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Royal Opera House (Covent Garden), Main Stage
16 Jan 2026, Fri
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7 PM
Live and love, to the last breath. Richard Eyre's beautiful production provides the perfect setting for Verdi's opera about a courtesan who sacrifices all for love.
Composer:
Giuseppe Verdi
Cast:
Ermonela Jaho,
Orchestra of the Royal Opera House,
.... + 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
La traviata
Opera
16 Jan 2026, Fri
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7 PM
Director Ted Huffman brings the opera to the stage in stunningly beautiful images and with great narrative tension.
Cast:
Evan Rogister,
Davide Luciano,
.... + 5
Madama Butterfly
Premiere of this production:
17 February 1904,
La Scala, Milan
Act 1
1. A short orchestral prelude with a busy, fugal opening theme, followed by a second theme of more overtly Japanese character, leads straight into the opening scene.
2. E soffitto e pareti ("And ceiling and walls"). Pinkerton and Goro are inspecting a small house which sits on a hill and overlooks the bay. Goro has found the house for Pinkerton and his bride, and is showing him t ... Read More
Madama Butterfly
Opera
Oslo Opera House, Main Stage
16 Jan 2026, Fri
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7 PM
Cinematic opera magic from Barrie Kosky. Mozart’s The Magic Flute is one of the world's most beloved operas – a fantastical blend of comedy, magic and profound human insight. Experienc...
Composer:
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Cast:
Aage Richard Meyer,
Eirik Grøtvedt,
.... + 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
The Magic Flute
Opera
Sydney Opera House, Joan Sutherland Theatre
16 Jan 2026, Fri
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7:30 PM
Fluttering beauty, caught and pinned for his pleasure, bound, yet beautiful still. When love is lost, what is left behind?
Cast:
Robert Watson,
Andrea Battistoni,
.... + 5
Madama Butterfly
Premiere of this production:
17 February 1904,
La Scala, Milan
Act 1
1. A short orchestral prelude with a busy, fugal opening theme, followed by a second theme of more overtly Japanese character, leads straight into the opening scene.
2. E soffitto e pareti ("And ceiling and walls"). Pinkerton and Goro are inspecting a small house which sits on a hill and overlooks the bay. Goro has found the house for Pinkerton and his bride, and is showing him t ... Read More
Madama Butterfly
Opera
Royal Danish Theatre, The Opera House - Main Stage
16 Jan 2026, Fri
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8 PM
Verdi’s celebrated dramatic masterpiece is a triumph of opera, brimming with some of its greatest musical highlights.
Cast:
Yi-Chen Lin,
Clara Cecilie Thomsen,
.... + 5
Rigoletto
Premiere of this production:
11 March 1851,
Teatro La Fenice, Venice
Place: Mantua
Time: the sixteenth century
Act 1
Scene 1: Mantua. A magnificent hall in the ducal palace. Doors at the back open into other rooms, splendidly lit up. A crowd of lords and ladies in grand costumes are seen walking about in the rear rooms; page boys come and go. The festivities are at their height. Music is heard from offstage. The Duke and Borsa enter from a door in the back.
At a ... Read More
Rigoletto
Opera
Teatro Dell'Opera Di Roma, Teatro Costanzi
16 Jan 2026, Fri
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8 PM
Few operas capture the spirit of youth and the fragility of love as profoundly as Puccini’s La Bohème.
Cast:
René Barbera,
Jader Bignamini,
.... + 5
La Bohème
Premiere of this production:
01 February 1896,
Teatro Regio, Turin
Place: Paris
Time: Around 1830.
Act 1
In the four bohemians' garret (Christmas Eve)
Marcello is painting while Rodolfo gazes out of the window. They complain of the cold. In order to keep warm, they burn the manuscript of Rodolfo's drama. Colline, the philosopher, enters shivering and disgruntled at not having been able to pawn some books. Schaunard, the musician of the group, arrives w ... Read More
La Bohème
Opera
Teatro del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, Sala Grande
16 Jan 2026, Fri
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8 PM
The staging of Tosca, Puccini's masterpiece, by Massimo Popolizio and conducted by Michele Gamba, returns to the Maggio.
