Anna El-Khashem in Così fan tutte on the Verbier Competition, July 2026 / Photograph: Anne du Chastel
Three main U.S corporations are betting closely this fall that the Mozart-da Ponte trio of operas will entice audiences. Grand Tier Seize Bag previews the Met’s Così fan Tutte, Lyric Opera of Chicago’s Don Giovanni and San Francisco Opera’s Le nozze di Figaro by introducing (or in a single case, reintroducing) their main sopranos: Federica Lombardi, Mané Galoyan, Anna El-Khashem, and Slávka Zámečníková.
The Met revives its a lot reviled “Coney Island” Così on the second evening of the 2026-27 season for 9 performances together with an HD on October 3. Lombardi, its Fiordiligi, has already carried out each Donna Elvira (her Met debut in 2019) and Donna Anna, Elettra, and the Countess with the corporate. Her solely different Met opera to date has been La bohème: after showing as Musetta in 2021, she transitioned to Mimì in 2023, a task she performs once more after the Così run with Atalla Ayan as her Rodolfo.
A spotlight of Lombardi’s 2027 schedule will probably be her second new manufacturing of Norma, in June on the Dutch Nationwide Opera, guided by sizzling younger director Jetske Mijnssen.
Mozart: Don Giovanni, “In quali ecessi”
Donna Elvira: Federica Lombardi
Conductor: Philippe Jordan
Wiener Staatsoper
17 January 2024
In-house
Chicago opens its season with Don Giovanni with Christian Van Horn and Kyle Ketelsen sharing the title function. With the help of Tomasso Barea as Leporello, they may try and seduce Galoyan, Nina Solodovnikova, and El-Khashem. Sadly, we couldn’t uncover any recordings of Solodovnikova, the Donna Elvira. Nevertheless, Armenian soprano Galoyan made her Met debut in 2017 showing as Chloe within the Mozartian intermezzo within the second Act of Tchaikovsky’s Queen of Spades. She didn’t return once more till final fall for a brief run as Musetta after she had opened Chicago’s season as Gilda.
Current performances show her versatility in such different roles as Micaela, Suor Angelica, and Janácek’s Vixen, along with Mozart’s Pamina and Vitellia which she sang for the time final 12 months in Monte Carlo reverse Cecilia Bartoli.
Galoyan, who’s married to conductor Roberto Kalb, sings Berthe within the latest noteworthy dwell recording of Meyerbeer’s Le Prophète with Elizabeth Deshong and John Osborn. Subsequent 12 months after Mimì in Seattle, she returns to Mozart for Santa Fe’s Così fan tutte aligned with the Dorabella of Samantha Hankey (who can also be Lombardi’s sister on the Met).
Mozart: La clemenza di Tito, “Non più di fiori”
Mané Galoyan
Conductor: Gianluca Capuano
Monte Carlo
26 January 2025
In home
Chicago’s Zerlina, Russian soprano El-Khashem, has not too long ago devoted most of her time to Mozart. Since early 2025, she has carried out Ilia, Susanna, and Servilia.
She’s made a specialty of Silvia in Ascanio in Alba, the early Mozart festa teatrale which she has recorded for Aparté beneath Christophe Rousset. They’ll collaborate as soon as once more for Ascanio on the Zurich Opera in March 2027 as a part of the corporate’s second annual pageant dedicated to 18th century opera.
Mozart: Così fan tutte, “In uomini, in soldati” & “Una donna a quindici anni”
Anna El-Khashem
Conductor: Gábor Takács-Nagy
Verbier Competition
18 July 2026
Broadcast
On Halloween, the San Francisco Opera revives its Le nozze di Figaro for ten performances. It welcomes again for Susanna Slovak soprano Zámečníková, who made her U.S. and firm debut three years in the past as Adina in L’Elisir d’Amore, a portrayal ecstatically acclaimed on this web site by Michael Anthonio.
For the Vienna Staatsoper, her house firm, Zámečníková has carried out an impressively big selection of roles. Apart from Servilia, Pamina, and Donna Anna, she’s been Marzelline, Micaela, Sophie (in each Der Rosenkavalier and Werther), Poppea, Norina, and Nanetta, along with starring final season within the firm’s new manufacturing of Smetana’s The Bartered Bride (sung, after all, in German).
In January 2027, she’ll be Donna Anna in Heartbeat Opera founder Louisa Proske’s new staging of Don Giovanni on the Paris Opera with Peter Mattei once more within the title function.
Mozart: Die Zauberflöte, “Ach ich fühls…”
Slávka Zámečníková
Conductor: Betrand de Billy
Wiener Staatsoper
27 January 2025
In-house
