Let the 2011-12 opera season announcements begin!
First past the post (as far as I know - feel free to correct me) is De Nederlandse Opera, better known as Amsterdam Opera outside the land of the dikes.
As usual, Pierre Audi presents a bold season, with two world premieres - a contemporary version of the Oresteia called Orest by Manfred Trojahn (!!!) and Waiting for Miss Monroe by Robin de Raff, featuring Laura Aikin as Marilyn Monroe.
Anish Kapoor collaborates with Pierre Audi to create a new Parsifal. Ivan Fischer will conduct the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, and the cast includes Petra Lang, Chris Ventris and Falk Struckmann.
Marc Minkowski brings in his Les Musiciens du Louvre orchestra for Iphigénie en Aulide and Iphigénie en Tauride in a Pierre Audi production. And there's another visiting period orchestra - Concerto Koln with Ivor Bolton - for David Alden's new production of Handel's last opera, Deidamia.
Robert Lepage's 2010 Aix-en-Provence Festival success The Nightingale and Other Fables pays a visit and perhaps most promising of all, Dmitri Tcherniakov is let loose on Rimsky-Korsakov's The Legend of the Invisible City Kitesj and the girl Fevronja, which features Kristine Opolais.
Subscriptions are already on sale; individual tickets are (theoretically) sold 3 months before the production starts, though in practice I've been able to buy them much earlier than that.
And for me a personal treat: performing Carlos with Camilla Nyland and Eiaterina Gruberova. The production looks interesting, and for me a first time doing period dress in the role. If RV's hiney looks large, mines gonna look like … i dunno … Kardashian?
Really looking forward to it.
Andrew Richards
Opera Rocks Blog
Posted by: TuridduTenor | 15 February 2011 at 01:16 AM
In the US, San Francisco Opera and Washington National Opera have already announced.
Posted by: Zerbinetta | 15 February 2011 at 06:58 AM
Haven't we already had the Chicago 2011-21 season details?
Posted by: Sarah R | 15 February 2011 at 08:14 AM
The Rimsky-Korsakov has long been at the top of my to see list. Somewhat curtailed in length if the running time is 3 hours. Known as the Russian Parsifal so an interesting pairing with the real article.
Posted by: Vecchio John | 15 February 2011 at 08:35 AM
Thanks very much for the Amsterdam details. I believe San Francisco is announced too.
Posted by: Steven Rowland | 15 February 2011 at 10:46 AM
COC announced a couple of weeks ago:
http://www.coc.ca/PerformancesAndTickets/1112Season.aspx
Posted by: John | 15 February 2011 at 12:48 PM
Give IM a break - Amsterdam is the first off the mark in Europe! Most of the big Americans get in earlier to get flogging their subscription series.
Posted by: Nikolaus Vogel | 16 February 2011 at 03:36 PM
Trying not to get into a "My brother's bigger than your brother" throwdown but WNO released their season in mid January around 9.08am on a Monday morning:
http://hairmanattheopera.blogspot.com/2011/01/wno-2011-2012-season.html
By the way, my brother is a double blackbelt in No-Can-Do and is the 1,987,678,098th tallest brown haired man in the world ever in his age range...
Posted by: HairmanWNO | 17 February 2011 at 05:03 PM