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2016-2017 Season

New Productions

Saariaho's L'Amour de Loin
Production: Robert Lepage
Conductor: Susanna Malkki
Jaufré Rudel: Eric Owens
(Co-production with the Festival d'opéra de Québec) [1]
Rossini's Guillaume Tell
Dates: October 16 to November 12
Production: Pierre Audi
Guillaume Tell: Gerald Finley
Arnold: Bryan Hymel
(Co-production with De Nationale Opera) [2]
Gounod's Roméo et Juliette
Production: Bartlett Sher [3]
Juliette: Diana Damrau
(If a production is to be cut for budget reasons this season, this one looks the most likely. Perhaps a revival of the current Roméo would subsitute?)
R. Strauss' Der Rosenkavalier
Production: Robert Carsen
Designers: Paul Steinberg & Brigitte Reiffenstuel
Conductor: James Levine
Octavian: Elina Garanca
Marschallin: Renée Fleming
Sophie: Erin Morley
Baron Ochs: Günther Groissböck

(This is apparently now a co-production with Royal Opera Covent Garden and Opera National de Paris. Presumably, this will be replacing the Christoph Waltz production that had been rumored to be Renee Fleming's Covent Garden farewell?) [4]
Dvorák's Rusalka
Production: Mary Zimmerman
Rusalka: Kristine Opolais
Vodnik (Water Gnome): Eric Owens (?)
Prince: Brandon Jovanovich
Wagner's Tristan und Isolde
Dates: Opening Night
Production: Mariusz Trelinski
Conductor: Simon Rattle
Isolde: Nina Stemme
Tristan: Stuart Skelton / Gary Lehman
Brangane: Ekaterina Gubanova
King Marke: René Pape
Kurwenal: Evgeny Nikitin (?)
(Co-production with Festspielhaus Baden-Baden and Teatr Wielki-Polish National Opera) [5]
Catalani's La Wally
Conductor: Marco Armiliato
Giuseppe Hagenbach: Michael Fabiano
Wally: Angela Gheorghiu

Repertory
Verdi's Aida
Aida: Liudmyla Monastyrska
Amneris: Ekaterina Gubanova/Violeta Urmana
Radames: Jorge De Leon
Rossini's Il Barbiere di Siviglia
Rosina: Pretty Yende
Count Almaviva: Javier Camarena (?)/Dmitry Korchak
Puccini's La Bohème
Musetta: Brigitta Kele
Bizet's Carmen
Carmen: Sophie Koch / Clementine Margaine
Micaela: Maria Agresta
Alfano's Cyrano de Bergerac
Roxane: Patricia Racette
Cyrano: Roberto Alagna
Conductor: Marco Armiliato
Mozart's Don Giovanni
Ottavio: Matthew Polenzani
Elvira: Marina Rebeka
Anna: Hibla Gerzmava
Zerlina: Serena Malfi
Tchaikovsky's Eugene Onegin
Tatiana: Anna Netrebko/Sonya Yoncheva
Lenski: Matthew Polenzani
Puccini's La Fanciulla del West (?)
J. Strauss' Die Fledermaus (?)
Wagner's Die Fliegende Holländer
Dutchman: Michael Volle
Senta: Christine Goerke / Amber Wagner?
Erik: Jay Hunter Morris
Mozart's Idomeneo
Conductor: James Levine
Ilia: Julia Kleiter
Idamante-Alice Coote
Idomeneo: Piotr Beczala
Voice of Neptune: Eric Owens
Rossini's L'Italiana in Algeri
Lindoro: Javier Camarena
Janácek's Jenufa
Kostelnicka: Karita Mattila
Jenufa: Oksana Dyka
Steva: Joseph Kaiser
Laca: Daniel Brenna
Mozart's The Magic Flute
Holiday abridged version in English
Pamina: Layla Claire
Puccini's Manon Lescaut
Manon: Anna Netrebko/Angela Gheorghiu
Des Grieux: Aleksandrs Antonenko
Verdi's Nabucco
Nabucco: Placido Domingo
Abigaille: Liudmyla Monastyrska/Tatiana Melnychenko
Verdi's Otello (?)
Debussy's Pelléas et Melisande (?)
Conductor: James Levine
Golaud: Gerald Finley?
Bellini's I Puritani
Elvira: Diana Damrau
Arturo: Javier Camarena
Verdi's Rigoletto
Gilda: Olga Peretyatko
Duke: Jospeh Calleja
Verdi's La Traviata
Alfredo: Michael Fabiano
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