The Vienna Opera offers 6 premieres in the season back to normal

Vienna, Jun 3 (EFE) .- Six premieres that cover three centuries of music history, with a total of 46 different works and with voices such as those of Domingo, Carreras, Flórez, Netrebko or Bartoli.

Those are some of the tricks with which the Vienna Opera returns to full normality in the next season 2021/22, after months closed by the covid.

"The power of opera to change lives finally returns to our lives. In the next season we want to unleash, explore and celebrate that power", defends the theater director, Bogdan Roscic, his plans for the next year.

Roscic took office in July 2020 and had to see, four months later, the restrictions due to the pandemic closed the theaters in Austria, which did not reopen until May 19.

"Our great hope is that next season will be different. We also had it when we announced the 2020/2021 academic year, but the starting point is now better," he confided about a program that was presented to the public today and that starts on September 3 with Tosca.

Next season six new productions will be on stage: Rossini's El barbero de Sevilla, starring the Peruvian tenor Juan Diego Flórez; Don Giovanni, by Mozart; Wozzeck by Alan Berg; a Tristan and Isolde, by Wagner, with scenography by the Spanish Calixto Bieito; and L'Orfeo, by Monteverdi, with Pablo Heras-Casado as conductor.

The premieres also include the Rossini-mania series, three evenings dedicated to the Italian composer that will have Cecilia Bartoli and the Mexican Rolando Villazón among its protagonists.

Those premieres, Roscic said, represent the three pillars of his direction: Mozart, Wagner, and twentieth-century classics, and they are all revolutionary works that marked his time.

The next season will see the farewell to the Vienna Opera of two Spanish artists closely linked to this theater: Plácido Domingo, who has been singing on this stage for more than five decades, and José Carreras, who debuted here in 1974.

Carreras will say goodbye to the Vienna Opera on September 14, in a charity evening in which he will be accompanied, among others, by the Latvian mezzo-soprano Elina Garanca and the Italian pianist Lorenzo Bavaj.

Domingo, for his part, will sing the main role in Verdi's Nabucco on November 12, and three days later he will be the protagonist of a "Spanish Night" dedicated to him and to zarzuela, the genre with which he grew up musically and which it has never sounded at the Vienna Opera.

The Viennese stage will continue to bet next season to rejuvenate the public, with contingents of tickets at reduced prices for children and young people, and operas dedicated exclusively to the little ones.