Composer

Since 2012, World Opera Day has celebrated opera as a complete art form, capable of moving, surprising, and transporting all audiences. To demonstrate this, the Opera Orchestra is marking the event with two evenings of opera at the Opéra Comédie. Faust , Carmen , La Bohème , Turandot , The Magic Flute , Die Fledermaus … arias you've already heard or even hummed.

Opera Passion

Opéra Comédie

One of the most charismatic stars in opera today, Juan Diego Flórez has captivated audiences at The Metropolitan Opera, Teatro alla Scala, the Royal Opera House, and beyond. Renowned for his breathtaking bel canto artistry, the Peruvian tenor is also the founder of Sinfonía por el Perú, a transformative initiative bringing music to underprivileged youth. Flórez’s highly anticipated Hong Kong debut offers a rare opportunity to experience this world-class vocal powerhouse in arias by Rossini, Donizetti, Massenet, Verdi, among others. A truly unmissable event for all music lovers.

Rolex Proudly Presents: Juan Diego Flórez Opera Gala

Hong Kong Cultural Centre

Manon is young, beautiful, and has a taste for the finer things … which is why her family is sending her to a convent. En route to her new life, she falls for the handsome Chevalier des Grieux and they run away to Paris, the city of love. But their youthful ardor is threatened by fatherly disapproval, and Manon finds herself with a choice to make: wait alone in poverty or embrace the wealth of a new lover? 

Manon composer Jules Massenet’s soaring score captures the intensity of young love as Manon and Des Grieux’s relationship endures twist after turn. Manon must navigate a path that careens between the radiant glow of love and the allure of wealth.

Music Director Eun Sun Kim’s conducting and Vincent Boussard’s cinematic production design brings the drama of Manon into emotional relief. The shimmering stage illuminates both the Champagne effervescence of Paris and the sensual idealism of young love.

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Manon

War Memorial Opera House

A life of luxury... or love? Manon’s inner turmoil and struggle for survival lie at the devastating heart of Kenneth MacMillan’s 1974 ballet, set to Jules Massenet’s score and featuring Nicholas Georgiadis’s designs.

Royal Opera House

Created during Sir Kenneth MacMillan’s tenure as The Royal Ballet’s Artistic Director, this production reflects a rich artistic legacy.  An intense tale of passion, desire, and devastating consequence, Manon remains one of the greatest drama ballets of all time. Set to a masterful arrangement of music by Jules Massenet, the story follows the captivating Manon and her devoted Des Grieux as they are drawn into a world of luxury, temptation, and heartbreak.

Wortham Theater Center

Celebrating his twentieth anniversary with the Orchestra, double bass Section Leader Marcel Becker revisits works that marked a new chapter in his musical life. Just before moving to Liverpool, Marcel recorded a selection of cherished pieces for double bass and piano – romantic and virtuosic gems of the double bass repertoire, some lovingly borrowed from the violin and cello repertoire. Two decades later, he brings them to life once again in a heartfelt and poignant performance.

Romancing the Bass

Royal Liverpool Philharmonic

“A thoroughly serious, intelligent musician,” raves the Financial Times of London.  The Boston Herald declares his playing is “direct, honest and a joy to hear.”  Audiences around the globe have cheered the phenomenal Joshua Bell. See him, live in concert with the Madison Symphony and Music Director Emeritus John DeMain, performing Lalo’s dazzling Symphonie Espagnole, and Massenet’s exquisite “Meditation” from Thaïs.

Opening Night with Joshua Bell

Overture Center for the Arts

When Goethe published Die Leiden des jungen Werthers in the latter half of the 18th century, an entire generation discovered a new image of manhood – one that embraced vulnerability, powerlessness and the anguish of love. Men were no longer merely soldiers or statesmen; they were permitted to dream, to write poetry, to reveal weakness – and to suffer for love.

Werther

Royal Danish Opera

The ballet adaptation of Abbé Prévost’s novel L’Histoire du Chevalier des Grieux et de Manon Lescaut shows Sir Kenneth MacMillan at his very finest, attesting as it does to his profound insight into human psychology, choreographic craft and narrative skill. The artist admirably expresses the power of fateful love in the central characters’ impassioned duets.

L'Histoire de Manon

State Opera

We are back at Frogner hovedgård, and with French composers as the common thread, we dedicate the afternoon to chamber music from the late Romantic era and Impressionism. This is a concert where lyrical melodies and tonal colors are given free rein, and it is perfect for you if you have a heart for the harp.

