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| Thursday 30-May-13 04:00pm |
 National Theatre, MunichLa Traviata |
Bavarian State Opera Dan Ettinger, Conductor Günter Krämer, Director Ermonela Jaho, Soprano: Violetta Valéry Heike Grötzinger, Mezzo-soprano: Flora Bervoix Piotr Beczala, Tenor: Alfredo Germont Fabio Maria Capitanucci, Baritone: Giorgio Germont |
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| National Theatre, Munich, Munich, Germany Thursday 30-May-13 04:00pm Men don't fall in love with courtesans! That's the opinion of Alfredo's father after his son moves in with the mortally ill Violetta Valéry. In her love for Alfredo Violetta even agrees. She leaves him, dies poor, ill – still dreaming of the happiness of true love. One of Verdi's most beloved operas continues to hold the mirror up to society and its hypocritical morality. An exemplary production! See it!
In Italian with German surtitles.Image credit: Wilfried Hösl Dan Ettinger, Conductor Günter Krämer, Director Ermonela Jaho, Soprano: Violetta Valéry Heike Grötzinger, Mezzo-soprano: Flora Bervoix Piotr Beczala, Tenor: Alfredo Germont Fabio Maria Capitanucci, Baritone: Giorgio Germont | ||
| Thursday 30-May-13 05:20pm |
Grange Park Opera, Northington, Winchester Tchaikovsky's Eugene Onegin Grange Park Opera |
Grange Park Opera Susan Gritton, Soprano: Tatyana Brett Polegato, Baritone: Eugene Onegin Robert Anthony Gardiner, Tenor: Lensky Frances Bourne, Mezzo-soprano: Olga Clive Bayley, Bass: Prince Gremin Anne-Marie Owens, Soprano: Madame Larina Kathleen Wilkinson, Mezzo-soprano: Philippyevna Stuart Kale, Tenor: Monsieur Triquet Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra |
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| Grange Park Opera, Northington, Winchester, Winchester SO24 9TG, United Kingdom Thursday 30-May-13 05:20pm Tchaikovsky's Eugene Onegin Public booking opens in FebruarySusan Gritton, Soprano: Tatyana Brett Polegato, Baritone: Eugene Onegin Robert Anthony Gardiner, Tenor: Lensky Frances Bourne, Mezzo-soprano: Olga Clive Bayley, Bass: Prince Gremin Anne-Marie Owens, Soprano: Madame Larina Kathleen Wilkinson, Mezzo-soprano: Philippyevna Stuart Kale, Tenor: Monsieur Triquet Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra | ||
| 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 06:00pm |
Opéra Bastille, Paris Götterdämmerung |
Opéra de Paris Philippe Jordan, Conductor Günter Krämer, Director Torsten Kerl, Tenor: Siegfried Yevgeny Nikitin, Baritone: Gunther Peter Sidhom, Baritone: Alberich Hans-Peter König, Bass: Hagen Petra Lang, Soprano: Brünhilde Wiebke Lehmkuhl, Mezzo-soprano: First Norn/Mezzo-soprano: Flosshilde Edith Haller, Soprano: Third Norn/Soprano: Gutrune Sophie Koch, Mezzo-soprano: Second Norn/Mezzo-soprano: Waltraute Caroline Stein, Soprano: Woglinde Louise Callinan, Soprano: Wellgunde |
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| Opéra Bastille, Paris, 120 rue de Lyon, 75012 Paris, France Thursday 30-May-13 06:00pm Amongst the most monumental works in the history of music, The Twilight of the Gods presents us with Siegfried and Brünhilde’s march towards death, sweeping away with them the gods and the entire world of old; a parable for humanity sustained by sublime musical and theatrical inspiration. Performed in German. Philippe Jordan, Conductor Günter Krämer, Director Torsten Kerl, Tenor: Siegfried Yevgeny Nikitin, Baritone: Gunther Peter Sidhom, Baritone: Alberich Hans-Peter König, Bass: Hagen Petra Lang, Soprano: Brünhilde Wiebke Lehmkuhl, Mezzo-soprano: First Norn/Mezzo-soprano: Flosshilde Edith Haller, Soprano: Third Norn/Soprano: Gutrune Sophie Koch, Mezzo-soprano: Second Norn/Mezzo-soprano: Waltraute Caroline Stein, Soprano: Woglinde Louise Callinan, Soprano: Wellgunde | ||
