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Chicago Opera Theater's 2013 Season

February 23- March 1 2013: Glass' The Fall of the House of Usher
April 20-28 2013: Piazzolla's María de Buenos Aires
September 14-22 2013: Verdi's Giovanna d’Arco

General Director Andreas Mitisek announced Chicago Opera Theater's 2013 season today.

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Bayerische Staatsoper's 2012-2013 Season

September 23 2012- June 29 2013: Tannhäuser
September 30- October 30 2012: Fidelio
October 7 2012- July 24 2013: Tosca
October 27 2012- July 21 2013: Babylon
October 28- November 4 2012: Dialogues des Carmélites
November 5-16 2012: Rusalka
November 11 2012- July 3 2013: Lohengrin
November 22- December 1 2012: Turandot
November 24- December 8 2012: Die Zauberflöte
December 6 2012- July 20 2013: La bohème
December 15 2012- July 24 2013: Rigoletto
December 16-22 2012: Hänsel und Gretel (1965 Production)
December 23 2012- January 4 2013: Aida
January 31 2012: Die Fledermaus
January 5- July 13 2013: Das Rheingold
January 6- July 14 2013: Die Walküre
January 9- July 15 2013: Siegfried
January 10-20 2013: Lucrezia Borgia
January 13- July 18 2013: Götterdämmerung
January 14-19 2013: Madama Butterfly
January 29- February 6 2013: Carmen
February 9-16 2013: Il barbiere di Siviglia
February 13- July 30 2013: Boris Godunow
February 18-24 2013: I Capuleti e i Montecchi
March 3- July 11 2013: Tristan und Isolde
March 6-16 2013: Jenufa
March 17- July 10 2013: Ariadne auf Naxos
March 24- April 4 2013: Hänsel und Gretel (New Production)
March 28- July 31 2013: Parsifal
March 31- July 16 2013: Otello
April 14- June 28 2013: Der fliegende Holländer
April 30- May 4 2013: L'elisir d'amore
May 3-12 2013: Don Giovanni
May 3-9 2013: Elegie für junge Liebende
May 5- July 29 2013: Macbeth
May 18- July 23 2013: Les Contes d'Hoffmann
May 20- July 9 2013: La Traviata
June 3- July 12 2013: Simon Boccanegra
June 27- July 8 2013: Il Trovatore
July 6 2013: Falstaff
July 23-27 2013: Written on Skin
July 25-28 2013: Don Carlo

The 2012-2013 season for Bayerische Staatsoper was announced on March 12, 2012.

Official Site | 2012-2013 Premieres

Opéra National de Paris' 2012-2013 Season

September 7- October 3 2012: Les Contes d'Hoffmann
September 8-27 2012: Capriccio
September 15- October 25 2012: Le Nozze di Figaro
October 10-30 2012: The Rake's Progress
October 15- November 11 2012: La Fille du régiment
October 23- November 20 2012: Tosca
November 22 2012- March 25 2013: La Cenerentola
December 4-29 2012: Carmen
January 22- February 9 2013: Khovanshchina
January 23- February 13 2013: Le Nain / L'Enfant et les sortilèges
January 29- February 12 2013: Das Rheingold
February 17- March 10 2013: Die Walküre
February 27- March 24 2013: Falstaff
March 21- April 15 2013: Siefried
April 14- May 6 2013: Hänsel et Gretel
May 2-31 2013: La Gioconda
May 21- June 16 2013: Götterdämmerung
May 23- June 18 2013: Giulio Cesare
June 18-26 2013: Der Ring des Nibelungen

Official Site | 2012-2013 Season

PBO's 2012-2013 Season

October 5-7 2012: Purcell's Come Ye Sons of Art & Dioclesian
November 7-11 2012: Emanuel Ax plays Beethoven
December 8-9 2012: Masaaki Suzuki conducts Händel's Messiah
December 13-16 2012: Masaaki Suzuki conducts Bach
January 12-16 2013: Four Seasons Tour
February 13-17 2013: Haydn, J.C. Bach, Mozart
March 15-20 2013: Rachel Podger, violin and leader
April 10-14 2013: Händel's Teseo

Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra's 2012-2013 season was announced on 13 March 2012. PBO will tour Carmel, La Jolla, and Palo Alto with a program that includes Vivaldi's Le quattro stagioni.

