Bayreuther Festspiele Tickets 2012
September 04, 2011
Tickets for the next season of the Bayreuther Festspiele will be sold online starting September 15, 2011. One may still send in a written order form by October 18, 2011.
2011-2012 Season Previews
Dallas Opera cancels Katya Kabanová
July 22, 2011
Dallas Opera has cancelled a production of Katya Kabanová scheduled for October 28 - November 13 2011. Patricia Racette was to sing the title role.
SF Opera 2011-2012 Cast Changes
July 08, 2011
Single tickets for San Francisco Opera's 2011-2012 season go on sale Sunday, July 10. Some cast changes have also been announced. Michael Fabiano will replace Francesco Meli as Gennaro in Lucrezia Borgia (Renée Fleming pictured left as Lucrezia Borgia, photo by Karin Cooper/Washington National Opera). Lucrezia Garcia and Fabio Sartori replace Oksana Dyka and Ramón Vargas in Attila.
ENO's 2011-2012 Season
May 18, 2011
September 15- October 8 2011: The Elixir of Love
September 19- October 25 2011: The Passenger
October 5- November 10 2011: The Marriage of Figaro
October 24- December 1 2011: Castor and Pollux
November 12- December 3 2011: Eugene Onegin
November 26 2011- Janurary 29 2012: Tosca
January 28- February 27 2012: Der Rosenkavalier
February 10- March 10 2012: The Tales of Hoffmann
February 25- March 9 2012: The Death of Klinghoffer
The Death of Klinghoffer has a London stage premiere at English National Opera next season.
San Diego Opera's 2012 Season
May 16, 2011
January 28- February 5 2012: Salome
February 18-26 2012: Moby-Dick
March 10-18 2012: Don Pasquale
March 24 2012: Renée Fleming Concert
April 21-29 2012: The Barber of Seville
San Diego Opera recently announced a 2012 season. Lise Lindstrom, Greer Grimsley, Alan Glassman, and Irina Mishura star in Salome. The West Coast premiere of Jake Heggie's Moby-Dick features Jay Hunter Morris as Ahab. John Del Carlo, Danielle de Niese, and Charles Castronovo sing in Don Pasquale. The Barber of Seville concludes next season, with Lucas Meachem in the title role.
Sacramento Opera's 2011-2012 Season
May 13, 2011
Sacramento Opera has raised $135,164 and will have a 2011-2012 season. Performances are to include Pagliacci, a concert of opera arias, and Rigoletto.
Santa Fe Opera's 2012 Season
May 11, 2011
June 28- August 24 2012: Tosca
June 30 - August 25 2012: The Pearl Fishers
July 14- August 16 2012: Maometto II
July 21- August 14 2012: King Roger
July 28- August 23 2012: Arabella
Santa Fe just announced the 2012 season. Emmanuel Villaume conducts The Pearl Fishers. Leah Crocetto, Patricia Bardon, Bruce Sledge, and Luca Pisaroni have been cast in a new critical edition of Rossini's Maometto II . William Burden and Mariusz Kwiecien sing in Szymanowski's King Roger. Erin Wall sings the title role of Arabella, with Heidi Stober as Zdenka and Mark Delavan as Mandryka.
Cal Performances' 2011-2012 Season
April 26, 2011
September 16-18 2011: Mark Morris Dance Group performs Dido and Aeneas
September 21 2011: Herbie Hancock, piano
September 25 2011: Fall Free for All: Open House at Cal Performances
October 2 2011: Cambodia's Khmer Arts Ensemble
October 9 2011: Kronos Quartet
October 11 2011: Yefim Bronfman, piano
October 14-16 2011: Mariinsky Orchestra
October 21 2011:The Infernal Comedy: Confessions of a Serial Killer starring John Malkovich
October 22 2011: An Evening with David Rakoff
October 23 2011: The Cashore Marionettes
October 26-29 2011: Toni Morrison, Rokia Traoré & Peter Sellars' the Desdemona project
October 28 2011: San Francisco Opera Orchestra
October 29 2011: Keith Jarrett, piano; Gary Peacock, bass; & Jack DeJohnette, drums
October 30 2011: Philippe Jaroussky, countertenor with Apollo's Fire
November 2 2011: Lang Lang, piano
November 6 2011: Takács Quartet
November 13 2011: Davitt Moroney, harpsichord
November 13 2011: Abraham, Inc.
