photo Sandra Then LA MUSICA | ZWISCHEN IHR UND IHM based on the plays «La Musica 2» and «The English Lover» by Marguerite Duras Residenztheater München from 06 | 06 | 2026 This new work by the Italian director Silvia Costa combines two plays by Marguerite Duras, the grande dame of French literature. While in «La Musica», on the evening after their divorce, a couple take a realistic look back at the life they shared and imagine what might have happened if they had stayed toget

A Midsummer Night's Dream music by Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy choreography George Balanchine Teatro dell'Opera di Roma from 09 | 06 | 2026 conductor Karen Durgaryan assistant choreographer Sandra Jennings, Darla Hoover set and costumes Gianluca Falaschi lighting design Valerio Tiberi choir master Ciro Visco dancers Alessandra Amato, Susanna Salvi, Alessio Rezza Federica Maine, Marianna Suriano, Simone Agrò Claudio Coci

photos Klara Beck (Opera du Rhin) Les contes d'Hoffmann by Jacques Offenbach Volksoper, Vienna from 07 | 06 | 2026 musical direction Emmanuel Villaume stage direction Lotte de Beer set design Christof Hetzer costume design Jorine van Beek lighting design Alex Brok dramaturgy Peter te Nuyl CAST: here. co-production Opéra national du Rhin, Opéra-Comique, Volksoper Wien, Opéra de Reims

photo Jean-Louis Fernandez Rigoletto music by Giuseppe Verdi Opera de Lausanne from 14 | 06 | 2026 director Richard Brunel set designer Etienne Pluss costume designer Thibault Vancraenenbroeck lighting designer Laurent Castaingt dramaturgy Catherine Ailloud Nicolas choreographer Maxime Thomas assistant to the stage director Alex Crestey CAST Il Duca di Mantova Davide Tuscano Rigoletto Lionel Lhote Gilda Marie Lys Sparafucile Vartan Gabrielian Maddalena Sophie Kidwell Conte Mo

photo Hugo Thomassen Simon Boccanegra music by Giuseppe Verdi Dutch National Opera & Ballet from 04 to 28 | 06 | 2026 musical direction Fabio Luisi | Andrea Sanguineti direction Jetske Mijnssen set design Etienne Pluss costume design Hannah Clark lighting design Valerio Tiberi movement direction Jean-François Kessler dramaturgy Laura Roling CAST Simon Boccanegra George Petean Amelia Grimaldi Federica Lombardi Jacopo Fiesco Georg Zeppenfeld Gabriele Adorno Riccardo Massi

The Lake music by Piotr Ilitch Tchaïkovski Les Grands Ballets, Montreal from 28 | 05 | 2026 choreography: IVAN CAVALLARI conductor: DINA GILBERT sets: EDOARDO SANCHI costumes: MARIA PORRO lighting design: MARC PARENT LES GRANDS BALLETS photo Sasha Onyshchenko

©️ Glyndebourne Productions Ltd – Photos Bill Cooper IL TURCO IN ITALIA by Gioachino Rossini Glyndebourne festival from 23 | 05 to 9 | 07 | 2026 conductor Bertie Baigent director Mariame Clément revival director Ian Rutherford set and costume designer Julia Hansen lighting designer Bernd Purkrabek revival movement Anna-Marie Sullivan text by Lucy Wadham video designer David Fricker CAST: Zaida Aytaj Shikhalizada Albazar Anle Gou Prosdocimo Matteo Mancini Don Geronio Rodion

photo Monika Rittershaus OF ONE BLOOD Composed by Brett Dean Libretto by Heather Betts based on texts by Mary Stuart, Elizabeth Tudor and other 16th century sources. Bayerische Staatsoper from 10 | 05 | 2026 Conductor Vladimir Jurowski Director Claus Guth Stage Designer Etienne Pluss Costume Designer Ursula Kudrna Sound Bob Scott, Sven Eckhoff Lighting Michael Bauer Choreographer Sommer Ulrickson Chorus Christoph Heil Dramaturge Yvonne Gebauer, Lukas Leipfinger Elizabeth Tudo

I DIDN’T KNOW WHERE TO PUT ALL MY TEARS / CURLEW RIVER by Marko Nikodijević / Benjamin Britten Opéra de Rennes 04-06 | 05 | 2026 Conductor and harmonium Alphonse Cemin Director Silvia Costa Set design Michele Taborelli Costume design Camille Assaf Lighting Marco Giusti Dramaturgy Simon Hatab Assistant stage director Rosabel Huguet I Didn’t Know Where To Put All My Tears Commissioned by the Opéra national de Nancy-Lorraine world premiere Libretto Silvia Costa with extracts f

Carmen music by Georges Bizet Semperoper Dresden from 01 | 05 | 2026 conductor Lorenzo Passerini director Nadja Loschky set designer Etienne Pluss costume designer Irina Spreckelmeyer lighting designer Fabio Antoci choreographer Thomas Wilhelm dramaturgy Yvonne Gebauer, Benedikt Stampfli Don José Attilio Glaser Carmen Eve-Maud Hubeaux Micaëla Galina Cheplakova Escamillo Krzysztof Bączyk Zuniga Vladyslav Buialskyi Moralès Anton Beliaev Frasquita Jasmin Delfs Mer

