6 April 2016 at 9.59am | 70 Comments
Details of the Royal Opera House's 2016/17 Season have been announced.
The Royal Opera’s Season includes seven new productions at the Royal Opera House - Norma, Cosi fan tutte, The Nose, Der Rosenkavalier, Die Meistersinger von Nurnberg, The Exterminating Angel and Otello. Two of these are from directors new to Covent Garden (Jan Philipp Gloger and Barrie Kosky). The programme also includes first revivals of Manon Lescaut, Written on Skin, Il trovatore and Adriana Lecouvreur.
The Season includes three other premieres away from the Royal Opera House in collaboration with a range of partners, co-producers and co-commissioners. Handel’s Oreste will be performed at Wilton’s Music Hall by members of the Jette Parker Young Artist programme.
The 2016/17 Season also sees Antonio Pappano renew his contract as Music Director of The Royal Opera until 2020. Pappano will conduct five productions during the Season, including three new productions.
View full listings for The Royal Opera's 2016/17 Season
The Royal Ballet's Season will include four world premieres - new one-act ballets from Wayne McGregor, Liam Scarlett and Crystal Pite at the Royal Opera House, as well as a new production of Philip Glass’s dance opera Les Enfants Terribles by choreographer Javier De Frutos at the Barbican. It also includes major revivals of Kenneth MacMillan’s Anastasia and William Forsythe’s The Vertiginous Thrill of Exactitude as well as the return of Mayerling, The Nutcracker, La fille mal gardée, The Dream and Marguerite and Armand.
The 2016/17 Season programme marks The Royal Ballet’s 70 years as resident ballet company of The Royal Opera House. The Company’s seven-decade association with the theatre will be celebrated with performances of The Sleeping Beauty and Symphonic Variations. Also celebrating an anniversary during the Season is Wayne McGregor, who marks 10 years as Resident Choreographer of The Royal Ballet with his aforementioned new one-act ballet set to a commissioned score by Steve Reich and revivals of Chroma, Woolf Works and Carbon Life. McGregor will also create a new work in celebration of Chance to Dance’s 25th anniversary as well as mentor young choreographers Charlotte Edmonds and Robert Binet, who will present new commissions in the Clore Studio.
View full listings for The Royal Ballet's 2016/17 Season
Casting correct at time of publishing
12 productions will be relayed live to cinemas around the world as part of the Royal Opera House Live Cinema Season - six from The Royal Opera and six from The Royal Ballet.
Which productions are you most excited about during the 2016/17 Season?
Let us know via the comments section below.
6 April 2016 at 9.59am
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Really excited about Handel's Oreste being performed at the Wilton's Music Hall! Can you forward me some more details about this so I can buy a ticket? The web-link seems not to be working on my computer. Looking forward to Otello also and good to see Pappano back!
This will not be on sale until the first booking period, opening on 19 July for the public.
Excellent opera and ballet productions all round, sounds like it's going to be the best season for a while!
Norma and Otello! Fantastic season anyeay
Otello with Jonas Kaufmann
Well, wait and see... In an interview published in the French Opera Magazine, Kaufmann says "In the future, it is obvious thatI I will sing Enee, Otello and Tristan". Well, in 2012 Kaufmann was cast at ROH as Enee in Les Troyens, but his name suddenly disappeared from the programme and in the end, without any explanation or excuse, the role was sung by Brian Hymel!
Good to see there will be a run of The Nose!
So very very Excited by Rosenkavalier both casts and Meistersingers amongst all the other goodies - one of the best Seasons for a long time - roll on 2016/2017
Still very new to all this but was genuinely looking forward to the announcement of the new season and there is a lot I plan on going to watch having now gone through it. Hopefully there is plenty for the seasoned veterans too.
Excited about the new season!!
However, Norma with Angela Gheorghiu would have been a much better choice!
Absolutely not!
Nope. Please no.
It might be if she doesnt turn up (or has a party (sorry.... is indisposed)...actually hang on that goes for both of them. I have now learnt to book for the Opera not the singers through past experience. Lots of good stuff to look forward to.
No thank you.
Your having a laff....
You are joking of course!!!!!!!!
Wrong Angela. The Angela you want for Norma is Angela Meade.
