Operatic Future Seasons

Found on the web or wherever, tidings of San Francisco Opera:

• Glyndebourne Opera's Meistersinger is a co-production with Lyric Opera of Chicago and San Francisco Opera
• Covent Garden's Les Troyens is a co-production with San Francisco Opera. Anna Caterina Antonacci's biography indicates that she will be in our production. Susan Graham told John Marcher she would be in it - there you have your Cassandre and Didon, I believe in that order. My bet: Enee will be Brandon Jovanovich, but who knows? Maybe we'll finally see JK in opera on this coast.
• Andrea Chenier (Opera Tattler suggests that this will star those noted Italians, Jonas Kaufmann and Eva-Marie Westbroek)
• Adriana Lecouvreur (presumably with Gheorghiu, but that is my guess)
• Gordon Getty's Usher House?!?!?! How much money would he have to donate to get this produced in SF? $10 million? $25 million?
• Patricia Racette and Stuart Skelton in Susannah
• More Janacek
• Be sure to read my blog posting about a letter David Gockley sent to subscribers.
• The 2013 Merola operas will be Nozze di Figaro and The Rape of Lucretia; perhaps this is the nod to Britten 100.

And be sure to keep an eye on Opera Tattler's SFO Future Seasons page. She mentions Orfeo ed Euridice, Florencia en el Amazonas, Manon, and Mefistofele.

Found on the web or wherever, tidings of other opera companies:

• Because I would really like to see him in San Francisco again, I check tenor Stefan Margita's web site occasionally. At the moment, it includes Prince Shuisky at the Met in the 2015-16 season, so we know they're doing Boris; Loge in Chicago in the fall of 2016, so we know they're doing the Ring; Loge at the Met in the Spring of 2017, over a period of months, so we know....If, in fact, SFO has some Janacek scheduled in future seasons, he'd be a prime candidate to be singing in Jenufa or From the House of the Dead. Update: Rumor is that the Met may not be doing the Ring in 2017 after all.
• Nixon in China: performances at Dallas in 2014 and San Diego in 2015, also from RPF's web site.