Finally an announcement to get the heart pumping: the Paris Opera’s 2018-2019 season offers no fewer than 11 new productions, including one that will eventually find its way to the Met. Plus: the A-list Meyerbeer presentation everyone has been waiting for! 

New productions include:

Les Huguenots with Diana Damrau, Bryan Hymel, Ermonela Jaho, Patrick Bolleire, Nicolas Testé, Florian Sempey. Director: Andreas Kriegenburg, Conductor: Michele Mariotti.

Bérénice (world premiere). Barbara Hannigan, Bo Skovhus. Claus Guth; Phillipe Jordan

Simon Boccanegra. Ludovic Tézier, Maria Agresta / Anita Hartig, Nicola Alaimo, Mika Kares, Francesco Demuro. Calixto Bieito; Fabio Luisi.

Scarlatti’s Il Primo Omicidio. Birgitte Christensen, Kristina Hammarström, Olivia Vermeulen, Thomas Walker, Benno Schachtner, Robert Gleadow. Romeo Castelluccil; René Jacobs.

Les Troyens. directs a new production of Berlioz’s “Les Troyens.” Stéphanie d’Oustrac, El?na Garan?a, Bryan Hymel, Michèle Losier, Véronique Gens, Stéphane Degout, Paata Burchuladze. Dmitri Tcherniakov; Phillipe Jorden.

Lady Macbeth of Mtzensk. Ausrine Stundyte, John Daszak, Pavel Cernoch, Alexander Tsymbalyuk. Krzysztof Warlikowski; Ingo Metzmacher.

Don Giovanni. Etienne Dupuis, Ain Anger, Jacquelyn Wagner, Nicole Car, Elsa Dreisig, Philippe Sly. Ivo Van Hove; Phillipe Jorda. (Co-production with the Metropolitan Opera!)

La Traviata. Pretty Yende / Nino Machaidze, Atalla Ayan / Benjamin Bernheim, Ludovic Tézier / Jean?François Lapointe. Simon Stone; Michele Mariotti.

Prince Igor. John Relyea, Anita Rachvelishvili, Elena Stikhina and Pavel Cernoch. Barrie Kosky; Phillipe Jordan.

Les Indes Galantes. Sabine Devieilhe, Florian Sempey, Jodie Devos. Clément Cogitore; Leonardo García Alarcón.

Clémence Poésy’s Autour de Madrigaux de Monteverdi.

Repertoire will include Tristan und Isolde, L’elisir d’amore, La Cenerentola, Rusalka, Otello, Die Fledermaus, Carmen, Die Zauberflöte, Iolanta, Tosca and La Forza del Destino.