The Royal Opera House, Covent Garden has announced its 2019/20 season, featuring an exciting mixture of new commissions, world premieres and revivals of much-loved productions. Some of the many highlights include a brand new production of Handel's Agrippina, directed by Barrie Kosky, featuring many of the cast who most recently performed the work in concert for a tour with il pomo d'oro, a new production of Benjamin Britten's last opera Death in Venice, featuring Rebecca Evans and Dominic Sedgwick and the staging of the third opera in The Royal Opera's Leoš Janáček cycle, Jenůfa, directed by the award-winning Claus Guth and featuring Asmik Grigorian in the title role. Among the numerous highlights of the season, there will be house debuts for Louise Alder (Zerlina in Don Giovanni), Isabel Leonard (Charlotte in Werther), Aida Garifullina (Musetta in La bohème), Dinara Alieva (Violetta in La traviata) Finnegan Downie Dear (Conductor in Alice's Adventures Under Ground and Turn of the Screw), Cédric Tiberghien (Pianist in Zauberland), Andrei Bondarenko (Marcello in La bohème), Asmik Grigorian (title role in Jenůfa) and Matthew Durkan (Flemish Deputy in Don Carlo). Returning AH artists include Christine Rice (Don Giovanni), Joyce DiDonato, Lucy Crowe, Franco Fagioli, Iestyn Davies and Andrea Mastroni (Agrippina), Edward Gardner (Werther), Benjamin Hulett (Die Zauberflöte), Dominic Sedgwick and Rebecca Evans (Death in Venice), Kristina Mkhitaryan, Frédéric Antoun, Robert Lloyd and Simon Keenlyside (La traviata), Nicole Car and Duncan Rock (La bohème), Thomas Adès, Mark Stone, Nicky Spence and Robert Murray (Alice's Adventures Under Ground), Robin Tritschler (Fidelio) and Elīna Garanča (Don Carlo). Selected performances are listed below. The full programme can be seen on the ROH website. ROH image credit: Norio NAKAYAMA via Flickr under CC BY-SA 2.0 license Royal Opera debuts: Louise Alder Isabel Leonard Aida Garifullina Dinara Alieva Finnegan Downie Dear Cédric Tiberghien Andrei Bondarenko Asmik Grigorian Matthew Durkan The Royal Opera House Live Cinema Season (Opera): Don Giovanni (Mozart) – 8 October 2019 Don Pasquale (Donizetti) – 24 October 2019 La bohème (Puccini) – 29 January 2020 Fidelio (Beethoven) – 17 March 2020 Cavalleria rusticana/ Pagliacci (Mascagni/Leoncavallo) – 21 April 2020 Elektra (Strauss) - 18 June 2020 MOZART: Don Giovanni 13 September to 26 October 2019 Conductor: Hartmut Haenchen Director: Kaspar Holten Donna Elvira: Christine Rice Zerlina: Louise Alder (house debut) Live cinema broadcast: Tuesday 8 October 2019 MASSENET: Werther 17 September to 5 October 2019 Conductor: Edward Gardner Director: Benoît Jacquot Charlotte: Isabel Leonard (house debut) HANDEL: Agrippina *New Production* 23 September to 11 October 2019 Conductor: Maxim Evelyanychev Director: Barrie Kosky Agrippina: Joyce DiDonato Nerone: Franco Fagioli Ottone: Iestyn Davies Poppea: Lucy Crowe Pallante: Andrea Mastroni SCHUMANN/ FOCCROULLE: Zauberland *New Production* 15 October - 18 October Linbury Studio Director: Katie Mitchell Pianist: Cédric Tiberghien MOZART: Die Zauberflöte 1 November to 27 November 2019 Conductor: Leo Hussain Director: David McVicar Tamino: Benjamin Hulett BRITTEN: Death in Venice *New Production* 21 November to 6 December 2019 Conductor: Mark Elder Director: David McVicar Dominic Sedgwick Rebecca Evans VERDI: La traviata 17 December 2019 to 23 March 2020 Conductor: Daniel Oren Director: Richard Eyre Violetta: Dinara Alieva/ Kristina Mkhitaryan Alfredo: Frédéric Antoun Giorgio Germont: Simon Keenlyside Doctor Grenvil: Robert Lloyd PUCCINI: La bohème 10 January to 27 May 2020 Conductor: Emmanuel Villaume Director: Richard Jones Mimi: Nicole Car Musetta: Aida Garifullina (house debut) Marcello: Andrei Bondarenko (house debut) Schaunard: Duncan Rock Live cinema broadcast: Wednesday 29 January 2020 BARRY: Alice's Adventures Under Ground *New Production* 3 February to 9 February 2020 Conductor: Thomas Adès/ Finnegan Downie Dear (house debut) White Knight/ Cheshire Cat: Mark Stone White King/ Mad Hatter: Nicky Spence March Hare/ Tweedledee: Robert Murray BEETHOVEN: Fidelio *New Production* 01 March to 17 March 2020 Condutor: Antonio Pappano Director: Tobias Kratzer Jaquino: Robin Tritschler Live cinema broadcast: Tuesday 17 March 2020 JANÁČEK: Jenůfa *New Production* 24 March to 9 April 2020 Conductor: Vladimir Jurowski Director: Claus Guth Jenufa: Asmik Grigorian (house and role debut) BRITTEN: The Turn of the Screw 03 to 13 June 2020 Linbury Studio Conductor: Finnegan Downie Dear Director: Natalie Abrahami VERDI: Don Carlo 29 June to 19 July 2020 Conductor: Richard Farnes Director: Nicholas Hytner Princess Eboli: Elīna Garanča Deputy: Matthew Durkan (house debut)