Lulu - Wuppertal Opera - 26 May 2016

Dr Schon (Ralf Lukas) and Lulu (Martina Welschenbach)
Photos: Uwe Stratmann

Lulu – Martina Welschenbach
Dr Schon – Ralf Lukas
Alwa – Arnold Bezuyen
Countess Gewschwitz – Kathrin Goring
Artist/Negro – Johannes Grau
Animal Tamer/Athlete – Christian Tschelebiew
Schigolch – Martin Blasius
Gymnast/Groom – Sandra Borgarts
Prince/Room servant/Marquis – James Wood
Theatre Director/Banker – Michael Adair

Conductor – Toshiyuki Kamioka
Director – Beate Baron
Set design – Elisa Limberg
Costumes – Marie Gerstenberger
Lighting – Fredy Deisenroth
Film - Siegersbuschfilm

With its mixture of realism, fantasy, black humour and tragedy, Berg’s Lulu is not an opera that takes readily to straightforwardly narrative treatment. It is, in the best sense, too contrived for that, with its mirrored forms in music and drama, its larger-than-life characters and knowing self-reflection. The extent to which directors flesh out the story and milieu varies from one production to the next. Beate Baron, for her staging at Wuppertal Opera, takes a cue from the opera’s opening scene, in which the Animal Tamer introduces the characters as wild beasts, by peopling her stage with onlookers from the circus – garish clowns and ‘glamorous assistants’, young girls who in Act I usher each new character on to the scene. Lulu herself is a kind of figurative still centre around whom everyone else circles like hunters – a vision made concrete in the first scene of Act II when the rivals for her attention, the Athlete, the Gymnast, Schigolch, Alwa and her husband Dr Schön, skulk around with hunting rifles. Stuffed leopards furnish the abstract Schön household as if to push home the point. And if I interpreted the Act II film correctly, we see these same characters – running through the Wuppertal woods in evening dress – as pursuers becoming the pursued at the crux of the palindrome.

If Baron can be said to have taken a more feminist line than most of her male colleagues in interpretations of the work, it serves to highlight a kind of battle of the sexes that lies behind the character of Lulu herself, less active ‘femme fatale’ than innocent victim of the attention she attracts in others. Her ‘portrait’, painted by the Artist in the first scene, is a feminist symbol, a downward-pointing triangle on a white background, and her adherents wave a similar flag in her support in the latter stages of the opera. Marie Gerstenberger costumes all the main male admirers in variations on the same pale blue Crimplene-style suit, as if to indicate their common nature. Elisa Limberg’s simple set is a circle of black sand in a containing ring that occasionally revolves. At the start, the props – notably the divan on which Lulu’s lovers habitually die – are held in a huge net above the stage, and one by one ‘released’ during the closed-curtained interludes, as if we are to see the gradual accumulation of the elements that make up the presentation building up over time. Stage pictures are a crucial element, not always static and not always explicable – what, for instance, is the significance of Schön and the supposedly dead Artist wandering around with umbrellas after the latter character’s suicide?

In the early stages of the evening there was a sense of overkill in the visual splintering of ideas and images, more anti-narrative than narrative. But, to give the production its due credit, the feeling tends to fade as the performance progresses, until with Act III we begin to see where everything is leading. The libretto’s Paris salon, where investors in the Jungfrau Railway are at leisure, becomes a sunny resort, with the entire cast spread out on deckchairs in front of the black sand, which has now almost overwhelmed the divan. The dramatic mirror is emphasised in the final scene as each of Lulu’s three lovers returns with angel’s wings – we don’t need to see them as 'new' characters, the Professor or as Negro, until we are perhaps made to believe Jack the Ripper has turned up in the disguise of Dr Schön, as he divests himself of his wings before murdering Lulu. There’s also the suggestion that she is prostituting herself less for the money than for the attempt to regain the companionship she has successively lost over her serial relationships. That becomes her final tragedy.

Musically, Wuppertal Opera has everything to be proud of. The company may currently lack its own ensemble (a state of affairs that I understand is to be rectified under next season’s incoming regime), but its chorus amply supplied the smaller roles, with the others allotted to guests. Martina Welschenbach seems to have modelled her characterisation of the title role on Christine Schäfer’s famously nonchalant way with the role, but to good effect, and her singing throughout was focused and clearly projected. Ralf Lukas’s Dr Schön was powerfully engaging, his text conveyed with the vehemence and perspicacity of an experienced sometime Wotan, and Wagnerian credentials also bore fruit in the fine mixture of Helden- and character tenor that Arnold Bezuyen brought to the part of Alwa. Among the others there was no weak link, from Kathrin Göring’s warmly characterised Geschwitz and Sandra Borgarts’s earthy Gymnast to Johannes Grau’s virile Artist/Negro, Christian Tschelebiew’s visceral Animal Tamer/Athlete, Martin Blasius’s unusually sympathetic Schigolch and James Wood’s flutey Prince/Marquis. Toshiyuki Kamioka, conducting one of his last remaining performances as Wuppertal’s music director and intendant, made much of Berg’s expansion of late Romanticism in his score, which was played with warmth and penetrating character by the Wuppertal Symphony Orchestra.

The 2016-17 opera season

A summary of new productions and selected revivals being staged in the 2016/17 season in Germany, Switzerland, Austria, Belgium, Netherlands, the UK and the main companies in France. Information is given in good faith, but please confirm details with company websites/publications.

Last updated 25 August 2016.

Abraham

Die Blume von Hawaii (d. Enzinger) – Dortmund from 21 Jan

Adams

The Gospel According to the Other Mary (d. Sellars, from ENO) – Bonn from 26 Mar

Adès

The Exterminating Angel (UKP, from Salzburg Festival, d. Cairns) – London ROH from 24 Apr

Powder Her Face (in German, d. Szalma) – Görlitz from 28 Jan

Powder Her Face (d. Engels) – Aachen from 19 Mar

Atterberg

Aladin (d. Woron) – Braunschweig from 11 Mar

 

Barber

Vanessa (d. Mokrusch) – Bremerhaven from 3 Jun

Bartók

Bluebeard’s Castle (d. Ostermann/Schmeding, c/w music-theatre w’shop) – Darmstadt from 25 Sep

Bluebeard’s Castle (d. Tchernikov, c/w Eötvös) – Hamburg from 6 Nov

Bluebeard’s Castle (d. Vanishing Point; c/w The 8th Door (Paterson)) – Glasgow SO from 28 Mar

Bluebeard’s Castle (d. Bruncken; c/w tba) – Halle from 6 May

Bluebeard’s Castle (d. Vienne; c/w Ligeti Lux aeterna) – Brussels from 21 Jun NB Now postponed to 2017/18 season

