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Daniel Barenboim, the Staatsoper's music director, and Juergen
Flimm, its general manager, also announced a new production of
Richard Wagner's "Die Meistersinger von Nuernberg" will be the
season opener on Oct 3, with Barenboim conducting his 20th
Wagner production for the company.
Among the singers appearing during the next season will be Anna
Netrebko, Placido Domingo, Rene Pape, Waltraud Meier, Sonya
Yoncheva, Bejun Mehta, Magdalena Kozena, Rolando Villazon and
Jonas Kaufmann, the Staatsoper announced in a press release.
Gehry, one of the world's foremost architects, has engaged in
arts projects in the past, including appearing in an episode of
the popular television animated satire "The Simpsons". He also
designed a set for a concert staging of Mozart's "Don Giovanni"
in Los Angeles in 2003.
The 18th-century Gluck opera for which he will do the stage
design will be the main premiere production for the Staatsoper's
annual FESTTAGE festival at Easter, the house said.
The Staatsoper has used the Schiller Theater rather than its
usual venue of the Staatsoper Unter den Linden while the main
house is being renovated, but it has sold out 90 percent of the
seats in the current season, the company said.
(Reporting by Michael Roddy; Editing by Larry King)
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