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The Vienna State Opera has announced the lineup of the 2018/2019 season on the 19th. Premiere (new performance presentation) is the following six performances. Two of them are contemporary works. World premiere is “Die Weiden” composed by Austrian composer Johannes Maria Staud (1974 -) from Innsbruck. Vienna premiere is “Orest” composed by German composer Manfred Trojahn (1949 -).

Staud’s “Die Weiden” is a new work on the theme of the refugee crisis in Europe, the so-called “Flüttlingskrise” in Germany. The script is a poet from Dresden Durs Grünbein (1962 -). The opera that the two formed is the third work. On the other hand, Trojahn’s “Orest” consists of six scenes. It is commissioned work by the Netherland opera, premiered in Amsterdam in 2011.

Berlioz《Les Troyens》
Conductor：Alain Altinoglu
Production：David McVicar
Cast：Brandon Jovanovich　/　Adam Plachetka　/　Peter Kellner　/　Jongmin Park　/　Paolo Fanale　/　Rachel Frenkel　/　Anna Caterina Antonacci　/　Joyce DiDonato　/　 Margarita Gritskova

Staud《Die Weiden》 = World Première
Conductor：Ingo Metzmacher
Production：Andrea Moses
Cast：Rachel Frenkel　/　Tomasz Konieczny　/　Thomas Ebenstein　/　Andrea Carroll　/　Herbert Lippert　/　Monika Bohinec　/　Alexandru Moisiuc　/　Zoryana Kushpler　/　Wolfgang Bankl

Donizetti《Lucia di Lammermoor》
Conductor：Evelino Pidò
Production：Laurent Pelly
Cast：George Petean　/　Olga Peretyatko-Mariotti　/　Juan Diego Flórez　/　Jongmin Park

Trojahn《Orest》＝First performance at the Wiener Staatsoper
Conductor：Michael Boder
Production：Marco Arturo Marelli
Cast：Thomas Johannes Mayer　/　Thomas Ebenstein　/　Daniel Johansson　/　Audrey Luna　/　Laura Aikin　/　Evelyn Herlitzius

Richard Strauss《Die Frau ohne Schatten》
Conductor：Christian Thielemann
Production：Vincent Huguet
Cast：Stephen Gould　/　Camilla Nylund　/　Evelyn Herlitzius　/　Wolfgang Koch　/　Nina Stemme

Verdi《Otello》
Conductor：Myung-Whun Chung
Production：Adrian Noble
Cast：Aleksandrs Antonenko　/　Olga Bezsmertna　/　Vladislav Sulimsky

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