They have love. They have art. They have each other. But you can’t eat poetry, and philosophy won’t warm a bitter winter.

La Bohème

Regent Theatre Melbourne

In the spirit of Stravinsky, timeless masterpieces, pinnacles of art and dance that have made history. A unique, highly anticipated event: for the first time, La Scala, its artists, and its audience will be overwhelmed by the telluric force of one of the most powerful readings of Le Sacre du printemps, the one created by Pina Bausch in 1975 for the Tanztheater Wuppertal. Emotional rawness, of rare expressionist power, earthy and dramatic in the viscerality of an ancient ritual, a true foundation of contemporary dance. Fundamental to 20th-century ballet is Apollo, which opens the evening, in the brilliance of Balanchine’s style, which in 1928, at the age of 24, achieved international recognition and began his lifelong partnership with the composer.

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Balanchine Bausch Stravinsky

Teatro alla Scala

The opera Nabucco, depicting the dramatic story of the subjugation of the Israelites by the King of Babylon, ranks among Guiseppe Verdi’s most celebrated works. Phenomenal chorus scenes, extremely impassioned virtuoso arias, as well as the perennially topical themes of expansive war, lust for power, betrayal, life and death, are the reasons why it has always been a staple of opera houses’ repertoire.

Nabucco

State Opera

An Emperor’s court decays around him; a princess, haunted by inherited trauma, plays a deadly game of riddles; a visiting prince takes one look and decides to risk his life for love. The stakes could not be higher.

Turandot

Festival Theatre Edinburgh

Theatre Royal Glasgow

Niklas van Lipzig & David Martin take their podcast to the big stage. Painful truths, dark humor and a generous helping of heart: the podcast “dudes.” goes on a major live tour through eleven cities in Germany and Austria in 2027.

dudes. Live Tour 27

Stadthalle Köln

Live podcast by Hanno Klänhardt (Mantar) and Simon Hawemann (ex-War From A Harlots Mouth/Nightmarer) about everyday life as a professional heavy metal musician. The event has been canceled.

GEAR OF THE DARK

Zeche Carl

Live podcast show: the hosts Laura and Sarah present unsolved and little-known true crime and paranormal cases from their podcast 'Eyes in the Dark'.

EYES IN THE DARK - LIVE 2026

Staged reading. Ordering packages is an everyday affair, but then Bo, the ServicesBot, speaks up and has a very particular opinion of its own…

An Incredible Story in October

Theater der Gezeiten

The future Nobel laureate Hermann Hesse was in the midst of a life crisis when, in 1917, he wrote Demian in a three-week burst of intense writing , publishing it under the pseudonym Emil Sinclair. In it, he describes his coming of age: he experiences humiliations, breaks free from the constraints of his strict upbringing, endures bouts of alcoholism, idealizes a first love, and ultimately finds himself in a World War I military hospital. The older student Demian repeatedly appears at his side, guiding and supporting him in his questions about the connection between good and evil and in his search for his own identity. For both know: the collapse of Europe is imminent, and its rebirth requires new values.

Demian

Vidmarhallen

Gluck’s rarely performed opera, Iphigénie en Tauride makes its ENO debut in a new staging by Olivier award-winning director Lyndsey Turner.

Iphigénie en Tauride

London Coliseum

Bergen National Opera turns 20 and invites audiences to a grand opera gala and the modern masterpiece Written on Skin.

Bergen National Opera 20 Years: Opera Gala and Written on Skin

Grieghallen

World-renowned Scottish director Sir David McVicar brings his visionary storytelling to bear on Puccini’s epic, final opera in this, its centenary year.

The story—fictional yet grounded in historical context—takes place in late-fifteenth-century Granada. The city, the last Arab kingdom on the Iberian Peninsula, is under siege by Spanish forces. Inside its walls, however, an internal conflict rages just as fiercely between two factions: the Abenceragi clan and the Zegri.

Alahor in Granata

Teatro Sociale

There is something truly special about the opera arriving in town. This Season, Scottish Opera brings one of the most enchanting tales in the repertoire, and a family favourite, to 34 locations across Scotland.

Hansel & Gretel

Duns Volunteer Hall

Eastgate Theatre

Garnock Community Campus

Islay High School

Liniclate School

Lossiemouth Town Hall

Maybole Town Hall

Phipps hall

Pitlochry Festival Theatre

Portree Community Centre

Seil Island Community Hall

The Byre Theatre St Andrews

The Sunart Centre

Ullapool High School

University of Stirling

Victoria Hall, Campbeltown

Ryan Centre

Puccini’s classic opera Tosca unfolds in a world of desire, fear and resistance, where nothing feels safe and every choice has consequences.

Tosca

A soldier seduced by the devil, a pied piper who steals away the children: two folk tales about power and loss. Stravinsky and Ramuz wrote in 1918 a universal piece hailed by Poulenc as a major work; George Benjamin and Martin Crimp made of their first opera a poetic piece that has since become a classic. Daniel Jeanneteau, who contributed to the world premiere of Into the Little Hill in 2006, returns to the work in collaboration with Marie-Christine Soma. The Opéra-Comique partners with the T2G in Gennevilliers to (re)discover the scope of these two tales.

