Distant Sounds’s operatic must-sees in the 2017/18 season

As a supplement to my listing of operatic repertoire for the 2017/18 season (see tab above), here’s my personal list of highlights - very much a 'long list’ of all the productions I’d be prepared to travel and see (though obviously more than I’ll manage!).

And don't forget the full list of season premieres here.

Firstly, the rarities:

Korngold’s Das Wunder der Heliane in Gent/Antwerp (September) & Berlin DO (March)
Schreker’s Die Gezeichneten in St Gallen (September) & Berlin DO (January), plus revival in Munich (May)

Schoeck's Penthesilea in Bonn (October) 

Hindemith Mathis der Maler in Gelsenkirchen (October)

Schreker’s Der ferne Klang in Lübeck (October)

Prokofiev’s The Gambler in Vienna (October), Basel (May) & Gent/Antwerp (June)

Hubay’s Anna Karenina in Bern (November)

Zemlinsky’s Eine florentinische Tragödie in Amsterdam (November)
Zemlinsky's Der Zwerg in Lille (November)

Weill’s Love Life in Freiburg (December)

Korngold’s Die tote Stadt in Dresden (December)

Zemlinsky’s Der Kreiderkreis in Lyon (January)

Von Einem’s Dantons Tod in Magdeburg (January)
Reznicek's Benzin in Bielefeld (January)

Martin’s Der Sturm in Saarbrücken (January)

Marschner’s Hans Heiling in Essen (February)

Meyerbeer’s Vasco da Gama in Frankfurt (February)

Dukas’s Ariane et Barbe-Bleue in Graz (March)

Rachmaninov’s Aleko & Francesca da Rimini in Kiel (March)

Shostakovich’s Cheryomushki in Braunschweig (May) & Gelsenkirchen (March)

Von Einem’s Der Besuch der alten Dame and Dantons Tod, both in Vienna (March)

Weinberger’s Schwanda the Bagpiper in Giessen (March)

Puccini’s Edgar in Regensburg (April)

Enescu’s Oedipe in Gera (April)

Hindemith triple bill in Budapest (May)
Hindemith's Neues vom Tage in Schwerin (May)

Weill’s Der Silbersee in Pforzheim (May)

Langgaard’s Antikrist in Mainz (June)

Tate’s The Lodger in Bremerhaven (June)

Waltershausen’s Oberst Chabert (1912) in Bonn (June)
Busoni's Doktor Faust in Osnabrück (June) 

Mascagni’s Isabeau in London OHP (summer)

Contemporary and premieres:

Henze’s Der junge Lord in Hannover (September)

Ligeti’s Le grand macabre in Luzern/Meiningen (September) & Flensburg (May)

Reimann’s L’invisable in Berlin DO (WP, October)

Saariaho’s Only the Sound Remains in Paris (January)

Eötvös’s Angels in America in Münster (February) & in Freiburg (March)

Henze’s Das Fluss der Medusa in Amsterdam (March)

Zimmermann’s Die Soldaten in Nürnberg (March), Köln (April) & Madrid (May)

Benjamin’s Lessons in Love and Violence in London (WP, May) & Amsterdam (June)

Holliger’s Lunea in Zürich (WP, May)

Andriessen’s Waiting for Vermeer in Heidelberg (May)

Adams’s Nixon in China in Würzburg (May)

Ruzicka’s Benjamin in Hamburg (WP, June)

Notable new productions of more familiar repertoire:

Pelléas et Mélisande in Berlin (Komische Oper), dir. Barrie Kosky (September)
Die Frau ohne Schatten in Linz (September)

From the House of the Dead in Cardiff (October), Paris (November), London ROH (March), Frankfurt (April) & Munich (May)

Wozzeck in Düsseldorf, dir. Stefan Herheim (October)

Capriccio in Frankfurt, dir. Brigitte Fassbaender (January)

Jenufa in Kassel (February)

Boris Godunov in Paris, dir. Ivo van Hove (June)

The Wagnerian highlights:

Rienzi in Innsbruck (May)

Tannhäuser in Köln (September), Wiesbaden (November), Görlitz (March) & Leipzig (March)

Lohengrin in Brussels (April) & London ROH (June)

Ring cycles in Leipzig (January), Dresden (January), Munich (January), Karlsruhe (March) & Vienna (April)

New Rings beginning in Chemnitz (February/March) & Bielefeld (March) and continuing in Oldenburg (September) Kiel (March) & Düsseldorf (April)

Tristan und Isolde in Amsterdam (January) & Kassel (May)

Parsifal in Hamburg (September), Baden-Baden (March), Paris (April) & Munich (June), plus revivals in Mannheim, Stuttgart & Antwerp/Gent

And a few revivals of non-standard rep missed first time round:

Barber’s Vanessa in Frankfurt (September)

Rimsky-Korsakov’s The Tale of Tsar Saltan in Dresden (November)

Strauss’s Die schweigsame Frau in Munich (November)

Strauss’s Daphne in Vienna SO (December)

Glinka’s A Life for the Tsar in Frankfurt (January)