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| Saturday 25-May-13 05:50pm |
 Glyndebourne Opera HouseAriadne auf Naxos Glyndebourne |
Glyndebourne Opera Vladimir Jurowski, Conductor London Philharmonic Orchestra Katharina Thoma, Director Julia Müer, Set Designer Sir Thomas Allen, Baritone: Music Master Soile Isokoski, Soprano: Primadonna (Ariadne) Kate Lindsey, Mezzo-soprano: Composer Teodora Gheorghiu, Soprano: Zerbinetta Dmitri Vargin, Baritone: Harlequin James Kryshak, Tenor: Scaramuccio Sergei Skorokhodov, Tenor: Bacchus Wolfgang Ablinger-Sperrhacke, Tenor: Dancing Master |
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| Glyndebourne Opera House, Glyndebourne BN8 5UU, United Kingdom Saturday 25-May-13 05:50pm Vladimir Jurowski, Conductor London Philharmonic Orchestra Katharina Thoma, Director Julia Müer, Set Designer Sir Thomas Allen, Baritone: Music Master Soile Isokoski, Soprano: Primadonna (Ariadne) Kate Lindsey, Mezzo-soprano: Composer Teodora Gheorghiu, Soprano: Zerbinetta Dmitri Vargin, Baritone: Harlequin James Kryshak, Tenor: Scaramuccio Sergei Skorokhodov, Tenor: Bacchus Wolfgang Ablinger-Sperrhacke, Tenor: Dancing Master | ||
| Saturday 25-May-13 06:00pm |
Teatro di San Carlo, Naples Verdi, Rigoletto |
San Carlo Theatre Pier Giorgio Morandi, Conductor Arnaud Bernard, Director Celso Albelo, Tenor: The Duke of Mantua Desirée Rancatore, Soprano: Gilda Dmitri Hvorostovsky, Baritone: Rigoletto Michail Ryssov, Bass: Sparafucile Daniela Innamorati, Mezzo-soprano: Maddalena Christopher Magiera, Baritone: Marullo |
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| Teatro di San Carlo, Naples, 80132 Naples, Italy Saturday 25-May-13 06:00pm Verdi, Rigoletto Pier Giorgio Morandi, Conductor Arnaud Bernard, Director Celso Albelo, Tenor: The Duke of Mantua Desirée Rancatore, Soprano: Gilda Dmitri Hvorostovsky, Baritone: Rigoletto Michail Ryssov, Bass: Sparafucile Daniela Innamorati, Mezzo-soprano: Maddalena Christopher Magiera, Baritone: Marullo | ||
| Saturday 25-May-13 07:30pm |
Walt Disney Concert Hall, Los Angeles, CA The Marriage of Figaro |
Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra Gustavo Dudamel, Conductor Los Angeles Master Chorale Christopher Maltman, Baritone: Count Almaviva Dorothea Röschmann, Soprano: Rosina (Countess Almaviva) Edwin Crossley-Mercer, Baritone: Figaro Malin Christensson, Soprano: Susanna James Darrah, Director Rafael Payare, Conductor |
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| Walt Disney Concert Hall, Los Angeles, CA, Los Angeles, CA 90012, United States Saturday 25-May-13 07:30pm Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra Gustavo Dudamel, Conductor Los Angeles Master Chorale Christopher Maltman, Baritone: Count Almaviva Dorothea Röschmann, Soprano: Rosina (Countess Almaviva) Edwin Crossley-Mercer, Baritone: Figaro Malin Christensson, Soprano: Susanna James Darrah, Director Rafael Payare, Conductor | ||
| Saturday 25-May-13 07:30pm |
Hong Kong Cultural Centre: Grand Theatre Tales of Hoffmann |
Opera Hong Kong Opera Hong Kong Chorus Warren Mok, Producer Jean-Louis Grinda, Director Emmanuel Joel-Hornak, Conductor Luca Lombardo, Tenor: Hoffmann Sinéad Mulhern, Soprano: Antonia/Giulietta/Stella Nicolas Cavallier, Bass: Lindorff/Coppélius/Miracle/Dapertutto Isabelle Philippe, Soprano: Olympia Aurhelia Varak, Mezzo-soprano: Nicklausse/Mezzo-soprano: The Muse |
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| Hong Kong Cultural Centre: Grand Theatre, 10 Salisbury Road, Kowloon, Hong Kong, China Saturday 25-May-13 07:30pm Opera Hong Kong Chorus Warren Mok, Producer Jean-Louis Grinda, Director Emmanuel Joel-Hornak, Conductor Luca Lombardo, Tenor: Hoffmann Sinéad Mulhern, Soprano: Antonia/Giulietta/Stella Nicolas Cavallier, Bass: Lindorff/Coppélius/Miracle/Dapertutto Isabelle Philippe, Soprano: Olympia Aurhelia Varak, Mezzo-soprano: Nicklausse/Mezzo-soprano: The Muse | ||
| Saturday 25-May-13 07:30pm |
The London Coliseum Wozzeck |
English National Opera Edward Gardner, Conductor Carrie Cracknell, Director Tom Scutt, Set Designer Jon Clark, Lighting Designer Leigh Melrose, Baritone: Wozzeck Tom Randle, Tenor: Captain James Morris, Bass: Doctor Bryan Register, Tenor: Drum major Adrian Dwyer, Tenor: Andres Andrew Greenan, Bass: First Apprentice James Cleverton, Baritone: Second Apprentice Sara Jakubiak, Soprano: Marie Clare Presland, Contralto: Margret |
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| The London Coliseum, St. Martin's Lane, London WC2N 4ES, United Kingdom Saturday 25-May-13 07:30pm Wozzeck tells the story of a simple soldier, troubled by visions, who murders his unfaithful partner and dies, leaving behind an orphaned child. Berg’s early 20th-century masterpiece comes to ENO for the first time in 25 years.
This new production is by acclaimed director Carrie Cracknell. One of the most exciting young British directors of her generation, Carrie Cracknell is an Associate Director at the Young Vic, where her recent production of A Doll’s House was a critical success (‘If you ever see a production of a play, see this one’ Sunday Telegraph; ‘Carrie Cracknell ... set the Young Vic ablaze with her production over the summer ... Ibsen’s play reconsidered with fresh rabid emotion’ New York Times; ‘The best production of an Ibsen I’ve ever seen’ Kerry Shale, BBC Radio 4 Saturday Review).Tickets £16 - £99.Edward Gardner, Conductor Carrie Cracknell, Director Tom Scutt, Set Designer Jon Clark, Lighting Designer Leigh Melrose, Baritone: Wozzeck Tom Randle, Tenor: Captain James Morris, Bass: Doctor Bryan Register, Tenor: Drum major Adrian Dwyer, Tenor: Andres Andrew Greenan, Bass: First Apprentice James Cleverton, Baritone: Second Apprentice Sara Jakubiak, Soprano: Marie Clare Presland, Contralto: Margret | ||
| Saturday 25-May-13 07:30pm |
Staatsoper at Schiller Theater, Berlin Le Vin Herbé |
Staatsoper Berlin |
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| Staatsoper at Schiller Theater, Berlin, Bismarckstraße 110, 10625 Berlin, Germany Saturday 25-May-13 07:30pm Sung in French with German subtitles.
