Eugene Onegin, Tchaikovsky in Metropolitan Opera
APR 20 – MAY 16 Following her acclaimed 2024 company debut in Puccini’s Madama Butterfly, soprano Asmik Grigorian returns to the Met as Tatiana, the lovestruck young heroine in this ardent operatic adaptation of Pushkin. Baritone Igor Golovatenko reprises his portrayal of the urbane Onegin, who realizes his affection for her all too late. The Met’s evocative […]
Don Giovanni, Mozart in New National Theatre Tokyo
Music by Wolfgang Amadeus MozartOpera in 2 ActsSung in Italian with English and Japanese surtitles
Khovanshchina, Musorgsky in Mariinsky
Music by Modest Musorgsky Orchestrated by Dmitry Shostakovich Libretto by the composer Musical Director: Valery Gergiev 28 September
Lady Macbeth of the Mtsens district, Shostakovich in La Scala
Opera in four acts Libretto by Aleksandr Prejs and Dmitrij Šostakovic Based on the novella of the same name by Nikolaj Leskov Teatro alla Scala Orchestra and Chorus Teatro alla Scala New Production From 7 to 30 December 2025 more info below Conductor RICCARDO CHAILLY Staging VASILY BARKHATOV Sets ZINOVY MARGOLIN Costumes OLGA SHAISHMELASHVILI Lights […]
Interview with Gregory Kunde
Maestro, hello. Nice to meet you. Frédéric Beigbeder says that love lasts three years, but the same can’t be said for opera: with each passing year, interest and emotion only grow. If you fall in love with it, you never fall out of love. Is that true? Do you still discover something new in opera […]
Protected: Interview with Jose Cura
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La Scala birthday!
The theatre was inaugurated on 3 August 1778 and was originally known as il Nuovo Regio Ducale Teatro alla Scala (lit. ’the New Royal Ducal Theatre at the Scala’ which previously was a church). The premiere performance was Antonio Salieri’s Europa riconosciuta.
The Barber of Seville, Rossini in San Francisco Opera
COMPOSER Gioachino Rossini LIBRETTO Cesare Sterbini DATES May 28–Jun 21, 2026 PRICE Starting at $29 RUN TIME 3 hours and 15 minutes with one intermission LANGUAGE Italian with English supertitles
PIQUE DAME, Tchaikovsky in Die Wiener Staatsoper
Text Alexandr Sergejewitsch Puschkin Friday27. JUNE 2025 One intermission Main Stage
La traviata, Verdi in Staatsoper Berlin
July 2025, October 2025 Melodramma in three acts (1853) Music by Giuseppe VerdiText by Francesco Maria Piave after Alexandre Dumas d.J. Violetta Valéry is a noble courtesan in Paris who has “strayed from the path of virtue” and leads a life that oscillates between splendour and misery. For her everything is a game – even love […]