Browsing through the ROH season announcement

Werther  Jules Massenet
Dir: Benoît Jacquot
Cond: Antonio Pappano
Benoît Jacquot’s production of Massenet’s tragic opera explores the conflict between duty and our most passionate desires.
Cast:

• Werther  – Vittorio Grigolo
• Charlotte  – Joyce DiDonato
• Albert  – David Bižić
• Sophie – Heather Engebretson
• Le Bailli – Jonathan Summers
• Johann – Yuriy Yurchuk §
• Schmidt – François Piolino
• Käthchen – Emily Edmonds §
• Orchestra of the Royal Opera House

§ Jette Parker Young Artist
19 June at 3pm
24 | 27* June at 7.15pm
3 July at 3pm
6 | 13 July at 7.15pm
*Live cinema relay

Eugene Onegin
Pyotr Il’yich Tchaikovsky
Dir: Kasper Holten
Cond: Semyon Bychkov

Tchaikovsky’s most famous opera is given an elegiac telling in Kasper Holten’s production.

Cast:

• Eugene Onegin – Dmitri Hvorostovsky
• Tatyana – Nicole Car
• Lensky – Michael Fabiano
• Olga – Oksana Volkova
• Prince Gremin – Ferruccio Furlanetto (except 7 Jan) / Brindley Sheratt (7 Jan)
• Madame Larina – Diana Montague
• Filipyevna – Catherine Wyn-Rogers
• Monsieur Triquet – Jean-Paul Fouchécourt
• Captain – David Shipley §
• Zaretsky – James Platt §
• Royal Opera Chorus, Orchestra of the Royal Opera House

§ Jette Parker Young Artist

19 December at 7pm
22 | 30 December at 7.30pm
2 January at 7pm
4 | 7 January at 7.30pm