Seattle Opera opens the 2012-2013 season with Puccini’s opulent Turandot, and boasts a double bill of 20th-century one-act operas. Here’s the lineup:

Turandot
Aug 4–18, 2012
Formidable soprano Lori Phillips, who sang the role of Turandot in over a half-dozen cities, steps in here as the cold-as-the-other-side-of-the-pillow princess. Italian tenor Antonello Palombi costars as her suitor on opening night. (This is a coproduction with Pittsburgh Opera and Minnesota Opera.)

Fidelio
Oct 13–27, 2012
SO revives Beethoven’s only opera: a two-act drama about a daring wife who disguises herself as a male jailer to rescue her wrongfully imprisoned husband. Last seen here in 2003, this updated production by director Chris Alexander and designer Robert Dahlstrom sets the struggle for freedom in a modern-day prison.

Cinderella (La Cenerentola)
Jan 12–26, 2013
Expect big voices and even bigger mice in Rossini’s romp, with Seattle debuts by Italian mezzo soprano Daniela Pini in the title role, and American tenor René Barbera as her prince.

La Bohème
Feb 23–Mar 9, 2013
‘Tis the season of Puccini. Long before Mark and Mimi were ill-fated partners in Broadway’s Rent, it was Rodolfo and Mimi who battled tuberculosis in the name of love. Tenor Francesco Demuro (a standout as Alfredo in 2009’s La Traviata) will sing opposite Elizabeth Caballero.

La Voix Humaine and Suor Angelica
May 4–18, 2013
SO wraps its season with the local premiere of two 20th-century one-acts: Poulenc’s "monodrama" La Voix Humaine, about a woman in a last-gasp, 40-minute phone plea to her ex; and Puccini’s melodrama Suor Angelica, featuring a saintly choir and a nun with a complicated past.

Single tickets for the 2012–2013 season go on sale May 29 at seattleopera.org.