| 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 07:15pm |
Edinburgh Festival Theatre The Pirates of Penzance |
Scottish Opera John Owen Edwards, Conductor Martin Lloyd-Evans, Director Steven Page, Voice: Pirate King Richard Suart, Baritone: Major General Rosie Aldridge, Mezzo-soprano: Ruth The Orchestra of Scottish Opera |
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| Edinburgh Festival Theatre, Edinburgh EH8 9FT, United Kingdom Thursday 30-May-13 07:15pm The Pirates of Penzance Gilbert and Sullivan as it's meant to be - pure, uncomplicated fun, performed to the highest standards. This new co-production with D'Oyly Carte Opera Company - returning to the stage for the first time in over 10 years - is conducted by G&S expert and D'Oyly Carte Music Director John Owen Edwards. Director Martin Lloyd-Evans stages a vibrant, stylish, all singing, all dancing show. The fantastic ensemble cast includes celebrated G&S stalwarts Steven Page and Richard Suart as The Pirate King and Major-General Stanley. John Owen Edwards, Conductor Martin Lloyd-Evans, Director Steven Page, Voice: Pirate King Richard Suart, Baritone: Major General Rosie Aldridge, Mezzo-soprano: Ruth The Orchestra of Scottish Opera | ||
| Thursday 30-May-13 07:30pm |
Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, Los Angeles, CA Tosca |
Los Angeles Opera Plácido Domingo, Conductor John Caird, Director Sondra Radvanovsky, Soprano: Floria Tosca Marco Berti, Tenor: Mario Cavaradossi Lado Ataneli, Baritone: Baron Scarpia Joshua Bloom, Bass: Cesare Angelotti |
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| Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, Los Angeles, CA, Los Angeles, CA90012, United States Thursday 30-May-13 07:30pm Plácido Domingo, Conductor John Caird, Director Sondra Radvanovsky, Soprano: Floria Tosca Marco Berti, Tenor: Mario Cavaradossi Lado Ataneli, Baritone: Baron Scarpia Joshua Bloom, Bass: Cesare Angelotti | ||
| 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 | ||
| 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 05:20pm |
Grange Park Opera, Northington, Winchester Bellini's I Puritani Grange Park Opera |
Grange Park Opera Matthew Stiff, Bass: Lord Walton Christophoros Stamboglis, Bass: Giorgio Valton Jesus Leon, Tenor: Arturo Talbo Damiano Salerno, Baritone: Riccardo Jeffrey Lloyd-Roberts, Tenor: Sir Bruno Robertson Olivia Ray, Soprano: Enrichetta Claire Rutter, Soprano: Elvira |
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| Grange Park Opera, Northington, Winchester, Winchester SO24 9TG, United Kingdom Friday 31-May-13 05:20pm Bellini's I Puritani Public booking opens in FebruaryMatthew Stiff, Bass: Lord Walton Christophoros Stamboglis, Bass: Giorgio Valton Jesus Leon, Tenor: Arturo Talbo Damiano Salerno, Baritone: Riccardo Jeffrey Lloyd-Roberts, Tenor: Sir Bruno Robertson Olivia Ray, Soprano: Enrichetta Claire Rutter, Soprano: Elvira | ||
| Friday 31-May-13 07:00pm |
Hungarian State Opera House, Budapest Simon Boccanegra |
Hungarian State Opera Ivan Stefanutti, Director György Vashegyi, Conductor Mihály Kálmándi, Baritone: Simon Boccanegra Csilla Boross, Soprano: Maria Boccanegra (Amelia Grimaldi) Giacomo Prestia, Bass: Jacopo Fiesco Gaston Rivero, Tenor: Gabriele Adorno Alik Abdukayumov, Baritone: Paolo Albiani |
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| Hungarian State Opera House, Budapest, Budapest, Hungary Friday 31-May-13 07:00pm Ivan Stefanutti, Director György Vashegyi, Conductor Mihály Kálmándi, Baritone: Simon Boccanegra Csilla Boross, Soprano: Maria Boccanegra (Amelia Grimaldi) Giacomo Prestia, Bass: Jacopo Fiesco Gaston Rivero, Tenor: Gabriele Adorno Alik Abdukayumov, Baritone: Paolo Albiani | ||
| Friday 31-May-13 07:00pm |
Palais Garnier (Opéra de Paris) Giulio Cesare |