French Focus

Frogner hovedgård

For one afternoon only, the graduating and incoming Young Artists of Opera Australia come together for a compelling performance of music spanning Claudio Monteverdi to Gian Carlo Menotti.

Young Artists in Concert

Sydney Opera House

Three mezzo-soprano voices: the same tessitura but timbres that could hardly be more different. Three young singers, Brenda Poupard, Anouk de Fontenay and Léontine Maridat-Zimmerlin, accompanied by pianist Anne Pagès, sing solo, in duets and in trios. World premiere of La Balade des Vierges by Jean-Marc Fouché.

One, Two, Three Voices

Jardins de la Salle Jean-Louis Herrault

Jules Massanet’s «Werther», based on Goethe’s famous Sturm und Drang novel, is a poignant opera rife with emotion. The music subtly depicts the tense triangle of relationships between a love-sick young Werther, his darling Charlotte, and her staid fiancé Albert. Werther refuses to accept a life without dreams and finally – when faced with his unrequited love – takes his own life. Jonathan Tetlman, of the most successful of the new generation of tenors, makes his debut at the Opernhaus Zürich.

Zurich Opera House

Ismael Perez Ramirez, tenor

Northwestern Bienen School of Music

The first premiere of the season on the State Opera stage will be Jacques Offenbach's opera Les Contes d'Hoffmann – and the Opera Children's Orchestra will also be performing this imaginative music. Excerpts from Offenbach's last work will be heard. The program will be complemented by music by other great French musical theater composers of the 19th century.

Concert Opera Children's Orchestra

Bebelplatz

The Hérodiade  project began to take shape in 1878 when Hartmann, Massenet's publisher, after rejecting Milliet's and the composer's own idea of ​​writing a love poem evoking the Song of Songs , proposed composing a play  inspired by Gustave Flaubert's famous work, Trois contes , published that year. The character of Salome had attracted many writers, including the poet Stéphane Mallarmé, who had considered a play  dedicated to his mother, Hérodiade, but had never completed the work, leaving fragments that others used as models. Following in his footsteps, other authors, including Oscar Wilde, Richard Strauss, and Paul Hindemith, had written about the perverse young girl Salome and her mother, Hérodiade. However, for Massenet's work, the model was undoubtedly that of Gustave Flaubert, to which he likely added excerpts from Renan's La Vie de Jésus  , particularly those relating to the story of John the Baptist and Herod's lineage, found in chapters six and twelve. When Hartmann proposed this subject, however, he asked that he himself sign the libretto under the pseudonym Grémont, also claiming the rights to it. After a few days, Massenet, Hartmann, and Milliet left for Milan not only to attend the production of Le roi de Lahore  at La Scala, but also to arrange with Ricordi for the performance of Hérodiade in Italy. It was decided that the opera would be performed simultaneously at La Scala and the Paris Opera, and at this point, a new signature was added to the libretto, that of Zanardini as translator. Massenet then worked for two and a half years on the opera, which he orchestrated in Pourville, and in 1881 he was able to show it to the new director of the Paris Opera, Vaucorbeil, who rejected it because he had little confidence in the quality of the libretto. The disappointed composer took back the score and left without any hope of seeing his opera performed, but, as he wrote in Mes souvenirs , fortune came to his aid in the person of Calabrési, director of the Théâtre Royal de la Monnaie in Brussels, who asked him precisely for Hérodiade . Massenet himself recalled this meeting and the related proposal:

Massenet/Strauss/Bonis/Schmitt

Teatro Politeama Garibaldi

Goethe's classic "Die Leiden des jungen Werthers (The Sorrows of Young Werther)", an eighteenth-century novel depicting the anguish of love and heartbreak, has been read all over the world. Composed over a century after the novel, Jules Massenet's opera Werther adds French romantic passion to Goethe's text, bringing it even closer to the heart. The work has many memorable moments, from the dramatic overture to Charlotte's "Air des lettres" and Werther's soulful aria "Porquoi me réveiller?" The staging by Nicolas JOEL, first seen in 2016, faithfully recreates the atmosphere of the original story and places the focus on Werther's sentiments.

New National Theatre

San Carlo Theatre

Helaine Liebman, soprano

Janse Barkley, tenor

Known for her radiant voice and deeply expressive artistry, acclaimed soprano Larisa Martínez takes listeners on a journey of passion, poetry, and vibrant musical storytelling as this program explores love in all its forms, from quiet reflection to exuberant celebration.

