that have been doing the rounds on some blogs.
ReplyDelete(Btw Hariclea, I secured my first victory over the BSO by going to see "Carmen" last week. You were right about the production: the hill with its repetitive entrances, pristine white dresses for factory girls, charcoal-grey trousers that looked like Escamillo was going to school, plastic flowers, the tent, jarring lighting changes, comedy choreography for the smugglers etc. I note from the programme that the production team were never re-engaged. At least the singing made up for it.)
@Ryan, Congrats!! have you been on the 10th? i did the 5th :-) And persistence is they key, the raffle the tickets randomly so there is always a chance to get lucky, and yes musically the Carmen was brilliant!! Makes up for any production, no matter how silly ;-))
ReplyDeleteI am in.... Milano....
The 10th ;-) and then the 13th :-(
ReplyDeleteEnjoy Milan (Tosca, perchance?) and, might I add that, following a long break at the end of last year, it's good to have you back blogging. Hope all's well.
Not quite the ROH but New Sussex Opera will be performing Gounod's Mireille in November. Some Provencal sunshine at the start of next winter:
ReplyDeletehttp://www.newsussexopera.com/
See you in July 2012, here in London, right?
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@Ryan - Thanks! And glad you caught the 10th :-))) By the way Scala was fun, as Scala is with good and bad and i heard things as JK being next to Corelli :-)))) nice :-)
ReplyDelete@VJ - Oh... that would be worth a lok, although it is not my favourite ;-) Have you seen the video from Paris with CC and Inva Mula i think?
@Joaquim - guess sooooo!!! Looking forward to welcoming you to London :-))))
Sorry, but this is mostly wrong
ReplyDelete@Insider.. well, it does say rumours :-) However, most of it is actually from published singers schedules, so unless they got what they signed wrong.... years and dates are mostly aproximate i think. So feel free to be more specific :-)
ReplyDeleteAll the dates of Simon O'Neill's Walther and Siegmund at the ROH are on his web site. Expect a Meistersinging time next Christmas and a Ringing time in October 2012. Rehearsals start for Parsifal in October 2013.
ReplyDelete@VJ exactly :-) It will be interesting to hear his Walther although i thought Very was ok in Cardiff and my dream pairing with Bryn as Hand is another.. sigh :-( But i did like Simon's Lohengrin quite a lot, i just wish he would take it a bit easier with Wagner to keep the sweetness going for a few more years...
ReplyDeleteI wonder who the other might be.....
ReplyDeleteI only have heard O'Neill as Florestan and he was good, but I find his tone very bright and unrelenting. He just needs more colour. Obviously the ROH are staking a lot on him as Walther, Siegmund and Parsifal.
With every company planning major Wagner cycles in the run up to 2013 where are the singers coming from?
I was at the Bastille yesterday for the second performance of Siegfried but Torsten Kerl was "souffrant" and just mimed the role. Don't ask me who the replacement was as there was no info. in the foyer or slip in the programme. The announcement from the stage was met by the usual Parisian storm of boos so I did not hear the name of his replacement properly (could have been "Vogt" - but not Klaus Florian- as he was short and fat. In addition Uusitalo was souffrant so his part was mimed by one of the production team! I did hear the name of his replacement : Egon Sillins. He did well in the circumstances.
@VJ sheesh... now i am suffering for you! Just confirms by decision not to travel for the Ring stuff anywhere ;-) My bottom list for Wagner anyway and i can patiently wait until Pappano or Bychkov do more Wagner for me at the ROH, it has always proven to be just gorgeous and i find that unless it is that good it looses a lot of its shine. Nelsons should be good as well, he was from Bayreuth.
