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ロイヤルオペラハウスの来シーズンの演目が発表になりました(→こちら)。
ここ数年ぱっとしないので期待はうんと低かったのですが、蓋を開けてみたら、なんと、なんと、愛しのフォークト様(貫禄出てきたのでクラウス君あらため)がローエングリンに出てくれるというじゃあありませんか イエーイ、イエーイ それだけで舞い上がって、今日はガッツポーズばかりしてる私、他のを冷静に判断できませんが、悪くない顔ぶれで私的には良いシーズンになりそうです
テノールが充実してるのが一番嬉しいわけですが、フォークト、ポレンザーニ、メリ、ファビアーノ、ブレスリク、聞き飽きたけどカレヤ。 他に無名だけど注目してるイギリス人テノールが多数いるのもグー。 カウフマンもフローレスもグリゴーロも出ないけど、彼らはもう何度も聴いてるので別にいいです。 これでご無沙汰の丸ちゃん(マルセロ・アルバレス)が出てたら凄くハッピーだったけど、贅沢は言うまい。
私の好みは別として、バリトン/バスの有名どころとしては、キーンリーサイド、ルチッチ、ホロストフスキー、ダルカンジェロ、クヴィエチェン、テジエ、ナウリ、ドュゴー、ターフェル、と悪くないし、女性はネトレプコ、ガランチャ、ディドナート、ゲオルギュー、プロハスカ、ウエストブルックで、ネトコちゃんがちゃんと出てくれたらROHの名声も少し戻るというものです
演目は以下コピペしましたが、★の数の基準は、例年同様、私自身の楽しみの度合いであり、良いプロダクションでもすでに何度も観てると減点、新プロダクションはそれだけで★がひとつ多くなる勘定です。
公演順に並んでますが、赤字は凄く楽しみにしてる歌手(今回は特別に楽しみな太字人もいます)、青字はそこそこ楽しみにしてる歌手、緑字はできれば他の人に代わってもらいたい歌手です。 低音歌手にはあまり惹かれない私、上手なバリトンやバスは感心しても胸はときめかないので、楽しみとしてはそこそこで青字止まり。
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La bohème ラ・ボエーム NEW PRODUCTION ★★★★★
11 September–10 October 2017, 16 June–20 July 2018
(Live in cinemas 3 October 2017)
Music: Giacomo Puccini
Director: Richard Jones
Conductors: Antonio Pappano / Paul Wynne Griffiths / Nicola Luisotti
Richard Jones directs a new production of Puccini’s passionate opera of love and death in 19th-century Paris.
- Mimì – Nicole Car / Simona Mihai / Maria Agresta / Ekaterina Siurina
- Rodolfo – Michael Fabiano / Benjamin Bernheim / Matthew Polenzani / Atalla Ayan
- Marcello – Mariusz Kwiecień / Alessio Arduini / Andrei Bondarenko
- Musetta – Nadine Sierra / Danielle de Niese / Vlada Borovko
- Schaunard – Florian Sempey / Gyula Nagy / Duncan Rock / Rodion Pogossov
- Colline – Luca Tittoto / Fernando Javier Radó / In Sung Sim
- Benoît – Jeremy White
- Alcindoro – Wyn Pencarreg
長年ドル箱だった素晴らしいプロダクションをゴミ箱に捨てちゃって、次が例えひどいプロダクションでも、今回は歌手に期待できます。 特にポレンザーニ。
Die Zauberflöte 魔笛 ★★
12 September—14 October 2017
(Live in cinemas 20 September 2017)
Music: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Director: David McVicar
Conductors: Julia Jones / Richard Hetherington
Julia Jones conducts The Royal Opera’s gorgeous production of Mozart’s The Magic Flute with two wonderful casts including Roderick Williams as Papageno and Janai Brugger as Pamina.