Battistelli

Lot (WP; d. Hilbrich) – Hannover from 1 Apr

Prova d’orchestra (d. Weigner) – Münster from 20 May

Beethoven

Fidelio – Coburg from 18 Sep

Fidelio (d. Kupfer) – Berlin SO from 3 Oct

Fidelio (d. Hasko Weber) – Weimar from 25 Mar

Fidelio (d. Hampe) – Cologne from 11 Jun

Bellini

Norma (d. Ollé) – London ROH from 12 Sep

Norma (d. Stöppler) – Mainz from 24 Sep

Norma (d. Hoheisel/Kogge) – Essen from 8 Oct

Norma (d. ) – Graz from 6 May

Norma (d. Braunschweig) – Nuremberg from 13 May

Norma (d. Wieler/Morabito, from Stuttgart) – Geneva from 16 Jun

Benatzky

Im weißen Rössl (d. Jordan/Koppelmann) – Mainz from 26 Nov

Berg

Lulu (d. Kentridge, from New York Met) – London ENO from 9 Nov

Lulu (d. Stöppler) – Weimar from 21 Jan

Lulu (two-act vn, d. Kaiser) – Ulm from 9 Feb

Lulu (d. Marthaler/w Hannigan) – Hamburg from 12 Feb

Lulu (d. Hertel) – Flensburg from 13 May

Wozzeck (d. Schmiedleitner) – Nürnberg from 18 Feb

Wozzeck (d. McVicar, from Chicago) – Geneva from 2 Mar

Wozzeck (d. Lübbe) – Erfurt from 25 Feb

Wozzeck (d. Warlikowski) – Amsterdam DNO from 18 Mar

Wozzeck (revival/d. Marthaler) – Paris ON from 26 Apr

Wozzeck (d. Lutz) – Cottbus from 24 Jun

Berlioz

La damnation de Faust (d. Raimondi) – Liège from 25 Jan

La damnation de Faust (d. Dittrich) – Bremen from 18 Mar

La damnation de Faust (d. Gilliam/c. Rattle) – Berlin SO from 27 May

Les troyens (d. Höckmeyer) – Frankfurt from 19 Feb

Berlioz/Wagner

La reine (music theatre, d. Bischoff/w. Denoke) – Mannheim from 12 Feb

Bernstein

Candide (d. Cooper) – Cologne from 4 Dec

Candide – Pforzheim from 25 Feb

Mass (d. Ryser) – Lübeck from 17 Mar

West Side Story (d. Hertel) – Flensburg from 3 Dec

Bizet

Carmen (d. Hovenbitzer) – Hof from 23 Sep

Carmen (d. Fouquet) – Flensburg from 24 Sep

Carmen (d. Muller) – Regensburg from 24 Sep

Carmen (d. Leimeier) – Oldenburg from 27 May

Carmen (d. Nicklich) – Koblenz (outdoors) from 1 Jul

Les pêcheurs de perles (d. Désiré) – Biel/Solothurn from 26 Feb

Les pêcheurs de perles (d. Pöckel) – Plauen from 1 Apr

Les pêcheurs de perles (d. Wenders/c. Barenboim) – Berlin SO from 24 Jun

Blacher

Romeo and Juliet (revival) – Basel

Boesmans

Julie (d. Gruner) – Magdeburg from 12 Nov

Yvonne, Princesse de Bourgogne (GP, d. Schwalbach) – Oldenburg from 25 Mar

Borodin

Prince Igor (d. Tchernikov) – Amsterdam DNO from 7 Feb

Britten

Billy Budd (d. Phelan) – Leeds ON from 1 Oct & touring

Death in Venice (d. Vick) – Berlin DO from 19 Mar

Death in Venice (d. Volpi) – Stuttgart from 7 May

A Midsummer Night’s Dream (d. Brown) – Trier from 24 Sep

A Midsummer Night’s Dream (d. Heibling) – Mainz from 12 May

Owen Wingrave (d. Creed) – Paris ON from 19 Nov

Paul Bunyan (d. Fassbaender) – Frankfurt from 9 Oct

Peter Grimes (d. Krenn) – Wiesbaden from 4 Feb

Peter Grimes (d. ?) – Schwerin from 7 Apr

Peter Grimes (d. Cura) – Bonn from 7 May

The Turn of the Screw (d. Thiel) – Gelsenkirchen from 10 Sep

The Turn of the Screw (d. Carsen, from Vienna TW) – Strasbourg from 21 Sep

The Turn of the Screw (d. Knuth) – Erfurt from 30 Sep

The Turn of the Screw (d. von Mayenburg) – Bern from 13 May

Bröder, Alois

Unverhofftes Wiedersehen (WP, d. Weckesser) – Wurzburg from 24 Jun

Busoni

Doktor Faust (d. Warner) – Dresden from 19 Mar

Doktor Faust (d. Amaya) – Hildesheim from 15 Apr

Catalani

La Wally – Niederbayern from ?

La Wally (d. Stiehl) – Vienna VO from 25 Mar

Cavalli

La Calisto (in English) – English Touring Opera from 14 Oct

La Calisto (d. Clément) – Strasbourg from 26 Apr

Eliogabalo – Paris ON from 16 Sep

Il giasone (d. Sinigaglia) – Geneva from 25 Jan

Hipermestra (UKP, d. Vick, c. Christie) – Glyndebourne from 20 May

Charpentier, Marc-Antoine

Médée (d. Homoki, c. Christie) – Zurich from 22 Jan

Cilea

Adriana Lecouvreur (d. Thoma) – Karlsruhe from

Cornelius

Der Barbier von Baghdad (d. Pöckel) – Zwickau from 27 Jan

Der Barbier von Baghdad (d. Hovenbitzer) – Gießen from 28 Jan

Der Barbier von Baghdad (conc. perf.) – Wuppertal from 10 Jun

Dalbavie, Marc-André

Charlotte Salomon (GP) – Bielefeld from 14 Jan

Debussy

Pelléas et Mélisande (d. McVicar) – Glasgow SO from 23 Feb & touring

Pelléas et Mélisande (revival/d. Guth) – Frankfurt from 25 Mar

Pelléas et Mélisande (d. Marelli) – Vienna SO from 18 Jun

Dean, Brett

Hamlet (WP, d. Armfield, c. Jurowski) – Glyndebourne from 11 Jun

Defoort, Kris

Daral Shaga (d. de Coen) – Brussels from 11 Jan

Doderer, Johanna

Liliom (WP; d. Köpplinger) – Munich SG from 4 Nov

Donizetti

Don Pasquale (d. Rousseau) – Biel/Solothurn from 23 Sep

Don Pasquale (d. Köhler) – Altenburg from 3 Oct

Don Pasquale (d. Villazón) – Düsseldorf from 29 Apr

L’elisir d’amore (d. Spirei) – Karlsruhe from 15 Oct

L’elisir d’amore (d. Poda) – Strasbourg from 21 Oct

L’elisir d’amore (d. von Studnitz) – Ulm from 10 Nov

L’elisir d’amore – Bielefeld from 3 Dec

L’elisir d’amore (d. Bauer) – Saarbrücken from 25 Feb

L’elisir d’amore (d. Ribitzki) – Hannover from 1 Jun

La favorite (d. Niermeyer) – Munich from 23 Oct

La fille du regiment (semi-staged) – Oldenburg from 2 Dec

Lucia di Lammermoor – Niederbayern from ?

