Let’s look at ROH rumours 2017-2019
tl;dr: barely any Mozart, no Baroque (though some might trickle through nearer to the time) but some tempting things nonetheless. Here‘s your source.
New productions 2017-18
La Vestale (Spontini) La Gheorghiu continues her work to keep the rep traditional
Julia: Angela Gheorghiu
La Boheme (Puccini)
Conductor: Antonio Pappano
Production: Richard Jones
Mimi: ? keeping the suspense
Rodolfo: Michael Fabiano
Marcello: Mariusz Kwiecien
The Queen of Spades (Tchaikovsky) – Co-Production with De Nederlandse Opera
Production: Stefan Herheim I like it, I’ll go
Der Freischutz (Weber) I don’t quite like it but I might go because how often does it come around?
Conductor: Edward Gardner
Production: Kasper Holten
Max: Jonas Kaufmann / Stuart Skelton
Semiramide (Rossini) bring it on! I might go twice [2018 update: I did go twice!]
Production: David Alden
Semiramide: Joyce DiDonato
Assur: Ildebrando D’Arcangelo
Arsace: Daniela Barcellona
Katya Kabanova (Janacek) tempting
Production: Ivo van Hove
Kabanicha: Rosalind Plowright
Katya: Amanda Majeski
Lessons in Love and Violence (George Benjamin, World Premiere) [2018: will go soon]
Director: Katie Mitchell
Stephane Degout
Barbara Hannigan ❤ I’ll take the chance with her
Peter Hoare
Revivals 2017-18
Les Vepres Siciliennes (Verdi) October – November 2017
Rachele Stanisci (Helene), two performances who’s she? I missed the Vepres the last time around, might go this time
Cavalleria Rusticana (Mascagni) / Pagliacci (Leoncavallo) Dec 2017
Nedda: Carmen Giannattasio
Silvio: Artur Rucinski
Santuzza: Elina Garanca I’d go for comparison purposes but it’s a bit soon
Tosca (Puccini) January 2018
Caravadossi: Vittorio Grigolo yes, but who is Tosca?
Lucia di Lammermor (Donizetti) November 2017? So soon?!
Lucia: Olga Peretyatko
Raimondo: Michele Pertusi
Edgardo: Juan Diego Flórez he doesn’t want to!
Don Giovanni (Mozart) July 2018
Donna Anna: Chen Reiss
Don Ottavio: Pavol Breslik
Andrea Chenier (Giordano) ?2018 never too soon 😉 [2018: it’s 2019 now, so I guess it was too soon…]
Andrea Chenier: Jonas Kaufmann
Salome (Strauss) Yay! Hope it’s good. [2018: it was]
Peter Grimes (Britten)
Peter Grimes: Stuart Skelton
Ellen Orford: Emma Bell
New Productions 2018-19
Königskinder (Humperdinck) 13/17/21/27 Dec 2018, 1 Jan 2019 [2018: apparently cancelled]
Production: David Bosch
Der Königssohn: Daniel Behle ❤
Fedora (Giordano)
Fedora: Angela Gheorghiu
From the House of the Dead (Janacek) I’ll go [2018: very good!]
Production: Krzysztof Warlikowski
Through the Looking Glass (Unsuk Chin) World Premiere (?)
Don Pasquale (Donizetti) I really don’t see the appeal of this one
Production: Damiano Michieletto
La Forza Del Destino (Verdi) – 2019 not unless we get Harteros [2018: we’re not getting her]
Conductor: Antonio Pappano
Death in Venice (Britten) I like the story, I might go
Conductor: Mark Elder
Production: David McVicar
Revivals 2018-19
Der Ring des Nibelungen (Wagner)
Brunnhilde: Nina Stemme should yours truly make an effort?
Siegfried: Stefan Vinke
Siegmund: Stuart Skelton
Carmen November- December 2018
Micaela: Eleonora Buratto
Faust (Gounod) should go this time [2018: quite tempting with Damrau]
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Posted on February 17, 2017, in 20th century, bellini, contemporary operas, donizetti, italian opera, romantic opera, rossini, royal opera house and tagged royal opera house rumours. Bookmark the permalink. 39 Comments.
opera, innit? 
in Lucia Edgardo will NOT be Juan Diego Florez. He hated the production and said no thanks
hehe, I liked it! I’m surprised they did not update the rumours site since he’s already spoken about it.
