A new season for Europe: Together with 23 partners the European cultural channel ARTE, launches its fifth season of the digital opera offer „ARTE Opera Season„. Broadcasts can be seen on Hungary’s leading cultural site, Papageno as well.
Since 2018, ARTE has been offering the specially curated digital opera season „Saison ARTE Opera” in partnership with renowned European opera houses and festivals. Viewers can look forward to new productions every month – freely available across Europe and subtitled in six languages. With a new opera house on board, the Polish National Opera (Teatr Wielki – Opera Narodowa) in Warsaw, the 2022-2023 season now brings together 22 European partners from 13 countries.
The new season will kick off on 6 October 2022 at 20:00 (CEST) with Laurent Pelly’s new production of Léo Delibe’s Lakmé under the musical direction of Raphaël Pichon, featuring world-renowned soprano Sabine Devieilhe, live from the Opéra Comique in Paris.
In autumn, audiences can also look forward to an eagerly awaited production from the Staatsoper Unter den Linden in Berlin: Richard Wagner’s opus magnum, the Ring of the Nibelung – a play of power and intrigue, staged by the Russian star director Dmitri Tcherniakov, under the musical direction of Christian Thielemann. Tcherniakov will also stage Prokofiev’s War and Peace from the Bavarian State Opera. (Musical director: Vladimir Jurowski) and thus another visually stunning opera highlight.
From star director to exceptional singer in the new ARTE Opera 2022-23 season: the versatile soprano Julie Fuchs. Fuchs will make two role debuts, as Cleopatra in Handel’s Giulio Cesare at Dutch National Opera and alongside Benjamin Bernheim as Juliette in Charles Gounod’s Roméo et Juliette at Zurich Opera House. In July she will also sing the title role in Monteverdi’s L’incoronazione di Poppea at the Gran Teatre del Liceu.
Furthermore, broadcasts from the opera houses in Brussels (Théâtre Royal de la Monnaie), Paris (Opéra national de Paris), Wexford (Wexford Festival Opera) and Vienna (Wiener Staatsoper) are planned for the coming months. The complete programme of the ARTE Opera 2022-23 season can be found in the digital season booklet on the ARTE press portal.
Since the project’s launch in 2018, the digital offering arte.tv/opera has become firmly established, while continuing to pursue the goal of presenting the artistic diversity and quality of the European opera scene and bringing it to new audiences.
Thanks to the financial support of the European Union’s Creative Europe programme, the productions are also subtitled in English, Polish, Italian and Spanish, so that over 70% of Europeans can experience the opera productions in their mother tongue.
Around a third of video views (total over 5 million since 2018) have been generated in the rest of Europe (EU, EFTA countries, UK) since the start of the project, in addition to Germany (32%) and France (30%), with more than 1.6 million (31%)*.
In addition to ZDF, ARTE France and the ARD broadcasters, several productions are also realised in cooperation between ARTE and its European partner broadcasters – including RTÉ, RTBF and ORF in the new ARTE Opera 2022-23 season.
The partners of the ARTE Opera season are:
Festival d’Aix-en-Provence (Aix-en-Provence), Dutch National Opera (Amsterdam), Gran Teatre del Liceu (Barcelona), Staatsoper Unter den Linden (Berlin), Théâtre Royal de la Monnaie (Brussels), Semperoper (Dresden), Staatsoper Hamburg (Hamburg), Finnish National Opera (Helsinki), Opéra de Lausanne (Lausanne), Royal Opera House (London), Teatro Real (Madrid), Teatro alla Scala (Milan), Bayerische Staatsoper (Munich), Teatro Massimo (Palermo), Opéra Comique de Paris (Paris), Opéra national de Paris (Paris), Czech National Opera (Prague), Opéra national du Rhin (Strasbourg), Teatr Wielki – Opera Narodowa (Warsaw), Wexford Festival Opera (Wexford), Wiener Staatsoper (Vienna), Opernhaus Zürich (Zurich).
