Article: NC Opera announces the 2012-2013 Season (Wagner, Verdi, Jay Hunter Morris)

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Hannover State Opera
http://www.staatstheater-hannover.de/oper/

2012-13 Season

- Porter: Kiss Me Kate
From 1 September 2012, in the Theater am Aegi
Director: Bernd Mottl

- Florian Leopold Gassmann: L’Opera seria
From 9 September, in the Herrenhausen Gallery
Conductor: Mark Rohde
Director: Michiel Dijkema

- Klaus Florian Vogt concert to benefit the Hannover State Opera Foundation
6 October 2012

Staged Opera Performances

- Shostakovich: Lady Macbeth From Mtsensk
From 21 October 2012
Conductor: Karen Kamensek
Director: Frank Hilbrichs
Cast: K. God, Fugis, Kränzle, P. B. Nissen, Tursic

- Mozart: Cosi fan tutte
From 22 December 2012
Conductor: Karen Kamensek
Director: Alexander Charim
Cast: D. M. Marx, Morr/Walerowicz, Fugis/Yoshikawa, Ph. Heo/S.-K. Park, Tonkin, Armasi/Schabel

- Manfred Trojahn: Orest
From 8 February 2013
Conductor: Gregor Bühl
Director: Enrico Lübbe
Cast: Vegry, D. M. Marx, Mikaberidze, Pravtchev, Waag, Zagorski

- Tchaikovsky: Eugene Onegin
From 14 April 2013
Conductor: Ivan Repusik
Director: Ingo Kerkhof
Cast: Eterno/Hahn, Sundal , Ph. Heo, B. Davis, Armasi/P. B. Nissen

- Wagner: Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg
From 8 June 2013
Conductor: Karen Kamensek
Director: Benedikt von Peter
Cast: Künzli, Tursic, St. Adam, Pesendorfer, P. B. Nissen

“Festive Opera Evenings”

- Puccini: Madama Butterfly
15 December 2012
Soloists: Paoletta Marrocu, Mario Malagnini

- Verdi: Don Carlo
2 February 2013
Soloists: Fabio Armiliato, Roberto Scandiuzzi

- Tchaikovsky: Eugene Onegin
2 June 2013
Soloists: Bo Skovhus, Michaela Kaune

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Dortmund Concert House
http://www.theaterdo.de/

Operas and Recitals in 2012-13 Program

Operas in Concert Performance

- Berg: Wozzeck
31 October 2012
Conductor: Esa-Pekka Salonen
Cast: Denoke, Burford, Francis, Ellicott, Hoare, Reuter, F. Olsen

- Wagner: Parsifal
20 January 2013
Conductor: Thomas Hengelbock
Cast: Simon O’Neill, Goerne, Denoke, Kränzle, Relyea

- Handel: Serse
15 June 2013
Conductor: Jean-Christophe Spinosi
Cast: Ernman, Prina, Kucherova, S. Schwartz, David D. Q. Lee, L. Di Donato, Senn

Recitals

- Christianne Stotijn
2 November 2012

- Luca Pisaroni
23 November 2012

- Cecilia Bartoli: “Liaisons dangereuses”
27 November 2012

- Thomas Hampson
14 December 2012

- Anna Prohaska
24 January 2013

- Christiane Oelze
27 February 2013

- Christian Gerhaher
23 April 2013

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Santa Fe Opera, still red hot in the middle of the current season, has announced next season already.

La Traviata, in honor of the bicentennial of Verdi's birth - directed and designed by Laurent Pelly. Brenda Rae is Violetta; Michael Fabiano is Alfredo. Conductor Frédéric Chaslin.

Rossini's La Donna del Lago with a star-studded cast: Joyce DiDonato, Lawrence Brownlee, René Barbera, and Daniela Barcelona. Stephen Lord conducting.

The Grand Duchess of Gerolstein (a delightful Offenbach operetta) with excellent Susan Graham, Paul Appleby, and Chaslin conducting.

The Marriage of Figaro with Susanna Phillips and Daniel Okulitch; John Nelson conducts.

A world premiere of a new opera co-commissioned by Santa Fe Opera and Opera Company of Philadelphia: Oscar, by Theodore Morrison, on the life of Oscar Wilde. David Daniels sings the title role, with Dwayne Croft as Walt Whitman, and Heidi Stober as Ada Leverson, as well as William Burden as Wilde's friend and biographer Frank Harris. Evan Rogister conducts.