Opéra de Paris Emmanuelle Haïm, Conductor Laurent Pelly, Director Lawrence Zazzo, Mezzo-soprano: Giulio Cesare Varduhi Abrahamyan, Mezzo-soprano: Cornelia Karine Deshayes, Mezzo-soprano: Sesto Sandrine Piau, Soprano: Cleopatra Christophe Dumaux, Countertenor: Tolomeo Paul Gay, Bass: Achilla Dominique Visse, Countertenor: Nireno Jean-Gabriel Saint-Martin, Bass: Curio Orchestre et choeur du Concert d'Astrée |
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| Palais Garnier (Opéra de Paris), 75009 Paris, France Friday 31-May-13 07:00pm Never had his melodic genius been more effulgent: the score contains some of his brightest jewels, like Cleopatra's arias. Jane Archibald, Karine Deshayes and Laurence Zazzo are the heroes of this vocal festivity. Performed in Italian. Emmanuelle Haïm, Conductor Laurent Pelly, Director Lawrence Zazzo, Mezzo-soprano: Giulio Cesare Varduhi Abrahamyan, Mezzo-soprano: Cornelia Karine Deshayes, Mezzo-soprano: Sesto Sandrine Piau, Soprano: Cleopatra Christophe Dumaux, Countertenor: Tolomeo Paul Gay, Bass: Achilla Dominique Visse, Countertenor: Nireno Jean-Gabriel Saint-Martin, Bass: Curio Orchestre et choeur du Concert d'Astrée | ||
| Friday 31-May-13 07:15pm |
Edinburgh Festival Theatre The Pirates of Penzance |
Scottish Opera John Owen Edwards, Conductor Martin Lloyd-Evans, Director Steven Page, Voice: Pirate King Richard Suart, Baritone: Major General Rosie Aldridge, Mezzo-soprano: Ruth The Orchestra of Scottish Opera |
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| Edinburgh Festival Theatre, Edinburgh EH8 9FT, United Kingdom Friday 31-May-13 07:15pm The Pirates of Penzance Gilbert and Sullivan as it's meant to be - pure, uncomplicated fun, performed to the highest standards. This new co-production with D'Oyly Carte Opera Company - returning to the stage for the first time in over 10 years - is conducted by G&S expert and D'Oyly Carte Music Director John Owen Edwards. Director Martin Lloyd-Evans stages a vibrant, stylish, all singing, all dancing show. The fantastic ensemble cast includes celebrated G&S stalwarts Steven Page and Richard Suart as The Pirate King and Major-General Stanley. John Owen Edwards, Conductor Martin Lloyd-Evans, Director Steven Page, Voice: Pirate King Richard Suart, Baritone: Major General Rosie Aldridge, Mezzo-soprano: Ruth The Orchestra of Scottish Opera | ||
| Friday 31-May-13 07:30pm |
Theater Bonn Norma |
Theater Bonn Robin Engelen, Conductor Florian Lutz, Director Martin Kukulies, Set Designer Mechthild Feuerstein, Costume Designer Sibylle Wagner, Choirmaster George Oniani, Tenor: Pollione Ramaz Chikviladze, Bass: Oroveso Miriam Clark, Soprano: Norma Nadja Stefanoff, Mezzo-soprano: Adalgisa Susanne Blattert, Mezzo-soprano: Clotilde Daniela Denschlag, Mezzo-soprano: Clotilde Tamas Tarjányi, Tenor: Flavio Beethoven Orchester Bonn |
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| Theater Bonn, Opernhaus/Werkstatt, , Am Boeselagerhof 1, , 53111 Bonn, Bonn, Germany Friday 31-May-13 07:30pm Robin Engelen, Conductor Florian Lutz, Director Martin Kukulies, Set Designer Mechthild Feuerstein, Costume Designer Sibylle Wagner, Choirmaster George Oniani, Tenor: Pollione Ramaz Chikviladze, Bass: Oroveso Miriam Clark, Soprano: Norma Nadja Stefanoff, Mezzo-soprano: Adalgisa Susanne Blattert, Mezzo-soprano: Clotilde Daniela Denschlag, Mezzo-soprano: Clotilde Tamas Tarjányi, Tenor: Flavio Beethoven Orchester Bonn | ||
| 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 | ||
| Friday 31-May-13 08:00pm |
Het Muziektheater, Amsterdam La Traviata |
De Nederlandse Opera Giuliano Carella, Conductor Willy Decker, Director Marina Poplavskaya, Soprano: Violetta Valéry Karin Strobos, Mezzo-soprano: Flora Bervoix Ismael Jordi, Tenor: Alfredo Germont Dimitris Tiliakos, Baritone: Giorgio Germont Netherlands Radio Chamber Philharmonic Koor van De Nederlandse Opera |
