Paris Opera next season: the tetralogy of Wagner

The Paris Opera has prepared for the 2019-2020 season a program with the Ring of the Nibelungs as the protagonist. In total, four shows will be devoted to this theme: 'Das Rheingold' by Richard Wagner (April 2020), with Calixto Bieito as director of the scene; 'Die Walküre' (May 2020) with Jonas Kaufmann; 'Siegfried' (October 2020) and 'Der Götterdämmerung' (November 2020). This tetralogy will also be staged whole for a week, in November 2020, with two performances of each work.

Apart from this theme, so purely Teutonic, the following works will take place: 'I Puritani', by Bellini, with Elsa Dreisig and Javier Camarena; 'La Traviata', with Pretty Yende as a protagonist at the Opera Garnier; 'Les Indes Galantes', by Rameau, with Sabine Devieilhe and Julie Fuchs; 'Manon', by Massenet, with Pretty Yende, Benjamin Bernheim and Ludovic Tézier; 'Prince Igor', of Borodin, with Evgeny Nikitin, Dimitry Ivashchenko and Anita Rachvellishvili; 'Boris Godunov', with René Papé; 'Don Carlo', in Italian version, with Roberto Alagna, Aleksandra Kurzak, René Pape, Anita Rachvelishvili and Étienne Dupuis; 'Madama Butterfly', with Ana María Martínez and Dinara Alieva; 'La Bohème', with the voices of Ermonela Jaho, Julie Fuchs and Vittorio Grigolo; 'Rigoletto', with Zeljko Lucic; 'Il Barbieri di Siviglia', with Xavier Anduaga -Almaviva- and Lisette Oropesa -Rosina-; 'Adriana Lecovreur', by Cilea, with Anna Netrebko and her husband Yusif Eyvazov; 'Don Giovanni', with Luca Pisaroni; 'Les Contes d'Hoffman', by Robert Carsen, with Luca Pisaroni; 'El Rey Lear', staged by Calixto Bieito and 'Il Pirata', by Bellini, with Sondra Radvanovsky, Michael Spyres and Ludovic Tézier.

The possibility that the Liceu artistic director, Christina Scheppelman, could direct the Paris Opera, replacing Stéphane Lissner, has been discarded by publishing American media that the German has signed for the Seattle Opera as General Director. Scheppelman will be replaced in Barcelona by Víctor García de Gomar.