Royal Opera House - Covent Garden

Pappano apre con Norma e rinnova fino al 2020

 Attenzione: Anna Netrebko cancella Norma, aggiornamento 26 aprile 2016

Londra, annunciata l'interprete di Norma al Covent Garden, aggiornamento 3 maggio 2016

Sette nuove produzioni per la stagione 2016/17 della Royal Opera House Covent Garden: NormaCosi fan tutteThe NoseDer RosenkavalierDie Meistersinger von NurnbergThe Exterminating Angel e Otello. Oltre a questi, numerose riprese, fra cui, per la prima volta, quelle di Manon LescautWritten on SkinIl trovatore e Adriana Lecouvreur per oltre venti diversi appuntamenti complessivi con l'opera e il teatro musicale.

Cinque spettacoli, fra cui tre nuove produzioni, saranno diretti da Antonio Pappano, che con questa stagione ha rinnovato il suo contratto come direttore musicale fino al 2020.

Quattro prime mondiali e una nuova produzione anche per la stagione di balletto, arricchita da numerose riprese di classici di successo.

Ben dodici spettacoli verranno trasmessi nei cinema di tutto il mondo per la Royal Opera House Live Cinema Season - sei opere e sei balletti


Opera and Music 2016/17

Details of The Royal Opera’s 2016/17 Season have been announced.


NEW (12 September–8 October 2016)

Norma

Vincenzo Bellini
Conductor: Antonio Pappano
Director: Àlex Ollé

Norma – Sonya Yoncheva [aggiornamento 3 maggio]
Pollione – Joseph Calleja
Adalgisa – Sonia Ganassi
Oroveso – Brindley Sherratt
Flavio – David Junghoon Kim
Clotilde – Vlada Borovko

Live cinema relay: 26 September 2016

(13 September–11 October 2016)

Il barbiere di Siviglia 

Gioachino Rossini
Conductor: Henrik Nánási
Director: Moshe Leiser and Patrice Caurier

Rosina – Daniela Mack
Count Almaviva – Javier Camarena
Figaro – Vito Priante (Sept) / Florian Sempey (Oct)
Doctor Bartolo – José Fardilha
Don Basilio – Ferruccio Furlanetto (Sept) / Carlo Lepore (Oct)
Berta – Madeleine Pierard
Fiorello – Gyula Nagy

NEW (22 September–19 October 2016)

Così fan tutte

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Conductor: Semyon Bychkov (except 19 Oct) / Paul Wynne Griffiths (19 Oct)
Director: Jan Philipp Gloger

Fiordiligi – Corinne Winters
Dorabella – Angela Brower
Ferrando – Daniel Behle
Guglielmo – Alessio Arduini
Don Alfonso – Johannes Martin Kränzle
Despina – Sabina Puértolas

Live cinema relay: 17 October 2016

Meet the Young Artists Week(St Clement Danes)

The annual Meet the Young Artists Week gives audiences a chance to meet the new intake of the stars of tomorrow, and hear them perform with those continuing for their second season.

Monday lunchtime recital – 3 October at 1pm

Vlada Borovko, Francesca Chiejina, Jennifer Davis, Emily Edmonds, Angela Simkin, Thomas Atkins, David Junghoon Kim, Gyula Nagy and Simon Shibambu perform operatic arias and ensembles, accompanied by David Gowland, Nick Fletcher and James Hendry.

Tuesday lunchtime recital – 4 October at 1.30pm

Francesca Chiejina and Thomas Atkins perform art songs, accompanied by David Gowland.

Director’s workshop – 6 October at 1pm

Richard Gerard Jones works with Angela Simkin, Gyula Nagy and Simon Shibambu on Handel’s Oreste, which the Programme will present at Wilton’s Music Hall in November.

Juke Box – 9 October at 12.30pm and 6pm

Two separate events presented by all the available Young Artists: the audience at the lunchtime session choose the repertory for the evening recital, followed by an opportunity to meet the Young Artists over a glass of wine.

