Mozart, Don Giovanni:
Soloists,
Orquestra de la Comunitat Valenciana, Cor de la
Generalitat Valenciana, Lorin Maazel (conductor),
Palau de les Arts Reina Sofía, Valencia, Spain,
16.12.2006 (NP)
Bizet,
Carmen:
(new
production)
Francesca Zambello (director)Tanya McCallin (designs)
Paule Constable (lighting) Arthur Pita (choreography)The
Royal Opera Chorus and Orchestra conducted by
Antonio Pappano 15.12.2006 (JPr)
Nicolai:
The Merry Wives of Windsor
Soloists,
Chorus and Orchestra of Staatstheater am Gärtnerplatz,
Munich 30.11.2006 (BM)
Tchaikovsky,
Eugene Onegin: at
the Finnish National Opera on 8.12.2006. Co-production
with the Royal Opera House Covent Garden (GF)
Janácek:
The Cunning Little Vixen (In
English) Opera in three
acts.
Libretto by
the composer
after the story by Rudolf Tesnohlídek. Soloists
and Orchestra of the Royal Northern College of
Music, Ewa Strusinka (conductor) Manchester UK,
06.12.2006 (RJF)
The
Mariinsky Ring in Cardiff – Götterdämmerung:
Soloists and
Orchestra of the Mariinsky Theatre, Valery Gergiev
(conductor) Wales Millennium Centre 03.12.2006
(BK)
The
Mariinsky Ring in Cardiff – Siegfried:
Soloists and Orchestra
of the Mariinsky Theatre, Valery Gergiev (conductor)
Wales Millennium Centre 02.12.2006 (GPu)
Bizet,
Carmen:
Soloists,
chorus & orchestra
of San Francisco Opera, George Cleve (cond), War
Memorial Opera House 02.12.06 (PJB)
The
Mariinsky
Ring
in Cardiff - Die
Walküre:
Soloists
and Orchestra of the
Mariinsky Theatre, Valery Gergiev (conductor)
Wales Millennium Centre 01.12.2006 (GPu)
Nicolai:
The Merry Wives of Windsor
Soloists, Chorus and
Orchestra of Staatstheater am Gärtnerplatz, Munich
30.11.2006 (BM)
The
Mariinsky Ring
in Cardiff - Das
Rheingold
:
Soloists
and Orchestra of the Mariinsky
Theatre, Valery Gregiev (conductor) Wales Millennium
Centre 30.11.2006 (BK)
Monteverdi,
L’incoronazione di Poppea:
Benjamin Britten International
Opera School at the Britten Theatre, RCM / Michael
Rosewell (conductor). 25.11.06 (ED)
Britten, Death in
Venice:
Philip
Langridge (tenor), Alan
Opie (baritone), William Towers (countertenor),
Philharmonia Voices, Aidan Oliver (chorus master),
Richard Hickox (conductor) Philharmonia Orchestra,
Queen Elizabeth Hall, 23.11.2006 (AO)
Britten,
Peter Grimes - Opera North at Sadler's
Wells:
soloists, chorus and orchestra of
Opera North conducted by Richard Farnes, Phyllida
Lloyd (director) Anthony Ward (set and costume
designer) 23.11. 2006 (JPr)
Dallapiccola, Il Prigioniero / De Falla: La Vida
Breve: (productions
in collaboration with Opera North): GNO Orchestra
and Chorus, Olympia Theater, Athens 19.11.2006
(BM)
Puccini,
Manon Lescaut:
Soloists,
chorus & orchestra
of San Francisco Opera, Donald Runnicles (cond),
War Memorial Opera House 19.11.2006 (HS)
Gilbert
& Sullivan, The Gondoliers.
New production supported
by the English Opera Group, dir. Martin Duncan:
English National Opera at the London Coliseum.
Soloists, Orchestra and Chorus of the ENO, cond.
Richard Balcombe. Saturday 18.11.2006 (ME)
Tchaikovsky: The Queen of Spades
Soloists / Orchestra
and Chorus of the Royal
Opera,
Covent Garden / Semyon Bychkov (conductor). 11.11.06.
