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,

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Like Flesh music Sivan Eldar libretto Cordelia Lynn Interfinity 2025, Voltahalle, Basel 17, 18, 19 | 10 | 2025 conductor Georg Köhler IRCAM Augustin Muller, Jeremie Bourgogne director Dominique Pitoiset video Luca Scarzella costumes Nadia Fabrizio lighting design Christophe Pitoiset production and curator Lukas Loss assistant director Pierre de Chambure assistant video design Michele Innocente

ONKEL WANJA by Anton Chekhov German by Angela Schanelec based on a translation by Arina Nestieva Schauspiel Köln 11, 15, 22, 29 | 10 | ...

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photo Barbara Aumüller Cosí fan tutte by W. A. Mozart Oper Frankfurt from 21 | 09 | 2025 Conductor Thomas Guggeis Director...

photo Monika Rittershaus LA Bohème by Giacomo Puccini Opera national de Paris from 12 | 09 to 14 | 10 | 2025 conductor: Domingo Hindoyan...