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

©️ 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

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

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,

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