The COC season announcing bash is on Wednesday night. Since I was so spectacularly awful in my predictions for 2013/14 I’m going to go all trendy, social media on you and crowdsource this year’s predictions. Bear in mind there will be six productions in 2014/15. So here’s a poll:
operaramblings 
The Don Giovanni is listed on Ketelsen’s schedule, I’m guessing Relyea as Don Giovanni and Layla Claire as Donna Anna?
Still not sure about Walkure, people say Goerke but she has already sung the role and they said she is making a role debut.
Any thoughts where Racette fits into the season?
Woot! re DG. Layla Claire would be great as DA but I so want to see Annette Dasch live. My guess is that CG will sing Brunnhilde which she hasn’t done. The iother PoV is that she will sing in Bluebeard’s Castle. No idea on Racette.
Goerke has sung Brunnhilde with New Zealand Symphony in concert, and she has said that Houston will be her first cycle. Not sure if that counts as a role debut, who knows! Racette as Alice Ford makes sense, but I know that they were trying to bring in a lot of Canadians for that production. Erin Wall as Arabella would be awesome too.
I also heard about the Lepage revival, and am really happy about it. I think that’s in.
I don’t think Lulu is very likely bc that would be the second (or if Arabella is in, third) 20th century opera in one season.
Would bet my shirt on: Fastaff, Tcherny’s Don (that production is getting old, they better hurry up), the Lepage two-acter, one of the COC Ring (they did leak Valkyrie, I believe? Can’t remember where we all got that information), and here I brake. Where is the populist, crowd-pleasing fare this year? Maybe the last two which I can’t guess will be it.
I don’t think Arabella and Walkure will happen in the same season for cost reasons. I guess you are right about Lulu. Perish the thought that a third of the season be under a 115 years old!
I guess this idea that everything post 1900 is “modern”, can only be dealt out in small doses and is an excuse for not doing more recent work is really bugging me. Both works in the Lepage double bill are over 100 years old.