November 17-20 2011: Gate Theatre of Dublin
November 18 2011: Trey McIntyre Project
November 19 2011: Compañia Flamenca José Porcel
November 19 2011: An Evening of Images & Conversation with Roz Chast
November 25-27 2011: Tomáš Kubínek
December 2-3 2011: Tanztheater Wuppertal
December 4 2011: Takács Quartet
December 10 2011: Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra performs Messiah
January 14 2012: Susan Graham, mezzo-soprano
January 20-22 2012: Peking Acrobats
January 27 2012: Europa Galante
January 28 2012: Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
January 29 2012: Alfredo Rodríguez, piano
February 3-4 2012: The Polychoral Splendors of Renaissance Florence
February 5 2012: Kronos Quartet & Alim Qasimov Ensemble
February 12 2012: David Holt
February 12 2012: Kirill Gerstein, piano
February 17 2012: The Assad Brothers
February 18 2012: Ana Moura
February 19 2012: Takács Quartet
February 24-25 2012: Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company
February 29 2012: András Schiff, piano
March 3 2012: Irvin Mayfield & the New Orleans Jazz Orchestra
March 4 2012: Wolfgang Holzmair, baritone
March 7 2012: An Evening with Garrison Keillor
March 8 2012: Danú
March 10 2012: Ton Koopman & the Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra & Choir
March 13-18 2012: Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater
March 24 2012: Zakir Hussain & Masters of Percussion
March 24 2012: David Finckel, cello & Wu Han, piano
March 25 2012: Richard Goode, piano
March 30-31 2012: Baltimore Symphony Orchestra
April 1 2012: April 13 2012: Quatuor Mosaïques
April 19 2012: Seun Kuti & Fela's Egypt 80
April 22 2012: Musicians from Marlboro
May 4 2012: Dianne Reeves
May 6 2012: Word for Word
May 6 2012: Sweet Honey in the Rock
May 8 2012: Peter Serkin, piano
June 3 2012: San Francisco Opera Orchestra
June 11-14 2012: Ojai North!
Matías Tarnopolsky announced Cal Performances's 2011-2012 season at a press conference today. We were seated on the stage and at one point Peter Sellars joined the conference via Skype from Vienna, where his new work is currently in rehearsal.
Mark Morris opens the next season, and he will be conducting Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra. The soloists include Stephanie Blythe and Philip Cutlip. Eric Owens, Philippe Jaroussky, and Susan Graham all have recitals. More New Music and Early Music programming will be announced in September.
PBO's 2011-2012 Season
March 07, 2011
September 15-17 2011: Dido & Aeneas
September 22-25 2011: Mozart & Haydn
October 25-30 2011: Arias for Farinelli
November 18-22 2011: Marion Verbruggen & The Italian Baroque
December 2-6 2011: Bach's Mass in B minor
January 26-29 2012: Richard Egarr: Masters of the English Baroque
March 6-11 2012: Steven Isserlis: The Classical Cello
April 20-25 2012: Händel's Alexander's Feast
Philharmonia Baroque announced their next season today. Stephanie Blythe will be singing Dido in Dido and Aeneas this September, Mark Morris Dance Company performs. Vivica Genaux sings in the October performances of Vivaldi, Fasch, Telemann, and Rameau.
San Francisco Symphony's 2011-2012 Season
March 01, 2011
September 7 2011: Gala with Lang Lang, piano and Itzhak Perlman, violin
September 14-17 2011: MTT conducts Beethoven, Hindemith, Brahms; Yo-Yo Ma, cello
September 21-25 2011: MTT conducts Mahler's 3rd
September 29- October 1 2011: Mozart, Adès, Stravinsky
October 5-9 2011: Shostakovich, Glazunov, Tchaikovsky, Elgar; Joshua Bell, violin
October 13-16 2011: Conlon conducts Shostakovich, Mussorgsky/Ravel
October 19-22 2010: Luisi conducts Verdi Requiem
October 23 2011: LA Phil plays Adams, Chapela, Prokofiev
October 24 2011: Adams, Stravinsky, Berlioz
October 27-29 2011: Gilbert conducts Beethoven, Dutilleux, Haydn
October 31 2011: Phantom of the Opera (1925 film)
November 2-4 2011: Bychkov conducts Strauss, Schumann