- Pamina – Siobhan Stagg / Janai Brugger
- Tamino – Mauro Peter / Tuomas Katajala
- Papageno – Roderick Williams / Florian Sempey
- Sarastro – Mika Kares / In Sung Sim
- Queen of the Night – Sabine Devieilhe / Christina Poulitsi
- First Lady – Rebecca Evans / Jennifer Davis
- Second Lady – Angela Simkin
- Third Lady – Susan Platts / Gaynor Keeble
- Monostatos – Peter Bronder / Peter Hoare
- Papagena – Christina Gansch / Haegee Lee
- Speaker of the Temple – Sebastian Holecek / Darren Jeffery
タミーノ王子もパミーナ王女も知らない人ばかりだけど、もしかしたら期待の新人発掘かもしれないし。
Les Vêpres siciliennes シチリアの夕べの祈り ★★★
12 October–4 November 2017
Music: Giuseppe Verdi
Director: Stefan Herheim
Conductor: Maurizio Benini
Verdi’s spectacular grand opera is conducted by Maurizio Benini with a cast including Malin Byström and Rachele Stanisci, Bryan Hymel, Michael Volle and Erwin Schrott.
- Hélène – Malin Byström / Rachele Stanisci
- Henri – Bryan Hymel
- Jean Procida – Erwin Schrott
- Guy de Montfort – Michael Volle
- Ninetta – Michelle Daly
- Daniéli – Nico Darmanin
- Thibault – Neal Cooper
- Robert – Jihoon Kim
- Mainfroid – Samuel Sakker
- Le Sire de Béthune – Simon Shibambu
- Le Comte de Vaudemont – Jeremy White
4年前にプレミエ(→こちら)の初リバイバル。美人のマリン嬢が楽しみ。
Lucia di Lammermoor ランメルモールのルチア ★★
30 October–27 November 2017
Music: Gaetano Donizetti
Director: Katie Mitchell
Conductor: Michele Mariotti
Donizetti’s opera of a woman forced to breaking point is conducted by Michele Mariotti with a cast including Lisette Oropesa, Charles Castronovo and Christopher Maltman, in Katie Mitchell’s powerful production.
- Lucia – Lisette Oropesa
- Edgardo – Charles Castronovo / Ismael Jordi
- Enrico Ashton – Christopher Maltman
- Raimondo Bidebent – Michele Pertusi
- Normanno – Andrew Tortise
- Arturo Bucklaw – Konu Kim
- Alisa – Rachael Lloyd
一年前のプレミエ(→こちらと→こちら)でびっくり仰天した流産して出血しながらのたうち回るルチアという新解釈の初リバイバル。 でも、あんなに下品じゃ有名歌手は出るのを嫌がるわよね。 このルチアのソプラノ、誰?
La Tragédie de Carmen カルメンの悲劇 NEW PRODUCTION ★★★
3–14 November 2017 (Wilton’s Music Hall)
Music: Georges Bizet
Director: Gerard Jones
Conductor: James Hendry
The youthful stars of the Jette Parker Young Artists Programme perform Peter Brook’s radical reworking of Georges Bizet’s opera in the intimate setting of Wilton’s Music Hall.
- Carmen – Aigul Akhmetshina
- Don José – Thomas Atkins
- Escamillo – Gyula Nagy
- Micaela – Francesca Chiejina
ROH若手アーチストによるカルメン変形版? ちがう劇場でやるのが楽しみで★追加。
Semiramide セミラーミデ NEW PRODUCTION ★★★★
19 November—16 December 2017
Music: Gioachino Rossini
Director: David Alden
Conductors: Antonio Pappano / Christopher Willis
Antonio Pappano conducts Rossini’s epic tragedy with a cast including Joyce DiDonato, Ildebrando D’Arcangelo, Daniela Barcellona and Lawrence Brownlee in a new production by David Alden.
