New opera productions in Europe - September 2010

There is quite a number of new productions to be presented in Europe during September, of which I expect the most from the following four:

• Aida at Theater Basel [dir Calixto Bieito, cnd Maurizio Barbacini] - Sept 14
• Semele at Theater and der Wien [dir Robert Carsen, cnd William Christie] - Sept 15
• Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg at Komische Oper Berlin [dir Andreas Homoki, cnd Patrick Lange] - Sept 25
• Carmen at Liceu Barcelona [dir Calixto Bieito, cnd Marc Piolet] - Sept 27
• Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny at Teatro Real Madrid [dir La Fura dels Baus, cnd Pablo Heras-Casado] - Sept 30

Other potentially exciting new productions...

• Les vêpres siciliennes at DNO Amsterdam [dir Christof Loy, cnd Paolo Carignani] - Sept 10
• Faust at ENO London [dir Des McAnuff, cnd Edward Gardner] - Sept 18
• Love and Other Demons at ONR Strasbourg [dir Silviu Purcarete, cnd Peter Eötvös] - Sept 25
• Montezuma at Teatro Real Madrid [dir Claudio Valdés Kuri, cnd Gabriel Garrido] - Sept 15
• Nabucco at DKT Copenhagen [dir Elisabeth Linton, cnd Pier Giorgio Morandi] - Sept 26
• Les pêcheurs de perles at Opernhaus Zürich [dir Jens-Daniel Herzog, cnd Carlo Rizzi] - Sept 18
• Luisa Miller at Staatsoper Stuttgart  [dir Markus Dietz, cnd Thomas Søndergård] - Sept 26
• Die Frau ohne Schatten at Oper Graz [dir Marco Arturo Marelli, cnd Johannes Fritzsch] - Sept 25
• L'amour de loin at Vlaamse Opera Antwerpen [dir Daniele Finzi Pasca, cnd Koen Kessels] - Sept 18
• Rusalka at ONL Nancy [dir Jim Lucassen, cnd Christian Arming] - Sept 30
• Carmen at ON Bordeaux [dir Laurent Laffargue, cnd Cristian Orosanu] - Sept 24
• Rigoletto at La Fenice Venice [dir  Daniele Abbado, cnd Myung-Whun Chung] - Sept 25