ReplyDeleteI didn't like Kerl one bit i'm afraid in the Tote Stadt, the type of tone that i don't find very attractive i'm afraid. Liked Botha in Tannhauser so much more and Lance Ryan is supposed to be the better Siegfried, liked Lehmann as Tristan at the RFH. But in Wagner anyone who starts shouting or barking has lost me, so... And yes, everyone wants to do the Ring in 2012... it is tough to do a really great one anywhere, never mind so many... It's actually probably the worst year to try and see a RIng anywhere as nobody will be able to pick the best at the same time. I've escaped seeing any live so far and i'll patiently wait for the one at the ROH. No need to travel for that. If i had my choice of production it would be McV’s recently finished one but i haven't heard about that being revived, wish that the ROH would buy it in, but that isn't going to happen i think. Just as i would very much like to see the Meistersinger production from Cardiff again. Talk about waste of money! For an opera that is not that often played there are 3 new productions in the UK in less than 3 years, Cardiff, Glynebourne and the ROH... pft! Now, that is an opera i love! But i don't think it will be revived that often to make any of the 3 investments worth while and it is a pity as at least that one from Cardiff was excellent! It was clearly where Jones had put his efforts in while he was messing with Lohengrin very unsuccessfully on the side...
I am quite surprised to not find Simon Keenlyside's name anywhere. He often used to sing in London where he also is at home. I know that he will be in the upcoming Macbeth but apart from that we haven't heard anything about other projects at the ROH. It seems he will more often perform in Vienna where he is scheduled for several operas.
ReplyDelete@Anonymous - i know what you mean, but you have to remember that these here are just tidbits that are available more or less publicly and the ROH is rather secretive about it's projects, so there likely are things , we just don't know about them... yet:-) On the other hand SK has always said how much he loves Wien, i also think he sings quite a lot in Munich. Sadly these are place that from London are quite expensive to travel to :-( One can only hope that there will be more projects in the future. But also SK is going through various changes in the repertoire he sings and it is a question of roles he no longer sings and others he has just started singing more or less but are not that often performed at the ROH. Let's keep fingers x, hopefully we should get at least his Germont sometimes soon ( more finges xxxxxxx)
ReplyDeleteI don't see Judith Weir's new opera Miss Fortune mentioned: it's on in March next year, main house
ReplyDeleteAnd same time, following year -2013- a new work from George Benjamin.
O, and Petra Lang is Jezibaba in Rusalka
And Erwin Schrott is Procida in what is to be performed as Les Vepres Siciliennes
ReplyDelete2011/2012
ReplyDeleteLa fille du reigment with Patrizia Ciofi (?)
Birtwistle's The Minotaur is being revived with the original cast and conductor in January 2013.
ReplyDeleteI read somewhere that there will be two or three runs of La Traviata and one of them probably will have Simon Keenlyside as Giorgio Germont in it (possibly together with Perez and Beczala).
ReplyDeleteWord is that Keenlyside will also be Conte Almaviva in a revival of Le Nozze di Figaro. A role in which he should not be missed since he is a fine Mozart-singer and he acts the role perfectly.
Do you know the date when the new season will be announced?
Next season HGO will premiere a new Mary Stuart coproduction with Gran Teatre del Liceu and Royal signed by Patrice Caurier and Moshe Leiser. The cast includes Joyce DiDonato.
ReplyDeleteMary Stuart is listed in the 2013-2014 season at GTL so I guess it will be listed for the 2012-2013 season at ROH.
2013
ReplyDeleteMay 17, 20, 23, 27, 31,
June 04 La donna del lago
Royal Opera House, London
Source: Colin Lee's personal site.
Thanks a mil! it was really quiet with rumours lately... i hope some of the above will indeed happen :-)
ReplyDeleteMonastyrska as Abigaille in Nabuco in 2013. Les dialogues des Carmelit3e with Kozena, and Emma Bell in 2013/4
ReplyDeleteMonastyrska as Abigaille in Nabucco in 2103 (rumoured Nucci in title role!!!). Les Dialogues des Carmelites with Kozena conducted by Rattle, of course, and Emma Bell.
ReplyDeleteThanks! yes VJ, that Nabucco is something i am dreaming off!!!! if only Nucci wasn't Nabucco.. he's a bit over the hill for that i think.. My.. Rattle at the ROH.. interesting, i'll have to update that :-)
ReplyDeleteDiana Damrau will sing Alice in "Robert le Diable" in December 2012
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London, ROH
Robert le Diable (Alice)
Source: her official website
"I due Foscari" with Plácido Domingo in October 2014 (coproduction with Los Angeles, Valencia and Theater an der Wien).
