<18th Apr Sat>
仕事も遊びも忙しくてフルな一週間が終わってやれやれ。
ウィリアム王子とケイト妃の第二子、出産予定日は公表されてないけど４月２０日あたりらしいので、そろそろかな。２１日の女王様のお誕生日と重なるとめでたいけど。
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４月１５日、ロイヤルオペラハウスの９月からの新シーズンの演目がオンラインで発表されました(→ こちら
）。
その翌日のフレンズ向けプレヴューにも行き（→こちら ）、例年の如くＲＯＨ側が自賛して鼻白みましたが、来シーズンを一言で言うと、「ちぇっ、よくまた同じような歌手ばかり並べたもんだ。演目も同様。」、という不満も例年の如く。
まあ、それでも、去年、一昨年と下記のようにまとめておいたら自分自身で結構役に立ったので（→
去年
、→一昨年
と→３年前
）、今年も一応メモしておきましょう
基準は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だし、新プロダクションはそれだけで星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、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えるよう呪いのワラ人形に針を打ち込みむつもりの歌手です。
私の好みは別として、有名どころとしては、男性はドミンゴ、フローレス、カウフマン、グリゴーロ、ヴィラソン、メリ、ホロストフスキー、シュロット、ターフェル、女性はダムラウ、ディドナート、ゲオルギュー、マッティラ、ウエストブルックくらいで、いつもより少ない上によく来る人ばかりでつまんなーい
（贅沢言うな
って石が飛んできそうだけど）。
↓題名をクリックすると、ＲＯＨのサイトに飛びます。
Autumn Season
★★★★★
Orphée et Eurydice
NEW
Christoph Willibald Gluck
Dir: Hofesh Shechter / John Fulljames
Cond: John Eliot Gardiner
Hofesh Shechter and John Fulljames co-direct a new production of Gluck’s opera.
Orphée – Juan Diego Flórez (except 28 Sept) / Michele Angelini (28 Sept)
Eurydice – Lucy Crowe
Amour – Amanda Forsythe
Monteverdi Choir, English Baroque Soloists
14 | 17 | 23 | 28 | 30 September at 7.30pm
20 September at 3pm; 26 September at 12.30pm
3 October at 7.30pm
間違いなく秋シーズンの目玉。このオペラを生で観るのは初めてなので、大した歌手が出なくても凄く楽しみなんだけど、フローレスのロール・デビューということで枚数制限が心配。しかし、フローレス以外がしょぼ過ぎ。
★★★
Le nozze di Figaro
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Dir: David McVicar
Cond: Ivor Bolton (except 9, 14 Oct) / Christopher Willis (9,14 Oct)
Revolution is in the air in David McVicar’s production of Mozart’s glorious comic opera.
Figaro – Erwin Schrott
Susanna – Anita Hartig (except 7, 14 Oct) / Sophie Bevan (7, 14 Oct)
Count Almaviva – Stéphane Degout
Countess Almaviva – Ellie Dehn
Cherubino – Kate Lindsey
Bartolo – Carlo Lepore
Don Basilio – Krystian Adam
Marcellina – Ann Murray (Sept) / Louise Winter (Oct)
Barbarina – Heather Engebretson (Sept) / Robyn Allegra Parton (Oct)
15 | 18 | 21 | 25 | 29 September at 7pm
2 | 5* | 7 | 14 October at 7pm
9 October at 12 noon
*Live cinema relay
この役ではＲＯＨ初登場のハルティッヒとドゥゴーとリンゼーが楽しみ。
★
Ariadne auf Naxos
Richard Strauss
Dir: Christof Loy
Cond: Lothar Koenigs
Grand passions and comedy collide to wonderful effect in Christof Loy’s production of Strauss’s inventive opera.
