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Arena di Verona, Arena
13 Jul 2025, Sun • 9:15 PM
Aida by Giuseppe Verdi. Directed by Stefano Poda
Composer:
Giuseppe Verdi
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
Opera
Teatro Real, Main Auditorium
16 Jul 2025, Wed • 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
Arena di Verona, Arena
16 Jul 2025, Wed • 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
Mariinsky Theatre, Mariinsky II
17 Jul 2025, Thu • 7 PM
Rigoletto is an opera in three acts by Giuseppe Verdi. The Italian libretto was written by Francesco Maria Piave based on the play Le roi s'amuse by Victor Hugo. Despite serious initial probl...
Cast:
Mariinsky Orchestra, Mariinsky Chorus
Rigoletto
Premiere of this production:
11 March 1851,
Teatro La Fenice, Venice
The action takes place in Mantua and its environs in the 16th century.
Act I
A ball is underway in a magnificent hall at the Duke's palace. The corrupt ruler boasts of his love conquests to the courtier Borsa: soon he will seduce the beautiful stranger whom he meets at church. At the ball, the Duke also begins to flatter the&nbs ... Read More
Opera
Teatro Real, Main Auditorium
17 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:
Juan Diego Flórez,
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
Mariinsky Theatre, Mariinsky Theatre
18 Jul 2025, Fri • 7 PM
Carmen is an opera in four acts by French composer Georges Bizet. The libretto was written by Henri Meilhac and Ludovic Halévy, based on a novella of the same title by Prosper Mérim...
Cast:
Mariinsky Orchestra,
Mariinsky Chorus,
.... + 1
Carmen
Premiere of this production:
03 March 1875,
Opéra-Comique, Paris
Act I
Scene 1
A squarein Seville
In the guard house, Moralès and his soldiers are discussing the passers-by. Micaëla arrives, looking for the corporal Don José. Moralès explains that José isin another company that is due to take over the guard. Micaëla decides not to wait and departs. The officer Zuniga and José l ... Read More
Opera
Arena di Verona, Arena
18 Jul 2025, Fri • 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:
Anita Rachvelishvili,
Yusif Eyvazov,
.... + 3
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
Teatro Real, Main Auditorium
19 Jul 2025, Sat • 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
Arena di Verona, Arena
19 Jul 2025, Sat • 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:
Rosa Feola,
Dmitry Korchak,
.... + 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
20 Jul 2025, Sun • 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
Opera
Teatro Real, Main Auditorium
20 Jul 2025, Sun • 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,
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
Arena di Verona, Arena
20 Jul 2025, Sun • 9:15 PM
Aida by Giuseppe Verdi. Directed by Stefano Poda
Cast:
Daniel Oren,
Agnieszka Rehlis,
.... + 3
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
21 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:
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
Staatsoper Unter den Linden (Berlin State Opera), Staatsoper Unter den Linden
23 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
Opera
Teatro Real, Main Auditorium
23 Jul 2025, Wed • 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:
Nadine Sierra,
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
Bavarian State Opera, National Theatre
25 Jul 2025, Fri • 7 PM
In Das Rheingold, the “eve” of Richard Wagner’s operatic tetralogy, Der Ring des Nibelungen, the course is set for the apocalypse.
Composer:
Richard Wagner
Cast:
Vladimir Jurowski,
Bavarian State Orchestra,
.... + 6
Das Rheingold
Premiere of this production:
22 September 1869,
National Theatre Munich
Scene 1
At the bottom of the Rhine, the three Rhinemaidens, Woglinde, Wellgunde, and Floßhilde, play together. Alberich, a Nibelung dwarf, appears from a deep chasm and tries to woo them. The maidens mock his advances and he grows angry – he chases them, but they elude, tease and humiliate him. A sudden ray of sunshine pierces the depths, to reveal the Rhinegold. The maidens rejoice i ... Read More
Opera
Arena di Verona, Arena
25 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:
Rosa Feola,
Dmitry Korchak,
.... + 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
Arena di Verona, Arena
26 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...
Cast:
Yusif Eyvazov,
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
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How to choose an opera? Mozart or Verdi? Love tragedy or comedy?
Marriage of Figaro or Aida?
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