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Bolshoi Theatre, New Stage
6 Jul 2025, Sun •
12 PM, 7 PM
(2 events)
One of the world's most beloved operas is returning to the Bolshoi Theater after a seven-year break.
Composer:
Giacomo Puccini
Cast:
Bolshoi Theatre Chorus, Bolshoi Theatre Orchestra
Tosca
Premiere of this production:
14 January 1900,
Teatro Costanzi, Rome
Act 1
Inside the church of Sant'Andrea della Valle
Scene depicting a church interior with high stained-glass windows and heavy ornamental columns. The central figure is a high dignatory around whom several figures are kneeling, while in the background can be seen the tall pikes of the Swiss Guard.
Cesare Angelotti, former consul of the Roman Republic and now an escaped political prisoner, ru ... Read More
Opera
Arena di Verona, Arena
6 Jul 2025, Sun • 9:15 PM
Aida by Giuseppe Verdi. Directed by Stefano Poda
Composer:
Giuseppe Verdi
Cast:
Gregory Kunde,
Francesco Ommassini,
.... + 4
Aida
Premiere of this production:
24 December 1871,
Khedivial Opera House in Cairo
Backstory: The Egyptians have captured and enslaved Aida, an Ethiopian princess. An Egyptian military commander, Radamès, struggles to choose between his love for her and his loyalty to the King of Egypt. To complicate the story further, the King's daughter Amneris is in love with Radamès, although he does not return her feelings.
Act 1
Scene 1: A hall in the King's palace; ... Read More
Opera
Opera National de Paris, Opéra Bastille
8 Jul 2025, Tue • 7:30 PM
Damiano Michieletto places Rossini’s rhythm at the heart of his staging: the action revolves around a huge, colourful building, progressively transformed as the opera progresses.
Composer:
Gioachino Rossini
Cast:
Aigul Akhmetshina,
Diego Matheuz,
.... + 5
Il Barbiere di Siviglia
Premiere of this production:
20 February 1816,
Teatro Argentina, Rome
Place: Seville, Spain
Time: 18th century
Act 1
The square in front of Bartolo's house
In a public square outside Bartolo's house a band of musicians and a poor student named Lindoro are serenading, to no avail, the window of Rosina ("Ecco, ridente in cielo"; "There, laughing in the sky"). Lindoro, who is really the young Count Almaviva in disguise, hopes to make the ... Read More
Il Barbiere di Siviglia
Opera
Teatro Real, Main Auditorium
8 Jul 2025, Tue • 7:30 PM
La traviata, one of Verdi's best-known titles, takes to the stage of the Teatro Real in Willy Decker's iconic production, which could not be performed in 2020 due to the outbreak of the COVID-...
Cast:
Luca Salsi,
Nadine Sierra,
.... + 4
La Traviata
Premiere of this production:
06 March 1853,
Teatro La Fenice, Venice
Time is running out for Violetta. Her illness is pushing on as well as her feelings for Alfredo –a young bourgeois from the provinces who is captivated by her beauty. But her past as a courtesan weights too much in a prejudicial and hypocritical society, and prevents them from living a sincere love. In search of a solution and possible salvation, she agrees to the demands of sacri ... Read More
Opera
Semperoper Dresden, Semperoper Dresden
9 Jul 2025, Wed • 7 PM
Markus Bothe breaks up the story's chronology using flashbacks of the various characters to create an allusive series of images in which memory, mood and the drama of the present flow seamlessly i...
Composer:
Pyotr Tchaikovsky
Cast:
Oksana Lyniv,
Staatskapelle Dresden,
.... + 6
Eugen Onegin
Premiere of this production:
29 March 1879,
Maly Theatre, Moscow
Scene one
An afternoon on the Larin country estate: nurse Filipievna is doing the housework whilst Madame Larina is again lamenting the introvert behaviour of her daughter Tatiana. She only wishes to read in peace but is always prevented from doing so by her mother – be it either with her lamenting her youth or the songs of the peasants who sing at Larina’s behest. Olga attempts to hel ... Read More
Opera
9 Jul 2025, Wed • 7:30 PM
Love is a wild bird that nobody can ever tame.
Cast:
Jordan de Souza,
Adrian Sâmpetrean,
.... + 6
Carmen
Premiere of this production:
03 March 1875,
Opéra-Comique, Paris
Place: Seville, Spain, and surrounding hills
Time: Around 1820
Act 1
A square, in Seville. On the right, a door to the tobacco factory. At the back, a bridge. On the left, a guardhouse.
A group of soldiers relaxes in the square, waiting for the changing of the guard and commenting on the passers-by ("Sur la place, chacun passe"). Micaëla appears, seeking José. Moralè ... Read More
Carmen
Opera
Staatsoper Unter den Linden (Berlin State Opera), Staatsoper Unter den Linden
10 Jul 2025, Thu • 7 PM
Violetta Valéry is a noble courtesan in Paris who has "strayed from the path of virtue" and leads a life that oscillates between splendour and misery. For her everything is a gam...
