2016-2017
20th SEASON OF THE TEATRO REAL
8 NEW PRODUCTIONS, 4 OF THESE PREMIERE IN MADRID
The present season of the Teatro Real comes to an end encouraged by excellent ticket sales, the positive response by the audience and critics to the artistic proposals, and the growing involvement of society, businesses and institutions in the financing of its programme and activities. The economic success of the Teatro Real, whose self-financing represents around 72% of the overall budget, is now a model for other European theatres.
The next season –part of the commemorative triennium of the bicentenary of the Teatro Real (2016, 2017 and 2018) as well as the 20th season since its reopening– will offer a wide choice of musical ideas and interdisciplinary arts. These include 8 new co-productions by the Teatro Real, 4 of which will premiere in Madrid: Billy Budd(Britten), City of lies (Elena Mendoza, world premiere), Rodelinda (Händel) and Bomarzo (Ginastera). See details below.
The season will open on September 15th with Otello, co-produced with the ENO (where it premiered in September 2014) and the Kungliga Operan of Stockholm– which will be broadcasted live worldwide on September 24 on Palco Digital (Teatro Real´s online platform) at no cost to viewers.
TEATRO REAL´S 20th SEASON
NEW CO-PRODUCTIONS TO BE PREMIERED AT THE TEATRO REAL
These operas, co-produced with top European opera houses, will premiere in Madrid and then be performed in the remaining co-producing theatres.
Billy Budd - Benjamin Britten
Conductor: Ivor Bolton | Stage director: Deborah Warner | Set designer: Michael Levine
With Jacques Imbrailo, Toby Spence, Brindley Sheratt, Thomas Oliemans y Duncan Rock.
Teatro Real Chorus and Orchestra of the Teatro Real | Pequeños cantores de la Comunidad de Madrid
New production by the Teatro Real, in co-production with the Opéra national of Paris and the English National Opera
Premiere in Madrid | First time at the Teatro Real
January 31 - February 28, 2017 (10 performances)
City of lies - Elena Mendoza
Conductor: Titus Engel | Stage director: Matthias Rebstock | Set designer: Bettina Meyer
With Katia Guedes, Laia Falcón, Anne Landa, Graham Valentine
Orchestra of the Teatro Real and guest soloists
Commissioned and produced by the Teatro Real
World premiere
February 20-26, 2017 (5 performances)
Rodelinda - Georg Friedrich Händel
Conductor: Ivor Bolton | Stage director: Claus Guth | Set designer: Christian Schmidt
With Lucy Crowe/Sabina Puértolas, Bejun Mehta/Xavier Sabata, Michele Angelini, Benjamin Hulett, Sonia Prina/Lidia Vinyes Curtis
Orchestra of the Teatro Real
New production by the Teatro Real, in co-production with Oper Frankfurt, Opéra de Lyon
and the Gran Teatre del Liceu of Barcelona.
Premiere in Spain | First time at the Teatro Real
March 24 - April 5, 2017 (9 performances)
Bomarzo - Alberto Ginastera
Conductor: David Afkham | Stage director: Pierre Audi | Set designer: Urs Schönebaum
With John Daszak, James Creswell, Germán Olvera, Damián del Castillo
Teatro Real Chorus and Orchestra of the Teatro Real
New production by the Teatro Real, in co-production with De Nationale Opera of Amsterdam
Premiere in Spain | First time at the Teatro Real
April 24 - May 7, 2017 (5 performances)
NEW CO-PRODUCTIONS OF THE TEATRO REAL
These operas, co-produced with top European opera houses, will premiere at the co-producing theatres
Otello - Giuseppe Verdi
Conductor: Renato Palumbo | Stage director: David Alden | Set designer: Jon Morrell
With Gregory Kunde/ Alfred Kim, George Petean/Àngel Òdena, Alexey Dolgov/ Xavier Moreno, Krassimira Stoyanova/Ermonela Jaho
Teatro Real Chorus and Orchestra of the Teatro Real | Pequeños cantores de la Comunidad de Madrid
New production by the Teatro Real, in co-production with the English National Opera (where it premiered in September 2014) and the Kungliga Operan of Stockholm
September 15 - October 3, 2016 (13 performances)
Norma - Vincenzo Bellini
Conductor: Roberto Abbado | Stage director: Davide Livermore | Set designer: GIÒ FORMA
With Gregory Kunde/Roberto Aronica, Roberto Tagliavini/Simón Orfila/ Fernando Radó, Maria Agresta/Angela Meade/ Mariella Devia, Karine Deshayes/Veronica Simeoni/Ketevan Kemoklidze
Teatro Real Chorus and Orchestra of the Teatro Real
New production by the Teatro Real, in co-production with the Palau de les Arts of Valencia (where it premiered in March 2015) and the ABAO (Ópera de Bilbao)
October 20 - November 4, 2016 (12 performances)
Le malentendu - Fabián Panisello*
Conductor: Walter Kobéra | Stage director: Mariano Tenconi Blanco |Set designer: Oria Puppo
Cast to be announced
Orchestra of the Teatro Real
Produced by the Teatro Real and the Teatros del Canal, in co-production with the Teatro Colón of Buenos Aires, the Warsaw Chamber Opera, the Warsaw Autumn Festival, the Neue Oper of Vienna and the Centre National de Création Musicale of Nice.
