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2024/2025 SEASON ENGAGEMENTS
Suor Angelica
OPERA AUSTRALIA
TITLE ROLE / JULY 2024
ll Trittico is an operatic treat: a rare chance to see three short operas in one night.Love, lies and death permeate the gritty melodrama of Il Tabarro, the intimate tragedy of Suor Angelica and the surprising satire of Gianni Schicchi.The audience is the winner, with a triple helping of Puccini’s sumptuous orchestra writing, famous arias and the witty, tight ensemble singing of the best comedies. We’ve brought together three outstanding Australian directors to tell these stories, plus exciting young conductor Lidiya Yankovskaya and a brilliant Australian cast.
Ariadne auf Naxos
OPERNHAUS ZÜRICH
KOMPONIST / SEP - OCT 2024
In his last season as Artistic Director at the Opernhaus Zürich, director Andreas Homoki takes on Ariadne auf Naxos, one of the most beautiful and profound operas Richard Strauss wrote. The work requires a highly skilled ensemble. Daniela Köhler, whose turn as Sieglinde in Homoki’s Zurich production of Walküre was a success, debuts in the title role. Joining her are Brandon Jovanovich (Bacchus), Martin Gantner (Music teacher), and Lauren Fagan (Composer). The highly talented young Chinese soprano Ziyi Dai takes on the breakneck role of Zerbinetta. Conductor Markus Poschner once again demonstrates his particular penchant for the German repertoire.
Beethoven's 9th Symphony
MELBOURNE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
SOLOIST / NOV 2024
After eight symphonies, Beethoven took his Ninth to a whole new level by composing the biggest symphony in existence – a beast of a work depicting the triumphant union of all mankind. Almost entirely deaf by this point, this landmark feat for choir and orchestra is best known for its epic finale of Ode to Joy. A star-studded line-up of soloists join the MSO and MSO Chorus for this rousing performance of the great choral symphony.
Verdi Requiem
OXFORD PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA
SOLOIST / JAN 5 2025
There is no more dramatic setting of the Requiem Mass in the repertory than Giuseppe Verdi’s, written to commemorate friends but giving full voice to the composer’s theatrical instincts and vivid response to religious imagery and poetry. World-class soloists and the massed voices of the Crouch End Festival Chorus gather at the Sheldonian Theatre for this performance of Verdi’s soul-stirring work of awe and redemption, often referred to as ‘an opera in disguise’, with the full force of the Oxford Philharmonic Orchestra and its Music Director, Marios Papadopoulos.
Simone Young conducts Elgar & Vaughn Williams
SYDNEY SYMPHONY ORCHESTREA
Eugene Onegin
CANADIAN OPERA COMPANY
TATYANA / MAY 2025
Tchaikovsky’s Eugene Onegin is one of opera’s most romantic masterpieces, an aching meditation on happiness undone. Canadian director Robert Carsen’s stunningly simple staging enjoys an international reputation as “a piece of contemporary operatic history” (The Globe and Mail) and returns to the COC for the first time since 2018. Speranza Scappucci conducts Tchaikovsky’s adored lyric opera, with soprano Lauren Fagan starring as Tatyana, who falls in love with the dashing Eugene Onegin at first sight.
Les Contes d'Hoffmann
OPERNHAUS ZÜRICH
GIULIETTA / JUNE-JULY 2025
The premiere of this staging by Andreas Homoki took place online in the spring of 2021, due to coronavirus pandemic; this season the production finally bows on stage before an audience. Saimir Pirgu made a convincing debut in the title role, and he returns as Hoffmann in this revival. As at the premiere, Italian conductor Antonino Fogliani is at the podium of the Philharmonia Zürich.
Opera under
the Stars
MIDSUMMER VILNIUS
SOLOIST / 24 JULY 2025
“Opera under the Stars” is a unique experience that is worth experiencing at least once in a lifetime. Opera lovers travel hundreds of kilometers every year to hear exceptional performances in unique spaces. The Midsummer Vilnius Festival provides such an opportunity in the very heart of Vilnius – under the open midsummer sky
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