Frank Martin felt his "Le vin herbé" was a personal key work in which he had found his own voice. Based on the novel "Tristan et Iseut" by Joseph Bedier, he created his chambered profane oratorio to dramatise the two lovers Tristan and Isolde. | ||
| Sunday 26-May-13 02:30pm |
Opéra Bastille, Paris La Gioconda |
Opéra de Paris Daniel Oren, Conductor Pier Luigi Pizzi, Director Violeta Urmana, Soprano: La Gioconda Elena Bocharova, Mezzo-soprano: Laura Adorno Orlin Anastassov, Bass: Alvise Badoero Maria Jos Montiel, Contralto: La Cieca Marcelo Álvarez, Tenor: Enzo Grimaldo Sergey Murzaev, Baritone: Barnaba |
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| Opéra Bastille, Paris, 120 rue de Lyon, 75012 Paris, France Sunday 26-May-13 02:30pm Hearts are broken and destinies shattered in 17th century Venice: Violeta Urmana, Lucianan D’Intino, Marcelo Alvarez and Sergey Murzaev appear together in this rare and spectacular masterpiece. Performed in Italian. Daniel Oren, Conductor Pier Luigi Pizzi, Director Violeta Urmana, Soprano: La Gioconda Elena Bocharova, Mezzo-soprano: Laura Adorno Orlin Anastassov, Bass: Alvise Badoero Maria Jos Montiel, Contralto: La Cieca Marcelo Álvarez, Tenor: Enzo Grimaldo Sergey Murzaev, Baritone: Barnaba | ||
| Sunday 26-May-13 03:00pm |
La Monnaie | De Munt: Grand Hall, Brussels Così fan tutte |
La Monnaie | De Munt Ludovic Morlot, Conductor Michael Haneke, Director Christoph Kanter, Set Designer Anett Fritsch, Soprano: Fiordiligi Andreas Wolf, Baritone: Guglielmo Juan Francisco Gatell, Tenor: Ferrando Kerstin Avemo, Soprano: Despina William Shimell, Baritone: Don Alfonso Orchestre Symphonique et Choeurs de la Monnaie |
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| La Monnaie | De Munt: Grand Hall, Brussels, Muntplein-Place de la Monnaie, 1000 Brussels, Belgium Sunday 26-May-13 03:00pm The fatal temptation to seek the truth in love: men and women scorch their hearts and wings in trying to unlock the secret of emotions. How quickly perversity and cruelty oust desire and tenderness. Here Mozart enters into a dialogue with Marivaux and Sade. As in his previous operas, he succeeds in producing an incredible tension, a breathtakingly beautiful structuring of the text (his third collaboration with Da Ponte) and the music. Director Michael Haneke, one of the most incisive and insightful film-makers of our time, presents us with his vision of a work that is as spell-binding, serious, complex and at times light as it is formidably modern, where the experience of infidelity transforms the four characters by laying bare their frailty. For the Austrian director, this is his first time at La Monnaie, while Ludovic Morlot conducts his second opera of the season.Image credit: © Flore-Aël Surun / Tendance Floue Ludovic Morlot, Conductor Michael Haneke, Director Christoph Kanter, Set Designer Anett Fritsch, Soprano: Fiordiligi Andreas Wolf, Baritone: Guglielmo Juan Francisco Gatell, Tenor: Ferrando Kerstin Avemo, Soprano: Despina William Shimell, Baritone: Don Alfonso Orchestre Symphonique et Choeurs de la Monnaie | ||
| Sunday 26-May-13 03:00pm |
Remonstrantse Kerk, Groningen The Young Opera per Tutti! voor iedereen! |
Programme not known Dutch National Opera Academy |
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| Remonstrantse Kerk, Groningen, Coehoornsingel 14, Groningen 9711 BS, Netherlands Sunday 26-May-13 03:00pm The Young Opera per Tutti! voor iedereen! Programme not known | ||
| Sunday 26-May-13 04:00pm |
Opéra de Lille Il Barbiere di Siviglia |
Opéra de Lille Antonello Allemandi, Conductor Jean-François Sivadier, Director Taylor Stayton, Tenor: Count Almaviva Tiziano Bracci, Bass: Dr. Bartolo Eduarda Melo, Soprano: Rosina Amando Noguera, Baritone: Figaro |
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| Opéra de Lille, 2 Rue des Bons Enfants, 59800 Lille, France Sunday 26-May-13 04:00pm Il Barbiere di Siviglia Antonello Allemandi, Conductor Jean-François Sivadier, Director Taylor Stayton, Tenor: Count Almaviva Tiziano Bracci, Bass: Dr. Bartolo Eduarda Melo, Soprano: Rosina Amando Noguera, Baritone: Figaro | ||
| Sunday 26-May-13 07:00pm |
Opernhaus, Zürich Don Giovanni |
Zurich Opera Robin Ticciati, Conductor Sebastian Baumgarten, Director Barbara Ehnes, Set Designer Marina Rebeka, Soprano: Donna Anna Julia Kleiter, Soprano: Donna Elvira Anna Gorbachyova, Soprano: Zerlina Peter Mattei, Baritone: Don Giovanni Pavol Breslik, Tenor: Don Ottavio Rafal Siwek, Bass: The Commendatore Ruben Drole, Baritone: Leporello Lukas Jakobski, Bass: Masetto |
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| Opernhaus, Zürich, Opernhaus Falkenstrasse 1, Zürich 8008, Switzerland Sunday 26-May-13 07:00pm Following the success of the Prague première of Le nozze di Figaro, Mozart was immediately commissioned to write another opera. This time, Lorenzo Da Ponte chose the story of the Spanish nobleman Don Juan. The subject matter had been considered a crowd-puller for more than a century, due in particular to the spectacular demise of the hero. Don Giovanni invites the statue of the Commendatore, whom he has murdered, to dinner, and is swallowed up by the jaws of hell. However, the view of the hero had changed considerably since the Spanish dramatist and monk Tirso de Molina first brought the blasphemous deeds and just punishment of the villain to the stage in the 17th century. While de Molina was still entirely on the side of order, which is ultimately re-established through divine intervention, Mozart and Da Ponte turn the sexual braggart and seducer into a man whose unquenchable thirst for happiness calls into the question the very foundations of social coexistence. Don Giovanni thus becomes – involuntarily and perhaps even without realising it – a danger for the social order, which can be maintained only if it functions smoothly. In their comedy, which is shrouded in darkness throughout, Mozart and Da Ponte do not conceal the price that others have to pay for this kind of self-realisation. However, since they do not pass any final judgement and instead do justice to both sides, their work becomes a drama of humanity of indestructible power and relevance – a dramma giocoso that becomes all the more comic the more the tragic aspects behind the course of events become apparent.
The much-vaunted German director Sebastian Baumgarten will present his interpretation of Don Giovanni in Zurich. At the rostrum will be the young Robin Ticciati, a rising star among the new generation of conductors. Our Don Giovanni is the charismatic Peter Mattei, who is sought-after in this role from the Scala in Milan to the New York Met.In Italian with German and English surtitles.Robin Ticciati, Conductor Sebastian Baumgarten, Director Barbara Ehnes, Set Designer Marina Rebeka, Soprano: Donna Anna Julia Kleiter, Soprano: Donna Elvira Anna Gorbachyova, Soprano: Zerlina Peter Mattei, Baritone: Don Giovanni Pavol Breslik, Tenor: Don Ottavio Rafal Siwek, Bass: The Commendatore Ruben Drole, Baritone: Leporello Lukas Jakobski, Bass: Masetto | ||
| Monday 27-May-13 |
Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London La donna del lago |
Royal Opera Michele Mariotti, Conductor John Fulljames, Director Joyce DiDonato, Soprano: Elena Juan Diego Flórez, Tenor: King James V / Uberto Daniela Barcellona, Mezzo-soprano: Malcolm Simon Orfila, Bass: Douglas Colin Lee, Tenor: Rodrigo |
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| Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London, Bow Street,, Covent Garden, London WC2E 9DD, United Kingdom Monday 27-May-13 Michele Mariotti, Conductor John Fulljames, Director Joyce DiDonato, Soprano: Elena Juan Diego Flórez, Tenor: King James V / Uberto Daniela Barcellona, Mezzo-soprano: Malcolm Simon Orfila, Bass: Douglas Colin Lee, Tenor: Rodrigo | ||
| Tuesday 28-May-13 07:00pm |
La Monnaie | De Munt: Grand Hall, Brussels Così fan tutte |
La Monnaie | De Munt Ludovic Morlot, Conductor Michael Haneke, Director Christoph Kanter, Set Designer Anett Fritsch, Soprano: Fiordiligi Andreas Wolf, Baritone: Guglielmo Juan Francisco Gatell, Tenor: Ferrando Kerstin Avemo, Soprano: Despina William Shimell, Baritone: Don Alfonso Orchestre Symphonique et Choeurs de la Monnaie |
