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The Gran Teatre del Liceo announced the lineup of the 2018/2019 season. This season is a year of the milestone of the 20th anniversary when the theaters burned down by a fire was rebuilt. In response to that, the theater raises the slogan “Mésvius que mai＝More alive than ever”. The lineup is as follows. There is no performance of Wagner, Richard Strauss, Mozart’s opera, and Verdi opera has only one work line-up.

Bellini《I puritani》
2018｜10.5 … 10.21
Conducter：Christopher Franklin
Production：Annilese Miskimmon
Cast：Javier Camarena　/　Pretty Yende　/　Mariusz Kwiecien　/　Marko Mimica　/　Gianfranco Montresor　/　他

Bernstein《Candide》＝Concert Style
2018｜10.18 … 10.20
Conducter：John Demain
Cast：Kathryn Lewek　/　Josep-Ramon Olivé　/　Kevin Burdette　/　Paul Appleby　/　他

Janacek《Katia Kabanova》
2018｜11.8 … 11.22
Conducter：Josep Pons
Production：David Alden
Cast：Patricia Racette　/　Nikolai Schukoff　/　Francisco Vas　/　Vladimir Ognovenko　/　Rosie Aldridge　/　他

Rossini《L’Italianiana in Algeri》
2018｜12.13 … 12.23
Conducter：Riccardo Frizza
Production：Vittorio Borrelli
Cast：Varduhi Abrahamyan　/　Luca Pisaroni　/　Maxim Mironov　/　Giorgio Caoduro　/　他

Puccini《Madama Butterfly》
2019｜1.12 … 1.29
Conducter：Giampaolo Bisanti
Production：Moshe Leiser and Patricia Caurier
Cast：Lianna Haroutounian　/　Jorge de Leon　/　Ana Ibarra　/　Damián del Castillo　/　他

Casablancas《L’enigma di Lea》＝World première
2019｜2.9 … 2.13
Conducter：Josep Pons
Production：Carme Portacelli
Cast：Allison Cook　/　José Antonio López　/　Sara Blanch　/　Marta Infante　/　Xavier Sabata　/　他

Handel《Rodelinda》
2019｜3.2 … 3.15
Conducter：Josep Pons
Production：Claus Guth
Cast：Lisette Oropesa　/　Bejun Mehta　/　Fabian Augusto Gomez　/　Joel Prieto　/　他

Thomas《Hamlet》＝Concert Style
2019｜3.7 … 3.10
Conducter：Daniel Oren
Cast：Diana Damrau　/　Carlos Álvarez　/　Celso Albelo　/　Nicolas Testé / 他

Ponchielli《La Gioconda》
2019｜4.1 … 4.15
Conducter：Guillermo García Calvo
Production：Pier Luigi Pizzi
Cast：Iréne Theorin　/　Brian Jadge　/　Dolora Zajick　/　Gabriele Viviani　/　Ildebrando D’Arcangelo　/　他

Bizet《Les pêcheurs de perles》
2019｜5.13 … 5.25
Conducter：Yves Abel
Production：Lotte de Beer
Cast：Ekaterina Bakanova　/　John Osborn　/　Michael Adams　/　Fernando Radó　/　他

Handel《Agrippina》＝Concert Style
2019｜5.18·
Conducter：Maxim Emelyanychev
Cast：Joyce DiDonato　/　Franco Fagioli　/　Luca Pisaroni　/　Kathryn Lewek　/　他

Puccini《Tosca》
2019｜6.9 … 6.28
Conducter：John Fiore
Production：Paco Azorin
Cast：Liudmyla Monastyrksa　/　Fabio Sartori　/　Erwin Schrott　/　他

Verdi《Luisa Miller》
2019｜7.14 … 7.27
Conducter：Domingo Hindoyan
Production：Damiano Michieletto
Cast：Sondra Radvanovsky　/　Piotr Beczala　/　Luca Salsi　/　Marko Mimica　/　Dmitry Belosselskiy　/　他


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