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

Vanishings Le Journal d'un disparu | Növények music by Leoš Janáček | Thomas Ades Opera de Massy 13, 15 | 03 | 2026 concept and direction: Lukas Hemleb conductor: Marc Desmons arrangement for ensemble of Journal d’un disparu : Laurent Cuniot set design: Margherita Palli costume design: Bianca Sarah Stummer video design: Luca Scarzella Le Journal d'un disparu, Leos Janáček Janik (ténor) :  Vladimír Šlepec Zefka (mezzo-soprano) :  Helena Milošević Trois voix de femme : Angela S

AWAKENING music by Param Vir dramatic poem by David Rudkin World premiere Theater Bonn from 01 | 03 | 2026 conductor Daniel Johannes Mayr director Vasily Barkhatov set designer Zinovy Margolin costume designer Olga Shaishmelashvili video Ruth Stofer lighting designer Olaf Winter, Jorge Delgadillo choreography Sommer Ulrickson co-choreography Marko Weigert CAST Director / Anand Mark Morouse Prince Gautam, later The Buddha Cody Quattlebaum Kanthak, his horse / The Celestial /

photo Clive Barda (Glyndebourne) Don Pasquale music by Gaetano Donizetti The Royal Opera House, Copenhagen from 27 | 02 to 30 | 04 | 2026 conductor: Robert Houssart | Vito Cristofaro director: Mariame Clément set- and costume design: Julia Hansen lighting design: Bernd Purkrabek revival lighting designer.: Andrew May cast: here . The Royal Danish Orchestra The Royal Danish Opera Chorus

ARIADNE AUF NAXOS music by Richard Strauss Opera in one act Libretto by Hugo Von Hofmannsthal Teatro dell'Opera di Roma from 01 to 10 | 03 | 2026 conductor Maxime Pascal director David Hermann set designer  Jo Schramm costume designer Michaela Barth lighting designer  Fabrice Kebour   CAST Der Haushofmeister  Charles Morillon Ein Musiklehrer   Adrian Eröd Der Komponist  Angela Brower Primadonna (Ariadne)  Axelle Fanyo Tenor (Bacchus)  Tuomas Katajala Zerbinetta  Ziyi Dai Harl

El barberillo de Lavapiés Zarzuela in three acts music by Francisco Asenjo Barbieri text by Luis Mariano de Larra Teatro Campoamor, Oviedo 26 and 28 | 02 | 2026 conductor Óliver Díaz director Christof Loy set design Manuel La Casta lighting design Valerio Tiberi costume designer Robby Duiveman choreography Javier Pérez Cast: Paloma Carmen Artaza Lamparilla David Oller Marquesita del Bierzo Cristina Toledo Don Luis de Haro Santiago Sánchez Don Juan de Peralta Alejandro Bali

Inferno music by  Lucia Ronchetti libretto from Dante’s Inferno  with an epilogue by  Tiziano Scarpa World premiere Teatro dell'Opera di Roma from 19 | 02 | 2026 conductor Tito Ceccherini director David Hermann set designer Jo Schramm  costume designer   Maria Grazia Chiuri lighting designer  Fabrice Kebour dramaturg Mareike Wink     Dante  Tommaso Ragno Francesca  Laura Catrani Ulisse  Leonardo Cortellazzi Lucifero   Andreas Fischer   Caronte  Fabio Ulleri Minosse  Carlo Gug

La Gioconda music by Amilcare Ponchielli Gran Teatre del Liceu from 16 | 02 to 02 | 03 | 2026 conductor | Daniel Oren director | Romain Gilbert set designer| Etienne Pluss costume designer | Christian Lacroix lighting designer | Valerio Tiberi choreographer | Vincent Chaillet CAST here   Choir of the Gran Teatre del Liceu, choir master Pablo Assante Children’s Choir of the Orfeó Català, choir master Glòria Coma i Pedrals Symphony Orchestra of the Gran Teatre del Liceu Co-p

photo Hugo Thomassen Tristan und Isolde by Richard Wagner Nationale Opera & Ballet, Amsterdam 08 to 23 | 02 | 2026 musical direction   Tarmo Peltokoski stage direction   Pierre Audi revival direction   Lisenka Heijboer Castañón associate revival direction   Frans Willem de Haas set and costume design   Christof Hetzer lighting design   Jean Kalman video design   Anna Bertsch dramaturgy   Willem Bruls Tristan   Michael Weinius Isolde   Malin Byström König Marke   Liang Li Ku

Faust by Charles Gounod Bayerische Staatsoper, Munich from 08 | 02 | 2026 conductor Nathalie Stutzmann / Daniele Rustioni director Lotte de Beer associate director Florian Hurler set designer Christof Hetzer costume designer Jorine van Beek lighting designer Benedikt Zehm dramaturgy Peter te Nuyl / Ana Edroso Stroebe Le docteur Faust Jonathan Tetelman / Piotr Beczała Méphistophélès Kyle Ketelsen Valentin Florian Sempey / Boris Pinkhasovich Wagner Thomas Mole / Andrew H