Temporada 2017-18 de la Oper Frankfurt

La Oper Frankfurt ha presentado la programación de su temporada 2017-2018 que incluye el estreno absoluto de tres obras, Der Mieter de Arnulf Herrmann, A Wintery Spring de Saed Haddad que se programa junto a la primera representación escénica de la cantata Il serpente di bronzo (1730) de Jan Dismas Zelenka. Cuatro títulos, Rinaldo de Haendel, Roberto Devereux de Donizetti, Enrico de Manfred Trojahn y L’Africaine de Meyerbeer, se representarán por primera vez en la Oper Frankfurt, teatro que ofrecerá nuevas producciones de Il trovatore de Verdi, Peter Grimes de Britten, Capriccio de Strauss, Z mrtvého domu [Desde la casa de los muertos] de Janáček, Die lustige Witwe de Lehár y Norma de Bellini.

Sebastian Weigle, director musical de la Oper Frankfurt, asumirá Peter Grimes y Capriccio, además de las reposiciones de Die Entführung aus dem Serail, Eugene Onegin y Das Rheingold.

La temporada 2017-2018 de la Oper Frankfurt cuenta con el mecenazgo principal de Mercedes-Benz Niederlassung Frankfurt / Offenbach. Dos de las novedades están coproducidas con Royal Opera House Covent Garden London (Il trovatore) y Den Norske Opera Oslo (Norma). Tres de las reposiciones son coproducciones con Théâtre Royal de la Monnaie Brussels, Malmö Opera, y De Nederlandse Opera Amsterdam - Opéra Lyon.

Nuevas producciones

Giuseppe Verdi: Il trovatore.
Sunday September 10th 2017
Conductor: Jader Bignamini
Director: David Bösch
Stage Designer: Patrick Bannwart
Costume Designer: Meentje Nielsen
Co-production with the Royal Opera House Covent Garden London.
With generous support from the Frankfurt Patronatsverein – Sektion Oper

George Frideric Handel: Rinaldo
Saturday September 16th 2017 (Bockenheimer Depot)
Conductor: Simone Di Felice
Director: Ted Huffman
Stage Designer: Annemarie Woods
Costume Designer: Raphaela Rose
With generous support from the Frankfurt Patronatsverein – Sektion Oper

Benjamin Britten: Peter Grimes
Sunday October 8th 2017
Conductor: Sebastian Weigle
Director: Keith Warner
Stage Designer: Ashley Martin-Davis
Costume Designer: Jon Morell

Arnulf Herrmann: Der Mieter (World Premiere)
Sunday November 12th 2017
Conductor: Kazushi Ōno / Karsten Januschke
Director: Johannes Erath
Stage Designer: Kaspar Glarner
Costume Designer: Katharina Tasch
Commissioned by Oper Frankfurt
With generous support from the Aventis Foundation and the Frankfurt Patronatsverein – Sektion Oper

Richard Strauss: Capriccio
Sunday January 14th 2018
Conductor: Sebastian Weigle
Director: Brigitte Fassbaender
Stage and Costume Designer: Johannes Leiacker

Manfred Trojahn: Enrico
Sunday January 21st 2018 (Bockenheimer Depot)
Conductor: Roland Böer
Director: Tobias Heyder
Stage Designer: Britta Tönne
Costume Designer: Verena Polkowski

Gaetano Donizetti: Roberto Devereux (in concert)
Friday February 2nd 2018
Conductor: Giuliano Carella
Chorus Master: Tilman Michael

Saed Haddad: A Wintery Spring (World Premiere)
Commissioned by Oper Frankfurt and Ensemble Modern
Jan Dismas Zelenka: Il serpente di bronzo
Thursday February 22nd 2018 (Bockenheimer Depot)
Conductor: Franck Ollu
Director: Corinna Tetzel
Stage Designer: Stephanie Rauch
Costume Designer: Wojciech Dziedzic
With generous support from the Aventis Foundation

Giacomo Meyerbeer: L’Africaine
Sunday February 25th 2018
Conductor: Antonello Manacorda
Director: Tobias Kratzer
Stage and Costume Designer: Rainer Sellmaier

Leoš Janáček: Z mrtvého domu
Sunday April 1st 2018
Conductor: Tito Ceccherini
Director: David Hermann
Stage Designer: Johannes Schütz
Costume Designer: Michaela Barth