- Semiramide – Joyce DiDonato
- Assur – Ildebrando D'Arcangelo
- Arsace – Daniela Barcellona
- Idreno – Lawrence Brownlee
- Azema – Jacquelyn Stucker
- Oroe – Bálint Szabó
- Mitrane – Konu Kim
- Nino's Ghost – Simon Shibambu
すでに他所でやったプロダクションでライブストリーミングで観たしプロムスでも聞いたセミラーミデ。 バルチェローナはどちらも素晴らしかったし、初めて生で聴くローレンス・ブラウニー も楽しみ。プロムスでキャンセルしたダルカンジェロは出てくれるかな? ディドナートは聞き飽きたけど。
Cavalleria rusticana / Pagliacci カヴェレリア・ルスティカーナ/道化師 ★★★
29 November 2017—13 January 2018
Music: Pietro Mascagni / Ruggero Leoncavallo
Director: Damiano Michieletto
Conductor: Daniel Oren
Catch this classic double bill of Italian opera in The Royal Opera’s Olivier Award-winning production, with Daniel Oren conducting two excellent casts.
- Santuzza – Elīna Garanča / Anna Pirozzi
- Turiddu – Bryan Hymel
- Mamma Lucia – Elena Zilio
- Alfio – Dimitri Platanias
- Lola – Martina Belli
- Canio – Fabio Sartori
- Tonio – Simon Keenlyside / Roberto Frontali
- Nedda – Carmen Giannattasio / Simona Mihai
- Silvio – Andrzej Filończyk / Samuel Dale Johnson
- Beppe – Luis Gomes
久し振りのガランチャ! サイモンも出てくれるのね。
Rigoletto リゴレット ★★★
14 December 2017—16 January 2018
(Live in cinemas 16 January 2018)
Music: Giuseppe Verdi
Director: David McVicar
Conductor: Alexander Joel
Alexander Joel conducts two excellent casts led by Dmitri Hvorostovsky and Dimitri Platanias in David McVicar’s acclaimed production of Verdi’s potent and tragic opera.
- Duke of Mantua – Michael Fabiano / Ivan Magrì
- Rigoletto – Dmitri Hvorostovsky / Dimitri Platanias
- Gilda – Sofia Fomina / Lucy Crowe
- Sparafucile – Andrea Mastroni
- Maddalena – Nadia Krasteva
- Giovanna – Sarah Pring / Kathleen Wilkinson
- Count Monterone – James Rutherford / Darren Jeffery
- Marullo – Dominic Sedgwick
- Matteo Borsa – Thomas Atkins
- Count Ceprano – Simon Shibambu
- Countess Ceprano – Francesca Chiejina / Jacquelyn Stucker
ホロ様のリゴレットを観るのは2005年以来ですが(→こちら)、癌治療が上手く行ってるってことでしょうか? ジルダが弱点か?
Salome サロメ ★★★
8–30 January 2018
Music: Richard Strauss
Director: David McVicar
Conductor: Henrik Nánási
Malin Byström takes on the title role in Richard Strauss’s searing opera, as featured in the V&A exhibition Opera: Passion, Power and Politics.
- Salome – Malin Byström
- Jokanaan – Michael Volle
- Herod – John Daszak
- Herodias – Michaela Schuster
- Narraboth – David Butt Philip
- Page of Herodias – Christina Bock
- First Jew – Dietmar Kerschbaum
- Second Jew – Thomas Atkins
- Third Jew – Hubert Francis
- Fourth Jew – Konu Kim
- Fifth Jew – Jeremy White
- First Soldier – Levente Páll
- Second Soldier – Alan Ewing
- First Nazarene – Kihwan Sim
- Second Nazarene – Dominic Sedgwick
- Cappadocian – John Cunningham
美人のマリン嬢のサロメ、ビジュアル的にとても楽しみ。
The Return of Ulysses NEW PRODUCTION ★★★
10–21 January 2018 (Roundhouse)
Music: Claudio Monteverdi
Director: John Fulljames
Conductor: Christian Curnyn
The Royal Opera returns to the Roundhouse with Monteverdi’s great late work, in a new production directed by John Fulljames starring Christine Rice and Roderick Williams, sung in English.
