Mr Gergiev took his season to the English National Opera in 2006 with financially disastrous results.
Welsh National Opera (WNO) sacked an oboist because his playing risked its world reputation, a tribunal has heard.
Academi and Welsh National Opera are looking for male and female boxers for the project in March and April 2009.
Terfel said the centre would provide a magnificent home for all kinds of performances, not just the Welsh National Opera.
Resident opera company Welsh National Opera is the big success story of the past year, playing to almost full houses.
In 2009, Gerard Mortier, the director of the Paris National Opera, will leave France to run the New York City Opera.
And as General Director of Los Angeles Opera and Washington National Opera, he is a major force as an opera administrator.
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Scottish opera director David McVicar also receives a knighthood, for services to opera, while English National Opera's Edward Gardner becomes an OBE.
Placido Domingo's recently vacated post as artistic advisor to the Washington National Opera (WNO) will be filled by the opera director Francesca Zambello.
Monty Python member turned Hollywood film-maker Terry Gilliam is to return as a director for the English National Opera, it has been announced.
He said he wants a successful national opera company in Scotland that has thousand of young Scots aspiring to play in its orchestra.
Musician Jools Holland, English National Opera boss Paul Daniel, and dome party organisers Mark Fisher and Michael Lockett will have the final say.
Four years ago his mix of artistic and entrepreneurial credentials won him an invitation from the government to run the beleaguered national opera.
The season opens Sept. 23 with conductor Valery Gergiev leading "Eugene Onegin, " in a Deborah Warner production that opened at the English National Opera in November 2011.
The chief executive of the Welsh National Opera (WNO) has defended the decision to put on a Gordon Getty opera after a donation from the Getty family.
Bieito is the artistic director of the Teatro Romea in Barcelona where he has directed such productions as Carmen and Cosi Fan Tutte for the Welsh National Opera (WNO).
Since being performed at Bregenz, Szymanowski's operas have been performed by the English National Opera in London and by companies in Houston, New York, Chicago, France, Poland and Germany.
The event was part of a cultural festival organised by Cardiff council, the St David's Day Committee, the Wales Millennium Centre (WMC) and the Welsh National Opera, running until 2 March.
He is a Non-Executive director of the Department of Culture, Media and Sport and joined the English National Opera eight years ago, where he revamped the website before becoming chairman this year.
The Welsh National Opera has already said it will cut its ticket prices as a result of the increased seating capacity at the WMC, compared to their present base at Cardiff's New Theatre.
The venue, which was opened by the Queen in November 2004, is the home of Welsh National Opera, and hosts regular musicals, ballets and music and comedy events, while there is also a studio theatre.
Meanwhile, Jonathan Kent's sometimes imaginative, sometimes annoying new production for the English National Opera is set nowhere in particular: the whole of Act I takes place in the she's-read-too-many-storybooks mind of Senta as a young girl.
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In recent decades, Jonathan Miller's controversial 1982 English National Opera production, filled with Mafioso in New York's Little Italy circa 1950, has been followed by concepts as goofy as relocating the action to "The Planet of the Apes" in a 2005 staging in Munich, Germany.
The production, created for the Welsh National Opera, was abstract and minimalist: Johan Engels's design featured a semicircle of dark bleachers and a forest of tilted black crosses that appeared intermittently, representing trees or pillars, and serving as a reminder of the overwhelming power of the Catholic Church.
Which would leave him the option of spending it, if he cannot think of anything more useful, on the English National Opera, London's other great company, where at least the seats are cheaper, the atmosphere jollier, the operatic language English, but where English snobbery and uniformed flunkeys are mercifully absent.
In the soap opera he earned notoriety by kidnapping Sally Webster and her children, a performance that won him Villain of the Year at the National Soap Opera awards.
But his poor performance in a rout at the hands of Alabama, some slow workouts, and a tabloid-ready hoax involving a fake girlfriend that became a national soap opera dropped his stock.
But representatives from the National Theatre, Royal Opera House and Glyndebourne have disagreed.
The first minister said they have moved towards free music tuition in all primary schools, established a national theatre and he said Scottish Opera "must live within its means".
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