Franz Lehár: Die lustige Witwe
Sunday May 13th 2018
Conductor: Joana Mallwitz
Director: Claus Guth
Stage and Costume Designer: Christian Schmidt
With generous support from the DZ BANK

Vincenzo Bellini: Norma
Sunday June 10th 2018
Conductor: Antonino Fogliani
Director: Sigrid Strøm Reibo
Stage Designer: Kathrin Nottrodt
Costume Designer: Esther Bialas
Co-production with Den Norske Opera Oslo

Reposiciones

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Die Entführung aus dem Serail
Sunday August 27th 2017
Conductor: Sebastian Weigle / Nikolai Petersen
Director: Christof Loy
Stage and Costume Designer: Herbert Murauer
Co-production with the Théâtre Royal de la Monnaie Brussels

Samuel Barber: Vanessa
Friday September 15th 2017
Conductor: Rasmus Baumann
Director: Katharina Thoma
Stage and Costume Designer: Julia Müer
A production from Malmö Opera

Henry Purcell: Dido and Aeneas
Béla Bartók: Herzog Blaubarts Burg
Friday October 13th 2017
Conductor: Karsten Januschke
Director: Barrie Kosky
Stage and Costume Designer: Katrin Lea Tag

Peter I. Tchaikovsky: Eugene Onegin
Friday October 20th 2017
Conductor: Sebastian Weigle / Nikolai Petersen
Director: Dorothea Kirschbaum
Concept: Jim Lucassen
Stage Designer: Katja Haß
Costume Designer: Wojciech Dziedzic

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Così fan tutte ossia La scuola degli amanti
Friday November 17th 2017
Conductor: Rory Macdonald / Nikolai Petersen
Director: Christof Loy
Stage and Costume Designer: Herbert Murauer

Giuseppe Verdi: Les Vêpres siciliennes
Sunday November 26th 2017
Conductor: Stefan Soltesz
Director: Jens-Daniel Herzog
Stage and Costume Designer: Mathis Neidhardt

Jules Massenet: Werther
Friday December 8th 2017
Conductor: Lorenzo Viotti / Hartmut Keil
Director: Willy Decker
Stage and Costume Desiger: Wolfgang Gussmann
Production from De Nederlandse Opera Amsterdam in cooperation with Opéra Lyon

Michail I. Glinka: Iwan Sussanin
Friday January 19th 2018
Conductor: Justin Brown
Director: Harry Kupfer
Stage Designer: Hans Schavernoch
Costume Designer: Yan Tax

Giuseppe Verdi: Rigoletto
Saturday February 3rd 2018
Conductor: Alexander Prior / Simone Di Felice
Director: Hendrik Müller
Stage Designer: Rifail Ajdarpasic
Costume Designer: Katharina Weissenborn
With generous support from the DZ BANK

Mieczysław Weinberg: Die Passagierin
Saturday March 3rd 2018
Conductor: Leo Hussain
Director: Anselm Weber
Stage Designer: Katja Haß
Costume Designer: Bettina Walter

Gioacchino Rossini: La Cenerentola ossia La bontà in trionfo
Saturday March 10th 2018
Conductor: Vlad Iftinca
Director: Keith Warner
Stage Designer: Jason Southgate
Costume Designer: Nicky Shaw

Richard Wagner: Das Rheingold
Friday April 13th 2018
Conductor: Sebastian Weigle
Director: Vera Nemirova
Stage Designer: Jens Kilian
Costume Designer: Ingeborg Bernerth

Vincenzo Bellini: La sonnambula
Friday April 20th 2018
Conductor: Eun Sun Kim
Director: Tina Lanik
Stage Designer: Herbert Murauer
Costume Designer: Stefan Hageneier

Benjamin Britten: Billy Budd
Saturday May 19th 2018
Conductor: Erik Nielsen
Director: Richard Jones
Stage and Costume Designer: Antony McDonald

Francesco Cilea: Adriana Lecouvreur
Saturday May 26th 2018
Conductor: Steven Sloane
Director: Vincent Boussard
Stage Designer: Kaspar Glarner
Costume Designer: Christian Lacroix

Recitales

Lawrence Brownlee, tenor

Carolyn Sampson, soprano

Michael Volle, baritone

Marianne Crebassa, mezzo-soprano

Dorothea Röschmann, soprano

Michael Fabiano, tenor

Nicole Cabell, soprano

Tanja Ariane Baumgartner, mezzo-soprano