Larisa Martinez, soprano

Segerstrom Center for the Arts

Cynthia Hu, soprano

Following her radiant performance in Gounod’s Roméo et Juliette—which garnered raves for “high notes that spun like liquid gold … Sierra touched the operatic firmament” (The New York Times)—superstar soprano Nadine Sierra takes on another alluring French heroine, the irresistible title character of Massenet’s passionate drama, live from the Met stage to cinemas worldwide. Leading tenor Matthew Polenzani is her idealistic lover, the Chevalier des Grieux, with rising-star baritone Andrzej Filończyk as her stalwart cousin, Lescaut, in a breathtaking staging by director Laurent Pelly.

Shalin Liu Performance Center

Aigul Akhmetshina

This recital by Bomsori brings together French and Polish violin classics, including brooding, bluesy sonatas by Ravel and Debussy and opera-inspired works by Massenet and Wieniawski. Bomsori, a Deutsche Grammophon artist, also dusts off Szymanowski’s Nocturne and Tarntella, a fanciful take on Arabic and Spanish music that was once a favorite of 20th-century virtuosos.

Bomsori Kim

Stanford University

French Meditations

The Salvation Army Scarborough Citadel Community Church

Born in Paris and raised in Geneva in a family of opera singers, Benjamin Bernheim approached his craft with remarkable intentionality early in his career. He quickly rose to prominence with his distinctive artistry and charisma, and was recently awarded the Male Singer of the Year award at the prestigious 2025 Opus Klassik Awards.

Benjamin Bernheim in Concert

True to its mission of promoting and raising awareness of classical music, the Opéra Orchestre National Montpellier Occitanie travels across the Occitanie region in various formations.

Trio Soul and Voice

Église Saint-Paul de Frontignan

Cendrillon is Jules Massenet’s romantic and magical retelling of the classic fairy-tale Cinderella with a stronger, and more human titular character. This production will be directed by longtime artistic director and opera singer, Peter Kazaras,  with conducting by Ari Pelto, the principal conductor and artistic advisor of the Sacramento Philharmonic & Opera. Featuring a double SFCM cast and performed with the SFCM Orchestra.

SFCM Opera presents: 'Cendrillon'

San Francisco Conservatory of Music

The National Opera Studio Young Artists present an extraordinary evening celebrating the Studio’s collaboration with two of its partner companies: English National Opera and Scottish Opera. In this special showcase performance, immerse yourself in captivating operatic scenes spanning the 19th and 20th centuries.

Act Three

Blackheath Halls

Julies Massenet’s much loved opera Werther moves between ecstasy and resignation, dream and reality, sensual desire and the longing for death. Central to this feverish drama, based on Goethe‘s 1774 epistolary novel, are Werther and his impossible love for Charlotte, who promised her dying mother to marry dependable Albert. Charlotte repeatedly turns Werther down, although she shares his feelings. It ends with Werther taking his life on Christmas Eve.

Oper Frankfurt

Cendrillon

Musical Arts Center

Spanish music has an atmosphere of its own which Manuel de Falla captured in concert works better than anyone else. His music for Serge Diaghilev’s ballet The Three Cornered Hat thrusts bright colours, crisp rhythms and harmonic panache up against one another and here sets up an evening of Spain-inspired works to include red-hot music by Falla, Rodrigo’s fragrant guitar concerto and pieces by French composers Bizet and Massenet who couldn’t resist the allures of the impassioned dances and folk songs south of the border. Guest conductor from Spain Antonio Méndez leads the orchestra with superstar guitarist MILOŠ for company.

Spanish Nights with MILOŠ

University of Oxford

A program of legendary figures—both real and imagined—features the Annapolis debut of two-time Grammy-winning soprano Angel Blue performing a selection of operatic works. Known for her radiant voice and commanding stage presence, Blue has graced the world’s leading opera houses. In this special performance, she shares her extraordinary artistry with ASO audiences, including a repertoire of extraordinary and timeless pieces, making this an experience you don’t want to miss!