Lucia di Lammermoor (d. D. Alden) – Bonn from 30 Oct

Lucia di Lammermoor (d. Thalbach) – Leipzig from 26 Nov

Lucia di Lammermoor – Hagen from 21 Jan

Maria Stuarda (d. Grisebach) – Flensburg from 14 Jan

Viva la mamma! (d. Pelly) – Lyon from 22 Jun

Dorman, Avner

Wahnfried (WP; d. Warner) – Karlsruhe from 28 Jan

Dvorák

Rusalka (d. Reinhardt) – Innsbruck from 24 Sep

Rusalka (d. Dicu) – Augsburg from 25 Feb

Eggert, Max

Freax (WP, d. Lucassen) – Regensburg from 21 Jan

Egk

Peer Gynt (d. Konwitschny) – Vienna TW from 17 Feb

Eichberg, Søren Nils

Glare (GP; d. Lehner) – Koblenz from 11 Mar

Eötvös

Senza sangue (WP, d. Tchernikov; c/w Bluebeard) – Hamburg from 6 Nov

Fairouz

The New Prince (WP) – Amsterdam from 24 Mar

Fennessy, David

Sweat of the Sun – Osnabrück from 2 Jun

Flotow

Martha (d. Thoma) – Frankfurt from 16 Oct

Martha (d. Pölzgutter) – Regensburg from 29 Oct

Francesconi

Trompe-la-mort (WP) – Paris ON from 16 Mar

Gál

Das Lied der Nacht (d. Pörzgen) – Osnabrück from 29 Apr

Giordano

Andrea Chénier (d. Stölz) – Munich from 12 Mar

Glass

Einstein on the Beach (d. Voges) – Dortmund from 23 Apr

The Fall of the House of Usher (d. Lehner) – Koblenz from 10 Mar

Satyagraha (d. Cherkauoi) – Basel from 28 Apr

The Trial (d. McCarthy) – Glasgow SO from 24 Jan

Gluck

Alceste (d. Ollé/La Fura dels Baus0 – Lyon from 2 May

Armide (d. Alexandre) – Vienna SO from 16 Oct

Armide (d. Steier) – Mainz from 14 Jan

Ezio (revival) – Frankfurt from 9 Dec

Iphigenie auf Tauris (arr. R. Strauss) (d. Mielitz) – Meiningen from 24 Sep

Orphée (concert perf.) – Aachen from 4 Dec

Orphée, as Orfeo², arr. Aucoin (d. Fitch) – Salzburg from 22 Jan

Orphée (d. Volga) – Innsbruck from 20 May

Orphée – Mönchengladbach from 15 Jun

Gnesin, Michail

Der jugend Abrahams (1924) (d. Berger-Görski; c/w Tal) – Gera from 25 Mar

Gounod

Cinq-Mars (d. Pilavachi) – Leipzig from 20 May

Faust (d. Fuchs) – Magdeburg from 10 Sep

Faust (d. Stiehl) – Münster from 10 Sep

Faust (d. Fulljames) – Dortmund from 17 Sep

Faust (d. Castorf) – Stuttgart from 30 Oct

Faust (d. Wiegand) – Darmstadt from 28 Jan

Faust (d. Lowery) – Bern from 29 Jan

Faust – Schwerin from 7 May

Faust – Greifswald from 28 May

Roméo et Juliette (d. ) – Graz from 5 Nov

Roméo et Juliette (d. Lucassen) – Kassel from 8 Apr

Roméo et Juliette (d. Grazzini) – Erfurt from 13 May

Gruber

Geschichten aus dem Wiener Wald – Hagen from 24 Jun

Haas

Morgen und Abend (d. Kerkhof) – Heidelberg from 3 Feb

Hahn, Reynaldo

The Merchant of Venice (GP) – Bielefeld from 28 Apr

Halévy

La juîve (d. Konwitschny, from Flanders/Mannheim) – Strasbourg from 3 Feb

Handel

Agrippina (d. Dale) – Oldenburg from 15 Oct

Alcina (d. Ritschel) – Münster from 14 Jan

Alcina (d. Steier) – Basel from 10 Jun

Ariodante (d. Wieler/Morabito) – Stuttgart from 5 Mar

Ariodante (d. Widder) – Lübeck from 28 Apr

Hercules (d. Lowery) – Mannheim from 9 Dec

Hercules (d. Ambrosino) – Erfurt from 15 Jan

Giulio Cesare (d. Klepper) – Freiburg from 11 Feb

Jeptha (d. Guth, from Paris ON) – Amsterdam DNO from 9 Nov

Jeptha (d. Gürbaca) – Halle from 26 May

Rinaldo (d. Van Rensburg) – Chemnitz from 25 Mar

Semele (d. Visser) – Karslruhe from 22 Feb

Xerxes (d. Conway) – English Touring Opera from 8 Oct

Xerxes (d. Köhler) – Frankfurt from 8 Jan

Xerxes (d. Repschläger) – Neustrelitz from 6 May

Hartmann

Simplicius Simplicissimus (d. Gürbaca) – Bremen from 28 Jan

Simplicius Simplicissimus (d. Fioroni) – Augsburg from 2 Jun

Haydn

Il mondo della luna – Plauen from 14 Jan

Il mondo della luna (d. Horres) – Linz from 4 Mar

Hefti, David Philip

Annas Maske (WP) – St Gallen from 6 May

Henze

Elegy for Young Lovers – Gütersloh/Detmold from 29 Apr

Elegy for Young Lovers (d. Warner) – Vienna TW from 2 May

The English Cat (d. Schlingmann) – Hannover from 26 Nov

Hindemith

Cardillac (d. Münstermann) – Pforzheim from 27 May

Die Harmonie der Welt (d. Hilsdorf) – Linz from 8 Apr

Mathis der Maler (d. Stöppler) – Mainz from 18 Mar

Sancta Susanna (revival/d. Martone, c/w Cavalleria) – Paris ON from 30 Nov

Honegger

Jeanne d’Arc au bûcher (d. Castelucci) – Lyon from 21 Jan

Jeanne d’Arc au bûcher (d. Ollé; c/w Debussy: Damoiselle elué) – Frankfurt from 11 Jun