The Prima Donna/Ariadne – Karita Mattila
The Tenor/Bacchus – Robert Dean Smith
Zerbinetta – Jane Archibald
The Composer – Ruxandra Donose
Harlequin – Nikolay Borchev
Music Master – Thomas Allen
Dancing Master – Norbert Ernst
Scaramuccio – Wynne Evans
Brighella – Paul Schweinester
Major Domo – Christoph Quest
10 | 13 | 16 October at 7.30pm
このナクソス島のアリアドネ、歌手陣がほぼ前回と同じってのはあんまりだから、パス！
★★★
Carmen
Georges Bizet
Dir: Francesca Zambello
Cond: Bertrand de Billy (19, 21, 24, 27, 30 Oct; 4, 7, 10 Nov) / Alexander Joel (14, 16, 21, 26, 30 Nov)
Francesca Zambello’s production of Bizet’s much-loved opera sets the stage alight with Spanish heat and gypsy passion.
Carmen – Elena Maximova (19, 21, 24, 27, 30 Oct; 4 Nov) / Anita Rachvelishvili (7, 10, 14, 16, 21, 26, 30 Nov)
Don José – Bryan Hymel (19, 21, 24, 27, 30 Oct; 4, 7, 10 Nov) / Jonas Kaufmann (14, 16 Nov) / Yonghoon Lee (21, 26, 30 Nov)
Escamillo – Alexander Vinogradov (19, 21, 24, 27, 30 Oct; 4, 7, 10 Nov) / Gábor Bretz (14, 16, 21, 26, 30 Nov)
Micaëla – Nicole Car (19, 21, 24, 27, 30 Oct; 4 Nov) / Sonya Yoncheva (7, 10, 14, 16 Nov) / Celine Byrne (21, 26, 30 Nov)
Frasquita – Vlada Borovko
Mercédès – Michèle Losier (19, 21, 24, 27, 30 Oct; 4, 7, 10 Nov) / Rachel Kelly (14, 16, 21, 26, 30 Nov)
19 | 21 | 24 | 27 | 30 October at 7pm
4 | 7 | 10 | 14 | 16 | 26 | 30 November at 7pm
21 November at 12 noon
え～っ、又カルメンなのぉ、と思っても、先回素晴らしかったRachvelishviliは再び聴きたいし、もう一人のMaximovaも上手だから期待は高い。カウフマンも２回だけ出るけど、私は彼のドンホセは何度か観たから、もしも切符が買えなくても気にしないでしょう。
★★★
Morgen und Abend
NEW | World Premiere
Georg Friedrich Haas
Lib: Jon Fosse
Dir: Graham Vick
Cond: Michael Boder
Georg Friedrich Haas’s new commission for The Royal Opera, Morning and Evening, is based on a novel by Jon Fosse and directed by Graham Vick.
Olai – Klaus Maria Brandauer
Johannes – Christoph Pohl
Signe/Midwife – Sarah Wegener
Peter – Will Hartmann
Erna – Helena Rasker
13 | 17 | 21 | 25 November at 7.30pm
28 November at 7pm
一体どんなヘンチクリンなワールドプレミエの新作なんだろうか？ 作品も歌手たちも全くわからず。
★★★★
Cavalleria rusticana / Pagliacci
NEW
Pietro Mascagni / Ruggero Leoncavallo
Dir: Damiano Michieletto
Cond: Antonio Pappano
Damiano Michieletto directs new productions of Mascagni and Leoncavallo’s greatest operas.
Santuzza – Eva-Maria Westbroek
Turiddu – Aleksandrs Antonenko (except 13 Dec) / Yonghoon Lee (13 Dec)
Mamma Lucia – Elena Zilio
Alfio – Dimitri Platanias
Lola – Martina Belli
Canio – Aleksandrs Antonenko
Tonio – Dimitri Platanias
Nedda – Carmen Giannattasio (except 29 Dec) / Simona Mihai (29 Dec)
Beppe – Benjamin Hulett
Silvio – Dionysios Sourbis
3 | 7 | 10* | 15 | 21 | 29 December at 7.30pm
13 December at 2pm
18 December at 12.30pm
1 January at 3pm
*Live cinema relay
お馴染みセットのカヴァレリア・ルスティカーナと道化師、前者はもの凄く久しぶり。アントネンコもいいけど、Ｍアルバレスだったらもっと良いのに・・
Winter Season
★
Pyotr Il’yich Tchaikovsky
Dir: Kasper Holten
Cond: Semyon Bychkov
Tchaikovsky’s most famous opera is given an elegiac telling in Kasper Holten’s production.
