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Santa Fe Opera's 2010 Season

July 2- August 26 2010: Madame Butterfly
July 3- August 27 2010: The Magic Flute
July 17- August 28 2010: The Tales of Hoffmann
July 24- August 19 2010: Life is a Dream
July 31- August 25 2010: Albert Herring

The 2010 season at Santa Fe Opera opens with Madame Butterfly with Kelly Kaduce singing the title role. Charles Castronovo sings Tamino in The Magic Flute. The season also includes the world premiere of Lewis Spratlan's Life is a Dream with Leonard Slatkin conducting. Former Adler Fellow Alek Shrader is singing the role of Albert Herring, with Christine Brewer as Lady Billows.

Season | Official Site

Salzburg 2010

July 27-August 8: Rihm's Dionysus
July 31-August 24: Orfeo ed Euridice
August 1-17: Lulu
August 8-28: Elektra
August 9-29: Don Giovanni
August 10-30: Roméo et Juliette
August 9-14: Norma

The Salzburger Festspiele schedule includes conducting from Ingo Metzmacher, Riccardo Muti, Marc Albrecht, Daniele Gatti, Yannick Nézet-Séguin, and Friedrich Haider.

Schedule | Official Site

Gheorghiu Cancels on Met Carmen

Angela Gheorghiu has canceled 6 of her 8 scheduled performances of Carmen at the Met during the 2009-2010 season. Mezzo-soprano Elīna Garanča will sing in Gheorghiu's stead.

Arts Beat Blog | Official Site

La Scala's 2009-2010 Season

December 7-23 2009: Carmen
January 15- February 5 2010: Rigoletto
January 30- February 14 2010: Don Giovanni
February 28- March 16 2010: From the House of the Dead
March 17- April 2 2010: Tannhäuser
April 6-30 2010: Lulu
April 16- May 7 2010: Simon Boccanegra
May 13-29 2010: Das Rheingold
June 18- July 5 2010: Faust
July 9-24 2010: Il barbiere di Siviglia
September 18- October 7 2010: L'occasione fa il ladro
October 2-27 2010: L'elisir d'amore
October 29- November 18 2010: Carmen

Barenboim and Dudamel conduct Carmen, the former also conducts Simon Boccanegra and Das Rheingold. James Conlon conducts Rigoletto, Esa-Pekka Salonen conducts From the House of the Dead.

Official Site | 2009-2010 Season

Unter den Linden's 2009-2010 Season

August 29 2009- April 5 2010: Tristan und Isolde
September 6- October 10 2009: La Traviata
September 5- November 14 2009: Il Barbiere di Siviglia
September 7-22 2009: Die Entführung aus dem Serail
September 15-17 2009: Così fan Tutte
September 23- October 25 2009 : Der Rosenkavalier
October 1- April 23 2010: Salome
October 24 2009- March 30 2010: Simon Boccanegra 
November 1-15 2009: Lohengrin
November 19 2009- February 20 2010: La Bohème
November 21- December 6 2009: Die Fledermaus
December 7-22 2009: Il Turco in Italia
December 9 2009- January 9 2010: Die Zauberflöte
January 8-16 2010: Madama Butterfly
January 17-23 2010: Die Ferne Klang
February 4-14 2009: Agrippina
February 11- May 7 2010: Le Nozze di Figaro
February 21- March 7 2010: Faust
March 10- May 15 2010: Carmen
March 26- June 5 2010: Eugene Onegin 
April 9-25 2010: Tosca
May 16-30 2010: L'etoile
May 18-28 2010: L'elisir d'amore

René Pape sings Gremin in Eugene Onegin and Méphistophélès in Faust. Domingo sings the title role in Boccanegra. Magdalena Kožená is Lazuli in L'etoile, conducted by Simon Rattle.