(6 October–12 November 2016)

A Man of Good Hope (Young Vic)

Based on the book by Jonny Steinberg, adapted by Isango Ensemble 
Conductor: Mandisi Dyantyis
Director: Mark Dornford-May

Award-winning South African theatre company Isango Ensemble tell the true story of a young refugee’s journey through Africa, based on the book by Jonny Steinberg.

Noluthando Boqwana, Ayanda Eleki, Zamile Gantana, Sifiso Lupuzi, Pauline Malefane, Bongiwe Mapassa, Zanele Mbatha, Katlego Mmusi, Zoleka Mpotsha, Busisiwe Ngejane, Sonwabo Ntshata, Luvo Rasemeni, Masakane Sotayisi, Luvo Tamba, Ayanda Tikolo

NEW (20 October–9 November 2016)

The Nose

Dmitry Shostakovich / New English translation David Pountney
Conductor: Ingo Metzmacher
Director: Barrie Kosky

Platon Kuzmitch Kovalev – Martin Winkler
Ivan Iakolevitch/Clerk/Doctor – John Tomlinson
Osipovna/Pretzel Seller – Rosie Aldridge
The Nose – Alexander Lewis
District Inspector – Alexander Kravets
Old Lady – Susan Bickley
Iaryzhkin – Peter Bronder
Pelageya Podtotschina – Helene Schneiderman
Podtotschina’s daughter – Ailish Tynan
Ivan – Wolfgang Ablinger-Sperrhacke
Ensemble – Daniel Auchincloss, Paul Carey Jones, Alasdair Elliott, Alan Ewing, Hubert Francis, Sion Goronwy, Njabulo Madlala, Charbel Mattar, Samuel Sakker, Michael J. Scott, Nicholas Sharratt, David Shipley, Jeremy White, Simon Wilding and Yuriy Yurchuk

(7 November–3 December 2016)

Les Contes d’Hoffmann

Jacques Offenbach
Conductor: Evelino Pidò
Director: John Schlesinger

Hoffmann – Vittorio Grigolo (except 28 Nov, 3 Dec) / Leonardo Capalbo (28 Nov, 3 Dec)
Four Villains – Thomas Hampson
Olympia – Sofia Fomina
Giulietta – Christine Rice
Antonia – Sonya Yoncheva
Nicklausse – Kate Lindsey
Spalanzani – Christophe Mortagne
Crespel – Eric Halfvarson
Four Servants – Vincent Ordonneau
Spirit of Antonia’s Mother – Catherine Carby
Nathanael – David Junghoon Kim
Hermann – Charles Rice
Schlemil – Yuriy Yurchuk
Luther – Jeremy White

Live cinema relay: 15 November 2016

NEW (Wilton’s Music Hall) (8 November–19 November 2016)

Oreste

George Frideric Handel
Conductor: James Hendry
Director: Richard Gerard Jones
Southbank Sinfonia
Continuo: Nick Fletcher

Ermione – Vlada Borovko
Ifigenia – Jennifer Davis
Oreste – Angela Simkin
Pilade – Thomas Atkins
Filotete – Gyula Nagy
Toante – Simon Shibambu

(22 November–12 December 2016)

Manon Lescaut

Giacomo Puccini
Conductor: Antonio Pappano
Director: Jonathan Kent

Manon Lescaut – Sondra Radvanovsky
Chevalier Des Grieux – Aleksandrs Antonenko
Lescaut – Levente Molnár
Geronte di Revoir – Eric Halfvarson
Edmondo – Luis Gomes
Dancing Master – Aled Hall
Singer – Emily Edmonds
Lamplighter – David Junghoon Kim
Sergeant – David Shipley
Naval Captain – Nicholas Crawley

(4 December 2016–9 February 2017)  

