At the time of publishing, this is merely a sorting of data collected over the past couple of years. A mighty big thank you to everybody for their contributions, a wonderful community effort. Keep it up, folks! (And roll on, April...) (And a big thanks to indiscreet opera singers!). If anybody wants to make a contribution but not be published just say so in the comment, and I will incorporate it unattributed, or email me...!
None of this official, all is speculation based upon interviews and private conversations. Not all the facts are double-sourced, and, if the information seems confusing, well, sometimes it's difficult to work out if productions are double-cast or doubly scheduled.
September 2008
La Fanciulla del West (Puccini): Eva Maria Westbroek, Jose Cura
September/October 2008:
Don Giovanni (Mozart): Simon Keenlyside, Kyle Ketelsen, Miah Persson, Rebecca Evans, Patrizia Ciofi, Emma Bell cond. Mackerras
La Boheme (Puccini): Anna Leese (Musetta)
La Calisto (Cavalli): Lawrence Zazzo, Markus Werba cond. Ivor Bolton
October/November 2008
Mathilde di Shabran (Rossini): Juan Diego Florez, Joyce DiDonato, Alexandra Kurzak, Marco Vinco
Les Contes d'Hoffmann (Offenbach): Rolando Villazón, Gidon Saks, Kristine Jepson, possibly Christine Rice
November 2008
Elektra (Strauss): Susan Bullock, Anne Schwanewilms, Alfie Boe cond. Elder
December 2008-January 2009
Turandot (Puccini): Irene Theorin, Jose Cura, Hue He, Jennifer Wilson
Hansel und Gretel (Humperdinck): Angelika Kirchschlager, Alice Coote, Diana Damrau, Rebecca Evans, Thomas Allen, Elizabeth Connell, Ann Murray cond. Davis/Jordan
May/June 2009
Tosca (Puccini): Deborah Voigt, Marcello Giordani
2008/09
A Midsummer Marriage (Tippett): Amanda Roocroft
The Ring (with Bryn Terfel???????!)
Capulets and Montagues (Bellini): Anna Netrebko, Elina Garanca
La Traviata (Verdi): Renee Fleming
Rosenkavalier (Strauss): Soile Isokoski, Lucy Crowe, Thomas Allen
Arabella: (Strauss): Barbara Bonney, Karita Mattila, Thomas cond. Tate
Flying Dutchman (Wagner): Anya Kampe cond. Elder
January-February 2009
Die Tote Stadt (Korngold): Gerald Finley, Stephen Gould. Nadya Michael, cond. Ingo Metzmacher, dir. Willy Decker
April 2009
Lohengrin (Wagner): Simon O'Neill, Anne Schwanewilms, Petra Lang, Johan Botha, cond. Bychkov
June 2009
Lulu (Berg): Klaus Florian Vogt, Alexandra Kurzak, Heather Shipp cond. Pappano, dir. Christof Loy
Rigoletto (Verdi): Paolo Gavanelli, Alexandra Kurzak, Sara Fulgoni, Iain Paterson
July 2009
Il Barbiere di Siviglia (Rossini): Simon Keenlyside Juan Diego Florez/Colin Lee cond. Pappano
2009
Dido and Aeneas (Purcell): Sarah Connolly (ROH debut!!), Lucy Crowe, Sara Fulgoni
Tristan und Isolde (Wagner): Karita Mattila dir: Loy
2009-10:
Don Carlo (Verdi): Jonas Kaufmann, Catherine Nagelstad (and I'm hoping for Dmitri Hvorostovsky!)
Simon Boccanegra (Verdi): Plácido Domingo (Boccanegra...)
Manon (Massanet): Anna Netrebko and Rolando Villazón, finally, together in the ROH, for the first time. Pappano conducts.
Adriana Lecouvreur (Cilea): Jonas Kaufmann, Angela Gheorghiu
La Donna del lago (Rossini): Juan Diego Florez and Joyce DiDonato (opens in Paris also goes to Milan and New York)
January - February 2010
Rake's Progress (Stravinsky): Kyle Ketelsen, Toby Spence, Kate Royal
February 2010
The Gambler (Prokofiev): Kurt Streit, Angela Denoke, John Tomlinson dir. Richard Jones
March 2010
Tamerlano (Handel): Christianne Stotijn, Kurt Streit (I have also read Plácido Domingo
but don't know...hope!)
