The Bavarian State Opera has announced it 2014-15 season with six new productions.
The first production to open will be Janacek's "Vec Makropolos" with Nadja Michael in the title role. The production will be directed by Arpad Schilling and will be conducted by Timas Hanus. The production will premiere on Oct. 19.
On Nov. 11, Anna Netrebko and Jonas Kaufmann will reunite for the first time since 2011 for a new production of Puccini's "Manon Lescaut." The production will be directed by Hans Neuenfels with conductor Alain Altinoglu at the podium. The opera is sure to be one of the big highlights of the season.
Diana Damrau will headline a new production of Donizetti's "Lucia di Lammermoor" with Pavoil Breslick singing the role of Edgardo. Barbara Wysocka will stage the work with music director Kirill Petrenko conducting. The production opens on Jan. 26, 2015.
On May 25 Petrenko will lead Berg's masterpiece "Lulu." Dmitri Tcherniakov will direct the work with Marlis Petersen in the title role and Bo Skovhus portraying Jack the Ripper.
On June 28 Debussy's masterpiece "Pelleas et Melisande" will premiere in a production by Christiane Pohle and Constantinos Carydis.
In July the Richard Strauss' "Arabella" will also receive a new production with Anja Harteros in the title role. Philippe Jordan will be conducting the work in a new production by Andreas Dresen.
The company will also present 37 revivals from Verdi, Rossini, Bellini, Strauss and Wagner.
One of the biggest highlights of the season will include Wagner's Ring Cycle with Petrenko conducting his first cycles. The production will star Evelyn Herlitzius, Stuart Skelton, Stephen Gould and Anja Kampe.
The stars making headlines include Kristine Opolais who will sing three works. The soprano will reprise her role as Vitellia in Mozart's "La Clemenza di Tito." The production will also feature Daniel Behle and Angela Brower.
She will also perform the title role of Puccini's "Madama Butterfly" alongside Maltese tenor Joseph Calleja. The soprano will also take on the role of Tatiana in Tchaikovsky's "Eiugene Onegin" with Mariusz Kwiecien in the title role and Alexey Dolgov as Lensky.
Aside from her commitments to "Arabella," Harteros will be featured in Puccini's "Tosca" with Marcello Giordani and Thomas Hampson as well as Verdi's "Il Trovatore" with Yonghoon Lee and Anna Smirnova. The soprano will also reprise her role as Leonora in Verdi's "La Forza del Destino" with Kaufmann and Ludovic Tezier. She will then sing the role of Elisabetta in Verdi's "Don Carlo" with tenor Ramon Vargas, Rene Pape, Anna Smirnova and Simon Keenlyside.
Legendary soprano Edita Gruberova will return to the house in Donizetti's "Roberto Deveroux." Dolgov will sing the title role with Sonia Ganassi also headlining the production.
Sondra Radvanovsky will bring her acclaimed interpretation of Bellini's "Norma" with Ekaterina Giubanova and Massimo Giordano rounding out the cast.
Mexican tenor Rolando Villazon will reprise his role as Hoffman in Richard Jones striking production of "L'Contes d'Hoffman." The production will also star Angela Brower as Nicklausse.
Aside from "Don Carlo," Pape will return to the house for performance of Mozart's Die "Zauberflote" and Wagner's "Tristan Und Isolde." That production will also feature Watraud Meier and Peter Seiffert.
Isabel Leonard will headline Rossini's "la Cenerentola" with Javier Camarena while Lisette Oropesa will return to Munich for Mozart's "Die Entfurhrung aus dem Serail" with Camarena,
Olga Peretyatko will also headline Rossini's "Il Turco in Italia" while Irene Theorin and Evelyn Herlitzius will share the title role in Strauss "Elektra."
The season will run from September to July.
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