Eugene Onegin – Dmitri Hvorostovsky
Tatyana – Nicole Car
Lensky – Michael Fabiano
Olga – Oksana Volkova
Prince Gremin – Ferruccio Furlanetto (except 7 Jan) / Brindley Sheratt (7 Jan)
Madame Larina – Diana Montague
Filipyevna – Catherine Wyn-Rogers
Monsieur Triquet – Jean-Paul Fouchécourt
Captain – David Shipley
Zaretsky – James Platt
19 December at 7pm
22 | 30 December at 7.30pm
2 January at 7pm
4 | 7 January at 7.30pm
やっぱり、ホロ様のオネーギンは避けられないのか・・
★★
Tosca
Giacomo Puccini
Dir: Jonathan Kent
Cond: Emmanuel Villaume (except 2, 5 Feb) / Paul Wynne Griffiths (2, 5 Feb)
Drama, passion and fabulous music – Tosca is one of the great evenings of opera. Jonathan Kent’s production is set against the turbulent backdrop of Rome in 1800.
Floria Tosca – Angela Gheorghiu (9, 12, 15, 18, 21 Jan) / Amanda Echalaz (11, 25, 29 Jan; 2, 5 Feb)
Mario Cavaradossi – Francesco Meli (9, 12, 15, 18, 21, 25, 29 Jan) / Riccardo Massi (11 Jan; 2, 5 Feb)
Scarpia – Samuel Youn (9, 12, 15, 18, 21 Jan) / Roberto Frontali (11, 25, 29 Jan; 2, 5 Feb)
Spoletta – Hubert Francis
Cesare Angelotti – Yuriy Yurchuk
Sacristan – Donald Maxwell
Sciarrone – David Shipley
9 | 11 | 12 | 15 | 18 | 21 | 25 | 29 January at 7.30pm
2 | 5 February at 7.30pm
メリ君が出るから、嫌という程やってるトスカも我慢せねば・・。 アンジェラもこうしょっしゅう出るのなら、新しい役でないと飽きられるよ。
★★
La traviata
Giuseppe Verdi
Dir: Richard Eyre
Cond: Yves Abel (January, February, except 6 Feb) / Richard Hetherington (6 Feb) / Nicola Luisotti (Mar)
Verdi’s tragic opera of a Parisian courtesan who sacrifices all for love is vividly told in Richard Eyre’s production.
January, February
Violetta Valéry – Venera Gimadieva
Alfredo Germont – Saimir Pirgu
Giorgio Germont – Luca Salsi
Flora Bervoix – Andrea Hill
Gastone de Letorières – Luis Gomes
Annina – Sarah Pring
Baron Douphol – Yuriy Yurchuk
Doctor Grenvil – James Platt
Marquis D’Obigny – Jeremy White
March
Violetta Valéry – Maria Agresta (except 16, 19 Mar) / Nicole Cabell (16, 19 Mar)
Alfredo Germont – Rolando Villazón (1, 4, 7 Mar) / TBC (9, 12, 16, 19 Mar)
Giorgio Germont – Quinn Kelsey (except 16, 19 Mar) / TBC (16, 19 Mar)
Flora Bervoix – Justina Gringyte
Gastone de Letorières – Samuel Sakker
Annina – Gaynor Keeble
Baron Douphol – Yuriy Yurchuk
Doctor Grenvil – James Platt
Marquis D’Obigny – Jeremy White
16 | 19 | 22 | 27 | 30 January at 7pm
4 February | 1 | 4 | 7 | 9 | 12 | 19 March at 7pm
6 February at 12 noon
ラ・ボエームがなくなったらまともなプロダクションは椿姫しかないもんね。 これが初心者向けに必要なのは理解できるけど、これだけやるんなら、せめて良い歌手出して下さいよね～。・・なのにヴィラソンとカベルだなんて。まだ二人が一緒に出ればそれを避ければ済むのに。
★★★★
L’Étoile
NEW
Emmanuel Chabrier
Dir: Mariame Clément
Cond: Mark Elder
French director Mariame Clément makes her Royal Opera debut with Chabrier’s fabulously frothy comic opera.
