The Opera Tattler

PBO's 2013-2014 Season

October 2-6 2013: Pergolesi's Stabat Mater
November 15-19 2013: Berezovsky, Facius, Fomin, Glinka
December 6-10 2013: Stanley, Croft, Boyce
December 14-15 2013: Händel's Messiah
February 5-9 2014: C.P.E. Bach, Haydn
March 5-9 2013: Muffat, Schmelzer, Schein, Biber, Benda, Bach, Telemann
April 10-14 2013: Vivaldi's Juditha Triumphans

Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra's 2013-2014 season was announced on today. Carolyn Sampson and David Daniels are the soloists in Stabat Mater. Cécile van de Sant, Vivica Genaux, Diana Moore, Dominique Labelle, and Virginia Warnken are featured in Juditha Triumphans.

Official Site

Boston Lyric Opera's 2013-2014 Season

October 4–13 2013: Die Zauberflöte
November 20–24 2013: Jack Beeson's Lizzie Borden
March 14–23 2014: Rigoletto
May 2-11 2014: I Puritani

Official Site

Washington National Opera's 2013-2014 Season

September 15-27 2013: Tristan und Isolde
October 12-26 2013: La Forza del Destino
December 14-22 2013: The Lion, the Unicorn, and Me
February 22- March 8 2014: Moby-Dick
March 20-29 2014: L'Elisir d'Amore
May 3-18 2014: Die Zauberflöte

The 2013-2014 season at WNO was announced today.

2013-2014 Season | Official Site

The Met's 2013-2014 Season

September 23- December 12 2013: Eugene Onegin
September 24 2013- May 8 2014 : Così fan tutte
September 28- October 26 2013: The Nose
September 30- November 1 2013: Norma
October 11-31 2013: A Midsummer Night's Dream
October 21- November 14 2013: Two Boys
October 29- December 28 2013: Tosca
November 7-26 2013: Die Frau Ohne Schatten
November 11- December 7 2013: Rigoletto
November 22- December 13 2013: Der Rosenkavalier
December 6 2013- January 11 2014: Falstaff
December 16 2013- January 4 2014: The Magic Flute
December 31 2013- February 22 2014: Die Fledermaus
January 9- February 1 2014: L'elisir d'Amore
January 14- April 18 2014: La Bohème
January 16- May 9 2014: Madama Butterfly
January 23- February 15 2014: Rusalka
February 6- March 8 2014: Prince Igor
February 18- March 15 2014: Werther
February 26- March 20 2014: The Enchanted Island
March 6-22 2014: Wozzeck
March 14- April 1 2014: La Sonnambula
March 24- April 12 2014: Andrea Chénier
April 3-24 2014: Arabella
April 17- May 10 2014: I Puritani
April 21- May 10 2014: La Cenerentola

The Met announced the 2013-2014 season today. The 6 new productions are Eugene Onegin, Nico Muhly's Two Boys, Falstaff, Die Fledermaus, Prince Igor, and Werther.

Online 2013-2014 Brochure | Official Site

Lyric Opera of Chicago's 2013-2014 Season

October 5 – November 2 2013: Otello
October 15 2013- January 26 2014: Madama Butterfly
November 9–29 2013: Parsifal
November 20- December 20 2013: La traviata
December 10 2013-January 18 2014: Die Fledermaus
February 1–28 2014: Il barbiere di Siviglia
February 22- March 16 2014: Rusalka
March 5–23 2014: La clemenza di Tito
Spring 2014: The Sound of Music

Anthony Freud announced Lyric Opera of Chicago's 2013-2014 season yesterday.

Press Release | Official Site

Seattle Opera's 2013-2014 Season

October 19- November 2 2013: La fille du régiment
January 11-25 2014: Rigoletto
February 22- March 7 2014: The Consul
May 3-17 2014: Les contes d'Hoffmann

Seattle Opera announced the 2013-2014 season today. Sarah Coburn and Terri Richter Franklin share the role of Marie in La fille du régiment, while Lawrence Brownlee and Andrew Stenson sing Tonio. William Burden sings Hoffmann, sharing the role with Russell Thomas.

Official 2013-2014 Site

LA Opera's 2013-2014 Season

September 21- October 6 2013: Carmen
October 11-13 2013: Einstein on the Beach
November 9- December 1 2013: Falstaff
November 23- December 15 2013: Die Zauberflöte
February 22- March 16 2014: Billy Budd
March 15- April 6 2014: Lucia di Lammermoor
May 17- June 7 2014: Thaïs

Official Site

Spoleto Festival USA 2013

May 24- June 4 2013: Toshio Hosokawa's Matsukaze
May 25- June 7 2013: Giordano's Mese Mariano/ Puccini's Le Villi

The schedule for the Spoleto Festival in Charleston was announced today. The opera schedule includes the American premiere of Toshio Hosokawa's Matsukaze, Giordano's Mese Mariano, and Puccini's Le Villi.

Operas | Official Site

SF Opera's 2013-2014 Season

September 6- October 2 2013: Mefistofele
September 18- October 4 2013: Dolores Claiborne
October 8- November 2 2013: Falstaff
October 22- November 15 2013: Der fliegender Holländer
November 13- December 1 2013: Il barbiere di Siviglia
June 1- July 2 2014: Show Boat
June 11- July 13 2014: La Traviata
June 15- July 9 2014: Madama Butterfly

David Gockley announced San Francisco Opera's 2013-2014 season today. The season starts with Boito's Mefistofele starring Ildar Abdrazakov, Ramón Vargas, and Patricia Racette. Racette returns for Show Boat and Butterfly in the summer. Dolora Zajick sings the title role in the world premiere of Tobias Picker and J.D. McClatchy's Dolores Claiborne. Bryn Terfel is Falstaff and Greer Grimsley is the Holländer. Ailyn Perez and Sonya Yoncheva share the role of Violetta in Traviata, with Stephen Costello and Saimir Pirgu as Alfredo.

Press Release [PDF] | Official Site

Seattle Opera's 2011-12 Shortfall

Seattle Opera announced today that the company anticipates a shortfall for the 2011-2012 season. The company has operated without a deficit for 18 of the past 19 seasons, so this is cause for concern. As a result, the International Wagner Competition will replace Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg for Summer 2014. The Young Artists Program will produce a concert with orchestra instead of a fully-produced opera in the upcoming season, and will go on hiatus for the following season. There will also be operational reductions including leadership salary cuts, lower artist fees, and the net loss of four full-time staff positions.

Press Releases | Official Site

Seattle Opera's Speight Jenkins to Retire

August 4-25 2013: Der Ring des Nibelungen
August 2-23 2014: Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg

Yesterday Seattle Opera officially announced Summer schedules for 2013 and 2014. Asher Fisch will conduct the Ring. The cast includes Alwyn Mellor (Brünnhilde), Stefan Vinke (Siegfried), Greer Grimsley (Wotan), Stephanie Blythe (Fricka), Margaret Jane Wray (Sieglinde), Stuart Skelton (Siegmund), Dennis Petersen (Mime), and Richard Paul Fink (Alberich).

Asher Fisch will also conduct Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, which will be Speight Jenkins' production as General Director. He will retire on September 1, 2014.

2013 Ring Official Site | 2014 Meistersinger Official Site