The season will open (Oct. 22-26) with “Fidelio,” Beethoven’s only opera, in a production by Thaddeus Strassberger. The cast includes noted soprano Christine Goerke (Leonore), Michael Hendrick (Florestan), Andrew Funk (Rocco), and Meredith Hansen (Marzelline).

Hindemith’s “Cardillac,” Donizetti’s “Maria Padilla,” and Beethoven’s “Fidelio” are the three operas that will make their way to the stage of the Cutler Majestic Theatre next year in new productions by Opera Boston. The company announced details of its 2010-11 offerings today.

The season will open (Oct. 22-26) with “Fidelio,” Beethoven’s only opera, in a production by Thaddeus Strassberger. (The director’s staging of Meyerbeer’s “Les Huguenots” was seen last year at Bard College’s Summerscape Festival.) The cast includes noted soprano Christine Goerke (Leonore), Michael Hendrick (Florestan), Andrew Funk (Rocco), and Meredith Hansen (Marzelline).

As its second production, the company will offer the local premiere of Hindemith’s “Cardillac” (Feb. 25-March 1, 2010), adapted from an E.T.A. Hoffmann story and first performed in Dresden in 1926. A director has not yet been announced but the production will feature the veteran baritone Sanford Sylvan in the title role of the murderous goldsmith.

The company’s final opera of the season, Donizetti’s “Maria Padilla” (May 6-10, 2011) will also be a Boston premiere. The seldom- performed work, adapted from a Francois Ancelot play about a mistress of King Pedro the Cruel of Castile, was not staged in this country until 1990. The Donizetti scholar William Ashbrook has described it as “one of the most unfairly neglected of Donizetti’s mature operas.” Julia Pevzner, who directed the company’s 2009 production of Shostakovich’s “The Nose,” returns to direct this new production, and soprano Barbara Quintiliani sings the title role.

Information at 617-451-3388 or www.operaboston.org

Correction 2/ 26/10

Jeremy Eichler, The Boston Globe

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