Cast:
Michele Gamba,
Alexey Markov,
.... + 5
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
Bolshoi Theatre, Historic Stage
17 Jan 2026, Sat
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12 PM, 7 PM
(2 events)
“In Don Carlo one feels a thirst for freedom”. The Don Carlo performance history at the Bolshoi Theatre is a short one. The opera was premièred at the ...
Cast:
Bolshoi Theatre Chorus, Bolshoi Theatre Orchestra
Don Carlo
Premiere of this production:
11 March 1867,
Opéra National de Paris
In 1556, the Emperor Charles V abdicated, celebrated his own funeral and retired to the monastery of San Jeronimo at Yuste. His son Philip II is now on the throne of Spain. To seal the peace between France and Spain after a long war, Philip marries Elisabeth of Valois, the daughter of Henry II, the French King, who has long been betr ... Read More
Opera
Metropolitan Opera, Metropolitan Opera
17 Jan 2026, Sat
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12:30 PM
Bizet’s fiery masterpiece of seduction, obsession, and tragedy stars two of today’s leading mezzo-sopranos as the title heroine, whose irresistible allure drives the soldier Don José...
Composer:
Georges Bizet
Cast:
Aigul Akhmetshina,
Matthew Polenzani,
.... + 5
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
Teatro del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, Sala Grande
17 Jan 2026, Sat
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5 PM
The staging of Tosca, Puccini's masterpiece, by Massimo Popolizio and conducted by Michele Gamba, returns to the Maggio.
Cast:
Michele Gamba,
Bror Magnus Tødenes,
.... + 5
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
Opera National de Paris, Opéra Bastille
17 Jan 2026, Sat
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6 PM
With Siegfried, staged in Calixto Bieito’s new production, the Paris Opera presents the third part of Richard Wagner’s extraordinary undertaking, the Ring of the Nibelung. Siegfr...
Composer:
Richard Wagner
Cast:
Brian Mulligan,
Orchestra of the Opéra national de Paris,
.... + 8
Siegfried
Premiere of this production:
16 August 1876,
Bayreuth Festspielhaus
Act 1
Scene 1
A cave in rocks in the forest. An orchestral introduction includes references to leitmotifs including themes relating to the original hoard plundered by the Nibelung Alberich, and one in B-flat minor associated with the Nibelungs themselves. As the curtain rises, Alberich's brother, the dwarf Mime, is forging a sword. Mime is plotting to obtain the ring of power originally ... Read More
Siegfried
Opera
Teatro Dell'Opera Di Roma, Teatro Costanzi
17 Jan 2026, Sat
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6 PM
Few operas capture the spirit of youth and the fragility of love as profoundly as Puccini’s La Bohème.
Cast:
Saimir Pirgu,
Jader Bignamini,
.... + 5
La Bohème
Premiere of this production:
01 February 1896,
Teatro Regio, Turin
Place: Paris
Time: Around 1830.
Act 1
In the four bohemians' garret (Christmas Eve)
Marcello is painting while Rodolfo gazes out of the window. They complain of the cold. In order to keep warm, they burn the manuscript of Rodolfo's drama. Colline, the philosopher, enters shivering and disgruntled at not having been able to pawn some books. Schaunard, the musician of the group, arrives w ... Read More
La Bohème
Opera
Semperoper Dresden, Semperoper Dresden
17 Jan 2026, Sat
•
7 PM
Puccini’s Madama Butterfly cannot accept that her great love is doomed to end in heartbreak.
Cast:
Staatskapelle Dresden,
Vitali Alekseenok,
.... + 5
Madama Butterfly
Premiere of this production:
17 February 1904,
La Scala, Milan
Act one
Nagasaki in the 1890s. A wedding is to be celebrated in the garden of a hill-side residence with view of the port: the wedding of the American marine officer B. F. Pinkerton and the 15-year-old geisha Cio-Cio-San, daughter of a samurai who has fallen out of favour. The matchmaker, Goro, explains the building design of the new residence to Pinkerton who is not familiar with this. They are j ... Read More
Madama Butterfly
Opera
17 Jan 2026, Sat
•
7 PM
After stints at the Metropolitan Opera New York and with shooting star Johanna Wallroth as Pamina, this globally acclaimed production of Mozart's most famous opera returns to Basel.
