Opera Chic

Teatro Real gets Director de escena Michael Haneke for 2012-13

Madrid's Teatro Real, under the cheese fist of Artistic Director Gerard Mortier, just announced its 2012-13 season and among the gems is a new production of Mozart's Così fan tutte directed by Michael Haneke. The only bad news that Cambreling is conducting seven of the ten replications. Can't have it all, OC, can't have it all.

Other standouts for OC include Saverio Mercadante's La rappresaglia conducted by Muti and his Cherubini kids; Wozzeck starring Simon Keenlyside in the title role; Daniel Catán's Il Postino with the Domingo/Gallardo-Domas duo; and Juan Diego Flórez gets Bizet in Les pêcheurs de perles.

Other operas include: Boris Godunov, Il prigioniero/Suor Angelica, Macbeth, The Perfect American, Don Giovanni, Die Zauberflöte, Moses und Aron, Roberto Devereux and Parsifal.

Teatro Real Brings Back Herbert Wernicke's Rosenkavalier

The late Herbert Wernicke's production of Rosenkavalier has been brought back by Teatro Real: El Caballero De La Rosa ftw! 

Del Monaco's Picturesque Andrea Chénier at Teatro Real

 

Umberto Giordano's Andrea Chénier, a two-big-deaths-for-the-price-of-one verismo opera that boasts sumptuously-lyric tenor arias (Corelli's our favorite and we like Plácidone's, too...Improviso and Come un bel di maggio) and French Revolution finery, opened Saturday night in Madrid at Spain's Teatro Real. 

Not too shabby leads Marcelo Álvarez (as Chénier) and Fiorenza Cedolins (as Maddalena) will let real-life opera couple Daniela Dessì and Fabio Armiliato take over for two nights of the run. Orquesta Sinfónica de Madrid is led by conductor Víctor Pablo Pérez in Giancarlo del Monaco's production (here with Cura & Guleghina).

El País is running a special feature with photos and videos from the painterly production.

 
(Photos: Javier del Real)

Teatro Real's 2009-2010 Season: JDF, Christie, Marcelo Alvarez, Bartoli, Ciofi&Nucci

The new "temporada" of Madrid's Teatro Real is full of treats (see GTL Torn T post here) or download the 88-page .pdf here.

The inimitable William Christie conducting L'Incoronazione di Poppea, Juan Diego in I Puritani, Andrea Chénier with two impressive alternate casts -- Marcelo Alvarez & Fiorenza Cedolins, Fabio Armiliato & Daniela Dessì. The recitals -- Fleming, Bartoli, Damrau, Gruberova.

And a Ciofi-Nucci joint recital seems to be a nice, unusual morsel of opera goodness.