- Ulysses – Roderick Williams
- Penelope – Christine Rice
- Telemachus – Samuel Boden
- Minerva – Catherine Carby
- Eurycleia – Susan Bickley
- Melantho – Francesca Chiejina
- Eurymachus – Andrew Tortise
- Eumaeus – Mark Milhofer
- Irus – Stuart Jackson
- Amphinomus – Nick Pritchard
- Peisander – Tai Oney
- Antinous – David Shipley
又ラウンドハウスで英語にしちゃうんですね。私が注目してる3人のテノールが出るから許すけど。
Tosca トスカ ★★
15 January—3 March 2018
(Live in cinemas 7 February 2018)
Music: Giacomo Puccini
Director: Jonathan Kent
Conductors: Dan Ettinger / Plácido Domingo
Three casts, led by Adrianne Pieczonka, Angela Gheorghiu and Martina Serafin and conducted by Dan Ettinger and Plácido Domingo, star in The Royal Opera’s production of Puccini’s thriller.
- Floria Tosca – Adrianne Pieczonka / Angela Gheorghiu / Martina Serafin
- Mario Cavaradossi – Joseph Calleja / Riccardo Massi / Massimo Giordano
- Baron Scarpia – Gerald Finley / Marco Vratogna
- Spoletta – Aled Hall / Hubert Francis
- Cesare Angelotti – Simon Shibambu
- Sacristan – Jeremy White
- Sciarrone – Jihoon Kim
ピアチェンカとフィンリーが出なかったらパスしたかも。 カレヤはROHに出過ぎだし、他の二人は既にやったもんね。
Carmen カルメン NEW PRODUCTION ★★★★★
6 February—16 March 2018
(Live in cinemas 6 March 2018)
Music: Georges Bizet
Director: Barrie Kosky
Conductors: Jakub Hrůša / Christopher Willis
Barrie Kosky directs Bizet’s much-loved opera, with Jakub Hrůša and Christopher Willis conducting two casts led by Anna Goryachova and Gaëlle Arquez in the title role.
- Carmen – Anna Goryachova / Gaëlle Arquez
- Don José – Francesco Meli / Andrea Carè
- Escamillo – Kostas Smoriginas / Alexey Markov
- Micaëla – Anett Fritsch / Susanna Hurrell
- Zuniga – David Soar / David Shipley
- Frasquita – Jacquelyn Stucker / Haegee Lee
- Mercédès – Angela Simkin / Aigul Akhmetshina
- Le Dancaïre – Pierre Doyen
- Moralès – Gyula Nagy / Dominic Sedgwick
- Le Remendado – Jean-Paul Fouchécourt
新プロダクションだけど、メリが出るだけでも楽しみ。 カルメンの二人は知らないけど、上手かもしれないし。
From the House of the Dead NEW PRODUCTION ★★
7–24 March 2018
Music: Leoš Janáček
Director: Krzysztof Warlikowski
Conductor: Teodor Currentzis
Janáček’s final work receives its Royal Opera premiere in a new production directed by Krzysztof Warlikowski, with Teodor Currentzis conducting an excellent cast including Johan Reuter and Willard W. White.
- Alexandr Petrovic Gorjancikov – Willard W. White
- Aljeja – Pascal Charbonneau
- Luka Kuzmic – Štefan Margita
- Skuratov – Ladislav Elgr
- Šiškov/Priest – Johan Reuter
- Prison Governor – Alexander Vassiliev
- Big Prisoner/Nikita – Nicky Spence
- Small Prisoner/Cook/Cekunov – Grant Doyle
- Elderly Prisoner – Graham Clark
- Voice – Konu Kim
- Drunk Prisoner – Jeffrey Lloyd-Roberts
- Šapkin – Peter Hoare
- Prisoner/Kedril – John Graham-Hall
- Prisoner/Don Juan/Brahmin – Aleš Jenis
- Young Prisoner – Florian Hoffmann
- Prostitute – Rinat Shaham
- Cerevin – Alexander Kravets
ヤナチェックですかあ・・。ウィラード・ホワイトですかあ・・。 私が好きなイギリス人テノール3人が出るから観に行きますけど。
Macbeth マクベス ★★★★★
25 March—10 April 2018
(Live in cinemas 4 April 2018)
Music: Giuseppe Verdi
Director: Phyllida Lloyd
Conductor: Antonio Pappano
Antonio Pappano conducts Verdi’s opera on Shakespeare’s tragedy, with a magnificent cast including Anna Netrebko and Anna Pirozzi, Željko Lučić and Ildebrando D’Arcangelo.