Premiere in Spain
March 20, 22, 24, 2017 (3 performances)
* At the Teatros del Canal
Le Coq d'Or (The Golden Cockerel) - Nikolái Rimski-Kórsakov
Conductor: Ivor Bolton | Stage director: Laurent Pelly | Set designer: Barbara de Limburg
With Dmitry Ulyanov/Alexey Tikhomirov, Sergei Skorokhodov/Boris Rudak, Alexey Lavrov/Iurii Samoilov, Venera Gimadieva, Olesya Petrova/Agnes Zwierko, Alexander Kravets/Barry Banks, Venera Gimadieva/Nina Minasyan
Teatro Real Chorus and Orchestra of the Teatro Real
New production by the Teatro Real, in co-production with the Théâtre Royale de La Monnaie of Brussels, where it will premiere on December 13th 2016.
First time at the Teatro Real
May 25 - June 9, 2017 (9 performances)
REVIVALS OF TEATRO REAL PRODUCTIONS
La clemenza di Tito - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Conductor: Christophe Rousset | Stage directors: Ursel y Karl-Ernst Herrmann | Set designer: Karl-Ernst Herrmann
With Jeremy Ovenden/Bernard Richter, Karina Gauvin/Yolanda Auyanet, Monica Bacelli/Maite Beaumont, Sylvia Schwartz/Anna Palimina
Teatro Real Chorus and Orchestra of the Teatro Real
Produced by the Teatro Real. Original production acquired in 2011 from the Salzburg Festival
November 19 - 28, 2016 (9 performances)
Madama Butterfly - Giacomo Puccini
Conductor: Marco Armiliato | Stage director: Mario Gas | Set designer: Ezio Frigerio
With Ermonela Jaho/Hui He, Enkelejda Shkosa/Gemma Coma-Alabert, Jorge de León/Andrea Carè/Vincenzo Constanzo, Àngel Òdena/Vladimir Stoyanov/Luis Cansino, Francisco Vas, Fernando Radó/Scott Wilde
Teatro Real Chorus and Orchestra of the Teatro Real
Produced by the Teatro Real. Premiered in April 2002, revived in July 2007
June 27 - July 21, 2017 (16 performances)
El gato con botas - Xavier Montsalvatge (opera for children)
Conductor: Diego Martín-Etxebarria | Stage director: Emilio Sagi | Set designer: Agatha Ruiz de la Prada
Principal Orchestra of the Teatro Real
Produced by the Teatro Real. Premiered in November 2005, in co-production with the Gran Teatre del Liceu of Barcelona, the ABAO (Bilbao) and the Asociación Asturiana de Amigos de la Ópera.
