Lohengrin, Wagner in Gran Teatre del Liceu
17 – 25 March 2025 Romantische Oper en tres actes Llibret de Richard Wagner.
La Bohème, Puccini in Metropolitan Opera
Four brilliant casts take the stage as Puccini’s lovesick young bohemians in Franco Zeffirelli’s picturesque production. Sopranos Ailyn Pérez, Eleonora Buratto, Kristina Mkhitaryan, and Corinne Winters alternate as the delicate seamstress Mimì, and tenors Dmytro Popov, Matthew Polenzani, and Joseph Calleja share the role of the enamored poet Rodolfo. Maestros Kensho Watanabe, Yannick Nézet-Séguin, Alexander […]
Falstaff, Verdi in La Scala
From 16 January to 7 February 2025 3 hours and 25 minutes circa intermissions included Commedia lirica in three acts Libretto by Arrigo Boito Teatro alla Scala Orchestra and Chorus Teatro alla Scala Production Protagonist on the podium in a memorable edition of the opera presented in 2015 with the brilliant production directed by Robert […]
Turandot, Puccini in La Scala
From 25 June to 15 July 2024 Opera in three acts and five scenes Libretto by Giuseppe Adami and Renato Simoni Teatro alla Scala Orchestra and Chorus Treble Voices Chorus of the Teatro alla Scala Academy Teatro alla Scala New Production Conductor DANIEL HARDING Staging DAVIDE LIVERMORE Sets ELEONORA PERONETTI, PAOLO GEP CUCCO, DAVIDE LIVERMORE Costumes MARIANA FRACASSO […]
Carmen, Bizet in Mikhailovsky Theatre
Libretto by Henri Meilhac and Ludovic Halévy after the novel by Prosper Mérimée Music by Georges Bizet 3 December Premiere of the production: 5 September 2023 The Mikhailovsky Theatre presents Nacho Duato’s debut as an opera director — the new production of Georges Bizet’s “Carmen”. Nacho Duato’s “Carmen” is a reflection on predetermination and fate, love, death and freedom — and the price you have […]
SIMON BOCCANEGRA, Verdi in Opéra national de Paris
Giuseppe Verdi from 12 March to 03 April 2024 Although not the best-known of Verdi’s operas, Simon Boccanegra was one of his favourites, to the extent that he extensively reworked it 24 years after its Venice premiere in 1857. What a destiny Simon Boccanegra enjoyed! This former privateer, elected doge of Genoa, wishes to re-establish peace within […]
Les Huguenots, Meyerbeer in Mariinsky
Opera by Giacomo Meyerbeer 29 of February, 01, 02, 10 of March 2024 World premiere: 29 February 1836, Académie Royale de Musique, Paris Premiere at the Bolshoi (Kamennyi) Theatre: 31 January 1850, Imperial Italian Opera Company, St Petersburg First production at the Mariinsky Theatre: 2 February 1862Premiere of this production: 29 February 2024
EUGEN ONEGIN, Tschaikowski in Vienna State Opera
Music Piotr I. Tschaikowski, Text Piotr I. Tschaikowski & Konstantin Schilowski On March 01, 03, 06, 09 A dandy who is as wandering as he is incapable of commitment coolly rejects the love of a landowner’s daughter – while she grows from this rejection, he breaks from his neglect.