No baroque this year. (On the upside, no Gluck and no Puccini either.)
Psychoanalysis, stock market crash, decadence: Christopher Alden’s new production of Die Fledermaus. Laura Tucker as Prinz Orlofsky.
Peter Sellars’s Tristan und Isolde with Bill Viola’s video screens.
More dark Victoriana: David Alden’s ENO Lucia.
Christopher Alden’s La Clemenza, first shown at Chicago Opera Theatre. Sesto will be sung by Isabel Leonard, Wallis Giunta will be Annio.
Atom Egoyan will revive and ‘re-think’ his old COC Salome.
Robert Carsen returns with Dialogues des Carmelites (the 2004 La Scala production available on DVD), with mezzo Judith Forst as Madame de Croissy and Adrianne Pieczonka debuting the role as Madame Lidoine.
There’s also a Trovatore with Elena Manistina as Azucena. Here’s Stride la vampa from Liceu 2009:
Eyesometric
January 19, 2012
ENO Lucia – in English?
Definitely the Opera
January 19, 2012
Luckily, no… Just the sets and costumes, not the translation.
thả diều
January 23, 2012
and another clemenza! when is it? boston will have one too. did you know that duet between Annio and Servilia is one of the very often sung duets? last year alone i heard it 4 times in all sorts of settings. in one i couldn’t figure out whether the “mezzo” was male or female!! (i know i know, i’ve talked about quite broken dar b4). may be boston is following toronto. we get Gluck’s orfeo this year too, _also_ with a da*m ct…
Definitely the Opera
January 23, 2012
I love this picture with Renata Pokupic.
thả diều
January 24, 2012
when was she there? did you see her? (and i recognize that pix of the opera haus!)
thả diều
January 24, 2012
ps- that’s a lot of performances in 20 days!
Definitely the Opera
January 24, 2012
The photos are of the original production, which they’re renting, but there’s going to be a different cast.