I’d do all the 2017/18 new productions if I could for assorted reasons. I’d even do the Boheme to see Fabiano as Rodolfo again. I would also have to do the Grimes. Of the 2018/19 stuff only the Janacek and the Unsuk Chin really appeal.
I haven’t heard anything by Chin, might have to give it a try. Also probably give Fabiano another try as I haven’t got the appeal yet.
Also, just found out, Krisztina Szabó is making her ROH debut in Lessons in Love and Violence. She is awesome and this breakthrough for her is long overdue IMHO.
I’ll check her out!
Saw her at Tapestry on Friday night!
oh, golden chance for you to sample CR!
Semiramide (Rossini) bring it on! I might go twice
i might lurk and join! a visit to London is in order soon perhaps, given that i just woke up after having dream flying to California but connecting in London!
ps2- oh, and after reading that loooong post on A. Gheorghiu i also dreamt hearing her sing! (but now can’t recall the opera, it’s also quite likely if i every hear her that i woudn’t even know the opera to begin with, or the character :D. in any case, in my dream, her voice was very warm and phrasing very “grand”)
you’re pretty spot on, her voice is warm though the phrasing is less grand than you might think 😉
btw, I haven’t seen anything from you or stray’s end regarding Juditha? Did that not happen?! I was prepared for long entries.
It did happen and it was killer but I suspect we’ve both been too insanely busy to write about it.
Great to hear you had a good time 😀
ah , ok, good to know life is also keeping you busy Stray, i was also lurking like D 😉 . in 1 week, i’ll write all about it!
ja, sorry, i wanted to write a veeeery long post, but i knew already ahead of time i wouldn’t have time until after 26/Feb ! i got set up to give a mother of all talk in front of some big ass names and funding agencies.. on materials i almost don’t feel i have enough depth to cover… so have been spending days and nights reading and now still on slide #5 of at least 20 slides.. with flight out in 1,5 day (same flight i had the dream with detour to London 😉 )
you mentioned that talk. Now that I know all is good I’ll wait patiently 🙂
meanwhile, you can check out this photo 🙂
Baroque singers = always cheerful!
you’d be proud of me, just done (full of swearing now) 95% of the final report.. (not on opera, on work…) and the 2 papers first draft were done.. and the review was finished.. so juditha writeup is in sight!
well done! you wouldn’t be so proud of me, with such a backlog 😉
oh right, and i had a dream 2 nights ago we were at the opera again (can’t remmber which), but it’s definitely a call for something coming up in 20 days 😉
it’s a sign! only 20 days 😀
and in between you have some spare ariodante i believe! (jealous, but i calm and ok 😀 )
Ariodante is in May, you can breathe 😉
ps- there’s a live rodelinda with Prina going on starting i think now (?) here (i think, i can’t sort out the spanish yet… to know if i have the right link.. or whether we have access… Agathe said it’s free..)
ha, thanks! how cool, it’s the one Giulia Tonelli saw in… wherever it is the other day.
hm, still seems to want me to buy a ticket.
ja, try medici.tv here , i get a black screen now , but it’s not asking for money 😀
YEP, the medici.tv works, i now have sound and image, very nice music
yes, I just got it work too! Thanks!
in the case you’d like to comment, how about just reply about here 🙂 , since Agathe, who can’t wait for Prina to arrive.. is head-starting it over there…
haha, ok!
now I’m confused when this is supposed to be on… I thought it was this summer but I guess it’s wishful thinking. If you book that round the world trip you might be just on time 😉
that’s what I was thinking 😉
I would always make the effort for Nina Stemme.
Bloody long opera though! I might have to train ahead of time and starve myself sound-wise to go through the bits when she’s not on 😉
Sorry to tell you that Rosalind Plowright is not singing Kabanicha in the 2019 Katya at the ROH
Thanks for the update!