ReplyDeletemille grazie! :-))) loads of Placido then, nice :-)
ReplyDeleteIsn't it about time there wasa bit more diveristy in the repetoire? What about some operas from the early 20th C from composers such as Zemlinksy, Schreker, Korngold, they have written some amazing stuff. Its the 150th anniversary of Delius this year and......nothing! I'm very dissapointed at the very narrow programming, I know you need bums on seats but I think there needs to be a real effort to stage some more 'exotic' and overlooked opera, we don't all like the same standard fare, year in year out of Verdi, Mozart, Bellini, Rossini,Donizetti,Strauss, Puccini great though they are, there's a whole lot more out there crying out to be produced!!!!!!
ReplyDeleteDon't really know what you are complaining about:
ReplyDelete"Die tote Stadt" received its Covent Garden première in 2009 (better late than never). Or do you miss "Das Wunder der Heliane" or some other opera by Korngold?
About early 20th century opera in general: "Król Roger" (planned) and "The Gambler" (recently seen) are exactly some of those.
As for Rossini, Donizetti & Bellini, they have much more to offer than the few standard titles, and "La donna del lago" isn't exactly the kind of Rossini you get to hear very often. I'm happy about the grand-opéra series ("Robert le Diable", "Les Vêpres siciliennes", "Guillaume Tell", "Les Troyens" and the so-called Tudor trilogy (which wasn't thought as such).
What about - "Ermione", "Armida", "Tancredi", "Maometto II"
- "Caterina Cornaro", "Maria de Rudenz", "Poliuto" (would've loved a staged production of "Dom Sébastien")
- "Beatrice di Tenda", "Il pirata", "La straniera"?
So you can't really accuse the theatre's direction board and Pappano of very narrow programming.
Autumn 2013: "Elektra" with Christine Goerke in the title role.
ReplyDeleteSource: her interview for Operanews
(http://www.operanews.com/Opera_News_Magazine/2012/9/Features/Dramatic_Destination.html)
Christine Goerke states in her interview for the September issue of Operanews that she will sing Elektra in Autumn 2013
ReplyDeletehttp://www.operanews.com/Opera_News_Magazine/2012/9/Features/Dramatic_Destination.html
Christine Goerke will sing Elektra in Autumn of 2013.
ReplyDeleteI understand that there will be Janacek cycle of operas with Esa Pekka Salonen conducting them all over starting from 2014. I also understand that John Eliot Gardiner will conduct Le Nozze di Figaro next season. Andris Nelsons will conduct the new Der Rosenkavalier in 2015/2016 with Renee Fleming.
ReplyDeleteInteresting! Thanks for that. What would we do without Opera is Magic for these titbits of information. What I would like to know is what, apart from the repeat Keith Warner Ring currently under way and Simon O'Neill in Parsifal in Nov, is the Royal Opera planning for 2013 to recognise Wagner's double anniversary? Is that it? And when are we going to see Klaus Florian Vogt on the Royal Opera stage?
ReplyDeleteThat is it as far as ROH are doing with Wagner. There will be possibly seven Wagner operas at Proms including Barenboim Ring. No idea if KFV will ever sing again at ROH.
ReplyDeleteI also understand that Nelsons will also conduct Elektra that has been mentioned above.
Wow! Thanks for that. Certainly something to look forward to. I see from Simon O'Neill's Schedule that he is down to sing Siegmund in London on 25th July along with the Berlin Staatskapelle under Barenboim so I've known Walkure was on the cards for the Proms but I had no idea that the entire Ring might be in the offing, let alone up to a total of 7 Wagner operas. Brilliant! Let's hope some are televised.
DeleteThe 12/13 seson also includes Katie Mitchell's production of George Benjamin's WRITTEN ON SKIN.
ReplyDeleteI also believe that the 13/14 season also includes Tom Adès new opera of THE EXTERMINATING ANGEL.