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Season 2012-2013
Teatro Real in Madrid 2012-2013
Sept/Oct 2012: Boris Godunov - new production [dir- Johan Simons, cnd- Hartmut Haenchen, cast: Günther Groissböck, Stefan Margita, Michael König, Anatoli Kotscherga, Engeny Nikitin, Yuri Nechaev, Andrey Popov...]
November 2012: Il prigoniero/Suor Angelica - new production [dir- Lluis Pasqual, cnd- Ingo Metzmacher, cast: Deborah Polaski, Vito Priante/Georg Nigl, Donald Kasch/René Kollo; Julianna Di Giacomo/Veronica Dzhioeva, Deborah Polaski...]
December 2012: Macbeth [dir- Dmitri Tcherniakov, cnd- Teodor Currentzis, cast: Simitris Tiliakos, Violeta Urmana, Stefano Secco, Dmitry Ulianov...]
January/February 2013: The Perfect American (new opera by Philip Glass) [dir- Phelim McDermott, cnd- Dennis Russel Davies, cast: Christopher Purves...]
February/March 2013: Cosi fan tutte [dir- Michael Haneke, cnd- Sylvain Cambreling, cast: Juan Francisco Gatell, Kerstin Avemo, Annett Fritsch...]
April 2013: Don Giovanni [dir- Dmitri Tcherniakov, cnd- Alejo Pérez, cast: Paul Groves, Kyle Katelsen, Christine Schäfer, Mojca Erdmann, Russell Braun, Anatoli Kotscherga...]
May 2013: La rappresaglia - new production [dir- Andrea De Rosa, cnd- Riccardo Muti]
June 2013: Wozzeck [dir- Christoph Marthaler, cnd- Sylvain Cambreling, cast: Simon Keenlyside, Nadja Michael, Franz Hawlata, Scott Wilde, Jon Villars, Gerhard Siegel...]
June/July 2013: Die Zauberflöte - new production [dir- Robert Carsen, cnd- Sir Simon Rattle (Berliner Philharmoniker), cast: Dmitry Ivashchenko, Joesph Kaiser, José Van Dam, Camilla Tilling, Simone Kermes, Michael Nagy, Chen Reiss, Annick Massis, Magdalena Kozena, Nathalie Stutzmann]
July 2013: Il Postino [dir- Ron Daniels, cnd- Pablo Heras Casado, cast: Charles Castronovo, Cristina Gallardo-Domas, Placido Domingo, Sylvia Schwartz]
Opera in concert:
September 2012: Moses und Aron [cnd- Sylvain Cambreling, cast: Franz Grundheber, Andreas Conrad...]
March 2013: Roberto Devereux [cnd- Andry Yurkevych, cast: Edita Gruberova, Sonia Ganassi, Vladimir Stoyanov, José Bros]
January/February 2013: Parsifal [cnd- Thomas Helgenbrock, cast: Matthias Goerne, Victor van Helem, Johannes Martin Kränzle, Angela Denoke, Simon O'Neill, John Relyea]
March 2013: Les pêcheurs de perles [cnd- Daniel Oren, cast: Patricia CiofiJuan Diego Florez, Mariusz Kwiecien]
Gran Teatre del Liceu Barcelona
October 2012: La forza del destino (sic!) [dir- Jean-Claude Auvrey, cnd- Renato Palumbo, cast: Violeta Urmana, Marianne Cornetti, Marcello Giordani, Ludovic Tézier, Micaela Carosi, Enkelejda Shkosa, Zoran Todorovitch, Leo Nucci, Norma Fantini, Anna Smirnova, Alfred Kim, Vladimir Stoyanov...]
November 2012: L'elisir d'amore [dir- Mario Gas, cnd- Daniele Callegari, cast: Colin Lee, Nicole Cabell. Simone Albergini, Aleksandra Kurzak, Rolando Villazon, Ambrogio Maestri...]
February 2013: Les Contes d'Hoffmann - new production [dir- Laurent Pélly, cnd- Stéphane Denève, cast: Natalie Dessay, Vittorio Grigolo, Laurent Naouri, Michele Losier, Eglise Gutiérrez, Ismael Jordi...]
March-July 2013: Madama Butterfly [dir- Moshe Leiser & Patrice Gaurier, cnd- Daniele Callegri & Josep Pons, cast: Hui He, Roberto Alagna, Jossie Pérez, Ermonela Jaho, Patricia Racette, Stefano Secco, Marie Nicole Lemieux, Roberto Aronica, ...]
April-May 2013: Das Rheingold [dir- Robert Carsen, cnd- Josep Pons, cast: Albert Dohmen, Kurt Streit, Mihoko Fujimura, Oleg Bryjak, Katarina Karnéus,...]
May-June 2013: Il Turco in Italia [dir- Christof Loy, cnd- Víctor Pablo Pérez, cast: Nino Machaidze, Ildebrando d’Arcangelo, Renato Girolami, Pietro Spagnoli, ...]