Hosokawa

Matsukaze (revival, d. Waltz) – Brussels from 6 Apr

The Raven (GP; c/w Voix humaine) – Coburg from 14 May

Humperdinck

Hänsel und Gretel – Kaiserslautern from 29 Oct

Hänsel und Gretel (d. Reitmeier) – Salzburg from 30 Oct

Hänsel und Gretel (d. Weigand) – Dessau from 5 Nov

Hänsel und Gretel (d. Riemenschneider) – Bremen from 25 Nov

Hänsel und Gretel (d. Horstkotte) – Mönchengladbach from 3 Dec

Hänsel und Gretel (d. Siegl) – Trier from 16 Dec

Hänsel und Gretel (d. Dick) – Leeds ON from 2 Feb & touring

Hänsel und Gretel (d. Firmbach) – Lüneburg from 17 Jun

Janáček

The Cunning Little Vixen – Niederbayern from ?

The Cunning Little Vixen (d. Carsen) – Strasbourg from 11 Dec

The Cunning Little Vixen – Coburg from 4 Feb

Jenůfa (revival from 2015/16; d. Kuntze) – Gera from 22 Oct

Jenůfa (d. Schmeding, from Detmold ?) – Darmstadt from 4 Mar

Katya Kabanova (revival from 2015/16) – Krefeld from 15 Oct

Katya Kabanova – Avignon from 27 Nov

Katya Kabanova (d. Baur) – Saarbrücken from 14 Jan

The Makropulos Case (d. Mundruczó) – Antwerp/Gent from 14 Sep

The Makropulos Case (d. Nemirova) – Freiburg from 26 Nov

Knussen

Where the Wild Things Are (d. Westerbarkei) – Duisburg from 2 Mar

Korngold

Der Ring der Polykrates (d. Kim; c/w Wir gratulieren) – Heidelberg from 28 May

Die stumme Serenade – Coburg from 25 Feb

Die tote Stadt (d. Stone) – Basel from 17 Sep

Der Wunder der Heliane (concert perfs.) – Vienna VO from 28 Jan [NB Berlin DO staging in 2018]

Der Wunder der Heliane (concert perfs.) – Freiburg, 22/27 Jul

Krenek

Diktator/Schwergewicht/Geheime Königreich (dir. Hermann) – Frankfurt from 30 Apr

Lehár

Der Graf von Luxembourg (d. J-D. Herzog) – Düsseldorf from 3 Dec

Das Land des Lächelns (d. Stiehl) – Klagenfurt from 17 Dec

Das Land des Lächelns (d. Homoki) – Zurich from 18 Jun

Die lustige Witwe – Osnabrück from 26 Nov

Die lustige Witwe (d. Wissmann) – Gelsenkirchen from 16 Dec

Die lustige Witwe (d. Hertel) – Flensburg from 4 Apr

Leoncavallo

Pagliacci (d. Frédric; c/w Cavalleria) – Strasbourg from 3 Jun

Pagliacci (d. Horstkotte; c/w Cavalleria) – Plauen from 10 Jun

Lortzing

Regina (revival from 2015-16, d. Wernecke) – Meiningen from 4 Nov 
Der Wildschutz  - Freiberg from 8 Oct 

Marschner

Der Vampyr (d. Nunes, from Berlin KO) – Geneva from 19 Nov

Der Vampyr (d. Goerden) – Koblenz from 6 May

Martin

Le vin herbé (d. Graham, in English) – Cardiff WNO from 16 Feb & touring

Mascagni

Cavalleria rusticana (d. De Carpentries; c/w Gianni Schicchi) – Krefeld from 17 Sep

Cavalleria rusticana (d. Potocki; c/w A Santa Lucia) – Dessau from 1 Apr

Cavalleria rusticana (d. Frédric; c/w Pagliacci) – Strasbourg from 3 Jun

Cavalleria rusticana (d. Horstkotte; c/w Pagliacci) – Plauen from 10 Jun

Massenet

Cendrillon (d. Mundel) – Freiburg from 8 Apr

Manon (d. Py) – Geneva from 12 Sep

Werther (d. Prins) – Braunschweig from 21 Jan

Werther (d. Gürbaca) – Zurich from 2 Apr

Menotti

The Consul – Mönchengladbach from 4 Feb

The Consul – Munich from 28 Mar

Meyerbeer

Les Huguenots (d. Helmleb) – Kiel from 24 Sep

Les Huguenots (d. Sugao) – Wurzburg from 2 Oct

Les Huguenots (d. D. Alden) – Berlin DO from 13 Nov

La prophète (d. Boussard) – Essen from 9 Apr

Monteverdi

Il coronazione di Poppea – Bielefeld from 10 Jun

Il ritorno d’Ulisse in patria (d. Conway, in English) – English Touring Opera from 15 Oct

Il ritorno d’Ulisse in patria (d. Bothe) – Mannheim from 4 Mar

Morse, Thomas

Frau Schindler (WP, d. Cazan) – Munich SG from 9 Mar

Mozart

Betulia liberata (d. Gloger) – Frankfurt from 21 Jun

La clemenza di Tito (d. Münzing) – Ulm from 30 Mar

La clemenza di Tito (d. Buhr) – Essen from 3 Jun

La clemenza di Tito (d. Kinmonth) – Karlsruhe from 8 Jul

La clemenza di Tito (d. Guth) – Glyndebourne from 26 Jul

Così fan tutte (d. Gloger) – London ROH from 22 Sep

Così fan tutte (d. Borgmann) – Berlin DO from 25 Sep

Così fan tutte (d. Hilsdorf) – Darmstadt from 29 Oct

Così fan tutte (d. Prins) – Erfurt from 19 Nov

Così fan tutte (d. Repschläger) – Neustrelitz from 21 Jan

Così fan tutte (d. Richter) – Gießen from 25 Mar

Così fan tutte (d. Bösch) – Geneva from 30 Apr

Die Entfuhrung der Serail (d. Schachermeier) – Klagenfurt from 30 Oct

Die Entfuhrung der Serail (d. Hermann) – Zurich from 6 Nov

Die Entfuhrung der Serail (d. Simons) – Amsterdam DNO from 13 Jan

Die Entfuhrung der Serail (d. S. Herzog) – Wurzburg from 27 Nov

Die Entfuhrung der Serail (d. Dijkema) – Dresden from 15 Apr

La finta giardino (d. Heyder) – Magdeburg from 6 May

Don Giovanni (d. Amaya) – Hildesheim from 17 Sep

Don Giovanni (d. Jones) – London ENO from 30 Sep

Don Giovanni (d. van Dormael) – Liège from 20 Nov

Don Giovanni (d. Peters-Messer) – Bonn from 11 Dec

Don Giovanni (d. de Carpentries) – Linz from 21 Jan

Don Giovanni (d. Jones, from ENO) – Basel from 27 Jan

Don Giovanni (d. Baur) – Gelsenkirchen from 29 Apr

Don Giovanni (d. Föttinger) – Munich SG from 24 Jun

Idomeneo (d. Konwitschny) – Augsburg from 4 Dec

Idomeneo (d. Siegert) – Salzburg from 4 Dec

Idomeneo (d. Liepold-Mosser) – Trier from 3 Jun

Lucio Silla (d. Kratzer) – Brussels from 17 Mar NB Now postponed to 2017/18 season