Wagner and Britten Anniversary Concert, honoring the former's 200th anniversary of birth, and the latter's 100th anniversary of birth.

The orchestra will play Stravinsky by recreating a concert that he conducted himself then and there 50 years ago, on the same August 18 of the present concert (which is why the right side of the theater is called "Stravinsky Terrace."

I encourage people to attend; Santa Fe Opera is a darn good company that presents world-quality opera in a stunning setting. Hey, they even have opera tailgating before the shows!

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John Nelson conducts

They're making it next season and he conducts already? And they say that Placido Domingo has problems with catching up with singers when conducting.

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Huh, Aramis, that's standard English in journalistic reports like this. It implies "will be conducting." Like when you say David Daniels sings the title role [implying, he sings it in this production we're talking about - but the performance itself will happen in the future].
John Wilton Nelson, the famous conductor.

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Opéra de Lyon
http://www.opera-lyon.com/

2012-13 Season

- Verdi: Macbeth
13-27 October 2012
Conductor: Kazushi Ono
Director: Ivo van Hove
Cast: Evez Abdulla, Iano Tamar, Pavel Cernoch, Viktor Antipenko, Riccardo Zanellato

- Bellini: I Puritani (concert performance)
13-18 November 2012
Conductor: Evelino Pidó
Cast: Olga Peretyatko, Dmitry Korchak, Michele Pertusi, Pietro Spagnoli

- Handel: Messiah
3-14 December 2012
Conductor: Laurence Cummings
Director: Deborah Warner
Soloists: Sophie Bevan, Catherine Wyn-Rogers, Andrew Kennedy, Andrew Foster-Williams

- Janáĉek: The Cunning Little Vixen
23 January-1 February 2013
Conductor: Tomás Hanus
Director: André Engel
Cast: Ilse Eerens, Angélique Noldus, Vladimir Samsonov, Jeannette Fischer, Wynne Evans, Maxim Kuzmin-Karavaev, Karoly Szemeredy Harasta

- Viktor Ullmann: Der Kaiser von Atlantis (The Emperor of Atlantis)
12-17 February 2013
Conductor: Jean-Michael Lavoie
Director: Richard Brunel
Cast: Soloists of the Lyon Opera Studio

- Thierry Escaich: Claude
27 March-14 April 2013
Conductor: Jérémie Rhorer
Director: Olivier Py
Cast: Fabrice di Falco, Henk Neven, Jean-Philippe Lafont

- Beethoven: Fidelio
28 March-12 April 2013
Conductor: Kazushi Ono
Director: Gary Hill
Cast: Nikokai Schukoff, Martin Winkler, Wilhelm Schwinghammer, Andrew Schweder, Karen Vourec’h, Christian Baumgärtel (title role has not yet been filled)

- Dallapiccola: Il Prigioniero/Schoenberg: Erwartung
29 March-13 April 2013
Conductor: Kazushi Ono
Director: Alex Ollé
Cast: Magdalena Anna Hoffmann, Martin Winkler, Raymond Very

- Richard Strauss: Capriccio
7-19 May 2013
Conductor: Bernhard Kontarsky
Director: David Marton
Cast: Emily Magee, Lothar Odinius, Alejandro Marco-Buhrmester, Victor von Halem, Michaela Schlinger, Bernhard Berchtold

- Mozart: Die Zauberflöte
24 June-8 July 2013
Conductor: Stefano Montanari
Director: Pierrick Sorin
Cast: Soloists of the Lyon Opera Studio

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Essen Philharmonic
http://www.philharmonie-essen.de/

Selections from 2012-13 Season

- Tchaikovsky: Iolanta (concert performance)
27 November 2011
Conductor: Emanuel Villaume
Soloists: Anna Netrebko, et. al. (Alma, look here!!)