King Ouf I – Christophe Mortagne
Siroco – Simon Bailey
Prince Hérisson de Porc-Epic – François Piolino
Tapioca – Aimery Lefèvre
Lazuli – Kate Lindsey
Princesse Laola – Hélène Guilmette
Aloès – Julie Boulianne
Patacha – Samuel Sakker
Zalzal – Samuel Dale Johnson
1 | 3 | 6 | 15 | 18 | 24 February at 7.30pm
20 February at 7pm
何も知らないけど、なんか面白そうだ
★
Il trittico
Giacomo Puccini
Dir: Richard Jones
Cond: Nicola Luisotti
An evening of dramatic power and emotional range: Richard Jones presents a vibrant production of Puccini’s trio of operas.
Michele – Lucio Gallo
Giorgetta – Martina Serafin
Luigi – Carl Tanner
Tinca – Carlo Bosi
Ballad seller – David Junghoon Kim
Frugola – Irina Mishura
Sister Angelica – Ermonela Jaho
The Princess – Anna Larsson
Abbess – Irina Mishura
Monitress – Elena Zilio
Mistress of the Novices – Elizabeth Sikora
Nursing Sister – Jennifer Davis
Gianni Schicchi – Lucio Gallo
Lauretta – Susanna Hurrell
Rinuccio – Paolo Fanale
Zita – Elena Zilio
Gherardo – Carlo Bosi
Nella – Rebecca Evans
Simone – Gwynne Howell
Betto di Signa – Jeremy White
Marco – David Kempster
La Ciesca – Marie McLaughlin
Maestro Spinelloccio – Matteo Peirone
Ser Amantio di Nicolao – Tiziano Bracci
25 | 29 February at 6.30pm
3 | 5 | 8 | 15 March at 6.30pm
前回とほぼ同じ顔ぶれでつまんないったらありゃしない。ガロは全く魅力ないし、これもパスかな。
Spring Season
★★★
Boris Godunov
NEW
Modest Musorgsky
Dir: Richard Jones
Cond: Antonio Pappano
Richard Jones directs a new production of Musorgsky’s magnificent opera on the perils of power.
Boris Godunov – Bryn Terfel
Xenia – Vlada Borovko
Xenia’s Nurse – Sarah Pring
Prince Shuisky – John Graham-Hall
Andrei Shchelkalov – Kostas Smoriginas
Pimen – Ain Anger
Grigory Otrepiev – David Butt Philip
Varlaam – John Tomlinson
Missail – Harry Nicoll
Hostess of the Inn – Rebecca de Pont Davies
Simpleton – Andrew Tortise
14 | 18 | 21* | 24 | 26 | 30 March at 7.30pm
5 April at 7.30pm
*Live cinema relay
14 | 18 | 21* | 24 | 26 | 30 March at 7.30pm
5 April at 7.30pm
*Live cinema relay
新プロダクションだから星ひとつアップだけど、タイトルロールはブリンか・・・
★★★★
Lucia di Lammermoor
NEW
Gaetano Donizetti
Dir: Katie Mitchell
Cond: Daniel Oren
Katie Mitchell directs a new production of Donizetti’s tragic opera.
Lucia – Diana Damrau (April) / Aleksandra Kurzak (May)
Edgardo – Charles Castronovo (April) / Stephen Costello (May)
Enrico – Ludovic Tézier (April) / Artur Ruciński (May)
Arturo – Taylor Stayton (April) / David Junghoon Kim (May)
Raimondo – Kwangchul Youn (April) / Matthew Rose (May)
Normanno – Peter Hoare
Alisa – Rachael Lloyd
7 | 11 | 14 | 16 | 19 | 22 | 25* April at 7.30pm
11 | 16 | 19 May at 7.30pm
14 May at 7pm
*Live cinema relayダムラウのルチア！ クルザクもきっと良いぞ。 ダムラウ組のカストロノーヴォだけが残念。
★★★★
Tannhäuser
Richard Wagner
Dir: Tim Albery
Cond: Hartmut Haenchen
Tim Albery’s acclaimed production of Wagner’s early opera focusses on the conflicting allures of the sensual and the spiritual.