Lucio Silla (d. Pfluger) – Biel/Solothurn from 23 Apr

Le nozze di Figaro (d. N.C. Weber) – St Gallen from 17 Sep

Le nozze di Figaro (d. Theorell) – Kassel from 24 Sep

Le nozze di Figaro (d. Mora) – Koblenz from 24 Sep

Le nozze di Figaro (d. Stolz) – Pforzheim from 29 Oct

Le nozze di Figaro (d. Menthe) – Innsbruck from 12 Nov

Le nozze di Figaro (d. Bothe) – Bern from 26 Nov

Le nozze di Figaro (d. Malkowsky) – Chemnitz from 20 May

Le nozze di Figaro (d. Bastet) – Cologne from 21 May

Le nozze di Figaro – Coburg from 3 Jun

Die Zauberflöte – Osnabrück from 3 Sep

Die Zauberflöte (von Mayenburg) – Heidelberg from 23 Sep

Die Zauberflöte (d. Steckel) – Hamburg from 23 Sep

Die Zauberflöte (d. Kochan) – Wiesbaden from 14 Oct

Die Zauberflöte (d. Huber) – Dortmund from 26 Nov

Die Zauberflöte – Luzern from 17 Dec

Mussorgsky

Boris Godunov (d. Konwitschny) – Nürnberg from 1 Oct

Boris Godunov (d. Jones) – Berlin DO from 17 Jun

Sorochinsky Fair (d. Kosky) – Berlin KO from 2 Apr

Nemtsov, Sarah

Gräben der Freude (WP; d. Lutz) – Halle from 5 Mar

Nono

Prometeo – Luzern Festival from 9 Sep

Nyman

The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat (d. Eimer) – Dessau from 13 May

The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat – Krefeld from 19 May

Obst, Michael

Die andere Seite (AP, d. Dew) – Linz from 20 May

Solaris (AP, d. Schneider) – Linz from 17 Sep

Offenbach

Les contes d’Hoffmann (d. Lowery, c. Parry) – Wuppertal from 18 Sep

Les contes d’Hoffmann (d. Doucet, from Bonn) – Vienna VO from 15 Oct

Les contes d’Hoffmann (d. ?) – Schwerin from 28 Oct

Les contes d’Hoffmann (d. Erath) – Dresden from 4 Dec

Les contes d’Hoffmann (d. Poewe) – Meiningen from 20 Jan

Les contes d’Hoffmann (d. Straube) – Neustrelitz from 18 Mar

Les contes d’Hoffmann (d. Dijkema) – Gelsenkirchen from 10 Jun

La grande-duchesse de Gerolstein (d. Altaras) – Kassel from 29 Oct

Orphée aux enfers (d. Petras) – Stuttgart from 4 Dec

Orphée aux enfers (d. Servais) – Liège from 20 Dec

Orphée aux enfers (d. Weber) – Regensburg from 11 Mar

Oehring, Helmut

Aschemond oder The Fairy Queen (WP of orig. vn, d. Karaman) – Wuppertal from 29 Jan

Poulenc

Carmelites (revival from 2015/16, d. Stöppler) – Mainz from 29 Oct

Carmelites (d. Krause) – Hof from 11 Mar

Carmelites (revival/d. Lehnhoff) – Hamburg from 21 Apr

Prokofiev

The Love of Three Oranges (d. Welker) – Wuppertal from 29 Oct

The Fiery Angel (d. Andrews, from Berlin KO) – Lyon from 11 Oct

The Fiery Angel (d. Bieito) – Zurich from 7 May

The Gambler (revival/d. Kupfer) – Frankfurt from 27 Jan

Puccini

La bohème (d. Leitenschneider) – Nordhausen from 16 Sep

La bohème (d. Nicklisch) – Pforzheim from 16 Sep

La bohème (d. J-D Herzog) – Bonn from 25 Sep

La bohème (d. Wagemakers) – Mainz from 15 Oct

La bohème (d. Hartmann) – Geneva from 21 Dec

La bohème (d. Gergen) – Salzburg from 26 Feb

La bohème (d. Doucet) – Glasgow SO from 9 May & touring

Gianni Schicchi (d. De Carpentries) – Krefeld from 17 Sep

Gianni Schicchi (d. Zimmermann, c/w Rota) – Biel/Solothurn from 16 Dec

Madama Butterfly (d. Miskimmon) – Glyndebourne from 14 Oct & touring

Madama Butterfly (d. Rechi) – Duisburg from 4 Feb

Madama Butterfly (d. Dehlholm) – Brussels from 2 May

Manon Lescaut (d. Tambosi) – Hannover from 10 Sep

Manon Lescaut (d. Kaiser) – Ulm from 29 Sep

Manon Lescaut (d. Breth) – Amsterdam DNO from 10 Oct

Manon Lescaut (d. Flimm) – Berlin SO from 4 Dec

Manon Lescaut (d. Sutcliffe) – Osnabrück from 14 Jan

Manon Lescaut (d. de Carpentries) – Görlitz from 8 Apr

La rondine – Graz from 12 Jan

Il tabarro/Suor Angelica (d. Pountney/Barker-Caven) – Leeds ON from 1 Oct & touring

Il tabarro/Gianni Schicchi (d. Berger) – Bremen from 16 Apr

Tosca (d. Schwab) – Braunschweig from 10 Sep

Tosca (d. K. Stone) – Magdeburg from 20 Oct

Tosca (d. Lowery) – Augsburg from 29 Oct

Tosca (d. Knabe) – Lübeck from 18 Nov

Tosca (d. Biganzoli) – Halle from 26 Nov

Tosca (d. Höckmayr) – Darmstadt from 3 Dec

Il trittico (d. Corradi) – Aachen from 15 Jan

Turandot (d. Cura) – Liège from 23 Sep

Turandot (d. Horstkotte) – Chemnitz from 24 Sep

Turandot (d. Kovalik) – Leipzig from 22 Oct

Turandot (d. Steier) – Cologne from 2 Apr

Turandot (concert perf.) – Leeds ON from 28 Apr & touring

Turandot (d. Schüler) – Cottbus from 30 Apr

Purcell

Dido and Aeneas (d. Roussat, Lubak) – Liège from 9 May

The Fairy Queen (d. Clément) – Vienna TW from 19 Jan

The Fairy Queen (d. Fulljames) – Bremen from 21 May

King Arthur (d. Fischer) – Munich SG from 8 Dec

King Arthur (d. Bechtolf/c. Jacobs) – Berlin SO from 15 Jan

Rameau

Les fêtes de’Hebe – Paris ON from 22 Mar

Platée – Niederbayern from ?