Official Site | 2009-2010 Season [PDF]

San Diego Opera's 2010 Season

January 30- February 7 2010: La Bohème
February 20-28 2010: Nabucco
March 13-21 2010: Roméo et Juliette
April 17-25 2010: La Traviata

San Diego Opera is only having four operas next year instead of the usual five, but the casting remains strong. Piotr Beczala sings Rodolfo in Bohème, as he did in San Francisco last year. Željko Lučić sings the title role in Nabucco, with Sylvie Valayre as Abigaille. Ailyn Pérez and Stephen Costello star in Roméo et Juliette, and Elizabeth Futral and Marius Brenciu star in La Traviata.

2010 Season | Official Site

SF Performances' 2009-2010 Season

September 30 2009: Thomas Hampson, baritone 
October 4 2009: Imani Winds 
October 10 2009: Paula West, vocalist
October 10 2009: Peter and Zoltán Katona, guitars
October 18 2009: Juilliard String Quartet
November 12-14 2009: DV8 Physical Theatre
November 13 2009: Xuefei Yang, guitar
November 16 2009: Joyce DiDonato, mezzo-soprano
December 1 2009: Angela Hewitt, piano
December 3 2009: Anonymous 4
December 5-11 2009: Marino Formenti, piano
December 5-19 2009: Alexander String Quartet with Robert Greenberg
December 12 2009: Pepe Romero, guitar
December 15 2009: Marc-André Hamelin, piano
January 10 2010: Steven Isserlis, cello and Kirill Gerstein, piano
January 12 2010: Nathan Gunn, baritone
January 16- March 27 2010: Alexander String Quartet with Robert Greenberg
January 22 2010: Richard Goode, piano
January 23 2010: Brad Mehldau, piano
January 23-24 2010: Morphoses/The Wheeldon Company
January 24 2010: David Aaron Carpenter, viola
January 29 2010: Pavel Steidl, guitar
January 30 2010: Luciana Souza Trio
January 31- February 6 2010: Midori, violin
February 4 2010: Shantala Shivalingappa
February 17 2010: King's Singers
February 18-20 2010: Akram Khan Company/National Ballet of China
March 9 2010: Jennifer Koh, violin
March 16 2010: Thomas Adès, piano
March 20 2010: Quartet San Francisco
April 2 2010: Alice Coote, mezzo-soprano
April 3 2010: Alexander String Quartet
April 6 2010: Alisa Weilerstein, cello and Lera Auerbach, piano
April 15 2010: Kuss Quartet
April 22 2010: Yuja Wang, piano
April 24 2010: The Rest is Noise in Performance
April 25 2010: Yevgeny Sudbin, piano
April 29 2010: Manuel Barrueco, guitar
April 29- May 1 2010: Compañía Nacional de Danza
May 2 2010: Kronos Quartet
May 4 2010: Skride/Vogler Trio
May 16 2010: Eugene Brancoveanu, baritone

San Francisco Performances announced their next season last week.

Official Site | Press Release [PDF]

