Other events include an October 8 concert with Renée Fleming and Rod Gilfry, The Factotum, a “soul opera” retooling of The Barber of Seville that transfers the action to a South Side barbershop, and a revival of Bernstein’s West Side Story in June. These include Git Here by Daniel Bernard Roumian, Four Portraits by Caroline Shaw and Night by John Luther Adams. The season will conclude with “Proximity” on March 24, a confection of three new one-act operas. (Rob Ashford’s showbizzy Carmen staging has apparently been jettisoned by Lyric after its single 2017 appearance). Charles Castronovo is Don José with Golda Schultz as Micaela and Andrew Kymach as Escamillo. Former Ryan Opera Center member J’Nai Bridges stars as the title temptress, a role in which she has been enjoying success, including last month at Palm Beach Opera.
Sir Andrew Davis conducts.īizet’s Carmen returns March 11. Samantha Hankey and Heidi Stober are the sibling scamps with Michaela Martens as the witch. The ineradicable Richard Jones production of Humperdinck’s Hansel and Gretel opens the new year January 25, 2023. Mazzola conducts in Bartlett Sher’s Met production. Kathryn Lewek is Adele with Zoie Reams as Ragonde and Joshua Hopkins as Raimbaud. Lawrence Brownlee is the title nobleman who disguises himself as a nun to gain entry to the castle and woo the Countess Adele. Rossini’s comedy Le Comte Ory is up next, starting November 13. (Check New York Classical Review March 1 for a review.) Mazzola conducts in a new David McVicar production, which will debut at the Met February 28. Joshua Guerrero is Carlos with Rachel Willis-Sørensen as Elisabeth, Clementine Margaine as Eboli, Igor Golovatenko as Rodrigue, Dmitry Belosselskiy as Philippe and Soloman Howard as the Grand Inquisitor. Verdi’s Don Carlos opens November 9, presented for the first time at the company in the original five-act French version. The season continues September 17 with the musical Fiddler on the Roof in a Barrie Kosky production (we are not making this up.) Kosky, readers will recall, was also responsible for the highly unpopular animated Magic Flute seen last fall, also from his Komische Oper Berlin. Music director Enrique Mazzola conducts in an unspecified production. Not seen at Lyric in 13 years, the cast boasts four vocal heavyweights with Tamara Wilson, Russell Thomas Quinn Kelsey and Christian Van Horn. The season will open-earlier than usual-September 9 with Verdi’s Ernani.
The schedule consists of just five full-length operas-and one of those is Hansel and Gretel-continuing the diminution of grand opera at the Chicago company under the aegis of Anthony Freud (whose contract was quietly renewed last fall for another five years). The Lyric Opera of Chicago has announced its 2022-23 season. Lyric Opera is presenting “Fiddler on the Roof” in the company’s 2022-23 season.
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