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

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

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

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 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

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

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

Louise music by GUSTAVE CHARPENTIER Opera de Lyon from 29 | 01 | 2026 CONDUCTOR Giulio Cilona STAGE DIRECTION Christof Loy SET DESIGN Etienne Pluss COSTUME DESIGN Robby Duiveman LIGHTING DESIGN Valerio Tiberi DRAMATURGY Louis Geisler CAST: her e PRODUCTION OF THE FESTIVAL D’AIX-EN-PROVENCE in COPRODUCTION WITH OPÉRA NATIONAL DE LYON, PALAZZETTO BRU ZANE – CENTRE DE MUSIQUE ROMANTIQUE FRANÇAISE, THÉÂTRE NATIONAL DE L’OPÉRA-COMIQUE

The Turn of the Screw by Benjamin Britten The Norwegian National Opera & Ballet , Oslo from 17 | 01 to 08 | 02 | 2026 Conductor Antonio Mendez Director Peer Perez Øian Set design Etienne Pluss Costume design Bianca Deigner Lighting design Martin Flack Choreographer Magnus Myhr see cast here .

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

ARIODANTE by Georg Friedrich Handel Royal Opera House London from 09 to 21 | 12 | 2025 director Jetske Mijnssen set designer Etienne Pluss costume designer Uta Meenen lighting designer Fabrice Kebour Cast: here . in co-production with Opéra National du Rhin and Opéra de Lausanne

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 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