Proms Operas 2011 - a fallow year?

[Al R Gando]

You do know that the Ring is planned for the 2013 season, don't you?

No, I'm a complete outsider to the planning of the Proms seasons Any news on the cast. orchestra or conductor of this good news?

[BudgieJane]

Any news on the cast. orchestra or conductor?

Daniel Barenboim and the Berlin Staatsoper.

Google is your friend.

[french frank]

Mary will no doubt wonder what from Britten's repertoire will be chosen for his centenary year ...

[Al R Gando]

Mary will no doubt wonder what from Britten's repertoire will be chosen for his centenary year ...

Probably the same as they did for Tippett in his centenary year

[amac4165]

I think we have had as many operas this year as previous

William Tell
Rinaldo
Verdi's Requiem

and coming up Der Freischütz in French - presumably the title got missed in translation !

[Bryn]

Daniel Barenboim and the Berlin Staatsoper.

Google is your friend.

Oh dear. I guess that means another four broadcasts being terminated. This time due to those opposed to Barenboim conducting Wagner. Messiaen's S. François was one thing, but I'm not standing for this.

[BudgieJane]

but I'm not standing for this.

So buy a seat, then.

[aeolium]

Is anyone else unimpressed with the Proms Operas this year? Only three, of which one is the "expected" Glyndebourne Prom (a jokey production of "Rinaldo", when we might have had Jurowski's acclaimed "Meistersinger"?). "William Tell" probably caters to Rossini completists, but few others. I am all in favour of "Der Freischutz", even in the Berlioz reworking... but it seems a thin year overall.

I disagree - all of the operas this year are imo worth hearing, though I'd prefer Weber's version of Freischutz to Berlioz'. Meistersinger was performed at a Prom last year IIRC so could hardly be repeated in successive years.

I'd like to hear Busoni's Doktor Faust - that certainly fits the bill of a large scale work rarely performed in a stage version.

[Lee McLernon]

ROH summer season productions are Salome & Troyens.

[Suffolkcoastal]

Of course there's not only Wagner & Britten in 2013 but Verdi as well, so I expect they'll be plenty of opera. Then in 2014 we have R Strauss (150 birth anniversary).