April 1 - 2, 2017 (4 performances)
INVITED PRODUCTION
Der fliegende Holländer (The flying Dutchman) - Richard Wagner
Conductor: Pablo Heras-Casado | Stage director: Alex Ollé (La Fura dels Baus) | Set designer: Alfons Flores
With Kwangchul Youn, Dimitry Ivashchenko, Ingela Brimberg, Ricarda Merbeth, Kai Rüütel, Evgeny Nikitin
Teatro Real Chorus and Orchestra of the Teatro Real
Produced by the Opéra de Lyon. Premiered in October 2014, in co-production with the Bergen Nasjonale Opera, Opera Australia and Opéra de Lille
December 17, 2016 - January 3, 2017 (10 performances)
CONCERT VERSION OPERA
Macbeth - Giuseppe Verdi
Conductor: James Conlon | Chorus director: Andrés Máspero
With Plácido Domingo, Ildebrando D´Arcangelo, Anna Pirozzi, Brian Jagde, Vicenzo Costanzo and Fernando Radó
Teatro Real Chorus and Orchestra of the Teatro Real
July 11, 14, 17, 2017 (3 performances)
CHAMBER OPERAS
Curlew River - Benjamin Britten
Semi-staged version
Stage director: Netia Jones
With Ian Bostridge, Mark Stone
Britten Sinfonia & Britten Sinfonia Voices
First time at the Teatro Real
March 4, 2017
disPLACE - Raquel García-Tomás and Joan Magrané*
Conductor: Vinicius Kattah | Stage director: Peter Pawlik |Set designer: Alexandra Burgstallter
With Elena Copons, Sébastien Soules, Benedek Nagy, Sophia Goidinger-Koch, Barbara Riccabona
Ensemble PHACE
Musiktheatertage Wien, in co-production with the Ópera de Butxaca i Nova Creació of Barcelona, with the collaboration of the Cultural Forum of Austria and the Ramon Llull Institute and the Kulturamt der Stadt Wien
Premiere in Spain
February 16, 17, 19, 2017 (3 performances)
* At the Teatros del Canal
Le malentendu - Fabián Panisello*
Conductor: Walter Kobéra | Stage director: Mariano Tenconi Blanco |Set designer: Oria Puppo
Cast to be announced
Orchestra of the Teatro Real
Produced by the Teatro Real and Teatros del Canal, in coproduction with the Teatro Colón de Buenos Aires, Warsaw Chamber Opera, Warsaw Autumn Festival, the Neue Oper Wien and the Centre National de Création Musicale of Nice.
Premiere in Spain
March 20, 22, 24, 2017 (3 performances)
* At the Teatros del Canal
CONCERTS AND RECITALS
VOICES AT THE REAL | Main Hall
Christian Elsner, tenor
Lieder by Franz Schubert, orchestrated by Max Reger and Anton Webern
Lothar Zagrosek conducts the Orchestra of the Teatro Real
March 1, 2017
Cecilia Bartoli, mezzosoprano
Programme to be announced
March 19, 2017
Diana Damrau, soprano
Meyerbeer y su tiempo
Giacomo Meyerbeer, Gioachino Rossini and Richard Wagner, amongst others.
Francesco Ivan Ciampa conducts the Teatro Real Chorus and the Orchestra of the Teatro Real
May 27, 2017
Joyce DiDonato, mezzosoprano
War and Peace
Claudio Monteverdi, Henry Purcell, Georg Friedrich Händel, Leonardo Leo, Niccolò Jommelli, amongst others.
Maxim Emelyanichev, clavichord and conductor of Il Pomo d’Oro
June 2, 2017
Juan Diego Flórez, tenor
Gioachino Rossini, Gaetano Donizetti, Charles Gounod, amongst others.
Christopher Franklin conducts the Orchestra of the Teatro Real
June 13, 2017
VOICES IN CONCERT | Main Hall
Paulo Szot, baritone
Homage to Frank Sinatra
Tribute to the “Sinatra-Jobim Sessions”, published in Brazil in 1979 by Roberto Quartin
Klaus Mueller, piano and musical director
Itaiguara Brandão, guitar and bass
David Meade, percussion
October 22, 2016
Jonas Kaufmann, tenor
Gustav Mahler, Benjamin Britten and Richard Strauss
Helmut Deutsch, piano
November 22, 2016
Franco Fagioli, countertenor
Domenico Sarro, Nicola Antonio Porpora, Johann Adolph Hasse, Giuseppe Avitrano, Leonardo Leo, Leonardo Vinci, Giovanni Battista Pergolesi, Angelo Ragazzi, Pasquale Cafaro y Gennaro Manna
Maxim Emelyanychev, clavichord and conductor of Il Pomo d’Oro
March 22, 2017
MUSIC IN PARALLEL - BILLY BUDD and CURLEW RIVER | Fundación Albéniz
Felicity Palmer, mezzosoprano
Henry Purcell, Benjamin Britten, Johannes Brahms, Piotr Ilich Chaikovski, Joseph Horovitz,
Michael Head, Marshall Palmer, Alan Murray and Carrie Jacobs-Bond
Simon Lepper, piano
February 10, 2017
MUSIC IN PARALLEL - BOMARZO | Fundación Albéniz
TANGO AT THE ALBÉNIZ
Ginastera Concert
Music by Alberto Ginastera, Heitor Villa-Lobos y Héctor Chávez, amongst others
Camila Titinger, soprano
Chamber ensemble from the Escuela Superior de Música Reina Sofía
April 6, 2017
Concert with Lidia Borda
Music by Homero Manzi, Carlos Gardel, Alfredo Le Pera, Enrique Cadícamo, Anselmo Aieta y Francisco Gracia Gimenez, amongst others.