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Sonoma State University 2012-2013 Season

September 29 2012: Lang Lang, piano
September 30 2012: Alison Krauss & Union Station featuring Jerry Douglas
October 13 2012: Karina Gauvin, soprano with Michael McMahon, piano
October 27 2012: "An All American Celebration" with John Adams & the International Contemporary Ensemble featuring Jeffrey Kahane, piano
October 28 2012: Modigliani Quartet with Joyce Yang, piano
November 10 2012: Stephanie Blythe, mezzo-soprano with Craig Terry, piano
November 11 2012: Chucho Valdés and the Afro-Cuban Messengers
November 15 2012: Buika
November 20 2012: Joyce DiDonato, mezzo-soprano with Alan Curtis, conductor & Il Compleso Barocco
December 8 2012: Tallis Scholars | Love is Better Than Wine
December 9 2012: Philharmonia Baroque performs Handel's Messiah
January 26 2013: Yo-Yo Ma, cello, and Kathryn Stott, piano
February 16 2013: Barbara Cook, soprano
November 2 2011: Lang Lang, piano
March 2 2013: Anne-Sophie Mutter, violin with Lambert Orkis, piano
March 21 2013: Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis
April 7 2013: Vadim Repin, violin with Itamar Golan, piano
April 9 2013: Elīna Garanča, mezzo-soprano
April 18 2013: Lila Downs
April 21 2013: Tara Erraught, mezzo-soprano with Marcelo Amaral, piano
April 27 2013: Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra, Jeffrey Kahane, conductor & piano

Robert Cole announced the inaugural season for Weill Hall at Sonoma State University's Green Music Center today. The hall is modeled after Seiji Ozawa Hall at Tanglewood, and features a rather warm, expansive acoustic. The air conditioning system is impressively high tech and silent.

Official Site | 2012-2013 Season

Washington National Opera's 2012-2013 Season

September 15- October 6 2012: Anna Bolena
September 20- October 15 2012: Don Giovanni
September 23 2012: Nathan Gunn Concert
December 21-23 2012: Hansel and Gretel
March 2-23 2013: Manon Lescaut
March 9-24 2013: Norma
April 8 2013: Diana Damrau Concert
May 4-26 2013: Show Boat

The 2012-2013 season at WNO was announced today. Sondra Radvanovsky sings the title role of Anna Bolena. Angela Meade sings the title role of Norma.

