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 If anybody wants to make a contribution but not be published just say so in the comment, and I will incorporate it unattributed, or email me...!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