Zoroastre (d. Kratzer) – Berlin KO from 18 Jun

Raskatov

A Dog’s Heart (revival, d. McBurney) – Amsterdam DNO from 22 Apr

Ravel

L’heure espagnole/L’enfant et les sortiléges (d. Lachaussée) – Cologne from 25 Sep

L’enfant et les sortiléges (d. ‘1927’) – Berlin KO from 28 Jan

Reich

The Cave – Frankfurt from 16 Dec

Three Tales – Wuppertal from 17 Sep

Reimann

Die Gespensonate (d. Katzemeier) – Berlin SO from 25 Jun

Medea (d. Andrews) – Berlin KO from 21 May

Rihm

Jakob Lenz (d. Breth) – Berlin SO from 5 Jul

Rimsky-Korsakov

Golden Cockerel (d. Pelly) – Brussels from 13 Dec

Sadko (d. Kramer) – Gent from 20 Jun

The Snow Maiden (d. Fulljames) – Leeds ON from 21 Jan & touring

Rossini

Il barbiere di Siviglia (d. Serebrennikov) – Berlin KO from 9 Oct

Il barbiere di Siviglia (d. Wernecke) – Meiningen from 10 Oct

Il barbiere di Siviglia (d. Talke) – Bremen from 22 Oct

Il barbiere di Siviglia (d. Wernecke) – Eisenach from 20 May

La cenerentola (d. Collins, in English) – Leeds ON from 16 Feb & touring

Elisabetta, regina d’Inghilterra (d. Niermeyer) – Vienna TW from 17 Mar

L’italiana in Algieri (d. Kratzer) – Weimar from 15 Oct

L’italiana in Algieri (d. Scozzi) – Nürnberg from 21 Jan

L’italiana in Algieri – Luzern from 29 Jan

Semiramide (d. D. Alden) – Munich from 12 Feb

Il viaggio al Reims (d. Maestrini) – Kiel from 28 Jan & Lübeck from 5 Feb

Rota

The Italian Straw Hat – Gelsenkirchen from 19 Nov

La notte di un nevrastenico (in German, d. Papke, c/w Il segreto di Susanna) – Görlitz from 19 Nov

La notte di un nevrastenico (d. Zimmermann, c/w Gianni Schicchi) – Biel/Solothurn from 16 Dec

Saint-Saëns

Samson et Dalila (d. Michieletto) – Paris ON from 4 Oct

Samson et Dalila (conc. perf.) – Dessau from 3 Jun

Salieri

Falstaff (d. Fischer) – Vienna TW from 12 Oct

La scuola de’ gelosi – Vienna TW from 18 May

Scarlatti, A

La guiditta ‘di Cambridge’ (d. Pichler) – Wiesbaden from 28 Jan

Scartazzini, Andrea Lorenzo

Der Sandmann (d. Loy) – Frankfurt from 18 Sep

Edward II (WP/d. Loy) – Berlin DO from 19 Feb

Schnittke

Life with an Idiot (d. Rootering) – Giessen from 13 May

Schreier, Anno

Hamlet (WP, d. Loy) – Vienna TW from 11 Sep

Schreker

Die Gezeichneten (d. Warlikowski) – Munich from 1 July

Die Gezeichneten (revival, d. Kinmonth) – Cologne from 2 July

Schumann

Genoveva (d. Kim) – Mannheim from 29 Apr

Sciarrino

Lohengrin – Dresden from 28 May

Shostakovich

Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk (d. Kupfer) – Munich from 28 Nov

Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk (revival, d. Homoki) – Zurich from 27 Dec

The Nose (d. Kosky, in English) – London ROH from 20 Oct

Smetana

The Bartered Bride (d. Berger) – Hannover from 29 Oct

The Bartered Bride (d. Weckesser) – Erfurt from 17 Dec

Sommer, Hans

Rübezahl und der Sackpfeifer von Neiße (1904) (revival from 2015/16, d. Kuntze) – Altenburg from 29 Jan

Spoliansky

Wir werde ich reich und glücklich? (d. Dvořák et al) – Mannheim from 21 Jan

Srnka

South Pole – Darmstadt from 27 May

Staud, Johannes Maria

Die Antilope (WP/GP?, d. Mentha) – Cologne from 5 Mar

Stockhausen

Donnerstag aus ‘Licht’ (revival from 2015/16, d. Steier) – Basel from 29 Sep

Straus, Oscar

Die Perlen der Cleopatra (d. Kosky) – Berlin KO from 3 Dec

Strauss, Johann

Die Fledermaus (d. Rech) – Wiesbaden from 16 Sep

Die Fledermaus – Bremerhaven from 25 Dec

Ein Nacht in Venedig (d. Materna) – Pforzheim from 10 Dec

Ein Nacht in Venedig (d. Langdal) – Lyon from 14 Dec

Wiener Blut (d. Piontek) – Görlitz from 24 Sep

Der Zigeunerbaron – Niederbayern from ?

Der Zigeunerbaron (d. Gottschalk) – Hildesheim from 3 Dec

Strauss, Richard

Arabella (revival/d. Schmidt-Garre) – Leipzig from 18 Sep 
Arabella - Freiberg from 18 Mar 

Arabella (revival/d. Loy) – Frankfurt from 6 May

Ariadne auf Naxos (d. Dale) – Nederlandse Reisopera from 10 Sep

Ariadne auf Naxos (d. Eggers) – Lübeck from 10 Sep 
Ariadne auf Naxos – Aachen from 14 May

