Theodore Platt gives his debut at the Baden-Baden Easter Festival together with Berliner Philharmoniker and under the baton of chief conductor Kirill Petrenko. The baritone takes on the role of night watchman in Strauss' Die Frau ohne Schatten. The new production by the US director Lydia Steier opens the Baden-Baden Easter Festival on 1 April, with further performances on 5 & 9 April. Platt can also be seen in a concert performance of the opera in the Berlin Philharmonie on 14 April.
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Serena Sáenz sings Queen of the Night in Mozart’s The Magic Flute under the baton of Sesto Quatrini at the Teatro Regio Torino. The production was co-directed by Barry Kosky and Suzanne Andrade from the UK theatre company 1927, with full-scale animation created by her co-Artistic Director Paul Barritt. It premiered in Berlin at the Komische Oper in 2012 and continues to play worldwide, coming to Turin for the first time. The performances take place on March 31 and April 2, 11, 13.
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On 28 & 29 March, Mojca Erdmann performs with Elena Bashkirova and Michael Barenboim at the Festival de Jérusalem in Cité de la musique - Philharmonie de Paris. The programme includes works by Aribert Reimann, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Felix Mendelssohn and Fanny Hensel.
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Olga Peretyatko makes her role debut as Elettra in Mozart’s opera Idomeneo at the Berlin State Opera. Simon Rattle conducts the new production by David McVicar, which celebrates its premiere on March 19. The further performances take place on March 23,26, 28 and 30.
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Thomas Hampson makes his debut as Richard Nixon in John Adams’ Nixon in China at Opéra national de Paris. The baritone shares the stage with Renée Fleming as First Lady Pat Nixon, Xiaomeng Zhang as Chou En-lai, John Matthew Myers as Mao Tse-Tung, Joshua Bloom as Henry Kissinger, and Kathleen Kim as Chiang Ch’ing. Gustavo Dudamel conducts.
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Rising soprano Emily Pogorelc will take on the role of Amina in a new production of Bellini's La Sonnambula directed by Rolando Villazón at Semperoper Dresden. The production will be conducted by Evelino Pidò and can be seen on March 19 & 22.
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Javier Camarena will make his much-anticipated debut as Alfredo in Jean-Louis Grinda’s production of La traviata. It's Monte Carlo Opera's first season under its new director and Verdi's famous opera will bring a supreme cast to the stage: Plácido Domingo as Giorgio Germont, Aida Garifullina as Violetta Valéry and many more. Performances are on March 17, 19, 21 & 23.
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Rolando Villazón directs a new production of Bellini's La sonnambula at the Semperoper. It's a co-production with the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées, the Metropolitan Opera and the Opéra de Nice Côte d'Azur and will have its premiere on March 19.
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Soprano Hanna Elisabeth Müller takes on the role of Countess Almaviva in Barry Kosky's long-awaited new production of Le Nozze di Figaro at Vienna State Opera. Performances take place on March 11, 13, 15, 17, 19, 23 and 26.
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