2012-2013 Season | Official Site

San Francisco Symphony's 2012-2013 Season

September 5-8 2012: Bychkov conducts Wagner, Bruch, Tchaikovsky; Pinchas Zuckerman, violin
September 12-15 2012: Bychkov conducts Shostakovich's 7th
September 19 2012: Opening Gala: MTT conducts Berlioz, Chausson, Saint-Saëns, Ravel; Joshua Bell, violin
September 20-23 2012: MTT conducts Berlioz, Chausson, Saint-Saëns, Ravel; Alina Pogostkina, violin
September 27-30 2012: MTT conducts Samuel Carl Adams, Mahler
October 4-6 2012: Vasily Petrenko conducts Pärt, Bartók, Respighi
October 7 2012: Schiff plays Well-Tempered Clavier, Book I
October 11-13 2012: Schiff conducts Mendelssohn, Bach
October 18-20 2012: Jurowski conducts Scriabin, Rachmaninoff, Prokofiev
October 21 2012: Schiff plays Well-Tempered Clavier, Book Book II
October 24-28 2012: van Zweden conducts Wagner, Mozart, Brahms
October 27 2012: John D. Goldman Tribute Concert
October 30 2012: The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
October 31 2012: MTT conducts Volkert, Prokofiev, Rachmaninoff; Yuja Wang, piano
November 1-2 2012: MTT conducts Volkert, Bartók, Rachmaninoff; Lang Lang, piano
November 3 2012: Día de los Muertos Concert
November 4 2012: SF Symphony Youth Orchestra
November 11-12 2012: Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra
December 5-8 2012: MTT conducts Widmann, Berlioz
December 9 2012: Cabrera conducts Peter and the Wolf
December 13-16 2012: Messiah
December 31 2012: New Year's Eve Masquerade Ball
January 10-13 2013: MTT conducts Debussy, Duparc; Renee Fleming, soprano
January 16 2013: Renee Fleming, soprano and Susan Graham, mezzo-soprano
January 17-19 2013: MTT conducts Grieg
January 23-26 2013: Vivaldi, Bach, Mozart
January 25-29 2012: Zukerman conducts Mozart, Hindemith
February 2-14 2012: Blomstedt conducts Mozart, Tchaikovsky
January 26 2013: Cabrera conducts Music for Families
January 30- February 1 2013: Dutoit conducts Ravel, Lalo, Elgar
February 2 2013: Chinese New Year Concert
February 6-10 2013: Dutoit conducts Poulenc, Berlioz
February 8 2013: Gil Shaham, violin & Akira Eguchi, piano
February 12-13 2013: Russian National Orchestra
February 14-17 2013: Heras-Casado conducts Lindberg, Liszt, Prokofiev
February 17 2013: Itzak Perlman, violin & Rohan De Silva, piano
February 21-23 2013: Tortelier conducts Debussy, R. Strauss, Mendelssohn
February 23 2013: Cabrera conducts Music for Families
February 28- March 2 2013: MTT conducts Mozart, Bruckner
March 6-9 2013: MTT conducts Berio, Beethoven, Brahms
March 10 2013: Cameron Carpenter, organ
March 14-17 2013: MTT conducts Mahler's 9th
March 24 2013: Cabrera conducts SFS Youth Orchestra
April 5-6 2013: Labadie conducts Mozart & Handel
April 6 2013: Cabrera conducts Music for Families
April 14 2013: Schiff plays French Suites
April 17-20 2013: Blomstedt conducts Beethoven & Nielsen
April 15 2013: Schiff plays English Suites
April 25-27 2013: Eschenbach conducts Schoenberg, Brahms, Dvorak
April 28 2013: Paul Jacobs, organ
April 28 2013: Matthias Goerne, baritone & Eschenbach, piano
May 2-3 2013: MTT conducts Beethoven
May 4-9 2013: MTT; Michael Fabiano, tenor; & St. Laurence String Quartet
May 10-11 2013: MTT conducts Missa Solemnis
May 15-18 2013: Janowski conducts Schumann, Brahms
May 19 2013: Cabrera conducts SFS Youth Orchestra
May 22-25 2013: Robertson conducts Carter, Ravel, Gershwin
May 29- June 2 2013: Valcuha conducts Dvořák, Kodaly, Bartok
June 6-9 2013: Karabits conducts Honegger, Britten, Sibelius
June 13-15 2013: Abbado conducts Schumann, Fedele, & Schubert
June 19-20 2013: MTT conducts Stravinsky; Gil Shaham, violin
June 21-22 2013: MTT conducts Stravinsky; The Dmitri Pokrovsky Ensemble
June 27- July 2 2013: MTT conducts West Side Story

The Met's 2012-2013 Season

September 24 2012- February 8 2013: L'Elisir d'Amore
September 26 2012- January 10 2013: Turandot
September 28 2012- March 1 2013: Carmen
September 29 2012- January 24 2013: Il Trovatore
October 9 2012- March 30 2013: Otello
October 23- November 17 2012: The Tempest
October 29- November 17 2012: Le Nozze di Figaro
November 8- December 14 2012: Un Ballo in Maschera
November 16- December 10 2012: La Clemenza di Tito
November 23- December 28 2012: Aida
November 28- December 20 2012: Don Giovanni
December 13 2012- January 5 2013: Les Troyens
December 18 2012- January 5 2013: The Barber of Seville
December 31 2012- January 26 2013: Maria Stuarda
January 11-26 2013: La Rondine
January 17- February 5 2013: Le Comte Ory
January 28- May 1 2013: Rigoletto
February 15- March 8 2013: Parsifal
February 22- March 16 2013: Don Carlo
March 4-22 2013: Francesca di Rimini
March 14- April 6 2013: La Traviata
March 21- April 5 2013: Faust
April 4- May 10 2013: Giulio Cesare
April 6- May 4 2013: Das Rheingold
April 13- May 6 2013: Die Walküre
April 20- May 8 2013: Siegfried
April 23- May 11 2013: Götterdämmerung
May 4-11 2013: Dialogues des Carmélites

The Met announced the 2012-2013 season today. The 7 new productions are L'Elisir d'Amore, Thomas Adès' The Tempest, Un Ballo in Maschera, Maria Stuarda, Rigoletto, Parsifal, and Giulio Cesare.

