The ENO's 2012/13 season includes premieres from Philip Glass (The Perfect American) and Michel van der Aa (Sunken Garden) and nine new productions from some of today's most iconoclastic stage directors. The Verdi bicentenary begins in the UK with Peter Konwitschny’s new production of La traviata. There's the first full professional staging of Vaughan Williams’ The Pilgrim’s Progress since the Festival of Britain in 1951. And there are new productions from David McVicar (Medea), Richard Jones (Julietta), Calixto Bieito (Carmen), Michael Keegan-Dolan (Julius Caesar) and Rupert Goold (Wozzeck).
ENO 2012/13 season in full:
The Magic Flute (Mozart). Revival: Nicholas Hytner. Singers: Shawn Mathey/Robert McPherson (Tamino), Elena Xanthoudakis (Pamina). Opens 13 September 2012.
Julietta (Martinů). New production: Richard Jones. Singers: Peter Hoare, Andrew Shore and Susan Bickley. Opens 17 September 2012.
Julius Caesar (Handel). New production: Michael Keegan-Dolan. Singers: Lawrence Zazzo, Patricia Bardon and Anna Christ. Opens 1 October 2012.
Don Giovanni (Mozart). Revival: Rufus Norris. Singers: Iain Paterson (Don Giovanni), Katherine Broderick (Donna Anna), Ben Johnson (Don Ottavio), Matthew Best (Commendatore), Sarah Tynan (Zerlina), Rebecca Evans/Sarah Redgwick (Donna Elvira). Opens 17 October 2012.
The Pilgrim’s Progress (Vaughan Williams). New production: Yoshi Oïda. Opens 5 November 2012.
Carmen (Bizet). New production: Calixto Bieito. Singers: Ruxandra Donose (Carmen), Adam Diegel (Don Jose) and Elizabeth Llewellyn (Micaëla). Opens 21 November 2012.
The Mikado (Gilbert and Sullivan). Revival: Jonathan Miller. Opens 1 December 2012.
La traviata (Verdi). New production: Peter Konwitschny. Singers: Corinne Winters (Violetta Valery), Ben Johnson (Alfredo Germont), Anthony Michaels-Moore (Giorgio Germont). Opens 2 February 2013.
Medea (Charpentier). New production: David McVicar. Singers: Sarah Connolly and Jeffrey Francis. Opens 15 February 2013.
The Barber of Seville (Rossini). Revival: Jonathan Miller. Singers: Benedict Nelson (Figaro), Lucy Crowe (Rosina), Andrew Kennedy (Count Almaviva), Andrew Shore (Doctor Bartolo), Katherine Broderick (Berta) Opens 25 February 2013.
Sunken Garden (Van der Aa). New production: Michel van der Aa. Opens 12 April 2013.
La bohème (Puccini). Revival: Jonathan Miller. Opens 29 April 2013.
Wozzeck (Berg). New production: Rupert Goold. Opens 11 May 2013.
The Perfect American (Glass). New production: Phelim McDermott. Singers: Christopher Purves (Walt Disney). Opens 1 June 2013.
Death in Venice (Britten). Revival: Deborah Warner. Singers: John Graham-Hall (Aschenbach). Opens 14 June 2013.