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| Het Muziektheater, Amsterdam, Waterlooplein 22, Amsterdam, Netherlands Friday 31-May-13 08:00pm Giuliano Carella, Conductor Willy Decker, Director Marina Poplavskaya, Soprano: Violetta Valéry Karin Strobos, Mezzo-soprano: Flora Bervoix Ismael Jordi, Tenor: Alfredo Germont Dimitris Tiliakos, Baritone: Giorgio Germont Netherlands Radio Chamber Philharmonic Koor van De Nederlandse Opera | ||
| Friday 31-May-13 08:00pm |
Château de Versailles: Royal Opera House, Paris Handel - Alessandro Versailles Festival |
Georges Petrou, Conductor Lucinda Childs, Director/Choreography Max Emanuel Cencic, Countertenor: Alessandro Vivica Genaux, Mezzo-soprano: Rossane Pavel Kudinov, Tenor: Clito Adriana Kučerová, Soprano: Lisaura Xavier Sabata, Countertenor: Tassile Juan Sancho, Tenor: Leonato Vasily Khoroshev, Countertenor: Cleone Orchestre Armonia Aténéa |
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| Château de Versailles: Royal Opera House, Paris, Place d’Armes, Entrance at the Gate of Honour, 78000 Paris, France Friday 31-May-13 08:00pm Handel - Alessandro In 1726, Handel composed Alessandro. It was "tailor-made" for a cast of stars, including the castrato Senesino, and prima donnas Francesa Cuzzoni and Faustina Bordoni.Lasts 3 hours, including interval. Tickets €45 - 120.Image credit: © Agathe Poupeney Georges Petrou, Conductor Lucinda Childs, Director/Choreography Max Emanuel Cencic, Countertenor: Alessandro Vivica Genaux, Mezzo-soprano: Rossane Pavel Kudinov, Tenor: Clito Adriana Kučerová, Soprano: Lisaura Xavier Sabata, Countertenor: Tassile Juan Sancho, Tenor: Leonato Vasily Khoroshev, Countertenor: Cleone Orchestre Armonia Aténéa | ||
| Saturday 1-Jun-13 |
Staatsoper, Vienna La Cenerentola |
Vienna State Opera Jesús López Cobos, Conductor Sven-Eric Bechtolf, Director Dmitry Korchak, Tenor: Don Ramiro Vito Priante, Baritone: Dandini, valet to Ramiro Alessandro Corbelli, Bass: Don Magnifico Rachel Frenkel, Mezzo-soprano: Angelina (Cinderella) Michele Pertusi, Baritone: Alidoro |
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| Staatsoper, Vienna, 1010 Vienna, Austria Saturday 1-Jun-13 Jesús López Cobos, Conductor Sven-Eric Bechtolf, Director Dmitry Korchak, Tenor: Don Ramiro Vito Priante, Baritone: Dandini, valet to Ramiro Alessandro Corbelli, Bass: Don Magnifico Rachel Frenkel, Mezzo-soprano: Angelina (Cinderella) Michele Pertusi, Baritone: Alidoro | ||
| Saturday 1-Jun-13 02:15pm |
Edinburgh Festival Theatre The Pirates of Penzance |
Scottish Opera John Owen Edwards, Conductor Martin Lloyd-Evans, Director Steven Page, Voice: Pirate King Richard Suart, Baritone: Major General Rosie Aldridge, Mezzo-soprano: Ruth The Orchestra of Scottish Opera |
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| Edinburgh Festival Theatre, Edinburgh EH8 9FT, United Kingdom Saturday 1-Jun-13 02:15pm The Pirates of Penzance Gilbert and Sullivan as it's meant to be - pure, uncomplicated fun, performed to the highest standards. This new co-production with D'Oyly Carte Opera Company - returning to the stage for the first time in over 10 years - is conducted by G&S expert and D'Oyly Carte Music Director John Owen Edwards. Director Martin Lloyd-Evans stages a vibrant, stylish, all singing, all dancing show. The fantastic ensemble cast includes celebrated G&S stalwarts Steven Page and Richard Suart as The Pirate King and Major-General Stanley. John Owen Edwards, Conductor Martin Lloyd-Evans, Director Steven Page, Voice: Pirate King Richard Suart, Baritone: Major General Rosie Aldridge, Mezzo-soprano: Ruth The Orchestra of Scottish Opera | ||
| Saturday 1-Jun-13 05:20pm |
Grange Park Opera, Northington, Winchester Tchaikovsky's Eugene Onegin Grange Park Opera |
