photo Monika Rittershaus SEMELE by G. F. Händel National Opera & Ballet, Amsterdam from 17 to 29 | 01 | 2026 musical direction  Emmanuelle Haïm stage direction   Claus Guth set design  Michael Levine costume design  Gesine Völlm lighting design  Michael Bauer video design   rocafilm choreography  Ramses Sigl dramaturgy  Yvonne Gebauer, Christopher Warmuth CAST Semele  Elsa Benoit Athamas  Jakub Józef Orliński Juno  Jasmin White Jupiter  David Portillo Cadmus / Somnus  Florian

Benamor music by Pablo Luna Libretto by Antonio Paso and Ricardo González del Toro Theater an der Wien from 23 | 01 | 2026 conductor | José Miguel Pérez-Sierra director | Christof Loy stage designer | Herbert Murauer costume designer | Barbara Drosihn lighting designer | Fabrice Kebour choreography | Javier Pérez dramaturgy | Kai Weßler cast: here . ORF Radio-Symphonieorchester Wien Arnold Schoenberg Chor choir master: Erwin Ortner

Die Zauberflöte music W. A. Mozart Mozartwoche, Mozarteum, Salzburg from 23 | 01 | 2026 condutor Roberto González-Monjas director Rolando Villazón set design Harald Thor costume design Tanja Hofmann choreography Ramses Sigl lighting design Stefan Bolliger videos Roland Horvath/rocafilm dramaturgy Ulrich Leisinger Franz-Josef Selig | Sarastro Kathryn Lewek | Königin der Nacht Magnus Dietrich | Tamino Emily Pogorelc | Pamina Theodore Platt | Papageno Tamara Ivaniš | Papagena Al

Orfeo ed Euridice music by Christoph Willibald Gluck Teatro Regio di Parma from 23 | 01 | 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 FRANCESCA PIA VITALE Amore THEODORA RAFTIS FILARMONICA ARTURO TOSCANINI CORO DEL TEATRO REGIO DI PARMA choir master Mart

The Turn of the Screw by Benjamin Britten The Norwegian National Opera & Ballet , Oslo from 17 | 01 to 08 | 02 | 2026 Conductor Antonio Mendez Director Peer Perez Øian Set design Etienne Pluss Costume design Bianca Deigner Lighting design Martin Flack Choreographer Magnus Myhr see cast here .

Lo Schiaccianoci ( The Nutcracker) music by Pëtr Il’ič Čajkovskij Teatro dell'Opera di Roma from 17 | 12 | 2025 conductor Nir Kabaretti and Carlo Donadio (27, 28, 30, 31) choreography Paul Chalmer set  Andrea Miglio costumes  Gianluca Falaschi lighting design  Valerio Tiberi video  Igor Renzetti e Lorenzo Bruno   Cast CLARA Flavia Stocchi/Marta Marigliani/Federica Azzone   SCHIACCIANOCI Alessio Rezza/Simone Agrò/Walter Maimone   DROSSELMEYER Claudio Cocino/Mattia Tortora/Vale

Lo Schiaccianoci ( The Nutcracker) music by Pëtr Il’ič Čajkovskij Teatro San Carlo, Napoli from 20 | 12 | 2025 conductor | Jonathan Darlington / Maurizio Agostini choreography | Simone Valastro set design | Nicola Rubertelli costume design | Giusi Giustino lighting design | Valerio Tiberi video | Alessandro Papa   with Clara | Claudia D’Antonio, Luisa Ieluzzi,  Anna Chiara Amirante, Giorgia Pasini Principe | Danilo Notaro, Stanislao Capissi,  Alessandro Staiano, Salvatore Man

photo Monika Rittershaus CABARET Musical by Joe Masteroff (book), John Kander (music) and Fred Ebb (lyrics) based on the play «I Am a Camera» by John van Druten and the stories of Christopher Isherwood translated by Robert Gilbert Residenz Theater, Munich from 12 | 12 | 2025 direction Claus Guth musical direction Stephen Delaney musical co- direction Philip Tillotson set design Étienne Pluss costume design Bianca Deigner sound composition Mathis Nitschke lighting desig

Love, Icebox Fondation Louis Vuitton 12, 13 | 12 | 2025 musical work by Bryce Dessner Love, Icebox: Letters from John Cage to Merce Cunningham (Red Hook, NY: John CageTrust, 2019) takes its shape from 39 letters—transcribed and chronologically ordered, some reproduced in facsimile—with Foreword, Commentary, and Afterword by editor, Laura Kuhn.  As a whole, they illuminate beautifully something of the emotional and domestic spaces the two men forged in courtship.  Illustration

