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A blessing and a challenge in the programming of every major opera house, La traviata holds a special place in La Scala’s history, marked by the legendary 1953 production conducted by Carlo Maria Giulini, directed by Luchino Visconti, and starring Maria Callas. That iconic interpretation seemed untouchable until 1990, when Riccardo Muti commissioned a new, lavish production from director Liliana Cavani, with sets by Dante Ferretti and costumes by Gabriella Pescucci, featuring an all-young cast. This evocative and poetic staging returns to the stage in 2026, conducted by Michele Gamba, who in recent years has led major productions at La Scala including Rigoletto, Médée, Turandot, and Tosca. The cast is unmissable: alongside the charismatic Nadine Sierra in the title role, Piero Pretti and Iván Ayón Rivas alternate as Alfredo, with Boris Pinkhasovich and Amartuvshin Enkhbat as Giorgio Germont

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La traviata

Teatro alla Scala

Zurich Opera presents Giuseppe Verdi’s stunning opera, A Masked Ball, filled with desire, treachery and political peril.

Verdi’s A Masked Ball

Festival Theatre Edinburgh

A new Tomer Zvulun production of Turandot opens exactly 100 years after its premiere! This opera, with its lush musical tapestry and complex psychological layers, explores courage, identity, and love’s transformative power.

Turandot

Cobb Energy Performing Arts Centre

Nabucco

San Carlo Theatre

Resumption of the show staged in September 2017 and then again between December 2019 and January 2020, applauded by both critics and the public, one of the most beloved works of the Italian repertoire returns to the stage of the Maggio: La bohème, the masterpiece by Giacomo Puccini, with the libretto by Giuseppe Giacosa and Luigi Illica, inspired by the novel by Henri Murger Scènes de la vie de bohème.

La bohème

Maggio Musicale Fiorentino Theatre

Never one to miss an opportunity to make fun of others, the hunchback jester Rigoletto is employed by the Duke of Mantua. His only joy in life is his daughter Gilda. When Rigoletto must witness how she falls for the calculated vows of love of the unscrupulous Duke, he is out for revenge: he hires the contract killer Sparafucile to murder the seducer. Gilda, however, sacrifices herself for her lover. Rigoletto realises that he has driven his daughter to death and destroyed his own life.

Rigoletto

Staatsoper Hamburg

A rarely heard gem of French grand opera receives its long-awaited first performance at Lyric Opera of Chicago. Jules Massenet’s take on the Biblical story of Salomé, inspired by Gustave Flaubert’s literary retelling, brings a surprisingly introspective flair to this dark drama of jealousy and obsession.

Hérodiade: An Opera in Concert

Lyric Opera House

We have all encountered Carmen. It is the name of that force that sweeps away perfectly ordered plans, rules, and habits; that force which embodies eros in its irresistible and absolute freedom. “Free was I born, and free shall I die,” says the woman who embodies it in this opera. What happens when fate places her before a brigadier who seems her exact opposite, the ideal type of the “good boy”? Under the Spanish sky, a universal story unfolds: a blinding conflict between passions that we witness taking shape every day—and sometimes tragically—before our eyes. Giving voice to them is the music of Georges Bizet, charged with energy like a coiled spring ready to strike.

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Piero Pretti

Events

Upcoming events

23 - 28 Feb, 2027

Hérodiade: An Opera in Concert · Lyric Opera of Chicago

15 - 29 May, 2027

Carmen · Teatro Regio Torino

Past events

Sep 19 - Oct 15, 2026

La traviata · Teatro alla Scala

Sep 19 - Oct 15, 2026

La traviata · Teatro alla Scala

Future and recently performed repertoire

Alfredo Germont in La traviata by Verdi

Teatro alla Scala

Calaf in Turandot by Puccini

Atlanta Opera

Rodolfo in La bohème by Puccini

Teatro del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino

Don José in Carmen by Bizet

Teatro Regio Torino

The Duke of Mantua in Rigoletto by Verdi

Staatsoper Hamburg

Ismaele in Nabucco by Verdi

Teatro di San Carlo

Riccardo in A Masked Ball by Verdi

Edinburgh International Festival

Jean in Hérodiade by Massenet

Lyric Opera of Chicago

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