Singer

The next Music Director of the Teatro alla Scala, Myung-Whun Chung, reaches his eleventh opera title at La Scala (having conducted over 140 concerts both at home and on tour) with this new production of Bizet’s Carmen, a co-production with London’s Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, and Madrid’s Teatro Real. Well-versed in French music—also through his work with the Opéra Bastille and the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France—Chung leads a cast that is perfectly idiomatic. Alongside Clémentine Margaine in the title role, alternating with Stéphanie d’Oustrac, and Giorgi Manoshvili as Escamillo, the production features Vittorio Grigolo as Don José—a major Italian voice with a strong affinity for the French repertoire— alternating with Matthew Polenzani. Damiano Michieletto and set designer Paolo Fantin reduce local colour to a minimum in order to construct a bare and effective spectacle, focused on the ineluctable fate of the protagonists.

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Carmen

Teatro alla Scala

Giuseppe Verdi’s «Messa da Requiem» is one of the most popular pieces in the concert repertoire. In a sensational co-production by the Oper Zürich and Ballett Zürich, Christian Spuck brought the oratorio for four solo voices, choir, and orchestra to the stage in 2016, as a combination of dance, abstract scene, space, and light. In his internationally acclaimed production, Spuck focuses on the human creature in the face of death and embarks on a sensitive search for traces of the whence and whither of the human being, between the terrifying proximity of death, loneliness, community solidarity, and mourning.

Requiem Mass

Zurich Opera House

Medea

San Carlo Theatre

With its enchanting setting and spellbinding score, the world’s most popular opera is as timeless as it is heartbreaking. Franco Zeffirelli’s picture-perfect production brings 19th-century Paris to the Met stage as Puccini’s young friends and lovers navigate the joy and struggle of bohemian life. Sopranos Juliana Grigoryan, Angel Blue, and Aleksandra Kurzak trade off as the feeble seamstress Mimì, opposite tenors Freddie De Tommaso, Stephen Costello, Adam Smith, and Long Long as the ardent poet Rodolfo.

La Bohème

Lincoln Center

We've all been there: in hotels, you're always fascinated by people from all over the world and their customs! And when this motley crew find themselves in a tizzy because they all want to go to Paris for the coronation but are prevented from doing so by the transportation system? And when the Hotel zur Goldenen Lilie is run by an excellent proprietor like Madame Cortese, who is determined to make her guests' stay unforgettable, virtuoso, colorful entertainment is guaranteed. Love potions, deft personnel, fainting spells due to a missing hatbox, f librations and misunderstandings culminate in a banquet with international toasts: long live the monarch and long live international understanding!

The Journey to Reims

Oper Leipzig

Based on Victor Hugo’s play, Donizetti’s Lucrezia Borgia is a powder keg of horrendous crimes, fierce passion, and rivalry between powerful 18th-century Italian leaders. The notoriously cruel Lucrezia Borgia must fight for her independence and reputation, tarnished by slander and jealousy, while protecting her heart-wrenching secret. The piece paints the portrait of a determined, powerful woman, reduced to criminal revenge by a society which forbids her from straying from her path. A true epitome of bel canto, the melodramatic opera genre is embodied by large ensembles and arias replete with vocal prowess. The lead must be dazzlingly virtuosic; at the Lyon Opera, it is sung by phenomenal soprano Lidia Friedman, in a production directed by Tatjana Gürbaca. Following L’Incoronazione di Poppea and The Girl of the Golden West, Gürbaca continues her exploration of major opera sagas with her Lucrezia Borgia.

Lucrezia Borgia

Opéra National De Lyon

Passion, power, and peril collide in Mercadante’s long-lost opera.

Set against the turmoil of the First Crusade, Lea is caught between two worlds. Driven by passionate love yet bound by forces beyond her control, she must navigate danger and devotion in a war-torn land where violence, the ruthless pursuit of power, and unshakeable righteousness collide on all sides. Rosa Feola stars in Mercadante’s electrifying opera, brought vividly to life through powerful, moving music unheard for more than 150 years.

Bass

Giorgi Manoshvili

Events

Upcoming events

Mar 20 - Apr 5, 2027

Lucrezia Borgia · Opéra National De Lyon

Mar 20 - Apr 5, 2027

Lucrezia Borgia · Opéra National De Lyon

May 5, 2027

Opera Rara: Il campo de’ crociati · London Philharmonic Orchestra

Past events

8 - 27 Jun, 2026

Carmen · Teatro alla Scala

Feb 20 - Apr 6, 2026

Requiem Mass · Opernhaus Zürich

Future and recently performed repertoire

Creon in Médée by Cherubini

Teatro di San Carlo

Alfonso d’Este in Lucrezia Borgia by Donizetti

Opéra National De Lyon

Colline in La bohème by Puccini

The Metropolitan Opera

Singer in Requiem Mass by Verdi

Opernhaus Zürich

Goffredo di Buglione in Il campo de’ crociati by Mercadante

London Philharmonic Orchestra

Escamillo in Carmen by Bizet

Teatro alla Scala

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