Schedule

Messa da REQUIEM di verdi

September 16, 17 & 18

House Debut

Juraj Valčuha Inaugural Weekend

For his first concerts as Music Director Designate, Juraj Valčuha shares a towering masterpiece from Italian opera master Giuseppe Verdi. Traversing a sweeping emotional arc from fiery anguish and grief to radiant joy and ultimate peace, a live performance of Verdi’s Requiem is moving and cathartic, captivating and euphoric, poignant and profound (in short, everything that makes live music so special). Prepare for a concert experience to be remembered for years to come as orchestra, chorus, and stellar vocal soloists fill the stage at Jones Hall.

La Traviata

November 11, 13, 16, 22, 25, 27 & 30
December 3, 2022

NEW PRODUCTION
House Debut

Fame. Power. Fortune. Violetta Valéry has it all as Paris’ most admired courtesan. But never. All that changes when a naive young man enters her Paris salon and offers her a romance full of tenderness and compassion. But can their love ever be free from the social stigmas of her past? Music Director Eun Sun Kim leads the San Francisco Opera Orchestra and chorus in Shawna Lucey's sumptuous new vision of Verdi's masterpiece—the first new production of La Traviata built by San Francisco Opera's own craftspeople since 1987.

NEw year’s eve gala, “La Boheme”

December 31

House Debut
New Production

With Puccini's most inspired and touching music, La Bohème is a realist drama that welcomes comedy and the everyday life of "little things", a flowing and immediate story that anticipates cinema, by a composer always in step with the times.

As per tradition, Fondazione Arena will celebrate the arrival of the new year on Saturday 31 December 2022 with a special appointment, which has always been eagerly awaited by the public. 

An extraordinary evening of the new production at the Teatro Filarmonico in Verona is scheduled for this year: the New Year 's Eve Gala "La Bohème" , with the young Veronese conductor Andrea Battistoni on the podium of the Fondazione Arena Orchestra along with the star tenor, Jonathan Tetelman as Rodolfo.

In Stefano Trespidi 's staging with sets by Guillermo Nova , costumes by Silvia Bonetti and lights by Paolo Mazzon , the youth revolution of French May 1968 represents the libertarian spirit of youth; the great cinema of Bertolucci and Garrel is cited in Paris teeming with real life reconstructed on the stage of the Philharmonic, in the context of a drama always faithful to Puccini's dictates.

An exceptional gala evening on Saturday 31 December, with the curtain raised at 7.00pm and the finale scheduled for 10.00pm.

La Boheme

January 13

A shared flat in Paris’s bohemian world of artists and students: The lives of the poet Rodolfo and his friends are filled with talk of freedom, independence, art, as well as financial hardship. When Rodolfo falls in love with his neighbor Mimì, everything seems to have taken a turn for the better, but poverty and Mimì’s illness overshadow the relationship. The young couple become closely attached. Later they separate, only rediscovering their love when it is already too late. At the time of its premiere in 1896, Puccini’s best-known work broke new ground in Italian opera through its prosaic scenery and everyday subject matter. This staging by Christine Mielitz of Puccini’s fourth opera is one of the most popular productions at the Semperoper.

Les Grandes Voix

January 25

House Debut

The immense Angela Gheorghiu, who we rarely have the opportunity to hear on the stage of the Philharmonie, in concert in duet with the young Chilean tenor Jonathan Tetelman.

Entire, passionate, Angela Gheorghiu has left her mark on the greatest soprano roles, combining her flawless technique and musicality with a stage presence of rare power. The one who is thus a deeply moving Mimì or an unforgettable Traviata also likes, on the strength of her thirty-year career, to explore repertoires that she has not yet sung, as shown by her latest discographic releases. She should find in Jonathan Tetelman a match for her: the young Chilean tenor recently dazzled audiences and critics in the male lead role of La Bohème . At the direction, Frédéric Chaslin, a great familiar with the operatic repertoire and privileged partner of Gheorghiu.

Opera arias and duets by Francesco Cilea, Umberto Giordano, Giacomo Puccini and Giuseppe Verdi
Belgian National Orchestra, Frédéric Chaslin, director

Les Grandes Voix

January 28

House Debut

The immense Angela Gheorghiu, who we rarely have the opportunity to hear on the stage of the Philharmonie, in concert in duet with the young Chilean tenor Jonathan Tetelman.