Cal Performances' 2009-2010 Season

September 17-20 2009: Mark Morris Dance Group
September 22 2009: Wynton Marsalis & the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra
September 26-27 2009: A House in Bali 
September 27 2009: Christine Brewer, soprano
September 30 2009: Michael Pollan
October 11 2009: Takács Quartet 
October 17 2009: Wayne Shorter Quartet
October 18 2009: Michael Schade, tenor 
October 24-25 2009: Davitt Moroney, harpsichord
October 24-25 2009: The Suzanne Farrell Ballet
October 28 2009: Garrison Keillor
October 30 2009: Alfred Brendel 
November 1 2009: Louis Lortie, piano
November 1-6 2009: Love's Labour's Lost
November 8 2009: Brentano String Quartet
November 12 2009: Youssou N'Dour
November 15 2009: Nuccia Focile, soprano and David Lomelí, tenor
November 18-22 2009: Druid Ireland
November 19 2009: Mariza
November 21 2009: Taylor Eigsti & Julian Lage Duo
November 22 2009: China Philharmonic Orchestra
December 4 2009: The Tallis Scholars
December 5 2009: Ira Glass
December 6 2009: Renée Fleming, soprano
December 11-20 2009: The Hard Nut
December 13 2009: Kronos Quartet
January 10 2010: Garrick Ohlsson, piano
January 23-24 2010: Peking Acrobats
January 23 2010: Europa Galante
February 13 2010: Masters of Persian Music
February 14 2010: Takács Quartet 
February 19 2010: Russian National Orchestra
February 20 2010: Angélique Kidjo
February 21 2010: Joshua Bell, violin
February 26-27 2010: Lyon Opera Ballet
February 28 2010: Swedish Radio Choir
March 6-7 2010: Dan Zane and Friends
March 9-14 2010: Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater
March 16 2010: Hespèrion XXI
March 17 2010: Gilberto Gil
March 19 2010: Altan
March 20 2010: Moscow State Radio Symphony Orchestra
March 21 2010: Ian Bostridge, tenor
March 26-27 2010: Merce Cunningham Dance Company
March 28 2010: Julia Fischer, violin
April 1 2010: Saimir Pirgu, tenor
April 20 2010: Baaba Maal
April 22 2010: Sweet Honey In The Rock 
April 23 2010: Arlo Guthrie 
April 24 2010: Pat Metheny, guitar
May 1 2010: Concerto Köln
May 2 2010: Ballet Folklorico "Quetzalli" de Veracruz
May 7-8 2010: Laurie Anderson

Cal Performances just announced their next season yesterday.

Official Site | Press Release [PDF]

ROH's 2009-2010 Season

September 7-14 2009: Linda di Chamounix
September 15- October 1 2009: Don Carlo
September 19- October 18 2009: Tristan und Isolde
October 3 2009- June 26 2010: Carmen
October 17-28 2009: L'Heure Espagnole /Gianni Schicchi
October 30- November 14 2009: Artaxerxes
November 20- December 8 2009: The Tsarina's Slippers
December 7-22 2009: Der Rosenkavalier
December 19 2009- January 11 2010: La Bohème
January 22- February 3 2010: The Rake's Progress
January 29- February 17 2010: Così fan tutte
February 11-27 2010: The Gambler
March 5-20 2010: Tamerlano
March 19- April 1 2010: The Cunning Little Vixen
April 3-19 2010: Il Turco in Italia
April 26- May 12 2010: Powder Her Face
April 27- May 16 2010: Aida
May 11- July 17 2010: La Traviata
May 17- June 4 2010: La Fille du Régiment
May 31- June 30 2010: Le Nozze di Figaro
June 22- July 10 2010: Manon
June 29- July 15 2010: Simon Boccanegra
July 3-16 2010: Salome

Covent Garden just announced their season this week. Eglise Gutiérrez stars in Linda di Chamounix. Stephanie Blythe sings Baba the Turk in the revival of The Rake's Progress. Kurt Streit shares the role of Bajazet in Tamerlano with Plácido Domingo. Streit also sings in The Gambler, and Domingo sings the title role in Boccanegra. Dmitri Hvorostovsky returns as Germont for the May performances of La Traviata. Natalie Dessay stars opposite of Juan Diego Flórez in La Fille. Erwin Schrott sings the title role in Le Nozze, with Mariusz Kwiecien and Jacques Imbrailo sharing the role of the Count.

Press Release [PDF]| Official Site

Portland Opera's 2009-2010 Season

September 25- October 3 2009: La Bohème
November 6-14 2009: Philip Glass' Orphée
February 5-13 2010: Così fan tutte
March 26 -April 3 2010: Trouble in Tahiti
May 7-15 2010: Il barbiere di Siviglia

Monteverdi's Il Ballo Delle Ingrate and Il Combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda are also being performed with Trouble in Tahiti.