- Macbeth – Željko Lučić
- Lady Macbeth – Anna Netrebko / Anna Pirozzi
- Banquo – Ildebrando D'Arcangelo
- Macduff – Yusif Eyvazov / David Junghoon Kim
- Lady-in-waiting – Francesca Chiejina
- Malcolm – Konu Kim
- Doctor – Simon Shibambu
今シーズンはノルマを蹴ったネトコちゃん。マクベス夫人は既に他所でやってるから大丈夫でしょう。話題のご主人もご披露できるわけだし、ちゃんと出て下さいね。
Coraline WORLD PREMIERE ★
27 March—7 April 2018 (Barbican Theatre)
Music: Mark-Anthony Turnage
Director: Aletta Collins
The world premiere of Mark-Anthony Turnage’s opera based on Neil Gaiman’s much-loved story, in a production at the Barbican directed by Aletta Collins.
かなり苦手かも・・。集客できないからバービカンシアターでやるのね。
4.48 Psychosis ★★
Dates TBC
Music: Philip Venables
Director: Ted Huffman
Philip Venables’s award-winning opera is inspired by Sarah Kane’s extraordinary final play.
想像もできません。 行くかどうかは歌手と値段。
Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk ムチェンスク郡のマクベス夫人 ★★
12–27 April 2018
Music: Dmitry Shostakovich
Director: Richard Jones
Conductor: Antonio Pappano
Richard Jones’s critically acclaimed production returns after more than a decade, with Antonio Pappano conducting a cast led by Eva-Maria Westbroek in Shostakovich’s masterpiece.
- Katerina Ismailova – Eva-Maria Westbroek
- Sergey – Brandon Jovanovich
- Boris Ismailov – John Tomlinson
- Zinovy Ismailov – John Daszak
- Sonyetka – Aigul Akhmetshina
- Aksinya – Rosie Aldridge
- Shabby Peasant – Peter Bronder
- Priest – Wojtek Gierlach
- Police Inspector – Mikhail Svetlov
- Teacher – Thomas Atkins
- Old Convict – Paata Burchuladze
- Female Convict – Miranda Keys
- Sentry – Simon Shibambu
- Coachman/Second Workman – Hubert Francis
マクベス尽くし? 今年の秋に蜷川さんのマクベスもやるし、なにかのマクベス記念年? 前回と同じキャストでつまらないけど。
Lessons in Love and Violence WORLD PREMIERE ★★★★
10–26 May 2018
Music: George Benjamin
Director: Katie Mitchell
Conductor: George Benjamin
George Benjamin conducts the world premiere of his new collaboration with Martin Crimp – a hotly anticipated work from the creators of Written on Skin, with an excellent, hand-picked cast.
- Samuel Boden
- Stéphane Degout
- Jennifer France
- Barbara Hannigan
- Peter Hoare
- Gyula Orendt
- Andri Björn Róbertsson
- Krisztina Szabó
Written on Skinのジョージ・ベンジャミンの新作オペラ、もちろん前衛的でしょうが、この手のものにしては珍しく楽しみ。
Tansy Davies and Nick Drake WORLD PREMIERE ★
June 2018 (Printworks)
Music: Tansy Davies
Director: Lucy Bailey
The latest opera from composer Tansy Davies and librettist Nick Drake, the award-winning team behind Between Worlds.
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Mamzer Bastard WORLD PREMIERE ★
June 2018
Music: Na'ama Zisser
The Royal Opera presents the world premiere of a new work by exciting young composer Na’ama Zisser, in a soundworld that thrillingly unites contemporary idioms with the music of Orthodox Hasidic Judaism.
