Just in: Covent Garden has 11 new shows next season

The Royal Opera House has just rolled out 2022-23.

The new productions include Kaija Saariaho’s opera Innocence, directed by Simon Stone; Dvorak’s Rusalka, with Asmik Grigorian in the title role; a new Aida staged by Robert Carsen, with Elena Stikhina alternating as heroine with Angel Blue; Il trovatore directed by Adele Thomas; and Antonio Pappano conducted a farewell Wozzeck, the Alban Berg opera he conducted in his first ROH season in 2002, directed by Deborah Warner.

Handel’s Arminio, unseen at Covent Garden since 1737, gets a revival; and Richard Jones will direct Alcina. Royal Opera chief Oliver Mears will take on Britten’s Rape of Lucretia.

The logorrheic PR blurb says this production will be ‘shattering’, which seems to be tempting fate.