Grange Park Opera Susan Gritton, Soprano: Tatyana Brett Polegato, Baritone: Eugene Onegin Robert Anthony Gardiner, Tenor: Lensky Frances Bourne, Mezzo-soprano: Olga Clive Bayley, Bass: Prince Gremin Anne-Marie Owens, Soprano: Madame Larina Kathleen Wilkinson, Mezzo-soprano: Philippyevna Stuart Kale, Tenor: Monsieur Triquet Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra |
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| Grange Park Opera, Northington, Winchester, Winchester SO24 9TG, United Kingdom Saturday 1-Jun-13 05:20pm Tchaikovsky's Eugene Onegin Public booking opens in FebruarySusan Gritton, Soprano: Tatyana Brett Polegato, Baritone: Eugene Onegin Robert Anthony Gardiner, Tenor: Lensky Frances Bourne, Mezzo-soprano: Olga Clive Bayley, Bass: Prince Gremin Anne-Marie Owens, Soprano: Madame Larina Kathleen Wilkinson, Mezzo-soprano: Philippyevna Stuart Kale, Tenor: Monsieur Triquet Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra | ||
| Saturday 1-Jun-13 05:30pm |
Wales Millennium Centre, Cardiff Lohengrin |
Welsh National Opera Peter Wedd, Tenor: Lohengrin Emma Bell, Soprano: Elsa von Brabant Susan Bickley, Mezzo-soprano: Ortrud John Lundren, Baritone: Friedrich von Telramund Matthew Best, Bass: Heinrich der Vogler Simon Thorpe, Baritone: The King's Herald |
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| Wales Millennium Centre, Cardiff, Bute Place, Cardiff, Cardiff CF10 5AL, United Kingdom Saturday 1-Jun-13 05:30pm Image credit: David Massey Peter Wedd, Tenor: Lohengrin Emma Bell, Soprano: Elsa von Brabant Susan Bickley, Mezzo-soprano: Ortrud John Lundren, Baritone: Friedrich von Telramund Matthew Best, Bass: Heinrich der Vogler Simon Thorpe, Baritone: The King's Herald | ||
| Saturday 1-Jun-13 05:45pm |
Glyndebourne Opera House Falstaff Glyndebourne |
Glyndebourne Opera Sir Mark Elder, Conductor Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment Richard Jones, Director Sarah Fahie, Revival Director Laurent Naouri, Baritone: Sir John Falstaff Ailyn Pérez, Soprano: Alice Ford Roman Burdenko, Baritone: Ford Lucia Cirillo, Mezzo-soprano: Meg Page Susanne Resmark, Mezzo-soprano: Mistress Quickly Elena Tsallagova, Soprano: Nannetta Antonio Poli, Tenor: Fenton Graham Clark, Tenor: Dr Caius Colin Judson, Tenor: Bardolph Paolo Battaglia, Bass: Pistol |
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| Glyndebourne Opera House, Glyndebourne BN8 5UU, United Kingdom Saturday 1-Jun-13 05:45pm Sir Mark Elder, Conductor Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment Richard Jones, Director Sarah Fahie, Revival Director Laurent Naouri, Baritone: Sir John Falstaff Ailyn Pérez, Soprano: Alice Ford Roman Burdenko, Baritone: Ford Lucia Cirillo, Mezzo-soprano: Meg Page Susanne Resmark, Mezzo-soprano: Mistress Quickly Elena Tsallagova, Soprano: Nannetta Antonio Poli, Tenor: Fenton Graham Clark, Tenor: Dr Caius Colin Judson, Tenor: Bardolph Paolo Battaglia, Bass: Pistol | ||
| 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 | ||
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Edinburgh Festival Theatre The Pirates of Penzance |
Scottish Opera John Owen Edwards, Conductor Martin Lloyd-Evans, Director Steven Page, Voice: Pirate King Richard Suart, Baritone: Major General Rosie Aldridge, Mezzo-soprano: Ruth The Orchestra of Scottish Opera |
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| Edinburgh Festival Theatre, Edinburgh EH8 9FT, United Kingdom Saturday 1-Jun-13 07:15pm The Pirates of Penzance Gilbert and Sullivan as it's meant to be - pure, uncomplicated fun, performed to the highest standards. This new co-production with D'Oyly Carte Opera Company - returning to the stage for the first time in over 10 years - is conducted by G&S expert and D'Oyly Carte Music Director John Owen Edwards. Director Martin Lloyd-Evans stages a vibrant, stylish, all singing, all dancing show. The fantastic ensemble cast includes celebrated G&S stalwarts Steven Page and Richard Suart as The Pirate King and Major-General Stanley. John Owen Edwards, Conductor Martin Lloyd-Evans, Director Steven Page, Voice: Pirate King Richard Suart, Baritone: Major General Rosie Aldridge, Mezzo-soprano: Ruth The Orchestra of Scottish Opera | ||
