2014-2015 Season Previews

Opera Parallèle's 2015 Season

0274-JakeHeggie-131024Opera Parallèle presents Jake Heggie's Dead Man Walking at San Francisco's Yerba Buena Center for the Arts from February 20 to 22, 2015. The cast features Jennifer Rivera (Sister Helen Prejean), Michael Mayes (Joe DeRocher), Catherine Cook (Mrs. DeRocher), Talise Trevigne (Sister Rose), and Robert Orth (Owen Hart). Other singers in the production include Kristin Clayton, Michelle Rice, Joseph Mayers, Mark Hernandez, Jonathan Smucker, and members of the San Francisco Girls Chorus.

Additionally, Tarik O'Regan's Heart of Darkness has a U.S. premiere at Z Space in San Francisco from May 1 to 3, 2015. The cast will include Isaiah Bell (Marlow), Matthew Stump (Kurtz), Jonathan Blalock (Manager/Secretary), Thomas Glenn (Accountant/Helmsman), Daniel Cilli (Thames Captain), Crystal Kim (Fiancée), Shawnette Sulker (River Woman), Jonathan Boyd (Harlequin) and John Bischoff (Doctor/Bowlermaker).


Cal Performances 2014-2015 Season

MT_katwade_outsideZHAugust 12 2014: Yo-Yo Ma performs Bach's Cello Suites
September 13 2014: Eco Ensemble
September 25-28 2014: Mark Morris Dance Group Music Ensemble
October 10 2014: Art Spiegelman and Phillip Johnston perform WORDLESS!
October 11 2014: Afropop Spectacular: Bassekou Kouyate and the Krar Collective
October 12 2014: Takács Quartet and Marc-André Hamelin, piano
October 16-19 2014: Australian Ballet performs Swan Lake
October 24-25 2014: Sasha Waltz & Guests
October 26 2014: Richard Goode, piano
October 30 2014: Mavis Staples, vocals
November 2 2014: Jorge Federico Osorio, piano
November 7-8 2014: Théâtre de la Ville performs Six Characters in Search of an Author
November 9 2014: Czech Philharmonic Orchestra
November 13 2014: Apollo's Fire plays Monteverdi's Vespers for the Blessed Virgin
November 14-15 2014: Curlew River – A Parable for Church Performance
November 15 2014: Academy of Ancient Music plays Bach's Complete Orchestral Suites
November 15 2014: David Sedaris
November 16 2014: San Francisco Contemporary Music Players and Tony Arnold, soprano
November 16 2014: Irvin Mayfield and the New Orleans Jazz Orchestra
November 21-23 2014: Mikhail Baryshnikov and Willem Dafoe perform The Old Woman
November 23 2014: St. Lawrence String Quartet
December 4 2014: Cantus performs All is Calm: The Christmas Truce of 1914
December 5-6 2014: Paul Dresher Electro-Acoustic Band and Amy X Neuburg perform They Will Have Been So Beautiful: Songs and Images of Now
December 6 2014: Audra McDonald, soprano
December 7 2014: Takács Quartet and Erica Eckert, viola
December 10 2014: Yo-Yo Ma, speaker
January 13 2015: Gidon Kremer, violin and Daniil Trifonov, piano
January 18 2015: The Kronos Quartet and Wu Man, pipa
January 24-25 2015: Peking Acrobats
January 25 2015: San Francisco Contemporary Music Players and Nicolas Hodges, piano
January 31 2015: Matthew Polenzani, tenor
January 31- February 1 2015: Kodo
February 4-7 2015: Les 7 Doigts de la Main Circus performs Sequence 8
February 8 2015: Peter Nero Trio
February 15 2015: Olli Mustonen, piano
February 19 2015: The Nile Project
February 20 2015: Jordi Savall and Hespèrion XXI
February 22 2015: San Francisco Contemporary Music Players
March 1 2015: Susan Graham, mezzo soprano
March 1 2015: Cassandra Wilson, vocals
March 6 2015: The Intergalactic Nemesis: Book Two: Robot Planet Rising
March 8 2015: David Finckel, cello and Wu Han, piano
March 11 2015: Hugh Masekela, trumpeter, vocalist and Vusi Mahlasela, singer-songwriter
March 12 2015: Pierre-Laurent Aimard, piano and Tamara Stefanovich, piano
March 14-15 2015: Joffrey Ballet
March 15 2015: Jennifer Koh, violin
March 19 2015: Chick Corea, piano and Herbie Hancock, piano
March 20-22 2015: Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra
March 28 2015: Davitt Moroney, harpsichord
March 29 2015: San Francisco Contemporary Music Players
March 28-29 2015: Chitresh Das Dance Company performs Shiva
April 10-11 2015: The Tallis Scholars
April 13 2013: Ray Kurzweil
April 12 2015: Ian Bostridge, tenor
April 17 2015: Arlo Guthrie
April 21-26 2015: Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater
May 1-3 2015: Handspring Puppet Company performs Ubu and the Truth Commission
May 1 2015: Les Arts Florissants
May 8 2015: Donal Fox Trio
May 10 2015: Christian Tetzlaff, violin and Lars Vogt, piano
May 15 2015: Sérgio Assad, guitar and Odair Assad, guitar
June 2015: Ojai North!

Matías Tarnopolsky announced the new Cal Performances season today.