Il trovatore 

Giuseppe Verdi
Conductor: Richard Farnes
Director: David Bösch

Leonora – Maria Agresta (Dec) / Lianna Haroutounian (Jan, Feb)
Manrico – Roberto Alagna (Dec) / Gregory Kunde (Jan, Feb)
Count di Luna – Quinn Kelsey (Dec) / Dmitri Hvorostovsky (Jan, Feb)
Azucena – Anita Rachvelishvili
Ferrando – Gábor Bretz (Dec) / Alexander Tsymbalyuk (Jan, Feb)
Inez – Jennifer Davis (Dec) / Francesca Chiejina (Jan, Feb)
Ruiz – David Junghoon Kim (Dec) / Samuel Sakker (Jan, Feb)

Live cinema relay: 31 January 2017

NEW (17 December 2016–24 January 2017)

Der Rosenkavalier

Richard Strauss
Conductor: Andris Nelsons
Director: Robert Carsen

Marschallin – Renée Fleming (17, 20 Dec, 8, 11, 14 Jan) / Rachel Willis-Sørensen (22 Dec, 17, 24 Jan)
Octavian – Alice Coote (17, 20 Dec, 8, 11, 14 Jan) / Anna Stéphany (22 Dec, 17, 24 Jan)
Sophie von Faninal – Sophie Bevan
Baron Ochs – Matthew Rose
Faninal – Jochen Schmeckenbecher
Valzacchi – Wolfgang Ablinger-Sperrhacke
Annina – Helene Schneiderman (except 8, 11, 14 Jan) / Angela Simkin (8, 11, 14 Jan)
Italian Singer – Giorgio Berrugi
Marschallin’s Major Domo – Samuel Sakker
Faninal’s Major Domo – Thomas Atkins
Marianne – Miranda Keys
Inn Keeper – Alasdair Elliot
Police Inspector – Scott Conner
Notary – Jeremy White

(13–30 January 2017)

Written on Skin

George Benjamin
Conductor: George Benjamin
Director: Katie Mitchell

The Protector – Christopher Purves
Agnès – Barbara Hannigan (13, 23, 30 Jan) / Georgia Jarman (18, 27 Jan)
Angel 1/The Boy – Iestyn Davies
Angel 2/Marie – Victoria Simmonds
Angel 3/John – Mark Padmore

(16 January–4 July 2017)

La traviata 

Giuseppe Verdi
Conductor: Daniele Rustioni (Jan, Feb) / Maurizio Benini (Jun) / Christopher Willis (Jul)
Director: Richard Eyre

Violetta Valéry – Joyce El-Khoury (Jan, Feb) / Ekaterina Bakanova (14, 17, 20, 23, 25 Jun) / Corinne Winters (27, 30 Jun, 4 Jul)
Alfredo Germont – Sergey Romanovsky (16, 19, 25 Jan, 1 Feb) / Liparit Avetisyan (28 Jan) / Atalla Ayan (Jun, Jul)
Giorgio Germont – Artur Ruciński (Jan, Feb) / Nicola Alaimo (14, 17, 20, 23, 25 Jun) / George Petean (27, 30 Jun, 4 Jul)
Annina – Elizabeth Sikora (Jan, Feb) / Sarah Pring (Jun, Jul)
Flora Bervoix – Angela Simkin
Baron Douphol – Yuriy Yurchuk (Jan, Feb) / Gyula Nagy (Jun, Jul)
Doctor Grenvil – David Shipley
Gastone de Letorières – David Junghoon Kim (Jan, Feb) / Samuel Sakker (Jun, Jul)
Marquis d’Obigny – Jeremy White
Giuseppe – Neil Gillespie
Servant – Michael Lessiter

BP Big Screen: 4 July 2017

(7 February–2 March 2017)

