ROYAL OPERA, LONDON - NEW PRODUCTIONS 2005 - 2010

2005-2006
MASKARADE	JERONIMUS	PERNILLE
Carl Nielsen	Brindley Sherratt	Gail Pearson
CONDUCTOR	MAGDELONE	CORPORAL MORS
Michael Schønwandt	Kari Hamnøy	NIGHTWATCHMAN
		DOORMAN
DIRECTOR:	LEANDER	MASTER OF CEREMONIES
David Pountney	Michael Schade	PROFESSOR
		Martin Winkler
SET DESIGNER:	HENRIK
Johan Engels	Kyle Ketelsen	FLOWER SELLER
		John Hewitt-Jones
COSTUME DESIGNER:	ARV
Marie-Jeanne Lecca	Adrian Thompson	CUPID
		Richard Gauntlett
LIGHTING DESIGNER:	LEONARD
Wolfgang Göbbel	Robin Leggate
CHOREOGRAPHER:	LEONORA
Renato Zanella	Emma Bell
ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR:	First performance 29 September 2005
Nicola Raab	Royal Opera House, Covent Garden
CHORUS DIRECTOR
Renato Balsadonna
SIEGFRIED	MIME	FAFNER
Richard Wagner	Gerhard Siegel	Phillip Ens
CONDUCTOR	SIEGFRIED	WOODBIRD
Antonio Pappano	John Treleaven	Sarah Fox
DIRECTOR	WANDERER (WOTAN)	ERDA
Keith Warner	John Tomlinson	Jane Henschel
SET DESIGNER	ALBERICH	BRÜNNHILDE
Stefanos Lazaridis	Peter Sidhom	Lisa Gasteen
COSTUME DESIGNER	First performance: 2 October 2005
Marie-Jeanne Lecca	Royal Opera House, Covent Garden
LIGHTING DESIGNER
Wolfgang Göbbel
MOVEMENT DIRECTOR
Claire Glaskin
FIGHT DIRECTOR
Malcolm Ranson
A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM	OBERON	QUINCE
Benjamin Britten	William Towers	Jonathan Best
CONDUCTOR	TYTANIA	FLUTE
Richard Hickox	Gillian Keith	Andrew Kennedy
DIRECTOR	PUCK	SNUG
Olivia Fuchs	Jami Reid-Quarrell	Jeremy White
SET DESIGNER	THESEUS	SNOUT
Niki Turner	Mark Beesley	Andrew Sritheran
COSTUME DESIGNER	HIPPOLYTA	STARVELING
Niki Turner	Liora Grodnikaite	Andrew Mayor
LIGHTING DESIGNER	LYSANDER	COBWEB
Bruno Poet	Robert Murray	James Walsh
CHOREOGRAPHER	DEMETRIUS	PEASEBLOSSOM
Mandy Demetriou	Grant Doyle	Ben Davies
PROJECTION DESIGNER	HERMIA	MUSTARDSEED
Jon Driscoll	Tove Dahlberg	Tom Nichols
	HELENA	MOTH
	Katie Van Kooten	Edmund Jillings
	BOTTOM
	Darren Jeffery
	First performance: 25 November 2005
	Royal Opera House, Covent Garden
IL BARBIERE DI SIVIGLIA	FIORELLO	DON BASILIO
Gioachino Rossini	Robert Gleadow	Raymond Aceto
CONDUCTOR	COUNT ALMAVIVA	BERTA
Mark Elder	Toby Spence	Elizabeth Gale
DIRECTOR	FIGARO	AMBROGIO
Moshe Leiser	George Petean	Bryan Secombe
Patrice Caurier
	DOCTOR BARTOLO	OFFICER
SET DESIGNER	Bruno Praticò	Christopher Lackner
Christian Fenouillat
	ROSINA	NOTARY
COSTUME DESIGNER	Joyce DiDonato	Steven Boydall
Agostino Cavalca
	First performance: 19 December 2005
LIGHTING DESIGNER	Royal Opera House, Covent Garden
Christophe Forey
LE NOZZE DI FIGARO	FIGARO	COUNTESS ALMAVIVA
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart	Erwin Schrott	Dorothea Röschmann
CONDUCTOR	SUSANNA	ANTONIO
Antonio Pappano	Miah Persson	Jeremy White
DIRECTOR	BARTOLO	DON CURZIO
David McVicar	Jonathan Veira	Francis Egerton
SET DESIGNER	MARCELLINA	BARBARINA
COSTUME DESIGNER	Graciela Araya	Ana James
Tanya McCallin
	CHERUBINO	FIRST BRIDESMAID
LIGHTING DESIGNER	Rinat Shaham	Glenys Groves
Paule Constable
	COUNT ALMAVIVA	SECOND BRIDESMAID
CHOREOGRAPHER	Gerald Finley	Kate McCarney
Leah Hausman
	DON BASILIO
	Philip Langridge
	First performance: 31 January 2006
	Royal Opera House, Covent Garden
YEVGÉNY ONÉGIN	TATYANA	EUGENE ONEGIN
Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky	Amanda Roocroft	Dmitri Hvorostovsky
CONDUCTOR	OLGA	MONSIEUR TRIQUET
Philippe Jordan	Nino Surguladze	Ryland Davies
DIRECTOR	MADAME LARINA	TRIFON PETROVICH
Steven Pimlott	Yvonne Howard	Jonathan Fisher
SET DESIGNER	FILIPYEVNA	ZARETSKY
Antony McDonald	Susan Gorton	Robert Gleadow