June-July 2013: Lucio Silla - new production [del 21 de junio al 7 de julio]dir- Claus Guth, cnd- Harry Bicket, cast: Kurt Streit, Patricia Petibon, Silvia Tro Santafé, Inga Kalna, Alessandro Liberatore, Laura Aikin, Marina Comparato, Iano Tamar...]
Opera in concert
September 1 and 4 2012: The Flying Dutchman [cnd- Sebastian Weigle, cast: Evgeny Nikitin, Ricarda Merbeth, Michael König, Franz-Josef Selig, Benjamin Bruns, Christa Mayer]
September 2 and 5 2012: Lohengrin [cnd- Sebastian Weigle, cast: Klaus Florian Vogt, Annette Dasch, Susan Maclean, Thomas J. Mayer, Samuel Youn, ...]
September 6 2012: Tristan und Isolde [cnd- Peter Schneider, cast: Iréne Theorin, Robert Dean Smith, Michelle Breedt, Jukka Rasilainen, Robert Holl...]
January 2013: Iolanta [cnd- Valery Gergiev, cast: Anna Netrebko...]
June 2013: Rienzi [cnd- Pablo González, cast: Christian Franz, Michelle Breedt, Elisabete Matos, Peter Rose, ...]
Ópera de Oviedo
New Productions:
December 2012: Agrippina
Revivals:
September 2012: Werther
October 2012: Lucia di Lammermoor
November 2012: Turandot
January/February 2013: Don Carlo
Season 2011-2012
New productions
- Jo, Dalí - a new opera by Xavier Benguerel [dir-Xavier Alberti, cnd-Miquel Ortega, cast: Joan Martin-Royo, Marisa Martins...]
- Le Grand Macabre (co-produced with La Monnaie/De Munt and ENO - I saw the show back then and LOVED it) [dir- Àlex Ollé and Valentina Carrasco for La Fura dels Baus, cnd-Michael Boder, cast: Werner van Mechelen, Chris Merritt, Frode Olsen, Barbara Hannigan, Brian Asawa...]
- Linda di Chamounix [dir-Emilio Sagi, cnd-Fabio Armiliato, cast-1: Diana Damrau, Juan Diego Flórez, Silvia Tro Santafé, Pietro Spagnoli...; cast-2: Mariola Cantarero, Ismael Jordi, Mirco Palazzi...]
- Adriana Lecouvreur (co-produced with ROH) [dir-David McVicar, cnd-Maurizio Benini; cast-1: Barbara Frittoli, Dolora Zajick, Roberto Alagna, Joan Pons...; cast-2: Daniela Dessì, Marianne Cornetti, Fabio Armiliato, Bruno de Simone...]
New productions
- January 2012: Perséphone, opera by Stravinsky [dir- Peter Sellars, cnd- Teodor Currentzis, cast: Ekaterina Scherbachenko, Paul Groves, Dmitry Ulianov, Willard White...]
- March 2012: I due Figaro, opera by Mercadante [dir- Emilio Sagi, cnd- Riccardo Muti, cast: youngsters]
- April 2012: The Life and Death of Marina Abramovic, opera by Antony & William Basinski [dir- Robert Wilson, cnd-???, cast: Marina Abramovic, Willem Dafoe, Christopher Nell...]
- June 2012: Poppea e Nerone (Incoronazione di Poppea, reorchestrated by Philippe Boesmans) [dir- Krzysztof Warlikowski, cast: Nadja Michael, Charles Castronovo, Maria Riccarda Wesseling, Ekaterina Siurina, Lyubov Petrova, Willard White, Elena Tsallagova, Jose Manuel Zapata, Hanna Esther Minutillo]
- July: Ainadamar [dir- Peter Sellars, cnd- Alejo Pérez, cast: Jessica Rivera, Kelley O'Connor, Nuria Rial]
New productions:
- Die Fledermaus [dir- Mario Pontiggia, cnd- Eric Hull, cast: Chen Reiss, Jossie Pérez, Mariola Cantarero, Gabriel Bermudez...]
- L'Italiana in Algeri [dir- Emilio Sagi, cnd- Ottavio Dantone, cast: Pietro Spagnoli, Vivica Genaux...]
- Peter Grimes [dir- David Alden, cnd- Corrado Rovaris, cast: Stuart Skelton, Peter Sidhom, Matthew Best, Judith Horwath...
Season 2010-2011
New productions:
- Carmen [dir Calixto Bieito] with fantastic casts throughout the season (must go & see!)
- Lulu [dir Olivier Py] with Patricia Petibon, Paul Groves, Michael Volle, Franz Grundhaber [co-produced with the Geneva Opera where this show was premiered this year!]