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| La Monnaie | De Munt: Grand Hall, Brussels, Muntplein-Place de la Monnaie, 1000 Brussels, Belgium Tuesday 28-May-13 07:00pm The fatal temptation to seek the truth in love: men and women scorch their hearts and wings in trying to unlock the secret of emotions. How quickly perversity and cruelty oust desire and tenderness. Here Mozart enters into a dialogue with Marivaux and Sade. As in his previous operas, he succeeds in producing an incredible tension, a breathtakingly beautiful structuring of the text (his third collaboration with Da Ponte) and the music. Director Michael Haneke, one of the most incisive and insightful film-makers of our time, presents us with his vision of a work that is as spell-binding, serious, complex and at times light as it is formidably modern, where the experience of infidelity transforms the four characters by laying bare their frailty. For the Austrian director, this is his first time at La Monnaie, while Ludovic Morlot conducts his second opera of the season.Image credit: © Flore-Aël Surun / Tendance Floue Ludovic Morlot, Conductor Michael Haneke, Director Christoph Kanter, Set Designer Anett Fritsch, Soprano: Fiordiligi Andreas Wolf, Baritone: Guglielmo Juan Francisco Gatell, Tenor: Ferrando Kerstin Avemo, Soprano: Despina William Shimell, Baritone: Don Alfonso Orchestre Symphonique et Choeurs de la Monnaie | ||
| Tuesday 28-May-13 07:00pm |
City University London: Performance Space (ALG10) Holst: The Wandering Scholar & New Art Songs Orchestration |
Opéra les Fauves |
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| City University London: Performance Space (ALG10), College Building, Northampton Square, London EC1V 4PB, United Kingdom Tuesday 28-May-13 07:00pm Holst: The Wandering Scholar & New Art Songs Orchestration | ||
| Tuesday 28-May-13 08:00pm |
Opéra de Lille Il Barbiere di Siviglia |
Opéra de Lille Antonello Allemandi, Conductor Jean-François Sivadier, Director Taylor Stayton, Tenor: Count Almaviva Tiziano Bracci, Bass: Dr. Bartolo Eduarda Melo, Soprano: Rosina Amando Noguera, Baritone: Figaro |
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| Opéra de Lille, 2 Rue des Bons Enfants, 59800 Lille, France Tuesday 28-May-13 08:00pm Il Barbiere di Siviglia Antonello Allemandi, Conductor Jean-François Sivadier, Director Taylor Stayton, Tenor: Count Almaviva Tiziano Bracci, Bass: Dr. Bartolo Eduarda Melo, Soprano: Rosina Amando Noguera, Baritone: Figaro | ||
| Wednesday 29-May-13 07:00pm |
Opernhaus, Zürich Don Giovanni |
Zurich Opera Robin Ticciati, Conductor Sebastian Baumgarten, Director Barbara Ehnes, Set Designer Marina Rebeka, Soprano: Donna Anna Julia Kleiter, Soprano: Donna Elvira Anna Gorbachyova, Soprano: Zerlina Peter Mattei, Baritone: Don Giovanni Pavol Breslik, Tenor: Don Ottavio Rafal Siwek, Bass: The Commendatore Ruben Drole, Baritone: Leporello Lukas Jakobski, Bass: Masetto |
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| Opernhaus, Zürich, Opernhaus Falkenstrasse 1, Zürich 8008, Switzerland Wednesday 29-May-13 07:00pm Following the success of the Prague première of Le nozze di Figaro, Mozart was immediately commissioned to write another opera. This time, Lorenzo Da Ponte chose the story of the Spanish nobleman Don Juan. The subject matter had been considered a crowd-puller for more than a century, due in particular to the spectacular demise of the hero. Don Giovanni invites the statue of the Commendatore, whom he has murdered, to dinner, and is swallowed up by the jaws of hell. However, the view of the hero had changed considerably since the Spanish dramatist and monk Tirso de Molina first brought the blasphemous deeds and just punishment of the villain to the stage in the 17th century. While de Molina was still entirely on the side of order, which is ultimately re-established through divine intervention, Mozart and Da Ponte turn the sexual braggart and seducer into a man whose unquenchable thirst for happiness calls into the question the very foundations of social coexistence. Don Giovanni thus becomes – involuntarily and perhaps even without realising it – a danger for the social order, which can be maintained only if it functions smoothly. In their comedy, which is shrouded in darkness throughout, Mozart and Da Ponte do not conceal the price that others have to pay for this kind of self-realisation. However, since they do not pass any final judgement and instead do justice to both sides, their work becomes a drama of humanity of indestructible power and relevance – a dramma giocoso that becomes all the more comic the more the tragic aspects behind the course of events become apparent.
The much-vaunted German director Sebastian Baumgarten will present his interpretation of Don Giovanni in Zurich. At the rostrum will be the young Robin Ticciati, a rising star among the new generation of conductors. Our Don Giovanni is the charismatic Peter Mattei, who is sought-after in this role from the Scala in Milan to the New York Met.In Italian with German and English surtitles.Robin Ticciati, Conductor Sebastian Baumgarten, Director Barbara Ehnes, Set Designer Marina Rebeka, Soprano: Donna Anna Julia Kleiter, Soprano: Donna Elvira Anna Gorbachyova, Soprano: Zerlina Peter Mattei, Baritone: Don Giovanni Pavol Breslik, Tenor: Don Ottavio Rafal Siwek, Bass: The Commendatore Ruben Drole, Baritone: Leporello Lukas Jakobski, Bass: Masetto | ||
| Wednesday 29-May-13 07:30pm |
Staatsoper at Schiller Theater, Berlin Le Vin Herbé |
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| Staatsoper at Schiller Theater, Berlin, Bismarckstraße 110, 10625 Berlin, Germany Wednesday 29-May-13 07:30pm Sung in French with German subtitles.
Frank Martin felt his "Le vin herbé" was a personal key work in which he had found his own voice. Based on the novel "Tristan et Iseut" by Joseph Bedier, he created his chambered profane oratorio to dramatise the two lovers Tristan and Isolde. | ||
| Thursday 30-May-13 05:50pm |
Glyndebourne Opera House Ariadne auf Naxos Glyndebourne |
Glyndebourne Opera Vladimir Jurowski, Conductor London Philharmonic Orchestra Katharina Thoma, Director Julia Müer, Set Designer Sir Thomas Allen, Baritone: Music Master Soile Isokoski, Soprano: Primadonna (Ariadne) Kate Lindsey, Mezzo-soprano: Composer Teodora Gheorghiu, Soprano: Zerbinetta Dmitri Vargin, Baritone: Harlequin James Kryshak, Tenor: Scaramuccio Sergei Skorokhodov, Tenor: Bacchus Wolfgang Ablinger-Sperrhacke, Tenor: Dancing Master |
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| Glyndebourne Opera House, Glyndebourne BN8 5UU, United Kingdom Thursday 30-May-13 05:50pm Vladimir Jurowski, Conductor London Philharmonic Orchestra Katharina Thoma, Director Julia Müer, Set Designer Sir Thomas Allen, Baritone: Music Master Soile Isokoski, Soprano: Primadonna (Ariadne) Kate Lindsey, Mezzo-soprano: Composer Teodora Gheorghiu, Soprano: Zerbinetta Dmitri Vargin, Baritone: Harlequin James Kryshak, Tenor: Scaramuccio Sergei Skorokhodov, Tenor: Bacchus Wolfgang Ablinger-Sperrhacke, Tenor: Dancing Master | ||
| Thursday 30-May-13 07:00pm |
La Monnaie | De Munt: Grand Hall, Brussels Così fan tutte |
La Monnaie | De Munt Ludovic Morlot, Conductor Michael Haneke, Director Christoph Kanter, Set Designer Anett Fritsch, Soprano: Fiordiligi Andreas Wolf, Baritone: Guglielmo Juan Francisco Gatell, Tenor: Ferrando Kerstin Avemo, Soprano: Despina William Shimell, Baritone: Don Alfonso Orchestre Symphonique et Choeurs de la Monnaie |