April 2010
Il Turco in Italia (Rossini): Colin Lee, Alexandra Kurzak
May/June 2010
Fille du Regiment (Donizetti): Diane Damrau, Juan Diego Florez/Colin Lee,
2010
La Traviata (Verdi): Saimir Pirgu
Cunning Little Vixen (Janacek): Emma Bell, cond. Mackerras
2012 Olympic Season (what's this???!!!)
Les Troyens (Berlioz): Jonas Kaufmann
Season Unknown:
Frau ohne Schatten (Strauss): Jane Henschel
Romeo and Juliet (Gounod): Rolando Villazón
Attila (Verdi): Paata Burchuladze, hopes of Violeta Urmana (on the basis she's doing it at the Met)
Bartered Bride (Smetana): Paata Burchuladze
Luisa Miller (Verdi):
The Turn of the Screw (Britten)
Aida (Verdi)
Lucia di Lammermoor (Donizetti)
Werther (Massanet): Elina Garanca
Wozzeck (Berg): Diana Damrau
Faust (Gounod): Erwin Schrott
Beggar's Opera(Gay): Susan Bickley
Cherevichki (Tchaikovsky): Larissa Diadkova, Vsevolod Grivnov
La sonnambula (Bellini): Juan Diego Florez
Robert le Diable or Les Hugenots (Meyebeer): Juan Diego Florez
Il Trovatore (Verdi): Sondra Radvanosky
Gianni Schicchi (Puccini): Joan Rodgers
Die Walkure (Wagner): Simon O'Neill
Die Meistersinger (Wagner): Simon O'Neill
War Requiem (Britten): Emma Bell, cond. Pappano
The Don Giovanni in September is definitely double cast.
Lohengrin is more March 09 than Autumn 08, I think, and it's not Pappano any more.
Elektra is conducted by Mark Elder.
Tosca is May or June 09.
The Hansel und Gretel is conducted by Philippe Jordan not Pappano.
Capuleti/Montecchi is definitely March-April 09 and is conducted by Elder.
I'm pretty sure the Rigoletto's June 09 and that Dido is the following season.
We've already had Andrew Richards as Pinkerton,so you can remove that one!
Don't think Kirchschlager's doing Carmen any more - was meant to be the March 08 revival but we've got Nancy Fabbiola Herrera now, of course.
Rosenkavalier is definitely next season, as is Arabella.
Dutchman is definitely next season,with Mark Elder.
I'm 100 % sure that the Cura Turandot is December 08. He told me so very firmly!
Cheers.
Posted by: Dominic McHugh | Sunday, 27 January 2008 at 12:08
The dates for the Lohengrin are on Anne Schwanewilms' website:
LOHENGRIN / Elsa / Royal Opera House, London
April 27th, May 3rd, 5th, 8th, 11th, 14th, 16th
Posted by: Dominic | Sunday, 27 January 2008 at 20:45
Thanks for those Dominic, which have been incorporated. I see from your interview with Simon Keenlyside that he's learning Wozzeck. I wonder if he will be 'our' Wozzeck, I can see the part suiting him down to the ground. Please keep interviewing these singers and, if necessary, apply mild torture to extract information :-)
I will try to incorporate comments as they come in; in any case I shall renew the entry soon after ROH announce 2008-09.
Posted by: Gert | Monday, 28 January 2008 at 13:33
well what a feast awaits us over the next few years. I had heard rumours of the divine Placido in Boccanegra, would love him to do Lohengrin again. I will probably be retiring over the next couple of years and while I am working am saving up as much as I can so that I can still treat myself to opera in the forseeable.
Bryn and the Ring? I wonder?
I have recently become a friend of Welsh NO as he is doing Hans Sachs with them sometime next year and I was told if I was not a Friend I would not stand a chance of getting a ticket. For me this is a part that will suit him better than Wotan.
Posted by: Elaine | Monday, 28 January 2008 at 16:50
Regarding Ring revivals, Hugh Canning in his review of cycle 2 in Dec 2007 Opera mag stated 2012 - I hope your source is correct!!
Posted by: richard | Monday, 28 January 2008 at 20:03
I don't think Plácido has done Lohengrin since the early 1990s, sadly. Since I published this, someone on the Handel newsgroup has pointed at the source of why I think he will be singing Bajazet (in Tamerlano ) in London - http://www.teatro-real.es/Programme/Detail/?posicion101=1697
I'm afraid that comment about Bryn is sheer evilness on my part. I understand that his Wagner role with WNO is his only opera role for a while (I'm sure I read he's taking time off to present Songs of Praise). I must admit I thought next season too early for another cycle, 2012 would make sense; if it is 2012-13, it would make absolute sense. And maybe Bryn will have learned the part by then...