- Into the Little Hill [dir John Fulljames] creation of an opera by Geairge Benjamin [coproduced with ROH]
- Anna Bolena [dir Rafel Duran] with Edita Gruberova, Elina Garanča, Carlo Colombara, Sonia Prina...
- Parsifal [dir Claus Guth] with 2 casts: Klaus Florian Vogt, Anja Kampe, Alan Held, Hans-Peter König, Boaz Daniel, Ante Jerkunica... [coproduced with Zurich]
- Der Freischütz [dir Peter Konwitschny] Marc Albrecht will conduct, cast: Peter Seiffert, Petra Maria Schnitzer, Albert Dohmen, Matti Salminen OR Lance Ryan, Soile Isokoski, Matti Salminen WOW [Hamburg production]
- Ariane et Barbe-Bleue [dir Claus Guth] Stéphane Denève conducting, cast: Eva Maria Westbroek, Patricia Bardon, José van Dam, Salomé Heller (must go & see!)
- LByron [dir Alfonso Romero Mora] creation of an opera by Agustí Charles
- Falstaff [dir Peter Stein] conducted by Fabio Luisi and with Ambrogio Maestri, Fiorenza Cedolins, Ludovic Tézier, Mariola Cantarero [coproduced with Opera de Lyon, and the Welsh Natl Opera]
New productions:
- Montezuma [dir Claudio Valdés Kuri] an opera from the beginning of the 17th century by CH Graun
- Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny [dir La Fura dels Baus] with Jane Henschel, Measha Brueggergosman / Elzbieta Szmytka, Michael König / Christopher Ventris
- The Turn of the Screw [dir David McVicar] with Emma Bell, John Mark Ainsley, Daniela Sindram
- La página en blanco [dir David Hermann] creation of an opera by Pilar Jurado, with Nikolai Schukoff, Natascha Petrinsky, Pilar Jurado (!)...
- Der Rosenkavalier [dir Herbert Wernicke] Jeffrey Tate will conduct and the cast: Anne Schwanewilms, Joyce DiDonato, Franz Hawlata, Laurent Naouri [Paris/Salzburg production]
- Iphigénie en Tauride [dir Robert Carsen] Thomas Hengelbrock to conduct and the cast: Susan Graham / Maria Riccarda Wesseling, Plácido Domingo / Lucas Meachem, Paul Groves / Yann Beuron, Franck Ferrari [production already presented in Chicago, San Francisco & London-ROH]
- Werther [dir Willy Decker], with Marcus Haddock, Sophie Koch [purchased from Frankfurt Opera]
- Król Roger [Krzysztof Warlikowski] with Olga Pasichnyk, Mariusz Kwiecien, Stefan Margita, Will Hartmann, Wojtek Smilek, Jadwiga Rappe [superb production presented in Paris 2009]
- Saint François d’Assise [dir Emilia & Ilya Kabakov] cond Sylvain Cambreling, with Alexander Marco-Buhrmester, Michael König, Camilla Tilling
Typically a Mortier-kind of season: he obviously defines his style in Madrid. It will be interesting to see how vocal will be his opponents there ;)
New productions:
- info will be available sometimes in June
New productions:
- Don Carlo [dir Gian Carlo Del Monaco (we commiserate!)] with Roberto Aronica, Fiorenza Cedolins, Marianne Cornetti, Vladimir Stoyanov
- Italiana in Algeri [dir Emilio Sagi] with Daniela Barcellona, Michele Pertusi and Antonino Siragusa
- Macbeth [dir Francisco Negrin] with Stefano Secco, Violeta Urmana, Giacomo Prestia and Carlos Alvarez (coproduction, premiered this year in Strasbourg)
- Eugene Onegin [dir Michal Znaniecki] with Ismael Jordi, Scott Hendricks
There is also Il Corsaro [bought from Teatro di Bologna and Parma] with Fabio Armiliato and Maria Guleghina, and Lucia di Lammermoor [purchased from Oviedo] with Diana Damrau, Ludovic Tezier
One new co-production (Don Carlo) and three productions purchased. But what a shopping cart is that?! Look here:
- Das Rheingold [dir Nicolas Joel] with Robert Brubaker,Jukka Rasilainen, Hanna Schwarz, Elena Zhidkova. This is the production purchased from the Théâtre du Capitole de Toulouse
- La Boheme [dir John Copley] with Tatiana Lisnic, purchased from the ROH
- Der Freischütz [dir Achim Thorwald] with Michael König, Manuele Uhl, purchased from Karlsruhe
- Don Carlo [dir Giancarlo del Monaco] with Fiorenza Cedolins and Dolora Zajick (co-produced with Bilbao)
Wow--Teatro Real is doing Ainadamar. That's huge. Spain has a real amnesia issue with Franco's atrocities. This is a powerful piece. I hope it gets a superb production. Jessica Rivera and Kelly O'Connor are both amazing performers in their roles.
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