New Seasons

Here are the operas scheduled for the 2012-13 season in the United States by our main 103 opera companies (not counting in many cases, other smaller companies and opera-producing academic departments). Let's list them by number of productions, so that we can try to understand some trends.

I've included musicals and operettas when they're being given by opera companies, since we are trying to look at the patterns of behavior of the opera companies during these times of economic crisis.

The name of the opera is followed by a number - not of how many runs, but of how many companies are staging the opera this season (how many different productions) - so, an opera may be given by a company just twice on a Friday evening and Sunday matinée in some cases, or 10-12 times in other cases by a different, larger company, and each of these situations will count as *one* production in my numbers. So this is not a list of performances, but rather a list of productions.

This list is more complete than the one recently published by Opera News Magazine, since I've included seasons of some companies that had not announced theirs yet, at the Opera News Magazine press time.

La Bohème 14
Don Giovanni 14
Tosca 11
Die Zauberflöte 11
Madama Butterfly 11
La Traviata 10
Il Barbiere di Siviglia 10
Le Nozze di Figaro 9
Pagliacci 8
La Cenerentola 7
Rigoletto 7
Il Trovatore 7
Aïda 7
Der Fliegende Holländer 6
Don Pasquale 5
Così fan Tutte 5
Die Fledermaus 5
Turandot 5
Falstaff 4
La Fille du Régiment 4
Les Pêcheurs de Perles 4
Lucia di ...

This article contains the 2012-2013 opera season announcements for Los Angeles Opera, Deutsche Oper Berlin, Berlin State Opera, Vienna State Opera, Zürich Opera, and Opéra National de Paris (Bastille, Garnier), in this order, compiled by MAuer
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Baden Baden Festspielhaus
http://www.festspielhaus.de/

2012-13 Performances

Summer Festival, 2012

- Mozart: Cosi fan tutte (concert performance)
11, 14 July
Miah Persson, Angela Brower, Rolando Villazon, Adam Platchetka, Mojca Erdmann, Matthias Goerne
Yannick Nézet-Seguin (conductor) ...

Sächsische Staatsoper, Dresden (Semper Opera)
http://www.semperoper.de/

2012-2013 Season

New Productions

- Henze: Wir erreichen den Fluss
13-29 September 2012
Gorshunova, Vermillion, Brohm, Vondung, Petrick, Liebold, S. Neal
Erik Nielsen (conductor); Elisabeth Stöppler (director)
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Opera National du Rhin
www.operanationaldurhin.eu

Verdi: Requiem
20 September 2012
Conductor: Marko Letonja
Soloists: Tamar Iveri, Tanja Ariane Baumgartner, Giuseppe Filianoti, Orlin Anastassov
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Theater an der Wien
www.theater-wien.at

Monteverdi – Il Ritorno d’Ulisse in Patria
Premiere: 7 September 2012
Conductor: Christophe Rousset
Director: Claus Guth
Les Talens Lyriques
Cast: Gary Magee, Delphine Galou, Pavel Kolgatin, Katija Dragojevic
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This is the Metropolitan Opera House 2012-2013 Season ...