Legends

Maryland Hall

Rescued from her fate in a convent, Manon finds herself pulled between two suitors: Power and True Love. Opera’s original it-girl deftly invents and reinvents herself, transforming her circumstances even when the stakes turn deadly. Obie Award-winning director Rory Pelsue (NYT Critic's Pick The Last Bimbo of the Apocalypse, Pulitzer Prize finalist Circle Jerk) and Artistic Director Jacob Ashworth premiere a saucy English-language book and lyrics for this musical theatre revamp of Massenet's masterpiece. Dan Schlosberg channels Richard Rodgers and Rococo in his luscious new arrangements, and a glittering cast of opera-savvy Broadway voices bring an entirely new sound to Heartbeat Opera.

Manon!

The Space at Irondale

Juan Diego Flórez

Teatro alla Scala

Massenet is the composer who did the most to establish the Opéra-Comique as a major performing arts center. Paradoxically, his adaptation of Goethe's first novel was rejected by the director at the time, who preferred to offer his bourgeois audiences happy love stories. The Viennese triumph of Werther quickly opened the doors to our institution, where it has become one of the most performed titles.

National Theatre of the Opera Comique

“Savor Every Note” as North America’s top violinists and principal players perform works paired to the finest in wine, charcuterie, chocolate and more! Featuring National Symphony concertmaster Nurit Bar-Josef, cellist Loewi Lin, and bassoonist Erich Heckscher.

Savor Every Note - National Symphony

Fairbanks Ranch Country Club

She falls in love with the Chevalier Des Grieux - and he with her. But their time together is short-lived, as Manon gives in to the courtship of the rich Brétigny. This does not last long either, and she soon returns to her beloved Des Grieux. He wants to improve his financial situation by gambling. But he and Manon are arrested and she is exiled to America. However, the hardships in prison have broken her: she dies in Des Grieuxʼs arms on the way to the harbor.

Vienna State Opera

During the Twelfth Night weekend, Norrlandsoperan" class="css-u850">Norrlandsoperan opens its doors for a glittering, high-class opera gala with carefully selected treats for opera connoisseurs and beginners alike. Swedish rising star Rebecka Wallroth makes her debut at Norrlandsoperan and as the male counterpart we hear the well-known tenor Per Lindström.

The evening begins in the good spirit of La Scala with Italian splendor. Rebecka Wallroth sets the tone with the famous Rossini aria “Una voce poco fa” from The Barber of Seville followed by the duet “Un soave non so che” from Cinderella by the same composer. This is followed by another soprano number from the bel canto repertoire, this time from Bellini’s opera I Capuleti ei Montecchi . The first set is rounded off in grand style by Per Lindström with Puccini’s beloved tenor arias “E lucevan le stelle” from Tosca and “Che gelida manina” from La Bohème.

Thirteenth Day Concert

Norrlandsoperan

The Thuringia Philharmonic's Christmas concert is a true classic of the December concert program and has become a Philharmonic tradition. For many years, it has exuded a festive atmosphere and set the tone for the upcoming Christmas season. In addition to classical festive music,
this year's surprise program also promises rousing and exhilarating Christmas rhythms. As a special guest, we welcome our Artist in Residence, Alexey Stadler, on solo cello. We cordially invite you to join us for an enjoyable concert in a festive atmosphere and be enchanted!

Philharmonic Christmas

State Theatre Eisenach

B2 Philharmonic Christmas

Gotha Cultural Center

Led by their choirmaster, Albert Alcaraz, the young singers of Opéra Junior offer a warm and festive concert featuring folk songs, sacred works, and modern compositions from around the world. An enchanting moment to prepare for a beautiful end to the year!

Junior Opera

Salle Frédéric Bazille

Enjoy a wonderful brunch plate in the Foyer of the Music House while you are entertained by classical musicians on the Café Stage.

Classical Mornings

Musikhuset Aarhus

Symphony III:  Holiday Concert with cellist Gregorio Nieto

Port Angeles High School

What could be better than magical fairy tales and romantic orchestral sounds at Christmas time? That's right: when "Die Gruaberin", Bavaria's funniest comedian, guides you through the world of fairy tales in her own unmistakable way. Don't miss this world premiere, in which Monika Gruber's cabaret Christmas program merges with symphonic masterpieces! Contemplative fairytale music and humorous, atmospheric stories about the Christmas season await you. We look forward to getting in the mood for the most wonderful time of the year together with you!

Monika Gruber Symphonic - Christmas program

Mozarteum Foundation

Advent Concert

Opéra Berlioz

The November darkness may be thick, but we get to enjoy a dazzling opera gala with world-renowned tenor Jonas Kaufmann. This unique, generous evening offers familiar opera favourites, together with the Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra and conductor Jochen Rieder.

