Vienna has six new shows next season

Here’s the programme, announced this morning:

– Hector Berlioz’ Les Troyens (14 October 2018 – conductor: Alain Altinoglu; directed by: David McVicar; with: Brandon Jovanovich, Adam Plachetka, Peter Kellner, Jongmin Park, Paolo Fanale, Rachel Frenkel, Anna Caterina Antonacci, Joyce DiDonato, Margarita
Gritskova);

– Johannes Maria Staud’s und Durs Grünbein’s Die Weiden (The Willows, world première, Wiener Staatsoper commission; 8 December 2018 – conductor: Ingo Metzmacher; directed by: Andrea Moses; with Rachel Frenkel, Tomasz Konieczny, Thomas Ebenstein, Andrea Carroll, Herbert Lippert, Monika Bohinec, Alexandru Moisiuc, Zoryana Kushpler, Wolfgang Bankl, Sylvie Rohrer);

– Gaetano Donizetti’s Lucia di Lammermoor (9 February 2019 – conductor: Evelino Pidò, directed by: Laurent Pelly; with: George Petean, Olga Peretyatko-Mariotti, Juan Diego Flórez, Jongmin Park);

– Manfred Trojahn’s Orest (first performance at the Wiener Staatsoper; 31 March 2019 – conductor: Michael Boder; directed by: Marco Arturo Marelli; with: Thomas Johannes Mayer, Thomas Ebenstein, Daniel Johansson, Audrey Luna, Laura Aikin, Evelyn Herlitzius);

– Richard Strauss’ Die Frau ohne Schatten (25 May 2019; conductor: Christian Thielemann; directed by: Vincent Huguet; with: Stephen Gould, Camilla Nylund, Evelyn Herlitzius, Wolfgang Koch, Nina Stemme);

– Giuseppe Verdi’s Otello (20 June 2019 – conductor: Myung-Whun Chung; directed by: Adrian Noble; with: Aleksandrs Antonenko, Olga Bezsmertna, Vladislav Sulimsky)