2009-2010 Portland Opera Site

Bayerische Staatsoper's 2009-2010 Season

September 19 2009- July 20 2010: Ariadne auf Naxos
September 20 2009- July 6 2010: Lucrezia Borgia
October 4 2009- June 12 2010: Carmen
October 11 2009- July 9 2010: Jenůfa
October 15 2009- July 29 2010: Lohengrin
October 31 2009- July 8 2010: Don Giovanni
November 1-8 2009: Eugene Onegin
November 13-25 2009: Il turco in Italia
November 27- December 25 2009: Hänsel und Gretel
December 1 2009- July 27 2010: L'elisir d'amore
December 2-12 2009: Der fliegende Holländer
December 6-20 2009: Die Zauberflöte
December 15-30 2009: La bohème
December 29 2009- January 9 2010: La Traviata
December 31 2009- February 16 2010: Die Fledermaus
January 6- July 22 2010: Don Carlo
January 13- July 31 2010: Tannhäuser
January 15- July 26 2010: Così fan tutte
January 22- February 2 2010: Madama Butterfly
January 31- February 7 2010: Salome
February 3- July 24 2010: Macbeth
February 21- July 4 2010: Roberto Devereux
February 22- July 12 2010: Die Tragödie des Teufels
March 7- July 17 2010: Le Nozze di Figaro
March 10-21 2010: Il barbiere di Siviglia
March 28- July 13 2010: Les dialogues des Carmélites
April 4-18 2010: Palestrina
April 16-24 2010: Wozzeck
May 12-23 2010: Aida
May 22- June 2 2010: Die Entführung aus dem Serail
June 7-29 2010: Medea in Corinto
June 28- July 19 2010: Tosca
July 20-30 2010: Die schweigsame Frau

Mariusz Kwiecien and Erwin Schrott share the role of Don Giovanni. Kwiecien also sings Almaviva in Figaro. Nadja Michael stars opposite Ramón Vargas in Medea in Corinto, current Adler Alek Shrader has the role of Egeo. Shrader also sings Almaviva in Il Barbiere. Mattila sings Tosca opposite Jonas Kaufmann, with Juha Uusitalo as Scarpia.

Official Site | 2009-2010 Season

Berkeley Symphony's 2009-2010 Season

October 15 2009:
John Adams, The Chairman Dances
Gabriela Lena Frank, Peregrinos (West Coast premiere)
Béla Bartók, Concerto for Orchestra

December 3 2009:
Steven Stucky, Radical Light
Jean Sibelius, Symphony No. 7
Steven Stucky, "Lament" from the oratorio August 4, 1964 (West Coast premiere)
Igor Stravinsky, The Firebird Suite (1919 version)

February 11 2010:
Paul Dresher, Cornucopia
Esa-Pekka Salonen, Five Images After Sappho
Beethoven, Symphony No. 3, "Eroica"

April 1 2010:
Jörg Widmann, Con brio (West Coast premiere)
Samuel Barber, Knoxville, Summer of 1915
Johannes Brahms, Symphony No. 1

Official Site | 2009-2010 Season

City Opera's 2009-2010 Season

November 7 2009: Esther
November 8 2009: Don Giovanni
March 18 2010: L'Étoile
March 19 2010: Madama Butterfly
April 3 2010: Partenope

New York City Opera announced their 2009-2010 Season yesterday.

Official Site | Press Release

La Monnaie's 2009-2010 Season

September 8-27 2009: Semele
October 20- November 3 2009: The Rake's Progress
December 1-22 2009: Iphigénie en Aulide 
December 1-22 2009: Iphigénie en Tauride 
January 19- February 4 2010: Elektra
March 15-20 2010: Ismène
March 16- April 3 2010: Idomeneo
April 11-13 2010: Medea
May 4-16 2010: Don Quichotte
June 11-30 2010: Macbeth

De Munt (La Monnaie) seems have a bit of an Ancient Greek theme next season, at least for seven of ten operas. One cannot help but be jealous that they will have not one but two Gluck works. The Rake's Progress is the Lepage production seen here in San Francisco last season. One can read more about De Munt's season on Summer is Coming In.

Official Site | 2009-2010 Season

Chicago Opera Theater's 2010 Season

April 17-25 2010: Mosè in Egitto
April 24- May 2 2010: Giasone  
May 8-16 2010: Three Decembers

Official Site | 2010 Season