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| La Monnaie | De Munt: Grand Hall, Brussels, Muntplein-Place de la Monnaie, 1000 Brussels, Belgium Thursday 30-May-13 07:00pm The fatal temptation to seek the truth in love: men and women scorch their hearts and wings in trying to unlock the secret of emotions. How quickly perversity and cruelty oust desire and tenderness. Here Mozart enters into a dialogue with Marivaux and Sade. As in his previous operas, he succeeds in producing an incredible tension, a breathtakingly beautiful structuring of the text (his third collaboration with Da Ponte) and the music. Director Michael Haneke, one of the most incisive and insightful film-makers of our time, presents us with his vision of a work that is as spell-binding, serious, complex and at times light as it is formidably modern, where the experience of infidelity transforms the four characters by laying bare their frailty. For the Austrian director, this is his first time at La Monnaie, while Ludovic Morlot conducts his second opera of the season.Image credit: © Flore-Aël Surun / Tendance Floue Ludovic Morlot, Conductor Michael Haneke, Director Christoph Kanter, Set Designer Anett Fritsch, Soprano: Fiordiligi Andreas Wolf, Baritone: Guglielmo Juan Francisco Gatell, Tenor: Ferrando Kerstin Avemo, Soprano: Despina William Shimell, Baritone: Don Alfonso Orchestre Symphonique et Choeurs de la Monnaie | ||
| Thursday 30-May-13 08:00pm |
Opéra de Lille Il Barbiere di Siviglia |
Opéra de Lille Antonello Allemandi, Conductor Jean-François Sivadier, Director Taylor Stayton, Tenor: Count Almaviva Tiziano Bracci, Bass: Dr. Bartolo Eduarda Melo, Soprano: Rosina Amando Noguera, Baritone: Figaro |
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| Opéra de Lille, 2 Rue des Bons Enfants, 59800 Lille, France Thursday 30-May-13 08:00pm Il Barbiere di Siviglia Antonello Allemandi, Conductor Jean-François Sivadier, Director Taylor Stayton, Tenor: Count Almaviva Tiziano Bracci, Bass: Dr. Bartolo Eduarda Melo, Soprano: Rosina Amando Noguera, Baritone: Figaro | ||
| Thursday 30-May-13 08:15pm |
Vondelkerk, Amsterdam The Young Opera per Tutti! voor iedereen! |
Programme not known Dutch National Opera Academy |
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| Vondelkerk, Amsterdam, Vondelstraat 120d, Amsterdam 1054 GS, Netherlands Thursday 30-May-13 08:15pm The Young Opera per Tutti! voor iedereen! Programme not known | ||
| Friday 31-May-13 |
Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London La donna del lago |
Royal Opera Michele Mariotti, Conductor John Fulljames, Director Joyce DiDonato, Soprano: Elena Juan Diego Flórez, Tenor: King James V / Uberto Daniela Barcellona, Mezzo-soprano: Malcolm Simon Orfila, Bass: Douglas Colin Lee, Tenor: Rodrigo |
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| Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London, Bow Street,, Covent Garden, London WC2E 9DD, United Kingdom Friday 31-May-13 Michele Mariotti, Conductor John Fulljames, Director Joyce DiDonato, Soprano: Elena Juan Diego Flórez, Tenor: King James V / Uberto Daniela Barcellona, Mezzo-soprano: Malcolm Simon Orfila, Bass: Douglas Colin Lee, Tenor: Rodrigo | ||
| Friday 31-May-13 07:30pm |
The London Coliseum La Bohème |
English National Opera Jonathan Miller, Director Natascha Metherell, Revival Director Isabella Bywater, Set Designer Gwyn Hughes Jones, Tenor: Rodolfo Kate Valentine, Soprano: Mimì Richard Burkhard, Baritone: Marcello Angel Blue, Soprano: Musetta Andrew Craig Brown, Bass: Colline Duncan Rock, Baritone: Schaunard Simon Butteriss, Bass: Benoît |
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| The London Coliseum, St. Martin's Lane, London WC2N 4ES, United Kingdom Friday 31-May-13 07:30pm Puccini’s gift for writing emotional music is brought to the fore in La bohème’s tale of doomed love in poverty-stricken Paris. One of the world’s most recognised and widely performed operas, it focuses on two central relationships: that of the poet Rodolfo, who falls in love with the pretty but consumptive seamstress Mimì; and the painter Marcello, who has a glamorous and popular on-off mistress, Musetta.
Jonathan Miller’s production for ENO has quickly become a company classic and here receives its second revival since its 2009 premiere. Inspired by Brassaï’s photographs of the Paris Left Bank in the 1930s, Miller modernises the original bohemian setting to evoke the stark poverty of the day, creating a highly effective contemporary resonance, citing the film Withnail and I as an inspiration. Playing Mimì is Kate Valentine, who in recent seasons has played the Countess in Fiona Shaw’s production of The Marriage of Figaro and an ‘excellent’ (The Times) Helena in Christopher Alden’s Olivier Award-nominated A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Gwyn Hughes Jones returns to the role of Rodolfo following his great success in ENO’s 2010 production, and recent acclaimed Pinkerton in Madam Butterfly.Jonathan Miller, Director Natascha Metherell, Revival Director Isabella Bywater, Set Designer Gwyn Hughes Jones, Tenor: Rodolfo Kate Valentine, Soprano: Mimì Richard Burkhard, Baritone: Marcello Angel Blue, Soprano: Musetta Andrew Craig Brown, Bass: Colline Duncan Rock, Baritone: Schaunard Simon Butteriss, Bass: Benoît | ||
| Friday 31-May-13 07:30pm |
Opéra Bastille, Paris La Gioconda |
Opéra de Paris Daniel Oren, Conductor Pier Luigi Pizzi, Director Violeta Urmana, Soprano: La Gioconda Elena Bocharova, Mezzo-soprano: Laura Adorno Orlin Anastassov, Bass: Alvise Badoero Maria Jos Montiel, Contralto: La Cieca Marcelo Álvarez, Tenor: Enzo Grimaldo Sergey Murzaev, Baritone: Barnaba |
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| Opéra Bastille, Paris, 120 rue de Lyon, 75012 Paris, France Friday 31-May-13 07:30pm Hearts are broken and destinies shattered in 17th century Venice: Violeta Urmana, Lucianan D’Intino, Marcelo Alvarez and Sergey Murzaev appear together in this rare and spectacular masterpiece. Performed in Italian. Daniel Oren, Conductor Pier Luigi Pizzi, Director Violeta Urmana, Soprano: La Gioconda Elena Bocharova, Mezzo-soprano: Laura Adorno Orlin Anastassov, Bass: Alvise Badoero Maria Jos Montiel, Contralto: La Cieca Marcelo Álvarez, Tenor: Enzo Grimaldo Sergey Murzaev, Baritone: Barnaba | ||
| Saturday 1-Jun-13 07:00pm |
Opernhaus, Zürich Don Giovanni |
Zurich Opera Robin Ticciati, Conductor Sebastian Baumgarten, Director Barbara Ehnes, Set Designer Marina Rebeka, Soprano: Donna Anna Julia Kleiter, Soprano: Donna Elvira Anna Gorbachyova, Soprano: Zerlina Peter Mattei, Baritone: Don Giovanni Pavol Breslik, Tenor: Don Ottavio Rafal Siwek, Bass: The Commendatore Ruben Drole, Baritone: Leporello Lukas Jakobski, Bass: Masetto |
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| Opernhaus, Zürich, Opernhaus Falkenstrasse 1, Zürich 8008, Switzerland Saturday 1-Jun-13 07:00pm Following the success of the Prague première of Le nozze di Figaro, Mozart was immediately commissioned to write another opera. This time, Lorenzo Da Ponte chose the story of the Spanish nobleman Don Juan. The subject matter had been considered a crowd-puller for more than a century, due in particular to the spectacular demise of the hero. Don Giovanni invites the statue of the Commendatore, whom he has murdered, to dinner, and is swallowed up by the jaws of hell. However, the view of the hero had changed considerably since the Spanish dramatist and monk Tirso de Molina first brought the blasphemous deeds and just punishment of the villain to the stage in the 17th century. While de Molina was still entirely on the side of order, which is ultimately re-established through divine intervention, Mozart and Da Ponte turn the sexual braggart and seducer into a man whose unquenchable thirst for happiness calls into the question the very foundations of social coexistence. Don Giovanni thus becomes – involuntarily and perhaps even without realising it – a danger for the social order, which can be maintained only if it functions smoothly. In their comedy, which is shrouded in darkness throughout, Mozart and Da Ponte do not conceal the price that others have to pay for this kind of self-realisation. However, since they do not pass any final judgement and instead do justice to both sides, their work becomes a drama of humanity of indestructible power and relevance – a dramma giocoso that becomes all the more comic the more the tragic aspects behind the course of events become apparent.