Adriana Lecouvreur 

Francesco Cilea
Conductor: Daniel Oren
Director: David McVicar

Adriana Lecouvreur – Angela Gheorghiu (except 21 Feb, 2 Mar) / Hrachuhi Bassenz (21 Feb, 2 Mar)
Maurizio – Brian Jagde
Abbé di Chazeuil – Krystian Adam
Princesse de Bouillon – Ksenia Dudnikova
Prince de Bouillon – Bálint Szabó
Michonnet – Gerald Finley (except 27 Feb; 2 Mar) / Alessandro Corbelli (27 Feb; 2 Mar)
Mlle Jouvenot – Vlada Borovko
Mlle Dangeville – Angela Simkin
Poisson – Thomas Atkins
Quinault – Simon Shibambu

 NEW (11–31 March 2017)

Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg

Richard Wagner
Conductor: Antonio Pappano
Director: Kasper Holten

Hans Sachs – Bryn Terfel
Walther von Stolzing – Gwyn Hughes Jones
Eva – Rachel Willis-Sørensen
Sixtus Beckmesser – Johannes Martin Kränzle
Veit Pogner – Stephen Milling
David – Allan Clayton
Magdalene – Hanna Hipp
Fritz Kothner – Sebastian Holecek
Kunz Vogelgesang – Andrew Tortise
Balthazar Zorn – Alasdair Elliott
Konrad Nachtigall – Gyula Nagy
Ulrich Eisslinger – Samuel Sakker
Augustin Moser – David Junghoon Kim
Hermann Ortel – John Cunningham
Hans Schwarz – Jeremy White
Hans Foltz – Brian Bannatyne-Scott
Nightwatchman – David Shipley

(23 March–25 April 2017)

Madama Butterfly

Giacomo Puccini
Conductor: Antonio Pappano (Mar, 4, 7, 10 Apr) / Renato Balsadonna (13, 17, 20, 22, 25 Apr)
Directors: Moshe Leiser and Patrice Caurier

Cio-Cio-San – Ermonela Jaho (Mar, 4, 7, 10 Apr) / Ana María Martínez (13, 17, 20, 22, 25 Apr)
Pinkerton – Marcelo Puente (Mar, 4, 7, 10 Apr) / Teodor Ilincai (13, 17, 20, 22, 25 Apr)
Sharpless – Scott Hendricks
Goro – Carlo Bosi
Suzuki – Elizabeth DeShong
Bonze – Jeremy White
Kate Pinkerton – Emily Edmonds
Imperial Commissioner – Gyula Nagy
Prince Yamadori – Yuriy Yurchuk

Live cinema relay: 30 March 2017

NEW (24 April–8 May 2017)

The Exterminating Angel

Thomas Adès
Conductor: Thomas Adès
Director: Tom Cairns

Leonora – Anne Sofie von Otter
Blanca – Christine Rice
Nobile – Charles Workman
Lucia – Amanda Echalaz
Raúl – Frédéric Antoun
Doctor – John Tomlinson
Roc – Thomas Allen
Francisco – Iestyn Davies
Eduardo – Ed Lyon
Leticia – Audrey Luna
Silvia – Sally Matthews
Beatriz – Sophie Bevan
Lucas – Hubert Francis
Enrique – Samuel Sakker
Seńor Russell – Sten Byriel
Colonel – David Adam Moore
Julio – Morgan Moody
Pablo – James Cleverton
Meni – Elizabeth Atherton
Camila – Anne Marie Gibbons

(12 May–29 May 2017) 

Don Carlo 

Giuseppe Verdi
Conductor: Bertrand de Billy
Director: Nicholas Hytner

Don Carlo – Bryan Hymel
Rodrigo, Marquis of Posa – Ludovic Tézier
Elizabeth of Valois – Krassimira Stoyanova
King Philip II – Ildar Abdrazakov
Princess Eboli – Ekaterina Semenchuk
Grand Inquisitor – Paata Burchuladze
Frate – Andrea Mastroni
Voice from Heaven – Francesca Chiejina
Tebaldo – Emily Edmonds
Count of Lerma – David Junghoon Kim
Flemish Deputies – James Cleverton, Gyula Nagy, Simon Shibambu, David Shipley and Yuriy Yurchuk

(May 2017)

Ravi Shankar project

(27 May–22 June 2017)  