Capriccio (d. Marton, from Lyon) – Brussels from 3 Nov

Capriccio (Pilavachi, from Meiningen) – Innsbruck from 17 Jun

Daphne (revival/d. Loy) – Hamburg from 1 Mar

Elektra (d. Chéreau) – Berlin SO from 23 Oct

Elektra (d. Dietz) – Kassel from 18 Feb

Elektra (revival from Dresden 1986, d. Berghaus) – Lyon from 17 Mar

Die Frau ohne Schatten (revival/d. Laufenberg) – Wiesbaden from 25 Sep

Die Frau ohne Schatten (d. Guth) – Berlin SO from 9 Apr

Die Frau ohne Schatten (d. Kriegenburg) – Hamburg from 16 Apr

Die Frau ohne Schatten (revival; d. Kovalik) – Leipzig from 23 Apr

Der Rosenkavalier (revival, d. McVicar) – Leeds ON from 17 Sep & touring

Der Rosenkavalier (d. Carsen) – London ROH from 17 Dec

Der Rosenkavalier (d. Dietze) – Koblenz from 21 Jan

Der Rosenkavalier (d. Fuchs, from Magdeburg, c. Hanus) – Cardiff WNO from 3 Jun

Salome (d. Sturminger) – Klagenfurt from 15 Sep

Salome (d. Schulz) – Dresden from 24 Sep

Salome (d. Adam) – Linz from 12 Nov

Salome (d. Leitenschneider) – Nordhausen from 20 Jan

Salome (d. Py) – Strasbourg from 10 Mar

Salome (d. Fassbaender) – Regensburg from 7 May

Salome (d. Van Hove, c. Gatti) – Amsterdam DNO from 9 Jun

Salome (d. Stiehl) – Leipzig from 17 Jun

Stravinsky

The Rake’s Progress (revival) – Frankfurt from 31 Mar

Tal, Josef

Saul in ein Dor (1955) (d. Berger-Görski; c/w Gnessin) – Gera from 25 Mar

Tasca, Pierantonio

A Santa Lucia (1892) (d. Potocki; c/w Cavalleria) – Dessau from 1 Apr

Tchaikovsky

Eugene Onegin (revival/d. Kosky) – Berlin KO from 12 Nov

Eugene Onegin (d. Lukassen) – Frankfurt from 20 Nov

Eugene Onegin (d. Barkhatov) – Wiesbaden from 11 Mar, Darmstadt from 1 Jun

The Queen of Spades (d. Malkowsky) – Chemnitz from 26 Nov

The Queen of Spades (d. Folwill) – Ulm from 22 Dec

The Queen of Spades (d. Wieler/Morabito) – Stuttgart from 11 Jun

Mazeppa (d. Kuntze) – Gera from 28 Apr

Tchaikowsky, André

The Merchant of Venice (d. Warner, from Bregenz) – Cardiff WNO from 16 Sep & touring