Online 2012-2013 Brochure | Official Site

LA Opera's 2012-2013 Season

September 15- October 9 2012: I due Foscari
September 22- October 14 2012: Don Giovanni
November 17- December 9 2012: Madama Butterfly
March 9-30 2013: Der fliegende Holländer
March 23- April 13 2013: Cenerentola
May 18- June 8 2013: Tosca

Plácido Domingo stars in I due Foscari. Oksana Dyka sings Butterfly with Brandon Jovanovich as Pinkerton and Eric Owens as Sharpless. Jay Hunter Morris is Erik in Der fliegende Holländer. Kate Lindsey and Ketevan Kemoklidze share the title role of Cenerentola. Sondra Radvanovsky is Tosca. Again, the Recovered Voices program seems to still be on hiatus.

2012-2013 Season | Official Site

Houston Grand Opera's 2012-2013 Season

October 19 - November 10 2012: La bohème
October 26- November 11 2012: L'italiana in Algeri
January 18- February 10 2013: Show Boat
January 25- February 10 2013 : Don Giovanni
April 18- May 5 2013: Tristan und Isolde
April 26- May 11 2013: Il Trovatore

Details on the Season | Official Site

Canadian Opera Company's 2012-2013 Season

September 29- October 31 2012: Il Trovatore
October 4- November 3 2012: Die Fledermaus
January 29- February 23 2013: Tristan und Isolde
February 3-22 2013: Clemenza di Tito
April 17- May 24 2013: Lucia di Lammermoor
April 21- May 22 2013: Salome
May 8-25 2013: Dialogues des Carmélites

Details on the Season | Official Site

New Logo for LA Opera

The new logo of Los Angeles Opera is based on the design elements of the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion. LA Opera did a great deal of marketing research recently and more news will be announced soon.

About the New Logo | Official Site

Dallas Opera's 2012-2013 Season

October 26- November 11 2012: Aïda
April 5-21 2013: Turandot
April 12-28 2013: The Aspern Papers

Only 3 operas next season, down from 6 in 2011-2012. Latonia Moore sings the title role of Aïda, Lise Lindstrom the title role of Turandot, and Susan Graham has her Dallas Opera debut opposite Carol Vaness in Dominick Argento's The Aspern Papers.

2012-2013 Season | Official Site

Lyric Opera of Chicago's 2012-2013 Season

October 6-30 2012: Elektra
October 15 - November 9 2012: Simon Boccanegra
November 11-26 2012: Werther
November 25- December 15 2012: Don Pasquale
December 7 2012-January 19 2013: Hansel and Gretel
January 21- March 28 2013: La bohème
February 8- March 3 2013: Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg
February 25- March 30 2013: Rigoletto
March 26- April 6 2013: A Streetcar Named Desire

Anthony Freud announced Lyric Opera of Chicago's 2012-2013 season yesterday.

Press Release | Official Site

SF Opera's 2012-2013 Season

September 7-30 2012: Rigoletto
September 29- October 19 2012 I Capuleti e i Montecchi
October 10- November 2 2012: Moby-Dick
October 20- November 9 2012: Lohengrin
November 15- December 2 2012: Tosca
March 1-10 2013: The Secret Garden
June 5- July 6 2013: Les Contes d'Hoffmann
June 9- July 1 2013: Così fan tutte
June 19- July 7 2013: The Gospel of Mary Magdalene

San Francisco Opera's 2012-2013 season includes three contemporary American operas in English. Former Adler Fellow David Lomelí sings the Duke in Rigoletto, Albina Shagimuratova sings Gilda. Joyce DiDonato sings Romeo in I Capuleti e i Montecchi with Nicole Cabell as Giulietta. Ben Heppner and Jay Hunter Morris share the role of Ahab in Jake Heggie's Moby-Dick. Brandon Jovanovich is Lohengrin. Angela Gheorghiu and Patricia Racette share the title role in Tosca. Natalie Dessay stars in Les Contes d'Hoffmann. Nathan Gunn, William Burden, and Sasha Cooke create roles in Mark Adamo's The Gospel of Mary Magdalene.

2012-2013 Season Official Site | Press Release