2015 is closing in so I’ve already started doing a bit of research about opera schedules for various houses and thought I’d share them with you. Based on my research, so far, Vienna and Berlin have the best opera schedules. Might need to book flights soon! Ok, grab your pencil and filofax (or google calendar) ready!
HOW TO USE THIS POST:
- Use these schedules as a prelimiary list of operas taking place in 2015 from January – July. (I have added some operas taking place post-July as this information was available on some website.)
- Hyperlinks are added for operas as well as their respective opera houses for more information
- Make sure to have a look at the dates of the operas you would like to see as some opera houses may show the opera later in the year as well.
- I have added operas based on the date of the opening night. For example, if an opera’s opening night is on the February this DOES NOT mean that the opera is only showing in February. Always check the link and check updates from the opera house website.
- Be wary that dates and cast changes may take place.
- List will include Bayerische Staatsoper, Barbican Centre and Royal Festival Hall soon.
Royal Opera House, London, UK (website)
January Orfeo, Andrea Chénier, Onegin
February Der fliegende Holländer Die Zauberflöte
March Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny Madama Butterfly
April Il turco in Italia
May Król RogerThe Virtues of Things La traviata La bohème
June King Size The Cure / The Corridor Dot, Squiggle and Rest Don Giovanni Guillaume Tell
English National Opera, London, UK (website)
February The Mastersingers of Nuremberg, La Traviata The Indian Queen
March Sweeney Todd
April Between Worlds
May Pirates of Penzance Carmen
June The Queen of Spades
La Scala, Milan, Italy (website)
January Die Soldaten
February The Coronation of Poppea AidaLucio Silla
March Carmen
May Turandot CO₂ Lucia di Lammermoor
June Cavalleria rusticana Tosca
July Otello The Barber of Seville
August La bohème
September L’elisir d’amore
Palais Garnier/ Opera Bastille, Paris, France (website)
January Don Giovanni Ariadne auf Naxos DIE ENTFÜHRUNG AUS DEM SERAIL
February Pelléas et Mélisande
April RusalkaThe Magic Flute
May Le Roi Arthus
June AlcesteAdriana Lecouvreur
Metropolitan Opera, Lincoln Center, New York, United States (website)
January Hansel & Gretel The Merry Widow Les Contes d’Hoffmann La Bohème Iolanta / Bluebeard’s Castle
February Met+Juilliard presents Gluck’s ‘Iphigénie en Aulide’ La Donna del Lago
Britten’s ‘The Rape of Lucretia’ Liederabend
March Don Giovanni AlcinaLucia di Lammermoor Don Carlo
April Sarah Connolly, Le Nozze di Figaro’
Copenhagen Opera House, Copenhagen, Denmark (website)
January Der Rosenkavalier Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District Lulu Die Zauberflöte Sun goes up, Sun goes down
February Alcina
March cosi fan tutte Maskarade Opera Academy Concert
April Saul and david
Vienna Staatsoper, Vienna, Austria (website)
January Rigoletto Die Fledermaus Die Zauberflöte Il barbiere di Siviglia
Tosca Madama Butterfly Simon Boccanegra Pique Dame SalomeTristan und Isolde
February Verklungene Feste | Josephs Legende L’elisir d’amore Andrea Chénier
Don Carlo (ital.) La Juive Jacques Fromental Halévy I puritani
March WertherLady Macbeth von Mzensk La traviata AidaToscaElektra
April ParsifalDer Rosenkavalier Anna Bolena UndineL’Italiana in Algeri Eugen Onegin Don Pasquale
May NabuccoDas Rheingold Die Walküre SiegfriedLa cenerentola Götterdämmerung
June FidelioDon Giovanni The Tempest Cardillac
Teatrodi San Carlo, Naples, Italy (website)
January Andrea Chénier
February Tristano e Isotta
March Turandot
May Luisa Miller L’Isola Disabitata Orfeo ed Euridice
June La Cenerentola
November La Traviata
Sydney Opera House, Sydney, Australia (website)
January Madama Butterfly ToscaLa bohème The Magic Flute Great Opera Hits
February Faust
March Aida
June Turandot
July Don Carlos La Traviata
Bolshoi Theatre, Moscow, Russia
JanuaryThe Story of Kai and Gerda La Boheme La Traviata Boris Godunov The Fiery Angel
February Don Carlo Baroque. A Journey Festival. England Così fan tutte,ossia La scuola degli amanti The Queen of Spades
March Prince Igor The Enchantress
April Rigoletto Eugene Onegin Le Nozze di Figaro
Semperoper, Dresden, Germany (website)
January La bohème Hansel and Gretel KönigskinderPelléas et Mélisande Die Fledermaus / The Bat King Arthur Die Zauberflöte / The Magic Flute
February Mise en abyme / Reflection Giulio Cesare in Egitto / Julius Caesar in Egypt Semper Soiree
March Il barbiere di Siviglia / The Barber of Seville Der fliegende Holländer / The Flying Dutchman Orlando
Die lustige Witwe / The Merry Widow
April Simon Boccanegra ToscaThe Freischütz
June Le nozze di Figaro / The Marriage of Figaro Don Carlo
Festspielhaus Baden-Baden Germany- (website)
March Der Rosenkavalier Le Damnation de Faust
Apri l The Little Rosenkavalier
May La Traviata Carmina Burana
June Orfeo
BayreutherFestspiele, Germany (2015 Summer Festival) (website)
July Tristan und Isolde Das Rheingold Die Walküre Siegfried Der fliegende Holländer
August Götterdämmerung
Deutsche Oper Berlin (website)
January The Magic Flute La Traviata Lady Macbeth ToscaThe Marriage of Figaro Hänsel & Gretel The Barber of Seville
February Lucia di Lammermoor Elektra read more Tannhäuser and the Singers’ Contest at Wartburg read more Gold / Tischlerei read more Samson and Dalila read more
March The Swallow / Premiere read more The Girl of the Golden West read more La Bohème read more Madame Butterfly read more
April Don Carlo Carmen read more Turandot read more La Traviata read more Roméo et Juliette / read more Lohengrin) / read more
May Eugene Onegin Madame Butterfly HoffmannLa Damnation de Faust read more Carmen read more L’elisir d’amore read more The Love for Three Oranges Roméo et Juliette Nabucco
July Faust