Cast:
George Petean,
Staatskapelle Berlin,
.... + 5
La traviata
Premiere of this production:
06 March 1853,
Teatro La Fenice, Venice
Set in and around Paris in about 1850.
Act I
Violetta Valéry, a Parisian courtesan, greets the guests at her salon. Among them are Flora Bervoix, the Marchese D’Obigny, Baron Douphol and Gastone, who introduces Violetta to a new admirer of hers, Alfredo Germont. The young Germont, who has been admiring her from afar, joins her in a drinking song. An orchestra strikes up in an adjace ... Read More
Opera
Teatro Real, Main Auditorium
10 Jul 2025, Thu • 7:30 PM
La traviata, one of Verdi's best-known titles, takes to the stage of the Teatro Real in Willy Decker's iconic production, which could not be performed in 2020 due to the outbreak of the COVID-...
Cast:
Artur Ruciński,
Orchestra of the Teatro Real Madrid,
.... + 4
La Traviata
Premiere of this production:
06 March 1853,
Teatro La Fenice, Venice
Time is running out for Violetta. Her illness is pushing on as well as her feelings for Alfredo –a young bourgeois from the provinces who is captivated by her beauty. But her past as a courtesan weights too much in a prejudicial and hypocritical society, and prevents them from living a sincere love. In search of a solution and possible salvation, she agrees to the demands of sacri ... Read More
Opera
Semperoper Dresden, Semperoper Dresden
11 Jul 2025, Fri • 7 PM
Markus Bothe breaks up the story's chronology using flashbacks of the various characters to create an allusive series of images in which memory, mood and the drama of the present flow seamlessly i...
Cast:
Oksana Lyniv,
Staatskapelle Dresden,
.... + 6
Eugen Onegin
Premiere of this production:
29 March 1879,
Maly Theatre, Moscow
Scene one
An afternoon on the Larin country estate: nurse Filipievna is doing the housework whilst Madame Larina is again lamenting the introvert behaviour of her daughter Tatiana. She only wishes to read in peace but is always prevented from doing so by her mother – be it either with her lamenting her youth or the songs of the peasants who sing at Larina’s behest. Olga attempts to hel ... Read More
Opera
Opera National de Paris, Opéra Bastille
11 Jul 2025, Fri • 7:30 PM
Damiano Michieletto places Rossini’s rhythm at the heart of his staging: the action revolves around a huge, colourful building, progressively transformed as the opera progresses.
Cast:
Aigul Akhmetshina,
Diego Matheuz,
.... + 5
Il Barbiere di Siviglia
Premiere of this production:
20 February 1816,
Teatro Argentina, Rome
Place: Seville, Spain
Time: 18th century
Act 1
The square in front of Bartolo's house
In a public square outside Bartolo's house a band of musicians and a poor student named Lindoro are serenading, to no avail, the window of Rosina ("Ecco, ridente in cielo"; "There, laughing in the sky"). Lindoro, who is really the young Count Almaviva in disguise, hopes to make the ... Read More
Il Barbiere di Siviglia
Opera
Arena di Verona, Arena
11 Jul 2025, Fri • 9:15 PM
"La Traviata", the most performed opera in the world, returns to the Verona Arena in the elegant 2011 production by Hugo De Ana, which pays homage to the belle époque with enormous fr...
Cast:
Angel Blue,
Enea Scala,
.... + 4
La Traviata
Premiere of this production:
06 March 1853,
Teatro La Fenice, Venice
Set in and around Paris in about 1850.
Act I
Violetta Valéry, a Parisian courtesan, greets the guests at her salon. Among them are Flora Bervoix, the Marchese D’Obigny, Baron Douphol and Gastone, who introduces Violetta to a new admirer of hers, Alfredo Germont. The young Germont, who has been admiring her from afar, joins her in a drinking song. An orchestra strikes up in an adjace ... Read More
Opera
Staatsoper Unter den Linden (Berlin State Opera), Staatsoper Unter den Linden
12 Jul 2025, Sat • 7 PM
Violetta Valéry is a noble courtesan in Paris who has "strayed from the path of virtue" and leads a life that oscillates between splendour and misery. For her everything is a gam...
Cast:
George Petean,
Staatskapelle Berlin,
.... + 5
La traviata
Premiere of this production:
06 March 1853,
Teatro La Fenice, Venice
Set in and around Paris in about 1850.
Act I
Violetta Valéry, a Parisian courtesan, greets the guests at her salon. Among them are Flora Bervoix, the Marchese D’Obigny, Baron Douphol and Gastone, who introduces Violetta to a new admirer of hers, Alfredo Germont. The young Germont, who has been admiring her from afar, joins her in a drinking song. An orchestra strikes up in an adjace ... Read More
Opera
Deutsche Oper Berlin, Main Stage
12 Jul 2025, Sat • 7:30 PM
Mozart's MAGIC FLUTE is the most frequently performed opera in the German-speaking world.
Composer:
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Cast:
Giulio Cilona,
Attilio Glaser,
.... + 6
The Magic Flute
Premiere of this production:
30 September 1791,
Theater auf der Wieden, Vienna
The opera begins with the overture, which Mozart composed last.
