La forza del destino music by Giuseppe Verdi Nikikai Opera Foundation, Tokyo from 03 | 09 | 2026 Conductor Erina Yashima Stage Director Sir David Pountney Associate Stage Director Robin Tebbutt Set Designer Raimund Bauer Costume Designer Marie-Jeanne Lecca Lighting Designer Fabrice Kebour Choreographer Michael Spenceley Chorus Master Takuya Nemoto Cast: here

The Brothers Karamazov A play by Roy Chen based on a novel by Fyodor Dostoevsky Gesher Theatre, Tel Aviv from 28 | 08 | 2026 Direction: Itay Tiran Set: Eran Atzmon Costumes: Polina Adamov Lighting design: Gleb Filshtinsky Video: Viktor Sorokin Music: Dori Parnes Sound: Michael Vaisburd Movement: Renana Raz Assistant Director: Inbal Gozlan Cast: Doron Tavory, Anatoly Vaysman (Bely), Ariel Bronz, Nikita Goldman / Gary Nopin, Israel (Sasha) Demidov, Vladislav Peysahovich, Mar

photo Monika Rittershaus Saint François d'Assise by Olivier Messiaen Salzburger Festspiele 04 | to 23 | 08 | 2026 Maxime Pascal Conductor Romeo Castellucci Director / Set / Costumes / Lighting design Giulia Giammona Artistic Collaborator Christian Longchamp Dramaturgy Yasmine Hugonnet Choreography Alessio Valmori, Lisa Behensky Associate Set Designers Theresa Wilson Associate Costume Designer Benedikt Zehm Associate Lighting Designer Paul Jeukendrup Sound Director CAST Lauran

Die Zauberflöte music W. A. Mozart Festival Internacional de Santander 03 | 08 | 2026 conductor David Afkham director Rolando Villazón assistant director Alexander Edtbauer set design Harald Thor costume design Tanja Hofmann choreographer Ramses Sigl lighting design Stefan Bolliger videos Roland Horvath/rocafilm dramaturgy Ulrich Leisinger Tamino: Javier Camarena Papageno: Theodore Platt Pamina: Emily Pogorelc Königin der Nacht: Kathryn Lewek Sarastro: Franz-Josef Selig Papag

La traviata music by G. Verdi Bregenzer Festspiele from 22 | 07 | 2026 Conductor Kirill Karabits, Pietro Rizzo Stage Director Damiano Michieletto Stage Designer Paolo Fantin Costume Designer Carla Teti Lighting Designer Alessandro Carletti Video Roland Horvath Choreography Thomas Wilhelm Sound Alwin Bösch, Clemens Wannemacher Violetta Valéry Stacey Alleaume, Julia Muzychenko, Marjukka Tepponen Flora Bervoix Rinat Shaham, Angela Simkin Annina Claire Barnett-Jones, Melissa Z

Carmen by Georges Bizet Salzburger Festspiele 2026 26 | 07 - 26 | 08 | 2026 Teodor Currentzis Conductor Gabriela Carrizo (Peeping Tom) Director / Choreography Christof Hetzer Sets / Costumes Tom Visser Lighting Raphaëlle Latini Directing Collaborator Charlie Skuy Artistic Collaborator Choreography Christian Arseni Dramaturgy CAST Asmik Grigorian Carmen Jonathan Tetelman Don José Kristina Mkhitaryan Micaëla Davide Luciano Escamillo Iveta Simonyan Frasquita Anita Monserrat Merc

photo Monika Rittershaus REQUIEM by W. A. Mozart Festival d'Aix en Provence 4, 6, 8, 10, 12 | 07 | 2026 CONDUCTOR Raphaël Pichon STAGE DIRECTION, SET, COSTUME AND LIGHTING DESIGN Romeo Castellucci CHOREOGRAPHY Evelin Facchini DRAMATURGY Piersandra di Matteo STAGING COLLABORATION Silvia Costa SOPRANO Mélissa Petit ALTO Beth Taylor TÉNOR Duke Kim BASSE Alex Rosen CHILDREN SINGERS César Bogdanas or Ramy Lazreq DANCERS Simone Gatti, Michelle Salvatore, Salomé Michaud, Sarah Muggl

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 27, 29 | 06 | 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 Tudor

PIT AND PAULA – FRESHLY SALTED A musical fairy tale by Imke and Bernd Wilden Oper Leipzig from 27 | 06 | 2026 conductor Sophie Bauer direction Felix Benesch choreography Undine Werchau set and costumes Bianca Deigner dramaturgy Kara McKechnie piano Maria Hinze Kinder- und Jugendchor der Oper Leipzig Orchester der Musikalischen Komödie A collaboration between the Oper Leipzig mit der Schaubühne Lindenfels

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