The much-vaunted German director Sebastian Baumgarten will present his interpretation of Don Giovanni in Zurich. At the rostrum will be the young Robin Ticciati, a rising star among the new generation of conductors. Our Don Giovanni is the charismatic Peter Mattei, who is sought-after in this role from the Scala in Milan to the New York Met.In Italian with German and English surtitles.Robin Ticciati, Conductor Sebastian Baumgarten, Director Barbara Ehnes, Set Designer Marina Rebeka, Soprano: Donna Anna Julia Kleiter, Soprano: Donna Elvira Anna Gorbachyova, Soprano: Zerlina Peter Mattei, Baritone: Don Giovanni Pavol Breslik, Tenor: Don Ottavio Rafal Siwek, Bass: The Commendatore Ruben Drole, Baritone: Leporello Lukas Jakobski, Bass: Masetto | ||
| Saturday 1-Jun-13 07:30pm |
The London Coliseum The Perfect American |
English National Opera Gareth Jones, Conductor Phelim McDermott, Director Dan Potra, Set Designer Ben Wright, Choreography Christopher Purves, Bass: Walt Disney David Pittsinger, Bass: Roy Janis Kelly, Soprano: Hazel George Sarah Tynan, Soprano: Sharon John Easterlin, Tenor: Andy Warhol Zachary James, Baritone: Abraham Lincoln |
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| The London Coliseum, St. Martin's Lane, London WC2N 4ES, United Kingdom Saturday 1-Jun-13 07:30pm Based on Peter Stephan Jungk’s novel and written by Philip Glass, one of the world’s most important composers, The Perfect American imagines the final years of Walt Disney’s life, including mythical imaginings of Abraham Lincoln and Andy Warhol. This latest opera from Glass, his 24th, was commissioned by ENO and Teatro Real Madrid to mark his 75th birthday.
British theatre director Phelim McDermott returns following his spectacular production of Satyagraha for ENO and the Metropolitan Opera, New York, described as ‘transfixing musically and visually’ (The Guardian). The design is by leading international designer Dan Potra, whose work on the Sydney 2000 Olympic Games ceremony was widely acclaimed.
Tickets £12 - £60.Gareth Jones, Conductor Phelim McDermott, Director Dan Potra, Set Designer Ben Wright, Choreography Christopher Purves, Bass: Walt Disney David Pittsinger, Bass: Roy Janis Kelly, Soprano: Hazel George Sarah Tynan, Soprano: Sharon John Easterlin, Tenor: Andy Warhol Zachary James, Baritone: Abraham Lincoln | ||
| Saturday 1-Jun-13 07:30pm |
Staatsoper at Schiller Theater, Berlin Le Vin Herbé |
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| Staatsoper at Schiller Theater, Berlin, Bismarckstraße 110, 10625 Berlin, Germany Saturday 1-Jun-13 07:30pm Sung in French with German subtitles.
Frank Martin felt his "Le vin herbé" was a personal key work in which he had found his own voice. Based on the novel "Tristan et Iseut" by Joseph Bedier, he created his chambered profane oratorio to dramatise the two lovers Tristan and Isolde. | ||
| Saturday 1-Jun-13 08:00pm |
Théâtre des Champs-Élysées, Paris Benvenuto Cellini |
Mariinsky Opera Valery Gergiev, Conductor Mariinsky Theatre Orchestra Sergei Semishkur, Tenor: Benvenuto Cellini Ekaterina Semenchuk, Mezzo-soprano: Ascanio |
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| Théâtre des Champs-Élysées, Paris, 15 avenue Montaigne, 75008 Paris, France Saturday 1-Jun-13 08:00pm Valery Gergiev, Conductor Mariinsky Theatre Orchestra Sergei Semishkur, Tenor: Benvenuto Cellini Ekaterina Semenchuk, Mezzo-soprano: Ascanio | ||
| Saturday 1-Jun-13 08:30pm |
Westergasfabriek: Gashouder, Amsterdam Quartett Holland Festival |
Susanna Mälkki, Conductor Ensemble da camera dell'Accademia, Teatro alla Scala Allison Cook, Mezzo-soprano: Marquise de Merteuil Robin Adams, Baritone: Vicomte de Valmont |
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| Westergasfabriek: Gashouder, Amsterdam, Klönneplein 1, Amsterdam 1014 BE, Netherlands Saturday 1-Jun-13 08:30pm Innovative opera based on Les Liaisons Dangereuses. After Quartett by Heiner Müller.
The Holland Festival 2013 opens with a tale of love, intrigue, heartbreak and torment. Based on Heiner Müller’s stage version of Les Liaisons Dangereuses, composer Luca Francesconi wrote an opera which had its world premiere in 2011 at Milan’s La Scala Theatre with a spectacular staging by Àlex Ollé.
On a stage that symbolises their emotional prison, Valmont and Merteuil fight their bitter, violent battles, a vocal duel interspersed with orchestral dreams of what could have been, but never will be. After all, the two former lovers not only play a deadly game with the hearts of others, with their cynical machinations they ultimately also condemn their own chances of happiness to failure.Co-production between Teatro alla Scala and Wiener Festwochen with IRCAM Paris.In English with Dutch surtitles. Running time 1 hour 20 minutes with no interval.Tickets €45/35/25 with students/CJP €17.50 for all categories.Image credit: Ada Nieuwendijk Susanna Mälkki, Conductor Ensemble da camera dell'Accademia, Teatro alla Scala Allison Cook, Mezzo-soprano: Marquise de Merteuil Robin Adams, Baritone: Vicomte de Valmont | ||
| Sunday 2-Jun-13 02:30pm |
Sint Janskerk, Maastricht The Young Opera per Tutti! voor iedereen! |
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| Sint Janskerk, Maastricht, Vrijthof 24, Maastricht 6211 LE, Netherlands Sunday 2-Jun-13 02:30pm The Young Opera per Tutti! voor iedereen! Programme not known | ||
| Sunday 2-Jun-13 03:00pm |
La Monnaie | De Munt: Grand Hall, Brussels Così fan tutte |
La Monnaie | De Munt Ludovic Morlot, Conductor Michael Haneke, Director Christoph Kanter, Set Designer Anett Fritsch, Soprano: Fiordiligi Andreas Wolf, Baritone: Guglielmo Juan Francisco Gatell, Tenor: Ferrando Kerstin Avemo, Soprano: Despina William Shimell, Baritone: Don Alfonso Orchestre Symphonique et Choeurs de la Monnaie |
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| La Monnaie | De Munt: Grand Hall, Brussels, Muntplein-Place de la Monnaie, 1000 Brussels, Belgium Sunday 2-Jun-13 03:00pm The fatal temptation to seek the truth in love: men and women scorch their hearts and wings in trying to unlock the secret of emotions. How quickly perversity and cruelty oust desire and tenderness. Here Mozart enters into a dialogue with Marivaux and Sade. As in his previous operas, he succeeds in producing an incredible tension, a breathtakingly beautiful structuring of the text (his third collaboration with Da Ponte) and the music. Director Michael Haneke, one of the most incisive and insightful film-makers of our time, presents us with his vision of a work that is as spell-binding, serious, complex and at times light as it is formidably modern, where the experience of infidelity transforms the four characters by laying bare their frailty. For the Austrian director, this is his first time at La Monnaie, while Ludovic Morlot conducts his second opera of the season.Image credit: © Flore-Aël Surun / Tendance Floue Ludovic Morlot, Conductor Michael Haneke, Director Christoph Kanter, Set Designer Anett Fritsch, Soprano: Fiordiligi Andreas Wolf, Baritone: Guglielmo Juan Francisco Gatell, Tenor: Ferrando Kerstin Avemo, Soprano: Despina William Shimell, Baritone: Don Alfonso Orchestre Symphonique et Choeurs de la Monnaie | ||
| Sunday 2-Jun-13 04:00pm |
Theater Bonn Tristan und Isolde |
Theater Bonn Stefan Blunier, Conductor Vera Nemirova, Director Klaus Noack, Set Designer/Costume Designer Sibylle Wagner, Choirmaster Robert Gambill, Tenor: Tristan Kurt Gysen, Bass: King Marke Dara Hobbs, Soprano: Isolde Mark Morouse, Baritone: Kurwenal Giorgos Kanaris, Tenor: Melot Daniela Denschlag, Mezzo-soprano: Brangäne Tamas Tarjányi, Tenor: Shepherd/Tenor: Young seaman Sven Bakin, Baritone: Helmsman Beethoven Orchester Bonn |