If you could lower prices and make more available to poorer people it would help a lot of people but for most it is out of reach. For many who do not live in London there is the additional expense of transport and hotel etc so it is just a dream for many.
You don't have to pay £200 for a seat. I just stood at the back of the stalls circle for Boris for £10.
I live in Birmingham and often get to the opera for around £25/30 including travel and ticket! If you get in quick when they go on sale there are plenty of tickets for around a tenner. You can live the dream if you get organised and set a reminder for the time the booking opens! I got a £9 ticket to see Netrebko in Boheme but had to get up at 8am on my day off haha! It was so worth it...Good luck and happy viewing!
Hear Hear !!
Absolutely delighted that Woolf Works will be back - it was an overwhelming experience, unlike any other ballet I've seen. And a McGregor triple bill that includes the astonishing Chroma is a must-see. Pleased too at the chance to see some William Forsythe. Would have liked to see some early Ashton or another of the less familiar MacMillans (Anastasia is welcome) but, really, no complaints.
disappointing with a couple of exceptions
Very pleased with this season. Balanced and some exciting new productions to boot. I hope all the star names turn up.
Mayerliiiiiing! Yes! Could you entice Sergei back to do this please?
Also mightily pleased that Pappano will still be with ROH until 2020!
I am looking forward to seeing Anastasia.
My wish has been granted , I have always wanted to see MacMillans Anastasia ; the fact that Mayerling is also being produced , is a fitting reminder of both the political and personal events surrounding the fall of the Habsburgs , Romanovs and the birth of a New Order .
A wonderful season of ballet ahead,particularly excited by Anastasia,Mayerling and the lovely Sleeping Beauty.I anticipate spending a lot of time on the train up from Devon in the next year!
Opera looks good - especially interested by The Exterminating Angel and The Nose. Thanks for bringing back Written on Skin.
Great to see you finally getting ahead of the curve with Netrebko's first Norma!
WHERE ARE ALL THE BEAUTIFUL CLASSIC BALLETS GONE TO? BARELY A HANDFUL AND ALL THE LOVELY CLASSIC OPERAS ALL USING TRADITIONAL PRODUCTIONS WHICH NO PRODUCERS EVER SEEM TO BEABLE TO DO ANY MORE. AHH THE GOOD OLD DAYS.
OTELLO with Kaufmann !!!! YAY..and a wonderful Desdemona and Iago with him.
Excellent season!! Only wish I could travel over for more (i.e. MANON LESCAUT with Radvanovsky).
Unfortunately I am not as thrilled about the new season as some of the other posters appear to be. Besides Otello with Kaufmann, there's nothing that really whets my appetite. I was really hoping Joyce DiDonato would be singing Semiramide (or anything, for that matter). Norma is one of my favourite operas and though Calleja and Ganassi gets my hopes up, I am just not sure Netrebko will be apt for the task. If her performance of Casta diva on YouTube is anything to go by, the prospects are not looking great.
Otello with Kaufmann.
Norma with Netrebko.
Adriana Lecouvreur with Angela Gheorghiu.
Dan Carlo.
Mitridate, re di Ponto with Mochael Spyres.
Obviously thrilled by the prospect of Otello ~ which I have never seen; but looking forward to the revival of John Schlesinger's production of Les Contes d'Hoffmann too which I have & thoroughly enjoyed.
Which 12 will be cinema relayed? Thanks!
Hi there,
Full details of the territories and individual venues will be released over the next few weeks – with tickets on sale next month.
In the meantime, you can find all the productions and dates of our upcoming cinema relays here: http://www.roh.org.uk/showings
All best wishes,
Rose
I am surprised that Domingo is returning again in Nabucco and will be interested to hear a rejuvenated Alagna in Il Travotore.
Handel! Hurrah! Please don't muck it up with daft gimmicky production...
Hear! Hear! to that, Deborah!
I totally agree with you.
YET AGAIN no Bayadere and no Sylvia. Both superb productions not revived for at least 5/6(?) years. Damn shame IMHO.
La Bayadere last performed in May 2013, Jack.
Can't WAIT for Liam Scarlett's Frankenstein!!
