Rossini’s comedy Le Comte Ory is up next, starting November 13. (Check New York Classical Review March 1 for a review.) Mazzola conducts in a new David McVicar production, which will debut at the Met February 28. Joshua Guerrero is Carlos with Rachel Willis-Sørensen as Elisabeth, Clementine Margaine as Eboli, Igor Golovatenko as Rodrigue, Dmitry Belosselskiy as Philippe and Soloman Howard as the Grand Inquisitor. Verdi’s Don Carlos opens November 9, presented for the first time at the company in the original five-act French version. The season continues September 17 with the musical Fiddler on the Roof in a Barrie Kosky production (we are not making this up.) Kosky, readers will recall, was also responsible for the highly unpopular animated Magic Flute seen last fall, also from his Komische Oper Berlin.

Music director Enrique Mazzola conducts in an unspecified production. Not seen at Lyric in 13 years, the cast boasts four vocal heavyweights with Tamara Wilson, Russell Thomas Quinn Kelsey and Christian Van Horn. The season will open-earlier than usual-September 9 with Verdi’s Ernani. The schedule consists of just five full-length operas-and one of those is Hansel and Gretel-continuing the diminution of grand opera at the Chicago company under the aegis of Anthony Freud (whose contract was quietly renewed last fall for another five years). The Lyric Opera of Chicago has announced its 2022-23 season.

Lyric Opera is presenting “Fiddler on the Roof” in the company’s 2022-23 season.

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