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| Theater Bonn, Opernhaus/Werkstatt, , Am Boeselagerhof 1, , 53111 Bonn, Bonn, Germany Sunday 2-Jun-13 04:00pm Tristan und Isolde Stefan Blunier, Conductor Vera Nemirova, Director Klaus Noack, Set Designer/Costume Designer Sibylle Wagner, Choirmaster Robert Gambill, Tenor: Tristan Kurt Gysen, Bass: King Marke Dara Hobbs, Soprano: Isolde Mark Morouse, Baritone: Kurwenal Giorgos Kanaris, Tenor: Melot Daniela Denschlag, Mezzo-soprano: Brangäne Tamas Tarjányi, Tenor: Shepherd/Tenor: Young seaman Sven Bakin, Baritone: Helmsman Beethoven Orchester Bonn | ||
| Sunday 2-Jun-13 04:00pm |
Opéra de Lille Il Barbiere di Siviglia |
Opéra de Lille Antonello Allemandi, Conductor Jean-François Sivadier, Director Taylor Stayton, Tenor: Count Almaviva Tiziano Bracci, Bass: Dr. Bartolo Eduarda Melo, Soprano: Rosina Amando Noguera, Baritone: Figaro |
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| Opéra de Lille, 2 Rue des Bons Enfants, 59800 Lille, France Sunday 2-Jun-13 04:00pm Il Barbiere di Siviglia Antonello Allemandi, Conductor Jean-François Sivadier, Director Taylor Stayton, Tenor: Count Almaviva Tiziano Bracci, Bass: Dr. Bartolo Eduarda Melo, Soprano: Rosina Amando Noguera, Baritone: Figaro | ||
| Sunday 2-Jun-13 04:35pm |
Glyndebourne Opera House Ariadne auf Naxos Glyndebourne |
Glyndebourne Opera Vladimir Jurowski, Conductor London Philharmonic Orchestra Katharina Thoma, Director Julia Müer, Set Designer Sir Thomas Allen, Baritone: Music Master Soile Isokoski, Soprano: Primadonna (Ariadne) Kate Lindsey, Mezzo-soprano: Composer Teodora Gheorghiu, Soprano: Zerbinetta Dmitri Vargin, Baritone: Harlequin James Kryshak, Tenor: Scaramuccio Sergei Skorokhodov, Tenor: Bacchus Wolfgang Ablinger-Sperrhacke, Tenor: Dancing Master |
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| Glyndebourne Opera House, Glyndebourne BN8 5UU, United Kingdom Sunday 2-Jun-13 04:35pm Vladimir Jurowski, Conductor London Philharmonic Orchestra Katharina Thoma, Director Julia Müer, Set Designer Sir Thomas Allen, Baritone: Music Master Soile Isokoski, Soprano: Primadonna (Ariadne) Kate Lindsey, Mezzo-soprano: Composer Teodora Gheorghiu, Soprano: Zerbinetta Dmitri Vargin, Baritone: Harlequin James Kryshak, Tenor: Scaramuccio Sergei Skorokhodov, Tenor: Bacchus Wolfgang Ablinger-Sperrhacke, Tenor: Dancing Master | ||
| Sunday 2-Jun-13 07:30pm |
Staatsoper at Schiller Theater, Berlin La Traviata |
Staatsoper Berlin Stefano Ranzani, Conductor Peter Mussbach, Director Erich Wonder, Set Designer Anna Samuil, Soprano: Violetta Valéry Katharina Kammerloher, Mezzo-soprano: Flora Bervoix Rowan Hellier, Mezzo-soprano: Annina Francesco Demuro, Tenor: Alfredo Germont Alfredo Daza, Baritone: Giorgio Germont Kyungho Kim, Tenor: Gaston Arttu Kataja, Bass: Baron Douphol Alin Anca, Tenor: Marquis d'Obigny Jan Martinik, Bass: Dr Grenville Staatsopernchor Berlin Staatskapelle Berlin |
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| Staatsoper at Schiller Theater, Berlin, Bismarckstraße 110, 10625 Berlin, Germany Sunday 2-Jun-13 07:30pm "A contemporary theme. Another would not have done it, because of the customs, because of the time, and because of thousands of other qualms about it... I do it with the greatest pleasure. "(Giuseppe Verdi)La traviata - the "fallen woman" - the theme of utopia of love and the failure of this utopia to the limits of society's values. Love and death are the two key terms of the plot, which centres around Violetta and her tragic fate, their love, in sacrifice, and her ultimate death.Sung in Italian with German surtitlesImage credit: © Ruth Walz Stefano Ranzani, Conductor Peter Mussbach, Director Erich Wonder, Set Designer Anna Samuil, Soprano: Violetta Valéry Katharina Kammerloher, Mezzo-soprano: Flora Bervoix Rowan Hellier, Mezzo-soprano: Annina Francesco Demuro, Tenor: Alfredo Germont Alfredo Daza, Baritone: Giorgio Germont Kyungho Kim, Tenor: Gaston Arttu Kataja, Bass: Baron Douphol Alin Anca, Tenor: Marquis d'Obigny Jan Martinik, Bass: Dr Grenville Staatsopernchor Berlin Staatskapelle Berlin | ||
| Sunday 2-Jun-13 08:30pm |
Westergasfabriek: Gashouder, Amsterdam Quartett Holland Festival |
Susanna Mälkki, Conductor Ensemble da camera dell'Accademia, Teatro alla Scala Allison Cook, Mezzo-soprano: Marquise de Merteuil Robin Adams, Baritone: Vicomte de Valmont |
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| Westergasfabriek: Gashouder, Amsterdam, Klönneplein 1, Amsterdam 1014 BE, Netherlands Sunday 2-Jun-13 08:30pm Innovative opera based on Les Liaisons Dangereuses. After Quartett by Heiner Müller.
The Holland Festival 2013 opens with a tale of love, intrigue, heartbreak and torment. Based on Heiner Müller’s stage version of Les Liaisons Dangereuses, composer Luca Francesconi wrote an opera which had its world premiere in 2011 at Milan’s La Scala Theatre with a spectacular staging by Àlex Ollé.
On a stage that symbolises their emotional prison, Valmont and Merteuil fight their bitter, violent battles, a vocal duel interspersed with orchestral dreams of what could have been, but never will be. After all, the two former lovers not only play a deadly game with the hearts of others, with their cynical machinations they ultimately also condemn their own chances of happiness to failure.Co-production between Teatro alla Scala and Wiener Festwochen with IRCAM Paris.In English with Dutch surtitles. Running time 1 hour 20 minutes with no interval.Tickets €45/35/25 with students/CJP €17.50 for all categories.Image credit: Ada Nieuwendijk Susanna Mälkki, Conductor Ensemble da camera dell'Accademia, Teatro alla Scala Allison Cook, Mezzo-soprano: Marquise de Merteuil Robin Adams, Baritone: Vicomte de Valmont | ||
| Monday 3-Jun-13 07:00pm |
National Theatre, Munich Simon Boccanegra |
Bavarian State Opera Bertrand de Billy, Conductor Dmitri Tcherniakov, Director Željko Lučić, Baritone: Simon Boccanegra Krassimira Stoyanova, Soprano: Maria Boccanegra (Amelia Grimaldi) Vitalij Kowaljow, Bass: Jacopo Fiesco Ramón Vargas, Tenor: Gabriele Adorno Levente Molnár, Baritone: Paolo Albiani |
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| National Theatre, Munich, Munich, Germany Monday 3-Jun-13 07:00pm In Italian with German surtitles.Bertrand de Billy, Conductor Dmitri Tcherniakov, Director Željko Lučić, Baritone: Simon Boccanegra Krassimira Stoyanova, Soprano: Maria Boccanegra (Amelia Grimaldi) Vitalij Kowaljow, Bass: Jacopo Fiesco Ramón Vargas, Tenor: Gabriele Adorno Levente Molnár, Baritone: Paolo Albiani | ||
| Monday 3-Jun-13 08:00pm |
Teatro Real, Madrid Wozzeck |
Madrid Opera Sylvain Cambreling, Conductor Christoph Marthaler, Director Simon Keenlyside, Baritone: Wozzeck Jon Villars, Tenor: Drum major Roger Padullés, Tenor: Andres Gerhard Siegel, Tenor: Captain Franz Hawlata, Bass: Doctor Nadja Michael, Soprano: Marie Katarina Bradić, Mezzo-soprano: Margret Francisco Vas, Tenor: Madman |
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| Teatro Real, Madrid, Madrid 28013, Spain Monday 3-Jun-13 08:00pm Sylvain Cambreling, Conductor Christoph Marthaler, Director Simon Keenlyside, Baritone: Wozzeck Jon Villars, Tenor: Drum major Roger Padullés, Tenor: Andres Gerhard Siegel, Tenor: Captain Franz Hawlata, Bass: Doctor Nadja Michael, Soprano: Marie Katarina Bradić, Mezzo-soprano: Margret Francisco Vas, Tenor: Madman | ||
| Monday 3-Jun-13 08:00pm |
Stadsschouwburg, Amsterdam Sunken Garden Holland Festival |
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| Stadsschouwburg, Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands Monday 3-Jun-13 08:00pm The first 3D-opera Sunken Garden by Dutch composer Michel van der Aa. A Holland Festival-production with international partners.Image credit: Ada Nieuwendijk | ||
| Tuesday 4-Jun-13 |
Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London La donna del lago |