Tannhäuser – Peter Seiffert
Elisabeth – Emma Bell
Venus – Sophie Koch
Wolfram von Eschinbach – Christian Gerhaher
Herrmann – Stephen Milling
Biterolf – Michael Kraus
Walther von der Vogelweide – Ed Lyon
26 | 29 April at 6pm
2 | 5 | 12 May at 6pm
8 | 15 May at 3pm
ああ、よかった、タンホイザーがまたボータじゃなくて。 でも、６０越してるザイフェルトはまだ歌えるのか？
★★★★
Oedipe
NEW
George Enescu
Dir: Àlex Ollé
Cond: Leo Hussain
The Royal Opera presents La Fura dels Baus’s production of Enescu’s only opera, a rarely-seen masterpiece.
Oedipe – Johan Reuter
Tirésias – John Tomlinson
Antigone – Sophie Bevan
Mérope – Claudia Huckle
Jocaste – Sarah Connolly
The Sphynx – Marie-Nicole Lemieux
Shepherd – Alan Oke
23 | 26 | 30 May at 7.15pm
2 | 4 | 8 June at 7.15pm
珍しいエネスコのオペラ！ 歌手はまあまあか。
Summer Season
★★
Nabucco
Giuseppe Verdi
Dir: Daniele Abbado
Cond: Maurizio Benini (except 30 June) / Renato Balsadonna (30 June)
Director Daniele Abbado explores themes of identity, exile and religion in this powerful staging of Verdi’s epic opera.
Nabucco – Plácido Domingo (6, 9, 13, 23 June) / Dimitri Platanias (15, 18, 21, 25, 30 June)
Zaccaria – John Relyea
Abigaille – Liudmyla Monastyrska (except 21, 25 June) / Tatiana Melnychenko (21, 25 June)
Ismaele – Leonardo Capalbo (6, 9, 15, 18, 23, 25 June) / Jean-François Borras (13, 21, 30 June)
Fenena – Jamie Barton
6 | 9 | 13 | 15 | 18 | 21 | 23 | 30 June at 7.30pm
25 June at 7pm
ドミンゴ先生がまだどんどん役柄増やしてるのは尊敬するけど。
★★★★★
Werther
Jules Massenet
Dir: Benoît Jacquot
Cond: Antonio Pappano
Benoît Jacquot’s production of Massenet’s tragic opera explores the conflict between duty and our most passionate desires.
Werther – Vittorio Grigolo
Charlotte – Joyce DiDonato
Albert – David Bizic
Sophie – Heather Engebretson
Le Bailli – Jonathan Summers
19 June at 3pm
24 | 27* June at 7.15pm
3 July at 3pm
6 | 13 July at 7.15pm
*Live cinema relay
待ってました、グリゴーロのウェルテル。ディドナートはロールデビューだそうです。
★★★★
Il trovatore
NEW
Giuseppe Verdi
Dir: David Bösch
Cond: Gianandrea Noseda
Director David Bösch makes his UK debut with a new production of Verdi’s searing tragic opera.
Leonora – Lianna Haroutounian (2, 5, 8, 11, 14, 17 July) / Carmen Giannattasio (4, 7, 9, 12, 15 July)
Manrico – Francesco Meli (2, 5, 8, 11, 14, 17 July) / Gregory Kunde (4, 7, 9, 12, 15 July)
Count di Luna – Željko Lučić (2, 5, 8, 11, 14, 17 July) / Christopher Maltman (4, 7, 9, 12, 15 July)
Azucena – Ekaterina Semenchuck (2, 5, 8, 11, 14, 17 July) / Marina Prudenskaja (4, 7, 9, 12, 15 July)
Ferrando – Maurizio Muraro
２チームとも、ソプラノは知らない人だけど、男性陣はどちらも新顔で期待が持てる人ばかり
（訂正：知らないソプラノというのは間違いで、二人ともＲＯＨではお馴染みの人です。二人とも下手ではないですが、できれば他のもうちょっと上手なソプラノでないと男性軍に太刀打ちできません。でも、又ポプラフスカヤじゃないだけでもありがたいと思わなければ）
しかし、なんですね、こうして星の数を見渡すと、今までで一番楽しみ度が低いシーズンかもしれず、脇席が無くなったこともあり、これまで通り年間３８０ポンドのサポートフレンズでい続けるかどうか疑問
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