JohnS Posted April 29 Share Posted April 29 A new name - ‘Royal Ballet & Opera’ Main operas: Figaro Traviata Eugene Onegin Fidelio Tales of Hoffman Tosca Boheme Hansel & Gretel Jenufa Aida Festen - Turnage World Premiere Trovatore Turandot Carmen Walkure - Pappano conducting Faust Semele There are a number of Linbury opera performances in the Linbury Theatre. 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Geoff Posted April 29 Share Posted April 29 Thank you! Who are the big voices who are booked? 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lizbie1 Posted April 29 Share Posted April 29 With that list the interest will all be in the casting as far as I'm concerned. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scheherezade Posted April 29 Share Posted April 29 Yes, it’s very much a “usual suspects” list. Disappointing but, sadly, I don’t think that many will have expected anything more imaginative. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MildConcern Posted April 29 Share Posted April 29 Oh, I do hope to hear that it is a new production of Eugene Onegin. The Kasper Holten staging is such a travesty to my favourite opera. If it remains the same, I shall have to attend with my eyes closed. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scheherezade Posted April 29 Share Posted April 29 1 minute ago, MildConcern said: Oh, I do hope to hear that it is a new production of Eugene Onegin. The Kasper Holten staging is such a travesty to my favourite opera. If it remains the same, I shall have to attend with my eyes closed. Agreed. It is impossible to engage with the Kasper Holten staging but I can’t imagine that a new production has been commissioned. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lizbie1 Posted April 29 Share Posted April 29 Yes, the whole season screams "consolidation" - I believe Hoffmann will be new to ROH (Michieletto, should be intelligent) and Semele is travelling from the Théâtre des Champs Elysées, but apart from these and the Walkure and the Turnage I don't see much scope for new productions.* *And if there were to be others they'd probably choose the ones people actually like. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sim Posted April 29 Share Posted April 29 Wow. They have managed to squeeze in just about every 'bums on seats' opera in the repertoire. I hope the casting is good for Semele as I missed it last time around. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lizbie1 Posted April 29 Share Posted April 29 12 minutes ago, Sim said: Wow. They have managed to squeeze in just about every 'bums on seats' opera in the repertoire. I hope the casting is good for Semele as I missed it last time around. It's this or something like this: https://www.theatrechampselysees.fr/saison-2024-2025/opera-mis-en-scene/semele 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sim Posted April 29 Share Posted April 29 30 minutes ago, Lizbie1 said: It's this or something like this: https://www.theatrechampselysees.fr/saison-2024-2025/opera-mis-en-scene/semele Thanks Lizbie. I would love it if that were the cast. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnS Posted April 29 Author Share Posted April 29 Apologies I don’t think I can list the big voices - the full details should be published tomorrow. Just picking up one comment, Eugene Onegin is a new production, Ted Huffman directing. The blurb says he directed 4:48: Psychosis and ‘… brings his unique vision … that blurs the boundaries between memory, longing and desire.’ There’s a feature on Huffman in the Autumn Booking Magazine. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MildConcern Posted April 29 Share Posted April 29 34 minutes ago, JohnS said: Just picking up one comment, Eugene Onegin is a new production, Ted Huffman directing. The blurb says he directed 4:48: Psychosis and ‘… brings his unique vision … that blurs the boundaries between memory, longing and desire.’ There’s a feature on Huffman in the Autumn Booking Magazine. JohnS, you've rather made my day! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnS Posted April 29 Author Share Posted April 29 Many thanks @MildConcern. I’m afraid I didn’t know much about Ted Huffman but I have now read the Magazine article and his approach to Onegin seems promising: not a period piece as he’s ‘interested in the emotional story, rather than the social or historical one.’ And he goes on to say: ‘we really will have dance with a capital D in the show. I really love dance in opera.’ I rather like it that we’re having Eugene Onegin and Onegin in the 2024-25 season. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Geoff Posted April 29 Share Posted April 29 (edited) 34 minutes ago, MildConcern said: JohnS, you've rather made my day! Alternatively, "keep a-hold of Nurse, for fear of finding something worse”...Do you remember 4:48: Psychosis? If not, perhaps worth looking it up: "The play definitely made the audience respond; some of them even walked out during the performance, others covered their eyes or tried to defuse the tension and shock with laughter". Edited April 29 by Geoff 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scheherezade Posted April 29 Share Posted April 29 43 minutes ago, Geoff said: Do you remember 4:48: Psychosis? If not, perhaps worth looking it up: "The play definitely made the audience respond; some of them even walked out during the performance, others covered their eyes or tried to defuse the tension and shock with laughter". Or perhaps not so promising … We shall just have to wait and see. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bridiem Posted April 29 Share Posted April 29 I don't (or hardly ever) go to opera, so can I just clarify - are there really 17 full-length opera productions next season? If so, is that the same number as usual? And if so if so (and I know this is an age-old issue) how can that possibly be justified compared to the number of ballets? The ROH gives every impression in all its promotional material that ballet and opera are equal (in fact they regularly mention ballet first, as if to assure us that it doesn't play second fiddle); but it seems that they most definitely are not. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dawnstar Posted April 29 Share Posted April 29 2 hours ago, JohnS said: Many thanks @MildConcern. I’m afraid I didn’t know much about Ted Huffman but I have now read the Magazine article and his approach to Onegin seems promising: not a period piece as he’s ‘interested in the emotional story, rather than the social or historical one.’ And he goes on to say: ‘we really will have dance with a capital D in the show. I really love dance in opera.’ If it's not a period setting then that's probably going to be an Avoid for me. Also given one of the things I most disliked about Holten's Eugene Onegin was the use of dancer doubles for the 2 main characters, the prospect of another production with dance as a significant feature does not encourage me either. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnS Posted April 29 Author Share Posted April 29 In the Friends magazine Huffman seems to be referring to the formal dances at the end of each Act - there’s no suggestion of dancer doubles @Dawnstar. 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lizbie1 Posted April 30 Share Posted April 30 Some interesting and some very good casting - probables for me are Walkure and Semele; possibles are Onegin, Faust and Turandot (Radvanovsky). 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MildConcern Posted April 30 Share Posted April 30 Rather pleased with the casting for Faust, Turandot, Tosca and Onegin. A lot of the names I hoped to see are present in some capacity over the season. Most of all, I'm glad it's not a second season without the wonderful Lisette Oropesa! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Geoff Posted April 30 Share Posted April 30 Just now, MildConcern said: Most of all, I'm glad it's not a second season without the wonderful Lisette Oropesa! +1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jackyt Posted May 3 Share Posted May 3 On 29/04/2024 at 16:58, Scheherezade said: Agreed. It is impossible to engage with the Kasper Holten staging but I can’t imagine that a new production has been commissioned. It is a new production of Eugene Onegin. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scheherezade Posted May 4 Share Posted May 4 9 hours ago, jackyt said: It is a new production of Eugene Onegin. It is indeed, and that should provide a glimmer of hope, but Geoff’s dire warning up thread is now filling me with terror; “"keep a-hold of Nurse, for fear of finding something worse”...Do you remember 4:48: Psychosis?” 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mary Posted May 4 Share Posted May 4 Of course Psychosis was based on the Sarah Kane play which is a byword for horror, so it was bound to be horrific whoever directed it! But googling this director has not much reassured me I must say. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lizbie1 Posted May 4 Share Posted May 4 It's also going to be rather pricey: top price £270. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alison Posted May 4 Share Posted May 4 On 29/04/2024 at 18:14, JohnS said: Apologies I don’t think I can list the big voices - the full details should be published tomorrow. Just picking up one comment, Eugene Onegin is a new production, That's about par for the course for EO at the RO: do it infrequently, but change the production frequently. It's been that way since I started watching in the 90s, anyway ☹️ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lizbie1 Posted May 5 Share Posted May 5 About Eugene Onegin: I wanted to check to be sure before I wrote this but Liparit Avetisyan sang Lensky's aria at an ROH gala in 2018 and was the highlight of the evening - I don't think I've heard it done better live and I am very fussy indeed about this number. I'm prepared to shut my eyes against the production in order to hear it again. (My all time ideal is the pre-WW2 Lemeshev recording, which is a lot to compete with - I don't even particularly like his timbre but it's astonishingly expressive as well as being a technical marvel.) 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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