(ED)
Opera
North On Tour:
The Lowry Theatre, Salford Quays, UK. 07-11.11. 2006 (RJF)
Bellini,
Norma at
Staatsoper Under
den Linden, Berlin, 10.11.2006 (GF)
Verdi
La traviata at Deutsche Oper Berlin, 09.11. 2006 (GF)
Rossini,
Barber of
Seville:
San Francisco
Opera, War Memorial Opera House, San Francisco,
04.11.2006 (PB)
Donizetti,
The Daughter of the Regiment:
(New
Production Premiere in English) Soloists, Chorus
and Orchestra of Swansea City Opera, Philip Sunderland
(conductor) Queens Theatre, Barnstaple, UK 03.11.2006
(BK)
Mozart,
The
Marriage of Figaro:
Soloists,
chorus & orchestra of English National Opera/Roland
Boër. London Coliseum, Thursday,
2.11.2006
(CC)
Mozart,
Don Giovanni:
(New Production
Premiere) Soloists, chorus and orchestra of Greek
National Opera, Acropol Theater, Athens 25.10.2006
(BM)
Beethoven,
Fidelio:
(New Production Premiere)
Soloists, Orquestra de la Communitat Valenciana,
Cor de la Generalitat Valenciana, Zubin Mehta
(conductor), Palau de les Arts Reina Sofia, Valencia,
Spain 25.10.2006 (NP)
Puccini,
La
Bohème:
Soloists, Orchestra and
Chorus of the Royal Opera House, cond. Philippe
Jordan, dir. John Copley. Royal Opera House, Covent
Garden, 23.10. 2006. (JPr)
Rossini
L’italiana in Algeri: Seattle
Opera, soloists, cond. Edoardo Müller, dir. Chris
Alexander, set designer Robert Innes Hopkins, costume
designer David Woolard, Marion Oliver Mc Caw Hall,
Seattle, 21.10.2006 (BJ)
Verdi,
Rigoletto :
(revival production): soloists,
chorus and orchestra of Sofia National Opera and
Ballet, Sofia, Bulgaria 20.10.2006 (BM)
Wagner, Tristan und Isolde:
Soloists,
chorus
& orchestra of San Francisco Opera, Donald Runnicles
(cond), 18.10.2006 (HS)
Janáček,
Jenůfa: First
Night
of new production (with Houston Grand Opera and
Washington National Opera) at English National Opera,
London Coliseum. Soloists, Orchestra of the ENO,
cond. Mikhail Agrest. Production by David Alden.
09.10.2006 (ME)
Wagner,
Tristan und Isolde:
(new revival production) Soloists,
Chorus and Orchestra of Welsh National Opera, Mark
Wigglesworth (conductor) Wales Millennium Centre,
Cardiff 07.10.2006 (BK)
Verdi
Rigoletto:
(new production
premiere)
soloists,
chorus and orchestra of Opera North, Grand Theatre,
Leeds 07.10.2006 (RJF)
Shostakovitch,
Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk
:
Soloists
– Richard Jones (director)
– John Macfarlane (sets) – Nicky Gillibrand (costumes)
– The Royal Opera Chorus and Orchestra – Antonio
Pappano (conductor). 06.10. 2006. (JPr)
Puccini,
Madama Butterfly:
Soloists,
chorus & Orchestra of Metropolitan Opera, Ascher
Fisch (cond), New York, 05.10.2006 (HS)
Mozart,
‘La Finta Giardiniera’(K.196): Soloists,
English Baroque Soloists,
John Eliot Gardiner (Conductor), Royal Opera House
Covent Garden, 04.10.2006 (GD)
Chorus!:
Music
by Bernstein, Bizet, Dvorak,
Gershwin, Handel, Korngold, Leoncavallo, Mascagni,
Poulenc, Prokofiev, Puccini, Rameau, J. Strauss
II, Stravinsky, Verdi, Wagner, Soloists, Welsh National
Opera Chorus; and Orchestra; Donald Nally (conductor)
Wales Millennium Centre, Cardiff, 02.10.2006 (GPu)
Verdi,
Rigoletto:
Soloists, San Francisco Opera, War
Memorial Opera House, 30.09.2006 (PB)
Mikko
Heiniö 'The Hour of the Serpent' (Käärmeen
Hetki) : (new
production)
Soloists,
Chorus and Orchestra of Finnish National Opera,
Hannu Lintu (conductor) Helsinki 23.09.2006 (BK)
Smetana,
The Bartered Bride: Soloists,
Chorus, Mid Wales Opera Chamber Orchestra, Theatre
Elli, Llanelli, West Wales, 22.09.2006 (GPu)
Karita
Mattila's First 'Tosca' : Soloists,
Chorus and Orchestra of Finnish National Opera,
Mikko Franck (conductor) Helsinki 21.09.2006
(BK)
Verdi,
La Traviata
Soloists,
Chorus & Orchestra of English National Opera
cond. Jonathan Darlington. London Coliseum,
20.09.
2006 (CC)
Beethoven,
Fidelio :
Soloists,
chorus and orchestra of Finnish National Opera,
Helsinki, 20.09.2006
(BK)
Halévy,
La Juive:
the
Royal Opera in concert at the Barbican, Soloists,
the Chorus and Orchestra of the Royal Opera House
conducted by Daniel Oren 19.09.2006. (JPr)
Wagner,
Siegfried at
the
Stockholm Royal Opera, 16.09.2006 (GF)
Strauss,
Die Fledermaus:
San Francisco Opera,
Donald Runnicles (conductor), War Memorial Opera
House, 16.09.2006 (PB)
Monteverdi, 'Il ritorno d'Ulisse in patria' :
(new production premiere) soloists Orchestra of
Welsh National Opera (conductor) Rinaldo Alessandrini,
Wales Millennium Centre, Cardiff 16.09.2006 (BK)
Puccini,
La bohème:
(Revival Premiere) Soloists,
Chorus and Orchestra of Welsh National Opera, Carlo
Rizzi, conductor, Wales Millennium Centre,
Cardiff, 15.9.2006 (GPu)
Royal
Opera 2006 Season Opening Night - Gounod: Faust.
