- Chin, Alice in Wonderland
- Mussorgsky, Khovanshchina
- Wagner, Rienzi
- Rossini, Guillaume Tell
- RVW, Sir John in Love
- Nicolai, The Merry Wives of Windsor
- Verdi, Aroldo
- Auber, Manon Lescaut
- Maw, Sophie's Choice
- Marschner, Der Varmpyr
- Blomdahl, Aniara (you can all look it up - I have the recording!)
- Rimsky, The Legend of the Invisible City of Kitezh and the Maiden Fevronia
- Smyth, The Wreckers
- Handel, Orlando
- Pfitzner, Palestrina
Yeah, maybe all three Falstaff treatments belong in the same season. And maybe I should schedule a Shakespeare season or the Trojan Wars season.
I know the Mussorgsky half as well as I should and like it half as well as I want.
ReplyDeleteLisa, I don't know if you follow Brad Wilber's Met Futures page, but he has this listed for 2011-12 (I think they announce the season on 2/16):
ReplyDeleteKhovanshchina with Olga Borodina as Marfa, Vladimir Galouzine as Andrey, George Gagnidze as Shaklovity, Ildar Abdrazakov as Ivan, John Easterlin as Scrivener
He also lists hahahaha Billy Budd [/laughing] and The Makropolous Case, it'd be almost too good to be true if all three were done in close proximity = road trip!
Kitezh is being done in Amsterdam in February 2012.
I do follow Brad, so I sort of knew all of that. :)
ReplyDeleteI don't need to see Makropoulos so soon after the SFO production. There's other stuff at the Met that might interest me.
A wonderful selection. You inspired me to draw up my own! http://boulezian.blogspot.com/2011/02/fantasy-opera-first-two-seasons.html
ReplyDeleteoooo! Thank you!
ReplyDeleteAnd a quite good third season, too. I hope your choices are being viewed by those in charge of programming.
ReplyDeleteJust seeing your choices, and those of Mark Berry and others, makes me realize how many, many operas there are that never get produced. (Or rarely.)
William Schuman: The Mighty Casey.
ReplyDeleteThere's plenty more coming. Need to get Bantock's Omar Khayyam in there, even if it is an oratorio.
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