| 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 | ||
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Theater Bonn Il Barbiere di Siviglia |
Theater Bonn Robin Engelen, Conductor Philipp Himmelmann, Director Johannes Leiacker, Set Designer Gesine Völlm, Costume Designer Ulrich Zippelius, Choirmaster Tamas Tarjányi, Tenor: Count Almaviva Martin Tzonev, Bass: Dr. Bartolo Susanne Blattert, Mezzo-soprano: Rosina Kathrin Leidig, Mezzo-soprano: Rosina Aris Argiris, Baritone: Figaro Giorgos Kanaris, Baritone: Figaro Ramaz Chikviladze, Bass: Don Basilio Beethoven Orchester Bonn |
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| Theater Bonn, Opernhaus/Werkstatt, , Am Boeselagerhof 1, , 53111 Bonn, Bonn, Germany Saturday 1-Jun-13 07:30pm Il Barbiere di Siviglia Robin Engelen, Conductor Philipp Himmelmann, Director Johannes Leiacker, Set Designer Gesine Völlm, Costume Designer Ulrich Zippelius, Choirmaster Tamas Tarjányi, Tenor: Count Almaviva Martin Tzonev, Bass: Dr. Bartolo Susanne Blattert, Mezzo-soprano: Rosina Kathrin Leidig, Mezzo-soprano: Rosina Aris Argiris, Baritone: Figaro Giorgos Kanaris, Baritone: Figaro Ramaz Chikviladze, Bass: Don Basilio Beethoven Orchester Bonn | ||
| 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. | ||
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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 | ||
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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 |
Staatsoper, Vienna Carmen |
Vienna State Opera Bertrand de Billy, Conductor Franco Zeffirelli, Director Elīna Garanča, Mezzo-soprano: Carmen Roberto Alagna, Tenor: Don José Ludovic Tézier, Baritone: Escamillo Anita Hartig, Soprano: Micaela |
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| Staatsoper, Vienna, 1010 Vienna, Austria Sunday 2-Jun-13 Check start time of performance. Bertrand de Billy, Conductor Franco Zeffirelli, Director Elīna Garanča, Mezzo-soprano: Carmen Roberto Alagna, Tenor: Don José Ludovic Tézier, Baritone: Escamillo Anita Hartig, Soprano: Micaela | ||
| Sunday 2-Jun-13 02:00pm |
Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, Los Angeles, CA Tosca |
Los Angeles Opera Plácido Domingo, Conductor John Caird, Director Sondra Radvanovsky, Soprano: Floria Tosca Marco Berti, Tenor: Mario Cavaradossi Lado Ataneli, Baritone: Baron Scarpia Joshua Bloom, Bass: Cesare Angelotti |
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| Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, Los Angeles, CA, Los Angeles, CA90012, United States Sunday 2-Jun-13 02:00pm Plácido Domingo, Conductor John Caird, Director Sondra Radvanovsky, Soprano: Floria Tosca Marco Berti, Tenor: Mario Cavaradossi Lado Ataneli, Baritone: Baron Scarpia Joshua Bloom, Bass: Cesare Angelotti | ||
| Sunday 2-Jun-13 02:30pm |
Palais Garnier (Opéra de Paris) Giulio Cesare |
Opéra de Paris Emmanuelle Haïm, Conductor Laurent Pelly, Director Lawrence Zazzo, Mezzo-soprano: Giulio Cesare Varduhi Abrahamyan, Mezzo-soprano: Cornelia Karine Deshayes, Mezzo-soprano: Sesto Sandrine Piau, Soprano: Cleopatra Christophe Dumaux, Countertenor: Tolomeo Paul Gay, Bass: Achilla Dominique Visse, Countertenor: Nireno Jean-Gabriel Saint-Martin, Bass: Curio Orchestre et choeur du Concert d'Astrée |
