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 | ...

© Jean Louis Fernandez Macbeth by William Shakespeare Odeon Theatre, Bucarest from 26 | 09 | 2025   adaptation, direction and set...

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...

photo Monika Rittershaus Bluebeard's Castle | La Voix Humaine by Béla Bartók | Francis Poulenc Tiroler Festspiele Erl 11, 13, 18 | 07 |...

Le nozze di Figaro by W. A. Mozart Glyndebourne Festival from 29 | 06 | 2025 conductor Riccardo Minasi director Mariame Clément designer...

photo D avid Baltzer Saul by Georg Friedrich Händel Semperoper Dresden from 01 | 06 | 2025 conductor Leo Hussain director Claus Guth...

Richard III by William Shakespeare Wiener Festwochen, Theater Akzent 21, 22, 23 | 05 | 2025 Itay Tiran's staging of Shakespeare's royal...

photo Martin Sigmund/Staatsoper Stuttgart Otello by Giuseppe Verdi Staatsoper Stuttgart from 18 | 05 | 2025 conductor Stefano Montanari...

photo Charles Duprat Rigoletto by Giuseppe Verdi Opera de Paris from 10 | 05 to 12 | 06 | 2025 direction Claus Guth set and costumes...