Official Site | Brochure


The Met's 2014-2015 Season

Metropolitan_Opera_House_At_Lincoln_Center_2September 22- December 20 2014: Le Nozze di Figaro
September 23 2014- January 24 2015 : La Bohème
September 24- October 18 2014: Macbeth
September 30 2014- March 7 2015: Carmen
October 6- November 8 2014: Die Zauberflöte
October 20- November 15 2014: The Death of Klinghoffer
October 30 2014- April 20 2015: Aida
November 10-29 2014: Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk
November 18- December 6 2014: Il Barbiere di Siviglia
December 2-23 2014: Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg
December 11 2014- January 24 2015: La Traviata
December 18 2014- January 8 2015: Hansel and Gretel
December 31 2014- May 7 2015: The Merry Widow
January 12- March 21 2015: Les Contes d'Hoffmann
January 26- February 21 2015: Iolanta / Duke Bluebeard's Castle
February 4- March 6 2015: Don Giovanni
February 16- March 14 2015: La Donna del Lago
March 9-28 2015: Manon
March 16- April 10 2015: Lucia di Lammermoor
March 20- April 11 2015: Ernani
March 30- April 25 2015: Don Carlo
April 14- May 8 2015: Cavalleria Rusticana / Pagliacci
April 23- May 9 2015: Un Ballo in Maschera
May 1-9 2015: The Rake's Progress

The Met announced the 2014-2015 season today. The new productions are Le Nozze di Figaro, The Death of Klinghoffer, The Merry Widow, Iolanta, Duke Bluebeard's Castle, La Donna del Lago, Cavalleria Rusticana, and Pagliacci.

Online 2014-2015 Brochure | Official Site


Lyric Opera of Chicago's 2014-2015 Season

Civic-opera-houseSeptember 27 -October 29, 2014: Don Giovanni
October 6-28 2014: Capriccio
October 27- November 29 2014: Il Trovatore
November 17-December 20 2014: Porgy and Bess
December 6 2014-January 16 2015: Anna Bolena
January 24- March 14 2015: Tosca
February 9 -March 6 2015: Tannhäuser
February 24 -March 1, 2015: The Passenger
March 28-29 2015: El Pasado Nunca Se Termina
April 2015: Carousel

Anthony Freud announced Lyric Opera of Chicago's 2014-2015 season today.

Press Release | Official Site


Opera Parallèle's 2014 Season

Op-2014Opera Parallèle presents Francis Poulenc's Les mamelles de Tirésias and Kurt Weill's Mahagonny Songspiel at San Francisco's Yerba Buena Center for the Arts from April 25 to 27, 2014. Baritone Gabriel Preisser performs Bobby in Mahagonny Songspiel and Le mari in Les mamelles de Tirésias; soprano Rachel Schutz is Jessie and Tirésias/La cartomacienne; tenor Thomas Glenn is Charlie and Lacouf/Le journaliste/Le fils; Daniel Cilli is Billy and Le directeur/Presto; mezzo soprano Renée Rapier is Bessie and La marchande de journaux; Matthew Lovell is Jimmy and Le messieur barbu.


Lyric Opera of Chicago's The Passenger and New Ring Cycle

Christine-goerkeLyric Opera of Chicago's 2014-2015 season includes The Passenger, which will be performed from February 24 to March 15, 2015. The company will also present a new Ring production, directed by David Pountney, starting on October 1, 2016 and continuing in consecutive seasons, followed by three complete cycles in April 2020. The conductor is Sir Andrew Davis, and the cast includes Christine Goerke (pictured left) as Brünnhilde and Eric Owens as Wotan.

Press Release | Official Site


LA Opera's 2014-2015 Season

F1_1_Dorothy-Chandler-PavilionSeptember 13-28 2014: La Traviata
October 25- November 15 2014: Dido and Aeneas and Bluebeard's Castle
November 22- December 20 2014: Florencia en Amazonas
February 7- March 1 2015: The Ghosts of Versailles
February 28- March 22 2015: The Barber of Seville
March 21- April 12 2015: The Marriage of Figaro
April 23-26 2015: Hercules vs Vampires
June 11-14 2015: Dog Days

Official Site


SF Opera's 2014-2015 Season

Open-house-david-wakelySeptember 5-30 2014: Norma
September 6-21 2014: Susannah
October 4-22 2014: Un Ballo in Maschera
October 15- November 2 2014: Partenope
October 23- November 8 2014: Tosca
November 9-26 2014: Cenerentola
November 14- December 7 2014: La Bohème
June 7- July 1 2015: Les Troyens
June 13-30 2015: La Ciociara
June 14- July 5 2015: Le Nozze di Figaro

David Gockley announced San Francisco Opera's 2014-2015 season today. The season starts with Bellini's Norma starring Sondra Radvanovsky. Patricia Racette and Brandon Jovanovich sing in Susannah. Danielle de Niese sings the title role in Partenope, with Anthony Roth Costanzo as Armindo. Susan Graham is Dido in Les Troyens. Anna Caterina Antonacci and Sarah Shafer star in the world premiere of Marco Tutino and Fabio Ceresa's La Ciociara.

Press Release [PDF] | Official Site


Seattle Opera's Speight Jenkins to Retire

Ring-cycle-seattle-das-rheingold 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