Heads it's Wagner, tails it's Verdi as opera houses worldwide entrust 2013 seasons and opening nights to the Wagner/Verdi 200-year birthday anniversaries.
Teatro Regio di Torino called heads and opens its new season on October 12 with Der fliegende Holländer in Willy Decker's y2k production for Opéra national de Paris. Torino's MD Gianandrea Noseda conducts American bass-baritone Mark S. Doss as the flying lead.