My Operatic Highlights 2018

DIRECTORS

Olivier Py: Dialogues des Carmélites, Caen

Stephen Medcalf: Idomeneo, Buxton

 

DESIGNERS

Markus Lüpertz/Ruth Gross: Una cosa rara, Regensburg

Pierre-André Weitz: Dialogues des Carmélites, Caen

 

CONDUCTORS

Daniele Gatti: Rigoletto, Rome

Ulf Schirmer: Ring des Nibelungen, Leipzig

 

SINGERS

soprano

Diana Damrau: Maria Stuarda, Zürich

Lisette Oropesa: Rigoletto, Rome

mezzo

Vasilisa Berzhanskaya: La Cenerentola, Basel

Claudia Huckle: Das Rheingold, Leipzig

tenor

Matthew Polenzani: Luisa Miller, Zürich

Paul Nilon: Idomeneo, Buxton

baritone

Tuomas Pursio: Ring des Nibelungen, Leipzig

Tomas Möwes: Der Silbersee, Pforzheim

bass

Dmitry Belosselskiy: Life for the Tsar, Frankfurt

Andrew Murphy: La Cenerentola, Basel

 

OPERAS NEW TO ME

Bjarnason: Brothers, Reykjavik

Weill: Der Silbersee, Pforzheim

 

MOST AWFUL PERFORMANCES

Matrimonio Segreto, Cologne

Anna Bolena, Passau