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Lohengrin ローエングリン NEW PRODUCTION ★★★★★
7 June—1 July 2018
Music: Richard Wagner
Director: David Alden
Conductor: Andris Nelsons
Wagner’s great romantic opera is conducted by Andris Nelsons with a cast including Klaus Florian Vogt, Kristine Opolais and Christine Goerke in a new production directed by David Alden.
- Lohengrin – Klaus Florian Vogt
- Elsa von Brabant – Kristine Opolais
- Ortrud – Christine Goerke
- Friedrich von Telramund – Thomas J. Mayer
- Heinrich I – Georg Zeppenfeld
- Herald – Kostas Smoriginas
- First Noble of Brabant – Konu Kim
- Second Noble of Brabant – Thomas Atkins
- Third Noble of Brabant – Gyula Nagy
- Fourth Noble of Brabant – Simon Shibambu
待ってました、 9年ぶりにROHに出てくれるフォークト様。去年春に日本で会った時に「なんでロンドンに来てくれないの?」と攻め寄ったら、「招待してくれないからだよ」、と本人が言ってたので全然期待してなかっただけに喜びもひとしお。 7回全部行っちゃうかも。 遠征費用が掛からない分、良い席を奮発するから枚数制限になりませんように・・。 ワクワク お相手は意外にもオポライス。彼女のワグナー、歌はともかくフォークト様とはお似合いの美男美女カップル。美しいプロダクションになりますよう・・。
Don Giovanni ドン・ジョバンニ ★★★
29 June—17 July 2018
Music: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Director: Kasper Holten
Conductor: Marc Minkowski
In Mozart’s dazzling tragicomic opera, Marc Minkowski conducts a world-class cast led by Mariusz Kwiecień with Ildebrando D’Arcangelo, Rachel Willis-Sørensen, Pavol Breslik and Hrachuhi Bassenz.
- Don Giovanni – Mariusz Kwiecień
- Leporello – Ildebrando D'Arcangelo
- Donna Anna – Rachel Willis-Sørensen
- Don Ottavio – Pavol Breslik
- Donna Elvira – Hrachuhi Bassenz
- Zerlina – Chen Reiss
- Masetto – Anatoli Sivko
- The Commendatore – Willard W. White
ダルカンジェロはなんとシーズン3回目。でも、ドン・ジョバンニ役で出てくれれば良いのに・・(私は去年ザルツブルグで観たからいいけど、ロンドンの人は待ってるのよ)。クヴィちゃんのドンジョバンニは上手だけど先回何度も観たしね。充実の男性軍に対して女性軍が弱い。
Falstaff ファルスタッフ ★★
7–21 July 2018
Music: Giuseppe Verdi
Director: Robert Carsen
Conductor: Nicola Luisotti
Robert Carsen’s production of Verdi’s masterful comic opera is filled with wit, humour and sheer joie de vivre.
- Sir John Falstaff – Bryn Terfel
- Alice Ford – Ana María Martínez
- Ford – Simon Keenlyside
- Nannetta – Anna Prohaska
- Fenton – Frédéric Antoun
- Mistress Quickly – Marie-Nicole Lemieux
- Meg Page – Pamela Helen Stephen
- Dr Caius – Carlo Bosi
- Bardolfo – Michael Colvin
- Pistol – Craig Colclough
またブリンか・・。楽しみなのはプロハスカとアントゥーンのカップルだけ。
Jette Parker Young Artists Summer Performance 2018 ★★
15 July 2018
The Jette Parker Young Artists return to the main stage in their annual summer performance.
L'Ange de Nisida in concert ★★★
18–21 July 2018
Music: Gaetano Donizetti
Conductor: Mark Elder
Opera Rara gives the world premiere of Donizetti’s opera – some of which is familiar from La Favorite – in a concert performance starring Joyce El-Khoury and conducted by Mark Elder.
- Sylvia – Joyce El-Khoury
- Leone de Casaldi – David Junghoon Kim
- King Fernand of Naples – Ludovic Tézier
- Don Gaspar – Laurent Naouri
- Monk – Evgeny Stavinsky
テジエとナウリが出てくれるドニゼッティなら、コンサートでもきっと盛り上がるでしょう。