His family includes his daughter Geneviève and his grandsons, the half-brothers Golaud and Pelléas. One day, Golaud finds a mysterious young woman by the water. The beautiful Mélisande. He takes her home and marries her. But Pelléas also feels strangely attracted to her and seeks her out more and more. Finally, Mélisande also confesses her love for him. However, their escape together is prevented by the jealous Golaud: He kills Pelléas and seriously injures his pregnant wife. After the birth of their child - a daughter - Mélisande dies. She leaves the desperate Golaud in the dark about the nature of her relationship with Pelléas until the end.

Pelléas et Mélisande

Vienna State Opera

Director Jacopo Spirei returns to the Regio to reinterpret another great classic, after the success of Hamlet, and he does so together with set designer Gary McCann and costume designer Giada Masi, winners of the 2025 Abbiati Prize for their work on Thomas’s opera.

La traviata

Teatro Regio di Torino

The biblical episode is well known: during a banquet, Princess Salome dances for Herod and he promises her anything in return; the young woman asks for and obtains the head of John the Baptist. In 1891, Oscar Wilde turned the story into a drama, enriched with new elements, which enjoyed great success in Germany and consolidated the image of Salome as a combination of innocence and perversion. Richard Strauss, in search of a subject for a new opera, did not let it slip away and set Wilde’s text (translated into German) to music as it stood, with only minor changes.

Salome

His friends recount that when Puccini finished writing La bohème, he gathered them around the piano to let them hear it. Deeply moved, they exclaimed: this opera is about us, it is us! More than a century has passed, and even today we can say the same: this story speaks of the dreams we whisper to ourselves in the mirror, of the desires and regrets that keep us awake at night, of all the great and small losses we have endured, of the winters and summers of a lifetime. Can we love knowing that one day what we love will no longer be there? How can one go on living when death takes away what is most dear to you? And what remains of those we have loved, of all that immense love?

La bohème, first love

Piccolo Regio Giacomo Puccini

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.

Dohoon Lee

Events

Upcoming events

Feb 27 - Mar 10, 2027

La traviata · Teatro Regio Torino

6 - 17 Apr, 2027

Salome · Teatro Regio Torino

Apr 18 - May 2, 2027

La bohème, first love · Teatro Regio Torino

15 - 29 May, 2027

Carmen · Teatro Regio Torino

Past events

Oct 27 - Nov 5, 2025

Pelléas et Mélisande · Wiener Staatsoper

Future and recently performed repertoire

Il marchese d'Obigny in La traviata by Verdi

Teatro Regio Torino

Physician in Pelléas et Mélisande by Debussy

Wiener Staatsoper

Colline in La bohème by Puccini

Teatro Regio Torino

Zuniga in Carmen by Bizet

Teatro Regio Torino

Un uomo di Cappadocia in Salome by Strauss

Teatro Regio Torino

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