Fathers on the operatic stage (11)

Mozart's Don Giovanni

Jean-Louis Grinda (stage director), Paolo Arrivabeni (conductor) – With Erwin Schrott (Don Giovanni), Patrizia Ciofi (Donna Anna), Sonya Yoncheva (Donna El...

Verdi's Rigoletto

Nikolaus Lehnhoff (stage director), Fabio Luisi (conductor) – With Juan Diego Flórez (Il Duca di Mantova), Zeljko Lucic (Rigoletto), Diana Damrau (Gilda) –...

• Semperoper Dresden (Dresden, Germany)

Dvořák's Rusalka

Stefan Herheim (stage director), Ádám Fischer (conductor) – With Myrtò Papatanasiu (Rusalka) and Pavel Černoch (Prince)...

• Théâtre de la Monnaie (Brussels, Belgium)

Verdi's La Traviata

Peter Mussbach (stage director), Yutaka Sado (music director) – Avec Mireille Delunsch (Violetta), Matthew Polenzani (Alfredo Germont)

Puccini's Madama Butterfly

Giulio Chazalettes (stage director), Maurizio Arena (conductor) – With Raina Kabaivanska, Nazzareno Antinori, Lorenzo Saccomani... and the Verona Teatro Ar...

• Arena di Verona (Verona, Italy)

Verdi's Aida

José Antonio Gutiérrez (stage director), Miguel Ángel Gómez Martínez (music director) – Daniela Dessì (Aïda), Fabio Armiliato (Radamès) – Gran Teatre del L...

• Gran Teatre del Liceu (Barcelona, Spain)

Rossini's La Cenerentola

Peter Hall (stage director), Vladimir Jurowski (conductor) – With Maxim Mironov (Don Ramiro), Ruxandra Donose (Cenerentola)...

Wagner's Die Walküre

Christof Nel (stage director), Lothar Zagrosek (conductor) – With Angela Denoke (Sieglinde), Eva-Maria Westbroek (Gerhilde) – Staatsoper Stuttgart

• Staatsoper Stuttgart (Stuttgart, Germany)

Wagner's Das Rheingold

Joachim Schlömer (stage director), Lothar Zagrosek (conductor) – With Bernhard Schneider (Froh), Wolfgang Probst (Wotan), Robert Künzle (Loge) – Staatsoper...

• Staatsoper Stuttgart (Stuttgart, Germany)

Verdi's Don Carlos

Nicholas Hytner (stage director), Sir Antonio Pappano (music director) – With Rolando Villazón (Don Carlos), Robert Lloyd (Carlos V), Simon Keenlyside (Rod...

• Royal Opera House, Covent Garden (London, Great Britain)

Massenet's Werther

Benoît Jacquot (stage director), Michel Plasson (conductor) – With Jonas Kaufmann (Werther), Sophie Koch (Charlotte)