Seattle Opera 2011-2012 season

Well, the season announcement has been made, and I was 80% correct in my previous post.

The summer production, from July 30 to August 20, will be Porgy and Bess, with Gordon Hawkins and Lisa Daltirus in the lead roles, with John DeMain conducting.

Carmen will play from October 15 to 29, with Anita Rachvelishvili as Carmen, and Joseph Calleja, returning five years after his local debut, as Don Jose. This will not be a revival of the production from 2004, but a production borrowed from Lyric Opera of Kansas City.

From January 14 to 28 will be the Seattle debut of Verdi's Attila with John Relyea in the title role, Antonello Palombi as Foresto, Ana Lucrecia Garcia as Odabella and Marco Vratogna as Ezio. If the pictures on the Seattle Opera website are any indication, this looks to be a modernized production.

Orpheus and Eurydice by Gluck will play from February 25 - March 10, the one opera I didn't guess. It's the tenor version of the opera with William Burden as Orpheus, Davinia Rodriguez as Eurydice and Julianne Gearhart as Amore.

The season ends with Madama Butterfly from May 5 - 19. Patricia Racette and Stefano Secco make their local debuts in the lead roles.

I can't say that I'm particularly thrilled by the choice of operas--however, the high quality of singers for the season does interest me.

Opera in Cascadia through December 2010

August

• August 20, 21 (Actor's Cabaret, Eugene, OR), 25m (The Old Church, Portland, OR), 29 (Sherman Clay Pianos, Portland, OR), 31m (Willamette Oaks Retirement Center, Eugene, OR), September 11 (Our Savior's Lutheran Church, Salem, OR), 17 (Cascade Head Music Festival, Lincoln City, OR), 21 (Capital Manor Retirement Home, Salem, OR), 26m (Central Lutheran Church, Eugene, OR) - Tales of Hoffmann, Jacques Offenbach - Cascadia Concert Opera, various venues (see dates)
• August 21 - Tristan und Isolde, Richard Wagner - Seattle Opera, Marion Oliver McCaw Hall, Seattle, WA
• August 22 - Macbeth, Giuseppe Verdi - Opera Pro Cantanti, Cambrian Hall, Vancouver, BC
• August 29 - Operatic Arias and Scenes - Opera Pro Cantanti, Cambrian Hall, Vancouver, BC

September

• September 5 - La Traviata, Giuseppe Verdi - Opera Pro Cantanti, Cambrian Hall, Vancouver, BC
• September 10, 12m - Barber of Seville, Gioachino Rossini - Vashon Opera, Vashon High School Theatre, Vashon, WA
• September 12 - Macbeth, Giuseppe Verdi - Opera Pro Cantanti, Cambrian Hall, Vancouver, BC
• September 24, 26m, 30 & October 2 - Pagliacci/Carmina Burana, Ruggero Leoncavallo/Carl Orff - Portland Opera, Keller Auditorium, Portland, OR
• September 30, October 2m, 5, 7, 9 - Cinderella, Gioachino Rossini - Pacific Opera Victoria, Royal Theatre, Victoria, BC

October

• October 3 - Norma, Vincenzo Bellini - Opera Pro Cantanti, Cambrian Hall, Vancouver, BC
• October 16, 19, 21, 23 - Lillian Alling (World Premiere), John Estacio - Vancouver Opera, Queen Elizabeth Theare, Vancouver, BC
• October 16, 17m, 20, 23, 24m, 27, 29, 30 - Lucia di Lammermoor, Gaetano Donizetti - Seattle Opera, Marion Oliver McCaw Hall, Seattle, WA
• October 23 - Stabat Mater, Giovanni Battista Pergolesi - Seattle Baroque Orchestra, Town Hall, Seattle, WA

November

• November 5, 7m, 11, 13 - Hansel und Gretel, Engelbert Humperdinck - Portland Opera, Keller Auditorium, Portland, OR
• November 5, 7m - L'elisir d'amore, Gaetano Donizetti - Tacoma Opera, Rialto Theater, Tacoma, WA
• November 5, 7, 13 - Norma, Vincenzo Bellini - Bellevue Opera, Meydenbauer Theater, Bellevue, WA
• November 11, 13m, 16, 18, 20 - Rodelinda, George Frideric Handel - Pacifc Opera Victoria, Royal Theatre, Victoria, BC

December

• December 3 & 4 - Vespers of 1610, Claudio Monteverdi - Early Music Guild & Seattle Baroque Orchestra, St. James Cathedral, Seattle, WA
• December 4, 7, 9, 11 - Lucia di Lammermoor, Gaetano Donizetti - Vancouver Opera, Queen Elizabeth Theatre, Vancouver, BC
• December 30, 31 & January 2m - La Bohème, Giacomo Puccini - Eugene Opera, Hult Center for the Performing Arts, Eugene, OR