Soloists
/ Orchestra and Chorus of the Royal Opera / Maurizio
Benini (conductor). Royal Opera House, Covent Garden.
15.09.06 (ED)
British
Youth Opera: Tchaikovsky: Eugene Onegin.
Soloists /
South Bank Sinfonia / Peter Robinson (conductor).
Peacock Theatre, London. 13.09.06 (ED)
British
Youth Opera: Mozart: Don Giovanni.
Soloists
/ South Bank Sinfonia / Alexander Ingram (conductor).
Peacock Theatre, London. 08.09.06 (ED)
Edinburgh
Festival 2006 (4) : Wagner,
Die
Meistersinger von Nürnberg
Soloists,
Edinburgh Festival Chorus, BBC Symphony Orchestra
David Robertson (conductor)
The
Usher Hall, Edinburgh 02.09.2006 (J Pr)
Mascagni:
Cavalleria rusticana
and
Leoncavallo: Pagliacci
Stockholm Royal Opera, Pier Giorgio Morandi
(conductor) 02.09.2006 (GF)
Edinburgh
Festival 2006 (2) : Mozart,
Die Zauberföte
–
a co-production between I Teatri di Reggio Emilia,
Teatro Comunale di Ferrara and Teatro Comunale di
Modena – Daniele Abbado (director), Claudio Abbado
(conductor). Edinburgh Festival Theatre, 31.08.
2006 (JPr)
VERDI
Aida:
Guest
appearance from the Latvian
National Opera, Riga at at Dalhalla, Sweden 18.08.
2006 (GF)
Strauss: Der Rosenkavalier
Seattle
Opera, soloists, cond. Asher Fisch, dir. Dieter
Kaegi, designer Bruno Schwengl, Marion Oliver
Mc Caw Hall, Seattle, 12.08.2006 (BJ)
Wagner,
Parsifal : Bavarian
State Opera, Adam Fischer
(conductor) Munich, 29.07. 2006 (SM)
Aspen
Music Festival (8) :
Rorem's
'Our Town'
delivers in the end.24.07.2006
(HS)
Prokofiev: The Fiery Angel: (Production
UK Premiere) Soloists / Bolshoi Opera / Alexander
Vedernikov (conductor). Royal Opera House, Covent
Garden. 25.07.2006 (ED)
Jette
Parker Young Artists
Programme Summer Concert:
Royal
Opera House, Covent Garden. 23.07.06 (ED)
Shostakovich, Katerina Izmaylova (1963 version):
Soloists,
Chorus & Orchestra of the Mariinsky Theatre/Valery
Gergiev. Coliseum, 23.07.2006 (CC)
Shostakovich: The Nose Soloists,
Chorus
and Orchestra of the Mariinsky Opera and Artists
of the Mariinsky Ballet, Valery Gergiev (conductor)
English National Opera, Coliseum, 20.07.2006 (AO)
Wagner,
Das Rheingold:
(Premiere)
Soloists, Staatskapelle
Weimar Conductor: Carl St. Clair, Nationaltheater,
Weimar 15.07. 2006 (SM)
Bernstein,
Candide: (new
production premiere) Soloists, Welsh National Youth
Opera, Weston Studio, Wales Millennium Centre, Cardiff
15-17.07 2006 (BK)
13th
Aspendos International Festival Opera
and Ballet Festival (2):
Verdi, Otello
-
a clash of cultures or merely a tale of insane
jealousy?
Soloists, Chorus and Orchestra of Istanbul
State Opera, Fabrizio Ventura (conductor) Aspendos,
Turkey 11.07.2006 (BM)
Shostakovich,
Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk
(in German), Soloists, chorus
and orchestra of Hessisches Staatsoper, Staatstheater
Wiesbaden, Conductor: Fabrizio Ventura. Director:
Manfred Beilharz. Sets and costumes: Bernd Holzapfel,
08.07. 2006 (BM)
and
Shostakovich, Lady Macbeth
of Mtsensk: Soloists, chorus and orchestra
of Nationaltheater-Mannheim Conductor:Wolfram
Koloses. Director: Tilman Knabe. Sets Alfred Peters,
costumes: Kathi Maurer, 09.07. 2006 (BM)
Buxton
Festival 2006: Christoph
Willibald Gluck 'Armide'
Sung
in English. Soloists, Northern Chamber Orchestra,
Buxton Festival Chorus /Robert King (conductor)Matcham
Theatre, Buxton 08.07.2006 (RJF)
13th
Aspendos International Opera and Ballet Festival:
Verdi, 'Aida', Soloists,
Ankara State Opera Chorus and Orchestra/ Dario
Lucantoni (conductor) Aspendos, Turkey 10.06 -
22.07.2006 (BM)
Puccini,
Turandot:
Soloists,
Royal Opera House Chorus and Orchestra conducted
by Stefan Soltesz in Andrei Serban’s 1984 production:
designs by Sally Jacobs. 07.07. 2006.
(JPr)
;