Thomalla, Hans

Kaspar Hauser (d. Hilbrich) – Augsburg from 23 Apr

Traetta

Antigona (d. Müller) – Kassel from 3 Jun

Trojan, Manfred

Limonen aus Sizilien (d. Pörzgen) – Vienna VO from 12 Feb

Orest (SP, d. Neuenfels) – Zurich from 26 Feb

Ullmann

Kaiser von Atlantis – Vienna TW from 11 Jan

Verdi

Aida (d. Vontobel) – Mannheim from 29 Oct

Attila – Kaiserslautern from 17 Sep

Attila (d. Hilsdorf) – Bonn from 29 Jan

Attila (d. Konwitschny) – Nuremberg from 24 Jun

Un ballo in maschera (d. Strassberger) – Innsbruck from 11 Feb

Un ballo in maschera – Greifswald from 18 Mar

Un ballo in maschera (d. Hovenbitzer) – Bremerhaven from 29 Apr

Un ballo in maschera (d. Reichwald) – Regensburg from 25 Jun

Don Carlo – Bielefeld from 30 Sep

Falstaff (d. Montavon) – Linz from 16 Sep

Falstaff (d. Hillsdorf) – Cologne from 30 Oct

Falstaff (d. McVicar, c. Mehta) – Vienna SO from 4 Dec

Falstaff (d. Peters) – Münster from 5 Nov

La forza del destino (d. Baumgarten) – Basel from 22 Oct

Un giorno di regno (d. Kochheim) – Braunschweig from 26 May

Jerusalem (d. Bieito) – Freiburg from 1 Oct

Jerusalem (d. di Pralafera) – Liège from 17 Mar

Luisa Miller (d. Mentha) – Kassel from 17 Dec

Macbeth (d. Mears) – Cardiff WNO from 10 Sep & touring

Macbeth (d. Fredj) – Brussels from 13 Sep

Macbeth (d. Loschky) – Oldenburg from 17 Sep

Macbeth (d. Heyder) – Aachen from 8 Nov

Macbeth (d. Geyer) – Vienna TW from 11 Nov

Nabucco (d. di Pralafera) – Liège from 18 Oct

Nabucco (d. Recinella) – Wurzburg from 28 Jan

Nabucco (d. Sapi) – St Gallen from 11 Mar

Otello (d. Fouquet) – Lüneburg from 17 Sep

Otello (d. Thalheimer) – Düsseldorf from 8 Oct

Otello (d. Bieito) – Hamburg from 25 Jan

Otello (d. Schlösser) – Klagenfurt from 9 Feb

Otello (d. Boussard) – Dresden from 23 Feb

Otello (d. J-D. Herzog) – Dortmund from 26 Mar

Otello (d. Gühlstorff) – Weimar from 20 May

Otello (d. di Pralafera) – Liège from 16 Jun

Otello (d. Warner, w Kaufmann) – London ROH from 21 Jun

Rigoletto – Luzern from 16 Oct

Rigoletto (d. Hilbrich) – Essen from 21 Jan

Rigoletto (d. Müller) – Frankfurt from 19 Mar

Rigoletto (d. Kuljabin) – Wuppertal from 9 Apr

Rigoletto (d. Michieletti) – Amsterdam DNO from 9 May

Simon Boccanegra (d. Hermann) – Antwerp/Gent from 5 Feb

Simon Boccanegra (d. Loschky) – Saarbrücken from 22 Apr

La traviata (d. Starczewski) – Gießen from 10 Sep

La traviata – Luzern from 2 Apr

Il trovatore (d. Abbado) – Vienna SO from 5 Feb

Vollmer, Ludwig

Crusades (WP; d. Celik) – Freiburg from 14 Jan

Tschick – Hagen from 28 May

Vosiček, Šimon

Biedermann und die Brandstifter (GP) – Bremerhaven from 4 Feb

Wagner

Der fliegende Holländer (d. Lutz) – Halle from 23 Sep

Der fliegende Holländer (revival, d. Dalferth) – Mainz from 28 Sep

Der fliegende Holländer (d. Peters-Messer) – Dessau from 1 Oct

Der fliegende Holländer (d. Gürbaca) – Antwerp/Gent from 20 Oct

Der fliegende Holländer (d. Oldag) – Bremerhaven from 29 Oct

Der fliegende Hollander (d. Nemirova) – Magdeburg from 21 Jan

Der fliegende Holländer (d. Mottl) – Hannover from 9 Feb

Der fliegende Holländer (revival; d. Steier) – Heidelberg from 7 Mar

Der fliegende Holländer (d. Carr) – Nederlandse Reisopera from 20 Apr

Der fliegende Holländer – Hagen from 6 May

Der fliegende Holländer (d. Spuck) – Berlin DO from 7 May

Der fliegende Holländer (revival; d. Bösch) – Frankfurt from 20 May

Der fliegende Holländer (d. Amos) – Lübeck from 9 Jun

Lohengrin (revival; d. Herzog) – Frankfurt from 21 Oct

Lohengrin (d. Bouzzard) – St Gallen from 22 Oct

Lohengrin (revival/d. Konwitschny) – Hamburg from 13 Nov

Lohengrin (d. Gürbaca) – Essen from 4 Dec

Lohengrin (d. Guth) – Paris ON from 18 Jan

Lohengrin (d. Py) – Brussels from 28 Jan NB Now postponed to 2017/18 season

Lohengrin – Krefeld from 15 Apr

Lohengrin (d. K. Wagner) – Prague NT from 8 Jun

Lohengrin (revival, d. Homoki) – Zurich from 4 Jul

Lohengrin (revival, d. Knabe) – Mannheim from tba

Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg (d. Metzger) – Detmold from 18 Sep

Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg (revival; d. Homoki) – Berlin KO from 25 Sep

Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg (d. Nemirova, from Erfurt) – Weimar from 5 Nov

Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg (d. Holten) – London ROH from 11 Mar

Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg (d. Haag) – Meiningen from 7 Apr

Parsifal (revival; d. Audi) – Amsterdam from 6 Dec

Parsifal (d. Štorman) – Bremen from 11 Sep

Parsifal (d. Hermanis, c. Bychkov) – Vienna SO from 30 Mar

Parsifal – Coburg from 9 Apr

Parsifal (revival; d. Dew) – Chemnitz from 14 Apr

Der Ring des Nibelungen (revival; d. Gilmore) – Leipzig, 2 cycles from 7 Jan

Der Ring des Nibelungen (revival; d. Schmiedleitner) – Nuremberg, 4 cycles from 12 Mar to Jun

Der Ring des Nibelungen (revival; d. Friedrich) – Berlin DO 1-9 & 13-17 Apr

Der Ring: Das Rheingold (d. Laufenberg, from Linz) – Wiesbaden from 13 Nov

Walküre – Wiesbaden from 15 Jan

Siegfried – Wiesbaden from 2 Apr

Gotterdammerung – Wiesbaden from 23 Apr

Der Ring: Das Rheingold (d. Hilsdorf) – Düsseldorf from 23 Jun

Der Ring: Das Rheingold (d. Esterhazy) – Oldenburg from 4 Feb

Der Ring: Das Rheingold (revival from 2015/16) – Kiel from 24 Mar

Die Walküre (revival from 2015/16) – Kiel from 14 May

Siegfried (d. Karasek) – Kiel from 11 Mar

Der Ring: Die Walküre (d. Sharon) – Karlsruhe from 11 Dec

Siegfried (d. Anarsson) – Karlsruhe from 10 Jun

Tannhäuser – Greifswald from 27 Jan

Tannhäuser (revival; d. Heinicke) – Chemnitz from 28 Jan

Tannhäuser (d. Bieito, from Flanders Opera) – Bern from 25 Mar

Tannhäuser (d. Koohestani) – Darmstadt from 22 Apr

Tannhäuser (d. Castellucci) – Munich from 21 May

Tannhäuser (d. Erath) – Saarbrucken from 4 Jun

Tristan und Isolde – Graz from 24 Sep

Tristan und Isolde (revival; d. Kosky) – Essen from 25 Feb

Tristan und Isolde (d. Schulz) – Gelsenkirchen from 4 Mar

Tristan und Isolde (revival from Bayreuth 1993, d. Müller) – Lyon from 18 Mar

Weber

Der Freischütz (d. Fritschi) – Zurich from 18 Sep

Der Freischütz (d. Berger-Görski) – Gera from 28 Oct

Der Freischütz (d. Wilgenbus) – Hildesheim from 18 Feb

Der Freischütz (d. Schlösser) – Saarbrücken from 19 Nov

Der Freischütz – Bielefeld from 4 Mar

Der Freischütz (d. C. Wagner) – Münster from 25 Mar

Der Freischütz (d. Von Götz) – Leipzig from 4 Mar

Der Freischütz (d. Leupold) – Heidelberg from 31 Mar

Oberon (concert perf.) – Gießen from 17 Dec

Oberon (d. Habjan) – Munich from 21 Jul

Weill

Mahagonny (d. Mühlen) – Halle from 21 Jan

Mahagonny (d. Schwab) – Gera from 3 Mar

Mahagonny (d. Oldag) – Cottbus from 11 Mar

Mahagonny (d. Spirei) – Salzburg from 30 Apr

Mahagonny (d. Dietz) – Mannheim from 1 Jul

Weinberg

The Passenger (d. Rech) – Gelsenkirchen from 28 Jan

The Passenger (d. Weber) – Dresden from 24 Jun

Wir gratulieren (d. Kim; c/w Polykrates) – Heidelberg from 28 May

Wigglesworth, Ryan

The Winter’s Tale (WP, d. Kinnear) – London ENO from 27 Feb

Winkler, Kenneth

Totentanz (WP) – Innsbruck from 18 Feb

Wolf-Ferrari

Il segreto di Susanna (in German, d. Papke, c/w Rota) – Görlitz from 19 Nov

Xenakis

Oresteia (d. Bieito) – Basel from 24 Mar

Zandonai

Giulietta e Romeo (d. Montavon) – Erfurt from 8 Apr

Giulietta e Romeo (d. Kochheim) – Braunschweig from 21 Apr

Zeisl

Leonce und Lena (d. Horres) – Linz from 22 Apr

Zeller

Der Vogelhändler (d. Ecker) – Cologne from 17 Dec

Zemlinsky

Der Zwerg (c/w Dallapiccola’s Prigioniero) – Graz from 25 Mar

Zimmermann, Udo

Weisse Rose (d. S. Konwitschny) – Augsburg from 8 Oct

Weisse Rose (d. Ellinidou) – Cologne from 22 Oct

Weisse Rose (d. Drescher) – Biel/Solothurn from 4 Nov

Zingarelli

Giulietta e Romeo (1796) (d. Loschky) – Heidelberg/Schwetzingen from 25 Nov

WP = world premiere

GP = German premiere

AP = Austrian premiere

SP = Swiss premiere

UKP = UK premiere

d. = director

c. = conductor