Vienna, 3 April 2019

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The Wiener Staatsoper presents its 2019/2020 season – 58 different operas, 21 ballets

Wiener Staatsoper Director Dominique Meyer, Ballet Director Manuel Legris and Managing Director Thomas W. Platzer held a press conference today, Wednesday 3 April 2019, at which they announced the programme for the forthcoming 2019/2020 season.

The programme for the 2019/2020 season at the Wiener Staatsoper offers a unique spectrum of 58 different works of opera (including children’s operas). These range from Handel’s Ariodante to Eötvös’s Tri Sestri, Trojahn’s Orest, Staud’s Die Weiden and the world premières of Albin Fries’s Persinette and Olga Neuwirth’s Orlando. And finally, there are also 21 different ballets (in ten full- length compilations). Apart from these, there are also special children’s programmes as well as numerous concerts, matinées and special events.

There will be six opera premières:

 Benjamin Britten’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream (2 October 2019 – conductor: Simone Young; directed by: Irina Brook; with: Lawrence Zazzo, Erin Morley, Théo Touvet, Peter Kellner, Szilvia Vörös, Josh Lovell, Rafael Fingerlos, Rachel Frenkel, Olga Bezsmertna, Peter Rose, Benjamin Hulett);  Olga Neuwirth’s Orlando (world première, Wiener Staatsoper commission; 8 December 2019 – conductor: Matthias Pintscher; directed by: Karoline Gruber; with: Kate Lindsey, Fiona Shaw, Eric Jurenas, Constance Hauman, Leigh Melrose, Vivian Bond, Agneta Eichenholz);  Albin Fries’s Persinette (opera for children, Wiener Staatsoper commission; 21 December 2019 – conductor: Guillermo García Calvo, directed by: Matthias von Stegmann; with: Olga Bezsmertna, Jinxu Xiahou, Monika Bohinec, Regine Hangler, Samuel Hasselhorn, Sorin Coliban);  Ludwig van Beethoven’s Fidelio Urfassung (Leonore) (1 February 2020 – conductor: Tomáš Netopil; directed by: Amélie Niermeyer; with: Jennifer Davis, Benjamin Bruns, Tobias Kehrer, Thomas Johannes Mayer, Jörg Schneider, Chen Reiss);  Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s Così fan tutte (22 May 2020 – conductor: Riccardo Muti; directed by: Chiara Muti; with: Genia Kühmeier, Marianne Crebassa, Alessio Arduini, Julie Fuchs, Marco Filippo Romano) and  Giuseppe Verdi’s Un ballo in maschera (15 June 2020 – conductor: Michele Mariotti; directed by: Josef Ernst Köpplinger; with: Francesco Meli, Ludovic Tézier, Krassimira Stoyanova, Monika Bohinec, Maria Nazarova).

Ballet Director Manuel Legris will be presenting three premières at the Wiener Staatsoper:

 George Balanchine’s Jewels with Emeralds, Rubies and Diamonds (2 November 2019; conductor: Paul Connelly);

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 the three-part performance of Lukács | Lidberg | Duato (4 March 2020 – conductor: Fayçal Karoui) with Movements to Stravinsky by András Lukács, Between Dogs and Wolves by Pontus Lidberg (world première) and White Darkness by Nacho Duato and the  2020 Nureyev Gala (25 June 2020 – conductor: Kevin Rhodes).

To commemorate Beethoven Year, the Wiener Staatsoper will be performing not only Fidelio, but also a première production of the original version of this work (Leonore). The “Vienna Philharmonic Chamber Music” matinée series will be presenting a Beethoven cycle, and members of the Wiener Staatsoper ensemble will be performing all of Beethoven’s lieder in four concerts over a weekend in the Gustav Mahler Hall at the Vienna State Opera.

Apart from performances of the operas for children Cinderella and Pünktchen and Anton and the children’s concerts and educational programmes Peter and the Wolf, The Carnival of the Animal