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| Palais Garnier (Opéra de Paris), 75009 Paris, France Sunday 2-Jun-13 02:30pm Never had his melodic genius been more effulgent: the score contains some of his brightest jewels, like Cleopatra's arias. Jane Archibald, Karine Deshayes and Laurence Zazzo are the heroes of this vocal festivity. Performed in Italian. Emmanuelle Haïm, Conductor Laurent Pelly, Director Lawrence Zazzo, Mezzo-soprano: Giulio Cesare Varduhi Abrahamyan, Mezzo-soprano: Cornelia Karine Deshayes, Mezzo-soprano: Sesto Sandrine Piau, Soprano: Cleopatra Christophe Dumaux, Countertenor: Tolomeo Paul Gay, Bass: Achilla Dominique Visse, Countertenor: Nireno Jean-Gabriel Saint-Martin, Bass: Curio Orchestre et choeur du Concert d'Astrée | ||
| 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 | ||
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Château de Versailles: Royal Opera House, Paris Handel - Alessandro Versailles Festival |
Georges Petrou, Conductor Lucinda Childs, Director/Choreography Max Emanuel Cencic, Countertenor: Alessandro Vivica Genaux, Mezzo-soprano: Rossane Pavel Kudinov, Tenor: Clito Adriana Kučerová, Soprano: Lisaura Xavier Sabata, Countertenor: Tassile Juan Sancho, Tenor: Leonato Vasily Khoroshev, Countertenor: Cleone Orchestre Armonia Aténéa |
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| Château de Versailles: Royal Opera House, Paris, Place d’Armes, Entrance at the Gate of Honour, 78000 Paris, France Sunday 2-Jun-13 03:00pm Handel - Alessandro In 1726, Handel composed Alessandro. It was "tailor-made" for a cast of stars, including the castrato Senesino, and prima donnas Francesa Cuzzoni and Faustina Bordoni.Lasts 3 hours, including interval. Tickets €45 - 120.Image credit: © Agathe Poupeney Georges Petrou, Conductor Lucinda Childs, Director/Choreography Max Emanuel Cencic, Countertenor: Alessandro Vivica Genaux, Mezzo-soprano: Rossane Pavel Kudinov, Tenor: Clito Adriana Kučerová, Soprano: Lisaura Xavier Sabata, Countertenor: Tassile Juan Sancho, Tenor: Leonato Vasily Khoroshev, Countertenor: Cleone Orchestre Armonia Aténéa | ||
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Wales Millennium Centre, Cardiff Madam Butterfly |
Welsh National Opera Cheryl Barker, Soprano: Cio Cio San (Madama Butterfly) Gwyn Hughes Jones, Tenor: Pinkerton Claire Bradshaw, Mezzo-soprano: Suzuki Julian Close, Bass: The Bonze |
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| Wales Millennium Centre, Cardiff, Bute Place, Cardiff, Cardiff CF10 5AL, United Kingdom Sunday 2-Jun-13 04:00pm Madam Butterfly Cheryl Barker, Soprano: Cio Cio San (Madama Butterfly) Gwyn Hughes Jones, Tenor: Pinkerton Claire Bradshaw, Mezzo-soprano: Suzuki Julian Close, Bass: The Bonze | ||
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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 | ||
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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 06:00pm |
National Theatre, Munich Les Contes d'Hoffmann |
Bavarian State Opera Emmanuel Villaume, Conductor Richard Jones, Director Kathleen Kim, Soprano: Olympia Genia Kühmeier, Soprano: Antonia Dinara Alieva, Soprano: Giulietta Kevin Conners, Tenor: Andreas/Cochenille/Pitichinaccio /Frantz John Relyea, Bass-baritone: Lindorff/Coppélius/Miracle/Dapertutto Tara Erraught, Mezzo-soprano: The Muse Giuseppe Filianoti, Tenor: Hoffmann |
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| National Theatre, Munich, Munich, Germany Sunday 2-Jun-13 06:00pm Les Contes d'Hoffmann The protagonist of the opera is E.T.A. Hoffmann, the prototype of the German romantic period artist: his life is an artwork, his lower depths, his doubts, his grand inspirations – his crises. And all of these are connected with: women. Hoffmann in the opera tells of three types of woman in his tales, the “lifeless doll with a heart of ice”, the “virtuoso”, ill and destined to die, as well as the “shameless courtesan”.
