Seattle Opera has announced its 2012/2013 season
Turandot
Fidelio
La Cenerentola
La bohème
Voix Humaine/Suor Angelica
They only produce five operas per year and try to balance 'bread & butter' productions with something a bit different. They twinned Aleko with Bluebeard's Castle a couple of years ago.
Comments on their Facebook page seem enthusiastic.
Annie
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Welsh National Opera have announced both their 2012/13 and 2013/14 seasons. Quite ambitious.
2012/13
La bohème - Puccini
Cosi Fan Tutte - Mozart
Jephtha - Handel
Lulu - Berg
The Cunning Little Vixen - Janáček
Madama Butterfly - Puccini
then scheduled for 2013/14 (in no particular order)
Anna Bolena, Maria Stuarda, Roberto Devereux - Donizetti
Manon Lescaut - Puccini
Boulevard Solitude - Henze
Lohengrin - Wagner
Nabucco - Verdi
Moses und Aron - Schoenberg
Paul Bunyan - Britten
Annie
Ambitious, indeed. And very interesting.Originally Posted by sospiro
A wonderfully balanced season program, too, with less familiar works included along with the more popular operas.
Canadian Opera Company (Toronto) 2012/2013:
IL TROVATORE
Sept. 29 to Oct. 31, 2012
DIE FLEDERMAUS
Oct. 4 to Nov. 3, 2012
TRISTAN UND ISOLDE
Jan. 29 to Feb. 23, 2013
LA CLEMENZA DI TITO
Feb. 3 to 22, 2013
LUCIA DI LAMMERMOOR
Apr. 17 to May 24, 2013
SALOME
Apr. 21 to May 22, 2013
DIALOGUES DES CARMÉLITES
May 8 to 25, 2013
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I so have a free Canadian flight on my Visa right now.... TRISTAN UND ISOLDE, I AM SO THERE!
Teatro Real
Moses und Aron, Arnold Schönberg (1874-1951). Concert version. Two performances: september 2012.
Boris Godunov, Modest Mussorgski (1839-1881). Nine performances: october 2012.
Il Prigioniero, Luigi Dallapiccola (1904-1975) and Suor Angelica, Giacomo Puccini (1858-1924). 11 performances : november 2012.
Macbeth, Giuseppe Verdi (1813-1901). Eight performances: december 2012.
The Perfect American, Philip Glass (1937). Eight performances: january / february 2013.
Parsifal, Richard Wagner (1813-1883). Concert version. Three performances: january / february 2013.
Così fan tutte, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791). Ten performances: february / march 2013.
Roberto Devereux, Gaetano Donizetti (1791-1864). Concert version. Two performances: march 2013
Les pêcheurs de perles, Georges Bizet (1838-1875). Concert version. Three performances: march 2013.
Don Giovanni, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791). Eight performances: april 2013.
La rappresaglia, Saverio Mercadante (1795-1870). Four performances: may 2013.
Wozzeck, Alban Berg (1885-1935). Eight performances: june 2013.
Die Zauberflöte, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Three performances: june / july 2013.
Il Postino, Daniel Catán (1949-2011). Five performances: july 2013.
Las Palmas de Gran Canaria
Carmen: 27th and 29th February / 2nd and 4th March
Nancy Fabiola Herrera; Aquiles Machado; Beatriz díaz; Luca Grassi. Cond: Alain Guingal
I Capuleti e i Montecchi : 18th, 20th, 22th and 24th March
Daniela Barcellona; Yolanda Auyanet; Antonio Gandía. Cond: Alessandro Vitiello
Rigoletto : 13th, 15th, 17th and 19th May
Alberto Gazale; Nino Machaidze; Ivan Magrì. Cond: Stefano Ranzani
Les Pêcheurs de Perles: 15th,18th, 21st and 24th June
Juan Diego Flórez; Patrizia Ciofi; Konstantin Shushakov; Felipe Bou. Cond: Yves Abel
Wow, I'd love to see this Pecheurs. By the way, this reminds me that I'm pretty much due to write up the article about it. Darn, I forgot.
"J'ai dit qu'il ne suffisait pas d'entendre la musique, mais qu'il fallait encore la voir" (Stravinsky)
De Nederlandse Opera
Der Schatzgräber
Written on Skin
Ringetje (Little Ring)
Das Rheingold
Die Zauberflöte
Einstein on the Beach
Guillaume Tell
L’amour des trois oranges
Die Walküre
La traviata
Sunken Garden
Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg
Exciting calendar imo!
Annie
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Very good, indeed.
Opera San Jose has announced the 2012-13 season. It includes The Pearl Fishers, Die Fledermaus, Il Trovatore, Suor Angelica & Gianni Schicchi. A modest season, but I like the fact that there is The Pearl Fishes which I've never seen live. Tempting...
"J'ai dit qu'il ne suffisait pas d'entendre la musique, mais qu'il fallait encore la voir" (Stravinsky)
We can has Met season!
http://www.metopera-digital.org/meto...son2012-13#pg1
First impressions:
Not quite sure about the new Elisire, but I'm not Bart Sher's biggest fan in this world either. Not sure what I think about Elisire as opening night, either ...
The Tempest looks very interesting, and hopefully LePage can redeem himself after his recent Ring.
The new Ballo sounds kind of boring, but could be interesting. Kathleen Kim! Yay!
Not sure about Maria Stuarda. JDD will be great, I am sure, but the production seemed a little 'meh'
Rigoletto seems rather like a generic update, but could be fun.
The Parsifal looks AWESOME, and I think it's the production I'm most looking forward to of the next season. I didn't know Peter Mattei sang Wagner, though.
Giulio Cesare should be good. Not sure about Daniels and Dessay, though.
Tito should be good. Although Barbara Frittoli as Vittelia? Really? But yay, Kate Lindsey!
It is really a shame that the Dialogues of the Carmelites isn't being broadcast.
Roberto Alagna looks funny when he's orange.
Yay, Francesca da Rimini!
Crap. Domingo's conducting Otello.
Diana Damrau is making her Met debut of Violetta. Why hasn't the Met staged a new production for her?
Oh wow, a bit disappointing, only one truly contemporary opera (The Tempest) although it's good to see Dialogues des Carmelites there too.
Of course, I won't complain of the fact that we're getting Les Troyens, Giulio Cesare, and Parsifal - and won't complain of Anna Netrebko looking adorable in L'Elisir d'Amore.
I'll make a point of trying to attend all six above - in person if they don't show them in HD.
But it is a season that is kind of unimaginative. Other than the above highlights, the rest is kind of mundane - I mean, great operas for sure, but a lot of beaten path (Francesca da Rimini and Le Comte Ory less so but hardly novelties, and all the others are operas given over and over and over).
28 operas, one more than last season.
"J'ai dit qu'il ne suffisait pas d'entendre la musique, mais qu'il fallait encore la voir" (Stravinsky)
Oh, and HD schedule:
L'Elisir d'amore
Otello
The Tempest
La clemenza di Tito
Un ballo in maschera
Aïda
Les Troyens
Maria Stuarda
Rigoletto
Parsifal
Francesca da Rimini
Giulio Cesare
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