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Dateline: 14th April, 2011
The Royal Opera in 2011/2012 The Royal Opera is to present five new productions between September 2011 and July 2012, beginning with Puccini's Il Trittico, three one act operas designed to be performed on the same evening. One, Gianni Schicchi, is a revival of the 2007 production by Richard Jones, but the other two, Il Tabaro and Suor Angelica, are new productions, also directed by Jones and conducted by Antonio Pappano. In February 2012, for the first time, the company will present a fully-staged version of Dvorák’s Rusalka in a "radical interpretation" by Jossi Wieler and Sergio Morabito and conducted by Candain Yannick Nézet-Séguin in his Royal Opera debut. In March is the UK premiere of a new opera by Judith Weir, Miss Fortune, co-commissioned by The Royal Opera and the Bregenz Festival, where it will receive its world premiere in July 2011. Shi-Zheng Chen directs with Paul Daniel conducting. Robert Carsen directs Verdi's Falstaff in May, which Daniele Gatti conducts, and this is followed in June by Berlioz' Les Troyens, which will be directed by David McVicar and conducted by Antonio Pappano. One of The Royal Opera’s most popular stagings, the production of La traviata by Richard Eyre, returns with a series of exciting casts. The first cast (30 September) offers Russian soprano Marina Poplavskaya, American tenor James Valenti and Italian baritone Leo Nucci in the central roles. The second (25 November) features American soprano Ailyn Peìrez, Polish tenor Piotr Beczala and British baritone Simon Keenlyside in the lead roles. In the third (2 January) the soprano role of Violetta is shared between Albanian Ermonela Jaho and Russian Anna Netrebko; the tenor role of Alfredo between American Stephen Costello and Italian Vittorio Grigolo; Italian baritone Paolo Gavanelli sings Giorgio Germont. Also revived are Faust (September), with Angela Gheorghiu, La sonnambula (November), Rigoletto (March), La Fille du régiment (April) and La bohème (also April) Other revivals are Der fliegende Holländer in October and Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg in December, followed by a complete cycle of the three Mozart/Da Ponte comedies: Don Giovanni (21 January), Così fan tutte (27 January) and Le nozze di Figaro (11 February). The season ends in July with a revival of Verdi’s Otello. ROH2 presents a world premiere in November: a co-production between ROH2 and Opera East, originally commissioned and developed through ROH2’s OperaGenesis programme, Heart of Darkness is the first opera by the acclaimed British composer Tarik O’Regan, working in collaboration with the artist, composer and librettist Tom Phillips and based on the novella by Joseph Conrad.(1902) A second ROH2 commission has its world premiere in May: Sum is based on the cult book Sum: Forty Tales of the Afterlife by American neuroscientist David Eagleman, and is a new chamber opera by the German-born, British composer Max Richter. The Lion's Face, Elena Langer and Glyn Maxwell's opera about Alzheimer’s disease, is revived in March.
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