Jacques Offenbach’s opera fantastique, premièred in 1881, is based on the play of the same name by Jules Barbier and Michel Carré, who drew from the biographies and works of E.T.A. Hoffmann, Adelbert von Chamisso and Alfred de Musset to create their own artist’s drama. It is not a literature opera – the protagonists from different romantic tales are connected to one another by a fictitious Hoffmann – but rather more of a message to the writer, telling him to make art his matter of the heart, or perhaps even open up his heart with brutal frankness.
Co-production with the English National Opera, London.
In French with German surtitles.Image credit: Wilfried Hösl Emmanuel Villaume, Conductor Richard Jones, Director Kathleen Kim, Soprano: Olympia Genia Kühmeier, Soprano: Antonia Dinara Alieva, Soprano: Giulietta Kevin Conners, Tenor: Andreas/Cochenille/Pitichinaccio /Frantz John Relyea, Bass-baritone: Lindorff/Coppélius/Miracle/Dapertutto Tara Erraught, Mezzo-soprano: The Muse Giuseppe Filianoti, Tenor: Hoffmann | ||
| 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 | ||
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Opernhaus, Zürich Rusalka |
Zurich Opera Eivind Gullberg Jensen, Conductor Matthias Hartmann, Director Karl-Ernst Herrmann, Set Designer Ekaterina Scherbachenko, Soprano: Rusalka Pavel Cernoch, Tenor: Prince Liliana Nikiteanu, Alto: Jezibaba, the Witch Christof Fischesser, Bass: Vodnik, the water goblin Michelle Breedt, Mezzo-soprano: Foreign Princess |
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| Opernhaus, Zürich, Opernhaus Falkenstrasse 1, Zürich 8008, Switzerland Sunday 2-Jun-13 08:00pm In Czech with German and English surtitles.Eivind Gullberg Jensen, Conductor Matthias Hartmann, Director Karl-Ernst Herrmann, Set Designer Ekaterina Scherbachenko, Soprano: Rusalka Pavel Cernoch, Tenor: Prince Liliana Nikiteanu, Alto: Jezibaba, the Witch Christof Fischesser, Bass: Vodnik, the water goblin Michelle Breedt, Mezzo-soprano: Foreign Princess | ||
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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 06:00pm |
Opéra Bastille, Paris Götterdämmerung |
Opéra de Paris Philippe Jordan, Conductor Günter Krämer, Director Torsten Kerl, Tenor: Siegfried Yevgeny Nikitin, Baritone: Gunther Peter Sidhom, Baritone: Alberich Hans-Peter König, Bass: Hagen Petra Lang, Soprano: Brünhilde Wiebke Lehmkuhl, Mezzo-soprano: First Norn/Mezzo-soprano: Flosshilde Edith Haller, Soprano: Third Norn/Soprano: Gutrune Sophie Koch, Mezzo-soprano: Second Norn/Mezzo-soprano: Waltraute Caroline Stein, Soprano: Woglinde Louise Callinan, Soprano: Wellgunde |
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| Opéra Bastille, Paris, 120 rue de Lyon, 75012 Paris, France Monday 3-Jun-13 06:00pm Amongst the most monumental works in the history of music, The Twilight of the Gods presents us with Siegfried and Brünhilde’s march towards death, sweeping away with them the gods and the entire world of old; a parable for humanity sustained by sublime musical and theatrical inspiration. Performed in German. Philippe Jordan, Conductor Günter Krämer, Director Torsten Kerl, Tenor: Siegfried Yevgeny Nikitin, Baritone: Gunther Peter Sidhom, Baritone: Alberich Hans-Peter König, Bass: Hagen Petra Lang, Soprano: Brünhilde Wiebke Lehmkuhl, Mezzo-soprano: First Norn/Mezzo-soprano: Flosshilde Edith Haller, Soprano: Third Norn/Soprano: Gutrune Sophie Koch, Mezzo-soprano: Second Norn/Mezzo-soprano: Waltraute Caroline Stein, Soprano: Woglinde Louise Callinan, Soprano: Wellgunde | ||
| 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 | ||
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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 | ||
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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 | ||
| 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 | ||
