As a supplement to my listing of operatic repertoire for the 2017/18 season and with only a very few houses still to announce, here’s my personal list of highlights - very much a 'long list’ of all the productions I’d be prepared to travel and see (though obviously more than I’ll manage!).
And don't forget the full list of season premieres here.
And don't forget the full list of season premieres here.
Firstly, the rarities:
Korngold’s Das Wunder der Heliane in Gent/Antwerp (September) & Berlin DO (March)
Schreker’s Die Gezeichneten in St Gallen (September) & Berlin DO (January), plus revival in Munich (May)
Schreker’s Die Gezeichneten in St Gallen (September) & Berlin DO (January), plus revival in Munich (May)
Schoeck's Penthesilea in Bonn (October)
Hindemith Mathis der Maler in Gelsenkirchen (October)Schreker’s Der ferne Klang in Lübeck (October)
Prokofiev’s The Gambler in Vienna (October), Basel (May) & Gent/Antwerp (June)
Hubay’s Anna Karenina in Bern (November)
Zemlinsky’s Eine florentinische Tragödiein Amsterdam (November)
Weill’s Love Lifein Freiburg (December)
Korngold’s Die tote Stadt in Dresden (December)
Zemlinsky’s Der Kreiderkreis in Lyon (January)
Von Einem’s Dantons Todin Magdeburg (January)
Reznicek's Benzin in Bielefeld (January)
Reznicek's Benzin in Bielefeld (January)
Martin’s Der Sturm in Saarbrücken (January)
Marschner’s Hans Heiling in Essen (February)
Meyerbeer’s Vasco da Gama in Frankfurt (February)
Dukas’s Ariane et Barbe-Bleue in Graz (March)
Rachmaninov’s Aleko& Francesca da Riminiin Kiel (March)
Shostakovich’s Cheryomushkiin Braunschweig (May) & Gelsenkirchen (March)
Von Einem’s Der Besuch der alten Dame and Dantons Tod, both in Vienna (March)
Weinberger’s Schwanda the Bagpiperin Giessen (March)
Puccini’s Edgarin Regensburg (April)
Enescu’s Oedipein Gera (April)
Hindemith triple billin Budapest (May)
Hindemith's Neues vom Tage in Schwerin (May)
Hindemith's Neues vom Tage in Schwerin (May)
Weill’s Der Silberseein Pforzheim (May)
Langgaard’s Antikristin Mainz (June)
Tate’s The Lodgerin Bremerhaven (June)
Waltershausen’s Oberst Chabert(1912) in Bonn (June)
Busoni's Doktor Faust in Osnabrück (June)
Busoni's Doktor Faust in Osnabrück (June)
Mascagni’s Isabeauin London OHP (summer)
Contemporary and premieres:
Henze’s Der junge Lordin Hannover (September)
Ligeti’s Le grand macabrein Luzern/Meiningen (September) & Flensburg (May)
Reimann’s L’invisablein Berlin DO (WP, October)
Saariaho’s Only the Sound Remainsin Paris (January)
Eötvös’s Angels in Americain Münster (February) & in Freiburg (March)
Henze’s Das Fluss der Medusain Amsterdam (March)
Zimmermann’s Die Soldatenin Nürnberg (March), Köln (April) & Madrid (May)
Benjamin’s Lessons in Love and Violencein London (WP, May) & Amsterdam (June)
Holliger’s Luneain Zürich (WP, May)
Andriessen’s Waiting for Vermeerin Heidelberg (May)
Adams’s Nixon in Chinain Würzburg (May)
Ruzicka’s Benjaminin Hamburg (WP, June)
Notable new productions of more familiar repertoire:
Pelléas et Mélisande in Berlin (Komische Oper), dir. Barrie Kosky (September)
Die Frau ohne Schatten in Linz (September)
Die Frau ohne Schatten in Linz (September)
From the House of the Dead in Cardiff (October), Paris (November), London ROH (March), Frankfurt (April) & Munich (May)
Wozzeck in Düsseldorf, dir. Stefan Herheim (October)
Capriccioin Frankfurt, dir. Brigitte Fassbaender (January)
Jenufain Kassel (February)
Boris Godunovin Paris, dir. Ivo van Hove (June)
The Wagnerian highlights:
Rienziin Innsbruck (May)
Tannhäuserin Köln (September), Wiesbaden (November), Görlitz (March) & Leipzig (March)
Lohengrinin Brussels (April) & London ROH (June)
Ringcycles in Leipzig (January), Dresden (January), Munich (January), Karlsruhe (March) & Vienna (April)
New Rings beginning in Chemnitz (February/March) & Bielefeld (March) and continuing in Oldenburg (September) Kiel (March) & Düsseldorf (April)
Tristan und Isoldein Amsterdam (January) & Kassel (May)
Parsifalin Hamburg (September), Baden-Baden (March), Paris (April) & Munich (June), plus revivals in Mannheim, Stuttgart & Antwerp/Gent
And a few revivals of non-standard rep missed first time round:
Barber’s Vanessain Frankfurt (September)
Rimsky-Korsakov’s The Tale of Tsar Saltan in Dresden (November)
Strauss’s Die schweigsame Frau in Munich (November)
Strauss’s Daphne in Vienna SO (December)
Glinka’s A Life for the Tsar in Frankfurt (January)