Royal Opera Michele Mariotti, Conductor John Fulljames, Director Joyce DiDonato, Soprano: Elena Juan Diego Flórez, Tenor: King James V / Uberto Daniela Barcellona, Mezzo-soprano: Malcolm Simon Orfila, Bass: Douglas Colin Lee, Tenor: Rodrigo |
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| Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London, Bow Street,, Covent Garden, London WC2E 9DD, United Kingdom Tuesday 4-Jun-13 Michele Mariotti, Conductor John Fulljames, Director Joyce DiDonato, Soprano: Elena Juan Diego Flórez, Tenor: King James V / Uberto Daniela Barcellona, Mezzo-soprano: Malcolm Simon Orfila, Bass: Douglas Colin Lee, Tenor: Rodrigo | ||
| Tuesday 4-Jun-13 05:30pm |
Het Muziektheater, Amsterdam Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg Holland Festival |
De Nederlandse Opera Marc Albrecht, Conductor David Alden, Director Thomas Johannes Mayer, Bass: Hans Sachs Alastair Miles, Bass: Pogner Pascal Pittie, Tenor: Kunz Vogelgesang Mattijs van de Woerd, Baritone: Konrad Nachtigall Adrian Eröd, Baritone: Sixtus Beckmesser Thomas Oliemans, Baritone: Fritz Kothner Brian Galliford, Tenor: Balthasar Zorn Roberto Saccà, Tenor: Walther von Stolzing Ana Maria Martinez, Soprano: Eva Sarah Castle, Mezzo-soprano: Magdalene Nederlands Philharmonisch Orkest Koor van De Nederlandse Opera Marcel Beekman, Tenor: Ulrich Eisslinger |
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| Het Muziektheater, Amsterdam, Waterlooplein 22, Amsterdam, Netherlands Tuesday 4-Jun-13 05:30pm In his only comic opera, Wagner distilled poetry and music into a single unified form that unfolds as an unbroken stream of music-dramatic dialogue. It became a singspiel, partly based on personal experience, about the romance between the bourgeois girl Eva Pogner and the knight Walther von Stolzing, who may only wed his beloved once he has won the annual singing contest. The cobbler Hans Sachs represents, on the one hand, the old guard as a member of the Guild of Mastersingers; on the other hand he is open to modernization and stimulates the knight’s artistic gifts, stoking the conflict between narrow-mindedness and true artistry – a theme certainly not unfamiliar to Wagner himself. Love triumphs in the end, thanks to Sachs’ closing address in which he praises the ‘master’s honour’, a typically German honour one might view with considerable scepticism: the Meistersinger finale was, after all, misused for political purposes.Running time 5 hours 25 minutes with two intervals, in German with Dutch and English surtitles.Image credit: Ada Nieuwendijk Marc Albrecht, Conductor David Alden, Director Thomas Johannes Mayer, Bass: Hans Sachs Alastair Miles, Bass: Pogner Pascal Pittie, Tenor: Kunz Vogelgesang Mattijs van de Woerd, Baritone: Konrad Nachtigall Adrian Eröd, Baritone: Sixtus Beckmesser Thomas Oliemans, Baritone: Fritz Kothner Brian Galliford, Tenor: Balthasar Zorn Roberto Saccà, Tenor: Walther von Stolzing Ana Maria Martinez, Soprano: Eva Sarah Castle, Mezzo-soprano: Magdalene Nederlands Philharmonisch Orkest Koor van De Nederlandse Opera Marcel Beekman, Tenor: Ulrich Eisslinger | ||
| Tuesday 4-Jun-13 05:50pm |
Glyndebourne Opera House Ariadne auf Naxos Glyndebourne |
Glyndebourne Opera Vladimir Jurowski, Conductor London Philharmonic Orchestra Katharina Thoma, Director Julia Müer, Set Designer Sir Thomas Allen, Baritone: Music Master Soile Isokoski, Soprano: Primadonna (Ariadne) Kate Lindsey, Mezzo-soprano: Composer Teodora Gheorghiu, Soprano: Zerbinetta Dmitri Vargin, Baritone: Harlequin James Kryshak, Tenor: Scaramuccio Sergei Skorokhodov, Tenor: Bacchus Wolfgang Ablinger-Sperrhacke, Tenor: Dancing Master |
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| Glyndebourne Opera House, Glyndebourne BN8 5UU, United Kingdom Tuesday 4-Jun-13 05:50pm Vladimir Jurowski, Conductor London Philharmonic Orchestra Katharina Thoma, Director Julia Müer, Set Designer Sir Thomas Allen, Baritone: Music Master Soile Isokoski, Soprano: Primadonna (Ariadne) Kate Lindsey, Mezzo-soprano: Composer Teodora Gheorghiu, Soprano: Zerbinetta Dmitri Vargin, Baritone: Harlequin James Kryshak, Tenor: Scaramuccio Sergei Skorokhodov, Tenor: Bacchus Wolfgang Ablinger-Sperrhacke, Tenor: Dancing Master | ||
| Tuesday 4-Jun-13 07:00pm |
Latvian National Opera, Riga Das Rheingold Riga Opera Festival |
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| Latvian National Opera, Riga, Riga LV-1050, Latvia Tuesday 4-Jun-13 07:00pm The dwarf Alberich renounces love and steals the gold guarded by the maidens of the Rhine. He forges a magic ring from the gold, but it soon becomes the object of desire by Wotan, ruler of the gods, who wants to save his wife’s sister from the giants. The infuriated Alberich lays a curse on his lost treasure – anyone who possesses it will eventually meet their doom…
“The characters in this play about the Ring take every means to obtain power and the right to construct a reality which seems meaningful to them. Even the ruler of the gods, the creator of all that is real and the guardian of its order, finds himself entrapped in the artificiality of his own reality. Throughout the play, moments of strength and beauty, truth and genuineness are exposed as sorry efforts of his conceitedness. The gods have never been so committed to humanity and the humans have never been more at the mercy of the gods – ever since the day they fabricated the theatrical arena in which they continually display and invent themselves,” says stage director Stefan Herheim of the production’s concept.Image credit: (c) Andris Krieviņš | ||
| Tuesday 4-Jun-13 07:00pm |
Opernhaus, Zürich Don Giovanni |
Zurich Opera Robin Ticciati, Conductor Sebastian Baumgarten, Director Barbara Ehnes, Set Designer Marina Rebeka, Soprano: Donna Anna Julia Kleiter, Soprano: Donna Elvira Anna Gorbachyova, Soprano: Zerlina Peter Mattei, Baritone: Don Giovanni Pavol Breslik, Tenor: Don Ottavio Rafal Siwek, Bass: The Commendatore Ruben Drole, Baritone: Leporello Lukas Jakobski, Bass: Masetto |
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| Opernhaus, Zürich, Opernhaus Falkenstrasse 1, Zürich 8008, Switzerland Tuesday 4-Jun-13 07:00pm Following the success of the Prague première of Le nozze di Figaro, Mozart was immediately commissioned to write another opera. This time, Lorenzo Da Ponte chose the story of the Spanish nobleman Don Juan. The subject matter had been considered a crowd-puller for more than a century, due in particular to the spectacular demise of the hero. Don Giovanni invites the statue of the Commendatore, whom he has murdered, to dinner, and is swallowed up by the jaws of hell. However, the view of the hero had changed considerably since the Spanish dramatist and monk Tirso de Molina first brought the blasphemous deeds and just punishment of the villain to the stage in the 17th century. While de Molina was still entirely on the side of order, which is ultimately re-established through divine intervention, Mozart and Da Ponte turn the sexual braggart and seducer into a man whose unquenchable thirst for happiness calls into the question the very foundations of social coexistence. Don Giovanni thus becomes – involuntarily and perhaps even without realising it – a danger for the social order, which can be maintained only if it functions smoothly. In their comedy, which is shrouded in darkness throughout, Mozart and Da Ponte do not conceal the price that others have to pay for this kind of self-realisation. However, since they do not pass any final judgement and instead do justice to both sides, their work becomes a drama of humanity of indestructible power and relevance – a dramma giocoso that becomes all the more comic the more the tragic aspects behind the course of events become apparent.
