The popular staging will feature Kelly Kaduce and Ana María Martínez, who share the role of Cio Cio San.Īlso set for the 2018 lineup are John Adams and Peter Sellars’ Doctor Atomic, Rossini’s The Italian Girl in Algiers, and a new staging of Richard Strauss’ Ariadne auf Naxos from Tim Albery.įor more information, visit. Puccini’s Madame Butterfly-which incidentally opened the company in 1957-will follow, with performances running June 30 through August 24. Leading the cast are Alek Shrader in the title role joining him are Brenda Rae as Cunegonde, Kevin Burdette as Pangloss, Helene Schneiderman as Old Lady, Jarrett Ott as Maximilian, and Richard Troxell as Governor/Vanderdendur. Kostis Protopapas was named General Director of Opera Santa Barbara in December 2017, after two-and-a-half seasons as Artistic Director. It will be directed by Tim Albery, designed by Tobias Hoheisel and. Read: BERNSTEIN AT 100 WILL BE A 2-YEAR CELEBRATION OF THE COMPOSER'S LIFE In 2018 Garsington Opera will present Capriccio in collaboration with The Santa Fe Opera. The production, directed by Laurent Pelly, will run through August 25, which will mark what would have been the late composer’s 100th birthday.

The opera is part of the centennial celebration #BernsteinAt100, which will bring works from the composer around the world over two years.

“The center cannot hold: Placido will conduct (3 peformances of Walkuere) at Bayreuth next year,” wrote Woolf.ĭomingo, of course, has been conducting and performing extensively and his conducting debut in the second opera in Wagner’s famed Ring will come after he has sung his first-ever Miller in “Luisa Miller” at the Metropolitan Opera and conducts “Tosca” at the Royal Opera House.Santa Fe Opera will kick off its 2018 season June 29 with a new production of Leonard Bernstein’s Candide. The news was reported by NY Times Classical Music Editor Zachary Woolfe, via Twitter. In fact, the role of Siegmund remains his most beloved Wagner interpretation, followed by his take on “Lohengrin” and “Parsifal.” Domingo has recorded other Wagner staples including“Tristan und Isolde,” “Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg,” and “Tannhäuser.” The work of choice? “Die Walküre,” an opera he has performed previously in his career. That’s right, Domingo is leading a Wagner opera in Bayreuth during the summer of 2018.

Plácido Domingo’s conducting ambitions are expanding next season the legendary opera star conducts a full Wagner opera for the first time in his career in the composer’s own sanctuary.

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