November 5 2011: Día de los Muertos Concert
November 6 2011: SF Symphony Youth Orchestra
November 6 2011: Chamber Music at Davies
November 6 2011: Joshua Bell, violin
November 11-13 2011: MTT conducts Schubert
November 17-21 2011: MTT conducts Gubaidulina, Brahms; Jane Archibald, soprano
November 23-26 2011: MTT conducts Wagner, Brahms; Gil Shaham, violin
December 6 2011: Boston Symphony Orchestra plays Berlioz, Mozart, Carter, Bartók
December 7 2011: Boston Symphony Orchestra plays Harbison, Ravel, Mahler
December 8-10 2011: Salonen conducts Sibelius, Salonen, Wagner; Leila Josefowicz, violin
December 10-11 2011: Cabrera conducts Peter and the Wolf
December 11 2011: Chamber Music at the Legion of Honor
December 16-18 2011: Messiah
December 31 2011: New Year's Eve Masquerade Ball
January 5-8 2012: MTT conducts Liszt, Ligeti, Tchaikovsky; Christian Tetzlaff, violin
January 12-14 2012: MTT conducts Janáček, Debussy
January 15 2012: Cabrera conducts the Bay Area Youth Orchestra Festival
January 19-22 2012: Heras-Casado conducts Stravinsky, Ravel, Dallapiccola, Falla; Khatia Buniatishvili, piano
January 22 2012: Paul Jacobs, organ
January 25-29 2012: Zukerman conducts Mozart, Hindemith
February 2-14 2012: Blomstedt conducts Mozart, Tchaikovsky
February 5 2012: Chamber Music at Davies
February 8-10 2012: Blomstedt conducts Bruckner
February 11 2012: Chinese New Year Concert
February 12 2012: Chamber Music at the Legion of Honor
February 14 2012: Chicago Symphony Orchestra plays Honegger, Bates, Franck
February 15 2012: Chicago Symphony Orchestra plays Schubert, Clyne
February 16-19 2012: de Waart conducts Schreker, Rachmaninoff, Saint-Saëns
February 23-25 2012: Alessandrini conducts Haydn, Mozart
March 1-3 2012: Dutoit conducts Stravinsky, Tchaikovsky, Bartók
March 4 2012: Isabelle Demers, organ
March 8-9 2012: MTT conducts Copland, Harrison, Ives
March 10-14 2012: MTT conducts Foss, Cowell, Cage
March 15-17 2012: MTT conducts Bates, Adams, Feldman, Varese
March 18 2012: Chamber Music in Davies
March 25 2012: Cabrera conducts SF Symphony Youth Orchestra
April 1 2012: Christopher Houlihan, organ
April 11-14 2012: Perlman conducts Vivaldi,Tchaikovsky
April 15 2012: Chamber Music at the Legion of Honor
April 15 2012: Cleveland Orchestra plays Mendelssohn, Saariaho, Shostakovich
April 16 2012: Cleveland Orchestra plays Beethoven, Adès, Smetana
April 19-22 2012: Deneve conducts Roussel, Saint-Saëns, Stravinsky; Thibaudet, piano
April 27-28 2012: Malkki conducts Grisey, Prokofiev, Sibelius; Gutierrez, piano
April 29 2012: Chamber Music at Davies
April 29 2012: Academy of St. Martin in the Fields plays Beethoven; Joshua Bell, violin
May 1-5 2012: Glover conducts Handel, Bach
May 2-5 2012: Bach, Handel; Barantschik, violin
May 10-12 2012: MTT conducts Barbary Coast and Beyond
May 13 2012: NY Phil plays Berlioz, Lindberg, Tchaikovsky
May 14 2012: NY Phil plays Dvořák , Bartók, Debussy, Ravel
May 16-29 2012: MTT conducts Mahler, Schnittke, Beethoven
May 20 2012: SF Symphony Youth Orchestra
May 24-27 2012: Vänskä conducts Aho, Prokofiev, Shostakovich; Hilary Hahn, violin
May 31- June 3 2012: Robertson conducts Britten, Dvořák ; Dawn Upshaw, soprano
June 2 2012: Black and White Ball
June 9 2012: Philadelphia Orchestra plays Hindemith, Ravel, Shostakovich
June 10 2012: Philadelphia Orchestra plays Ranjbaran, Rachmaninoff, Debussy, Scriabin
June 14-17 2012: MTT conducts Faure, Sibelius, Rachmaninoff; Yuja Wang, piano
June 21-23 2012: MTT conducts Lizst, Bartók; Michelle DeYoung, mezzo-soprano
June 24 2012: Chamber Music at Davies
June 27-30 2012: MTT conducts Schoenberg, Beethoven; Erin Wall, soprano
The San Francisco Symphony announced the 2011-2012 season today. Jessye Norman, Dawn Upshaw, Michelle DeYoung, and Erin Wall sing. Guest conductors include James Conlon, Esa-Pekka Salonen, and Osmo Vänskä.
