This Saturday morning, I have received the program of the 2015-2016 season at the Opéra National de Paris. It is the first season entirely conceived by new general manager Stéphane Lissner, back from the Teatro alla Scala in Milan.
20 operas by 16 composers will be performed in 5 languages (there are 16 operas by 12 composers in 4 languages during the 2014-2015 season).
The season includes 8 new productions :
- Arnold Schönberg : Moses und Aron, conducted by Philippe Jordan, directed by Romeo Castellucci, with Thomas Johannes Mayer and John Graham-Hall ;
- a double bill with Bela Bartok's Duke Bluebeard's Castle and Francis Poulenc's La Voix humaine, conducted by Esa-Pekka Salonen, directed by Krzysztof Warlikowski, with Johannes Martin Kränzle, Ekaterina Gubanova and Barbara Hannigan ;
- Hector Berlioz : La Damnation de Faust, conducted by Philippe Jordan, directed by Alvis Hermanis, with Sophie Koch, Jonas Kaufman and Bryn Terfel ;
- Giuseppe Verdi : Il Trovatore, conducted by Daniele Callegari, directed by Alex Ollé, with Ludovic Tézier, Anna Netrebko, Ekaterina Sementchuk and Marcelo Alvarez ;
- Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky : Iolanta, conducted by Alain Altinoglu, directed by Dmitri Tcherniakov, with Sonya Yoncheva and Alexander Tsymbalyuk (double bill with the ballet Nutcracker) ;
- Giuseppe Verdi : Rigoletto, conducted by Nicola Luisotti, directed by Claus Guth, with Quinn Kelsey and Olga Peretyatko ;
- Aribert Reimann : Lear, conducted by Fabio Luisi, directed by Calixto Bieito, with Bo Skovhus, Gidon Saks, Ricarda Merbeth and Edda Moser.
Also advertised as a new production but already performed in Salzburg in 2013, Richard Wagner's Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, conducted by Philippe Jordan, directed by Stefan Herheim, with Gerald Finley, Bo Skovhus and Julia Kleiter.
Another contemporary opera will have its first performance in France (and in French) : Joanna Lee's The Way back Home (as Vol retour), conducted by Stephen Higgins and directed by Katie Mitchell.
The following productions will be revived :
- Giacomo Puccini : Madama Butterfly, directed by Robert Wilson ;
- Jean-Philippe Rameau : Platée, directed by Laurent Pelly ;
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart : Don Giovanni, directed by Michael Haneke ;
- Gaetano Donizetti : L'Elisir d'amore, directed by Laurent Pelly ;
- Jules Massenet : Werther, directed by Benoit Jacquot ;
- Richard Strauss : Capriccio, directed by Robert Carsen ;
- Gioachino Rossini : Il Barbiere di Siviglia, directed by Damiano Michieletto ;
- Richard Strauss : Der Rosenkavalier, directed by Herbert Wernicke ;
- Giuseppe Verdi : La Traviata, directed by Benoit Jacquot ;
- Giuseppe Verdi : Aida, directed by Olivier Py.
Here are some interesting statistics :
- 2 operas composed in the 18th century, 11 from the 19th century, 6 from the 20th century and 1 from the 21st century ;
- 8 operas in Italian, 5 in French, 5 in German, 1 in Hungarian and 1 in Russian.
Reimann's opera is a welcome new production considering we will celebrate the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare's death in 2016. This season is the most interesting we had ath the Opéra national de Paris for years. Let's hope that it will be followed by other new productions including world premières.
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