COSTUME DESIGNER	PEASANT SINGER	GUILLOT
Antony McDonald	Elliot Goldie	Richard Campbell
LIGHTING DESIGNER	LENSKY	PRINCE GREMIN
Peter Mumford	Rolando Villazón	Eric Halfvarson
MOVEMENT DIRECTOR	First performance: 16 March 2006
Linda Dobell	Royal Opera House, Covent Garden
GÖTTERDÄMMERUNG	FIRST NORN	GUTRUNE
Richard Wagner	Catherine Wyn-Rogers	Emily Magee
CONDUCTOR	SECOND NORN	WALTRAUTE
Antonio Pappano	Yvonne Howard	Mihoko Fujimura
DIRECTOR	THIRD NORN	ALBERICH
Keith Warner	Marina Poplavskaya	Peter Sidhom
SET DESIGNER	BRÜNNHILDE	WOGLINDE
Stefanos Lazaridis	Lisa Gasteen	Sarah Fox
COSTUME DESIGNER	SIEGFRIED	WELLGUNDE
Marie-Jeanne Lecca	John Treleaven	Heather Shipp
LIGHTING DESIGNER	GUNTHER	FLOSSHILDE
Wolfgang Göbbel	Peter Coleman-Wright	Sarah Castle
MOVEMENT DIRECTOR	HAGEN
Claire Glaskin	John Tomlinson
	First performance: 17 April 2006
	Royal Opera House, Covent Garden
CYRANO DE BERGERAC	LE BRET	MUSKETEER
Franco Alfano	Iain Paterson	John Bernays
CONDUCTOR	RAGUENEAU	ROXANE
Mark Elder	Carmelo Corrado Caruso	Sondra Radvanovsky
DIRECTOR	CHRISTIAN	CARBON
Francesca Zambello	Raymond Very	Clive Bayley
SET DESIGNER	LIGNIÈRE	DE GUICHE
Peter Davison	Jeremy White	Roman Trekel
COSTUME DESIGNER	MONTFLEURY	FIRST SENTINEL
Anita Yavich	Daniel André Pageon	Neil Gillespie
LIGHTING DESIGNER	CYRANO	SECOND SENTINEL
Natasha Katz	Plácido Domingo	John Heath
CHOREOGRAPHER	VICOMTE DE VALVERT	SPANISH OFFICER
Denni Sayers	Mark Stone	Mark Stone
	THE DUENNA	SISTER
	Frances McCafferty	Ana James
	COOK	MOTHER SUPERIOR
	Nigel Cliffe	Elizabeth Sikora
	THE WIFE OF RAGUENEAU
	Sarah Pring
	First performance: 8 May 2006
	Royal Opera House, Covent Garden
TOSCA	CESARE ANGELOTTI	SPOLETTA
Giacomo Puccini	Carlo Cigni	Enrico Facini
CONDUCTOR	SACRISTAN	SCIARRONE
Antonio Pappano	Graeme Danby	Robert Gleadow
DIRECTOR	MARIO CAVARADOSSI	SHEPHERD BOY
Jonathan Kent	Marcelo Álvarez	Ben Lewis
SET DESIGNER	FLORIA TOSCA
COSTUME DESIGNER	Angela Gheorghiu
Paul Brown
	BARON SCARPIA
LIGHTING DESIGNER	Bryn Terfel
Mark Henderson
	GAOLER
	John Morrissey
	First performance: 13 June 2006
	Royal Opera House, Covent Garden
2006-2007
LA FINTA GIARDINIERA	RAMIRO	SERPETTA
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart	Sophie Koch	Patrizia Biccirè
CONDUCTOR	DON ANCHISE	ARMINDA
John Eliot Gardiner	Kurt Streit	Camilla Tilling
DIRECTOR	MARCHIONESS VIOLANTE ONESTI (SANDRINA)	COUNT BELFIORE
Annika Haller	Genia Kühmeier	Robert Murray
SET DESIGNER	ROBERTO (NARDO)
COSTUME DESIGNER	Christopher Maltman
Herbert Murauer
	First performance: 21 September 2006
LIGHTING DESIGNER	Royal Opera House, Covent Garden
Reinhard Traub
CARMEN	MORALÈS	MERCÉDÈS
Georges Bizet	Jacques Imbrailo	Viktoria Vizin
CONDUCTOR	MICAËLA	LILLAS PASTIA
Antonio Pappano	Norah Amsellem	Caroline Lena Olsson
DIRECTOR	DON JOSÉ	ESCAMILLO
Francesca Zambello	Jonas Kaufmann	Ildebrando D' Arcangelo
SET DESIGNER	ZUNIGA	LE DANCAÏRE
COSTUME DESIGNER	Matthew Rose	Jean-Sébastien Bou
Tanya McCallin
	CARMEN	LE REMENDADO
LIGHTING DESIGNER	Anna Caterina Antonacci	Jean-Paul Fouchécourt
Paule Constable
	FRASQUITA	GUIDE
CHOREOGRAPHER	Elena Xanthoudakis	Anthony De Baeck
Arthur Pita
	First performance: 8 December 2006
	Royal Opera House, Covent Garden
LA FILLE DU RÉGIMENT	MARIE	CORPORAL
Gaetano Donizetti	Natalie Dessay	Bryan Secombe
CONDUCTOR	TONIO	PEASANT
Bruno Campanella	Juan Diego Flórez	Luke Price
DIRECTOR	LA MARQUISE DE BERKENFELD	NOTARY
Laurent Pelly	Felicity Palmer	Jean-Pierre Blanchard
SET DESIGNER	SULPICE PINGOT	LA DUCHESSE DE CRACKENTORP
Chantal Thomas	Alessandro Corbelli	Dawn French
COSTUME DESIGNER	HORTENSIUS
Laurent Pelly	Donald Maxwell