Traviata - yet again. Is this six consecutive seasons we have seen this. Verdi did write other things
Don Carlo, Il Trovatore and Otello, for example? They're all being done too. La Traviata is a banker. It helps, massively, to balance the books. In the scheme of things, and looking at a season that also includes a new Adès, the return of Written on Skin, The Nose, a new Meistersinger, etc etc, what's the problem?
Netrebko as Norma?
anyone with any taste will agree that she would have been a house soprano years ago before all the hype and looks became so important.
someone is playing it safe giving the role to someone who singings everything regardless of whether is suited to it or not, or could stand independently among other great Norma's.
cant the garden come up with more imagination? debuting a younger singer in the role?
nebrebko? why not get Lesley garrett?
Where can I see the season details in full ?
Hi David,
Here's the Opera and Music 2016/17 details and the Ballet and Dance 2016/17 details.
Many thanks,
Rose
You wait for years for a Norma to come along then 3 arrive at once...
Really can't wait. Will it be included in an mini package with the Glass?
Brilliant program, chiefly for the Opera (a bit more "routine" for the Ballet). My only disappointment is the absence of Simon Keenlyside, who will sing 3 operas in Vienna but none at the ROH. Apart from that it is globally a very attractiive and exciting season.
Jonas Kaufmann Otello
I would like to see more Puccinni please.
More Puccini??? You've got Manon Lescaut, Madama Butterfly & Turandot! How many more do you want?
Not to mention that we've had Tosca and ll Trittico this season. I might make a plea for 'different' rather than 'more' Puccini, only in that it would be good to see La Fanciulla del West again before too long. I doubt we'll ever get a Villi or an Edgar here, but that's no great loss!
my message of yesterday seems to have disappeared .I had asked when the bookings would open for the May and June 2017appearances of Pretty Yende in L'esire de Amore. there is a group of people wanting to fly over to attend . if I am commenting on the incorrest thread would you be able to re-direct me? I thank you
Hi Christine,
Your comment was posted on another thread (http://www.roh.org.uk/news/opera-and-music-201617). A response and booking details have been noted there.
Thanks,
Chris
Ballet season incredibly dull though I suppose Anastasia has some merit - struggling to remember the last time it was performed. Opportunity for a year off and more time at ENB/in Europe.
Exciting opera programme. Looking forward to it. Much better than the current season which has been rather dull so far, save the magnificent Boris.
Thrilled. Some ballets I have not seen and Mayerling as well. I might be able to face the winter.
Chroma and anastasia
Underwhelmed.
It comes as a pleasant surprise to see a more classically based ballet season than we have seen for some time. I assume or perhaps that should be hope that the choice of repertory for the 2016-17 season means that the younger dancers will be given the opportunity to develop as artists by being cast in roles such as Lise and Aurora..
Many ballet goers have been disappointed that the current revival of Giselle has seen only one debut in the title role by a company member. I trust that we will not be similarly disappointed by casting decisions next season.
If the company is to developed its own leading dancers rather than buying them in from other companies who are prepared to put in the necessary time and resources it needs to do so working from the bottom up. I trust that we shall be seeing a number of debuts in major roles by company members during the coming season. If that happens I shall be happy. If it does not then I shall end up being as dissatisfies about the ballet programme for 2016-17 as I feel about the forthcoming opera season.
The problem with the next opera season is that when you read the opera titles it does not look too bad but when you go into the details of directors and casts it becomes considerably less enticing..
Can't wait to see Jonas Kaufmann as Otello!
Would really love to see on ROH's stage again magnificent Les vêpres siciliennes with Erwin Schrott as Procida.
It seems there's no pleasing some people! I'm happy with McGregor, Reich, Woolf Works and Chroma, it doesn't get better than that.
Very good news re Antonio Pappano.
Wish the new production of Cosi was a traditional one.
When does booking open for Alice's Adventures in Wonderland? Try as I might I can't find anything on the website.
Dear Alan,
Thanks for your comment,
Tickets for this year's production of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland won't be on sale to the general public until 26 July 2017,
Please see the production page for more details: http://www.roh.org.uk/productions/alices-adventures-in-wonderland-by-christopher-wheeldon
All the best,
Asher Korner
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