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