Posted by: Gert | Monday, 28 January 2008 at 23:06
And on another Yahoo group, I have been told Aida 2010 with Marcelo Alvarez.
Posted by: Gert | Monday, 28 January 2008 at 23:22
Patrizia Ciofi as Donna Anna only?...
Posted by: Tom | Tuesday, 29 January 2008 at 01:51
isn't anja silja supposed to do the witch in hansel und gretel at covent garden? i am sure i read that in an interview with her...
Posted by: bjorn | Tuesday, 29 January 2008 at 11:24
I had not heard about Bryn Terfel singing Sachs with WNO, but he is scheduled to sing Falstaff in Cardiff and Birmingham with WNO this spring. As we are booked for Birmingham - just hope Mrs T unlocks the front door!
Posted by: richard | Tuesday, 29 January 2008 at 16:08
I'm sure I read somewhere that it'll be Katherine Jenkins in "Mathilde di Shabran" :-)
Posted by: Faye | Tuesday, 29 January 2008 at 23:41
Well, Faye, she seems to have told the Daily Mail that she will be singing Carmen at the ROH when she's 30. In 2010. In the same breath where she says she has never called herself an opera singer but a 'classical' singer.
Posted by: Gert | Wednesday, 30 January 2008 at 08:06
I was lucky enough to briefly meet Anna Netrebko after her last performance of La Traviata last Tuesday, and she confirmed that she and Rolando would be singing Manon at the ROH - from memory she said it was 2009. Very exited!
Posted by: mjw4849 | Sunday, 03 February 2008 at 14:37
I've read a rumour that Jonas Kaufmann will be in Die Tote Stadt...as if Gerald Finley isn't reason enough :-)
Posted by: Gert | Monday, 04 February 2008 at 08:12
You will have to post this in the appropriate place. I am sure there will dozens of press releases today. Anna and Erwin are having a baby. Congratulations to them.
http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/182594,russian-star-soprano-anna-netrebko-pregnant--summary.html
Posted by: ZS | Monday, 04 February 2008 at 18:41
Looks like a big question mark hangs over Anna being in Capulets and Montagues! A happy question mark, of course.
Posted by: Gert | Monday, 04 February 2008 at 21:44
Further information about the ROH Hoffmann in late November-mid December 2008: Graham Clark will perform the four valets in that run! http://www.grahamclark.org/engagements.html
Posted by: anonymous | Sunday, 17 February 2008 at 19:14
according to Times interview this morning Terfel is singing complete Ring Cycles in 2010/11 and the Hollander before that so must be next season's production (New or revival?):
http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/stage/opera/article3452560.ece
Posted by: John | Friday, 29 February 2008 at 08:33
Found on ODB Opéra:
Je ne scris pas de Francais. Je voudrais dire 'merci' pour les informations.
Posted by: Gert | Tuesday, 04 March 2008 at 00:50
I recently spoke to Diana Damrau and the only engagements she has with Covent Garden are both in 2008-9 season:
Hansel and Gretel (Nov-Dec '08)
L'elisir d'amore (April 09)
She said she was asked to do Gilda, Donna Anna, Zerbinetta, Marie (FdR) and Lulu but she was already booked way in advance for other productions elsewhere. She did say she will doing a French Grand Opera (Meyerbeer??) at ROH in 2012 with Florez ...
Posted by: | Tuesday, 04 March 2008 at 11:07
Hello, I found your site via Googling the ROH Die Tote Stadt. I live in Los Angeles and am always looking to travel for my favorite operas. Some interesting things in the ROH future, like the Frau Ohne Schatten, Les Troyens, Lulu, Turn of the Screw and the Tristan. Ah, London!
Thanks for your work on getting these futures out there, it helps me plan and prioritize trips over the pond.
Posted by: Henry Holland | Wednesday, 05 March 2008 at 22:06
Danielle de Niese and Charles Workman in Acis and Galatea in 2008/9
Posted by: Gert | Wednesday, 05 March 2008 at 23:48
From conductor Hartmut Haenchen's website: Salome is to return on 3 July 2010, with Angela Denoke in the title role.
Posted by: roy | Wednesday, 12 March 2008 at 21:22
Damrau as Donna Anna, in Robert le Diable?!!
It absurd!
Posted by: amonasro | Sunday, 16 March 2008 at 09:22
According to interview in this afternoon's In Tune, Mattila has withdrawn from Arabella. No reason was given.
She is taking 2 months off to learn Spanish and how to use a computer.
E strano!
Posted by: John | Tuesday, 18 March 2008 at 17:21