The much-vaunted German director Sebastian Baumgarten will present his interpretation of Don Giovanni in Zurich. At the rostrum will be the young Robin Ticciati, a rising star among the new generation of conductors. Our Don Giovanni is the charismatic Peter Mattei, who is sought-after in this role from the Scala in Milan to the New York Met.In Italian with German and English surtitles.Robin Ticciati, Conductor Sebastian Baumgarten, Director Barbara Ehnes, Set Designer Marina Rebeka, Soprano: Donna Anna Julia Kleiter, Soprano: Donna Elvira Anna Gorbachyova, Soprano: Zerlina Peter Mattei, Baritone: Don Giovanni Pavol Breslik, Tenor: Don Ottavio Rafal Siwek, Bass: The Commendatore Ruben Drole, Baritone: Leporello Lukas Jakobski, Bass: Masetto | ||
| Tuesday 4-Jun-13 08:00pm |
Stadsschouwburg, Amsterdam Sunken Garden Holland Festival |
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| Stadsschouwburg, Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands Tuesday 4-Jun-13 08:00pm The first 3D-opera Sunken Garden by Dutch composer Michel van der Aa. A Holland Festival-production with international partners.Image credit: Ada Nieuwendijk | ||
| Wednesday 5-Jun-13 06:00pm |
Latvian National Opera, Riga Die Walküre Riga Opera Festival |
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| Latvian National Opera, Riga, Riga LV-1050, Latvia Wednesday 5-Jun-13 06:00pm The young Siegmund doesn’t even realise that he is the one who could save the gods from destruction. But his father Wotan, ruler of the gods, has given in to the desires of his jealous wife and sentences his son to death. Wotan’s daughter interferes unexpectedly – the courageous Valkyrie Brünnhilde, whose heart has been overcome with compassion. However, the price to be paid for disobedience is high…
“In his passionate musical drama Die Walküre, Wagner confronts issues such as adultery, incest, betrayal and murder. Almost all of these, however, are motivated by love. In his production, Viestur Kairish focuses on the existential conflict between love and politics. The battle is fought, won and lost in the privacy of Hunding’s house as much as it is publically in an arena. It’s a timeless conflict, as old as mankind itself, wrapped in the hypnotic beauty of Wagner’s music,” says dramaturge of the LNO production Jochen Breiholz.Image credit: (c) Andris Krieviņš | ||
| Wednesday 5-Jun-13 07:00pm |
La Monnaie | De Munt: Grand Hall, Brussels Così fan tutte |
La Monnaie | De Munt Ludovic Morlot, Conductor Michael Haneke, Director Christoph Kanter, Set Designer Anett Fritsch, Soprano: Fiordiligi Andreas Wolf, Baritone: Guglielmo Juan Francisco Gatell, Tenor: Ferrando Kerstin Avemo, Soprano: Despina William Shimell, Baritone: Don Alfonso Orchestre Symphonique et Choeurs de la Monnaie |
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| La Monnaie | De Munt: Grand Hall, Brussels, Muntplein-Place de la Monnaie, 1000 Brussels, Belgium Wednesday 5-Jun-13 07:00pm The fatal temptation to seek the truth in love: men and women scorch their hearts and wings in trying to unlock the secret of emotions. How quickly perversity and cruelty oust desire and tenderness. Here Mozart enters into a dialogue with Marivaux and Sade. As in his previous operas, he succeeds in producing an incredible tension, a breathtakingly beautiful structuring of the text (his third collaboration with Da Ponte) and the music. Director Michael Haneke, one of the most incisive and insightful film-makers of our time, presents us with his vision of a work that is as spell-binding, serious, complex and at times light as it is formidably modern, where the experience of infidelity transforms the four characters by laying bare their frailty. For the Austrian director, this is his first time at La Monnaie, while Ludovic Morlot conducts his second opera of the season.Image credit: © Flore-Aël Surun / Tendance Floue Ludovic Morlot, Conductor Michael Haneke, Director Christoph Kanter, Set Designer Anett Fritsch, Soprano: Fiordiligi Andreas Wolf, Baritone: Guglielmo Juan Francisco Gatell, Tenor: Ferrando Kerstin Avemo, Soprano: Despina William Shimell, Baritone: Don Alfonso Orchestre Symphonique et Choeurs de la Monnaie | ||
| Wednesday 5-Jun-13 07:30pm |
Staatsoper at Schiller Theater, Berlin La Traviata |
Staatsoper Berlin Stefano Ranzani, Conductor Peter Mussbach, Director Erich Wonder, Set Designer Anna Samuil, Soprano: Violetta Valéry Katharina Kammerloher, Mezzo-soprano: Flora Bervoix Rowan Hellier, Mezzo-soprano: Annina Francesco Demuro, Tenor: Alfredo Germont Alfredo Daza, Baritone: Giorgio Germont Kyungho Kim, Tenor: Gaston Arttu Kataja, Bass: Baron Douphol Alin Anca, Tenor: Marquis d'Obigny Jan Martinik, Bass: Dr Grenville Staatsopernchor Berlin Staatskapelle Berlin |
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| Staatsoper at Schiller Theater, Berlin, Bismarckstraße 110, 10625 Berlin, Germany Wednesday 5-Jun-13 07:30pm "A contemporary theme. Another would not have done it, because of the customs, because of the time, and because of thousands of other qualms about it... I do it with the greatest pleasure. "(Giuseppe Verdi)La traviata - the "fallen woman" - the theme of utopia of love and the failure of this utopia to the limits of society's values. Love and death are the two key terms of the plot, which centres around Violetta and her tragic fate, their love, in sacrifice, and her ultimate death.Sung in Italian with German surtitlesImage credit: © Ruth Walz Stefano Ranzani, Conductor Peter Mussbach, Director Erich Wonder, Set Designer Anna Samuil, Soprano: Violetta Valéry Katharina Kammerloher, Mezzo-soprano: Flora Bervoix Rowan Hellier, Mezzo-soprano: Annina Francesco Demuro, Tenor: Alfredo Germont Alfredo Daza, Baritone: Giorgio Germont Kyungho Kim, Tenor: Gaston Arttu Kataja, Bass: Baron Douphol Alin Anca, Tenor: Marquis d'Obigny Jan Martinik, Bass: Dr Grenville Staatsopernchor Berlin Staatskapelle Berlin | ||
| Wednesday 5-Jun-13 08:00pm |
Teatro Real, Madrid Wozzeck |
Madrid Opera Sylvain Cambreling, Conductor Christoph Marthaler, Director Simon Keenlyside, Baritone: Wozzeck Jon Villars, Tenor: Drum major Roger Padullés, Tenor: Andres Gerhard Siegel, Tenor: Captain Franz Hawlata, Bass: Doctor Nadja Michael, Soprano: Marie Katarina Bradić, Mezzo-soprano: Margret Francisco Vas, Tenor: Madman |
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| Teatro Real, Madrid, Madrid 28013, Spain Wednesday 5-Jun-13 08:00pm Sylvain Cambreling, Conductor Christoph Marthaler, Director Simon Keenlyside, Baritone: Wozzeck Jon Villars, Tenor: Drum major Roger Padullés, Tenor: Andres Gerhard Siegel, Tenor: Captain Franz Hawlata, Bass: Doctor Nadja Michael, Soprano: Marie Katarina Bradić, Mezzo-soprano: Margret Francisco Vas, Tenor: Madman | ||
| Thursday 6-Jun-13 07:00pm |
National Theatre, Munich Simon Boccanegra |
Bavarian State Opera Bertrand de Billy, Conductor Dmitri Tcherniakov, Director Željko Lučić, Baritone: Simon Boccanegra Krassimira Stoyanova, Soprano: Maria Boccanegra (Amelia Grimaldi) Vitalij Kowaljow, Bass: Jacopo Fiesco Ramón Vargas, Tenor: Gabriele Adorno Levente Molnár, Baritone: Paolo Albiani |
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| National Theatre, Munich, Munich, Germany Thursday 6-Jun-13 07:00pm In Italian with German surtitles.Bertrand de Billy, Conductor Dmitri Tcherniakov, Director Željko Lučić, Baritone: Simon Boccanegra Krassimira Stoyanova, Soprano: Maria Boccanegra (Amelia Grimaldi) Vitalij Kowaljow, Bass: Jacopo Fiesco Ramón Vargas, Tenor: Gabriele Adorno Levente Molnár, Baritone: Paolo Albiani | ||