Opera Gala with Jonas Kaufmann

Göteborgs Symfoniker

Pulitzer Prize and three-time GRAMMY awardee, Jennifer Higdon’s “Cathedrals” from All Things Majestic captures the grandeur of vast, awe-inspiring spaces. Inspired by Wyoming’s towering Teton Mountains, this piece contrasts shimmering light and deep shadows, drawing listeners into a sonic cathedral carved by nature itself.

Shostakovich's Final Symphony & Saint-Saëns' Cello Concerto No. 1 with Higdon & Massenet

The Parker

The November concert by the Prague Radio Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Robert Jindra, will present remarkable works of American and French music. Samuel Barber wrote Toccata Festiva, Op. 36 for the inauguration of the new organ at the Academy of Music in Philadelphia. It will be performed at the Municipal House in Prague by the excellent organist Christian Schmitt.

Saint-Saëns “Organ”

Municipal House

Discover one of “the best entertainment options Yale University has to offer” (New Haven Register): an evening of captivating opera scenes brought to life by talented student performers. This year, enjoy excerpts from Mozart’s comical Così fan tutte, Massenet’s sultry Thaïs, Jake Heggie’s searing Dead Man Walking, and more.

Fall Opera Scenes

Yale University

This concert, held in the beautiful Chapelle Notre-Dame-de-Bon-Secours, features the musicians of the Orchestre de l’Agora and guest soprano Elisabeth St-Gelais.

In the streets of Paris

Chapelle Notre-Dame-de-Bon-Secours

An unforgettable evening of passion, drama, and music, Star-Crossed Symphony brings to life some of the most poignant love stories in classical music, featuring powerful performances and stunning orchestral works. Augusta Holmes’s La Nuit e L’Amour is known for its lush musical texture. Concertmaster Genaro Medina will capture the longing and desire in Meditation from Thaïs by Massenet.

Professional actors Oliver Palmer and Cora Cadman will blend the power of Shakespeare with the beauty of orchestral sound in Prokofiev’s Romeo and Juliet.

Don't miss this captivating performance, where love and longing are expressed through the language of music.

Star-Crossed Symphony

Mishler Theatre

A fairytale fantasy comes to life in Massenet’s Cinderella. With enchanting melodies, sparkling orchestration, and a touch of magical mischief, this heartwarming opera puts a charming spin on the classic tale. When a lost slipper sets destiny in motion, Cinderella’s journey from rags to romance unfolds in the most whimsical, wonder-filled way.

Cinderella

Martin Marietta Center for the Performing Arts

What would opera be without its unforgettable arias? La Traviata , Romeo and Juliet , The Barber of Seville … These melodies that inhabit us, these emotions that transport us, are at the heart of this exceptional concert. Under the inspired baton of Marco Crispo, the Montpellier Orchestra, accompanied by the Opera Choir, invites us to rediscover the greatest masterpieces of the Franco-Italian lyric repertoire. Soprano Sheva Tehoval, dazzling with virtuosity and expressiveness, will bring to life the moving arias that make the magic of opera. A festive concert accessible to all, with these timeless arias that you will find yourself humming when you get home!

Revise your lyrical classics

If you've never been through these doors, this is the perfect opportunity. Come enjoy a free and exceptional evening: discover a place steeped in history, listen to a live orchestral concert with choir, or simply spend a unique moment with friends. On the evening's program: the "Revise your operatic classics" concert, a food court, competitions... and many other surprises!

Opera for Students

Join Park City Opera and Le Depot for a sumptuous Opera Brunch—an unforgettable Sunday pairing of exquisite cuisine and soaring melodies. Settle in for a late morning of indulgence as you enjoy a specially curated brunch menu from Le Depot, accompanied by live performances of beloved arias and operatic ensembles paired specifically with the cuisine.

Opera Brunch at Le Depot Brasserie

Le Depot Brasserie

The beloved story of Cinderella told through music and dance. We invite children and their guardians to a ballet performance presented on the Chamber Stage of the Teatr Wielki – Polish National Opera, choreographed by Antonio Lanzo, performed by young ballet students from the Roman Turczynowicz Secondary Ballet School in Warsaw.

Teatr Wielki - Polish National Opera

Pia Segerstam, principal cellist of the Montpellier National Orchestra, and Héloïse Dautry, concert pianist and harp professor at the Montpellier Méditerranée Métropole Regional Conservatory, take us on a musical journey, a mixture of fantasy, meditation, and reverie.