L’elisir d’amore

Gaetano Donizetti
Conductor: Bertrand de Billy
Director: Laurent Pelly

Adina – Pretty Yende (May, 3, 6, 11 Jun) / Aleksandra Kurzak (13, 16, 19, 22 Jun)
Nemorino – Rolando Villazón (May, 3, 6 Jun) / Ivan Magrì (11 Jun) / Roberto Alagna (13, 16, 19, 22 Jun)
Dulcamara – Alex Esposito
Belcore – Paolo Bordogna (May, 3, 6, 11 Jun) / Adam Plachetka (13, 16, 19, 22 Jun)
Giannetta – Vlada Borovko

NEW (21 June–15 July 2017)

Otello

Giuseppe Verdi
Conductor: Antonio Pappano
Director: Keith Warner

Otello – Jonas Kaufmann (21, 24, 28 Jun, 2, 6, 10 Jul) / Gregory Kunde (8, 12, 15 Jul)
Desdemona – Maria Agresta (21, 24, 28 Jun, 2, 6, 10 Jul) / Dorothea Röschmann (8, 12, 15 Jul)
Iago – Ludovic Tézier (21, 24, 28 Jun, 2, 6, 10 Jul) / Željko Lučić (8, 12, 15 Jul)
Cassio – Frédéric Antoun
Roderigo – Thomas Atkins
Emilia – Kai Rüütel
Montano – Simon Shibambu
Lodovico – In Sung Sim

Live cinema relay: 28 June 2017

(26 June–7 July 2017) 

Mitridate, re di Ponto 

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Conductor: Christophe Rousset
Director: Graham Vick

Mitridate – Michael Spyres
Aspasia – Albina Shagimuratova
Farnace – Bejun Mehta
Ismene – Lucy Crowe
Marzio – Andrew Tortise
Sifare – Anett Fritsch
Arbate – Jennifer Davis

(5 July–16 July 2017)  

Turandot

Giacomo Puccini
Conductor: Dan Ettinger
Dir: Andrei Serban

Turandot – Christine Goerke (5, 9, 12, 15 Jul) / Lise Lindstrom (8, 11, 14, 16 Jul)
Calaf – Aleksandrs Antonenko (5, 9, 12, 15 Jul) / Roberto Alagna (8, 11, 14 Jul) / Alfred Kim (16 Jul)
Liù – Dinara Alieva (5, 9, 12, 15 Jul) / Aleksandra Kurzak (8, 11, 14, 16 Jul)
Timur – In Sung Sim (5, 9, 12, 15 Jul) / Brindley Sherratt (8, 11, 14, 16 Jul)
Ping – Michel de Souza (5, 9, 12, 15 Jul) / Zheng Zhong Zhou (8, 11, 14, 16 Jul)
Pang – Aled Hall (5, 9, 12, 15 Jul) / Samuel Sakker (8, 11, 14, 16 Jul)
Pong – Pavel Petrov (5, 9, 12, 15 Jul) / David Junghoon Kim (8, 11, 14, 16 Jul)
Emperor Altoum – Robin Leggate
Mandarin – Yuriy Yurchuk

(16 July 2017)

Jette Parker Young Artists Summer Performance

Conductors: David Syrus, James Hendry and Matthew Scott Rogers
Director: Richard Gerard Jones

Sopranos – Vlada Borovko, Francesca Chiejina, Jennifer Davis
Mezzo-sopranos – Emily Edmonds, Angela Simkin
Tenors – Thomas Atkins, David Junghoon Kim
Baritone – Gyula Nagy
Basses – Simon Shibambu, David Shipley

 

NEW (Welsh National Opera) (19–20 July 2017)

The Merchant of Venice

André Tchaikowsky
Conductor: Lionel Friend
Director: Keith Warner

Shylock – Lester Lynch
Antonio – Martin Wölfel
Lorenzo – Bruce Sledge
Duke of Venice – Miklós Sebestyén
Bassanio – Mark Le Brocq
Solanio – Gary Griffiths
Gratiano – David Stout
Jessica – Lauren Michelle
Portia – Sarah Castle
Nerissa – Verena Gunz