Lidia Borda, singer
Daniel Godfrid, piano and musical director
Ariel Enrique Argañaraz, guitar
Paula Silvana Pomeraniec, cello
Pablo Motta, bass
April 20, 2017
Concert with Patricia Noval
Music by Homero Manzi, Enrique Cadícamo, Sebastián Piana, Angel Villoldo, Hilarión Acuña, Francisco Canaro, Rosita Quiroga amongst others.
Patricia Noval, singer
Yazmina Raies Aldeco, piano
Iván Diego Valenzuela, bass
Óscar Ismael Yemha, bandoneón
April 26, 2017
MUSIC IN PARALLEL - BOMARZO | Main Hall
Concert with Maria Bayo, soprano
Music by Ernesto Lecuona, Yves Prin, Astor Piazzolla, Heitor Villa-Lobos, Carlos Guastavino
Thierry Ravassard, piano and musical director
Mélanie Brégant, bandoneón
Anne-Gabrielle Lia-Aragnouet, cello
Thomas Zimmermann, clarinet
Instrumental group In+Out
April 25, 2017
Concert with Ariel Ardit
Carlos Gardel Sinfónico
Music by Andrés Linetzky, Carlos Gardel, Terig Tucci y otros
Ariel Ardit, singer
Andrés Linetzky, piano
Ramiro Boero, bandoneón
Gonzalo Ospina, musical director
Orchestra of the Teatro Real
May 3, 2017
Concert with Adriana Varela
Por la vuelta
Music by Carlos Gardel, Eduardo Pereyra, José Tinelli, Sebastián Piana, Joaquín Sabina y Lucio Demare
Adriana Varela, singer
Marcelo Macri, piano
Horacio Avilano, guitar
Walter Castro, bandoneón
May 6, 2017
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Concert with the Francisco Viñas 2017 award-winners | Main Hall
Award-winners from the LIV edition
Daniel Gil de Tejada, musical director
Orchestra of the Teatro Real
February 5, 2017
BALLET
WIENER STAATSBALLETT
Le Corsaire (The Pirate)
Choreography: Manuel Legris
Music: Adolphe Adam y otros
Conductor: Valery Ovsyanikov
Orchestra of the Teatro Real
January 11-14, 2017 (5 performances)
COMPAÑÍA NACIONAL DE DANZA (ESPAÑA)
Choreographies: William Forsythe
The Vertiginous Thrill of Exactitude
Music: Symphony nº 9 in C major (Franz Schubert)
Artifact Suite
Music: Chaconne from the Partita nº2 in D minor (J.S. Bach) and music by Eva Crossman-Hecht
Enemy in the Figure
Music: Thom Willems
April 27-30, 2017 (4 performances)
MARTHA GRAHAM DANCE COMPANY
Programme A
Deep Song
Choreography: Martha Graham
Music: Henry Cowell
Rust
Choreography: Nacho Duato
Music: De Profundis, by Arvo Pärt and Pedro Alcalde
Chronicle
Choreography: Martha Graham
Music: Wallingford Riegger
Diversion of Angels
Choreography: Martha Graham
Music: Norman Dello Joio
June 8 and 10, 2017 (2 performances)
Programme B
Choreographies: Martha Graham
Deaths & Entrances
Music: Hunter Johnson
Cave of the Heart
Music: Samuel Barber
Maple Leaf Rag
Music: Scott Joplin
June 10 and 11, 2017 (2 performances)