Cast:
Jörg Halubek,
André Morsch,
.... + 7
Die Zauberflöte
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
Die Zauberflöte
Opera
Deutsche Oper Berlin, Main Stage
17 Jan 2026, Sat
•
7 PM
Marco Arturo Marelli brings Verdi's epic opera classic to the stage in a visually stunning way.
Don Carlo
Premiere of this production:
11 March 1867,
Opéra National de Paris
Act 1
This act was omitted in the 1883 revision
The Forest of Fontainebleau, France in winter
A prelude and chorus of woodcutters and their wives is heard. They complain of their hard life, made worse by war with Spain. Elisabeth, daughter of the King of France, arrives with her attendants. She reassures the people that her impending marriage to Don Carlos, Infante and son of Philip II, King of ... Read More
Don Carlo
Opera
Staatsoper Unter den Linden (Berlin State Opera), Staatsoper Unter den Linden
17 Jan 2026, Sat
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7:30 PM
With compelling dramaturgy and pronounced realism, Puccini created one of his tersest and most dramatic works – a milestone in the history of opera.
Cast:
Vittorio Grigolo,
Christopher Maltman,
.... + 5
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
Tosca
Opera
Metropolitan Opera, Metropolitan Opera
17 Jan 2026, Sat
•
8 PM
Cultures collide in Puccini’s poignant tale of a loyal geisha and a callous American naval officer whose fleeting romance leaves only devastation behind.
Composer:
Giacomo Puccini
Cast:
Marco Armiliato,
The Met Orchestra,
.... + 5
Madama Butterfly
Premiere of this production:
17 February 1904,
La Scala, Milan
ACT I
Japan, at the turn of the 20th century. Lieutenant Benjamin Franklin Pinkerton of the U.S. Navy inspects a house overlooking Nagasaki harbor that he is leasing from Goro, a marriage broker. The house comes with three servants and a geisha wife named Cio-Cio-San, known as Madam Butterfly. The lease runs for 999 years, subject to monthly renewal. The American consul Sharpless arrives bre ... Read More
Madama Butterfly
Opera
Bolshoi Theatre, Historic Stage
18 Jan 2026, Sun
•
12 PM
“In Don Carlo one feels a thirst for freedom”. The Don Carlo performance history at the Bolshoi Theatre is a short one. The opera was premièred at the ...
Cast:
Bolshoi Theatre Chorus, Bolshoi Theatre Orchestra
Don Carlo
Premiere of this production:
11 March 1867,
Opéra National de Paris
In 1556, the Emperor Charles V abdicated, celebrated his own funeral and retired to the monastery of San Jeronimo at Yuste. His son Philip II is now on the throne of Spain. To seal the peace between France and Spain after a long war, Philip marries Elisabeth of Valois, the daughter of Henry II, the French King, who has long been betr ... Read More
Opera
Mariinsky Theatre, Concert Hall
18 Jan 2026, Sun
•
1 PM
"Ah, della traviata sorridi al desio!" “Ah, smile on a lost soul!” - sings the unfortunate Violetta, a Parisian courtesan, anticipating an imminent death.
Cast:
Mariinsky Orchestra, Mariinsky Chorus
La traviata
Premiere of this production:
06 March 1853,
Teatro La Fenice, Venice
Act I
Paris. A party is underway at the home of Violetta Valéry, a well-known demimondaine. Violetta´s admirers are celebrating her return to health. Alfredo Germont is among the guests. He asks Gastone to introduce him as he is in love with her. At the request of the other guests, Alfredo sings a toast in her honour. As the others go to dance, Violetta is taken ill. She asks to be le ... Read More
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