Entire, passionate, Angela Gheorghiu has left her mark on the greatest soprano roles, combining her flawless technique and musicality with a stage presence of rare power. The one who is thus a deeply moving Mimì or an unforgettable Traviata also likes, on the strength of her thirty-year career, to explore repertoires that she has not yet sung, as shown by her latest discographic releases. She should find in Jonathan Tetelman a match for her: the young Chilean tenor recently dazzled audiences and critics in the male lead role of La Bohème . At the direction, Frédéric Chaslin, a great familiar with the operatic repertoire and privileged partner of Gheorghiu.

Opera arias and duets by Francesco Cilea, Umberto Giordano, Giacomo Puccini and Giuseppe Verdi
Belgian National Orchestra, Frédéric Chaslin, director

FEDORA

February 21, 22 & 25

House Debut

The Ópera de Canarias will welcome the new year with the premiere of Fedora. There are 3 performances scheduled between February 21st and 25th. The opera will be presented for the first time in the company’s 56 years.

Set in Saint Petersburg (Act I), Paris (Act II) and Switzerland (Act III). It is a crime story in an operatic version, a drama of passion, revenge and guilt that unravels in a historical context of political and ideological conflicts: tsarist Russia at the end of the 19th century.

Tosca

March 3 & 10

House Debut

Götz Friedrich's 1987 re-staging of Boleslaw Barlog's 1969 production, which was straightforward and focused on scenic concreteness, takes Puccini's intentions at his word - the mutual dependence of human attention and culinary pleasure is inspired by the music and is also the starting point for the scenic interpretation.

An Evening of Hope featuring, Jonathan Tetelman

March 22

The Evening of Hope Gala

Join us for an evening under the stars at Cambier Park featuring wonderful food, beautiful classical music, and a phenomenal mission!

In collaboration with Opera Naples Festival under the Stars, Columbus Children's Foundation and Axcelerate Medical Foundation are bringing together the remarkable talents of acclaimed tenor, Jonathan Tetelman, and internationally renowned Conductor/Pianist and Artistic Director of Opera Naples, Ramon Tebar, for a charity concert to raise funds to benefit children with rare diseases.

Chilean born American tenor, Jonathan Tetelman, has been described by GB Opera Magazine as "A lyrical revelation." Praised for his "vocally magnificent, radiant, and distinctive tenor", last season Jonathan signed an exclusive multi album agreement with leading record label Deutsche Grammophon and has released his debut album 'ARIAS'.

Spanish Conductor and pianist, Ramon Tebar, is currently Principal Conductor in Association with Orquestra de Valencia, as well as Artistic Director of Opera Naples. He was previously Director of the Florida Grand Opera and Principal Guest Conductor of Valencia's Palau de les Arts Reina Sofia. Tebar's extensive work can also be heard on recordings with Joseph Calleja and the Orquestra de la Comunitat Valenciana and with Gregory Kunde and the Orquestra Sinfonica de Navarra on Universal.

Tosca

April 21, 23 & 29
May 2 & 5

House Debut

A combustible mix of political crime, love, and obsession explodes in tragedy in Puccini’s masterpiece, Tosca, one of the world’s favorite operas. The story is set in Rome in the early 1800s, where the singer Floria Tosca and the painter Cavaradossi are in love. But their romance is doomed by the toxic Baron Scarpia, who is on the hunt for the escaped political prisoner whom Cavaradossi is protecting. To make matters worse, Scarpia decides he wants Tosca for himself, jails her lover, and threatens to kill him. Tosca tries to save Cavaradossi’s life by striking a terrible bargain with Scarpia, but he betrays her—and her revenge comes too late. Soprano Tamara Wilson, an HGO Studio alumna who is now one of the most recognizable voices in opera, performs her role debut as the fiery Tosca in this riveting revival production directed by frequent HGO collaborator John Caird. Star tenor Jonathan Tetelman performs as Cavaradossi, making his company debut in his signature role, and Grammy-nominated baritone Rod Gilfry returns to HGO as Scarpia. 

FRANCESCA DA RIMINI

May 19, 26 & 29
June 1 & 3

NEW PRODUCTION
Role Debut

At the center of the plot are three brothers who fall in love with the same woman: Francesca from the house of Polenta in Ravenna is married by her family to the house of Malatesta in Rimini for strategic reasons. But the future groom Giovanni, old and unsightly, does not dare to court the bride himself and sends his attractive brother Paolo ahead. Unaware of this deception, Francesca falls in love with Paolo and signs the marriage contract. From then on she lives in the Malatesta house at the side of an unloved man and plunges into an ambivalent relationship with Paolo between anger and ardent love. Francesca appears as victim and perpetrator at the same time, as a longing for death lover and powerful seductress, to whom the third, sadistic brother of the family also succumbs.