Summer Festivals 2018

Salzburg Whitsun 18 May – 21 May 2018

• Gioachino Rossini L'italiana in Algeri (and main festival, Cecilia Bartoli)
• Jacques Offenbach La Périchole

Salzburg Festival 20 July – 30 August 2018

• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Die Zauberflöte
• Richard Strauss Salome
• Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky The Queen of Spades
• Claudio Monteverdi L’incoronazione di Poppea with Sonya Yoncheva
• Hans Werner Henze The Bassarids 
• Gottfried von Einem Der Prozess 
• Georges Bizet Les Pêcheurs de perles 
• Gioachino Rossini L'italiana in Algeri

Santa Fe Opera  28 June – 25 August 2019

• Leonard Bernstein Candide 
• Richard Strauss Ariadne auf Naxos  with Erin Morley's Zerbinetta
• Gioachino Rossini L'italiana in Algeri with Daniela Mack
• Giacomo Puccini La Boheme
• John Adams Doctor Atomic in New Mexico where it all happened.

Aix-en-Provence Festival  4 – 24 July 2018

• Richard Strauss Ariadne auf Naxos 
• Sergei Prokofiev The Fiery Angel 
• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Die Zauberflöte 
• Ondřej Adámek Seven Stones from the Tower of Babel 
• Henry Purcell Dido and Aeneas 

Glyndebourne Festival  2 June – 25 August 2019

• Giacomo Puccini Madama Butterfly
• Richard Strauss Der Rosenkavalier
• George Frideric Handel Giulio Cesare
• Claude Debussy Pelléas et Mélisande 
• George Frideric Handel Saul 
• Samuel Barber Vanessa 

Munich Opera Festival  24 June – 31 July 2018

• Richard Wagner Parsifal
• Richard Wagner Der fliegende Holländer
• Richard Strauss Arabella
• Giacomo Puccini Tosca
• Giacomo Puccini Il trittico
• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Le nozze di Figaro
• Richard Wagner Der Ring des Nibelungen
• Joseph Haydn Orlando Paladino
• etc.

Opera Theater of Saint Louis  19 May -- 24 June 2018

• Giuseppe Verdi La Traviata
• Marc Blitzstein Regina
• Huang Ruo An American Soldier
• Christoph Willibald Gluck Orfeo ed Euridice

West Edge Opera has announced three operas for next summer:

• Debussey's Pelléas and Mélisande (1902).   This is to be directed by Keturah Stickan and is a change from the original announcement.  The cast sounds excellent.

• Matt Marks' Mata Hari (2017) which premiered at Prototype Festival this year.  Tina Mitchell will play the title role.  This is to be directed by Paul Peers.

• Luca Francesconi's "sexual psycho-drama" Quartet (2011)  This will be directed by Elkhanah Pulitzer.  "Brutal fury."