Cello/harp duo

Manon wants a life of luxury. Des Grieux, a student, tries to escape his father’s influence, hoping for a freer life with Manon. The uncompromising nature of their wishes becomes the young man’s undoing. «Manon» made Jules Massenet one of France’s leading opera composers of the Belle Époque overnight. Lisette Oropesa is one of the outstanding lyric coloratura sopranos of her generation. French tenor Benjamin Bernheim’s international career began as a member of the International Opernstudio in Zurich.

The 2025-26 Season opens with fanfare as Music Director Jonathon Heyward joins violinist Joshua Bell for the annual celebration of the BSO's work across the state, including education and community programs.

Gala

Joseph Meyerhoff Symphony Hall

The Music Center at Strathmore

In 2018, the music world was amazed: 11-year-old Christian Li presented himself in the final of the Yehudi Menuhin International Competition for Young Violinists as an outstanding virtuoso, mature interpreter, and charismatic ensemble leader. In addition to the first prize, he also secured two coveted special prizes and went down in the history of the famous competition as the youngest ever winner. Following his successful chamber music debut at the Rheingau Music Festival last year, we are delighted to present Christian Li's grand stage at the Kurhaus this season and welcome the up-and-coming violinist together with the Australian Youth Orchestra, which is considered an ambassador of musical excellence Down Under.

Christian Li, violin Australian Youth Orchestra David Robertson, conductor

Friedrich-von-Thiersch-Saal

One of the astonishing facts of music history is that almost all of the great operas based on Goethe were written in France. Alongside Gounod's and Berlioz's Faust settings and Ambroise Thomas's MIGNON, Jules Massenet's WERTHER is the most prominent example in this series. Premiered in Vienna in 1892, the work is also one of Massenet's most successful operas and, in its expressive immediacy, a pinnacle of the "drame lyrique".

Werther (concert version)

Deutsche Oper Berlin

Learn about the birth of musical theater in Baroque Florence and trace its fascinating evolution all the way to the stages of Broadway. This immersive and entertaining performance blends storytelling, multimedia and live music, featuring pianist Konstantin Soukhovetski’s original arrangements of works by Handel, Massenet, Puccini and Andrew Lloyd Webber. With engaging anecdotes and a dynamic presentation, this one-of-a-kind performance offers a fresh perspective on the history of musical theater. A must-see for musical theater lovers and anyone curious about this beloved art form!

(R)evolution of Opera

“So, you too, the famous Knight of the Rueful Countenance, did not escape the fate of all famous heroes of literature. And you undertook your own travels onto the stage!” wrote one critic who on 19 February 1910 attended the premiere of the opera Don Quichotte in Monte-Carlo. Strictly speaking, the cavalier of La Mancha had already “made it” onto the stage of the opera house, though never before with such triumph. To a great extent, Massenet’s last opera owes this triumph to one legendary performer of the title role – Fyodor Chaliapin. It was specifically for him that the opera was in fact written. And so Don Quichotte is that rare example of an opera for a basso cantante, a “singing bass”. In as much as the role of Sancho Panza is also performed by a low male voice and the role of the fair Dulcinée by a mezzo-soprano, the entire cast of protagonists here forms an ensemble that is unusual in terms of its colours.

Don Quichotte

Mariinsky TheatreMariinsky Theatre

Ferruccio Furlanetto recital (bass)

Mariinskiy-2

As a chamber music professor and piano accompanist, Mara Mednik worked for decades to turn talented young musicians into the stars of tomorrow. She brought many as yet unknown greats to the stage of the Hamburg Chamber Music Festival. Her former students have included Daniel Hope, David Garett, Julian Steckel and Vilde Frang.

Hamburg Chamber Music Festival International

Elbphilharmonie Hamburg

“Let us love, laugh and sing without end”, proclaims Manon, even more attracted by jewels and the easy life than by her love – however sincere – for the Chevalier des Grieux. If this opera, inspired by Abbé Prévost’s novel, is one of Jules Massenet’s most popular, it is because the drama is portrayed in a musical idiom as fertile as it is varied...

