Daniel Barenboim has to cancel his conducting of the new production of Richard Wagner's THE RING OF THE NIBELUNG, directed by Dmitri Tcherniakov, for health reasons.

At the beginning of the 2022/23 season, Annette Dasch will sing the title role in the new production of Die Dubarry , directed by the new Vienna Volksoper director Lotte de Beer.

British conductor Alexander Soddy takes on Salome at ROH Covent Garden, making his eagerly awaited London debut.

Wolfgang Koch sings the role of the prisoner in Luigi Dallapiccola's Il Prigioniero under the direction of Kirill Petrenko with the Berlin Philharmonic.

The San Francisco Opera opens its 100th anniversary celebrations with the Centennial Celebration Concert on September 9, conducted by Eun Sun Kim.

Internationally leading bass Kwangchul Youn sings the opening concert of the 22/23 season with the NHK in Tokyo under the direction of Fabio Luisi.

Eve-Maud Hubeaux celebrates great success as Amneris in Aida at this year's Salzburg Festival.

Here you will find an overview of our artists' engagements during the 2022 festival season.

After leaving South Korea to continue her studies in Europe, Eun Sun Kim returns to her home country to make her professional conducting debut in Korea, leading the Seoul Philharmonic Orchestra in performances of Dvořák's Symphony No. 9.

To conclude his successful tenure as General Music Director of the Nationaltheater Mannheim, which is distinguished by its particular focus on the most important German opera repertoire, Alexander Soddy will conduct Wagner's Ring Cycle, thus devoting himself to this monumental work for the first time.

Two years after the Sydney Opera House concert hall closed for renovations, Simone Young will lead the Sydney Symphony Orchestra in performances of Mahler's Symphony No. 2 to celebrate the reopening of this iconic venue.

The San Francisco Opera opens its 2022 summer season with Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's Don Giovanni from June 4 to July 2 at the War Memorial Opera House.
Conductor Bertrand de Billy makes his ensemble debut leading an international cast including Etienne Dupuis as Don Giovanni and Adela Zaharia as Donna Anna.

At the Nederlandse Opera, Kirill Serebrennikov presents his eagerly awaited take on Weber’s Freischütz.

With Simone Young, Falk Struckmann and Kwangchoul Youn, the Paris Opera has engaged three of the leading Wagner interpreters of our time for this Parsifal.

Frankfurt General Music Director Sebastian Weigle will take over the musical direction of this revival and thus return to the podium of the Vienna State Opera.

With Dvořák's Rusalka, Joana Mallwitz conducts for the first time at the Saxon State Opera Dresden, making another important debut at one of Europe's leading opera houses. Oleysa Golovneva performed Rusalka at the Teatro Real Madrid outstanding success and returns to the title role in the Semperoper Dresden back.

The legendary pianist, conductor, and co-founder of the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra (WEDO) has had to withdraw from the European tour planned for months. He will be replaced by conductor Thomas Guggeis, Barenboim's former assistant. Since the 2020/21 season, he has been Staatskapellmeister at the Berlin Staatsoper Unter den Linden.

Annette Dasch, one of the world's leading sopranos, plays the role of the Marschallin in Der Rosenkavalier and returns to the New National Theater Tokyo for the first time in 14 years.

Best Opera Recording went to "Akhnaten" at the Metropolitan Opera. The award was accepted by Anthony Roth Costanzo, Zachary James, and Dísella Lárusdóttir. Among the other winners who participated in the recording were producer David Frost, The Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, The Metropolitan Opera Chorus, conductor Karen Kamensek , and J'Nai Bridges.

Slávka Zámečníková makes her role debut as Donna Anna in Don Giovanni at the Berlin State Opera. nmz writes: "The sensation of the performance is Donna Anna by the Bratislava-trained soprano Slávka Zámečníková. A large, luminous, impressive voice with perfect vocal culture."