Ballet and Dance 2016/17


(27 September–22 October 2016)

La Fille mal gardée

Choreography: Frederick Ashton
Music: Ferdinand Hérold, arranged and orchestrated by John Lanchbery
Conductor: Barry Wordsworth

 

(26 October–12 November 2016)

Anastasia

Choreography: Kenneth MacMillan
Music: Pyotr Il’yich Tchaikovsky and Bohuslav Martinů, with electronic music by Fritz Winckel and Rüdiger Rüfer
Conductor: Simon Hewett

Live cinema relay: 2 November 2016

(10–19 November 2016)

Chroma / New Wayne McGregor / Carbon Life

Choreography: Wayne McGregor
Music: Joby Talbot and Jack White III / Steve Reich / Mark Ronson and Andrew Wyatt
Conductor: Koen Kessels

 

NEW (10–19 November 2016)

Charlotte Edmonds and Robert Binet

Choreography: Charlotte Edmonds/ Robert Binet

 

(23 November 2016–12 January 2017)

The Nutcracker

Choreography: Peter Wright after Lev Ivanov
Music: Pyotr Il’yich Tchaikovsky
Conductor: Boris Gruzin (Nov, Dec, except 31 Dec) / Dominic Grier (31 Dec, Jan)

Live cinema relay: 8 December 2016

 

(December 2016–January 2017)

The Mad Hatter’s Tea Party(Roundhouse)

Direction and writer: Kate Prince
ZooNation Dance Company

 

(27–29 January 2017)

Les Enfants Terribles (Barbican)

Direction and choreography: Javier De Frutos
Music: Philip Glass

 

(21 December 2016–14 March 2017)

The Sleeping Beauty

Choreography: Marius Petipa , with additional choreography by Frederick Ashton, Anthony Dowell and Christopher Wheeldon
Music: Pyotr Il’yich Tchaikovsky
Conductor: Koen Kessels (Feb, 1 Mar) / Valeriy Ovsyanikov (Dec, Jan, Mar, except 1 Mar)

Live cinema relay: 28 February 2017

 

(21 January–14 February 2017)

Woolf Works

Choreography: Wayne McGregor
Music: Max Richter
Conductor: Koen Kessels

Live cinema relay: 8 February 2017

 

(16 March–24 March 2017)

The Human Seasons / After the Rain / NEW Crystal Pite

Choreography: David Dawson / Christopher Wheeldon / Crystal Pite

Music: Greg Haines / Arvo Pärt / Henryk Górecki
Conductor: Koen Kessels

 

(1 April–21 April 2017)

Jewels

Choreography: George Balanchine
Music: Gabriel Fauré, Igor Stravinsky, Pyotr Il'yich Tchaikovsky
Conductor: Pavel Sorokin

Live cinema relay: 11 April 2017



 (
28 April–13 May 2017)

Mayerling

Choreography: Kenneth MacMillan
Music: Franz Liszt, arranged and orchestrated by John Lanchbery
Conductor: Martin Yates

 

(18 May–31 May 2017)

The Vertiginous Thrill of Exactitude / Tarantella / Strapless / NEW Liam Scarlett 

Choreography: William Forsythe / George Balanchine / Christopher Wheeldon / Liam Scarlett
Music: Franz Schubert / Louis Moreau Gottschalk, reconstructed and orchestrated by Hershy Kay / Mark-Anthony Turnage / TBC
Conductor: Koen Kessels

 

(2–10 June 2017)

The Dream / Symphonic Variations / Marguerite and Armand

Choreography: Frederick Ashton
Music: Felix Mendelssohn / César Franck / Franz Liszt
Conductor: Emmanuel Plasson

Live cinema relay / BP Big Screen: 7 June 2017

 

(9 July 2017)

The Royal Ballet School Summer Performance

Conductor: Paul Murphy