Eleonora Buratto, Magdalena Kožená, Ismael Jordi, Cecilia Bartoli & Juan Diego Flórez Lead Palau de Les Arts’s 2022-23 Season

By Francisco Salazar

The Palau de les Arts in Valencia has announced its 2022-23 season featuring opera, zarzuela concerts and inetrnational stars.

Opera

Jamie Man’s “Zelle” will be showcased with countertenor Steve Katona, Ryoko Aoki, Jackie Janssens, Asko|Schönberg, Wiek Hijmans, Joey Marijs, and Tatiana Rosa. Man conducts his work.

Performance Date: Sept. 16, 2022

Alex Esposito, Eleonora Buratto, Silvia Tro Santafé, and Ismael Jordi star in Donizetti’s “Anna Bolena.” Maurizio Benini conducts the production by Jetske Mijnssen.

Performance Date: Oct. 1-13, 2022

Saimir Pirgu, Federica Lombardi, Mattia Olivieri, Manuel Fuentes, Marina Monzó, Damián del Castillo, and Jorge Rodríguez-Norton lead Puccini’s “La Bohème.” James Gaffigan conducts the production by Davide Livermore.

Performance Dates: Dec. 9-23, 2022

Elena Zaremba, Brandon Jovanovich, Norman Reinhardt, Petra Lang, and Corinne Winters star in Janacek’s “Jenůfa” with Gustavo Gimeno conducting the production by Katie Mitchell. 

Performance Dates: Jan. 19-29, 2023

Joan Font conducts Pauline Viardot’s “Cendrillon” with Manuel Zuriaga directing. Marcelo Solís, Rosa María Dávila, Mariana García, and Pilar Garrido star.

Performance Dates: Feb. 9-18, 2023

Marc Minkowski conducts Handel’s “Alcina” in concert with Magdalena Kožená, Erin Morley, Elizabeth DeShong, Anna Bonitatibus, Valerio Contaldo, and Alex Rosen.

Performance Date: Feb. 19, 2023

Riccardo Minasi conducts Mozart’s “Don Giovanni” in a production by Damiano Michieletto. Davide Luciano, Gianluca Buratto, Ruth Iniesta, Xabier Anduaga, Elsa Dreisig, Riccardo Fassi, Jacquelyn Stucker, and Adolfo Corrado star.

Performance Dates: March 2-12, 2023

Stephen Gould, Ain Anger, Ricarda Merbeth, Elena Zhidkova, and Kostas Smoriginas star in Wagner’s “Tristan und Isolde.” James Gaffigan conducts Àlex Ollé’s production.

Performance Dates: April 20-May 3, 2023

Monteverdi’s “L’incoronazione di Poppea” will be conducted by Leonardo García Alarcón and directed by Ted Huffman.

Performance Dates: May 11-16, 2023

Zarzuela

“El cantor de México” will be conducted by Óliver Díaz and directed by Emilio Sagi. Rossy de Palma leads the cast that also includes José Luis Sola, Enrique Baquerizo, Toni Marsol, Juan Luis Martínez, Ana Goya, María José Suárez, Nagore Navarro, and Eduardo Carranza.

Performance Dates: Nov. 4-13, 2022

Lieder

Andrè Schuen joins the Orquestra de la Comunitat Valenciana and conductor Anna Sułkowska-Migoń for a Wagner program.

Performance Date: Oct. 15, 2022

Christian Gerhaher and Mathieu Pordoy perform an all-Brahms program.

Performance Date: Dec. 17, 2022

Marina Rebeka and Mathieu Pordoy perform the music of Giuseppe Verdi, Francesco Paolo Tosti, Ottorino Respighi, Cesar Cui, Piotr Ílych Tchaikovsky, and Sergei Rachmaninoff.

Performance Date: Feb. 4, 2023

Nadine Sierra and Vincenzo Scalera take on the music of Saverio Mercadante, Franz Schubert, Robert Schumann, Gabriel Fauré, Francis Poulenc, Joaquín Rodrigo, Joaquín Nin, and Manuel de Falla.

Performance Date: April 1, 2023

Marianne Crebass and Alphonse Cemin bring a recital of music by Maurice Ravel, Claude Debussy, Jesús Guridi, Frederic Mompou, and Manuel de Falla.

Performance Date: May 7, 2023

Grans Veus

Cecilia Bartoli performs a program entitled “Farinelli y su tiempo” with Xavier Laforge, Les Musiciens du Prince-Monaco and Gianluca Capuano.

Performance Date: Nov. 3, 2022

Juan Diego Flórez and Vincenzo Scalera return to the Palau de les Arts.

Performance Date: May 28, 2023

Symphony 

Vasily Petrenko conducts a Cherepnín, Rachmaninoff, and  Mussorgsky. Roman Burdenko is the soloist.

Performance Date: Dec. 16, 2022

James Gaffigan conducts Mahler’s Symphony No. 2 with Jamie Barton and Sydney Mancasola.

Performance Date: Feb. 10, 2023

Antonello Manacorda conducts the Valencia orchestra and chorus in Berlioz, Debussy, and Palau.

Performance Date: March 24, 2023

Baroque 

Èlia Casanova and Quiteria Muñoz perform “La Tendresa.”

Performance Date: March 22, 2023

Aurora Peña, Adriana Mayer, Gabriel Díaz, and Diego Blázquez perform Concerto 1700.

Performance Date: March 23, 2023

Èlia Casanova and Pino de Vitorio perform in a concert entitled Capella Ministrers.

Performance Dates: March 29, 2023

“Al Ayre espanol” will perform alongside Maite Beaumont in music by José de Torres and Georg Friedrich Händel.

Performance Date: March 31, 2023

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