ARIODANTE by Georg Friedrich Handel Royal Opera House London from 09 to 21 | 12 | 2025 director Jetske Mijnssen set designer Etienne Pluss costume designer Uta Meenen lighting designer Fabrice Kebour Cast: here . in co-production with Opéra National du Rhin and Opéra de Lausanne

photo Bernd Uhlig LA PASSIONE by J. S. Bach (BWV 244) Maggio Musicale Fiorentino 04-07 | 12 | 2025 conductor Kent Nagano concept, director, costumes and lights Romeo Castellucci           dramaturgy Piersandra Di Matteo artistic collaboration Silvia Costa assistant director and research coordinator Maxi Menja Lehmann Evangelist Ian Bostridge Soprano I Anna El-Khashem Soprano I Suji Kwon Alto Iurii Iushkevich Tenore Krystian Adam Gesù Edwin Crossley-Mercer chorus master L

Photography Scarlett Carlos Clarke, Creative Muse Creative Communications Into the Woods music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim book by James Lapine In Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine’s dazzling musical, the Baker, the Baker’s Wife, the Witch, Jack, Little Red Ridinghood, Cinderella and Rapunzel take us beyond happy ever after to discover what really matters. Bridge Theatre, London from 02 | 12 | 2025 director Jordan Fein set and costume designer Tom Scutt musical supervis

photo Monika Rittershaus Mitridate, re di Ponto by W. A. Mozart Oper Frankfurt from 07 | 12 | 2025 conductor. Leo Hussain director. Claus Guth set design. Christian Schmidt costume design. Ursula Kudrna lighting design. Olaf Winter choreography Sommer Ulrickson dramaturgy. Konrad Kuhn Cast: here . Frankfurt Opern and Museumsorchester

photo Hervé Escario Montag aus Licht by  Karlheinz Stockhausen Philharmonie de Paris 29 | 11 | 2025 Maxime Pascal , conducting Silvia Costa , direction, set and costume design Florent Derex , sound Lila Meynard  , lighting design Nieto  |  Claire Pedot  , vidéo Marguerite Lantz , assistant costume design David Hart  , assistant set design Rosabel Huguet Dueñas  |  Luna Scolari  , assistant director Le Balcon Bianca Chillemi  , keyboard Sarah Kim  , keyboard Alain Muller  , ke

photo Vincent Pontet/OnP Tosca by Giacomo Puccini Opera de Paris from 23 | 11 | 2025 conductor Oksana Lyniv/Jader Bignamini director Pierre Audi set designer Christof Hetzer costume designer Robby Duiveman lighting designer Jean Kalman dramaturg Klaus Bertisch CAST: here .

photo David Haneke DORIAN GRAY music by Elżbieta Sikora Teatr Wielki, Poznan from 23 | 11 | 2025 Music Director | Jacek Kaspszyk Director | David Pountney Set and Costumes | Dorota Karolcza Lighting Design | Fabrice Kebour Video | David Haneke Choreography | Diana Cristescu Cast: here Chór i Orkiestra Teatru Wielkiego w Poznaniu Choir Director | Mariusz Otto

photos Monika Rittershaus Chowanscht­schina music and text by Modest Mussorgsky  in Dmitri Shostakovich's version with Igor Stravinsky’s finale Staatsoper Berlin from 02 | 11 | 2025   CONDUCTOR Simone Young DIRECTOR Claus Guth SET DESIGNER Christian Schmidt COSTUME DESIGNER Ursula Kudrna CHOREOGRAPHER Sommer Ulrickson LIGHTING DESIGNER Olaf Freese VIDEO DESIGNER rocafilm | Roland Horvath DRAMATURGY Yvonne Gebauer, Rebecca Graitl CHOIR MASTER Dani Juris FÜRST IWAN CHOWANSKI

photo Vincent Pontet La Damnation de Faust by Hector Berlioz Théâtre de Champs Elysées from 03 | 11 | 2025   Jakob Lehmann | conductor Silvia Costa | direction, set and costumes design Laura Ketels | collaboration to direction Ama Tomberli | collaboration to costume design Simon Hatab | dramaturgy Michele Taborelli | set design Marco Giusti | lighting design Benjamin Bernheim | Faust Victoria Karkacheva | Marguerite Christian Van Horn | Méphistophélès Thomas Dolié

Stabat Mater Stabat Mater | Oratorio by Giovanni Battista Pergolesi Three Latin Prayers for a cappella choir, Quattro Pezzi (su una nota sola) for orchestra | Musics by Giacinto Scelsi Basilica di Santa Maria in Ara Coeli, Teatro dell'Opera di Roma from 28 to 31 | 10 | 2025 musical director Michele Mariotti director, set, costume and lighting designer Romeo Castellucci dramaturgy Christian Longchamp artistic collaborator Maxi Menja Lehmann set design collaborator Paola Vill

La forza del destino music by Giuseppe Verdi Opernhaus Zürich from 02 | 11 to 21 | 12 | 2025 music direction: Gianandrea Noseda director: Valentina Carrasco set design: Carles Berga associate set designer: Mariangela Mazzeo costumes: Silvia Aymonino lighting designer: Fabrice Kébour video: Massimiliano Volpini chorus Master: Klaas-Jan de Groot dramaturgy: Fabio Dietsche Cast: here .