Royal Opera House 2017-18

[LHC]

The Royal Opera's next season has been announced. Overall it looks a pretty strong season, and with lots of 'regie' producers being employed, there will be lots for people to get enraged at. A lot of new works and world premieres as well.

New productions of:

• La bohème (Richard Jones),
• La Tragédie de Carmen (a restaging of the late Peter Brook’s version of Carmen at Wilton’s music hall)
• Semiramide (David Alden), with Joyce di Donato
• Monteverdi’s The Return of Ulysses (at the Roundhouse)
• Carmen (to be directed by Barrie Kosky, so likely to be controversial and/or hated by the usual suspects)
• From the House of the Dead (to be directed by Krzysztof Warlikowski, so could also be controversial)
• Coraline (new opera by Mark-Anthony Turnage, at the Barbican)
• Lessons in Love and Violence (new opera by George Benjamin)
• A new opera by Tansy Davies and Nick Drake (no title yet apparently)
• Mamzer Bastard (new opera by Na'ama Zisser)
• Lohengrin (to be directed by David Alden)

Revivals of:

• Die Zauberflöte
• Herheim’s Les Vêpres siciliennes
• Katie Mitchell’s Lucia di Lammermoor
• Cavalleria rusticana / Pagliacci, a good cast, but unfortunately to be conducted by Daniel Oren
• Rigoletto, with Dmitri Hvorostovsky (on the assumption that the continuing treatment of his brain tumour is successful)
• Salome
• Tosca (Gheorghui returns)
• Macbeth, with Anna Netrebko (if she turns up)
• 4.48 Psychosis (by Philip Venables
• Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk
• Don Giovanni (another revival of Holten’s dreary production)
• Falstaff (Bryn Terfel returns)

[Conchis]

The Royal Opera's next season has been announced. Overall it looks a pretty strong season, and with lots of 'regie' producers being employed, there will be lots for people to get enraged at. A lot of new works and world premieres as well.

New productions of:

• La bohème (Richard Jones),
• La Tragédie de Carmen (a restaging of the late Peter Brook’s version of Carmen at Wilton’s music hall)
• Semiramide (David Alden), with Joyce di Donato
• Monteverdi’s The Return of Ulysses (at the Roundhouse)
• Carmen (to be directed by Barrie Kosky, so likely to be controversial and/or hated by the usual suspects)
• From the House of the Dead (to be directed by Krzysztof Warlikowski, so could also be controversial)
• Coraline (new opera by Mark-Anthony Turnage, at the Barbican)
• Lessons in Love and Violence (new opera by George Benjamin)
• A new opera by Tansy Davies and Nick Drake (no title yet apparently)
• Mamzer Bastard (new opera by Na'ama Zisser)
• Lohengrin (to be directed by David Alden)

Revivals of:

• Die Zauberflöte
• Herheim’s Les Vêpres siciliennes
• Katie Mitchell’s Lucia di Lammermoor
• Cavalleria rusticana / Pagliacci, a good cast, but unfortunately to be conducted by Daniel Oren
• Rigoletto, with Dmitri Hvorostovsky (on the assumption that the continuing treatment of his brain tumour is successful)
• Salome
• Tosca (Gheorghui returns)
• Macbeth, with Anna Netrebko (if she turns up)
• 4.48 Psychosis (by Philip Venables
• Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk
• Don Giovanni (another revival of Holten’s dreary production)
• Falstaff (Bryn Terfel returns)

Nothing late about him.

[Conchis]

Apart from the new Lohengrin (much needed) and Jones' long-announced Boheme, that looks like a deeply uninteresting season.

[LHC]

Nothing late about him.

My mistake. You are quite correct.

Although the Opera House are using his re-working of Carmen, its a new production for the Young Artists, directed by Gerard Jones (who was responsible for the dire production of Handel's Oreste last year)

[Barbirollians]

The La Boheme will be interesting I trust they have the Copley in storage just in case it turns out to be a disaster ...

Notable no new McVicar productions at ROH for some time now .

[Don Basilio]

Joyce DiDonato in Semiramide. Goody goody.

[jean]

...but not to have a cinema relay, apparently; what a disappointment.

[Stanfordian]

Joyce DiDonato in Semiramide. Goody goody.

Sounds like a real highlight in prospect.

[MrGongGong]

Apart from the new Lohengrin (much needed) and Jones' long-announced Boheme, that looks like a deeply uninteresting season.

I know what you mean
Having music composed by people who are still alive is a terrible idea isn't it

[Frances_iom]

Having music composed by people who are still alive is a terrible idea isn't it

no it's the music/libretto or both that are often terrible - probably unlike the 18th + 19th century masters they don't get a chance to
practice until they have mastered the art of producing a listenable evening of music

[BBMmk2]

Be great to go to the ROH, as I have never been before!

[Conchis]

Covent Garden badly needs to recruit Jonathan Kent to do a new production there. His Manon Lescaut was outstanding, I thought: he knows how to be different while still respecting the music/libretto.