photo Monika Rittershaus Pelléas et Mélisande by Claude Debussy Teatro alla Scala from 22 | 04 to 09 | 05 | 2026 musical director MAXIME PASCAL director, set, costume and lighting designer ROMEO CASTELLUCCI dramaturgy CHRISTIAN LONGCHAMP artistic collaborator GIULIA GIAMMONA Pelléas Bernard Richter Mélisande Sara Blanch Golaud Simon Keenlyside Geneviève Marie-Nicole Lemieux Arkel John Relyea Le petite Yniold Alessandro De Gaspari / Allegra Maifredi / Alberto Tibaldi Un

photo Roberto Ricci Orfeo ed Euridice music by Christoph Willibald Gluck I Teatri Reggio Emilia, Teatro Municipale Valli 10, 12 | 04 | 2026 conductor FABIO BIONDI director SHIRIN NESHAT set designer HEIKE VOLLMER costume designer KATHARINA SCHLIPF lighting designer VALERIO TIBERI choreography CLAUDIA GRECO dramaturgy YVONNE GEBAUER director of photography RODIN HAMIDI Cast Orfeo CARLO VISTOLI Euridice CHIARA MARIA FIORANI Amore THEODORA RAFTIS MODO ANTIQUO CORO DEL TEATRO RE

The Sleeping Beauty music by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky Croatian National Theatre from 10 | 04 | 2026 Choreographer and Director Paul Chalmer Conductors Mikhail Agrest, Vjekoslav Babić Set and Costume Designer Anna Kontek Lighting Designer Valerio Tiberi Ballet Masters Mihaela Devald Roksandić, Pavla Pećušak, Tomislav Petranović, George Stanciu, Iva Višak, Andrej Barbanov Ensemble of the performance: here . with the participation of the School of Classical Ballet in Zagreb and

photo Monika Rittershaus Scylla et Glaucus by Jean-Marie Leclair Tragédie en musique in one prologue and five acts Libretto by d'Albaret based on Ovid's «Metamorphoses» Opernhaus Zürich 27 | 03 - 02 | 05 | 2026 conductor : Emmanuelle Haïm director : Claus Guth set designer : Etienne Pluss costume designer : Ursula Kudrna choreography and collaboration to director: Sommer Ulrickson lighting designer : Martin Gebhardt dramaturgy : Roman Reeger, Yvonne Gebauer CAST: here. Zürche

I DIDN’T KNOW WHERE TO PUT ALL MY TEARS / CURLEW RIVER by Marko Nikodijević / Benjamin Britten Opéra national de Nancy Lorraine 29 | 03 - 03 | 04 | 2026 Conductor and harmonium Alphonse Cemin Director Silvia Costa Set design Michele Taborelli Costume design Camille Assaf Lighting Marco Giusti Dramaturgy Simon Hatab Assistant stage director Rosabel Huguet I Didn’t Know Where To Put All My Tears Commissioned by the Opéra national de Nancy-Lorraine world premiere Libretto Sil

photo Michal Chelbin Richard III by William Shakespeare Les Gémeaux, Scène nationale Sceaux 14 to 26 | 03 | 2026 Itay Tiran 's Richard III is an unsparingly critical reflection on the political present day in his home country of Israel. It is a touching play about a national tragedy in which the personal is irretrievably bound up with the political. The extraordinary actor Evgenia Dodina plays Richard as an inwardly offended villain who stops at nothing on his way to the thr

Photo OPL : Carole Parodi Orlando by Georg Friedrich Hændel Opéra de Lausanne 15, 20, 22, 24 | 03 | 2026 conductor I Christopher Moulds stage director I Mariame Clément set and costume designer I Kaspar Glarner lighting designer I Valerio Tiberi video | Gianfranco Bianchi CAST Orlando | Paul-Antoine Bénos-Djian Angelica | Marie Lys Medoro | Paul Figuier Dorinda | Ana Vieira Leite Zoroastro | Callum Thorpe Orchestre de Chambre de Lausanne

photo Monika Rittershaus Bluebeard's Castle | La Voix Humaine by Béla Bartók | Francis Poulenc Maggio Musicale Fiorentino 14 - 22 | 03 | 2026 conductor : Martin Rajna director : Claus Guth revival director: Ana Cuellár set designer : Monika Pomale costume designer : Anna Sofie Tuma lighting designer : Michael Bauer dramaturgy : Yvonne Gebauer Bluebeard's Castle Barbablù Florian Boesch Judith Christel Loetzsch La Voix Humaine Elle Anna Caterina Antonacci dancers Evie Poaros,

A Midsummer Night's Dream by Benjamin Britten Teatro Real, Madrid 10 to 22 | 03 | 2026 MUSICAL CONDUCTOR Ivor Bolton STAGE DIRECTOR Deborah Warner SET DESIGN Christof Hetzer COSTUME DESIGN Luis Carvalho LIGHTING Urs Schönebaum STAGE MOVEMENT DIRECTION Kim Brandstrup CAST: here. CHILDREN'S CHORUS DIRECTOR Ana González Orquesta Titular del Teatro Real Pequeños Cantores de la ORCAM

photo Lorem / Francesco D’Abbraccio Requiem for Mariza by Meriç Artaç and Sarah Sluimer Dutch National Opera & Ballet 13-21 | 03 | 2026 Composition and concept | Meriç Artaç Libretto | Sarah Sluimer Musical direction | Sora Elisabeth Lee Stage direction, set and costume design | Silvia Costa Collaborator set design | Davis Hart Video design | Lorem / Francesco D’Abbraccio Lighting design | Marco Giusti Dramaturgy | Jasmijn van Wijnen Mariza | Nina van Essen Ra | Maa