Fathers on the operatic stage (11)

Verdi's Rigoletto

Nikolaus Lehnhoff, Fabio Luisi – Juan Diego Flórez (Il Duca di Mantova), Zeljko Lucic (Rigoletto), Diana Damrau (Gilda) – Semperoper Dresden

• Semperoper Dresden (Dresden, Germany)

Verdi's Don Carlos

Antonio Pappano, Nicholas Hytner – Rolando Villazón (Don Carlos), Robert Lloyd (Carlos V), Simon Keenlyside (Rodrigo, Marquis of Posa) – Royal Opera House,...

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

Wagner's Das Rheingold

Lothar Zagrosek, Joachim Schlömer – Bernhard Schneider (Froh), Wolfgang Probst (Wotan), Robert Künzle (Loge) – Staatsoper Stuttgart

• Staatsoper Stuttgart (Stuttgart, Germany)

Wagner's Die Walküre

Staatsoper Stuttgart

• Staatsoper Stuttgart (Stuttgart, Germany)

Rossini's La Cenerentola

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

Verdi's Aida

Miguel Ángel Gómez Martínez, José Antonio Gutiérrez – Daniela Dessì (Aïda), Fabio Armiliato (Radamès) – Gran Teatre del Liceu

• Gran Teatre del Liceu (Barcelona, Spain)

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 La Traviata

Yutaka Sado, Peter Mussbach – Mireille Delunsch (Violetta), Matthew Polenzani (Alfredo Germont)

Dvořák's Rusalka

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

Mozart's Don Giovanni

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

Massenet's Werther

Michel Plasson, Benoît Jacquot – Jonas Kaufmann (Werther), Sophie Koch (Charlotte)