An all-star cast brings Damiano Michieletto’s white-hot production to life, with Ginger Costa-Jackson and Ramona Zaharia in the fiery title role, alongside Russell Thomas and Valentyn Dytiuk as the jealous and despairing Don José. Sesto Quatrini conducts Bizet’s electrifying and sensual score.

Carmen

Royal Opera House

Men and women of flesh and blood take centre stage in Cavalleria rusticana as in Pagliacci. Reality becomes theatre and, when the masks come off, theatre becomes reality. In both of these short works, obsessive love and jealousy give rise to violent emotions and passionate musical outbursts. When they brought rural Italy to the opera stage, Pietro Mascagni and Ruggero Leoncavallo inaugurated verismo in music. Director Damiano Michieletto is reprising his 2018 production, which made a lasting impression with its powerful neo-realist transposition to an Italian village in the mid-twentieth century. For her debut at La Monnaie, conductor Alevtina Ioffe promises to bring out the emotional depth of these scores with their unparalleled dramatic force.

Cavalleria rusticana & Pagliacci

La Monnaie - De Munt

Giuseppe Verdi's Don Carlo intertwines family tragedy and historical panorama. This grand opera premiered in 1867 and was repeatedly reworked in the following decades. In the four-act Italian version, the abysses of Spanish absolutism open up even more dramatically: arbitrary rule, an emaciated people, fanatical autodafés – and the experience that friendship can be stronger than the hated bonds of blood. Based on Schiller's "dramatic poem", Verdi focuses on the inner conflicts between political duty and personal desire. In Marco Arturo Marelli's production, this struggle is condensed into an archetypal spectacle. Such a drama needs charismatic voices; this season, singers such as German bass Tareq Nazmi as Filippo II, Ève-Maud Hubeaux as Eboli, Adriana González as Elisabetta and Nicola Alaimo as Posa are waiting to be rediscovered. Najmiddin Mavlyanov takes on the title role. Dan Ettinger, who has already been general music director in Mannheim and Tel Aviv, conducts at the Deutsche Oper for the first time.

Adriana González

Events

Upcoming events

Oct 29 - Nov 21, 2026

Carmen · Royal Opera House

14 - 31 Mar, 2027

Cavalleria rusticana & Pagliacci · La Monnaie / De Munt

May 29 - Jun 17, 2027

Don Carlo · Deutsche Oper Berlin

Future and recently performed repertoire

Nedda in Pagliacci by Leoncavallo

La Monnaie / De Munt

Micaëla in Carmen by Bizet

Royal Opera House

Elisabeth in Don Carlos by Verdi

Deutsche Oper Berlin

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