Act 1
Scene 1: A rough, rocky landscape
Tamino, a handsome prince lost in a distant land, is pursued by a serpent and asks the gods to save him (aria: "Zu Hilfe! Zu Hilfe!" segued into trio: "Stirb, Ungeheuer, durch uns're Macht!"). He faints, and three ladies, attendants of the Queen of the Night, appear an ... Read More
Opera
12 Jul 2025, Sat • 7:30 PM
Love is a wild bird that nobody can ever tame.
Cast:
Jordan de Souza,
Adrian Sâmpetrean,
.... + 6
Carmen
Premiere of this production:
03 March 1875,
Opéra-Comique, Paris
Place: Seville, Spain, and surrounding hills
Time: Around 1820
Act 1
A square, in Seville. On the right, a door to the tobacco factory. At the back, a bridge. On the left, a guardhouse.
A group of soldiers relaxes in the square, waiting for the changing of the guard and commenting on the passers-by ("Sur la place, chacun passe"). Micaëla appears, seeking José. Moralè ... Read More
Carmen
Opera
Arena di Verona, Arena
12 Jul 2025, Sat • 9:15 PM
The Carmen by Georges Bizet in the legendary production which was in fact the 1995 Arena debut at the amphitheatre of Franco Zeffirelli, and will be proposed in the best synthesis of th...
Composer:
Georges Bizet
Cast:
Francesco Meli,
Alisa Kolosova,
.... + 4
Carmen
Premiere of this production:
03 March 1875,
Opéra-Comique, Paris
ACT I
A tobacco factory and the barracks of the dragoons open out onto the main square of Seville. People are coming and going. A young girl makes her way through the crowd. She has an air of bewilderment and approaches the guards shyly, saying she is looking for Brigadier Don José. They tell her he will soon be here and invite her to wait with them. Intimidated, she declines and wan ... Read More
Opera
Opera National de Paris, Opéra Bastille
13 Jul 2025, Sun • 2:30 PM
Damiano Michieletto places Rossini’s rhythm at the heart of his staging: the action revolves around a huge, colourful building, progressively transformed as the opera progresses.
Cast:
Aigul Akhmetshina,
Diego Matheuz,
.... + 5
Il Barbiere di Siviglia
Premiere of this production:
20 February 1816,
Teatro Argentina, Rome
Place: Seville, Spain
Time: 18th century
Act 1
The square in front of Bartolo's house
In a public square outside Bartolo's house a band of musicians and a poor student named Lindoro are serenading, to no avail, the window of Rosina ("Ecco, ridente in cielo"; "There, laughing in the sky"). Lindoro, who is really the young Count Almaviva in disguise, hopes to make the ... Read More
Opera
Arena di Verona, Arena
13 Jul 2025, Sun • 9:15 PM
Aida by Giuseppe Verdi. Directed by Stefano Poda
Cast:
Brian Jagde,
Daniel Oren,
.... + 4
Aida
Premiere of this production:
24 December 1871,
Khedivial Opera House in Cairo
Backstory: The Egyptians have captured and enslaved Aida, an Ethiopian princess. An Egyptian military commander, Radamès, struggles to choose between his love for her and his loyalty to the King of Egypt. To complicate the story further, the King's daughter Amneris is in love with Radamès, although he does not return her feelings.
Act 1
Scene 1: A hall in the King's palace; ... Read More
Opera
Teatro Real, Main Auditorium
14 Jul 2025, Mon • 7:30 PM
La traviata, one of Verdi's best-known titles, takes to the stage of the Teatro Real in Willy Decker's iconic production, which could not be performed in 2020 due to the outbreak of the COVID-...
Cast:
Juan Diego Flórez,
Luca Salsi,
.... + 4
La Traviata
Premiere of this production:
06 March 1853,
Teatro La Fenice, Venice
Time is running out for Violetta. Her illness is pushing on as well as her feelings for Alfredo –a young bourgeois from the provinces who is captivated by her beauty. But her past as a courtesan weights too much in a prejudicial and hypocritical society, and prevents them from living a sincere love. In search of a solution and possible salvation, she agrees to the demands of sacri ... Read More
Opera
Staatsoper Unter den Linden (Berlin State Opera), Staatsoper Unter den Linden
16 Jul 2025, Wed • 7 PM
Violetta Valéry is a noble courtesan in Paris who has "strayed from the path of virtue" and leads a life that oscillates between splendour and misery. For her everything is a gam...
Cast:
Staatskapelle Berlin,
Jérémie Rhorer,
.... + 5
La traviata
Premiere of this production:
06 March 1853,
Teatro La Fenice, Venice
Set in and around Paris in about 1850.
Act I
Violetta Valéry, a Parisian courtesan, greets the guests at her salon. Among them are Flora Bervoix, the Marchese D’Obigny, Baron Douphol and Gastone, who introduces Violetta to a new admirer of hers, Alfredo Germont. The young Germont, who has been admiring her from afar, joins her in a drinking song. An orchestra strikes up in an adjace ... Read More
La traviata
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