The Met's 2011-2012 Season
February 16, 2011
September 26 2011- February 4 2012: Anna Bolena
September 27- November 17 2011: Nabucco
October 1 2011- February 18 2012: Il Barbiere di Siviglia
October 13 2011- March 3 2012: Don Giovanni
October 27 2011- May 9 2012: Siegfried
November 4- December 1 2011: Satyagraha
November 14- December 10 2011: Rodelinda
November 18- December 8 2011: La Bohème
November 29 2011- January 9 2012: Faust
December 5 2011- March 8 2012: Madama Butterfly
December 12 2011- January 6 2012: La Fille du Régiment
December 16 2011- January 7 2012: Hansel and Gretel
December 31 2011- January 30 2012: The Enchanted Island
January 10-28 2012: Tosca
January 27- May 12 2012: Götterdämmerung
February 2-25 2012: Ernani
February 9- March 3 2012: Aida
February 27- March 17 2012: Khovanshchina
March 5-31 2012: L'Elisir d'Amore
March 15 -April 9 2012: Macbeth
March 26- April 23 2012: Manon
April 4- May 5 2012: Das Rheingold
April 6- May 2 2012: La Traviata
April 13- May 7 2012: Die Walküre
April 27- May 11 2012: The Makropulos Case
May 4-12 2012: Billy Budd
The press release went out on February 16th. The 2011-12 season of The Met: Live in HD will feature 11 transmissions, beginning on October 15 with Anna Bolena and continuing with Don Giovanni (October 29), Siegfried (November 5), Satyagraha (November 19), Rodelinda (December 3), Faust (December 10), The Enchanted Island (January 21), Götterdämmerung (February 11), Ernani (February 25), Manon (April 7), and La Traviata (April 14).
Lyric Opera of Chicago's 2011-2012 Season
February 01, 2011
October 1-29 2011: Tales of Hoffmann
October 10- November 5 2011: Lucia di Lammermoor
November 7-29 2011: Boris Godunov
November 19- December 11 2011: Ariadne auf Naxos
December 6 2011-January 22 2012: Die Zauberflöte
January 21- February 8 2012: Aida
February 12- March 17 2012: Show Boat
February 29- March 24 2012: Rinaldo
Lyric Opera of Chicago announced the 2011-2012 season today. Matthew Polenzani is Hoffmann. Ferruccio Furlanetto sings Boris with Stefan Margita, Erik Nelson Werner, Andrea Silvestrelli, and Raymond Aceto. Deborah Voigt stars in Ariadne and Sondra Radvanovsky stars in Aida. David Daniels sings in Rinaldo with Luca Pisaroni, Elza van den Heever, and Sonia Prina.
Washington National Opera's 2011-2012 Season
February 01, 2011
September 10-24 2011: Tosca
November 10-19 2011: Lucia di Lammermoor
February 25 - March 15 2012 : Così fan Tutte
March 3 2012: Angela Gheorghiu Concert
March 17 2012: Deborah Voigt Concert
April 28- May 21 2012: Nabucco
May 12-27 2012: Werther
Today WNO announced the new season, which is still only 5 operas, but does include two "Celebrity Concerts."
LA Opera's 2011-2012 Season
January 31, 2011
September 17- October 9 2011: Eugene Onegin
September 18- October 8 2011: Così fan tutte
November 6-26 2011: Roméo et Juliette
February 11- March 4 2012: Simon Boccanegra
February 25- March 14 2012: Albert Herring
February 25- March 14 2012: La Bohème
Vittorio Grigolo has his LA Opera premiere in Roméo et Juliette opposite Nino Machaidze. Alek Shrader and Daniela Mack star in Albert Herring, while Ailyn Perez and Stephen Costello sing in La Bohème. Plácido Domingo sings Simon Boccanegra, with Vitalij Kowaljow and Paolo Gavanelli. Sadly, the Recovered Voices program is still on hiatus.
Houston Grand Opera's 2011-2012 Season
January 30, 2011
October 21 - November 6 2011: Il barbiere di Siviglia
October 28- November 13 2011: Fidelio
January 27- February 12 2012: La Traviata
February 3-11 2012 : The Rape of Lucretia
April 13- 28 2012: Don Carlos
April 21- May 4 2012: Maria Stuarda
Nathan Gunn sings the title role in Barbiere with Ana María Martínez as Rosina and Lawrence Brownlee as Almaviva. Karita Mattila stars in Fidelio. David Lomelí sings in La Traviata opposite Albina Shagimuratova. Michelle DeYoung sings Lucretia, Brandon Jovanovich is Don Carlos, and Joyce DiDonato is Maria Stuarda.