L'Histoire du soldat / Into the Little Hill

T2G Théâtre de Gennevilliers

Rigoletto exists on the margins of a world owned by the privileged few – and is despised by them for his difference. Twisted inside by the life he has been forced to lead, the only thing he lives for is his daughter, Gilda, of whom he is obsessively protective. When a combination of bitterness and bravura gets the better of him, the consequences for his most precious possession are fatal.

This bold, award-winning production by leading UK theatre artist Femi Elufowoju Jr is opera at its most gripping: a thrilling tale of power, love and revenge that includes one of opera’s most famous aria, ‘La donna è mobile’.

Rigoletto

Leeds Grand Theatre

A playful story with darkness at its core — an opera about romantic relationships, disguises, and desire, set to ingeniously crafted music by Mozart.

Così fan tutte

Royal Swedish Opera

Consumed by ambition and haunted by prophecy, Macbeth and Lady Macbeth descend into a terrifying spiral of murder, paranoia, and madness. Verdi’s electrifying Shakespeare adaptation opens Anchorage Opera’s season with psychological intensity and thrilling music.

Macbeth

Alaska Center for the Performing Arts

When composer Alban Berg saw Georg Büchner’s fragmentary theatre text performed in 1914, it inspired him to create an absolute masterpiece. Raw and unfiltered, Wozzeck shows us the dehumanization of a vulnerable individual who craves recognition and connection but is systematically rejected and abused.

Wozzeck

La Monnaie - De Munt

An opera troupe gathers in the theatre of a small Italian town to rehearse the serious melodrama scheduled for the local fair season. The libretto—by none other than Metastasio—has been clumsily adapted by a local hack poet, then set to music by an even more provincial composer. As for the singers, they may be second-rate, but they carry themselves with all the airs and demands of true stars. And so the stage quickly fills with squabbles between rival prima donnas, grumbling from the disgruntled, and a harried poet and composer struggling to satisfy everyone’s whims—not to mention meddling mothers and intrusive husbands.

Le convenienze ed inconvenienze teatrali

Gaetano Donizetti Theater

Immerse yourself in the rococo grandeur of 19th-century Rome in this fizzy comedy of errors, returning to the Lyric Opera of Chicago stage for the first time in more than a decade with a vivid, period production directed by Mariame Clément.

Donizetti’s lively score animates the story of the aging bachelor Don Pasquale, whose disowned nephew enlists his wry fiancée and the Don’s long-suffering doctor to orchestrate a complex series of dupes and double-crosses in a bid to reclaim his uncle’s inheritance — all in the name of true love.

Don Pasquale

Lyric Opera House

Although W. A. Mozart wrote Idomeneo to commission for the Munich court and Karl Theodor, Elector of Bavaria, a keen patron of the arts, who chose the subject himself, the opera is probably his most personal work (with the patriarchal system of blind obedience and a rebellion of the young seeming to evoke the composer’s tense relationship with his father Leopold), featuring excellently crafted characters. All the main protagonists are confronted with their own weaknesses or inability to defy fate. In the wake of the Trojan War, Idomeneo, King of Crete, made a fateful vow to Neptune, God of the Sea, to be executed should he arrive home safely. Just like the Old Testament’s Jephthah and Abraham, he faces the dilemma of whether to sacrifice his own child or to offend a god. Idomeneo ultimately yields, ready to kill his son, Idamante. Prince Idamante is in love with Ilia, daughter of Priam, the defeated King of Troy, who has lost her family and homeland in the war. Ilia is fond of Idamante, but hesitates to acknowledge her love of an enemy, whose father Idomeneo helped Achilles and Odysseus take Troy. Elettra, daughter of Agamemnon, King of Mycenae, is wildly jealous of Ilia, and intends to win Idamante at any cost. Mozart rendered the heroes’ extreme emotions by means of ravishingly powerful music. He and the librettist Giovanni Battista Varesco ended the Ancient Greek story happily: Idomeneo’s old order gives way to the rule of love and reason, with Idamante and Ilia ascending the throne.

La Bohème

Opera Australia

Balanchine Bausch Stravin...

Teatro alla Scala

Nabucco

Národní divadlo

Turandot

Scottish Opera

dudes. Live Tour 27

Dudes

GEAR OF THE DARK

Zeche Carl

EYES IN THE DARK - LIVE 2...

Eyes in the Dark Live

An Incredible Story in Oc...

Theater der Gezeiten

Demian

Bühnen Bern

Iphigénie en Tauride

London Coliseum

Bergen National Opera 20 ...

Grieg Hall

Turandot

Capital Theatres

Alahor in Granata

Fondazione Teatro Donizetti

Hansel & Gretel

Scottish Opera

Tosca

London Coliseum

L'Histoire du soldat / In...

Opéra Comique

Rigoletto

Opera North

Rigoletto

Opera North

Così fan tutte

Kungliga Operan

Macbeth

Anchorage Opera

Wozzeck

La Monnaie / De Munt

Le convenienze ed inconve...

Fondazione Teatro Donizetti

Don Pasquale

Lyric Opera of Chicago

Idomeneo

Národní divadlo