Paris Opéra leaks entire season in major online error
mainViewers browsing the Paris Opéra website yesterday were able to read full plans – officially unannounced – for the 2017/18 season.
They include a Verdi Don Carlo, with Jonas Kaufmann, Sonya Yoncheva and Elīna Garanča; a Donizetti Don Pasquale with Pretty Yende et Lawrence Brownlee; and a Saariaho premiere staged by Peter Sellars.
As soon as the error was spotted the web page was instantly taken down.
But a blogger, David LeMarrec, cached up the season and publishes full details here.
A premiere for Paris maybe , but Only the Sound remains was performed in Sellars’ production last season in Amsterdam. Your correspondent also omits fhe joint status of the Benvenuto Cellini production (Amsterdam, ENO, Barcelona). Fantastic! Perhaps the original source only communicated the info as such…
Would be wonderful to have a production of the 5 act Parisian version, done at Covent Garden in 1996 under Pappano, far and away the best and one of the highlights of my operatic life. But they seem to want to do .something considerably more limited.
Don Carlo was done under Pappano at Covent Garden in the five act version (in Italian): 2008.
Earlier, in 1996, he had done it at Le Chatelet (Paris, in French obvs)..
The latter essentially got him the job at the ROH.
There is a DVD of the magnificent Châtelet Dom Carlos with Mattila, W. Maier, Alagna, Hampson and van Dam. Production by Luc Bondy. I was there. Unforgettable.
Domingo as Dottore Grenville in Traviata. Ok, but who will be singing Annina?
Clearly a spoof as Jonas Kauffman will not appear.
Don Carlo Ave Jonas Kaufmann! Ha ha ha ha.
already some of that info has been debunked by the artists themselves, so could we please get an update on how much of that was absolutely not true?