- Wagner: Parsifal (concert performance)
20 January 2013 (in Dortmund)
Conductor: Thomas Hengelbrock
Soloists: Simon O’Neill, Angela Denoke, Matthias Goerne, John Relyea, Johannes Martin Kränzle

“Voices” Concert Series (in City Garden concert hall)
- Anja Harteros – 22 September 2012
- Bejun Mehta – 13 December 2012
- Anna Prohaska – 18 January 2013
- Joyce Di Donato – 10 February 2013
- Cecilia Bartoli – 31 May 2013

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Les Theatres de la Ville de Luxembourg
http://www.theatres.lu/Op%C3%A9ra-p-135130.html

2012-13 Opera Season

- Massenet: Cendrillon
6, 8, 10 October 2012
Conductor: Alexander Liebreich
Director: Benjamin Lazar
Cast: Judith Gauthier, Ewa Podlés, Marie Lenormand, Melanie Boisvert, Laurent Alvaro, Caroline Mutel, Caroline Champy Tursun

- Blow: Venus and Adonis
9, 10 November 2012
Conductor: Bertrand Cuiller
Director: Louise Moaty
Cast: Celine Scheen, Marc Mauillon, et. al.

- Wolf-Ferrari: Il segreto di Susanna/Poulenc: La Voix Humaine
20, 23 February 2013
Conductor: Pascal Rophé
Director: Ludovic Lagarde
Cast: Anna Caterina Antonacci, Vittorio Prato, et. al.

- Mozart: La finta giardiniera
20, 22 March 2013
Conductor: Andreas Spering
Director: Vincent Boussard
Cast: Lucy Hall, Ana Maria Labin, Colin Balzer, Nathan Vale, Julie Robard-Gendre, John Chest

- Wagner: Parsifal
12, 14 April 2013
Conductor: Eliahu Inbal
Director: Tatjana Gürbaca
Cast: Zoran Todorovich, Susan Maclean, Werner Van Mechelen, Georg Zeppenfeld, Robert Bork, Jaco Huijpen

- Josef Myslivecek: L’Olimpiade
4, 5 June 2013
Conductor: Václav Luks
Director: Ursel Herrmann
Cast: Simona Sáturova, Sophie Harmsen, Raffaela Milanesi, Helena Kaupová, Norman Reinhardt, Markus Brutscher

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Our partners at North Carolina Opera have announced the new season. In celebration of the bicentennial of the birth of both Wagner and Verdi, the season will feature music by both composers.

August 10, 2012 - Concert - "An Evening of Arias" - countertenor Anthony Roth Costanzo (recently featured on the cover of Opera News Magazine and on Met in HD with The Enchanted Island) and soprano Rachel Copeland star in a program of arias and duets from Handel and Mozart, with the Brussels Chamber Orchestra. 8 PM, Cary Arts Center in Cary, NC.

January 27, 2013 - Concert - featuring the entire first act of Die Walküre, with Jay Hunter Morris (recently seen as Siegfried in the Met's Ring cycle) in the role of Siegmund, and Elizabeth Bishop as Sieglinde; followed by selections from Tristan und Isolde, Die Meistersinger, and other operas. Timothy Myers conducts. 3 PM, Meymandi Concert Hall in Raleigh, NC.

May 3 and 5, 2013 - Semi-staged opera - Aïda, Verdi - with Angela Brown in the title role, Issachah Savage as Radames, and Leann Sandeo-Pantaleo (last season's Carmen at NC Opera) as Amneris. Timothy Myers conducts. 8 PM on May 3, Memorial Hall, Chapel Hill, NC; 3 PM on May 5, Meymandi Concert Hall, Raleigh, NC

October 3, 5, and 6, 2013 - Fully staged opera - Così fan tutte, Mozart, with Faith Sherman, Hailey Clark, Tyler Nelson, and Jake Gardner. 8 PM on the 3rd and the 5th, and 3 PM on the 6th, Fletcher Opera Theater, Raleigh, NC

As usual, we'll be providing extensive coverage of these events to support our partners, including interviews with the artists, in-depth articles about the operas, and reviews.

Tickets can be purchased [here] as a season subscription, but single tickets are also available (navigate to other tabs to find them).

More info, photos of the artists, etc., can be found [here]

To all our members and readers in the North Carolina Triangle, don't miss the opportunity to hear up close these bright stars (especially Mr. Costanzo, Ms. Brown, and Mr. Morris who have earned great reviews from their stints on the stage of the Metropolitan Opera House) and enjoy love opera, while at the same time supporting our local company.