Opéra Bastille

Tommy Clarke ’25, cello presents various works showcasing his work

Tommy Clarke '25, cello

Williams College

Graduating Student Recital | Ying Li, mezzo-soprano | Whispers of the Heart

Longy School of Music of Bard College

The Greeley Philharmonic Orchestra joins forces with the University of Northern Colorado combined chorus to embark on an adventure across Europe. Experience wit, tragedy, and joy from Massenet’s Overture for the Greek tragedy Phèdre to Jacques Ibert’s honeymoon-inspired Ports of Call and Ravel’s only unaccompanied choral piece, Trois Chansons, a cleverly original collection of three fairy tale-like songs. The concert closes with Francis Poulenc’s Gloria, which is described as “borderline sacrilegious” for its mischievous setting of the Catholic Mass texts.

Echoes from Abroad

Union Colony Civic Center

This recital is given in partial fulfillment of the degree Master of Music. Angela Lee is a student of Robin Rice.

Angela Lee, Soprano

Alice Pratt Brown Hall

2025 SPO Rush Hour Talk Concert II: A Classical Dining Table

Seoul Anglican Cathedral of St. Mary the Virgin and St. Nicholas

Join us for a remarkable evening as esteemed violinist Midori concludes her residency with CYSO in a final concert on March 30 at the Logan Center for the Arts. Known for her work with youth orchestras worldwide, Midori has spent five days inspiring and collaborating with CYSO string students of all levels. Under the baton of CYSO Director of Strings Daniella Valdez, the program will showcase the extraordinary talent and dedication of these young musicians.

Midori Orchestra Residency Final Concert

Reva and David Logan Center for the Arts

Stacee Firestone, voice - Senior Recital

Actress/director Tonya McKinny (co-director of productions at the Glimmerglass Festival and Houston Grand Opera) and acclaimed bass-baritone and director Ryan McKinny (“one of the finest singers of his generation” —Opera News) share their remarkable and multi-faceted talents as the 2024-25 Aleko Endowed Master Class artists.

Aleko Endowed Artists

Brockman Hall For Opera

Join us for an unforgettable evening as Stanford Live presents the farewell tour of Natalie Dessay and Philippe Cassard on Saturday, March 1, 2025, at 7:30 PM at the Bing Concert Hall. This exclusive performance marks a significant moment in the careers of two of classical music's most revered artists.

French soprano Natalie Dessay, celebrated for her virtuosic abilities and dramatic flair, has captivated audiences worldwide with her performances on the most prestigious opera stages, including the Paris Opera, Vienna State Opera, Metropolitan Opera, La Scala, and more. For this special tour, she is joined by the highly acclaimed French pianist Philippe Cassard, known for his exquisite interpretations of Debussy's works.

The evening's program promises an enchanting mix of opera and song, featuring pieces by Carlisle Floyd, Gian-Carlo Menotti, André Previn, Aaron Copland, Leonard Bernstein, Samuel Barber, and more. Highlights include selections from Floyd's "Susannah," Menotti's "Le Médium," Previn's "A Streetcar Named Desire," and Copland's "Four Blues," among others.

Tickets start at $32, offering a range of seating options to accommodate all attendees. The lobby opens at 6:30 PM, allowing guests to enjoy beverages, light bites, and snacks before the performance begins.

Don't miss this opportunity to witness the artistry of Natalie Dessay and Philippe Cassard as they bid farewell to the stage in this memorable performance at Stanford's Bing Concert Hall.

Natalie Dessay and Philippe Cassard

Studio Recitals feature students who all study with the same faculty instructor. These young artists represent their studio with a program curated by their teacher.

Voice Students of Cesar Ulloa

Opera Orlando presents a fairy tale classic, Jules Massenet’s Cendrillon. Based on the beloved French Cinderella story by Perrault, this all new production will surely sparkle and enchant audiences.

Dr. Phillips Center for the Performing Arts

Embark on a musical odyssey with the MSO, from the rolling Appalachian hills to the stunning Blue Mountains, cruising down grand European rivers and journeying to a galaxy far, far away.

Composer

Jules Massenet

Events

Upcoming events

Sep 2 - Dec 5, 2026

L'Histoire de Manon · Národní divadlo

Oct 13 - Nov 25, 2026

Manon · Royal Opera House

13 - 15 Nov, 2026

Thaïs · Austin Opera

21 - 29 Nov, 2026

Werther · Opéra de Montréal

Dec 1, 2026

Helaine Liebman London, soprano · Northwestern Bienen School of Music

Past events

Oct 25, 2026

Opera Passion · Opéra Orchestre National Montpellier

Oct 22, 2026

Rolex Proudly Presents: Juan Diego Flórez Opera Gala · Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra

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